Uwe Boll Has Public Melt Down Over Postal
There is a point where I kinda feel sorry for the guy. Sure, I like to watch someone fall apart as much as the next guy, but this is kinda like kicking a little kid while he's down. Uwe Boll recently released Postal, a film based off a video game I didn't particularly care for, he can have at it for all I care. The problem is that it's just not getting a major release like the rest of his films, in fact it is only being launched on four, last I checked.
This is due largely to the fact that a lot of people don't much care for his work (myself included), and it shows in his box-office sales. Uwe posted this little rant on the main page of the postal movie web page:
To all of you writing now about me and the fact that POSTAL is not getting screens.its okay ..its fun kicking a guy nonstop who is on the ground
you are all not getting it that i'm the guy who made it against the big hollywood system and you are all only busy to destroy me and finish me up
and then you YOU WON WHAT ? the attention of the studios, michael bay .. ?????
if you damage me you feel closer to Hollywood ? what is your game plan?you want only movies like JUMPER , SPEED RACER , WHAT HAPPENDS IN VEGAS ...? then keep going and your dreams will be fullfilled. POSTAL makes some very important points ..but you dont wanna see that .... : that Bush used the SEPTEMBER 11 to start a war against a country what had nothing to do with Bin Laden etc.... but this all doesnt matter because you are all busy to THINK that INDIANA JONES or NARNIA are important movies ... but in real they are empty shells of an industry what wants to make money and what wants to keep you looking "escape movies" with nothing in it. in between they are putting some CONTROVERSIAL movies to show that they can do also IMPORTANT movies ...but also this movies are not really critical....they only supporting the system and not showing the big picture. and POSTAL shows the BIG PICTURE ...it nails the absurd situation with all the stupid religions, races and nations we are living in. POSTAL is not accepting bullshit politics. POSTAL has not the opinion that Bush made mistakes - POSTAL has the opinion that it is a scandal that BUSH is not in jail. What happened in America in the last 7 years is the biggest joke since Columbus stepped on that land.
but instead of seeing the courage i had in doing that movie against everybody who tried to stop me - you are sitting on your desks and you are working on stories about me ....and my image as the worst director on earth...and you fullfill what your editor wants from you in regards of uwe boll ...or you fullfill what you think makes you a cooler guy in the internet ...and you are not getting it that you are only interested in movies like IRON MAN or HULK or KUNG FU PANDA or the MUMMY 3 because the studios spending 60 mio. $ in advertising to make you interested in NON INTERESTING movies. how many times you wanna keep going in movies only because the TRAILER was so cool and the CGI was so great ?
thanks for reading this
Uwe Boll
Seriously, should I feel guilty about this? I await the teary-eyed YouTube parody of that obnoxious blond kid with running mascara. You know who I'm talking about.
[via Kotaku]








He forgets that his movies are just as empty as those Hollywood movies he seeks to denounce. Except those movies actually have a polish to them that Uwe can't touch. Because he doesn't put any effort into his films! Obviously.
I'm not going to feel bad for this clown. In the end everything is business, everyone wants to make money, and we're all part of that lovable monster known an capitalism. This douche is only interested in making profit, which is why he spends most filming days on the phone with investors rather than actually directly. What an idiot.
Thanks, Uwe! You just reminded me of all the good movies coming out this year that I want to see.
Though, I must compliment his usage of dramatic caps lock in his post. That takes real skill.
I too am going to give Uwe Boll the recognition that *this* time he took a broad chance making a "controversial" film...However that does not change the fact that his previous movies were bashed for being horrible, awful, poorly written, poorly filmed atrocities. He's been trying to take advantage of the "video game movie" business to compete with the "comic-book movie" business that's running rampant making millions of dollars.
If he wants to be regarded as a solid, respectable, person in the movie industry than he needs to make quality, non-licensed out, movies of his own accord. He needs to earn the respect of the market he seeks to sell to as well.
I sincerely hope that this finishes his career, and that he moves on to something better. I can only wish good luck to him in the future, but clearly his post means that's coming to the realization that he just doesn't have what it takes to succeed.
Sorry. :(
*Gasp* now he's whining about how much his movies suck.. by comparing it to other movies.. that are ohh what's the word?...better? Sure jumper kinda..sorta sucked but ya know what? At least they did not hire a bunch of hookers as actors(even though some actors are hookers..but I don't judge..a loud.)
