On the topic of that Raging Boll event, it was hilarious only the casual observer, and anybody who read first hand accounts of the people involved would realise that really, it was just about Uwe Boll wanting to beat the shit out of some of his critics. Say what you will, I think that's an asshole thing to do, since his critics are actually right to dismiss his movies and his methods.
The idea that this petition is about the "dumb rage of a million angry nerds" is ridiculous. Are you implying that the vast majority of people into movies are nerds? I can understand the assumption that people who play videogames are nerds, but there's a thousands of people in the movie industry who hate Uwe Boll because the man has shown himself time and time again to be a complete asshole who knowingly waste millions of dollars to make crap movies he can still profit from. That's a lot of money.
The man made some shitty movies, wasting millions of dollars of tax money, knowing he would still profit, and when some people stood up and said "That's pretty bad conduct" he told them they were invited to a "boxing match PR stunt". He informed the ones who asked that they would receive training, lying to their faces, as he didn't provide training at all. He put them into the ring, with no experience and then beat the crap out of them. Casual observes ignored the 'asshole factor' and heralded the man as a genius, dismissing his critics as "angry nerds".
I don't care about his movies. I haven't even seen them. But there has been no evidence to suggest he's a nice man, or a smart man, yet there's plenty of evidence to suggest that he himself, is a very very "angry nerd".
I voted to stop Uwe Boll, because the man is a jerk.
