Yeah, he needs to hire a 'PR' agent whose only job is to translate him. All the eastern europeans do it, why not the germans?

gee i dunno.. War of the Worlds" was one of the worse movies i have ever seen, and "In the Name of the King" was not half as bad on perhaps a tenth of the budget. Does that make it 20 times better?

And who did "AI?" That was almost as bad as "WOW." Only in as it didn't have as much little girl screaming.

Thought: in a Jaws v. E.T. movie, who would win?

Bloodrayne II??? is there a Bloodrayne II??? after the fiasco of the first one???
i have lost all hope on human kind.

@codydog: Minority Report seemed extra-dark for Spielberg.

@BlacklistedJoe: You still loved it.

@codydog: i think Kubrickberg did that one (AI) too

@Erzengel: I'd sell Intelligent Vampire to Boll (if he wanted it). I still have 3 acts to write though.

@codydog: Yeah AI was originally a Kubrick film, finished off by the Berg. I actually liked it, to some extent though. If you think of the first part as one story that never got finished, and the last part as the end of a movie that was good. I think there could have been two really good movies there, but the melding of the two kind of ruined it.

I say we just lock Boll and Jack Thompson in a room together and see who kills who first.

given the opportunity i would have no moral problem with killing uwe boll.

I don't really want to comment on this turd, because that's exactly what he wants.

However, I have noticed that blacklistedjoe talks to himself a lot.

@codydog: War of the Worlds is a fantastic effects movie with a horrible, anticlimactic ending.

And AI is a brilliant, brilliant film that's misunderstood by nearly everyone who saw it. Let me guess, you're one of the people who thought those were aliens at the end?

Uwe Boll is retarded. That is all.

@Westender:
only if we get to kill the other one when they exit the thunderdome.

@Mistro311: my daughter said it was like being trapped under a collapsed ferris wheel for centuries. I said no kabooms, no breasties, no monsters, no movie.

Actually i would love to see an intelligent deep meaningful SF movie, but after "Contact" and that one with the tree flying through space, i am losing hope.. I liked both of them well enough, you understand, but honorable wife person threatened mutiny if i ever made her sit through something that slow ever again.

@Belabras: Of course. I wouldn't have it any other way.

@extracrispy: I think i read the book AI was baesd on, actually, although i surpressed a lot of it.

And i would have loved to see a Steam punk "WOW" that conveyed a little of the hoplessness and despair of the book.. I have always wondered if Wells was not foreseeing the destruction of the British Empire...

(google Break)

War of Worlds book 1898

Recessional Poem; R L Kipling. Was written for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

I think that there was an "End of Empire" meme in the air.

I will hold my supposition, and suggest that an original version of WOW would have been somewhat appropriate for the times, without pushing any political point.

How does Boll keep getting gigs? Has he ever made a movie that actually turned a profit?

I suspect they all do, eventually. You can make a lot of cheesy movie for the price of Tom Cruise's wardrobe, catering and trailer.

Somebody posted that Boll gets a big tax write off in Germany.

@codydog:
Which has just ended for him.
So, I think his stream of crap will now become more of a trickle of crap.

i have become familiar with your attitude, and value it for what it is.

I did see the trailer for "Postal" and thought "Gee, that looks like fun."

Lots of Kaboomium expended on that one.

@Erzengel: Strangely enough, BloodRayne 2 is actually a much better film than the original (though I realise that's not saying much). It helps that the movie has a completely different cast, was shot in British Columbia instead of Romania...and has a plot.

@extracrispy: How would you have liked WOW to end?

@Mistro311: actually the first part of the movie WAS the story, Kubrick added the second part.

"Supertoys last all summer" was the story that AI became, Kubrick added in all the Pinocchio references and the robots take over the earth (that everyone mistakes for aliens) ending.

@Falconfire: So wait. Those were robots?

About the time WOW was in the theatres, I was reading Volume II of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which dealt with exactly the same subject matter. After reading that I felt no need to go see the Spielberg/Cruise version of the story.

So, they let the former Center of the Washington Bullets Direct movies?

This coming from a guy that paid Dave Foley to scratch his balls on screen...

@joemono: It's not so much that I would have changed the ending to War of the Worlds. But a little foreshadowing could have made the ending seem like less of a softball.

@aubreyAubrey: Yep, the creatures at the end of AI are next-generation mechas, i.e. mechas created by mechas. I guess people mistake them for aliens because they sorta do resemble the aliens in Spielberg's Close Encounters. Much like 2001 depicts the evolution of human intelligence, AI examines the evolution of artificial intelligence from Teddy to David to the next-generation mechas at the end. It's really, really fascinating if you have the patience to get through Spielberg's plodding script.

Spielberg has slipped over the years but I'd watch the scraps on the cutting room floor from WOW before a Uwe Boll film.

@Westender: That is the perfect solution!

Sadly enough, I'm pretty sure I'll go see Postal in the theater regardless. I loved the computer game.

boll isn't actually expecting to make good on his statement, he's just making it in the hopes such a crazy statement will generate some free coverage of his movie.

if its hard to make a good movie out of a good game, why would they greenlight a movie to be made out of a shitty game?

The really crazy thing about Boll is that he is a doctor. A man that nuckin' futz actually made it through medical school. WTF?

The guy fails to take into account the name recognition factor, which is one of his many failings. The name Spielberg attached to a project brings to mind the potential for great storytelling, visuals unlike anything before and a theater experience that'll leave you breathless. The name Boll, on the other hand, inspires a movement best left behind closed doors and flushed immediately.

@BlacklistedJoe:

Well, sure. OTOH, he grafted on a happy ending.

@btgoss:

He only went so he could carve people up and get paid for it. I thought about it for that reason, too, but am too lazy.
-Kle.

@btgoss: Not a medical doctor. He has a doctorate in literature.
He has written two books on TV, however.
[en.wikipedia.org]

He has a doctorate in literature? I guess that means his movies aren't awful - they're po-mo.

...and has a plot.

Kristanna Loken's tits don't count as a plot?

God, even if I despised Indiana Jones, I would still buy tickets to it; after reading those quotes from Boll.

@daveNYC: It doesn't matter whether he turns a profit; German tax laws give such beneficial breaks to those that invest in German owned movies that the investors make money regardless of whether the movie does.

I maybe a bit hesitant about the upcoming Indy movie but with Uwe talking about it just means to spite him I'm going to get tickets for the movie baby.

But he throws a mean punch, amirite? eh? ehhhh?

...eh it was worth a try. ;)

A.I. was a brilliant film until it kept going for three quarters an hour after the real ending with the boy-bot sunk at the bottom of the ocean staring at a plaster fairy forever.