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Uwe Boll offends everyone! (Postal the movie)
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It makes them ignorant, which can be just as bad.
On second thought, if Uwe Boll bought me a bear, I'd let him beat the crap out of me all he wanted.
Because shit, I'm getting a bear.
Granted Hank Aaron is kind of out of Boll's league in the sense of how good they are, but still. It's like if someone who's good, but not famous, challenges you. They're loading the deck. No matter how retarded the people who accepted the challenge was, it was a shitty thing to do in the first place.
Otherwise, no.
Literally everyone in the world is ignorant. Do you know how to harmonise the modes of melodic minor? No? Ignorant. Can you list off the top of your head twenty parts that go into an F-15? No? Ignorant
Ignorance is a privative. It means nothing.
This all hinges on it being a big secret that he could box, which it really wasn't. Besides, the invitation itself implies some ability. If someone gets challenged to a game of pool and hustled, do you say the hustler was a dick? Maybe, but not as much as the guy getting hustled was an idiot.
That is the most ignorant comment I've heard all week.
That is pretty bad.
Anyway, I fail to see how you can claim that Shakespeare doesnt have any artistic merit? And is somehow equivelent to shitting on a camera.
Straw man. No one claimed shakespeare doesn't have artistic merit, and no one said south park was the equivalent. The original point was that South Park often contains similar themes to those described in Postal, and as such the themes themselves aren't something to get up in arms about.
Then that episode came along.
"God how do you not know an obscure, early tragedy by William Shakespeare? Fucking morons."
Now we're back to the top point again.
And this is a thread about Uwe Boll.
"You got G&T in my D&D!"
Seriously, the problem with this movie is that we all know Uwe Boll is incapable of subtle nuance, timing, plotting, and dialog. A level of skill is required for comedy, especially over-the-top outrageous-to-offensive comedy. Because you have to have something to say behind your offensive content. I don't like South Park, but when I've seen it I know it had something to say. It contains a level of social commentary. But Uwe is not going to do that. Because he can't. So the result will be unbearable to everybody on Earth.
What the fuck? You're all getting in line to buy tickets to a film with features such as "guy crapping"?
Ignorance can lead to stupid decisions. In my opinion it can lead to some atrocious decision making or end results.
Or in this case, stupid comments.
That is the thing people should be worrying about. I halfway expect the "shitting" scene to be so blatant and unwarranted that it'll cause a backlash all by itself.
Oh, and noone should be congratulating this guy for using controversy to make money. Neither should they be glad that he's found a way to exploit the movie making industry through shock value. Just because he knows how to play "dirty" in terms of the movie industry doesn't mean that some of the stuff that's going to be in this movie is justified. If this film is anything like the other ones he's produced it's liable to have all the tact and grace of a fully loaded semi crashing through a building. Hell, if we go off the theory that it's alright to exploit loopholes and other people then I should be able to walk down the street and rob the local bum of his booze money for a drink, simply because he's malnourished and weak.
As for the boxing thing, it was my understanding that Boll promised the critics training and appropriate equipment. If he didn't do that then he's at fault. More to the point seeing as how he claims he's a professional he should have acted with a bit more grace (IE not causing someone to double over and vomit from hitting them so much.). That being said, the critics were stupid for not walking out with that other guy the second Boll started acting like an asshat. That should have been a clear warning to them that Boll wasn't going to play nice. Oh, and the whole incident with him threatening them pre-match too should have been a tip-off as well.
Overall I get the feeling that Boll is going to end up making a movie that lacks a point in relation to the controversial issues it's going to bring up. If there was a point to him re-enacting a school shooting I could possibly understand, but given the source material, and his track record I have serious doubts.
Edit: Oh, and comparing shitting in Southpark with shitting in real life is kind of stupid. Seeing an undetailed brown blob on a cartoon doesn't elicit the same reaction as it would if you saw it in real life. Hell, if you want an example just look at a Southpark episode that has this and go watch Jackass 2 during the bathroom scene. There's a world of difference in how disgusting it is.
Publicity. And a man shitting on a camera I guess.
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Yeah, it'll be really horrible, and hopefully he will garner the hatred of all people and not just gamers. With any luck, he will never make another movie again. Though I don't think that will ever happen.
But yeah, it's still a pretty bad idea.
Apparently that doesn't matter either, seeing as Borat was so well-received.
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Violent and "shock factor" movies really aren't anything new. Just look at Battle Royal. It's just that he's trying to make Postal as offensive as possible, and not just in a gross out sort of way either. People have been making jokes about 9/11 and the like for some time, but this sort of suggests he feels America had it coming or something. Of course, when questioned about it, he'll say something like it's his "artistic vision", but the whole point was really just to hit a sensitive spot so he could make an assload of money off the contraversy.
I'm curious as to how Boll is going to capture the feel of the games. In Postal 2 you could go through the game as an everyday citizen. In fact, you would never even have to pick up a gun, so far as I can recall. The premise of the game was that the game gets as raunchy and dirty as you want it to be. You could be some schmoe picking up a carton of milk at the local super-market, or you could steal the milk and go balls out, slaughtering everything in the market and making a glorious escape out of a second floor window. Part of the appeal of it was that you controlled the character, and because of that you controlled how the game played and reacted to your actions. Unless there's some real character development on the part of the Postal guy I don't see how that's going to work in the form of a movie.
EDIT: On that note, I'd like to congratulate him, since obviously his tactic is working.
No, man, you just don't get it, they're going to be shitting on the camera so it'll be all artsy and funny and all that crap.
Speaking of that particular scene, since when was shit ever a part of the Postal series? I know you could piss on people to put out fires and stuff, but I don't particularly ever remember that sort of thing. More to the point, Postal (2, at least.) is about satirizing various radical and not so radical cultures. It didn't just take the lololAmerica approach. It satirized literally everything, including Americans, terrorists, conservatives, radicals, capitalists, hippies, drug dealers (Though strangely never cops. For the most part they were pretty damn heroic.), various foreign cultures, sexual lifestyles, and a ton of other stuff, but never something truly crass like shitting on cameras. Hell, most of the vile stuff you could do you had to go out of your way to get to work. I didn't even realize I could put a cat on the barrel of my gun and use it as an impromptu silencer until half-way through the game, much less poisoning food or getting ATF agents killed by initiating a bust pre-maturely.
For art.
Bloodrayne 2, more Dungeon Siege, Alone in the Dark 2... and worse, he's actually getting good actors to work for him.
(What is Jason Turkish Statham doing in Dungeon Siege?)
Whatever unholy pact Boll made, it seems to be working like a charm.
The guy has to be stopped, somehow.
You can buy the rights to produce a movie based on intellectual property with a fucking sandwich. I doubt Uwe can be stopped.
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Basically, think of him less as a director / movie maker, and more as some sorta money launderer.
Unfortunatly, I'm pretty sure he has little-to-nothing to do with Hollywood in the business sense, so blacklisting won't do a terrible lot of good.
Im still hoping he dies of a heart attack.
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