Fun fact... after he's done "Auschwitz", he's making this.
In which he plays Adolf Hitler.
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
In which he plays Adolf Hitler.
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
Why is Uwe Boll making a Holocaust Film?
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I think he both overestimates himself and UNDERestimates one of the best films made about the Holocaust, and indeed one of the best films ever made.
Yes, Schindler's List doesn't pander to the youth crowd, but that's WHY it works for us. It's unrelenting in its realistic depiction of that tragedy and that story, and the way it's told is played perfectly. These are the things that make it ageless. It appeals to all age groups that are old enough to comprehend it, and will ALWAYS do so.
And Uwe Boll, of all people, thinking he can make a film to compare to this masterpiece frankly just pisses me off. This man has proven himself to be an utterly moronic jackass of the film world. Making terrible films repeatedly and being so petty as to challenge his critics to fist-fights over the reviews. This man shouldn't have been allowed to make a Blood Rayne film, let alone a film about one of the greatest and most monstrous tragedies in history.
Plus, I have the horrible feeling that "appealing to youth" in this man's vocabulary means "gruesome style over actual substance", so be prepared for a lot of horrific and pointless gore-shots to make it 'stylistically edgy'.
Also, he said "it's his duty as a German to make this film." Yeah, cause that's what we need! a German asshole making a film about the brutal shit his people did to innocents. Sounds like a fun family day out to me!
Yes, Schindler's List doesn't pander to the youth crowd, but that's WHY it works for us. It's unrelenting in its realistic depiction of that tragedy and that story, and the way it's told is played perfectly. These are the things that make it ageless. It appeals to all age groups that are old enough to comprehend it, and will ALWAYS do so.
And Uwe Boll, of all people, thinking he can make a film to compare to this masterpiece frankly just pisses me off. This man has proven himself to be an utterly moronic jackass of the film world. Making terrible films repeatedly and being so petty as to challenge his critics to fist-fights over the reviews. This man shouldn't have been allowed to make a Blood Rayne film, let alone a film about one of the greatest and most monstrous tragedies in history.
Plus, I have the horrible feeling that "appealing to youth" in this man's vocabulary means "gruesome style over actual substance", so be prepared for a lot of horrific and pointless gore-shots to make it 'stylistically edgy'.
Also, he said "it's his duty as a German to make this film." Yeah, cause that's what we need! a German asshole making a film about the brutal shit his people did to innocents. Sounds like a fun family day out to me!
A friend of mine who's opinion I trust on such matters (he has a film degree and sees like EVERY new film that comes out) said that Boll's Darfur movie was pretty damned good, if brutal and hard to watchVault Girl said:
Because Uwe Boll wants to make a touching, deep and tragic movie that portrays the atrocities of man on fellow man and maybe, just maybe, will make us question ourselves and what we know.
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PFFFT HAHAHA NO.
Seriously though, the reason is that Uwe Boll's a fucktard. And I'm guessing he's kinda seeing an opportunity to spew out some more of that gore porn he likes so much and hope people find it deep.
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PFFFT HAHAHA NO.
Seriously though, the reason is that Uwe Boll's a fucktard. And I'm guessing he's kinda seeing an opportunity to spew out some more of that gore porn he likes so much and hope people find it deep.
Honestly I cannot figure out if of the people who hate Bols films just happen to be the gamer market who resent having video games portrayed in films so badly or if it is just that he is genuinely bad. Like a few others, I have seen Rampage and It was not a horrible film. It wasnt great, but no rehashing an old and better done idea (yes, Falling down was better) really comes out better than the original source material.
Bol is very much capable of making a decent film. Honestly even some of his video game based films are no where near as bad as wounded and personally offended gamers make them out to be.
Honestly I would watch 1000 Bol films before I would watch more than 10 minutes of anything with Tommy Wiseau from "The Room"
EDIT: Honestly the trailer illustrates Bol is trying to be serious and make something better than what he normally does, much like he did with Rampage, So I expect it will be decent. Blockbuster, no, but at the very least watchable.
Bol is very much capable of making a decent film. Honestly even some of his video game based films are no where near as bad as wounded and personally offended gamers make them out to be.
Honestly I would watch 1000 Bol films before I would watch more than 10 minutes of anything with Tommy Wiseau from "The Room"
EDIT: Honestly the trailer illustrates Bol is trying to be serious and make something better than what he normally does, much like he did with Rampage, So I expect it will be decent. Blockbuster, no, but at the very least watchable.
I saw Schindler's List when I was about 9 or 10, but I think my opinion is dwindled away once I mention I saw it on PBS, I don't know.Mr Thin said:
Boll has been trying to play humanitarian for the last couple of years. After his last video game adaptation, Far Cry, His films shortly thereafter have been either "True Story/ Documentary-like", "Exploitation" or "What is this, I don't even...?".
But I somehow get the feeling that his response on everything is just him being him, making a name before making his other video game movies (IMDB reports he has Bloodrayne 3 and In The Name of The King 2 next on his list).
