In a message posted on Facebook (and since deleted) under an article from the Daily Beast devoted to “The Last of us”, the hilarious Uwe Boll engaged in a fine exercise in provocation of which he has the secret…
Hello, here it is again! After a long, more or less forced media diet, Uwe Boll, who dropped the film industry (or vice versa) to climb a restaurant in his city of Vancouver in Canada, is getting talked about again. With always this taste for provocation of which he has the secret and which does not fail to make people react.
In a message posted on Facebook under a Daily Beast article devoted to The Last of us, evoking the best adaptation of a video game ever seen on the screen, Uwe Boll tackles the HBO series, specifying that, for him, the best adaptation ever made is Postal, released in 2008.
Luckily, you are never better served than by yourself: he is the director.
If Boll has deleted since his message, the CBR website was responsive and screenshotted it, for posterity. “Postal will always be the best adaptation of a video game and one of the best films ever made”adding that Postal has precisely everything today’s movies have lost.
What ? We will know nothing about it, since he is careful not to develop his point further.
type video game run & gun released in 1997, Postal had provoked heated controversy because of its gratuitous and uninhibited violence. The term “postal” coming from the American expression “going postal”, which literally means “to commit mass murder”.
Boll’s film features a humiliated and abused postal worker (played by Zack Ward), who finds himself kicked out because of his ex-wife’s expenses. He finds refuge with his uncle, a local guru, just as broke as he is.
The two losers plan to get back on their feet by committing robberies in the local amusement park, but unfortunately for them, an army of Taliban has just arrived in town with the same idea. Led by bin Laden himself. That is to say the level of the pitch.
In an attempt to make his film exist in the Hollywood arena, Uwe Boll took out his favorite weapon, the sulphate, to snipe just about anything that moved, and in particular competing films at that time.
“I’m not a moron like Michael Bay or other people who hang around in the business, or Eli Roth who always make the same shitty movies over and over again. If you look closely at my films, you will see my true genius.
And if you go on May 23 [2008] see Postal, you’ll see that I’m giving you a movie that no one has in the last 10 years that’s way better than this social critique at the George Clooney to which you are entitled each weekend” Boll had swung.
In the calendar of film releases, his Postal also entered into confrontation, if one dares to say, with Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull of Spielberg. But nothing undermines the combativeness of Boll, who had replied by throwing a video of Verne Troyer on the canvas as a mini Indiana Jones, letting go that Postal was better.
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Still, beyond his last troll, Uwe Boll seems to want to leave the stoves of his restaurant to return to the cinema, as he announced in November 2022 in an interview with Screen Daily. And he has two films in his bag.
The first, a thriller titled 12 Hours, tells the story of a man returning to his family home in Cape Town, South Africa, for his mother’s funeral. To discover that his whole family has been kidnapped, and that he only has 12 hours to find the kidnappers. The film is supposed to go into production next March, with a budget of 9 million euros, financed out of pocket.
The other film project is called Ness, which he thought of as a sequel to The Incorruptibles and will therefore center on the character Eliot Ness. Clearly, Uwe Boll has unshakable faith in his star, even if it’s dented, and not just a little. We can at least give him credit for that.
