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UWE BOLL WANTS TO KICK YOUR ASS! [Jun. 12th, 2006|05:55 pm]
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WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULAR BLOGGING FOR A MESSAGE FROM THE UWE BOLL EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM!

I've joked in the past about Uwe Boll being insane. We've all joked about Uwe Boll being insane. He's always said things that led us to believe he's clearly insane. Now he's taken things to a level of insanity usually reserved for the likes of someone like Vince McMahon's on-air persona. It started out as a press release designed to tout the successful DVD release of BLOODRAYNE and to serve as an announcement that Dr. Boll will be filming his next movie, a non-video game horror flick about a guy that survives the electric chair and isn't happy about it. That film, SEED, which was also written by Boll, will star his good chum Will Sanderson, BEST OF THE BEST 2 villain Ralph Moeller, fresh off the epic KOMODO VS. COBRA Michael Pare, and Andrew Jackson, who I assume is not the late seventh President of the United States but an actor with the same name. SEED will shoot in July, and will be a quickie production on Boll's part since he states his movie version of the video game POSTAL will begin in late September. So 2006 may really be Uwe Boll's year after all what with two new films in the works, another that already came and went and spawned a major lawsuit, the impending November/December release of IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE, and now this bit of insanity that's into the stratosphere of lunacy. Let me quote the important portion of the press release originally reported on by the site Skewered & Reviewed:

Again the fans have shown that the critics of Uwe Boll are out of touch with want the general movie audience population wants. Dr. Boll has continually been roasted for the films he has directed and produced. His last two films, House of the Dead & Alone in the Dark, cost $20 million but they have grossed over $110 million to-date. The same negative reactions from some of the same press and the internet critics are now being directed at Uwe Boll’s latest film; BloodRayne.

Dr. Uwe Boll has had enough! Uwe Boll’s position is "I am fed up. I’m fed up with people slamming my films on the Internet without see them. Many journalists make value judgments on my films based on the opinions of one or two thousand Internet voices. Half of those opinions come from people who’ve never watched my films. I have been told that "BloodRayne" has a very bad IMDb rating, but how many of those votes of zero were made before the movie appeared in theatres." The criticism goes on and on.

Uwe is now challenging the critics that failed to watch his films prior to reviewing or commenting, "TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP!"

Before we go any further I'd just like to ask why can't Stephen Sommers or Paul WS Anderson or Jim Wynorski follow this man's lead?

Towards the end of the filming of "Postal" the 5 most outspoken critics will be flown into Vancouver and supplied with hotel rooms. As a guest of Uwe Boll they will be given the chance to be an extra/stand-in in "Postal" and have the opportunity to put on boxing gloves and enter a BOXING RING to fight Uwe Boll. Each critic will have the opportunity to bring down Uwe in a 10 bout match. There will be 5 matches planned over the last two days of the movie. Certain scenes from these boxing matches will become part of the Postal movie. All 5 fights will be televised on the internet and will be covered by international press.

To be eligible you must be a critic who has posted on the internet or have written in magazines / newspapers at least two extremely negative articles in the year 2005. Critics of 2006 will not be considered. Please submit proof of your negative reviews & comments via e-mail to:

info@boll-kg.de

All challengers must be healthy males, weighing between 64 kilograms (140 lbs.) and 86 kilograms (190 lbs.). You will require to be physically examined by a doctor and sign the necessary release forms for liability, etc. You will not be paid or entitled to any residuals or fees. Your transportation & hotel costs will be covered.

Dr. Uwe Boll’s invitation to fight and/or appear in his film is extended to all his harshest critics. Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino are among the most eligible candidates.

The following posters to the IMDb have earned the right to be placed on the list of the most extreme anti-Boll critics and are therefore eligible to enter the contest. Contestants will be chosen to be an extra and physically box Dr. Uwe Boll.

Headhunter004

Adultswimlover2

Evolution_500_2

Greatnates

thedoomsdaybegins

GunnerySergeantNumbnuts

Murdoc995

AimeeBrookes

ChineseOldMarketMan

GabeLogan9060

Veedragon40

BigSexy77

TylerDurden52

Dan223-1

howdy4641430-1

If critics want to bring Uwe Boll down, here is their chance to physically bring him down and have the entire world watch them do it.

I'm telling you right now that someday someone in Hollywood is going make an ED WOOD-esque biopic about the career of Uwe Boll and it is going to be one of the greatest motion pictures of all time. Hopefully for him, this (Publicity stunt? Final peak of insanity?) won't lead to the movie having a finale along the lines of THE CHAMP.

It does seem odd that Boll would go this route considering this question from my pre-ALONE IN THE DARK interview with the man himself:

TF: Taking a cue from the movie Fight Club, if you could fight anyone, who would you fight?

