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Geek Culture / Uwe Boll's newest film "Postal"

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AlanC
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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 06:45 Edited at: 6th May 2008 02:30
Has anybody seen the trailer for his new film? Uwe Boll is now trying his luck at comedy. It looks horrible, but it has gotten some mixed reviews. Some have sad its bad, and some have said its very funny.

WARNING: Very retarded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaNoQCokHo8

The film will not be released in very many theaters. Probably because he is running out of money. What do you think

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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 07:24
I'll tell you a little secret, okay. It's very secret, and nobody should know about it, ever.

To explain to you this dark secret, you'll need to read the information at the following link very, very carefully.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486640/releaseinfo


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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 07:29
Wow sorry I guess I am late. It says May 23rd. Has anybody seen it them?

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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 10:59
The first 5mins of the seed movie gave me brain damage so I am sueing Uwe Boll. If anyone had the same condition inflicted upon them by any of the Uwe Boll movies contact me and we can arrange something. We now have support groups, doctors and therapists who will help you out.

My friend who sat through 30mins of the film sadly died from eating his own head which is why I've set up this support group. We've also forced many cinema's to post a warning up on any movie associated with Boll stating it may cause harmful effects to sit through more than 20mins of the movie.



The sad thing is... I really think there might be one out there. But really, a friend and I saw Seed and yer... never ever gonna see any of his movie's ever again.
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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 13:29 Edited at: 26th Apr 2008 13:32
I have news for everyone,

It looked pretty good from the first 10 mins I saw leaked.

This is just like the George W Bush thing, people jump on the bandwagon to hate this guy and most of them havent seen any of his films. (Or actually know why they hate W Bush - it's just popular to say you do).

There are worse directors out there than him than seem to go unpunished in the way he does; how about the twits responsible for AVP2? (Granted, its there first feature, but you know what I mean)

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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 14:53
I've seen so many bad movies in the last couple of years I don't know who to hate anymore!

I mean I enjoyed RE:Apocalypse more than Diary of the Dead, and DotD is by George Ramero, the whole movie industry has gone sour.

People say the Hitman movie is like Leon crossed with something, crossed with what?, Rape perhaps? - Leon is a modern classic. I wish they wouldn't compare new crud with classic movies, because when you watch them you soon resent the fact that you've been lied to.


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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 15:03
@ Drew Cameron

On the contrary my good man. I've seen all of George Bush's movies and I must say that he is certainly good at acting altough he sometimes forgets his lines, but that could happen to anyone.

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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 15:26
Quote: "This is just like the George W Bush thing, people jump on the bandwagon to hate this guy and most of them havent seen any of his films. (Or actually know why they hate W Bush - it's just popular to say you do)."


Oh yes! people hate george bush because it's popular, it has nothing to do with what he's doing or anything. And also with Uwe suck, it's popular to dislike his movies, not because they're bad, because it's popular!

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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 15:45 Edited at: 26th Apr 2008 15:47
Hitman that was kinda bad. Did anyone notice the intro of the movie was from Dark Angel? They literally ripped flashback scenes of the main characters child hood, who also happened to be a genetically engineered assassin type thing and stuck it in the intro LOL. It made no sense whatsoever. They couldn't even be bothered to make their own intro!
Quote: "Oh yes! people hate george bush because it's popular, it has nothing to do with what he's doing or anything. And also with Uwe suck, it's popular to dislike his movies, not because they're bad, because it's popular!"

Haha

Quote: "This is just like the George W Bush thing, people jump on the bandwagon to hate this guy and most of them havent seen any of his films. (Or actually know why they hate W Bush - it's just popular to say you do)."


I try not to trust reviews and what people say and try to give movies the benefit of the doubt, but after seeing Alone in the Dark and Seed... I just give up. Boll is terrible. Terrible to the point that I don't care if his next movie is an epic oscar winning thing (HA!) because I've seen too many of his horrible movies to even care. What really gets me he claims they are revolutionary and sends hatemail to those who don't agree.

