A lot of Boll's work is nihilistic, though sometimes he has a happy-ish ending. Attack on Darfur and Tunnel Rats are some of his better dramas.
I'm slowly working on a book on Uwe's dramatic films as a companion piece to my very first book The Films of Uwe Boll Vol. 1: The Video Game Movies. His early German work is quite interesting; Amoklauf has strong parallels to Citizen Vigilante.
I wonder if his early German films had all been hits, would he have still done Hollywood films or stuck with doing German-language productions?
A very fun fact is Uwe Boll challenged internet funnyman Seanbaby to a fight over jokes Sean made about him. Sean accepted the challenge and a fight was set up. However, Seanbaby is also a trained Muay Thai fighter. When word of that reached Boll's handlers, suddenly the match was called off for unspecified reasons.
So it's important to remember Boll will only follow through on a threat if he's sure he'll be in zero danger.
I came here to say this. Very glad that this fact is well known. Boll thought he would be facing overweight couch potatoes. When he found himself with a real opponent...
Poking around on Rotten Tomatoes, I see that this movie has three critical reviews, all “rotten” and not enough to generate a score. But it has 500+ verified audience reviews, and a 96% score with them.
Unlike “Meliania,” the user reviews are not all using the exact same wording to describe this one, and the ability to write coherent sentences and spell basic words correctly varies. But like that movie, there’s a metric ton of five-star user reviews from users who have never reviewed anything else. Draw your own conclusions.
yeah, I don't know whether that's a matter of them juicing the numbers, or whether people are genuinely responding to its message of hate and fear-mongering, which is terrifying.
'Amoklauf' (which I'm very interested in, can be his turn in the mold of Koji Wakamatsu or Jörg Buttgereit) and 'Heart of America' depicted how bullied, directionless and hopeless young loners with mental health problem resort to mass murder, 'Postal', 'Rampage' and 'Assault on Wall Street' lashed out at suits at the top of bureaucracy, Dr. Boll even made issue films on genocides in the form of 'Darfur' and 'Auschwitz'. Had he focused on violence as an act self-destruction instead of a romantic notion, he would've been celebrated as a German Scorsese of sorts, not like a critical punching bag. No pun intended.
Sad to report to anyone who's interested: 'Amoklauf' is a terrible piece of work which has already advocated murder even back in the German days of 1994. Offensive, sexist, right-wing, vomit-inducing.
What's disappointing is that approx. 90% of this tiny 60-minute, so-called psychological horror really underlines the mental instability of the main character, thus his sickness is indeed disturbing, he fantasizes about events which alienate us from him, all in all, Dr. Boll really understands how loneliness erodes the mind. But at the end, when a killing shot and a stabbing are repeated 5-6 times in slo-mo, the whole thing becomes a gratuitous mess. Even more terribly, the main character, although injured, walks away instead of being fatally knifed (no, dear Wikipedia, he didn't stagger off) which says to us, his killing spree was totally fine and given the aesthetics, even looked cool. Barf.
No, it's not a Wakamatsu ('Violence Without a Cause', 'Serial Rapist') or Buttgereit ('Nekromantik', 'Der Todesking') type of experiment. When you reach the conclusion, it negates everything that came before, even a notorious scene in which - COUGH, COUGH - the main character kills a woman and masturbates to hardcore porn while she's bleeding to death - COUGH, COUGH. That's Boll for you who was always the same sick person who was widely hated and rightly so.
"your commitment to religion over democracy, and over anything else, including the rule of law."
Welp, that line's gonna need a bit of post-dubbing to pass muster with MAGA. Maybe replace "religion" with "Islam", to make it clear that casting aside democracy for Christian Nationalism is hunky-dory.
"Citizen Vigilante is so extreme in its messaging that even Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump would find it heavy-handed and extreme, and encourage them to tone down the Nazism a bit."
Some people in the Trump regime might look askance at the open bigotry of "Citizen Vigilante", but I'm pretty sure those three would just think someone finally got it right.
Is the film racist, or does it depict a racist protagonist? Or is Boll too incompetent/racist to tell the difference? It’s on my list to see soon, regardless. I actually have no problem saying I like Armie Hammer. He’d have been a better Batman than Battinbattinson.
The film is incredibly racist. It cosigns his actions at every turn and makes no attempt to depict people of color or immigrants as anything other than violent scum that needs to be taken out for society to survive.
Boll makes films for one reason: tax avoidance. German tax law states that if you invest, say, six million euros into a film that then makes a loss, you can offset that loss for up to ten million euros or possibly more. This is why his films are bad and go straight to video- any hint at the possibility of a profit and he wouldn't get any more investors. Imagine replacing the cast of The Producers with Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein and you have a typical Uwe Boll production.
I believe that regulatory loophole was closed by legislation sometime in the mid-2000s. Since then, if Boll has wanted to make a terrible film, it has been because he was specifically motivated to make a terrible film.
We were so close to getting a potentially very good Justice League movie. Justice League: Mortal was originally set to start filming in February 2008. Warner Bros. postponed it just one month earlier, January 2008. Then, a writers' strike and some other things delayed it long enough that it eventually got cancelled.
Boll makes. lot of movies about spree killers, but they're generally nihilistic, not explicitly right-wing and xenophobic. They tend to be more like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Wall_Street
A lot of Boll's work is nihilistic, though sometimes he has a happy-ish ending. Attack on Darfur and Tunnel Rats are some of his better dramas.
