one more ewe boll thread - sorry elvis !

[urgeok]

You know the deal where Ewe is going to box his critics ?
Remember me saying my friend the Rue Morgue film critic applied ?

he's in !

September 23rd, 2006, in Vancouver - he'll go 3 rounds.
I asked Chris if he wanted me to stand in for him (Chris is not a very big guy - which is probably why he got picked)

I'll use this thread to post updates.
I should ask Chris if I can post his email address so people can wish him luck..

[The Flayed One]

Dude, that's on my birthday! Tell your friend that a fellow horror fan would have THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER if he knocked out Boll!

[Roderick Usher]

Tell Chris we got his back. Go Clubber Lang on his talentless ass.

[newb]

So...what happens if Chris wins....does Uwe quit making shit movies?

[Miss Olivia]

Awesome.

[zwoti]

if he needs any tips

[persuasian70]

oh please kill him and do us all a favor. I will pray that you do every day.

[urgeok]

i asked chris if i could post the email and he said go for it ..

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Some of you may have heard that notorious "bad movie" filmmaker Uwe Boll (House fo the Dead, Alone in the Dark) recently put out the challenge to his harshest critics to go 3 rounds in the boxing ring with him...

Well...I took the challenge and was selected to be one of his victims.

Read on...

Press Release courtesy of SKNR.net:

GoldenPalace.com sponsors filmmaker’s revenge

MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2006, VANCOUVER, BC -- GoldenPalace.com is proud to present Raging Boll. Uwe Boll, the German filmmaker best known for several video game based films like "Alone in the Dark," "House of the Dead,"
"BloodRayne" & "In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," is considered by many critics to be one of the world’s worst filmmakers. His movies, however, have made him more money than his critics will earn in several lifetimes.

After receiving a slew of horrid reviews for his latest film "BloodRayne" earlier this year, Boll was incensed and did what any successful filmmaker would do -- challenged his detractors to a boxing match to knock some sense into them and settle the score. "Many journalists make value judgments on my films based on the opinions of one or two thousand Internet voices," claims Boll. "Half of those opinions come from people who’ve never watched my films."

Boll proposed a 3-round match against anyone with the guts to step into the ring with him. The matches would receive international exposure and be filmed as part of his next feature film, "Postal’." Given their history of unique marketing campaigns, Internet casino GoldenPalace.com jumped at the chance to sponsor this event, now titled GoldenPalace.com Presents Raging Boll. Over the years, they have become widely recognized for sponsoring high-profile boxers, athletes, and celebrities. "This event is perfect for us," said GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe. "We receive so many outlandish offers for advertising exposure that it is refreshing to see something that surprises even us. That is why we decided to get involved. This has gotten so much attention so far, and we can’t wait to see how it will turn out."

Four matches are currently scheduled for September 23 and one match planned earlier in Spain for a total of five opponents. Boll is ready to take on even more people willing to fight, and his challenge remains on the table.
There are some critics who chickened out and didn’t follow through with their challenges. The following 5 challengers have been picked by our selection committee to represent some of Uwe Boll’s harshest critics.
These particular challengers are prepared to box Dr. Boll on September 23rd, 2006, in Vancouver, where they will finally get the opportunity to try to inflict some pain on the man they claim has done it to them for years.

GoldenPalace.com Presents Raging Boll

The challengers are: Carlos Palencia Jiménez-Argüello from Madrid, Spain.
Webmaster of www.cinecutre.com; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5aD242Ey8

Richard “Lowtax“ Kyanka from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, USA
Webmaster / CEO for Something Awful
Contact: [email protected]

Jeff Sneider from Los Angeles, California, USA
Journalist for Ain't It Cool News
Contact: [email protected]

Chris Alexander from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Journalist / Radio Announcer for Rue Morgue
Magazine / Rue Morgue Radio / AM 640 Toronto
Contact: [email protected]

Nelson Chance Minter from Fredrick, Maryland, USA
Website Critic
Contact: [email protected]

The Carlos Palencia / Uwe Boll fight will occur in Malaga, Spain early in September. The date in Spain is still to be confirmed. The actual fight will be filmed for inclusion with the other Vancouver fights. With Uwe Boll receiving a film award from the International Film Festival of Fantastic Cinema and Terror in Malaga, Spain for his work with "BloodRayne," this gives us the opportunity to hold our first fight in Spain.

Setting the standard in marketing creativity, GoldenPalace.com has devised some of the most exciting and outrageous advertising campaigns in the past few years. Items such as the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Britney Spears’ Pregnancy Test, and William Shatner’s Kidney Stone have garnered extensive worldwide media attention for the casino. GoldenPalace.com has also used their items and marketing to raise awareness and funds for over $1,000,000 for various charities worldwide."

Hoo boy. Where's Tonya Harding when we need her?"

[bwind22]

Man that's awesome...


