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Citizen Vigilante
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willothedog
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How many of his co-stars does he chow down on in this?
yeah, in light of the epstein cannibalism stuff and Hammers own silver spoon origins.....a little suss.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Isn't this banned in the UK? 
*Supposed to be, sorry
*Supposed to be, sorry
Grildon Tundy
Member
Uwe Boll's Rampage was another actually-transgressive / controversial / only half-badly made movie. He's fearless if nothing else.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
This is the film that is controversial because it's too "far-right"?
I glanced at a reddit thread and saw responses such as;
"Are you really this surprised the people who were "don't shove it in our faces" are out here shoving THEIR shit in your face? Lol. "
"Those youtubers spent 10 years screaming that all politics (rightwing and leftwing) should be kept out of movies and tv shows. Yet here they are glazing a very one-sided political film that makes it seem as if only men of colour harm women"
"It's a political film. The film ends with the hero giving a speech in which he says he'll "keep going until the radical woke left stops destroying democracy." If you like that, it says a lot about your political worldview."
"it is literally an explicit call to violence against migrants, like actually, genuinely the film is imploring the audience to commit violence against migrants. Genuine neo-Nazi shit, fuck Boll so hard."
I glanced at a reddit thread and saw responses such as;
"Are you really this surprised the people who were "don't shove it in our faces" are out here shoving THEIR shit in your face? Lol. "
"Those youtubers spent 10 years screaming that all politics (rightwing and leftwing) should be kept out of movies and tv shows. Yet here they are glazing a very one-sided political film that makes it seem as if only men of colour harm women"
"It's a political film. The film ends with the hero giving a speech in which he says he'll "keep going until the radical woke left stops destroying democracy." If you like that, it says a lot about your political worldview."
"it is literally an explicit call to violence against migrants, like actually, genuinely the film is imploring the audience to commit violence against migrants. Genuine neo-Nazi shit, fuck Boll so hard."
HoodWinked
Member
lol 92% rotten tomatoes audience score
HoodWinked
Member
i can see google and RT reworking algos just cause this movie. critics were mostly trying to give this the silent treatment but seems like they'll be forced to review this just so they can give it a 1 star review to tank the aggregate and also they're self interest for clicks.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Well also 1 star because it is made by Uwe Boll and so almost definitely shit.
Unknown?
Member
Reddit is full of idiots. It's about people who rape and kill and get off Scott free.
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
Gross.
I rented it. My impressions:
It's not a very good movie, but it may be cathartic to some Europeans in the same way that Death Wish was to New Yorkers at the time. Nowhere near that level of filmmaking competence though
It's not a very good movie, but it may be cathartic to some Europeans in the same way that Death Wish was to New Yorkers at the time. Nowhere near that level of filmmaking competence though
John Bilbo
Gold Member
Pretty clever marketing tactic!
SJRB
Gold Member
It makes an astonishingly amount of sense, actually.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I was just thinking of the Dungeon Siege movie he did which had an amazing cast but was such a terrible film.
666
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Shit, that's certainly a bold move. Props to Uwe and X.
Toots
Gold Member
I watched some of it and it is an uwe boll movie through and through.
I won't talk about the politics of it but artistically it is pure boll trash.
The dude knows how to make a movie on a technical standpoint, has decent budget (when filming in eastern europe like he did), but has no eye, style or creativity.
It is a hard watch and reminds you why Uwe Boll is considered the worst director on earth, but at the same time also a dude who work like mad to do what he loves, which is writing and directing movies, all this without an ounce of talent. I couldn't do half of what he achieved and im sure im better at film making than him, since anyone with two eyes and a brain is better at film making than him.
I won't talk about the politics of it but artistically it is pure boll trash.
The dude knows how to make a movie on a technical standpoint, has decent budget (when filming in eastern europe like he did), but has no eye, style or creativity.
It is a hard watch and reminds you why Uwe Boll is considered the worst director on earth, but at the same time also a dude who work like mad to do what he loves, which is writing and directing movies, all this without an ounce of talent. I couldn't do half of what he achieved and im sure im better at film making than him, since anyone with two eyes and a brain is better at film making than him.
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He's not as bad as those days where he earned the worst director of all time badge on IMDb. Steady improvement from rock bottom to around 3/10 over the past 20 years. He's wiling to tackle subversive and transgressive subject matter which can make his work stand out a bit, as we see here.
