Comments on: Postal Movie Date Announced, Denounced

By: Knife Bandit Ant

Knife Bandit Ant — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:43:54 +0000

Ed Wood loved movies, he just didn’t know how bad a director he was (and his budget wasn’t helping). Uwe just want to make money and with the budget he has talented people can make good movies. Therefore you should not compare them.

By: Wrestlevania

Wrestlevania — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:33:41 +0000

Why is the bald terrorist Scottish..?

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:12:15 +0000

This is the only Uwe Boll movie I’ve ever thought looked to be any good at all.

In part because he appears to be actually capturing the stupid, offensive, yet weirdly funny approach of Postal itself.

By: w1lp33

w1lp33 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:36:44 +0000

i gotta be honest. if this scene were in any other context, about any other event, all the critics here would be howling with laughter. but becuase its about the sacred 9/11, you have to get your panties in a bunch. im loathe to credit uwe boll as much as anyone, but that was acutally pretty good.

excelt the idea of “window washer just finishing the job and then turning to see the plane” is actually ripped right off of Family Guy. like, exactly. check out the epiosde where james woods returns, and peter sets out to destroy his career.

and the conversation about virgins? absolutely fantastic skewering of the ridiculousness of religious faith. thats what happens when you have belief without evidence…

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:46:17 +0000

Anybody else who read the title of the post as PORTAL Movie please put your hand up.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:06:52 +0000

I love you, Uwe!

By: Benjamin Barker

Benjamin Barker — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:46:12 +0000

Not horrible; it gave me a smirk.

Missed an opportunity to add another layer of tastelessness by not intercutting with the cockpit-stormers, being brave and tearful and saying “Let’s roll!” at just the wrong moment. Funnier? Might have undercut the banality of the highjackers’ debate too. Then… the cockpit-stormers could end in up in paradise receiving the virgin ministrations!

Wow. I’m very, very sorry.

By: FngKestrel

FngKestrel — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:36:39 +0000

It’s a shame that those two actors are only in that one scene, because it looked like they could actually deliver their lines.

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:32:47 +0000

I read the Wired review of the movie, and that fellow seemed to think that intro sequence was about as good as it got. Which is too bad, because I thought it hit the right SA-esque balance between offensiveness and well-paced humour.

Also, I think it’s an insult to poor Ed Wood to compare Uwe to him. While they’re both certainly the best-known worst filmmakers of their times, Wood made bad films out of misplaced enthusiasm, whereas Boll makes them out of abject stupidity. Put another way: Ed Wood really, really loved movies–to the point where he would use everything, and not really pay any attention to its quality. This ethos is in direct opposition to Boll’s, who I suspect actually hates movies.

By: Skittles the Pirate

Skittles the Pirate — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:18:42 +0000

Though the clip was funny, it seems that Boll is surviving on the gigatons of pure hatred that are being poured on him. Even though he’s a hack when it comes to movies, the advertising revenue of his enterprises must be keeping him afloat. And the more attention he gets with his awful movies, the more he prospers. I may be wrong, but it seems that the more we ignore him, the better.

By: Tak

Tak — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:53:43 +0000

Nah, the disclaimer at the bottom would mention ‘at or above age 18 at the time’ or something.

I mean, if there was a disclaimer. On those sites which we clearly don’t visit.

¬_¬ (totally stole that smiley. It’s hawt)

By: Nallen

Nallen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:24:19 +0000

I don’t get that company you linked to at all, I thought Postal was some crappy, ancient FPS game and yet the web site looks like one of those pay-per-view web cam sites.

Or at least what I’d imagine they’d look like.

Ahem.