Whatever else negative you can say about Uwe Boll, one thing you can't criticize him on is his strong love for video games. I mean, there may be over 200,000 signatures on an online petition asking that he stop making movies, but he clearly loves the gamer market, and at least goes into each project hoping to make good films for that fanboy community.
Right? Right?!?
"You go for it, to please the game fans, but on the other hand if you have the hard core gamers, they live in their own world. And you cannot fulfill their ideas from a video game based movie, it's impossible," Boll recently told MTV News. "And to be honest, the real gamers are the typical download guys, right? They don't pay anything for movies, because they illegally download the movies. So why I should please these guys? I need the normal audience."
That's the Uwe Boll I know and love – the Uwe Boll who'll criticize even his most ardent followers. God bless you, sir. Read more...