The Uwe Boll Thread

PikeGod

Spread your hate here so we can contain it.

mentok1982

I walked out on him. His voice and accent made it unbearable.

Samyel

How did that panel end? I left to get dinner after it was down the last blood-thirsty hundred or so in the theatre. Did he snap? Did he just give up and walk away? Was it civil? Did he ever clue in that coming to PAX was an awful idea?

Incenjucar

I have to give him props for daring to show up. For however much crap he does in the day-to-day, he at least has the balls to stand up and stutter in front of thousands of angry people when he has nothing to gain from it.

PikeGod

Actually the whole Q&A was pretty civil, except for the couple of people who yelled things. It seems most of the people who really hated him left. It was entertaining though, watching him defend himself.

mentok1982

Samyel wrote: »

I left to get dinner after it was down the last blood-thirsty hundred or so in the theatre.

I can't believe that many people left. They must have all followed my example...;-)

Crit_Fail

For those who were not there, such as myself, I came across this video of the entire panel. Thanks to whomever recorded it and to joystiq for posting it.

It's a good thing that the (All hail) balls had been removed (or at least forgotten about) by the time the trailer finished playing.

-- CF

CuriostyCosby

I thought it was funny the way he danced around the answers to questions, never once giving out a simple yes or no answer.
Thusly, I came up with a spot on impersonation of his skillz.
q: How do you keep finding work?
a: Ya vell if you look at ze qvestion from a different perzpective, you vill find zat puppies unt kitties are fluffy and like to frolic in ze sun. Zat is vat I vanted to show in my new film, zat it can be funny and people vould like it so much. I sink I did a good job on my new film Postal, it's very funny, you should watch the trailer.
*trailer plays... crickets are heard*


god what a trainwreck
hate that guy.
But can you imagine the kind of chaos that would have ensued if Jack Thompson had actually shown up? I bet that he woulda been crucified right quick.

Dondums

I would've preferred seeing Jack Thompson than Uwe Boll. I unfortunately stayed until they told us to leave. It was horrible. It put a pretty big damper on my mood for a while. Then the trivia later on made up for it.
"Do a barrel roll!" "Super Smash Bros. Melee?"

Aneurhythmia

How can so many people have sticks up their asses about Boll?

strangemusic

Requesting the presence of "fuck you and your racist bullshit" girl in this thread.

Snakes_Revenge

strangemusic wrote: »

Requesting the presence of "fuck you and your racist bullshit" girl in this thread.

Yeah, I'd like to see who it was.

Kyouteki

Dondums wrote: »

I would've preferred seeing Jack Thompson than Uwe Boll. I unfortunately stayed until they told us to leave. It was horrible. It put a pretty big damper on my mood for a while. Then the trivia later on made up for it.
"Do a barrel roll!" "Super Smash Bros. Melee?"

Oh my GOD I can't believe he missed that one.
(Trivia was awesome.)

eelektrik

I just thought it was funny how he was defending Bloodrayne and claiming it was better then Elektra and Ultraviolet... As if those movies had any redeeming value in them.

BlackDragon480

eelektrik wrote: »

I just thought it was funny how he was defending Bloodrayne and claiming it was better then Elektra and Ultraviolet... As if those movies had any redeeming value in them.

At least Bloodrayne actually had some nudity. Not that I'm defending it (it was/is complete shit), but that is something it had over Elektra and Ultraviolet.

mspencer

Samyel wrote: »

How did that panel end? I left to get dinner after it was down the last blood-thirsty hundred or so in the theatre. Did he snap? Did he just give up and walk away? Was it civil? Did he ever clue in that coming to PAX was an awful idea?

I don't know how much of the "Storytime with Khoo" stuff in Enforcerland I'm allowed to repeat -- I'll temporarily assume "none of it" -- but from what I heard from Khoo himself, you can rest assured that Uwe Boll and his people went into this with their eyes open. PAX did not trick them -- they were told from day one that this will be a disaster, so Are You Sure?

Samyel

mspencer wrote: »

PAX did not trick them -- they were told from day one that this will be a disaster, so Are You Sure?

I hope this is true. I found myself in the position of feeling sorry for Uwe Boll... not exactly a comfortable place to be.

I am glad that it wasn't Jack Thompson, though. Some kid would probably huck a Bawls bottle at his head, sparking nastiness, and leading to Jacky having more ammo for his "games make people violent" band wagon.

