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Originally Posted by urgeok2
i agree with the petition thing - if he can get away with it - whatever. do you blame him if people continue to see his movies ?
it should be the critics - then nobody... thats it.
i disagree with the boxing thing though - that was frigging brilliant on his part.
i dont believe that there was a problem with the critics having training .. i know Chris trained, and one of the others - the oungest one - boxed as a hobby or something.
as it was - he didnt punish anyone - most of them just turtled anyway - so he didnt hit them at all.
the guys involved all got publicity for it and in some cases found they liked Boll (because in person - he's a pretty cool guy)
i think Boll presented these guys with a pretty unique opportunity - i would definately had jumped at the chance - and had a lot of fun with it - i know Chris had a blast.
Chris also had a film crew follow him around and they're making a film (Raging Boll) that looks like it's going to be quite a laugh.
a lot of good came out of that .. moreso than most of his films :)
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Uwe was picking the fights though, and although I'm not a big fan of Seanbaby he agreed to fight the guy.
"Uwe was going to promote his publicity stunt on G4's Attack of the Show by boxing one of the hosts. Again, he's a matchmaking genius, because everyone on TV is 3 feet tall. If you were watching Attack of the Show during the time I cohosted, you might have noticed that I could have leaned over and eaten host Kevin Pereira. A producer from the show remembered this and called me asking if I'd come on and fight Uwe. I train in Muay Thai and jujitsu, so I think boxing is to fighting what Hungry Hungry Hippos is to fighting, but—holy crap!—I couldn't pass up getting my fist near the mouth that shouted "action" on the set of House of the Dead.
Uwe, learning that he wasn't fighting a midget, asked for my age, height, weight, and fighting experience. I e-mailed this information, along with the reassurance that the Holocaust survivors got together and agreed he was the worst thing to come out of Germany. I figured this would make him mad enough to ignore that I'm several weight classes above him in F-List Celebrity Boxing. It didn't. After reading my stats, he suddenly couldn't make it on the show. There was a short discussion of flying me to the set of Postal, but I'm not holding my breath. Uwe is the one making the Nerd Combat rules, and rule No. 1 is: Uwe only hits people who don't explode Uwe's face when they hit back."
But anyway, I think fighting people because they talk crap about your movie is ineffectual. Beating the crap out of a critic won't make your movie better, but I guess it could give them enough brain damage to enjoy it. :)