Well... I know that Uwe Boll is an ass, both with his "regular" films and *shudder* his video game adaptations, but I think he's up to something with this one.
I already saw the trailer and yes, it was pretty uncomfortable and a bit disturbed by it, but if the film is backed up with a decent script, it may be worth to watch. I'll wait for Movie Bob to review it and decide if it's worth watching it.
I already saw the trailer and yes, it was pretty uncomfortable and a bit disturbed by it, but if the film is backed up with a decent script, it may be worth to watch. I'll wait for Movie Bob to review it and decide if it's worth watching it.
So... he doesn't think Schindler's List appeals to a young generation? Well, truth be told, it's not exactly a movie geared for young people.
I've seen the trailer, and it's horrible. I hope to every deity on the face of this planet that he's not just going to feature Jewish people being slaughtered and mutilated for two hours before the Allies bust down the door and save the day.
The trailer makes it out to be very graphic and potentially very gory, and if he doesn't do it just right, he could have a huge disaster on his hands. I don't see anything good coming from this...
I've seen the trailer, and it's horrible. I hope to every deity on the face of this planet that he's not just going to feature Jewish people being slaughtered and mutilated for two hours before the Allies bust down the door and save the day.
The trailer makes it out to be very graphic and potentially very gory, and if he doesn't do it just right, he could have a huge disaster on his hands. I don't see anything good coming from this...
I'll give it a shot. It has an interesting premise. There's not too many films that deal purely with the day to day complicity of everyone involved with perpetrating the Holocaust. If executed right, it could be good.
I don't have any great confidence on Boll's ability to pull off a thoughtful and respectful film about the Holocaust. In fact if he pulls it off it may just blow my mind. It sounds like he wants to address the Holocaust in the same way Mel Gibson did the story of Christ, focusing on the graphic violence and horror in the mistaken belief that this is what reaches young people these days. In doing so he'll completely ignore the point and create what amounts to little more than a pretentious snuff film - just like Passion of the Christ.
From watching the teaser this could be his biggest cinematic crime to date. He seems to have this inability to look outside himself and see that graphic depictions of this stuff are unpleasantly and pointlessly gruesome at best and incredibly incredibly disrespectful to the subject matter at worst.
I'm sure this all makes perfect sense in Boll's little world though. :/
From watching the teaser this could be his biggest cinematic crime to date. He seems to have this inability to look outside himself and see that graphic depictions of this stuff are unpleasantly and pointlessly gruesome at best and incredibly incredibly disrespectful to the subject matter at worst.
I'm sure this all makes perfect sense in Boll's little world though. :/
I'm assuming that he's chosen the subject matter based on the fact that all his previous films were disasters, and he's trying to step beyond the terri-badness of those previous attempts, and find a new, deeper level of horrendous, with which to shock his viewers. Honestly, while I can applaud his apparent urge to make certain that future generations (regardless of nationality) never forget the horrors of that part of our species' history, I do have to ask myself:
Why are you doing this, Uwe? Why are you the one that feels mandated to deal with this subject matter? Can't you stick to Z-grade video game adaptations, and leave such things to people that don't fuck up a movie about medieval vampires?
Why are you doing this, Uwe? Why are you the one that feels mandated to deal with this subject matter? Can't you stick to Z-grade video game adaptations, and leave such things to people that don't fuck up a movie about medieval vampires?
viranimus said:
It's my dream job to go in to the film industry as a Director and i respect fully what Uwe Boll is trying to do. I don't think it's just the fact that gamers dislke them that has garnered the negative attention to them. Universally Film critics have given negative reviews from an on the bench position over video games for years. He's been rejected by Blizzard from making a WOW film which as i said should speak volumes as to not only gamers byt the video game industry and to an extent the film industry regard him, and thats without the whole boxing controversy.
If Super Mario Bros is on t.v when i get home from work in the early hours i will still sit and watch it, dispite the film fan inside me screaming my dislike from both a video game and film fan point of view. Despite this i am willing to give Boll a chance as should any movie.
But the statement he was quoted as saying is very critical of a good movie about the holocaust, whilst saying it doesn't appeal to young people and that as a German he has a duty to make a film like Auschwitz.
My point is can you blame people from being skeptical about it? There's being graphic to convey meaning (like the drawn out sniping scene with Amon Goth) which are brutal. But you can easily wonder in to the graphic for the sake of being graphic (like any saw film).
and with a film like this, its easy to go wrong.
Setting aside that *everyone* is *always* right to be skeptical about *everything, at all times, until sufficient evidence is provided*, I'd say that we'd be thoroughly right not just to be skeptical, but to expect garbage -- that's what he makes. I agree that the trailer puts across that he's just going for shock, and since he has a well-established record of piss-poor films, we can expect even the shock to fall short of expectations.Vault Girl said:
Full disclosure, though, I did grind my teeth a bit at the tooth pulling bit.