What's a train ride from Minneapolis to Vancouver gonna run me?





I hope your friend is training intensenly and taking growth supplement. It'd be awesome if he showed up with 25 extra pounds of muscle and two new fighting techniques.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by bwind22
Man that's awesome...


What's a train ride from Minneapolis to Vancouver gonna run me?





I hope your friend is training intensenly and taking growth supplement. It'd be awesome if he showed up with 25 extra pounds of muscle and two new fighting techniques.

no - i think the feeling is mutual.. that he's gonna get killed...

[alkytrio666]

I hope your buddy kicks the shit out of him.

Seeing the "mommy buys everything" quote by him pushed me over the age.

A director who sucks, and is also a cry baby.

Obviously "mommy" bought him into Hollywood.

"Kick his ass, sea bass!"

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by urgeok
no - i think the feeling is mutual.. that he's gonna get killed... I read about this on IMDB.. so you know the kid that is fighting Boll?

[VampiricClown]

I hope your friend wins....

....I'm sick of Boll...

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by VampiricClown
I hope your friend wins....

....I'm sick of Boll... Like he would stop if he got the shit kicked out of him. he is doing it because he beleives his movies are credible and good. he is clearly delusional. if he loses, he will probably claim there was cheating invloved, or just go back to germany without comment and shit out another movie.

He'll buy the rights to mike tyson's punch out, and the movie will be him winning 300 fights in a row.

60% of the movvie will be bullet time shots of topless women under water.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
I read about this on IMDB.. so you know the kid that is fighting Boll?

there are 4 people - 1 in spain ..

the guy in toronto is a friend of mine ..

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by urgeok
there are 4 people - 1 in spain ..

the guy in toronto is a friend of mine .. Give him steroids then hit his girlfriend. he'll go into roid rage and bite boll's ear off :)

you said he isnt a big guy, right? (your buddy)

Hmmmm....

Hey, Boll is only 5' 2"....

[VampiricClown]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Like he would stop if he got the shit kicked out of him. he is doing it because he beleives his movies are credible and good. he is clearly delusional. if he loses, he will probably claim there was cheating invloved, or just go back to germany without comment and shit out another movie.

He'll buy the rights to mike tyson's punch out, and the movie will be him winning 300 fights in a row.

60% of the movvie will be bullet time shots of topless women under water.

I'm hoping it would be too much for the poor bastard and would give him a heart attack.

[persuasian70]

With Uwe Boll receiving a film award from the International Film Festival of Fantastic Cinema and Terror in Malaga, Spain for his work with "BloodRayne," this gives us the opportunity to hold our first fight in Spain.



Does anyone else see a problem with this sentence. Who in their right minds would give this piece of shit director an award. They must smoke some good shit over their or their taste in movies is as bad the German's taste for music (hint: my av).

[urgeok]

another article :


Fight card set for September boxing bouts with German director Jeremy Hainsworth, Canadian Press
Published: Monday, August 28, 2006 Article tools


VANCOUVER (CP) - The September fight card for controversial German movie director and itinerant boxer Uwe Boll is full.

The director of the recently released vampire flick BloodRayne starring Kristanna Loken and Ben Kingsley claims to be frustrated with critics trashing his films.

He said some critics were ripping the film online before it even premiered Jan. 3 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

So, in June, he challenged them to a fight which will be filmed and incorporated into an upcoming Boll film.

And, no, it won't be called Raging Boll.

"This will be like a real boxing event," Boll said in an interview. "I will try to knock everybody out."

The five feats of fisticuffs will be filmed, however, with footage used in Boll's upcoming film, Postal.

While four of those fights will be staged in Vancouver on Sept. 23, one will take place in Malaga, Spain at an earlier date.

"To do four people in one evening is already superhard," Boll said.

"Even if the people cannot box, if it is only people who want to kick my ass, that is hard to do if I have to do it four times in a row."

Fifteen people applied for the punchup. The five now on the fight card with Boll are:

-Chris Alexander of Toronto, Ont., a journalist with Rue Morgue radio and magazine.

-Richard Kyanka of Lee's Summit, Mo., webmaster of www.somethingawful.com.

-Jeff Sneider of Los Angeles, Calif., a journalist with Ain't It Cool News.

-Nelson Chance Mintner, a web site critic from Fredrick, Md.

-Carlos Palencia Jimenez-Arguello from Madrid, Spain, webmaster of www.cinecutre.com.

Mintner is only 17, Boll said, but the teen is also a boxer and Boll expects him to be the greatest challenge.

Alexander, 31, said he might be the least challenging.

He describes himself as an ardent horror movie fan and a scholar.

"It's the blood flowing though my veins," said the writer for the Toronto horror movie magazine.

"I saw this as probably the most perverse and outlandish PR stunt in the history of film. Uwe Boll is in line with Ed Wood as far as being one of the most inept filmmakers ever," Alexander said.

