Stop Dr. Uwe Boll Petition

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One Million Signatures and Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies
Published 4/6/2008 by Scott Weinberg at Cinematical
... So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Uwe Boll has thrown down the gauntlet. If we can get another 980,000 signatures on THIS PETITION, then we will have done our part for the advancement of global cinematic culture. No more BloodRaynes or Houses of the Dead or Dungeon Sieges. If this isn't a worthy cause, I really don't know what is. Maybe if we get two million signatures we can get the guy's retirement to include the "producer" title. Don't wait to sign the thing: Boll already has Tunnel Rats, Far Cry ...

Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies with One Million Signatures
Published 4/6/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... we have a goal. All we need is 980,000 more signatures on this petition and we can rid the world of future Boll-directed/produced cinematic atrocities. as my friend Scott Weinberg on Cinematical points out, Tunnel Rats, Far Cry, Zombie Massacre and BloodRayne 3 are already in production. So we might not be able to stop those productions. Be we just might have the ability to prevent a BloodRayne 4 or House of the Dead 2. So sign now! Sign the Stop Uwe Boll Petition Now ...

One Million Signatures = No More Uwe Boll Films
Published 4/6/2008 by Ryan Laster at If It's Movies
... Uwe Boll, one of the worst filmmakers in the world, has given the world an opportunity of a lifetime. Boll said he would retire from making movies if enough people signed this petition asking that he stop. So far, there are 18,000 signatures on ...

Give Up the Uwe Boll Hunt People
Published 4/7/2008 at RopeofSilicon.com
... and at the end of the interview the following is asked: Are you aware that there is a petition online, signed by 18,000 people, requesting that you stop making movies? Yeah, I know that. 18,000 is not enough to convince me. How many would it take? One million. Now we have a new goal. If your well valued time gives you the chance and if you aren't busy watching BloodRayne 2 , take the time to go sign the petition that won't matter just like ALL online petitions DON'T MATTER . Speaking of Boll, I just watched ...

Finish Uwe Boll Off - One Million Signatures Required!
Published 4/7/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... reason. Uwe is that German director who has made some of the worst video game movies ever, including House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Postal, and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. Everyone knows he's a hack, but somehow, he still lives on, making new movies almost every year. However, now is the time where we can, as a collective group, bring down Uwe Boll once and for all. He's stated outright that if this online petition gets one million signatures, he'll stop making movies. ...

Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies if Enough People Sign His Petition. And I Care Why?
Published 4/7/2008 by M.C. at Crabbie's Hollywood
... The boxing match thing won't work again, now that critics know Uwe is actually a trainer boxer (he didn't bother letting that little bit of info get out when he was daring people to fight him). So, Uwe has moved on to a new ploy...telling everyone he will quit making movies if enough people sign a petition. ...

It Will Take A Million To Stop Boll
Published 4/7/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
... I for one will not be signing the petition. The world is a more interesting place with Uwe Boll making pictures and I think that even his most vicious critics will admit deep down, that they love to hate him. ...

Uwe Boll Claims He'll Quit Movie-Making After 1 Million Complaints
Published 4/7/2008 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
... Since this announcement, the petition has reached nearly 50,000 signatures, still 950,000 short of his challenge. So if you care--and actually believe he'll respond to an internet-based petition--virtually sign it here. The fate of Crystal Castles: The Movie may be in your hands. ...

YOU can help PREVENT future UWE BOLL films!
Published 4/7/2008 at OH NO!!
... There's an effort underway to stop mad video game adapter Uwe Boll from making more films. Want to get involved? Just sign this petition. Boll recently told ...

Uwe Boll Says He'll Quit Directing If A Million People Sign Online Petition
Published 4/7/2008 at Starpulse Entertainment News Blog
... director recently spoke with FEARnet , saying that the mere 18,000 names currently on the list are "not enough to convince me." When asked how many names it would take for him to consider giving up his art, Boll said that a million would be the "new goal." Since the BloodRayne director's chat with the horror site the number of names on the petition has spiked-- but only to 50,000-- still 95% short of Boll's goal. - Read the full Uwe Boll interview at FEARnet - Sign the petition here

Will An Online Petition Thwart Uwe Boll?
Published 4/8/2008 at Horror Hacker
... , Boll acknowledges a petition that's being passed around demanding that he retire from filmmaking, and declares it would take a million signatures to sway him. That was just a mere four days ago, when the petition had only 18,000 names on it. Today the figure teeters at 100,000. At this rate, it will take just a few weeks to get the necessary signatures to call Uwe's bluff. The interview also contains a few choice insights into the mind and humor of the little-understood director and ardent PETA supporter, such as his rationalization about filming a scene in which a cat is ...

