Boll's video response to the petition skyrocketing
:
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=26745
I'm a tad dissapointed by that.
He presents himself as a narcistic prick!
I would have expected him to either lash out at those signing and founding the petition or to step back of his promise. Instead he invents a new rule that wasn't there when he (jokingly?) accepted the deal and calls himself a genious and Micheal Bay an idiot? I won't argue about the latter, but come on...
I appreciate a deliberate B-movie as much as only few people I know do - but the fun stops, or rather, it comes to a scrinching halt for me when:
a) ... the B-movie in question takes itself serious.
b) ... Casper van Dien or Christian Slater-like dramaqueens think they can use it as a vehicle to sell their awfull acting capabilities.
c) ... when they are violent, racist, mysogenistic (sp?) or a glorification of the military without a detectable sarcastic tone.
d) ... when it's just a rip-off of something popular without being an homage to it!
Boll is guilty of all of them.
That he calls himself a genius in anything but an ironic context is disturbing to watch.
That he takes Micheal Bay as an example for "social critique bull****" after the mindless 'Dawson Creek VS. CGI' flick called 'Transformers' for marketing purposes, causes confusion on my end, because Micheal Bay's days of social critique lasted about as long as the PR campaign of "The Island" and the only real social critique I can detect in that shallow piece of film is that we are appearantly buying the wrong brands...
Insulting a colleague who has done no harm to him doesn't shed an all too bright light on him though, not matter what your personal opinion of said colleague is!
The only thing Boll ever did that can, in the remotest sense, be described as "genious" is that he found a way for people to finance his movies without financial losses by exploiting a German tax law that was meant to help indie film-makers produce real movies.
His movies are basically money sinks for rich, fat, cigar-smoking, bowler-hat-wearing capitalists disguised as excuses for movies. That the movies themselves are nothing but cash-ins on popular names just makes matters worse.
I'm sorry, but that's not genious: That's a spit in the face of every fan of the source-material, movies in general and even a good society in general.
On a lighter note though: I think I know what Mr. Boll is doing right now:
He is sitting in his basement, registering one faked email adress after the other to get some signatures onto the pro-Boll site.
