Uwe Boll’s ‘Darfur’ Trailer Cannot Spell

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on November 2, 2009

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As much as you’d love for me to give the normal angry comments about how bad Uwe Boll is (and he is absolutely terrible as a director), I have something new to add to the pile of arguments against the man.

Uwe Boll can’t spell.

Or at least his marketing department can’t, because the new trailer for Darfur, a film based on a topic so far beyond Boll’s intelligence level that he’d need a twenty foot pole just to touch it with a ten foot pole, has a damned misspelling in it.

Did you mean: existence?

Say what you will about our own grammar-mistake-and-typo-ridden film site, but I’ve never (in all my years of studying film marketing), ever, ever seen a straight-up misspelling in a piece of film marketing. Let alone a trailer.

It happens at 1:39 in the trailer, but you should definitely check out the whole thing:

Thanks, Dr. Boll!

Even more fine velvet glove work about the tough issues from the world’s greatest filmmaker.

What do you think?

Source: Twitch

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AngryBroomstick

haha. but on the other hand... how many Uwe Boll fans can actually spell?

super_aj

ugh. This looks like a student film.

Landon_Palmer

ZANE!!!

Landon_Palmer

That Uwe Boll mouthpiece character is absolutely right, what if it was your kid? Never in my life have I thought about the plight of others in those terms before. Empathy, what a novel idea!

RobertFure

Roman Polanski can ass rape a child and still be a great director, but some editor (probably foreign with english as a second language) doesn't spell check and Uwe Boll is a terrible filmmaker? Please, making fun of Uwe Boll is so hip it's unhip.

Making fun of the "what if it's your child" line or whatever? How many films has that been in before? How many serious directors, writers, and actors have put that in a movie, word for word?

Check out Postal, Seed, and Tunnel Rats. Until you've seen those 3 films, you have no ability to comment on Uwe Boll as a story teller or director. He's not that bad. His reputation isn't even that bad if you just look at his English language films. Dungeon Siege and the 2 Bloodrayne movies are his worst. House of the Dead was average level sci-fi but his last few movies haven't been bad at all.

I'm over Boll bashing. Anyone who does it is just trying to get in their free cheap shots on an approved target.

cradlebaker

i actually agree with you, when he doesn't work off of game source material he can be ok, never great by any means, but he has some movies that are passable entertainment.

sgtzim

The difference is that Polanski IS a great director who happens to have ass raped a child, and Uwe Boll IS a terrible director who happens to have a spelling error in his trailer.

I don't think anyone's implying that the spelling error makes him a bad director, the way you're implying that sodomizing a child makes Polanski a bad one. These things have nothing to do with their directing ability.

RobertFure

I brought up Polanski because, despite his ass raping, people still praise and defend. Boll has a spelling mistake in his trailer and Cole seems like the good Dr. Uwe just punched a toddler in the eye. Very venomous.

sgtzim

Sodomizing a 13 year old makes him a bad person, not a bad director. Learn to separate the person from their accomplishments. People are defending and praising his films, hopefully, not his actions.

The ridicule of Boll doesn't really come off as venomous. He seems to know his movies suck, and plays up an exaggerated version of himself in interviews, making ridiculous claims that any sane person couldn't possibly believe. He's a goof who makes crap films, and he'll never be taken seriously as a director. That's all there is to it, really.

RobertFure

But his movies aren't all crap. I 100% honestly enjoyed Postal. I thought it was great. Seed was also good. I've heard good things about Tunnel Rats and "Rampage" got good reviews from some notable online critics.

He was like 2 terrible films, 2 bad films, 1 "bad but enjoyable" film, and a handful of good ones. People make fun of him because its acceptable. You can't mock Steven Spielberg.

Uwe Boll’s ‘Darfur’ Trailer Cannot Spell

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