"If I can get at least three hits in - one for each lousy video game horror movie that Uwe Boll has made - then I'll be happy.

"He's got balls of steel doing this thing. I had to be a part of it."

Alexander believes Boll may become a cult movie icon.

"(He's) making these rather lavish and high-profile garbage films with pretty B-list actors," he said. "The fact that he's doing it on such a grand scale makes it absolutely fascinating.

"Right now, he's a living legend."

In the fights, the five will have the chance to try to inflict some pain on the man they claim has done it to them for years through his films.

Boll had specifically targeted fellow filmmakers Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino for a fight but neither responded. Several others were also challenged but none responded.

Both Avary and Boll have made films based on video games.

In an interview with Edge Online earlier this year, Avary discussed his recent project, Silent Hill, and the comfort level gamemakers have with filmmakers using their work as the basis for movies.

"Will Silent Hill make game designers more comfortable?" he asked. "Guys like Uwe Boll have done a lot of damage and I don't know that one good game adaptation will undo it all."

Boll is upset with Tarantino because the gore-thriller Hostel came out at the same time as BloodRayne and overshadowed the latter's release.

Hostel was directed by Eli Roth, not Tarantino, although the latter is listed as executive producer on imdb.com.

Boll was also unimpressed with claims on the Internet that Tarantino could beat him up.

Boll readily acknowledged his boxing challenge is more a gag than anything.

He is, however, not stinting on the training.

"I think I'm prepared," he said. "It will get better and better."

Alexander said a documentary crew has been following him as he trains for the fight.

"I'm in desperate need of Charles Atlas," he said. "I'm probably going to get killed."

He said he's had emails from some of the other fighters.

"They're very scared," he said with a laugh.

Boll's next picture due in theatres is In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.

Like BloodRayne, it's also based on a video game. It features Loken again as well as John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta, Matthew Lillard, Leelee Sobieski, Claire Forlani and Burt Reynolds. Much of the shooting was done in British Columbia.

While he hasn't heard of directors challenging their critics to fisticuffs, Vancouver International Film Festival director Alan Franey said odd stunts are not unknown.

Werner Hertzog, director of the legendary 1979 vampire film Nosferatu, challenged some young filmmakers that if they actually got off their butt and made a film instead of complaining about how difficult it was he would eat his shoe.

He ate his shoe.

[zwoti]

also gets mentioned in the rotcast podcast (http://www.filmrot.com/articles/the_rotcast/007350.php)



and a certain cult site is the plug of the week ;)

[urgeok]

Originally posted by zwoti
also gets mentioned in the rotcast podcast (http://www.filmrot.com/articles/the_rotcast/007350.php)



and a certain cult site is the plug of the week ;)


i just spoke to him ... he's actually training !

[Vodstok]

there is so much in that article to comment on.... where to begin...

Boll will go down in history, that is not up for debate. However, where ed wood had true passion and enthusiams, and was just a terrible writer and director, Boll lacks the passion. He gets personally offended when people tralk bad about his movies.

Quite frankly, if you cant take criticism, stay out of the spotlight.

And challenging Quentin tarantino? Tarantino is tall and skinny. a wadded up newspaper ball could tak ehim down. On the othe rhand, Eli Roth look slike a scrapper. No shit he didnt challenge him. But he was pissed off because Hostel overhsadowed Bloodrayne? No shit... I think if he had the slightest clue what reputations did for a movie's pr, he would have seen that coming a mile away. Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead werent going to be inspiring people to see what new masterpiece boll was putting out. at the most, a bunch of people ignorant of his track record, and a bunch of masochists with morbid curiosity went out and saw that....


Hostel had roth's name, for those that liekd cabin fever, and of course, mr tarantino, who like him or not, is movie gold.


Boll is proving to be a blight on some otherwise stellar carreers. BEN KINGLSEY? Ghandi?!! He is one of the greatest actors EVER.
tsk tsk....


I have said it many times before... You can gold plate a turd, but no matter how pretty you make, it's still a piece of shit.

[PR3SSUR3]

Apparently Boll is signed up to turn the best online FPS game in the universe - Far Cry - into a movie by 2008.

[urgeok]

bumping this with an update ..

well, Chris is off to Vancouver tonight - the fight is on Saturday.
He got sponsered by a boxing ring and has been taking some lessons so he's all set to go.

personally i think this is going to be a big publicity stunt where everyone wins and if nothing else - Boll will be looked on as a 'fun kinda guy'

i saw a few minutes of the fight with the spanish guy and it was embarrasing ..

he was cowering and cringing like a little girl .. boll was just standing there laughing ...

anyway - apparantly there is a live webcast you can watch for $5
jury is still out on if i'll watch it or not ..Chris is making a 'behind the scenes' movie on the whole experience which looks like it'll be a huge laugh .. i might wait to see that ...

if anyone is interested though - here's the link :

www.wavelit.com