Saturday
17May2008
Uwe Boll's 'Postal' Pulled from Nearly 1,500 Theaters Next Weekend
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 2:22AM
For those of you hoping to buck the trend of seeing
Indiana Jones next weekend in favor of more prurient pursuits at the multiplex,
your options have just become more limited.
Cinema Blend is reporting that
Uwe
Boll's long "awaited" post-9/11 spoof
Postal will do what all Uwe Boll movies
do: Fail to generate much of an audience.
Not very long ago, Boll could be heard boasting about
going up against of the cinema's most beloved franchises in Uwe vs. Goliath
fashion. However, Postal will no longer open in 1,500 theaters in America next
weekend, but only four.In a statement released on Friday, Boll claims, "Theatrical
distributors are boycotting Postal because of its political content,” adding,
“we were prepared to open on 1500 screens all across America on May 23rd. Any
multiplex in the U.S. should have space for us, but they're afraid.”
I won't argue that exhibitors may not want Boll's
message in their theaters. But let's nip any talk of a First Amendment issue in
the bud right now. If you're charging admission, you can show whatever you think
will make the most money. That's just bidness right there. Uwe shouts that he
doesn't believe exhibitors should censor
what gets played in U.S. theaters, but they're not censoring anything. They're
just choosing not to show it. I mean, nobody claimed that theaters censored the
great documentary Blindsight and its controversial message about not letting
blindness get in your way of achieving your goals, but it peaked at five
theaters earlier this year.
So while Boll believes theater owners won't go near his
movie because of its message, it's more likely, as one Cinema Blend reader
points out, that the primary reason nobody wants to show Postal is because
theater owners would rather just make considerably more showing Indiana Jones on
another screen or something.
And, let's not forget, Uwe Boll only makes terrible
movies. That could be another reason for the severely curtailed distribution.
But seriously, how bad can you be at your job and still
be allowed the opportunity (and millions of dollars) to do it? What's the zenith
of this guy's career, exactly? Is it BloodRayne? Boll currently has three
films listed on the IMDB's bottom 100. Three others would make the list if they
had received enough votes to qualify. And he's only been making movies for
fifteen years, so there's no reason to believe he can't lock up a full 10% of
the worst films ever made if he stay on his current course.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Bad Movies, Postal, Uwe Boll | Print Article | Email Article | 3 Comments | Share Article
Reader Comments (3)
You gotta wonder if this garbage was ever slated to play on those 1500 screens anyway. Let's hope that this is Boll's last picture...I'm off to sign the petition.
I was wondering while writing the story whether or not Uwe just made that number up to try to build interest in the film. But then I thought, "You know, Uwe Boll is a lot of things: A bad filmmaker, a prick, a conceited jerk, a bad filmmmaker...but is he a liar?"
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