My list of hated directors?
Uhhh... it's pretty short at this point. I don't bother to remember the names of directors that suck- they have to suck and be passionate about it, and keep making horrible movies.
Uwe Boll is currently the only director that ranks on the list. I dislike MANY other directors (Roman Polanski for being a child molestor, Oliver Stone for being so damn preachy, so on and so forth) they don't rank worthy of hate to me.
Uwe Boll, on the other hand, does. His movies are poorly scripted, directed, edited, and shot. They suck. They're based on video-game franchises with built-in fans, and he still manages to make no money on them, and for some suprising reason, they keep letting him make movies. Not only more movies, but bigger movies- more expensive movies.
This is aside from the inexplicable plot changes- why did house of the dead take place on an island? Why did it not actually contain anything from the game itself, aside from the names of three characters?
When Uwe Boll was asked why he changed everything, he responded "It's a zombie movie- no one cares," but apparently someone did, because the movie was a spectacular failure at the box office.
Bloodrayne, known for its herione and gratuitous violence, contained little of either. Sir Ben Kingsley, apparently working on repaying his deal with the devil, agreed to appear in the movie, which was so horrible that the studio still hasn't managed to re-make the 200 million they sunk into the production.
And yet, they continue to let him make movies. His next flop- Dungeon Seige, followed by "Postal," the game made famous when someone objected to the fact that you could desecrate corpses by beheading them, and then pissing on the brainstems.
Okay, and the icing on the cake- Uwe Boll blames the bad pubilicity that internet forums give his movies for the failures. He says it because of thier negative hype that people don't show up like lemmings to pay $10 a pop to watch this drivel.
He was so sure of this, in fact, that he staged an exhibition boxing match (Boll, although a mediochre direction, was a semi-pro boxer back in the day). Apparently he felt that beating some skinny white kids would give him back his 'street cred.'
So he fought four 198 pound forum posters. Three of them had never badmouthed his movies, although they frequented sites that he had said ruined his career. The fourth was a 16 year old kid- arguably with the most training any of these candidates had recieved, with six whole months of training under his belt.
So Boll, the 42 year old director, punched some nerds a few times. After he had beaten them, he bragged "I gave them brain damage! They love my movies now!" ...which seems like something insulting rather than a boast, but I guess if it makes him happy...
Anyway, he's the only director I hate.
-kv
