You might remember how the other day Cinematical and FEARnet writer Scott Weinberg clued us all in to an interview FEARnet conducted with the infamous director Uwe Boll. Shortly after our post hit, it quickly made its way all over the web -- with thousands upon thousands of people signing a petition to stop Boll from making anymore movies. See, in the interview he said he'd stop if the petition was signed by one million people. Not sure if he knew this at the time, but the internet loves a challenge. Well, now, Boll has put out a video asking fans to start up a pro-Boll petition. Oh yes, and he wants one million folks to sign that as well. I love this guy -- hearing him, he sounds like the bizarro Arnold Schwarzenegger. Why does he want you to sign a pro-Boll petition? Well, because -- and I quote -- he's "not a f**king retard like Michael Bay or other people running around in the business ... or Eli Roth making the same sh**ty movies over and over again. If you really look at my movies, you will see my real genius."
He's definitely a unique individual -- I'll give him that. Then again, this could be wonderful promotion for his next film Postal, which comes out in May. Hmmm ... maybe Boll is a genius. Check out his scathing video message after the jump (and, yes, it's probably NSFW).
[Thanks Anthony]
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4-09-2008 @ 10:21AM
Grammaton Cleric said...
I started the 'official' pro Boll petition Boll asked for: http://www.equilibriumblog.de/wordpress/2008/04/09/dr-bollequilibrium-starten-petition-um-doch-weitermachen-zu-konnen/
For all non-German speakers, here's the direct link to the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/ub221965/petition.html
Sign it!
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4-09-2008 @ 10:35AM
brian said...
He. is. awesome.
In the "crazy-uncle-you-hope-never-comes-over-for-christmas- dinner" kinda way and you always say, "That Uncle so-and-so? He's frickin' awesome!"
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4-09-2008 @ 10:39AM
Jennifer said...
I signed it the moment I heard about it. ;)
Now, didn't he promise he would stop the insanity of his movie making at 1 million sigs? And now he's pissed that ppl are signing them? Oh, and he's "not a f**king retard?" Gee coulda fooled me.
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4-09-2008 @ 10:42AM
techstar25 said...
That video is genius. He is so confident. How can you not love the guy?
The fact is that there are lots of B-grade filmmakers out there today. But Uwe Boll is a household name. Why? It's his marketing. His personality. His lunacy. He is doing something right.
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4-09-2008 @ 11:04AM
Christian Toto said...
If Boll was as good a filmmaker as he is a self-promoter, we'd have another Scorsese.
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4-09-2008 @ 11:08AM
mike said...
hahaha, he really said his stuff is genius. I know not all people agree, but I like Eli Roth's stuff (taking it for what it is - his Thanksgiving trailer was classic).
And Michael Bay def knows how to make a blockbuster that is a bunch of fun, even if it can be a little too much at times.
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4-09-2008 @ 11:42AM
pete said...
yeah he keeps pumping out all these boo boo ass movies, but man hes doing it, hes behind the camera putting his 'vision' together i know a lot of people who would love to do what he does even if the best they could muster would be a b movie classic
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4-09-2008 @ 12:09PM
Mr_A said...
I'd pay money to see Uwe and Steve Brill duke it out.
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4-09-2008 @ 12:09PM
Eric H said...
Uwe is different from most schlock directors, his movies grate on the nerves and runin good properties, they are not lovingly made like most, the are quick heartless money grabs.
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4-09-2008 @ 12:21PM
Gilbert Davis said...
Well he does have a point about Eli Roth at least. Roth is the worse thing this side of a snuff film maker while Uwe just makes crappy movies that may someday reach Ed Wood proportions.
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