Uwe Boll and Kickstarter.

[Bat Vader]

Video is NSFW. Some pretty strong language.

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Seems Uwe Boll is deciding to blame Kickstarter and the people that aren't funding Rampage 3 for his woes instead of taking a good long look in the mirror and seeing himself as the talent less piece of garbage that he is. Perhaps if he actually put some effort into his films and made sure they had coherent writing, acting, etc more people would be willing to help fund his projects.

No, instead he decides to blame Kickstarter. He says that he has enough money that he can gold until he dies. If that's the case why does he needs to ask others to fund his movie? If he really wants to make this he would front the money himself instead of asking others to do it for him.

As for discussion What do you guys think of Uwe Boll and does anyone agree that he has a right to be angry?

 

[Smooth Operator]

Gives a good insight into the kind of guy that makes these movies, he is just so blissfully unaware of his own faults that he will never ever improve a single damn thing.
I am just amazed how someone like that got into producing in the first place, people like him are usually stuck working on an assembly line and last for a year at best as no amount of guidance or criticism will ever improve their work.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Well, everybody has a right to be angry. Kind of spooky if police officers wandered around fining people for not smiling all the time. Creepy too.

But is his anger justified? No, he's a hack.

 

[Queen Michael]

Okay, he did not just slander the name of Radagast the Brown.

 

[Loonyyy]

He has a right to be angry, everyone is entitled to their irrational emotions. And I don't even think he's a hack. He's basically been running a weird money bit where the movies don't really matter (There's bits on this everywhere, though I forget the details, but basically, he doesn't need to make successful movies).

I kind of feel the same way about this project as I do about Zach Braff running his kickstarters, although I think I may actually respect Boll's KS more, simply because his failed miserably, because Boll makes terrible movies, and does not really have fans, whereas Braff is a rich son of a ***** who acts like he isn't and e-begs his fans for money so he can make a movie that he will then profit from.

Boll being a pathetic son of a ***** just makes his failure funny.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I think he's just harping his already irascible image because that's what resonates with people.

 

[Queen Michael]

He has a right to be angry, everyone is entitled to their irrational emotions. And I don't even think he's a hack. He's basically been running a weird money bit where the movies don't really matter (There's bits on this everywhere, though I forget the details, but basically, he doesn't need to make successful movies).

The money that rich people invest in him is tax-deductible. In other words, people can take money that they would have been required to pay in taxes to the government, and give it to Boll instead. And at least by giving it to Boll they have the chance of getting it back if the movie makes a profit.

 

[Loonyyy]

He has a right to be angry, everyone is entitled to their irrational emotions. And I don't even think he's a hack. He's basically been running a weird money bit where the movies don't really matter (There's bits on this everywhere, though I forget the details, but basically, he doesn't need to make successful movies).

The money that rich people invest in him is tax-deductible. In other words, people can take money that they would have been required to pay in taxes to the government, and give it to Boll instead. And at least by giving it to Boll they have the chance of getting it back if the movie makes a profit.

That was the one. A pretty despicable practice, and a far better reason to hate him than anything he's done in movies, which really aren't that bad. IIRC, the movies don't actually have to make a profit, because not all the money has to be actually spent or something. I know, I know, he's made bad movie adaptations of video games, and that's such a massive crime, but his films are mostly just boring shite. It's amazing when a Boll film manages to rise above being bad and boring to be amusingly bad. But he's a scummy little tax cheat who makes more profits for rich scumbags.

A far better reason to want to enter the ring with him than the quality of his movies, but fuck his little boxing match, bring a bat.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

He has a right to be angry, everyone is entitled to their irrational emotions. And I don't even think he's a hack. He's basically been running a weird money bit where the movies don't really matter (There's bits on this everywhere, though I forget the details, but basically, he doesn't need to make successful movies).

The money that rich people invest in him is tax-deductible. In other words, people can take money that they would have been required to pay in taxes to the government, and give it to Boll instead. And at least by giving it to Boll they have the chance of getting it back if the movie makes a profit.