My Something Awful username is Pixelante, and I resent the man as passionately as anyone else, but putting him on stage would have been a bit dangerous, in my humble opinion. Besides, PAX should be about unity, gaming, and love of the craft. I have mixed feelings about Uwe being there. On the one hand, it makes one hell of a story to tell and it was very surprising. I dig surprises. On the other hand, it brought out a lot of our meanness. "Fuck you and your racist bullshit" girl kind of made me cringe, because it would have been far more productive to be polite and articulate about our complaints, rather than raving mad.

Puny Human

I thought it was cool, actually. He came off 10x better than the hecklers did. He did a fair and reasonable job of defending who he was and what he does. You can complain about how bad his movies are but by throwing out personal insults you're just being a dick.

In summary: He wasn't a dick. You guys were. You just lost to Uwe Boll.

Raiden333

to be fair guys that movie preview was pretty damn shitty.

Thello

I left about a 2/3 of the way through, but only because the guy really isn't that interesting or entertaining to listen to. He was saying the same stuff he always does. Still, it was a pretty cool surprise to actually see the infamous man himself in person.

The "get the fuck off the stage" girl needed a serious kick in the ass though. Lighten up.

anable

I didn't attend the panel, but I did read this article from Gamasutra.

I actual respect the man more now than before. Though I haven't seen the Postal trailer so this opinion is subject to change.

PikeGod

Puny Human wrote: »

I thought it was cool, actually. He came off 10x better than the hecklers did. He did a fair and reasonable job of defending who he was and what he does. You can complain about how bad his movies are but by throwing out personal insults you're just being a dick.

In summary: He wasn't a dick. You guys were. You just lost to Uwe Boll.

I gave until I shaw the clips of his movie til I heckled. I was an educated heckler, and with a movie that bad, he deserved the heckling he got. Really the only comment in bad taste was that girl who screamed the racist thing.

But yeah, you're supposed heckle bad things on stage. And bad movies done by them.

Aneurhythmia

PikeGod wrote: »

But yeah, you're supposed heckle bad things on stage. And bad movies done by them.

No, you're not.

It's called common fucking courtesy.

PikeGod

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

PikeGod wrote: »

But yeah, you're supposed heckle bad things on stage. And bad movies done by them.

No, you're not.

It's called common fucking courtesy.

How is being honest discourteous?

Aneurhythmia

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/courtesy

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decorum

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heckle

mspencer

Guys, I don't think we should have this debate. No side will win. Some people agree there is merit in bringing honest, informed criticism directly to the face of the person who needs it. Some people agree it took a lot of balls to get up in front of people like that.

I think nearly everyone agrees that throwing things or just insulting the man were not cool.

Be careful that we don't just argue out of instinct. I'm worried one side will think the pro-informed-criticism people are also OK with throwing insults and physical objects at the man; and that the other side will think the please-be-civil people think the man shouldn't hear any criticism at all.

If that happens, this thread will go several more pages before the fires finally burn down. That would suck.

Roachypops

That girl making the comment about his "racist bullshit" was really unnecessary, which I said when I saw her outside of the theater. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with someone, even vehemently, but you don't have to lower yourself to the level of shouting angrily at someone and then running off into the crowd.

She seemed, shall we say, unrepentant.

anable

Why was he being called a racists? Is he making a RE5 movie?

ZING!

Pseudonym

Dondums wrote: »

I would've preferred seeing Jack Thompson than Uwe Boll. I unfortunately stayed until they told us to leave. It was horrible. It put a pretty big damper on my mood for a while. Then the trivia later on made up for it.
"Do a barrel roll!" "Super Smash Bros. Melee?"

In defense of that dude in trivia, we couldn't hear shit up on the stage when it came to the spoken part of the audio clips. It was all like "Mh A Muha rhum!". In his panic he thought of the Star Fox level of Smash. I followed it up with the correct answer, with the audio clip now made very clear through the audience's frantic barrel roll demands.

smes

Uwe Boll was at PAX? FUCK! I missed it! Where was it on the schedule? Did he show any clips of postal?

whypick1

Just after the first G+T Q+A as a surprise guest.
Unfortunately, yes.

