200 walk out on free screening of Uwe Boll's Postal

[HotShotX]

Then he challenged them all to a fight, claimed he was an artistic genius, called Michael Bay a camel fucker, and threw glitter everywhere before kicking over the projector and storming out.

~HotShotX

'Postal' offends some

AUDIENCE TAKES WALK

Monday, June 02, 2008 By CARLY BALDWIN

JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

HOBOKEN - About 200 people were present Friday night at the start of the free screening of Uwe Boll's "Postal" at Pier A Park, but three-quarters walked away long before the closing credits.

Mat Levy - who had his 15 minutes of fame as "Cheezy" on season two of VH1's celebrity dating show "I Love New York" - was one of those who found the movie in bad taste.

The last straw for Levy was a scene in which two terrorists hijack a plane in a 9/11-style attack, but then decide to abandon the suicide mission and fly to the Bahamas instead - only to wind up crashing into a building after the passengers storm the cockpit.

Mayor David Roberts, citing the same scene, refused to attend Friday night's premiere.

"I did not like Uwe Boll's perception of 9/11," Levy said.

"It's too soon to mock a plane going into the World Trade Center. Do you not think there are families out there that had their loved ones killed on 9/11? It really upsets me that he couldn't care less."

Boll told NJ.com's Hoboken Now blog that he knows the movie will provoke people - that's the point.

"Being politically correct, let's say, the big studios are kind of overdoing it," he said. "I feel it is time now to make a really wild movie, something over the top."
The German-born director, who also directed "Alone in the Dark" and "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," added that the movie doesn't play favorites.

"We don't spare any group. We don't want to hurt anybody but we want to break the rules," he said.

"We want to make people think: What is a taboo? We want to make people start thinking about their own boundaries and rules."

Tonight at Pier A Park there's a free double feature with the movie "Hardwood," about a fugitive who undergoes a transformation while hiding in a forest.

There will also be "The Flyboys," about two boys who stowaway aboard a mob-owned plane.

[daroga]

Sounds classy from beginning to end.

[eswat]

Mission Accomplished.

[VanillaGorilla]

"Tonight at Pier A Park there's a free double feature with the movie "Hardwood," about a fugitive who undergoes a transformation while hiding in a forest."

That sounds worse than Postal.

[DesertEagleXIX]

Uwe should be banned for (film) trolling.

Seriously, how does an awful director like Boll continue to be financed? His films bomb critically and financially? Something wrong with the world when Darren Arnofsky struggles to make a film, while Uwe churns out six.

[paddlefoot]

Uwe should be banned for (film) trolling.

Seriously, how does an awful director like Boll continue to be financed? His films bomb critically and financially? Something wrong with the world when Darren Arnofsky struggles to make a film, while Uwe churns out six.

Uwe Boll probably has a tape of the major players in the film industry taking part in a massive orgy.

I have no other explanation

[cdrober]

Personally I really want to see this movie. I guess I am also kinda bored of the same thing hollywood puts out all the time (everything is safe, everything is a sequel). I know there are some interesting independent movies out there (I really enjoyed King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters when it came out on DVD a couple months ago). I think this movie has a place and even if some of it ends up offending me I still want to see it, but maybe this is just me...sadly no theatre in my area is holding it (Charlotte, NC). Of course if it released here people would probably riot...thats how it goes.

[Nohbdy]

The winner was Boll, who coaxed 200 in the first place.

He'll never get those numbers again.

[PenguinoMF]

Seriously, how does an awful director like Boll continue to be financed? His films bomb critically and financially? Something wrong with the world when Darren Arnofsky struggles to make a film, while Uwe churns out six.

I was thinking the same thing as I was reading the OP. I thought what company would be dumb enough to make his films?

Then I wikipedia him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll


Financing

Boll continues to find investors who wish to acquire the rights for future video-game-to-movie adaptations. His investors are mostly German. He acquires the rights for potential future adaptations, then does all the production himself, and completes the finished product.