Toots
Gold Member
He kind of still is tho.
His shot composition is abysmal, he still has 2000s music video director quirks that look very dated. Just look at the migrant knife attack from the beginning it is awfully shot and edited, plus the blood looks like 2010 cgi...
Only redeeming artistic aspect of the movie is that he stole the A24 "gloomy realistic" photography so the image looks decent.
You are right on his willingness (need ?) to tackle transgressive subject tho.
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House of the Dead, In the Name of the King, and Bloodrayne are physically painful to watch
Toots
Gold Member
I should rewatch those ones i might have forgotten how horrible they were.
This one is watchable at least so maybe your 3/10 is actually fair.
With Bruce Willis? Sadly, that's likely soon to be a documentary with his failing health
I feel like the vigilante film has been run pretty much to the ground, though the DW angle of "just an ordinary guy pushed to his limits" versus the "retired assassin/specops/cop forced back into action" aspect is the key to it.
I feel like folks have lost so much hope in the justice system to deliver actual justice that a vigilante film is either just too uncomfortable a suggestion or to attractive a proposition to be just entertainment. I have only vague memories of the Kevin Bacon version (Death Sentence). But it would likely be a strong call to arms if done well because there is really no other option at this point barring a massive flush of judges, prosecutors, and police officials (not the beat cops).
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
Boll's not good but I think the "worst director ever" is just ridiculous. The label has only really stuck because for a trash-film director his skill with abusing German tax credits allowed him to get access to IP's and casts that realistically he shouldn't have.
His better regarded stuff tends to be his least known, and surprisingly quite a lot of his output has been topical/political.
As a trash-film afficionado I actually admire him for his ability to genuinely piss people off, and I thought him boxing (i.e, beating the shit out of) his critics was hilarious,
That combination of having a real budget and famous actors back in the German tax credit days, but not the equivalent basic competence as a filmmaker, really stood out. Of course he wasn't the worst of all time but yeah, a special sort of bad. That being said I did watch most of his movies back then out of curiosity.
Meicyn
Member
Jesus, I almost forgot about that whole era. The memory of watching him punch the daylights out of Lowtax from Something Awful just resurfaced.
RIP Lowtax
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
First five minutes, and last fifteen are based as fuck
Everything else is utter gash. And why the brothel scene?
And I haven't heard dialogue delivered that brilliant since the first Resident evil.
But, I like the message
Something's got to give. There's only so much rape and killing you can take..
There was zero chance of this getting made by Hollyweird.
Everything else is utter gash. And why the brothel scene?
And I haven't heard dialogue delivered that brilliant since the first Resident evil.
But, I like the message
Something's got to give. There's only so much rape and killing you can take..
There was zero chance of this getting made by Hollyweird.
Meicyn
Member
What the shit, he died? How the hell did I miss that? Did I memory hole that information somehow?
Edit: Damn, he commited suicide.
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Yeah. And the SA Forums celebrated when he did. Grim stuff.
Meicyn
Member
Jesus Christ. I haven't posted there in forever. Apparently leaving that place behind was a very good decision.
Gp1
Member
With Bruce Willis? Sadly, that's likely soon to be a documentary with his failing health
It's one of the last films before the direct-to-video sequence where the disease took over. (2018 or 2019)
Just a mindless "fun" old school movie. The perfect kind of movie for streamings to produce instead of the hundreds of unfunny romantic comedies or bland spy movies they finance...
Anyways, i'll try to watch later.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
I tried watching but only got 20 minutes in. It just ignores any of the ways of constructing a movie that we have developed over 100 years - like Uwe Boll has never seen a movie before and is confused on the basics on how to structure one - "should it have a start, middle and end? Maybe I should just make it all middle"
TheUnicornGuy
Gold Member
Buuut, Kristanna Loken boobies.
WoodyStare
Member
I legitimately think House of the Dead is one of the greatest bad movies ever made. It's like the worst filmmaker went out to make something with so much ambition, made all of the wrong decisions and somehow it all "works", much like Ed Wood, though Boll makes him look classier by comparison. The way it's filmed and edited is so over the top at times that I've come to love it (the scene when someone is dying and it randomly starts playing a montage of clips from earlier in the film always has me cracking up). Everything about that 10 minute shootout scene is trashy filmmaking heaven. Dude almost killed the actors when he filmed those 360 degree slo-mo shots. I can't wait for the sequel.