Uwe Boll
People who don’t understand IP and the movie business hate Uwe Boll. But Uwe Boll is one of the greatest people alive.
He consistantly gets together casts which include (a) really amazing B and C-list celebrities and (b) hot girls, then makes so-terrible-they’re-awesome movies based on ridiculous game franchaises. And people’s problem is… what?
Oh I’m sorry, did you want Scorsese and Cameron to work together under Bruckheimer to create a two and a half hour epic starring Johhny Depp, Al Pacino, and Cameron Diaz based on your beloved game that you only love so much because you were playing it when you were going through puberty?
People seem to hate Boll because not only are his movies “bad”, but they make money. People also seem to think he’s dirty because he makes use of a German tax “loop hole”, much like ones which MOST FILMS YOU HAVE EVER SEEN use.
Boll has bought together Matthew Lillard, Ron Perlman, Burt Reynolds, Jason Statham and Kristanna Loken to create possibly the greatest bonus-film cast of all time. He then has called that film DUNGEON SEIGE. The man is a legend.
And when faced with the ridiculous abuse he gets from fanboys living in a fantasy world, he doesn’t hide behind marketing men and ignore it. He invites his critics to box against him and gives the greatest interviews known to man. He even makes an actually valid point – that games companies are so utterly inexperienced at this business that they won’t cross promote. He shows incredulity at that because it is incredulous.
We should all feel damn lucky that someone with an ability to actually make a profit is bothering to turn weird games into movies, and not be insulting him at every turn.
Bonus cast + bonus IP + bonus director = ftw.
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2 Responses to “Uwe Boll”
§ January 3rd, 2007 at 1:19 am
This is the most contraversial video game blog post EVER. It’s so contraversial, I cant even give an opinion. Sorry, my post will simply have to end here —> .
§ January 3rd, 2007 at 2:30 am
“He shows incredulity at that because it is incredulous.”
Words fail me. But evidently not me alone.