Comments on: Uwe Boll’s ‘Darfur’ Trailer Cannot Spell

By: Ventilation Shaft

Ventilation Shaft — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:01:30 +0000

I agree with RobertFure. I've seen every Boll film so far (from House of the Dead onwards). His only really bad ones are Bloodrayne 1 & Alone in the Dark. The average ones are Dungeon Siege and Far Cry. The good ones are Bloodrayne 2 (yes, I enjoyed it), HotD (funny as hell) and Seed, while Postal and Tunnel Rats were awesome, Postal especially.

I can't wait for Rampage and Darfur.

By: RobertFure

RobertFure — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:39:52 +0000

We don't know what the main pull of this movie will be. Who knows if it will make a valid point at the end or not?

By: Erkenbrand

Erkenbrand — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:02:17 +0000

I agree: You have to diferentiate between the director and the man. You can be an asshole and still make great films… Adolf Hitler was a pretty good painter and architectural visionary, I am told.

By: Aleric

Aleric — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:37:18 +0000

Boll isn't showing us anything new or offering a way to correct the situation. He is simply showing the killings for shock value.

Tears of the Sun had a resolution and actual involvement by the actors in defending and in some cases dealing back the violence that was being dished out in the tribal wars going on to this day.

By: Christopher_M

Christopher_M — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:19:21 +0000

did anyone else notice the Scottish actor from Wanted & Departed is in this as well?

By: RobertFure

RobertFure — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:06:24 +0000

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.

By: sgtzim

sgtzim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:47:42 +0000

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.

By: RobertFure

RobertFure — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:14:41 +0000

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.

By: sgtzim

sgtzim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:25:08 +0000

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.

By: cradlebaker

cradlebaker — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:55:35 +0000

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.

By: RobertFure

RobertFure — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:06:24 +0000

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.

By: sgtzim

sgtzim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:47:42 +0000

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.

By: RobertFure

RobertFure — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:17:14 +0000

I don't think Boll is trying to save the world. Hotel Rwanda (2004), Rambo (2008), Darfur Now (2007), and Tears of the Sun (2003) are all about genocidal atrocities that happened years ago, most of which still happen today, so it's not like Boll is alone here.

I just don't see why everyone is attacking Boll for shit everyone else does. He's a huge scapegoat.

By: RobertFure

RobertFure — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:41 +0000

By: Aleric

Aleric — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:21:30 +0000

This has been going on for over 40 years in Africa, its a little late to act like this is something new. Unless someone wants to commit a full invasion of most of these countries and the next 10 years trying to clean it up then a film is not going to change reality.

Sorry Uwe but I stopped caring about Africans killing each other a long time ago.