{"id":442,"date":"2008-05-18T00:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/rollin-with-uwe-boll\/"},"modified":"2008-05-18T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T07:22:12","slug":"rollin-with-uwe-boll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/18\/rollin-with-uwe-boll\/","title":{"rendered":"Uwe Boll Will Roll You"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Call Him the Worst Director (Then Duck)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chris Helcermanas-Benge\/Event Film<\/p>\n

Verne Troyer in \u201cPostal,\u201d the latest film by the much-vilified director Uwe Boll.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0JOHN SCHWARTZ<\/a><\/p>\n

UWE BOLL is often referred to as the worst filmmaker in the world.<\/p>\n

This seems to pain Mr. Boll, a gregarious 42-year-old German whose best-known movies are based on video games. So he has shared the pain with his critics, literally, challenging several to a series of boxing matches in 2006. Mr. Boll, a former boxer, thumped them handily.<\/p>\n

But what he really wants is respect.<\/p>\n

There is a Web site called\u00a0StopUweBoll.org<\/a>, with a petition demanding that he stop making movies. The petition had drawn only 18,000 names until last month, when Mr. Boll told the horror-movie Web site\u00a0FearNet.com<\/a>\u00a0that he would quit making films if a million people signed. With his own version of \u201cbring it on,\u201d the list has now grown to more than a quarter of a million.<\/p>\n

Why play along? \u201cI have to live with it,\u201d Mr. Boll said with an unhappy smirk. \u201cIt\u2019s better to make fun with it,\u201d as an alternative to \u201cbeing depressed, sitting at home, slowly crying.\u201d<\/p>\n

We won\u2019t even talk about\u00a0UweBollIsAntichrist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During a lunch interview in New York, he pressed a freshly copied DVD into a reporter\u2019s hands. It was a rough cut of a serious film he\u2019s been working on, about a brutal prison rape in Germany in 2006. \u201cI would be interested to see what you think about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also noted that there are counterpetitions urging him to keep making films. At least part of what is going on, he argued, is an online pile-on, a \u201ccan you top this?\u201d game with Mr. Boll on the bottom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it the movies are all so bad?\u201d he asked. \u201cSomething is not fitting together in the story, that I\u2019m the worst of the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Boll\u2019s most recent film,\u00a0\u201cPostal,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0might not be the best vehicle for winning respect. The first sequence of the film, which opens on Friday, portrays 9\/11 hijackers squabbling over the precise number of virgins who will be awaiting them after their martyrdom. The scene switches to a World Trade Center\u2019s-eye view of an oncoming jet.<\/p>\n

As the movie\u2019s scattershot plot rocks along, the audience gets a long full-frontal look at a nude\u00a0Dave Foley<\/a>, the boyish comic best known for his work in the Kids in the Hall comedy troupe and on the television show \u201cNews Radio,\u201d who portrays a sleazy satyr of a cult leader.<\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to read full review at Pinch’s Crutch<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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