I'm slowly working on a book on Uwe's dramatic films as a companion piece to my very first book The Films of Uwe Boll Vol. 1: The Video Game Movies. His early German work is quite interesting; Amoklauf has strong parallels to Citizen Vigilante.
I wonder if his early German films had all been hits, would he have still done Hollywood films or stuck with doing German-language productions?
A very fun fact is Uwe Boll challenged internet funnyman Seanbaby to a fight over jokes Sean made about him. Sean accepted the challenge and a fight was set up. However, Seanbaby is also a trained Muay Thai fighter. When word of that reached Boll's handlers, suddenly the match was called off for unspecified reasons.
So it's important to remember Boll will only follow through on a threat if he's sure he'll be in zero danger.
I came here to say this. Very glad that this fact is well known. Boll thought he would be facing overweight couch potatoes. When he found himself with a real opponent...
Poking around on Rotten Tomatoes, I see that this movie has three critical reviews, all “rotten” and not enough to generate a score. But it has 500+ verified audience reviews, and a 96% score with them.
Unlike “Meliania,” the user reviews are not all using the exact same wording to describe this one, and the ability to write coherent sentences and spell basic words correctly varies. But like that movie, there’s a metric ton of five-star user reviews from users who have never reviewed anything else. Draw your own conclusions.
yeah, I don't know whether that's a matter of them juicing the numbers, or whether people are genuinely responding to its message of hate and fear-mongering, which is terrifying.
This sounds so blatantly racist and fascist that even The Daily Wire would be embarrassed to distribute this.
'Amoklauf' (which I'm very interested in, can be his turn in the mold of Koji Wakamatsu or Jörg Buttgereit) and 'Heart of America' depicted how bullied, directionless and hopeless young loners with mental health problem resort to mass murder, 'Postal', 'Rampage' and 'Assault on Wall Street' lashed out at suits at the top of bureaucracy, Dr. Boll even made issue films on genocides in the form of 'Darfur' and 'Auschwitz'. Had he focused on violence as an act self-destruction instead of a romantic notion, he would've been celebrated as a German Scorsese of sorts, not like a critical punching bag. No pun intended.
Great points. Heart of America is pretty good and it was released rather soon after a lot of those school shootings were happening.
Just want to check 'Amoklauf'. And yes, since it's from 2002, Columbine must've felt close to home.
Sad to report to anyone who's interested: 'Amoklauf' is a terrible piece of work which has already advocated murder even back in the German days of 1994. Offensive, sexist, right-wing, vomit-inducing.
What's disappointing is that approx. 90% of this tiny 60-minute, so-called psychological horror really underlines the mental instability of the main character, thus his sickness is indeed disturbing, he fantasizes about events which alienate us from him, all in all, Dr. Boll really understands how loneliness erodes the mind. But at the end, when a killing shot and a stabbing are repeated 5-6 times in slo-mo, the whole thing becomes a gratuitous mess. Even more terribly, the main character, although injured, walks away instead of being fatally knifed (no, dear Wikipedia, he didn't stagger off) which says to us, his killing spree was totally fine and given the aesthetics, even looked cool. Barf.
No, it's not a Wakamatsu ('Violence Without a Cause', 'Serial Rapist') or Buttgereit ('Nekromantik', 'Der Todesking') type of experiment. When you reach the conclusion, it negates everything that came before, even a notorious scene in which - COUGH, COUGH - the main character kills a woman and masturbates to hardcore porn while she's bleeding to death - COUGH, COUGH. That's Boll for you who was always the same sick person who was widely hated and rightly so.
"your commitment to religion over democracy, and over anything else, including the rule of law."
Welp, that line's gonna need a bit of post-dubbing to pass muster with MAGA. Maybe replace "religion" with "Islam", to make it clear that casting aside democracy for Christian Nationalism is hunky-dory.
"Citizen Vigilante is so extreme in its messaging that even Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump would find it heavy-handed and extreme, and encourage them to tone down the Nazism a bit."
Some people in the Trump regime might look askance at the open bigotry of "Citizen Vigilante", but I'm pretty sure those three would just think someone finally got it right.
Is the film racist, or does it depict a racist protagonist? Or is Boll too incompetent/racist to tell the difference? It’s on my list to see soon, regardless. I actually have no problem saying I like Armie Hammer. He’d have been a better Batman than Battinbattinson.
The film is incredibly racist. It cosigns his actions at every turn and makes no attempt to depict people of color or immigrants as anything other than violent scum that needs to be taken out for society to survive.
Perhaps Boll's long game is to have his next boxing match on the White House lawn.
I had wondered that myself, but stumbling on Boll’s YouTube channel the other day revealed that he very much believes in the message of the film.
Lights Camera Jackson must be giddy with anticipation to see this.
Boll makes films for one reason: tax avoidance. German tax law states that if you invest, say, six million euros into a film that then makes a loss, you can offset that loss for up to ten million euros or possibly more. This is why his films are bad and go straight to video- any hint at the possibility of a profit and he wouldn't get any more investors. Imagine replacing the cast of The Producers with Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein and you have a typical Uwe Boll production.
I believe that regulatory loophole was closed by legislation sometime in the mid-2000s. Since then, if Boll has wanted to make a terrible film, it has been because he was specifically motivated to make a terrible film.
We were so close to getting a potentially very good Justice League movie. Justice League: Mortal was originally set to start filming in February 2008. Warner Bros. postponed it just one month earlier, January 2008. Then, a writers' strike and some other things delayed it long enough that it eventually got cancelled.
Read the script, it was pretty good.