Also keep in mind I love horror movies and I'm pretty much sure I've seen all of them to date (if not send me more titles), so cheesy effects, cheesy story and badish acting etc don't bother me that much. Even if a movie isn't to my taste I think I can tell a good movie from a terrible one. Alone in the dark is my complete and total definition of the worst bad movie in the world.

I used to LOVE blood rayne, alone in the dark and the original SEED games; he butchered them all forever tainting these classic games with his crap movies.

I haven't seen Postal yet of course and I'm not going to because I've seen enough of his movies to know he is a terrible terrible director based on my own experiences not anyone elses. I was actually surprised that I went to see SEED because I wanted to see if he can attempt to learn from his mistakes and make a good movie. But he just can't.

Quote: "There are worse directors out there than him than seem to go unpunished in the way he does; how about the twits responsible for AVP2? (Granted, its there first feature, but you know what I mean)"


AVPR was funny, if you completely ignore the story and random stupidity and take it as just a random action/horror movie its actually not that bad LOL. I thought it was better than AVP. It's still bad, but not bad to the point of insanity like "alone in the dark" O.o Sorry I keep mentioning it... but i thought it was bad enough to mention again The director was not as bad as Boll imo.

If you have another movie that you think is as bad or worse post it here cause chances are I haven't seen it
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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 19:33 Edited at: 26th Apr 2008 19:35
Hey guy's, did you see that petition to stop Uwe Boll making anymore movies. As soon as he heard about this, he responded with a video. I nearly died of laughter watching this. Check it out:

WARNING, Contains Swearing/Cursing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWqCNmfJ1hY

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Posted: 26th Apr 2008 19:47
Haha, that uwe ball is such a nut!

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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 00:28
To all those who say it's popular to trash him--- well you're right. AND his movies suck, as I've seen them all. Do you grant me this right to trash Uwe now?


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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 01:35
Quote: "Do you grant me this right to trash Uwe now?"


You have to submit a form for that privilege. There's also a gargantuan waiting list. Mine's still pending after 8 months.

Oh I can't wait to hate him!

He ruined Doom's legacy. For that, I will be guy holding the whip when he finally goes to hell.

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Quote: "He ruined Doom's legacy"


eh? Uwe Boll had nothing to do with that movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419706/

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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 02:49
Quote: "eh? Uwe Boll had nothing to do with that movie."


You're right, that's odd.

I'm sure he had something to do with it. Just watch it.

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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 04:21
Doom wasn't that bad either. No worse than the usual nonsense people flock to see.

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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 11:38 Edited at: 27th Apr 2008 11:43
I did not like Doom. That scene where they jumped into the dude and you watched it like it was a FPS was... new idea but still really crapy. I have seen it, thought it had more to do with Resident Evil then with Doom.

But that is my opinion. Have not seen any Uwe movie that I know of, so I cannot comment them. I have seen a lot of Steven Segal movies though, none where good.

Quote: "This is just like the George W Bush thing, people jump on the bandwagon to hate this guy and most of them havent seen any of his films. (Or actually know why they hate W Bush - it's just popular to say you do)."


Do not agree at all with the politics of Bush, so I do not do it because it is popular.

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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 12:36
This 'people hate because it's popular' is a daft aspect, some may do that.

Watching the Uwe Boll response on youtube shows that the guy is up his own rear and I'm sure his movies aren't anything special, the guy faces a lot of crit, but truth is not many Hollywood writers are capable of doing anything that isn't formulaic in the plot or anything that's different.

Lets put it this way, when I was very drunk I went on a rant, so I bet my friend I could use a plot formula to make a Hollywood styled plot with 3 minutes and I did. The plot I came up with might have been a good Hugh grant movie, it was a love comedy...I am actually really tempted to write the script and see if I can send it off to Hollywood, it'd be a laugh. Of course some hollywood writers and producers can make a piece of art, so I am pleased we have those around.

