After watching this comprehensive interview with reviled filmmaker Uwe Boll, I can’t imagine there’s anything more that needs to be written on the guy. Ever. Seriously. Considering he’s seen here chewing Stride Gum (which is against him — even if for marketing purposes), he addresses all the recent stories about him and shows us how much he’s able to make fun of himself, and he confesses that he would not actually quit filmmaking if the anti-Boll petition does acquire one million signatures (though he would at least stop adapting video games), it’s clear that he deserves the final word.

That said, I don’t mean to discourage him from continuing his antics. He’s now officially joined my list of filmmakers whose personalities I prefer to their films (despite never having seen a Boll film), which also includes John Waters, Kevin Smith, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese (yes, I like his personality that much and also his films that little). So, I’ll continue watching video interviews of him and reading things such as his recently published list of five favorite films, but I’m giving up following what others have to say about the guy. It all just seems so futile, doesn’t it?

For the second, less interesting part of Movieweb’s interview, click here. And feel free to go see Uwe Boll’s Postal when it opens in theaters next Friday.

I’m a bit late in posting this awesome video featuring Uwe Boll responding to the online petition against him, which I argued against last week. But since a new pro-Boll petition has shown up online, I’m glad to be posting it late rather than having to bring you daily coverage of the most hated filmmaker in the world. Even if each update is more hilarious than the last.

Boll himself called for the second petition, which he seems sure will have just as much chance of being signed by a million people. The self-proclaimed “only fucking genius in the business” may need to wait awhile, though, as the number of current anti-Boll signatures is nearly 200,000 while the number of pro-Bollers is only at 4. The issue may be that none of us have yet seen Boll’s new film, Postal, which he says is “way better than all that social-critic George Clooney bullshit that you get every fucking weekend.”

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By now, I’m sure everyone has read about the petition to stop Uwe Boll from making more movies. I don’t know how long the thing has been around, but it got a huge boost over the weekend thanks to a FEARnet interview with Dr. Boll, in which he said it would take a million signatures to convince him to quit filmmaking. Various blogs picked up the story and thanks to support almost webwide, the number has gone up from 18,000 to more than 60,000 (it was apparently only 40,000 this morning). As New York’s Vulture blog points out, that is a whole lot more people than went to see Boll’s film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, which makes me sort of dubious and disappointed. If you’re not going to his movies anyway, why do you care if he keeps on making them? Personally, I would expect most blogs would favor him continuing his career. He gives us all something to write about, and on slow days like this that’s something to be thankful for.

Vulture also notes that while the petition could easily reach 1,000,000 signatures by the middle of this week, Boll is not going anywhere soon. Of course, even if he didn’t have a number of projects in the pipeline the guy is not really going to disappear just because people (either one or a million) ask him to. Why should he? He has as good a reason to keep making films as you have to try convincing him not to: he can. I wouldn’t stop blogging just because a million people who don’t even usually read me don’t want me to continue (in fact, I’d probably appreciate the traffic from everyone checking to see if I’m still here). Would you stop working at Starbucks because a million Dunkin Donuts customers petitioned for you to quit? We don’t have to like Uwe Boll’s films, but we also don’t have to worry about them. And presumably, Boll isn’t worried about your signatures, either.

So, I’m boycotting the Boll boycott. I might even go see Postal when it opens May 23, just to rub it in. Isn’t he supposed to be as good as Stanley Kubrick, anyway?

I’m well aware that Uwe Boll has a reputation for being one of the worst filmmakers of our generation, but I have to admit that I’ve never seen any of his films (in part because distributors like to withhold pictures like Bloodrayne from critics).

I did, however, get a huge kick out of reading about (and watching — see above) the boxing matches to which Boll challenged the internet film critics who had been the most vocal opponents of his work. Boll easily won all four fights, with each of his opponents, as WIRED’s Chris Baker phrased it, “crash[ing] faster than an overloaded server.” The night of the fight, Boll allegedly made the following victory speech: “The lesson is: So bad prepared are the critics in the rings, they are also at writing. Fucking critics!” I can’t speak on the subject of his movies, but in terms of sheer quotability, this guy is clearly the new Werner Herzog.

Now Michael Guillen has an extremely entertaining interview with Boll, cross-posted at Twitch and The Evening Class. In it, Boll makes grand pronouncements on topics as varied as 9/11, Oliver Stone, his upcoming partnership with South Park, and why he was sued by the New York Post. You’ll find those and other highlights after the jump.

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