Blundering Boll to Box Bashers in Blistering Bonehead Brawl
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A few weeks back I mentioned that Uwe Boll was having trouble finding boxing partners for his moronic new publicity stunt. Well, now it looks like Mr. Boll's crack team of Romanian interns has spent a few extra nights at the Internet Cafe, because it seems that Mankind's Worst Filmmaker now has a bunch of attention-hungry Boll-Bashers who are more than willing to leap into the ring with the king of crap cinema.According to a ridiculously-formatted press release over at SKNR.net, Mr. Boll will fight against four of his detractors in Vancouver and one extra guy in Spain. All of this is somehow meant to clear Uwe Boll's name as a monumentally woeful filmmaker, because if there's one thing we're taught in our first day of Film Studies, it's this: Universally negative reviews can be negated by punching.
The guys who'll be climbing into the ring opposite the German Vermin will be Jeff Sneider (AICN), Chris Alexander (Rue Morgue), Nelson Chance Minter (IMDb commenter?), Carlos Palencia (Cinecutre.com), and Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka of SomethingAwful.com -- who I'm picking as the big winner because I've always liked his website and he already has the boxer-esque nickname. New sponsor GoldenPalace.com is calling the event -- wait for it -- Raging Boll.
The brawls will take place on September 23rd, which really sucks because I'm scheduled to shave the back of my neck that day, which means I'm going to miss all the
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8-24-2006 @ 10:13AM
Richard von Busack said...
Best Cinematical headline ever, and a plot twist worthy of one of Boll's increasingly lousy movies! (Thanks Homer S.) Is he going to fight these critics tag team, or one on one, that's my question. Are theaters going to close circuit televise this epic battle royal from Salmonburg?
You know, this isn't the first time that it's happened. Why, D. W. Griffith once publically horsewhipped a critic for writing "Dorothy Gish is fuggly--I wouldn't wouldn't spoon with her for a $5 gold piece." And supposedly William Wellman machine-gunned a writer who badmouthed The Public Enemy, and Almodovar has fought eight separate duels with critics; give him some sangria and he'll show you the saber-scars. All of this is stuff you won't find in the textbooks.
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8-24-2006 @ 5:55PM
The Jeremy said...
Can we nominate Bryan Singer and Jon Peters to be in the ring too?
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8-24-2006 @ 7:52PM
Geoff said...
Anyone else reminded of that episode from The Office (UK version) with the pub quiz?
"So you think you're smarter than us? Can you throw a shoe over the building?"
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