Apparently there’s a difference between your average shitty films and really deplorably shitty films. While most geek movie bloggers the world round will go apeshit, praising mediocre dreck like “Transformers,” Shoot ‘Em Up,” “Hostel,” “The Transporter 2,” “Hellboy,” and every comic-book related graphic novel/fantasy idea under the sun, they draw the line… where? Well, at German director Uwe Boll of course.
So yeah, movie bloggers aren’t the most discerning lot in the world, even espousing lavish thumbs up for action films starring Jason Statham, but the video-game adaptations of Boll (“BloodRayne II: Deliverance,” and “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale“) tend to inspire some of the greatest and deepest hatred online.
In the geek world, Boll is abhorred which sort of makes him like a leper with an outbreak of AIDS on his already inflamed genital sores.
Anywho, Fear.net did an interview with Boll and made him aware of an online petition signed by 18,000 requesting that he stop making movies. Duly unimpressed (dude is German, yo), Boll said it would take up to one million signatures to convince him to stop making films.
Champions of finely crafted aesthetics and defenders of good-taste cinema like BloodyDisgusting.com and AintItCool.com, Slashfilm, Cinematical and other geeks took up the challenge and rallied the troops. Digg users joined onboard and as of right now there are 118,425 signatures demanding for the end of Boll’s filmmaking career.
Only 880,o00-some signatures to go! Nerds unite, you can do it! However, if they mark is reached will Boll quit? It might just make him even madder.
Don’t forget, maddog Raging Boll doesn’t umm…really responsed well to criticism. He did challenge and fight film critic nerds in a boxing match once (and naturally, he kicked the living piss out of them) and will often tell critics to personally go fuck their mothers if they don’t “get” his films.
Vulture points out that Boll still has six films in various stages of production including, the upcoming 9/11 shock satire, “Postal.” (ok, maybe not a 9/11 satire, per se, but there’s elements of un-PC jokes aimed at the Twin Towers incident in the film ) which hits next month (Boll knows you loathe him, in the trailer he spoofs himself in Lederhosen and says, “my movies are financed with Nazi gold.”).
The sad part? These petitioning online nerdlingers don’t necessarily want to see the end of blood-and-guts filled video games adaptations. They just don’t want Boll to ruin them anymore.
Watch: “Postal” trailer