You can help persuade Uwe Boll to stop making movies
Published 4/8/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... if an online petition drive calling for his retirement garners one million signatures. Don't know if he'll be as good as his word (though he certainly was when it came to taking on his critics in the boxing ring), but it's worth a try, no? At this writing, some 112,792 signers have called for an end to Boll's ...

Uwe Boll Claims He is “The Only Genius in the Whole F’N Business”
Published 4/9/2008 by slashfilm.com at /Film
... on how Uwe Boll, the “filmmaker” responsible for some of the worst video game movies in recent history, promised to stop making films if one million people signed a petition against him. At the time we posted the story, the petition only had 16,000 signatures. I’m happy to report that our posting was picked up by websites across the interwebs, and the petition now has over 127,000 signatures! So we’re one eighth of the way there. ...

Uwe Boll Is a James Bond Villain!
Published 4/9/2008 by Kevin Carr at Film School Rejects
... By now, you’ve heard about the online petition that begs Uwe Boll to stop making films. Well, so has Uwe Boll, and he ain’t happy. ...

Michael Bay and Eli Roth Respond to Uwe Boll’s Comments
Published 4/9/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... is not being heard. He is obviously a sad being. When you ask ‘do I care?’ Not in the slightest.” I think Dr. Boll should take on both Michael Bay and Eli Roth in a two vs. one boxing match to settle this. And it should be noted that in the last 10 hours twenty more thousand people have signed the petition, and we now have over 143 thousand people officially behind the cause to rid the film world from a cinematic cancer. If you haven’t already, Sign the Petition now! ...

Uwe Boll Lashes Out Against Anti-Uwe Boll Petition
Published 4/10/2008 at FilmWad
... Perhaps you've heard that an online petition has been going around demanding an immediate halt to German director Uwe Boll's filmmaking activities. Perhaps you've also heard that upon learning of the petition (then signed by 18,000 individuals) ...

Why People Should Just Chill Out About Uwe Boll
Published 4/10/2008 by Rick at TunaFlix
... I don’t know how many of you have been following the ongoing bitch fight that is Uwe Boll vs. the Internet, but for those of you who don’t already know, a petition has been circulated demanding that Mr. Boll be banned from making any more movies. ...

Philosophical Uwe Boll Suddenly Knows Why You Hate Him [Boll-ed Over]
Published 4/10/2008 by STV at Defamer
... If it weren't for the petition featuring nearly 168,000 signers calling for his head, we'd probably leave well-enough alone when it comes to genre-hack whipping-boy Uwe Boll. But not even his own targets can resist his thickly accented self-defense, with similarly skill-challenged fauxters Eli Roth and Michael Bay — whom Boll ...

Boll Winning Cruddy Filmmakers' Race to the Bottom
Published 4/10/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... Uwe Boll ( Bloodrayne , House of the Dead ) responded yesterday to a petition asking him to get out of the movie-making business. (About 168,000 had signed at post time.) In the process, he called filmmaker Michael Bay a "fucking retard," and slammed director Eli Roth . Today Bay says, "He is obviously a sad being." Roth calls Boll's remark, the "greatest compliment ever." ...

/Film Featured on G4’s Attack of the Show Uwe Boll Coverage
Published 4/11/2008 by slashfilm.com at /Film
... submitted their names. Basically it sounds like the beginning rumblings of a man who is going against his word. I don’t think that Boll expected the petition to collect over 172,000 signatures in just four days. Boll also complimented Eli Roth for having a good sense of humor in his response, and again slammed Michael Bay “for having no humor”, but was willing to admit that he liked Bad Boys but hating Pearl Harbor. If you haven’t already. you can still sign the Stop Uwe Boll petition to support the cause. ...

Game over for Uwe Boll?
Published 4/14/2008 by Steven Wells at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
... if an online petition demanding he stop making movies gets a million signatures. Boll issued the challenge during an interview with fear.net when the petition - demanding he "give proper weight to the wishes of the video game community, the horror community, and the film going community in general and stop directing, producing, or taking any part in the creation of feature films" - had a mere 18,000 signatures. ...

