All Things Boll

Uwe Boll bites back

“Tons of journalists, including you, have nothing else to do than to follow the Internet voices of one or two thousand people. Only half of those people have seen my movies, and only two per cent of those people have seen my movies before House of the Dead.”

I love these Boll interviews. He’s in his own world and it’s just so fascinating to me.

“I’ve met tons of people who think BloodRayne is way better than Underworld 2, but they’re not going on the Internet and writing that… I’m a little tired of only getting questions from journalists like, ‘Your movies were so badly received, blah blah blah.’ I know tons of movies that were way worse than Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead.”

What movie is way worse than House of the Dead? I want to know!

“When I try to get videogames turned into movies, and get videogames accepted as [the equivalent of] best-selling books for the younger generation, I get only sh** from the videogames press - what an asshole I am, what a criminal I am for doing these movies, whatever, instead of being happy that there’s a movie getting made of a game. This is what’s confusing me.”

Whoa Uwe, you are bitter.

Uwe Boll: Money For Nothing is a good article that talks about the absolutely insane tax breaks you get in Germany for investing in films. In other words, how Uwe Boll was actually able to get funding for his movies.

In case you were wondering, the picture above is from Boll’s latest movie called In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. This train wreck stars Jason Statham as the hero farmer, a really bad looking Ray Liotta, and Burt Reynolds as the King (WHAT?). Throw John Rhys-Davies, Leelee Sobieski, Matthew Lillard, Ron Perlman, and Calire Forlani into this mess too. Are you kidding me, how is this even possible? Uwe, you just keep on topping yourself!