Uwe Boll Fights Critics -- Physically
Filed under: Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Movie Marketing, Contests, Games and Game Movies
On Cinematical alone, Dr. Uwe Boll has been said to be, "incapable of making a good movie," (by Martha), "mostly bad," (by Karina) and "that wacky German man who likes to call himself a director and has a penchant for creating awful video game to film adaptations," (by Mark). Scott says his movies, "cost nine bucks a ticket, but are actually only worth about 99 cents," and Robert has a lot of bad things to say in his Bloodrayne DVD release post, but I bet you none of the writers on this site have been mean enough to enrage the directing doctor enough to win this contest:
Boll is going to fly the 5 most outspoken critics of his work to Vancouver, put them up in a hotel and cast them as extras in his film Postal. The catch? They have to enter the ring and box with Boll in a 10-bout match, footage of which will appear on the internet and in the movie. The filmmaker shouldn't have trouble finding critics to enter, but anyone interested has to fulfill a requirement. He or she has to have written at least two extremely negative articles about him on the web or in print in 2005. He has already picked out a few people who have posted on the IMDb and has put their user-names in the press release.
"I am fed up," Boll says in the release, "I'm fed up with people slamming my films on the Internet without see them." Well, can we at least make fun of the typos in his press releases? Nah, that isn't as fun.
You can read the rest of the announcement at Skewed & Reviewed.
[via JoBlo]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-12-2006 @ 9:20PM
Geoff said...
Of course, if he really wanted to prove himself, he could just make a good film...
Sublime to ridiculous.
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6-12-2006 @ 9:33PM
Peter said...
I've already travelled into the future to take a picture of the prize fight...
http://horrorsnotdead.com/images/muhammadboll-tagged.jpg
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6-12-2006 @ 10:14PM
Scott Weinberg said...
OK, well, I've lived through the process of writing four different Uwe Boll reviews (the three game-horrors and the execrable "Heart of America"), so I think I should get a shot at the title.
But the guy who should really get into the ring is John Fallon (aka Arrow in the Head, aka JoBlo's Gorehound) because he's one funny bastid and he'd unhinge Uwe's jaw with one drunken roundhouse.
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6-12-2006 @ 11:09PM
AMeloney said...
I just want to see Boll get KO'd in one round of the first fight then call of all the others. Then in his all to common methods he will call the other critics out for backing down.
To the whoever the people are that are lucky enough to beat the shit out of this idiot: For sake of the movie viewing public, start taking boxing lessons.
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6-13-2006 @ 10:21AM
jc said...
Great... just what we need: a poorly filmed boxing match with bad angles and poor lighting. At least a boxing match doesn't need a story.
I suggest that we start a petition to get him to change his name to Eew Boll.
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6-13-2006 @ 4:48PM
The Jeremy said...
Dude, that's so cool! Will Quint from AICN take up the challenge?
Can we nominate the Majesco chica who is BloodRayne at the gaming trade shows fight him?
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7-29-2006 @ 11:01AM
Gareth said...
New Update to the Story
The new information is below.
http://sknr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=640&Itemid=30
Please credite Gareth Von Kallenbach at
Skewed and Reviewed. Also, Bloody-Disgusting has also accepted the challenge.
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