Another Pro-Uwe Boll Petition Surfaces Online
Published 4/14/2008 by Richard von Busack at Cinematical
... Oh wait, he did: he's not a bleeping retard like Michael Bay, and he isn't making the same bleeping movie again and again like Eli Roth, as the good doctor was saying ... So far, four cineastes have signed this (hopefully 100% on-the-level) petition. Now, are these four names going to count against the 194,000 so far who who have signed the Stop Dr. Uwe Boll Petition? I know those looking for a 2009 release of In the King's Name Again, Already will want to add their email addresses in hopes of being solicited by hapless Nigerian ex-ministers of finance and providers of ...

Uwe Boll is under attack
Published 4/14/2008 by DJ Heinlein at Matte Havoc :: The Independent Film Commentator
... . Gathering one million people that oppose him shouldn't be a problem since there is a rapidly growing petition that clearly shows the opinion of the thousands who do not like his films. You can view the Anti-Boll petition here. Since here in America we like to romanticize the ideology of democracy and equality there are some fans of his that have created a petition to keep his career active. You can view the ...

Uwe Boll Slams Michael Bay…And Gus Van Sant(?!?) And Tom Twyker
Published 4/16/2008 by Shawn Adler at MTV Movies Blog
... Poor Uwe Boll. I’ve seen fanboys take a stand against bad directors, but I’ve never seen anybody so reviled that there’s literally hundreds of thousands of people ready to stand up and scream in a clear, loud voice, “For the love of all that is holy, please stop making movies!” Which, of course, is exactly what is happening to Boll, with an online petition practically guaranteed to hit a million signatures before too long. ...

tMF 2008 Summer Movie Preview
Published 5/2/2008 at The Movie Fanatic Feeds
... peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park; somehow, the recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more sinister intent. Uwe Boll directs. Why you should care : The same reason you rubberneck at auto accidents morbid curiosity. Why it could suck : Because Uwe Boll is still inexcusably still allowed to make movies. Berating him is pointless because he knows how bad his movies are. He even offered stop making movies if a million people signed an online petition . (Yes I have, by the way). - - - MAY 30 (Friday) [image] ...

Should this director be stopped?
Published 5/8/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
It's not a great time to be Uwe Boll . The German director hasn't been a favorite of gaming fans for awhile -- his adaptations of Bloodrayne and House of the Dead received negative reviews and did poorly at the box office. But when Boll remarked that he might stop making movies if 1 million people signed an online petition, things really heated up. So far more than 247,000 people have signed the petition set up at ...

STRIDE GUM DECLARES ITS SUPPORT FOR STOPUWEBOLL.ORG
Published 5/8/2008 at OH NO!!
... Sign the petition here, it's still at less than 250,000. I don't think it'll hit 1 million in time. Then we'll get another youtube from him saying that his fans beat out his haters. ( ...

Taking a Close Look at Uwe Boll's Universe
Published 5/16/2008 at Horror Hacker
... film by Germany's Uwe Boll, that country's greatest cinematic export after Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wolfgang Petersen. And Tom Tykwer. And Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Wim Wenders... and well, most of the graduating class of the Munich Academy for Television and Film. The point is not that you can throw a rock and hit at least three other better directors than Uwe Boll, but that only Uwe Boll has received the singular tag, "World's Worst Director." There are petitions to bring a halt to his career; each of his films is greeted with howls of derision. ...

Uwe Boll's Favorite Films
Published 5/19/2008 by Johnny Wright at YesButNoButYes Stories
... He's challenged critics and Michael Bay to boxing matches. Earlier this year, an online petition appeared with the goal of stopping Uwe from ever putting another story onto celluloid. Uwe even posted an hilarious ...

"Are you f***ing serious?": Postal
Published 5/23/2008 by John Lichman (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... heard of the rumors that my movies are financed with Nazi gold. Well, what shall I say? It's true!" Boll, clad in lederhosen, pauses and then continues: "But you know, up here on stage, seeing all these people—especially these children—I just feel horny, you know? I feel like I want to fuck—" The interviewer cuts in, "Are you fucking serious!?" [image] And that's the big question: can Boll possibly be serious? He's denied being a modern-day Ed Wood and has put up with petitions demanding he stop making films. Most of the sites that decry Boll, like gaming blog ...