UB: I boxed 15 years in a club. BAYER LEVERKUSEN, where people like "THE TIGER" Michalczewski or FELIX STURM (lost in Las Vegas fighted also.) I got a spinal cord accident and got a platinum disk in my neck finally. So I fighted enough and don't do movie show fights.

Hmmmm... Maybe he really is looking to write that last chapter? Or mabe this is more of ROCKY 6 scenario where he just has to come out of retirement for one last fight - or five? Or he's just hopping mad and batshit insane? At this point, who knows? I would like to volunteer my services to play the Rob Schneider role of sitting in the stands during these fights and repeatedly yelling, "Come on, Uwe! You can do it!"

THIS HAS BEEN A MESSAGE FROM THE UWE BOLL EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM! PLEASE TAKE THE APPROPRIATE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND AWAIT FURTHER UPDATES!

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[User Picture]From: [info]drshoggoth
2006-06-13 12:35 am (UTC)

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...wow. Just wow. The man is a deranged genius. I so hope that a Uwe Boll biopic gets made.

Hopefully not by Uwe Boll, though.

And I'd watch any movie starring Zombie Andrew Jackson. Wait, you mean it's just a guy with the same name? Bah.
From: [info]cultscomics
2006-06-13 12:52 pm (UTC)

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Maybe just deranged. Too many video game movies probably do that too you (hey, it took just one to kill Raoul Julia)



[User Picture]From: [info]valiant_200
2006-06-13 01:01 am (UTC)

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You should see if you can get invited to this thing. We need FULL COVERAGE!
[User Picture]From: [info]tvsgrady
2006-06-13 01:58 am (UTC)

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The mind boggles.
From: (Anonymous)
2006-06-13 03:14 am (UTC)

From Bergerjacques

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Scott, as a critic and host of Schlocktoberfest, you must at all costs put up your dukes with this guy. He's wiry, but I think you have the speed and power to take him in three.
God, if I saw Boll right now, I'd kiss him.
[User Picture]From: [info]foywonder
2006-06-13 07:10 am (UTC)

Re: From Bergerjacques

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I don't meet the criteria he's looking for.. That's why I've volunteered for the Rob Schneider role.
[User Picture]From: [info]bradbrp
2006-06-13 04:24 am (UTC)

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FOY! You must do it!
[User Picture]From: [info]terminal83
2006-06-13 04:36 am (UTC)

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Quentin Tarantino? Really? Are there any articles I can read in which he openly voices his criticism? I'd love to read that.
[User Picture]From: [info]foywonder
2006-06-13 07:13 am (UTC)

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Yeah, I'm wondering what Tarantino said. I know Roger Avery made a comment about how the failure of Boll's films were making it hard for a film like SILENT HILL to get financing. Never heard anything attributed to Tarantino. Of course, Tarantino probably wouldn't be too hard to beat in a fight. I figure just toss some white powder on the ground and when he kneels down wallop him in the back of the head as hard as you can.
[User Picture]From: [info]terminal83
2006-06-13 07:34 am (UTC)

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Hahaha! Excellent! Good one.

Of course, I don't think Tarantino is one to talk, he's a supporter of Eli Roth's.

Glass houses shouldn't throw bricks. Or something to that effect.
From: [info]beggarsoshat
2006-06-13 10:06 am (UTC)

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Frankly, people with names like Adultswimlover2 and BigSexy77 DESERVE to have their asses kicked.
From: (Anonymous)
2006-06-13 07:54 pm (UTC)

Numbers.

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$110 million worldwide? I hate to be skeptical but I've spent some time trying to figure out how much Alone in the Dark made on the foreign market and off DVD/VHS sales and didn't find ANYTHING even REMOTELY close that figure... is anyone else aware of numbers that verify this $110 million claim.

As for Boll himselfs, I've never hated the man. He makes schlock/grindhouse stuff and I'll watch that stuff any day (although I pretty much live off 2nd run theaters and the rental joint these days). I think I grasp what I call his "the globalization of the film market" strategy and thinks its pretty brilliant, actually, but I suspect he's blowing hot air about how much money he's making since I've never seen any #s to back up what he's saying. From what I've seen House of the Dead was the only US film to make a box office profit ($20mil on a $7mil film, a three fold profit margin!!) which I think gave him the leverage to get the moolah to make ALone and Bloodrayne. Alone cost $20 and made, like $5 mil? Let's not forget House of the Dead was a zombie film that came out at the exact peak of that glut of zombie films a few years ago.

The only way he's banking $110 million is if he's using a sort of multi-year strategy for total profits. This too, is both psuedo-revolutionary and, truthfully, more realistic.
[User Picture]From: [info]atomicmmonster
2006-06-17 04:50 pm (UTC)

The comedy continues...

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Someone posted Boll's response to their contest submission e-mail on USENET. It's hilarious. It seems that Boll's trying to weed out opponents who could actually kick the crap out of him.