T1000

House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
BloodRayne

What's even funnier is he's gonna direct Postal and Far Cry aswell.

Does he ever learn?

Leave the Video Games alone and stop ruining them.

awmurray

Yes, Uwe Boll comes up frequently since he's such as ass clown.

I think he's our new Ed Wood. Some people disagree because they think Boll knows he makes crap. However, if you listen to his interviews/commentary I don't think this is the case. He seems to genuinely believe he is making good films. And, like Wood, he always thinks his next film will be better.

There is more information about his current exploits here:

Probing the mind of producer/director Uwe Boll

DRG

There are plenty of worse directors if you count the hacks who make awful direct-to-dvd or Sci Fi channel movies, etc. But on a "resources-available to end-result" scale he may be the worst.

maingon

i think hes worse then any sci-fi channel movie director, his are un watchable, plus those directors on sci-fi channel only have a couple million dollars for a budget, uwe got 20+ million budget for bloodrayne and gets what 40-60 million for dungen siege? he has budgets to work with

Norm de Plume

I'm not familiar with any of his "oeuvre", but it sounds like he's all about the dosh.

Sunday Morning

Yes, he is. And not in the campy, it's cool to watch his movies and make fun of them kind of way. His films just plain suck. He's completely soulless and he makes the kinds of films that will actually lower your I.Q. with each passing minute.

People seem to forget one important thing when comparing him to Ed Wood...

Mr. Wood made films with the intention of them actually being good. He didn't have nowhere near the resources that people like Uwe Boll had. He had pride in what he did, even as bad as it was. Someone like Boll has no pride and is content at wasting millions of dollars and people's time and energy. He may play innocent, but that surely is an act. You simply can't pretend you believe you are making a good film from the get go considering how much a process the pre-production stage is today. Back in Ed Wood's day they would write a script, or sometimes write while they were shooting, scout locations, make sets and shoot within the span of a week! Months and months of planning are put in advance nowadays. A director knows what he has usually by the end of the first day of shooting. There are no excuses. Just dumb people who enjoy making money.

These distinctions makes Uwe Boll a steaming pile of shit who happens to be human.

Panda Phil

Silly people. He's not a bad director, he's just misunderstood.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899

"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press," Boll says.

dhmac

That's an insult to Ed Wood. He made movies that are so bad, they're good. (In fact, I think Plan 9 From Outer Space is one of the greatest comedies ever made because it has comic timing so perfect, that it's amazing it wasn't planned that way.)

On the other side, Uwe Boll's movies are so bad, they're awful. The director he's most like is Coleman Francis.

NatrlBornThrllr

To the guy talking about pre-production these days, here's how bad Uwe Boll is. I was at a premiere screening of Bloodrayne at a film festival, and Boll was doing a Q&A (most entertaining Q&A I've ever seen, by the way). During the Q&A he was talking about casting, and his advice to the young filmmakers was as follows: "Wait as late as you can before casting. When we were casting this movie, we waited until a couple of weeks before shooting started, the last possible minute. That way you get big actors who have a hole in their schedule." He doesn't cast based on talent or who fits the role, he waits until the last minute to get big names. That was one of the dozen or so laughable things he had to say...but you get the idea.

-JP

Hokeyboy

He's no Raja Gosnell...

CKMorpheus

How does one pronouce this fools name? I'm so used to saying "Yoo Bowl"

Legolas

^ I've always just called him Eew-ie, but some article said it was pronounced ooh-vay, or something to that respect.

mndtrp

My girlfriend and I just watched House of the Dead. It was one of the worst movies we had ever seen. Unfortunately, it wasn't even a so-bad-it's-fun bad movie.

Yes, Uwe is terrible.

Tarantino

I pronounce his name as "You Bowl" as well, but most of my friends just pronounce it as "Shit".

= J

NatrlBornThrllr

Yeah, he's German. It's pronounced "oo-vay bowl."

-JP

The Black

uwe boll
you blow

The Bus

It's OO-Veh BOHLL.

And I actually respected him more after that EuroGamer article.

dhmac

I like saying his name as "Oy Vey!" (with a roll of the eyes) "Bowl"

It may not be a 100% correct pronunciation, but it fits the man perfectly.

Cancer Man

Toilet Bowl; considering the apparent rock bottom nature of his movies, I certainly think the prick's sir name is pretty apt.

Hell, Uwe Bowl even makes Richard Dean Anderson look like Cecil B. DeMille in comparison, for f**k sake!

Jay G.

What has Richard Dean Anderson directed?

maingon

""I've met tons of people who think BloodRayne is way better than Underworld 2, but they're not going on the Internet and writing that... I'm a little tired of only getting questions from journalists like, 'Your movies were so badly received, blah blah blah.' I know tons of movies that were way worse than Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead.""

Bloodrayne better then Underworld? lol, even if you didnt like underworld you gotta admit its well dont, it looks great. the first one cost around 22 million and the film looked like a 100 million dollar movie. Uwe films such as bloodryane looked aweful cheap and full of bad lighting. he's always putting down other movies, says halo will be a failure?

Cancer Man

Shit, I meant Paul W.S. Anderson, the guy who recently direct Alien Vs. Predator, not Richard Dean Anderson, the guy from MacGyver and Stargate SG-1.

My bad...

Legolas

How can there be tons of people who have seen BloodRayne when it grossed like $1 million total?

mndtrp

I also wonder how he continues to get chosen for movies. Are studios really hoping to catch his "inevitable breakthrough" that never comes?

Fincher Fan

He raises the money for the productions himself. How else do you think he keeps working?