And why the hell did he decide to bring in Bush? Maybe to I dunno fill space? Okay I will give him that some of those movies blow.. especially Speed Racer *shivers* but this douche bag just does not get how much he is raping these games by making these kind of movies.. him and the rest of Hollywood that is. Sure some things like Iron Man are gold and I might count Spider Man..number one.
I summarize this all as a basic child's tantrum driven rant of 'wha-wha, everyone else sucks too!' like he is trying to pass the 'hate-fest' back onto Hollywood or something.
You know, if you ignore the fact that this was posted by oweboll, that his idea of a deep movie is a movie based in a videogame, that he can't even direct a sinkin ship to go down, that everithing he touches turn into crap, that he has the mnd of a 12yrs old, that Postal is just one of a number of pices of crap made by the monstruocity that is puting this guy behind a camera... If you ignore aaaall of this, he is kind of sorta right about hollywood.
But this is Boll so this is completly pointles for his movies are just another of the hollow movies made by the hollywood machine.
If this guy wants to be martyr so much, he better do it the easy way and get himself killed
Hahaha, I was actually thinking the same thing; "LEAVE UWE ALONE!!".
I personally am appalled that Uwe Boll has the guts to play the "you don’t know art" argument when his movies are anything but art. His films are not about social commentary but about crude, stupid jokes that wish they could be like South Park but fall short of that low target. I find his movies disgusting. I find him despicable.
Wait. Wait. People wanted Speed Racer?
I seem to recall it kind of tanked at the box office.
And people went to see those other movies because they were good movies. It sure seemed like Iron Man had something to say about war profiteering to me. But maybe Uwe didn't get it.
Also, as something of a web designer, I have to say that I love what the rant does for the design of his web page. It's sort of crazy-chic. Well, without the chic anyway.
Aw it's so cute that he thinks his movies are different. He's like a little goth kid who is SO unique because he wears black clothes and eyeliner. Boll's movies are crap and so are many Hollywood movies, but only Boll's movies are ALWAYS crap.
Sometimes I wonder how certain movies get made (Transformers), but the fact that confuses me much more is that anyone let Uwe Boll make more than one movie. I have no idea who is fronting movies made about not-that-popular games by a director who has no idea what he's making a movie about.
Does it strike anyone else as amusing that Ball can't write for crap? His capslock key must be whimpering from the strain of overuse. Also, as those of us who use the interwebs fairly often, it's a wise decision to check for basic spelling errors before we post something (that little red line under your weird words tends to be helpful). See: "[What] HAPPENDS [in Vegas]", "wanna see that .... : that Bush".
I'm starting to think that he's a certain sort of renaissance man: he can't write, he can't make movies, he can't make viable points....
Am so sick of the Uwe Boll crap. Uwe Boll, and Cake I can do without hearing about for five years now.
I have bad news for all of you. I work Electronics at walmart and whenever we get in the name of the king in stock it is always sold out. That is how he gets money to keep going.
Awful. Just awful. I love how he slams every Hollywood or mainstream movie by pointing to easy targets. And Hell: Iron Man was actually fantastic! So even when he tries to point at obviously crappy movies he still manages to lump the good with the bad.
But then again- maybe that is yet another hint at the depth of this man's hilarious ineptitude: he's so awful he can't distinguish between good and bad.
But seriously Uwe, if you ever read this (doubtful, but why not): people aren't choosing the regular Hollywood schlock over your films because they think Hollywood schlock is amazing, or deep, or even credible. They are choosing even the worst Hollywood has to offer because even Hollywood's vapid void of CG is a thousand times better then the best you have to offer. Transformers held more depth and political poignancy than all your films combined, and then some. And Transformers had NO depth whatsoever! So you can imagine . . . . I think you get the point.
Your films are simply inept, exploitative, and a whole lot less fun to watch than the crappy-ass movie Speed Racer, or the potentially horrific Hulk. Get it through your head and stop blaming random sparkles and shadows- YOU ARE AWFUL. There isn't a single redeeming quality to any of your films. The acting, the script, the editing, the film quality and cinematography are all crimes against movies and movie lovers everywhere.
well his movies in a way are pretty good adaptations of what the corresponding games were like.