Uwe Boll offends everyone! (Postal the movie)

CyberJackal

LockeCole wrote:

Torso Boy wrote:

I am excited to see this. While I am hesitant to give Uwe any money- I'm pretty sure I haven't so far- it just looks too hilarious [ly bad] to pass up.

I keeping thinking that about his movies, but somehow when I finally see them, they are always just bad without being hilariously bad.

All I've ever seen of his was a little bit of House of the Dead, towards the end when clips of the game are thrown in. That was pretty hilarious.

JWFokker

The_Dciple wrote:

AbsoluteZero wrote:

Oh no David Foley no!

No no no!

The dude needs money. Aside from a few voiceovers, the guy hasn't done anything significant since News Radio.

core tactic

He even said he was trying to put as much shock value in the movie as possible to attract more viewers.


And if I remember, Lowtax said the movie ends with Osama and George W. Bush skipping into the sunset.

Furu

JWFokker wrote:

The_Dciple wrote:

AbsoluteZero wrote:

Oh no David Foley no!

No no no!

The dude needs money. Aside from a few voiceovers, the guy hasn't done anything significant since News Radio.

He's got that poker show on...uh...whatever the hell channel it is.

xzzy

I think reactions in this thread alone are good evidence this is going to be one of the most awesome movies ever.

I love it when people get up in arms over a piece of celluloid.

Couscous

xzzy wrote:

I think reactions in this thread alone are good evidence this is going to be one of the most awesome movies ever.

I love it when people get up in arms over a piece of celluloid.

You must will love Triumph of the Will.

LBD_Nytetrayn

Klyka wrote:

It does.

And regarding Postal:

I can't wait to see, for the first time ever, a man shit on a camera all in glorious 1080p.

That should actually be the clip running on every HD television in a store.

Just imagine the customers going:

"Dis' shit looks REAL man!"

HDTV would be standard in 2months tops.

This needs to be the new pack-in with PlayStation 3.

lowlylowlycook

titmouse wrote:

xzzy wrote:

I think reactions in this thread alone are good evidence this is going to be one of the most awesome movies ever.

I love it when people get up in arms over a piece of celluloid.

You must will love Triumph of the Will.

Pay no attention to the mouse. Birth of a Nation is what you need to see.

IShallRiseAgain

Uwe Boll finally got smart. he doesn't know how to make movies and this one is going to be horrible too, but he knows what makes money. He is going to fill the movie with controversial subjects, knowing that people will buy it, just to see the subjects covered. Now all he has to do is make an awful movie and still make money off of it.

crash5s

core tactic wrote:

He even said he was trying to put as much shock value in the movie as possible to attract more viewers.


And if I remember, Lowtax said the movie ends with Osama and George W. Bush skipping into the sunset.

I await the backlash

Furu

xzzy wrote:

I think reactions in this thread alone are good evidence this is going to be one of the most awesome movies ever.

I love it when people get up in arms over a piece of celluloid.

It's not the content that bothers me, it's the fact that Boll is a giant walking genetic mistake who needs to stay the fuck away from a camera because he doesn't have a single mote of talent in his gigantic German head.

xzzy

They should totally have Osama and Bush re-enact scenes from Brokeback mountain.

LockeCole

xzzy wrote:

They should totally have Osama and Bush re-enact scenes from Brokeback mountain.

Oh noes! That would be so cutting edge. :roll:

Shock value != talent.

(But please, be my guest and make it, wouldn't want to oppress anyone)

xzzy

Furu wrote:

xzzy wrote:

I think reactions in this thread alone are good evidence this is going to be one of the most awesome movies ever.

I love it when people get up in arms over a piece of celluloid.

It's not the content that bothers me, it's the fact that Boll is a giant walking genetic mistake who needs to stay the fuck away from a camera because he doesn't have a single mote of talent in his gigantic German head.

I dislike Uwe's movies as much as any other gamer, but the way I see it he's just a businessman capitalizing on an opportunity. Like it or not this is how the world works, businesses today thrive on expoitation.

