The original game sees the Dude running amok through a small Arizonan town filled with violent, gun-toting citizens, but Boll instead sets up a battle royale between Islamist terrorists (led naturally by a suspiciously American-sounding Osama bin Laden) and scantily clad, buxom cultist nut jobs.īoll’s favourite trick is to repeatedly show us the Dude’s morbidly obese wife in flagrante with various members of the local populace as her husband looks on in horror from the corner of his trailer.

American Beauty as scripted by Beavis and Butthead.īased on the video game Postal 2, which is famed for its ultra-violence and scorn for politically correct mores, Postal stars little-known actor Zack Ward as the volatile, downtrodden Postal Dude, whose day goes from bad to worse after he’s ridiculed at a job interview, cuckolded by his neighbour and thrown out of the local unemployment office. What it really is: A sort-of low-rent Falling Down. What Uwe Boll thinks this movie is: Dr Strangelove for the Jackass generation, a knockabout satire on political incorrectness, trash culture and post-9/11 angst. Can they really be all that bad? Postal (2007) So we decided to take up Boll’s challenge and re-examine five of his best known movies from the past decade. They deserve to be discussed bigger than they were.” “They will see they were a lot of very interesting movies and a lot of movies that I think made sense and said a point about things. “Now when I don’t make any more movies, maybe they find the time to actually watch the movies, starting with Postal in 2005, the movies of the last 10 years,” he said. “That is the real reason I just cannot afford to make movies.”īut Boll being Boll, he could not quite resist departing the scene without sending one last barb in the direction of his critics. You don’t make any money anymore on movies because the DVD and Blu-ray market worldwide has dropped 80% in the last three years,” the director, who specialised in adapting video games for films that even fans of the games hated, told the Toronto issue of Metro. The Canada-based film-maker, who has long used German tax shelter laws to keep working despite his movies routinely failing to break even at the box office, has announced his retirement in the face of falling home video sales. Following a career stretching back more than a quarter of a century, taking in more than 30 movies, that famous 2006 incident in which he literally fought his critics, and a unique “worst career achievement award” Razzie in 2009, it all ends here.

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