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The Critics Speak: ‘Postal’ May Actually Be Better than ‘Sex and the City’
4:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We’ve been following the bouncing Uwe Boll for what seems like months now, but once the consummate self-promoter and sworn enemy of 279,452 filmgoers (and counting) wound up playing the victim in the Sunday New York Times, the shark was considered jumped. But an eagle-eyed tipster points out one of the more fascinating signs yet of the loathed filmmaker’s resurgence: On a week when his new film Postal has reportedly been banned from multiplexes, it’s also pulling a better Rotten Tomatoes score (33%) than “mainstream” offerings Made of Honor (12%), What Happens in Vegas (28%) and John Cusack’s bomb-to-be War, Inc. (23%). It’s also neck-and-neck with Sex and the City and a mere percentage point behind the tentpole Speed Racer, which is still stalled at the gate with 34% positive reviews. More »
Uwe Boll ‘Confirms’ Boxing Match with Michael Bay, Sues Billy Zane For Good Measure
9:20AM Defamer Hollywood | On one hand we’re sick to near-death of German provocateur Uwe Boll, whose perverse viral antics have amused us barely enough to keep us watching over the last month. But today the son of a bitch is making actual news: First by suing his Bloodrayne star Billy Zane for misleading him on the film’s failed distribution in 2006, and then by actually confirming his proposed boxing match with flaxen fauxteur Michael Bay. So topical! So… angry! Find out where he’s coming from (sort of) after the jump. More »
Please, God, Please, Let These Men Fight to the Death!
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Uwe Boll’s 15 minutes of hammy artistic self-defence are just about through, but we find ourselves increasingly won over with his thrashing, language-butchering viral efforts on his own behalf. And while we’re pleased to hear he’ll be judging that Uwe Boll Movie Challenge we noted here yesterday, we are total suckers for his latest — and ideally his last — publicity stunt before vanishing into fauxter oblivion. Or, in his words: “Boll against Bay“: More »
New Contest Entices Amateur Filmmakers to Out-Suck Uwe Boll
2:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Finally! Something constructive has emerged from film culture’s ongoing Uwe Boll Career Deathwatch, and it involves all of us. To wit: “The Uwe Boll Movie Challenge,” which encourages amateurs to make films using the infamously poor standards Boll has been railing about these last few weeks. Think of it like Be Kind Rewind, but with the guiding light of a German hack as opposed to a French aesthete. Check out the criteria after the jump, and get to work already: More »
Philosophical Uwe Boll Suddenly Knows Why You Hate Him
7:35AM Defamer Hollywood | If it weren’t for the petition featuring nearly 168,000 signers calling for his head, we’d probably leave well-enough alone when it comes to genre-hack whipping-boy Uwe Boll. But not even his own targets can resist his thickly accented self-defence, with similarly skill-challenged fauxters Eli Roth and Michael Bay — whom Boll labelled a “fucking retard” in a video released on Wednesday — publicly deflecting Boll’s attacks over the last 24 hours. Naturally, with tens of thousands of dollars worth of free publicity at stake, Boll came back against all his haters in yet another stream-of-consciousness slam: More »
Reviled Uwe Boll Makes His Case As “The Only Genius In The Whole Fucking Business”
4:00AM Defamer Hollywood | The breathtaking display of vindictive fanboy rage populist aesthetic taste that is the Stop Uwe Boll Petition has more than doubled its support since we last viewed it, edging the reviled German filmmaker within a mere 860,000 signatures of his million-hater promise to never direct again. While we’re optimistic that democracy can take the day by, like, 2012, we’re equally devastated by Boll’s aggrieved video rebuke/promotional vehicle that appeared online Tuesday: More »
Be the Lucky Millionth Petitioner Who Ends Uwe Boll’s Career
6:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Behind the facade of those vacant eyes and the kind of resume that would have had most filmmakers changing careers years ago, we knew there was a reasonable man hiding somewhere inside Uwe Boll. In a recent interview with the horror Web site FEARnet, the critic-boxing director of such celluloid atrocities as BloodRayne, In the Name of the King and Postal made a modest proposal for an early retirement we can all get behind: More »‘Postal’ Director Uwe Boll Shares His Theory On The Eventual 9/11 Remake
6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | From time to time, Defamer videographer Molly McAleer seeks out the temporary camaraderie of the friendly folks patrolling the red carpet of various Hollywood events, looking to make a connection with someone other than the abusive, controlling TiVo mascot with whom she’s recently formed an unhealthy relationship. On Sunday night, she turned up at the ArcLight premiere of Postal, the latest addition to director Uwe Boll’s video-game-derived cinematic canon, where she and the legendarily confrontational Boll seemed to hit it off; rather than challenging her to a fight or asking for an e-mail address at which he could berate her at his future convenience, he shared his belief that 9/11 was executed so badly by a doped pilot that they’ll eventually “have to redo it.” Say what you will about Boll’s resume, but you’re never going to hear anything that interesting come out of the mouth of Spielberg or Scorsese at one of their movie premieres. More »
