The scene is underscored with genuinely stirring orchestral music. Heart of America seemed to announce the arrival of an indie-film director worth keeping an eye on. The film was ignored. Boll was getting desperate, and his funds were drying up. Then the offer came in to direct a film version of House of the Dead —not the Dostoyevsky novel, but the popular Sega zombie-shooter arcade game.
Boll resolved to spend as little money, time, and energy as possible. In a crucial sense, the films were a success.
They were so cheaply made that, taking into account the sale of DVDs and international television rights, all three films turned a profit. I have to drive this as long as it goes. I have to put my personal interests aside. Build my reputation, build capital with it, that I can do more passion projects if I have some money.
To speak with him, Boll seems to have enjoyed very little about making films. He complains of the difficult actors, endless C. There were a couple of full-blown disasters too, including a propane explosion on the last day of shooting In the Name of the King: Two Worlds.
Whether or not Boll was actually the worst director alive, he became easily the most reviled. Boll got no credit for hiring more experienced screenwriters or assembling bigger, better casts— Ben Kingsley, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, J. Simmons, Billy Zane, Leelee Sobieski, Ron Perlman, Michelle Rodriguez, and John Rhys-Davies have all done their time with Boll—or the fact that, within the alleged genre of the video-game movie, Boll was actually exploring a variety of genres.
Even if it was really different as the one before or even better. Boll eventually found himself treated like a pariah in the games industry. When he met with the game developer Blizzard, hoping to acquire the film rights to World of Warcraft, they laughed him out of the room. Never, ever. But in fact, being universally, extravagantly reviled took its toll. You go through the whole process. Then came the boxing fight. It looks more like a fatal P. If he was frustrated at not being taken seriously as a filmmaker before, there would be no chance of it now.
Behind the scenes, too, Boll was engaging with the material more seriously. He put his actors through a military boot camp for Tunnel Rats, conducted extensive interviews with economics experts for Assault on Wall Street, and forced the cast of Stoic to spend the night in a makeshift jail cell.
In the pursuit of gritty authenticity, he ditched detailed scripts in favor of on-set improvisation. The films bombed, of course. None of this came as a complete shock to Boll. The failure of three successive Kickstarter campaigns was the last straw. What it really is: A collection of Hollywood action cliches packaged as a movie. Where the Pulp Fiction director reworks cheap B-movie material with diamond-cut dialogue and masterful staging, the German director steals all the best bits from classic Hollywood action adventure and stitches them together to create a horrifyingly ersatz frankenmovie.
Famous for: The excruciating scene in which genius archeologist Tara Reid sciences up the location of the demon horde using only the power of the stars, an old PC and some ancient Mesoamerican artefacts.
Career low for: Reid, who got a Razzie for worst actress for her performance, though Slater and Dorff can both take their share of the blame.
What Uwe Boll thinks this movie is: Heartrending tale of enduring humanity in the face of unspeakable horrors. The new Platoon. What it really is: Passable, minimalistic Vietnam war drama starring a cast of enthusiastic unknowns. But when the director treats us to a gratuitous shot of some actual rats within the first few moments, we are reminded this is a director on whom the concepts of subtlety and symbolism are somewhat lost. What Uwe Boll thinks this movie is: Fast-paced and stylish period horror.
He's also notoriously touchy about his bad reviews and in he challenged his five harshest critics to fight him. He won a special Worst Career Achievement Award in from the Razzies, which celebrates terrible movies. The retired director has received a series of rave reviews - but not for his films.
He owns a restaurant in Canada which is loved by food critics. Image source, Getty Images. Image source, Event Film. Image source, PA. The rest of the video is too rude to publish.
Image source, Youtube. Maybe he's found his true calling.
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