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Sox:
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.

KvP:
Who cares if Uwe Boll is an asshole? There are bigger assholes in the movie business who just happen to be more talented. This has nothing to do with him personally and everything to do with the movies he makes. Do we want Quentin Tarantino to stop making movies because he is, by all rights, a massive dick? What about Lars von Trier or Micheal Haneke? I'd bet you that the Hollywood lobby saps more money out of the US Government per year in pork and tax breaks than Uwe Boll will sap from Germany in the entirety of his career. Do we really want to say that Spiderman 3 or Evan Almighty was less of a waste of money than any of Boll's cheap stinkers because they came from investors instead of taxpayers? They weren't totally without quality like Boll's films, but they cost exponentially more. Both of those movies cost at least half a billion dollars put together. You could put a real dent in some global problem with that kind of money. To my knowledge, Boll's tax loophole has been closed. Huge, garish blockbusters will continue to be made long after Boll's imminent demise as a filmmaker, and they'll make his waste look like fuckin' peanuts.

Anyway, I don't mean to be too argumentative. Yeah, Boll is a dick (the statement he released with his "save Boll" petition was pretty indicative) but on the other hand, people who do have talent also tend to be dicks as well. If we resent certain "artists" because of their egos, can we love others in spite of them and be reasonably consistent?

Sox:
I can't think of any other 'artist' that used a boxing match as an excuse to assault his critics. This is an opportunity to give the man a much needed lesson in humility. I can't understand why people wouldn't approve.

And sure, most big budget movies suck and are a waste of billions of dollars per year. But the guys making those movies didn't say they'd stop if they had a million critics. Uwe Boll is being singled out simply because he basically asked to be singled out.

Surgoshan:
It's not just that Boll is an asshole.  It's not just that he's making money making terrible movies.  It's not just that he give video games a black eye every time he makes a movie.  It's not just that

It's that he thinks he's awesome while doing all those things.

Ikrik:

--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 13 Apr 2008, 17:34 ---
It's that he thinks he's awesome while doing all those things.

--- End quote ---

Yeah....but if you watch his movies...then you will see that he is a REAL genius...not like that idiot Michael Bay or Eli Roth.

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