That was the one. A pretty despicable practice, and a far better reason to hate him than anything he's done in movies, which really aren't that bad. IIRC, the movies don't actually have to make a profit, because not all the money has to be actually spent or something. I know, I know, he's made bad movie adaptations of video games, and that's such a massive crime, but his films are mostly just boring shite. It's amazing when a Boll film manages to rise above being bad and boring to be amusingly bad. But he's a scummy little tax cheat who makes more profits for rich scumbags.

A far better reason to want to enter the ring with him than the quality of his movies, but fuck his little boxing match, bring a bat.

Funny thing was his adaptation of the "Postal" series was actually pretty good, even had a scene with the creator of the series attacking Uwe Boll in-universe and one where the man himself got shot in the balls.
I'm not sure if that was up to his film-making talent or just the fact that the games were batshit to begin with.

 

[LordLundar]

Where is it, where is it...

Ah! here we go! Yo Doc! You're up!

Spoiler

XD

 

[Arpegus]

I've been following his kickstarter simply out of curiosity, and it's funny that he has barely lifted a finger himself to promote it. For a solid month, there were no updates to the kickstarter page, and comments from his PR guy kept saying "Uwe is very busy right now, on the road for a convention, but soon I will have something officially for you, ok". I think this video is actually the first thing he has done the ENTIRE MONTH of his kickstarter to raise awareness of it. Brilliant.

Also, he limited the number of backers for each reward tier so that anything less than 75 Euros has been locked out since the first week. It's a classic case of someone using a piece of technology they don't fully understand, and then blaming the community.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

He has a right to be angry, everyone is entitled to their irrational emotions. And I don't even think he's a hack. He's basically been running a weird money bit where the movies don't really matter (There's bits on this everywhere, though I forget the details, but basically, he doesn't need to make successful movies).

The money that rich people invest in him is tax-deductible. In other words, people can take money that they would have been required to pay in taxes to the government, and give it to Boll instead. And at least by giving it to Boll they have the chance of getting it back if the movie makes a profit.

The main reason people funneled money through him was that Germany had a huge tax break on making movies locally that basically refunded the money used to make the movie so long as it doesn't make a profit. So he made bad movies on Video Game IP rights in order to cash in on that, until Germany finally reworked the law to stop that from happening. His cash cow is gone and he's realizing he's not going to make money off of movies anymore and is a talentless hack.
So now he does have to make successful movies to make money, because he lost his tax shelter and its probably causing him all sorts of headaches.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I would say that it's about time that his way of evading tax is biting him in the ass.
The user above me explained it better than I could.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Rampage 3? My, hasn't Boll reached the apex of breaking the boundaries of art. The first was just Hatred-the movie. Now knowing his tax avoiding behaviour, my contempt for him has just been raised to bitter disdain.

 

[lacktheknack]

To quote Retsupurae, "What is it like to be entirely blameless in your life?" They concluded that it's probably the most frustrating thing, because things go wrong and you just can't figure out why. "It's the cosmos, man. The inevitable heat death of the universe is conspiring against ME."

Things like this don't fill me with schadenfreude. They just make me sad.

 

[AT God]

I love Uwe Boll because he is a human caricature. I have only seen two of his films; The Postal Movie was wonderful in that it perfectly matched the tone of Postal 2 and is probably the most accurate adaptation of a video game to film. It is also a very bad movie full of stupid jokes, needless violence, and racism. If you have played Postal 2 you realize that this perfectly suits the film. Also it has a naked Dave Foley and Verne Troyer getting thrown into a pit full of monkeys. Boll also appears in the film, playing himself as a terrible film director. Vince Desi (creator of Postal Series) tackles him for "ruining my game". Later on, Boll is shot to death and his dying words are "I hate videogames." He is a human caricature.

Rampage is the only other movie I have seen and I have said before that it was not great but as a B movie about a guy committing a mass shooting it wasn't bad, I just feel it doesn't really suit the idea of being a trilogy, I haven't watched the sequel yet but I assumed that it would end in the protagonists death because it is silly to have him get away with two mass murders. However, the fact that he probably does survive for a third movie, that sort of supports why I love Uwe Boll: he is a human caricature.

