F*** You All: The Uwe Boll Story -- documentary
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F*** You All: The Uwe Boll Story -- documentary
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The question at the center of Uwe Boll’s story has existed since early on in his career: Is Uwe the worst filmmaker of all time? FUCK YOU ALL: The Uwe Boll Story is a documentary that explores the unique life and career of the notorious renegade filmmaker. Through personal interviews with Uwe Boll himself, the people who have worked faithfully alongside him, his harshest critics and everyone in-between, this film offers an entertaining and somewhat shocking portrait of this lightning rod of the film industry.
Honing his craft as an indie filmmaker in Germany in the early 90s, Uwe Boll never could have imagined the life that would lay itself out in front of him. He has experienced a storied career that has led to such highs as working with Oscar-winning actors and making films with 60 million dollar budgets, and has reached such lows as having actors publicly disparage their films with Boll and online petitions for him to stop making films reaching hundreds of thousands of signatures. None of this stopped Uwe from continuing to put out movie after movie, totaling 32 feature films before retiring and opening a successful high end restaurant.
Already a cult legend, Uwe Boll will be remembered forever in the film world. Some will remember him as a modern-day Ed Wood, who made films so bad, they’re good. Others will remember him as the prolific filmmaker who came from a small town in Germany and never compromised his integrity while he created his own path in Hollywood.
Honing his craft as an indie filmmaker in Germany in the early 90s, Uwe Boll never could have imagined the life that would lay itself out in front of him. He has experienced a storied career that has led to such highs as working with Oscar-winning actors and making films with 60 million dollar budgets, and has reached such lows as having actors publicly disparage their films with Boll and online petitions for him to stop making films reaching hundreds of thousands of signatures. None of this stopped Uwe from continuing to put out movie after movie, totaling 32 feature films before retiring and opening a successful high end restaurant.
Already a cult legend, Uwe Boll will be remembered forever in the film world. Some will remember him as a modern-day Ed Wood, who made films so bad, they’re good. Others will remember him as the prolific filmmaker who came from a small town in Germany and never compromised his integrity while he created his own path in Hollywood.
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The Uwe Boll thing is one of the earliest examples of the internet nonsense that is now everywhere.
The guy was nowhere near being the "worst ever."
Complete B.S.
At the time, it became fashionable/fun to talk shit about EB.
And if there is one thing the net is most famous for it is PILING ON just because others are doing it.
The guy was nowhere near being the "worst ever."
Complete B.S.
At the time, it became fashionable/fun to talk shit about EB.
And if there is one thing the net is most famous for it is PILING ON just because others are doing it.
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^Either have I, but I do remember that his middle name is "Toilet".
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Are any of his movies worth watching?
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Re: F*** You All: The Uwe Boll Story -- documentary
Greatest title ever.
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Postal was a great example of satire from a source that has no idea what satire is but thought it sounded fun. Which I guess makes it worth watching? for Educational Purposes?
I missed his latest films such as Blubberella, Auschwitz, Attack on Darfur and Attack on Wall Street.
I missed his latest films such as Blubberella, Auschwitz, Attack on Darfur and Attack on Wall Street.
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His horror films have been masochistic checklist items in our annual horror challenge before; I grew to view them in an MST3K kind of way to make them tolerable.
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I never really understood the hatred Boll got from movie geek community back in the day. If someone makes movies I don't like, I don't watch them. It's certainly not something worth getting worked up over. And it's impressive that Boll managed to get funding for all of those movies (including a reported $60 million for In the Name of the King).
Though I suspect Boll himself played up the bad press to make himself seem more interesting and controversial than he was.
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I've seen:
House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
BloodRayne
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
BloodRayne: Deliverance
His newer stuff just seemed like bottom of the barrel Asylum-level films.
House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
BloodRayne
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
BloodRayne: Deliverance
His newer stuff just seemed like bottom of the barrel Asylum-level films.
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I never really understood the hatred Boll got from movie geek community back in the day. If someone makes movies I don't like, I don't watch them. It's certainly not something worth getting worked up over. And it's impressive that Boll managed to get funding for all of those movies (including a reported $60 million for In the Name of the King).
Though I suspect Boll himself played up the bad press to make himself seem more interesting and controversial than he was.
Though I suspect Boll himself played up the bad press to make himself seem more interesting and controversial than he was.
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I do have a soft spot for Lommel's The Boogeyman. It made quite an impression on me when I saw it on video as a kid. I suspect it hasn't aged well for me, though.