Uwe Boll "profit through mediocrity" T-shirt

what is this loophole you mentioned? It's the only part you didn't link something to...I hadn't heard it before.

Unless it was a joke. Neither answer would surprise me

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899

It's in this interview - I added the link. Cheers!

so it takes $17.50 to state the obvious?

i'd rather support boll, then someone trying to make a buck, with this crap.

no offense if it's your website.

Copy the the Design and print your own.

Send me a "I'm with stupid" t-shirt, a plane ticket to the city where "Hunter - The Reckoning" is being filmed and a disposable camera. Should I not return send my significant other flowers, extremely platonic flowers.

Better yet would be a:

"I saw an Uwe Boll movie and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt" T-Shirt.

It isn't just Boll. A major portion of all big budget movies with strong international potential are financed through the German Loophole method. The studios have far less at risk then is commonly supposed by just looking at a film's claimed budget. This article from Slate.com details the process:
http://www.slate.com/id/2117309

A stunning amount of overbudgeted garbage can be blamed on German tax law. Boll tries to argue that his movies are inexpensive but that excuses little. The SciFi Channel financies the production of genre flicks for far smaller amounts with actors whose names are familiar solely to B-movie aficianados but do a decent job none the less. If you compare the recently broadcast 'House of the Dead 2' to Boll's previous entry the quality per dollar spent is far, far in favor of the direct to cable/satellite sequel.

The problem is that Boll simply should not be directing movies. He is like a completely tone deaf person try to conduct an orchestra. It is an indication of his self-knowledge of this deficit that he is so defensive and constantly looks to blame others. what would it have helped if Atari had released a new Alone in the Dark game at the time the movie appeared? If the game was true to the series it would nothing but a title in common with the movie.

Bool's work is profitable in the same manner as low end martial arts films. An audience can ignore the horrible script and lack of any acting talent so long as there is some worthy eye candy to enjoy. Sometimes, as in Boll's films, there are some real actors with decent resumes sleepwalking through their roles and managing to stand only to grasp at the paycheck tied to the boom mike. One has to assume Ben Kingsley has some expensive lifestyle choices when looking at the astonishing range of roles he might take on in any one year.

It sounds like Postal wants to be the Blazing Saddles of video game movies. Perhaps this will be a better choice for Boll.

Drawing from the old MGM slogan of ARS Gratia ARS = Art for Art's Sake, another slogan for Boll might be quisquiliae gratia quisquiliae aka garbage for the sake of garbage.

#3 -- Chill. It's a T-Shirt. I thought it was pretty cool, so I even ordered one. Dang, who would have thought that people have different opinions than you, eh?

it should say:

FRUCTUS PER DEFECTUM

or "profit through failure"

because uwe boll's movies aren't even mediocre. Resident Evil is a mediocre flick, Uwe Boll's movies are so bad I've seen better film's go straight to DVD.

'profit through shit' seems most appropriate.

My god, people. You claim to hate someone so much, and yet, you give him so much attention. It's ridiculous -- if you hate him, make a few rude remarks, and get over it already. Jesus christ. This is all I see on game news "blogs" these past few weeks -- bitching and moaning about Uwe Boll, and pictures of a 12.96 cubic inch piece of plastic (DS Lite).

This is the same thing you people did with Jack Thompson -- you basically gave him so much goddamn attention that he stuck around longer than he would've.

I'm not crazy about his movies either, but this is just plain mean

Did anyone read the Interview that Conrad linked. This guy pwnz himself. Check some of these quotes.

"I've met tons of people who think BloodRayne is way better than Underworld 2, but they're not going on the Internet and writing that..."

"If people really think I'm completely talentless, and this is to journalists, they should at least rent one of my earlier movies, like Heart of America, which is a really, really good movie. And then they should say, 'Okay, this is the history of this director, we should judge him based on this.' They shouldn't say, 'This guy cannot make movies,' because this is unfair. I think it's very arrogant that a lot of journalists are not even willing see that movie before they judge my directing ability."

1 - I don't know what stoners he found that thought Bloodrayne was better than Underworld 2.

2 - Since when does a directors previous movies have any effect on how we judge this movie. I watch a movie and 9 times out of 10 I don't know who directs it. I judge the movie by the movie.

Isn't he doing pac-man with Jack Black too?
The only way he's going to do a good film is if we get him a large amount of mushrooms some laser-lights and The Rock in spandex. Lock them in a dark room with nothing to eat but the mushrooms and no light but the lasers, he might actually come up with a fitting (at least) film of Rez.
I'm curious though: does he really like games, really hate games, or is he just desperate for work and just takes whatever nobody else will make.