If you want to hate someone, hate the studios that gave him money and permission to make the movies.

Tube

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

core tactic

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

When did they shit on the camera and re-enact Columbine?

Piggymon

Please, Uwe Boll has failed making all other kinds of movies and he will fail making an offensive movie. It will just be unintentionally painful as always. And shitty.

D.T.

core tactic wrote:

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

When did they shit on the camera and re-enact Columbine?

They've never re-enacted Columbine (Not even Parker and Stone would cross that line, I think. Plus, they're both from Colorado.), but characters on the show shit on camera all the time.

core tactic

No, not shit ON camera, shit on THE camera.

Pata

Plus South Park is an unrealstic cartoon.

Artoria

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

South park has never had anyone shit right onto the camera either. let alone making fun of 911 or reenact Columbine.


edit: beaten but the point still stands.

D.T.

core tactic wrote:

No, not shit ON camera, shit on THE camera.

Oh. They actually do this in Postal?

Why the fuck are we even paying attention to this movie?

Tube

core tactic wrote:

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

When did they shit on the camera and re-enact Columbine?

Being pedantic doesn't disprove my point. Characters shit on the show all the time, they've poked fun at Osama, 9/11, Aids, Terry Schiavo and plenty of other stuff. If they had a good Columbine joke, they'd make it.

I'm not saying it won't suck, but there's this culture at the moment of "I AM OUTRAGED AT THIS NOT PARTICULARLY BAD THING BECAUSE IT COMES FROM A PERSON OR COMPANY THAT MY E POSSE DO NOT LIKE". Besides, you don't have to watch the fucking film, and was anyone REALLY holding out for an awesome adaptation of Postal of all things?

crash5s

dragonsama wrote:

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

South park has never had anyone shit right onto the camera either. let alone making fun of 911 or reenact Columbine.


edit: beaten but the point still stands.

Shitting onto the camera doesn't sound half as bad as some of the stuff Jackass pulled.

cdneger

cinematical wrote:

Uwe Boll goes postal

Posted Oct 25th 2005 3:31PM by Karina Longworth

When video game developer Running with Scissors released a title called Postal in 1997, it created so much controversy that censorious politicians such as Senator Joe Lieberman immediately demanded that it be removed from store shelves. Lieberman and friends eventually got their way; Postal was actually banned in several countries. Now RwS has announced that it's letting Uwe Boll make a movie out of the game, with a targeted release in 2007. Boll has made a (mostly bad) name for himself directing (mostly unsuccessful) films based on (largely obscure) video games. His Alone in the Dark, starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid, sat on the shelf for ages; but then again, as Will Carlough wrote last week on Slate, it wasn't exactly based on a beloved title to begin with ("What system did Alone in the Dark come out on, Atari Jaguar?"). Running with Scissors' CEO, for his part, is confident that Boll is the right man for the job. “He understands the subject matter and has an appreciation and affinity for controversy and political incorrectness," Vince Desi says. Boll himself agrees that P.I. is, in fact, his M.O. "The film will have all the political incorrectness and American craziness from the game, wrapped around an action thriller story line," Boll said. Ah, yes - American craziness. Cool cool!

Cinematical's kissing cousin Joystiq doesn't usually put too much stock in Boll, but, as Conrad Quilty-Harper puts it, this might be one game that the director has a hard time screwing up: "Ironically, Postal has the bare minimum of what you’d call a plot, so at least that reduces the chances of Boll changing anything too much and annoying fans of the game."

Tube

If you're offended by an actor dressed as Osama making fun of 9/11, why wouldn't you be offended by an animated character doing the same?

xzzy

core tactic wrote:

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

When did they shit on the camera and re-enact Columbine?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbQh9FKHGk

Gyral

I don't know what you guys are talking about. The 20 minute slow mo crossing of 30 yards to the abandoned house in House of the Dead is pure cinema gold.

core tactic

xzzy wrote:

core tactic wrote:

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

When did they shit on the camera and re-enact Columbine?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbQh9FKHGk

Again, shit on THE camera. Like, distended anus in your face with shit coming out, at you.


