Monday, April 14, 2008

Delusions of Grandeur

Wow. I don't know what to make of this. Either this video game director, Uwe Boll is the biggest hack in denial about sucking at making movies, or this is a really good publicity stunt.

In an April interview with genre website FEARnet, Boll acknowledged an online poll calling for him to quit filmmaking altogether. "How many signatures would it take," FEARnet asked. Boll's answer: "One million. Now we have a new goal." As of today, the Stop Dr. Uwe Boll petition has garnered over 180,000 signatures.
With his detractors more than one-tenth of the way to his retirement, Boll posted a follow-up response. "So hi, here's Uwe Boll, and I have a statement to make about that Internet petition," he begins. "I want...a pro-Boll petition and I expect a million votes pro-Boll. Because look -- I'm not a f***ing retard like Michael Bay or other people running around in the business. Or Eli Roth, making the same sh**ty movies over and over again. If you really look at my movies you will see my real genius."

Boll makes sure to add a shout out to his forthcoming political satire, Postal. "If you go on May 23 to Postal you will see that I deliver a movie what nobody else deliver in the last ten years. What is way better [than] all that social critic George Clooney bullshit what you get every f***ing weekend. You have to really wake up and see me for what I am -- I'm the only genius in the whole f***ing business. Goodbye."

Uwe, I've seen BloodRayne and the only genius you showed me was that it was possible to de-hotify Kristianna Loken.

And where do you get off by saying, "I'm the only genius in the whole f***ing business"? Martin Scorsesse is a fucking genius. Francis-Ford Coppola is a genius. Steven Speilberg, Stanley Kubric, Peter Jackson, Clint Eastwood, etc; those are masters of their craft. Sure Michael Bay sucks, I'll give you that. But at least he's made two decent, watchable movies (Transformers, The Rock). You haven't made one that isn't a total steaming pile of shit.

At least this idiot's good for a laugh at.

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