Uwe Boll is many things, he's a German, he's bat-shit crazy and he's also a total douche bag. Uwe Boll is a film maker, best known for his pathetic big screen adaptations of lame video games. You may have seen some of his turds such as Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne and House of the Dead. I'm not going to go on and on about how much his movies blow, there is plenty of that on the internets already. I think Uwe Boll is awesome, sure he's a total douche that really has no business making movies and ruining video game franchises, but he sticks to his guns. No matter how many bad reviews are written about him and no matter how many online petitions are started that beg him to stop making movies, he has proven that he's the bigger man. Well, that's not entirely the case...
It's hard for anyone to argue that Uwe Boll made any good movies prior to Postal. House of the Dead was a joke. It wasn't a comedy but it was just seriously bad. Picture a zombie rave with guns and explosions and you've pretty much got House of the Dead. Alone in the Dark wasn't much better, it starred Christian Slater and Tara Reid... it was full of overacting and USA Network quality art direction. Here is an actual quote from Uwe Boll's commentary of Alone in the Dark, "Tara Reid looks really intelligent in ze eyeglass... I hope. It is ze disappointment for all ze fans zat Tara Reid is not losing her bra, but zis is typical prude U.S. actress not villing to play ze nudity anymore." I'm not even going to get into BloodRayne, all you really need to know is that Michael Madsen is in it.
It's too easy to shit all over these movies, so I'll wrap this up by saying that Postal is a vast improvement over Boll's other movies. That's not to say it's an award winning film by any means. The difference with Postal was that it wasn't trying to be serious at all. It's basically a Troma movie with a much larger budget. There are tons of bad jokes and over the top stunts that actually make it fun to watch. That and it doesn't have Michael Madsen, Tara Reid or Christian Slater. Although Dave Foley is in Postal... and he's naked.
But back to Uwe Boll's douche baggery. As the man responsible for such horrible movies you can imagine there are plenty of nerds on the internet that can't help but voice their opinion in the form of a petition. Last year one such "Stop Dr. Uwe Boll" petition came to the attention of Boll himself, he actually said that if they could get one million signatures he'd be willing to quit making movies. Currently, said petition is a little over a quarter of the way to it's goal. I doubt anything will ever become of it since people can't seem to get enough of the train-wreck that is Uwe Boll.
In 2006 Uwe Boll challenged a number of nerd bloggers to a fight. Seriously, and it actually happened. Uwe wasn't bullshitin' either, he flew to Malaga, Spain just to fight a dude that gave Alone in the Dark a bad review online. He also fought four other dudes in Vancouver. The event was dubbed "Raging Boll." These fights were publicity stunts of course but that doesn't make the whole situation any less bizarre. It's be like Metallica flying to your hometown to beat you up because you downloaded their new album and told your friends it sucked.
The craziness didn't stop in 2006, before Postal was released last month Uwe Boll claimed that he was the only genius left in show business and that Michael Bay was a "retard." I can't really argue with that, I don't care for Michael Bay's movies at all. They are a little better than Boll's non-Postal movies though. Uwe Boll actually went so far as to challenge Michael Bay to a steelcage deathmatch at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this fall. Michael Bay responded to Boll's insults saying that he didn't care what Boll thinks. Uwe Boll seemed intent to kick things up a notch and said that he was hurt that Michael Bay doesn't care about him but he's comforted by the fact that Postal will gross more money than the new Indiana Jones movie because "Harrison Ford is so old, he is older zan my grandfather, and he is dead." The video on the left is an except from one of Boll's rants.
Uwe Boll is awesome. Sure he's a douche, he talks a lot of shit and makes bad movies. He's got his head planted firmly up his ass and he thinks his shit doesn't stink. Hegemony, it's the American way, but the same goes for Germans film makers as well...
Its all a publicity stunt.
Remember the part where I said "this was all a publicity stunt"? Yeah, probably not, I don't blame you. It doesn't make Uwe Boll any less of a douche.
Eli Roth who made the egregiously awful Hostel is an even bigger douchebag.