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Kroze Gamegod
05-27-2008, 04:43 AM
I know its hard to comprehend but it could be true....
A friend of mine who is part of the sketch comedy group Loading Ready Run (http://loadingreadyrun.com/), who has through the years made many many videos poking fun at Uwe Boll and the horrible films he produces recently ran into the man himself while at a Starbucks and managed to score an interview with him.
What comes next is something that no one could of ever expected, a highly intelligent and laid back conversation about what Uwe really feels about the film industry shedding the persona we all know him as and talk about his movies and why they fail so hard.

You can view the 20 minute interview here. (http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/330/an_interview_with_uwe_boll)

Granted this hasn't made me want to run out and go see Postal but it has made me respect the man a whole lot more than before and a lot of what he says does ring true. Not that I agree with everything he says but it is interesting.

I still do think that with the right movie, Boll can make something really good. I always have thought that but with the way he has gone so far, he hasn't hit anything really solid yet and its really hard for me to randomly go see yet another one of his movies (Especially with the rising theater ticket prices) without tons of people telling me that Boll has managed to come up with something that finally works.
But from what he said, it doesn't matter if we see it in theaters. He makes everything off the DVD sales and TV viewings so I don't feel too bad about not going to see it.

Wondering what everyone else's opinions are here of this video showing a very different side to Boll is....

UPDATE: It just got Kotaku'd! (http://kotaku.com/5011019/uwe-boll-gets-serious)

Bells
05-27-2008, 12:27 PM
ah c'mon... i dont think anybody should define Boll's person by his work. His work sucks, and on the interviews i saw he is kinda of a Egomaniac douche... but hell, i could say similar stuff about George Lucas.

But Bloodrayne and Alone in the Dark (even House of the Dead) could be really great movies if done right... the thing is Uwe aint that great of a filmmaker.

Mirai Gen
05-27-2008, 09:27 PM
My main problem with Uwe Boll is not just his awful movies but his reaction to them.

His blogs basically read like "Well I'm Rubber And Filmmakers, Critics, Fans, And Everyone I Should Be Making Movies To Market Towards Are Glue."

It's one thing to say your movies are under appreciated; it's quite another to call Michael Bay a "Retard".

Kerensky287
05-28-2008, 05:20 PM
I think that Uwe Boll has some good ideas on how to make movies, but he's terrible at pulling it off. I've only actually seen Bloodrayne but that was enough for me.

The two things that stood out for me were a complete lack of character development (The titular character, a vampire, escapes after being tortured by humans her entire life, meets some innocent people and says "Stop! I only want to kill vampires!") and an utter failure to do the research (Fight scenes. People are not bags of pressurized blood).

If Uwe Boll got some... I dunno... "assistants" or something, then maybe they could look over the script and see his ideas for the scenes and tell him what's wrong with it. Uwe Boll's got the ends down fine. It's the means he needs to work on.

Meister
05-28-2008, 05:29 PM
People are not bags of pressurized blood
To be fair many fight scenes are vastly improved if you treat them as if they were.

Kerensky287
05-28-2008, 07:20 PM
Not these ones. It's a little (read: a LOT) distracting when a minor wound causes a gallon or so of the stuff to jet out almost supersoaker-like.

Preturbed
05-28-2008, 07:24 PM
Not these ones. It's a little (read: a LOT) distracting when a minor wound causes a gallon or so of the stuff to jet out almost supersoaker-like.

Hey, I liked Kill Bill.

Mirai Gen
05-29-2008, 03:06 AM
To be fair that was one huge, well-crafted over-the-top fight scene that happened to have the hilarious Buckets O Blood added content because Tarintino thought it would be cool.

It's like Uwe Boll thought that the blood made the scene in stead of, you know, choreography.

Seil
05-29-2008, 11:43 AM
because Tarintino thought it would be cool.

Tarantino was right.

That being said, I'm not really interested in watching any Boll movie after seeing Bloodrayne 2. I mean... ookay - first was passable; mythological vampire goiing to commit technical patricide. I can go with that - cliched, but not too horrible. But then he went from that to "Hey, now everyone's a cowboy!"