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If you send your unsolicited piece of writing to a Hollywood producer, they'll just chuck it into the bin. Producers are afraid that you would later sue them for anything that remotely could be argued it was your idea. It's happen in the past would you believe it and it's the same for the games industry. If you could get into the internal group then you've got a chance.

I know your proberly joking, just wanted to shead some light on the subject. I've aready done it, though I sent my script to UK theater group, I think the UK's not as harsh on this subject, plus it's not as easy to sue someone over here. But thats not stopped me from writing and sending scripts, all you need to do is make some friends in the industry to help your chances of your script viewed even by the bottom person.

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Quote: "Doom wasn't that bad either. No worse than the usual nonsense people flock to see."


I agree to that, but they could have just as well called the movie "Mr. Jingles goes to space-camp". It didn't have much to do with how doom should really be like. It should be like the classic doom's. All-out slaying of thousands of hell-spawned creatures, mayhem, flying skulls and wasted cities. Just like my last birthday. That is the true face of doom. Not a bunch of guys getting killed off one by one by an enemy using stealth tactics. That's not doom. They should have made the movie more like "Braindead" in terms of killing stuff.

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Doom the movie was more like Resident Evil (storywise) then Doom, but placed on Mars and in Doom-like environments.

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Posted: 27th Apr 2008 21:52
My opinion about Uwe is basically this...

A man posting " I'm the only genius in the whole f*cking business " doesn't have guts, or nerve, or any other edge. It's all pride. And, quite frankly it's encompassed him so much, that he cannot see what he's doing. The REAL geniuses are one's who don't have to defend themselves online, who don't swear so arrogantly in public, and who don't have petitions being started.

He's not even a good excuse of what a man really is these days...


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Posted: 29th Apr 2008 06:51
Postal actually has a chance of being good.

- The game has no form of story that does make sense.
- Most of the game consists out of swearing.
- The level of quality of the game is near 0.
- The level of humor in the game is below 0.
- The game features lots of senseless violence.
- The above also goes for sexual and similar themes.

In case nobody noticed, I just described both the summary of an Uwe Boll movie and Postal!


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I wonder what would happen if Uwe made Pac-Man or Donkey Kong into a movie...Or worst yet Q-Bert.

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This is RUCCUS, just testing something, ignore me.
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Q-Bert would have a gun to shoot 100s of terrorists, Pacman would carry explosives and blow up Donkey Kong's night club, as Donkey Kong is a real badass guy who nobody messes with, he smuggles all kinds of drugs in barrels.

Just a guess of course.

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Quote: "Leon is a modern classic. I wish they wouldn't compare new crud with classic movies, because when you watch them you soon resent the fact that you've been lied to."

An ex once argued that "American Beauty" is "the modern Citizen Kane." How that connection could ever be made, I'll never understand, lol (maybe I'm just nuts, but I didn't think American Beauty was nearly as influential or era-defining). But yeah, if any of you haven't seen Leon (also known as "Leon the Professional" or simply as "The Professional"), please give it a try, you'll thank me for suggesting it and you'll thank Van for bringing it up, and you'll get my emoticon usage here...

Quote: "This is just like the George W Bush thing, people jump on the bandwagon to hate this guy and most of them havent seen any of his films. (Or actually know why they hate W Bush - it's just popular to say you do)."

There are definitely instaces where the popularity of hatred toward a subject leads others to hate it without comprehending why they hate it, but Dubbya is a really poor analog lol. This isn't Newsvine so I won't go into details, but really, if you lived in the United States I think you'd realize why he's so unpopular. The only people who still like him are all lobotomy out-patients, lol. But I'd be happy to explain why people hate him via email or YIM

But Bush's movies are fantastic! He's been in Platoon, Training Day, Major League... You guys might not know this, but did you know GW is actually Tom Berenger in disguise? I can't be the only person who sees a resemblance! Oh yes, I'm on to you Mr. President.

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Quote: "Donkey Kong is a real badass guy who nobody messes with, he smuggles all kinds of drugs in barrels."


So you're saying he wants me to have free drugs?
lol.

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