I would see the Imax version for the theater wide barf factor by itself.

NickTheNewbie

I think he's just trying to go out with a bang.

The_Dciple

Captain K wrote:

Bionic Monkey wrote:

Does this actually have anything to do with the game? Because the impression I'm getting is the game was incredibly offensive, so he's just making a movie that's incredibly offensive.

Let's not pretend the game had much of a story to begin with.

Dude goes crazy, runs around killing people. Unarmed citizens, police forces, military personnel, and a marching band are all gunned down. The last level is a kindergarten playground where, thankfully, the "hero" finally loses it and just passes out, or something, rather than killing dozens of five-year-olds.


That's seriously it. There's nothing else to the game.

\

It has a needless amount of loading screens.

I was shocked as to how frequent they were compared to playing the demo.

xzzy

core tactic wrote:

xzzy wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbQh9FKHGk

Again, shit on THE camera. Like, distended anus in your face with shit coming out, at you.

What's the goddamn difference? It's a recording of someone with feces coming out their rear end. It's pretty goddamn disturbing no matter the position of the camera.

When the best argument you can come up with revolves around semantics, you should probably take a step back and rethink your position.

crash5s

core tactic wrote:

xzzy wrote:

core tactic wrote:

Cardboard Tube wrote:

dragonsama wrote:

All I can say is that if any of this is true then he has gone way to far this time. If this does not get him blacklisted in Hollywood I don't know what will.

Horseshit. You're only saying that because it's Uwe Boll. South Park do this kind of shit all the time.

When did they shit on the camera and re-enact Columbine?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbQh9FKHGk

Again, shit on THE camera. Like, distended anus in your face with shit coming out, at you.


I would see the Imax for the theater wide barf factor by itself.

Well people have drank horse cum and ate horse shit on camera, and been filmed walking around shitting on themselves.

I think Jackass has already pretty much desensitized the public to that kind of behavior.

If people do get mad it will be about the 9/11 and Columbine issues.

While South Park does openly mock sensitive political issues in a very non PC way they are always careful to mock them from the view that the vast majority of the public has, and they always make a point to show the absurdity of the situation.

If Boll is just out to piss people off I'm sure he can.

Furu

NickTheNewbie wrote:

I think he's just trying to go out with a bang.

One can hope.

Tube

The difference between South Park and Postal, I'd imagine, is that South Park has a certain art and is very funny. That doesn't really change the fact that the base content is similar.

It's worth considering whether you're made about this because of the content itself (fair enough) or because of the person involved (stupid).

HappylilElf

JWFokker wrote:

The_Dciple wrote:

AbsoluteZero wrote:

Oh no David Foley no!

No no no!

The dude needs money. Aside from a few voiceovers, the guy hasn't done anything significant since News Radio.

Well, he's had a couple of appearences on Scrubs which is arguably the biggest sitcom on network TV right now but, yeah, he hasn't had a major character role since News Radio, which annoys me because News Radio was awesome. It was even pretty good after Phil Hartman was replaced with Jon Lovitz.

Still, in spite of his possible need for the cash I'm going to have to agree with "Oh no, Dave Foley, no!"

core tactic

South Park is at least trying to cram a moral or something into the show so it's not completely just for shocks. Postal is just him trying to make tons of money and get his name in the news.

xzzy

core tactic wrote:

South Park is at least trying to cram a moral or something into the show so it's not completely just for shocks. Postal is just him trying to make tons of money and get his name in the news.

I'm sure Uwe will feel really bad about that, for about five seconds, before he falls asleep on his bed of money.

I find it hard to fault a guy for gaming the system and getting richer than I'll ever be. Sure, I have my dignity.. but he's got a mansion.

core tactic

He's so rich he can afford to waste as many cameras as he needs to get that shitting take jjuuuussssttt right.


Seriously. That's like the worst waste of money I can think of.


Besides Bloodrayne.

Goomba

The only thing that bothers me is the potential blacklash on the game and thus all video games. If that doesn't happen I really couldn't care less.