His antics are wonderful, aside from being a director, he is also a boxer and engaged in the Raging Boll campaign.
[link]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swg4SshYx2E[/link]
In case you didn't hear about it, he challenged anyone who gave his films bad scores to a boxing match. 4 unfortunate souls took him up on the offer and got their shit kicked in in a crowded boxing arena. I believe in my heart that Boll thinks defeating these bloggers means that those bloggers were wrong and his film was actually good. I need to think that he believes the ability to beat up someone proves that their opinions are wrong.

I am sad that he probably won't make Rampage 3 because it means I probably wont bother watching the 2nd film, knowing that it sets up a finale.

However, his reaction to get angry and yell at people about not giving him even more money is just wonderful and is a suitable substitute to not getting to see him make another action movie.

He has every right to be angry because he is a human caricature and caricatures lack the subtlety to understand reason. And I honestly hope his little internet rage gains him enough attention to maybe successfully make another film, because I will definitely watch it.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

The main reason people funneled money through him was that Germany had a huge tax break on making movies locally that basically refunded the money used to make the movie so long as it doesn't make a profit. So he made bad movies on Video Game IP rights in order to cash in on that, until Germany finally reworked the law to stop that from happening. His cash cow is gone and he's realizing he's not going to make money off of movies anymore and is a talentless hack.
So now he does have to make successful movies to make money, because he lost his tax shelter and its probably causing him all sorts of headaches.

Nailed it. The only reason Boll was even able to keep making movies as long as he did was because he was able to take advantage of the German laws which basically made it so he couldn't lose, no matter how poorly his movies did.

 

[Mechamorph]

Okay, let's say for the sake of argument that Uwe Boll actually has a good movie in his head and now that he does not essentially have to deliver a bad movie by contract, he wants to make it. If he were more self-aware, he would have promoted the shit out of his movie. There would be trailers, there would be a summary, maybe a big name to do the narration (since realistically that's all he can afford). Hype it as the script so great that NOT EVEN Uwe Boll could mess it up. Tickle that nerd curiosity and maybe Kickstarter might reward you.

Instead he basically throws it out and trusts in his "good name" to deliver $600,000USD in funding. Really? What did he expect? I think that less than the gross on some of his movies let alone the kind of cash you expect people to stump up to see what they can only hope is at least a mediocre movie. He has done nothing to convince them otherwise. Now he wants to take his ball and go home? Is that really the action of a mature adult let alone a professional? Does he really expect a public outpouring of support and a wellspring of humility begging him to stay and bestow his genius on us all?

What is he on and where can I get some?!

 

[Zhukov]

Oh, the salt! The saaaaaaaalt!

I don't know why exactly, but I love watching famous people lose their shit. Or more specifically, people who are supposed to be acting respectably doing the exact opposite.

 

[Loonyyy]

Funny thing was his adaptation of the "Postal" series was actually pretty good, even had a scene with the creator of the series attacking Uwe Boll in-universe and one where the man himself got shot in the balls.
I'm not sure if that was up to his film-making talent or just the fact that the games were batshit to begin with.

Postal's definitely his high point. It's pretty much made for his low-brow comedy and action, and he seems to at least get what it was he was meant to be making. And it makes probably the best ratio of funny-bad to boring-bad of any of his films.

Doesn't hurt that the lead and Dave what'shisname do a pretty good job, especially considering they're being directed by Boll.

The main reason people funneled money through him was that Germany had a huge tax break on making movies locally that basically refunded the money used to make the movie so long as it doesn't make a profit. So he made bad movies on Video Game IP rights in order to cash in on that, until Germany finally reworked the law to stop that from happening. His cash cow is gone and he's realizing he's not going to make money off of movies anymore and is a talentless hack.
So now he does have to make successful movies to make money, because he lost his tax shelter and its probably causing him all sorts of headaches.

That was it. His movies basically relied on not being successful. Didn't realise that they'd changed it later, but that doesn't necessarily apply to Rampage, which is the closest thing he has to a pet project, and isn't a terrible film adaptation. Hence the glorious tantrum.