Uwe Boll: The only hits he’s made are in the boxing ring

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 Uwe Boll: The only hits he’s made are in the boxing ring
Few filmmakers get panned as consistently as Uwe Boll. Happily, the 42-year-old German director of duds like House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark has managed to retain a sense of humor amid the criticism; in 2006 he challenged five of his fiercest detractors to boxing matches, winning each bout handily. Now he goes toe-to-toe with Steven Spielberg: Boll’s latest punching bag, Postal, an ... [link]

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Uwe Boll Turns Down Tetris Movie, Sadly
Published 5/22/2008 at Vulture
... In this week's Time Out New York, acclaimed film director Uwe Boll gives a typically sterling interview in which he addresses his critics ("I have to get everybody who criticizes me into the ring"), discusses his actors ("I didn’t direct him to play that scene full-frontal naked. He did that on his own. But he nailed it"), and offers a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse at the secrets of his movie magic ("Verne Troyer didn’t actually get raped by the monkey"). He also reveals the details of a lost Boll masterpiece that will, tragically, probably never happen: ...

Brett Ratner to Direct God of War Movie?
Published 5/28/2008 by Sean at Film Junk
... be working on a movie adaptation of the video game God of War .” Whoa… God of War is a huge game franchise and potentially very lucrative movie property. Would Sony really go and hand it over to The Rat? We all know that Ratner’s reputation precedes him on the internet, and something tells me they’d be provoking a lot of angry fanboys if they did this. Then again, Ratner’s still a cut above Uwe Boll and Paul W.S. Anderson, right? (And here I was hoping Ratner might be taking on the Tetris movie that Boll supposedly turned down .) What do you think… could Ratner pull off a ...

Ecto Cooler Than You
Published 5/29/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Thigh Master) at Thighs Wide Shut
... after seeing her breast ever NSFW work in Mulholland Drive [video|images] the heat is on Brett Ratner who may direct Beverly Hills Cop 4, which is about Axel Foley going undercover in the Kingdom of the Crystal Meth Lab ...although it has a shot at being a bit more watchable than Ouija Board: THE MOVIE Indiana Jones inspiration was a Nazi? Wladimir Klitschko vs Borat Uwe Boll's in the hot seat, but won't be directing a Tetris movie killer time ...

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