Movies directed by Boll have performed modestly to poorly at the box office in the United States. House of the Dead (budget: $12 million) broke $5.73 million on opening weekend,[4] Alone in the Dark (budget: $20 million) made over $5.1 million,[5] and BloodRayne (budget: $25 million) topped $2.42 million.[6]

In the DVD commentary of Alone in the Dark, Boll explains how he funds his films:

"Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the Government."

Boll is able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allows investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allows them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor is then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor gets a tax writeoff.

While Boll has received a lot of negative publicity regarding this funding method,[7] he was actually one of the few directors to use the tax shelter as intended. His films were financed, produced, and directed by a German company, which was the initial intention behind the tax shelter: to provide incentive for investment in German entertainment properties.

Fucking German laws. Forget petitioning to have Boll retire, we should petition to change German laws.

[willardhaven]

He is the Andy Kaufman of cinematography.

[dyeknom]

That German law has been changed/repealed iirc. I expect to see less of his movies made than the past 10 years.

[Strell]

Anonymous missed their chance for the Rickrolling of all eternity.

And I wish he had called Micheal Bay a camel fucker, because then it would be proof that he had done one correct thing that night.

[coolsteel]

Personally I really want to see this movie. I guess I am also kinda bored of the same thing hollywood puts out all the time (everything is safe, everything is a sequel). I know there are some interesting independent movies out there (I really enjoyed King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters when it came out on DVD a couple months ago). I think this movie has a place and even if some of it ends up offending me I still want to see it, but maybe this is just me...sadly no theatre in my area is holding it (Charlotte, NC). Of course if it released here people would probably riot...thats how it goes.

Sounds like Uwe Boll was taking the South Park approach, making fun of everything so no specific group can accuse you of anything. After seeing the trailer for Postal a friend and I agreed out of the long list of crap the man has made that was probably the only movie we ever wanted to see.......... then hardly no theaters are carrying it. Go figure.

[mykevermin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGp0hCxSg98

[ratzombie]

Hate to be devil's advocate here, but come on it's a fucking movie based on the game POSTAL. It being extremely controversial is doing it right.

[captainfrizo]

As much as I hate him as a director, I kind of agree with his take on everyone attempting to be so politically correct all the time. It's almost gotten to the point where people are afraid to say or do anything even slightly controversial. I'm not saying that making a mockery out of 9/11 in what's surely an awful film is the best way of trying to break that mold, but I agree that in general there's way too much emphasis put on people being PC these days.

[Strell]

I'm sure more people walked out because they saw that the movie sucked balls more than any sort of political agenda. Sure, some of them most certainly left because 9/11 stuff would strike devious chords in their psyche, but the rest of them knows a steaming pile of shit when they see it.

Boll is just using that particular angle - one that represents less than 10% I'm guessing of the entire 200 person audience - as a stepping stone to sound like he's got legitimate complaints. Someone could have just as easily said their seat wasn't comfortable on the way out, and he could be railing against movie theaters having shitty accommodations as a means to say why no one wants to bother with his crap.

It's a classic coward tactic. He knows he's a hack, he knows he has the perfect loophole to get his trojan horses of pure shit into the movie industry, and he knows he's going to annoy people and piss off gamers who are completely 100% aware that he's nothing more than an attention whore.

I mean when you've got no redeeming qualities as a director and your movies look like something you'd see advertised at 3 AM as a direct-to-DVD release because "THERE'S TOO MUCH THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE!" taglines are the only honest sound byte you have in your favor, it doesn't take long for us to figure out you're a talentless baby.

You're not Felix the Cat, Boll. You don't have a magic bag you can pull more excuses out of. You do have a rectum, and you appear to be pulling nuggets out of it, but I could go to several websites and get the same thing without the relentless arrogance and name-calling that you portray.

He should have just started throwing punches. That would have been more effective and slightly less asinine.