Augustus

Puny Human wrote: »

I thought it was cool, actually. He came off 10x better than the hecklers did. He did a fair and reasonable job of defending who he was and what he does. You can complain about how bad his movies are but by throwing out personal insults you're just being a dick.

In summary: He wasn't a dick. You guys were. You just lost to Uwe Boll.

Agreed. We should have outclassed him. This was the part where we tell him he's fucking Ed Wood's corpse, not just screaming incoherently. It's sad but the kind of comments we were throwing at him? He's used to that. He knows how to dodge it. He bobbed and weaved it.

I think his movies are trash and he's a parasite, but I respect him for this reason: It took serious stones to go into the lion's den that is PAX on purpose.

Puny Human

Augustus wrote: »

Puny Human wrote: »

I thought it was cool, actually. He came off 10x better than the hecklers did. He did a fair and reasonable job of defending who he was and what he does. You can complain about how bad his movies are but by throwing out personal insults you're just being a dick.

In summary: He wasn't a dick. You guys were. You just lost to Uwe Boll.

Agreed. We should have outclassed him. This was the part where we tell him he's fucking Ed Wood's corpse, not just screaming incoherently. It's sad but the kind of comments we were throwing at him? He's used to that. He knows how to dodge it. He bobbed and weaved it.

I think his movies are trash and he's a parasite, but I respect him for this reason: It took serious stones to go into the lion's den that is PAX on purpose.

Exactly right, I'm glad someone agrees and oh hi Maximum Train Leader. I'm not sure what the forum etiquette is for agreeing with your PAX roommate. Awkwaaaaaard.

Uhm, anyway, yeah, the hecklers really need to take Trolling 101 before going up against a master of the art like Uwe there.

Generals

Weird.

He was at my local anime convention a week before PAX. I happened to attend that panel of his and left half an hour later. All I have to say is half the stuff was garbage.

Never thought he would actually be in PAX.

Fatty McBeardo

Meh, he made up for 1% of his terrible films by beating up Lowtax.

Thello

Fatty McBeardo wrote: »

Meh, he made up for 1% of his terrible films by beating up Lowtax.

DEAR RICHARD

wetzelcoatl

yeah the panal would have been awesome if he had just shown the clip of him beating up lowtax instead of the postal clip

Aneurhythmia

Augustus wrote: »

Puny Human wrote: »

I thought it was cool, actually. He came off 10x better than the hecklers did. He did a fair and reasonable job of defending who he was and what he does. You can complain about how bad his movies are but by throwing out personal insults you're just being a dick.

In summary: He wasn't a dick. You guys were. You just lost to Uwe Boll.

Agreed. We should have outclassed him. This was the part where we tell him he's fucking Ed Wood's corpse, not just screaming incoherently. It's sad but the kind of comments we were throwing at him? He's used to that. He knows how to dodge it. He bobbed and weaved it.

I think his movies are trash and he's a parasite, but I respect him for this reason: It took serious stones to go into the lion's den that is PAX on purpose.

How exactly is he fucking Ed Wood's corpse? By pursuing a similar agenda in film without the benefit of the lens of nostalgia?

Bionic Monkey

Raiden333 wrote: »

to be fair guys that movie preview was pretty damn shitty.

As someone that's seen two of his movies, I can honestly say that was the best work from that man I've ever seen. It actually made me lightly chuckle, and it did it on purpose.

Bionic Monkey

mspencer wrote: »

Guys, I don't think we should have this debate. No side will win. Some people agree there is merit in bringing honest, informed criticism directly to the face of the person who needs it. Some people agree it took a lot of balls to get up in front of people like that.

I think nearly everyone agrees that throwing things or just insulting the man were not cool.

Be careful that we don't just argue out of instinct. I'm worried one side will think the pro-informed-criticism people are also OK with throwing insults and physical objects at the man; and that the other side will think the please-be-civil people think the man shouldn't hear any criticism at all.

If that happens, this thread will go several more pages before the fires finally burn down. That would suck.

Fairly said. The man's a hack, and deserves to be told his movies are trash. Being called an asshole in a public forum is not the way to accomplish this. Glad I'm not the only one who thought the "racist" girl was a stupid bitch.

Shade

I thought the scene at the DMV/government office was kinda funny.

But the racist chick was way out of line(I left when she came back and grabbed the mic from the next guy in line then took off.)
I was expecting some rudeness, but I expected better from my fellow gamers.