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    Uwe Boll Announces He's Finished with Filmaking

    "The market is dead"
    He’s never had an easy ride with reviewers — the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub called Alone in the Dark, “a film so mind-blowingly horrible that it teeters on the edge of cinematic immortality”—and earned the nickname The Raging Boll after challenging his worst critics a “put up or shut up” boxing match.
    He knocked out each of his four opponents, landing a blow for anyone who has ever suffered a bad review.

    Now he’s done. The release of Rampage: President Down is his swan song, the final film he will direct he says, in part, because his politically charged movies have “no impact.”

    “Rampage 3 will be watched on Netflix, DVD or iTunes or whatever,” he says.

    “They’ll say, ‘That wonderful movie! I liked it blah, blah, blah,’ then watch Avengers. With streaming everywhere there is just a big wave of movies flooding around and you have no impact.”

    “The market is dead,” he adds, “you don’t make any money anymore on movies because the DVD and Blu Ray market worldwide has dropped 80 per cent in the last three years. That is the real reason; I just cannot afford to make movies.”

    “I can’t go back to student filmmaking because I have made so many movies in my life, and I can’t make cheaper and cheaper movies at my age. It’s a shame. I would be happy to make movies but it is just not financially profitable.”
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    lol finally

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    hey, i liked rampage!
    didnt know there was a part 2 and 3 tho, ill have to check those out

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    he mad cause bad

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    Who is he and why should I care?

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    No idea but I'm sure this stunt will garner tons of views/clicks/likes to his projects

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    Rampage was good. And Postal is the only videogame movie he made that was entertaining. I mean, Bloodrayne had tits, but that was about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hirronimus View Post
    Who is he and why should I care?
    Wat?!

    Uwe Boll tl;dr: Foreign filmmaker famous for buying the rights to several franchises and making terrible movies out of them. WORSE than Tommy Wiseau.

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    I could have bought an 11 pull and have 1000 gems left over, but all I got was this silly title.

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    Also with tax laws in Germany back in the 2000s, he was able to make films with a sizable budget at a loss and shrug it off. Because of Boll, Germany changed the tax laws to close the loophole he was exploiting.

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    He's also an amateur boxer who was game enough to have a match against Lowtax from Something Awful about 10 years back.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3M_wGfYewo&eurl=

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    Hey, Uwe Boll is getting out of movies! Way to go, Uwe.

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    Biggest loss of a director in history.

    Bloodrayne!?

    BLOODRAYNE 2?!

    BLOODRAYNE: THE THIRD REICH?!

    A travesty. He'll be back.

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    thank you jesus

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