[lokizz]

so basically hes using his films to help launder plundered nazi gold?

[pete5883]

Wow. I used to live in Hoboken. If Pier A Park is where I think it is, you have a direct view of where the Twin Towers used to be. I can't think of any worse place to screen this movie.

[lunatic_pandora]

Uwe Boll = God of IRL trolling.

[SpeedyG]

How the hell did he get 200 people to watch his movie?

[hhhdx4]

Damn, I didnt even know they were going to screen postal, I would have loved to have seen this walk out

[Salmonday]

"Being politically correct, let's say, the big studios are kind of overdoing it," he said. "I feel it is time now to make a really wild movie, something over the top."
The German-born director, who also directed "Alone in the Dark" and "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," added that the movie doesn't play favorites.

"We don't spare any group.


I feel confident in saying that the movie definitely punishes everyone equally.


Everyone who watches the film, that is.


zing!

[Moxio]

That sounds sweet.

[Tsukento]

How the hell did he get 200 people to watch his movie?
Simple. People heard a movie would be open for screening and was free of charge. You say something is free, people will dive on it. Little did they know what to expect.

[KiLL3r]

How the hell did he get 200 people to watch his movie?

Keyword: Free

Apparently they(the audience) didn't know what they were getting into.

[coolsteel]

I finally sat down with this tonight, one hour in currently and you know what? This isn't that bad, several laugh out loud moments and Uwe Boll making fun of himself was pretty entertaining. Up to the point where the creator of the game tackles him.

[TimPV3]

I finally sat down with this tonight, one hour in currently and you know what? This isn't that bad, several laugh out loud moments and Uwe Boll making fun of himself was pretty entertaining. Up to the point where the creator of the game tackles him.I must say the movie was pretty faithful to the material. I enjoyed it with some buddies, we got a kick out of a lot of the stupid little gags in the movie, and Boll getting tackled by the creator made the movie for me.

The terrorists were hilarious, the beginning with the World Trade Center and Bin Laden throughout the whole thing was gold (especially the phone calls with Bush, like him needing an oil well attacked after he got a new insurance policy out on it). Some people are way too sensitive and need to realize this was all in good fun.

Don't get me wrong though, if this wasn't based on Postal I would've hated it because it made absolutely no fucking sense.

[h3llbring3r]

I think Uwe is an Agent Provocateur plant by the film industry to undermine the credibility of video games as an artistic media (because making movies is expensive and someone keeps financing this garbage). However, he is right about Michael Bay, a series of special effects and action sequences does not alone constitute a "movie."

[coolsteel]

I must say the movie was pretty faithful to the material. I enjoyed it with some buddies, we got a kick out of a lot of the stupid little gags in the movie, and Boll getting tackled by the creator made the movie for me.

The terrorists were hilarious, the beginning with the World Trade Center and Bin Laden throughout the whole thing was gold (especially the phone calls with Bush, like him needing an oil well attacked after he got a new insurance policy out on it). Some people are way too sensitive and need to realize this was all in good fun.

Don't get me wrong though, if this wasn't based on Postal I would've hated it because it made absolutely no fucking sense.


The office interview about cemented in my mind that I would like the movie, I mean when they got to the duck question and the guy's reaction to it I just busted out laughing. The movie is in no way shape or form shooting for an oscar but it is all in good fun and I got that going in so I enjoyed it a lot.

[guinaevere]

I think Uwe is an Agent Provocateur plant by the film industryThat's giving this guy too much credit.

[Midnite]

It's official, Postal is Boll's best film yet.

[psiufoxx2]

It's official, Postal is Boll's best film yet.
After such a masterpiece he should certainly be considered among the greats of filmmaking like Ed Wood, Michael Bay, and Bill Rebane.

[MisterModest]

I mean when they got to the duck question and the guy's reaction to it I just busted out laughing.
"What's the difference between a duck?"