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A possibly good film by Uwe Boll?

This could very well cause the time-space continuum to unravel.

Inspired by the February 28, 1997 North Hollywood bank robbery perhaps?

I'm on the fence. If it was anybody other than Boll I'd give the movie a better chance but the guy is just so, so bad. He's made a career out of terrible movies and self-hype and this might be more of the same but he lucked out and accidentally made something decent. I'd liketo see a review from a creditable source.

This movie has to be bad. It has to be! My sanity and understanding of this world depends on it. There are only three constants in life: death, taxes, and Uwe Boll movies sucking donkey cock.

If this ends up being good, our world will be shattered.

It’s about a young man who snaps one day and goes on a massive killing spree.

This describes every time I played Grand Theft Auto 3, et. al.

Been there, done that. Will see the movie.

No.
I am a liberal, pacifist, anti-gun pussy (there, I said it befor BSlim could) and this trailer made me physically ill.
There have been too many mass murders committed in this country over the years for me to say anything except "boycott this movie".
Oh, I know, violent video games, movies, music do not a killer make and I am in agreement. However, anyone already inclined to engage in this tpe of behavior may find this movie quite inspirational.

In this day, with our first African-American president, when Wal-Mart can't keep ammo in stock and gun sales are at a near all time high, why in hell would we want to encourage anyone to see a movie which seems to condone killing?

C'mon. Imagine, as you watched the trailer that it wasn't a movie but footage from a documentary. Imagine that those aren't the bodies of actors playing a role but real-life men, women and children whose bullet-riddled corpses represent lives cut cruelly short by a sociopath who deemed them unfit to live.

This is not a movie I want to see. Uwe Boll had every right to make it and you have every right to see it because I believe in the First Amendment.

I will say that you'll hurt my heart if you do.

That is all.

Yeah, I'm feeling....fragile today. Just one of those days when everything can get to you. When the ills of the world threaten to crush you if you don't hug a puppy or read something really fluffy and fun. So I don't think I can even watch the trailer.

By the way, you know the guy who plays Grissom in the Las Vegas (or is it Reno?) CSI? Gray-haired guy? He played Hannibal Lecter in the very first movie about him, um, Red Dragon or Maneater or something?

Anyway, I was reading an interview with that actor and he said doing that movie was so incredibly bleak and depressing that after it wrapped, he had to do nothing but happy things for about a year. He couldn't watch the news, he didn't see movies that weren't comedies, he NEVER watched the film he had just finished starring in. He basically had to pet puppies and bunnies and drown himself in Lisa Frank shit for a year after, it was so bad.

That's sort of how I feel today.

Shootings can't happen at schools, guns aren't allowed there.

Re: Grissom
He played the detective. Bryan Cox played Lecter.

I don't know anything about Uwe Boll, but I have heard a little about Uwe Blab, who played center at Indiana in the 90s, I think. He always seemed like a nice guy, and I wondered where he might have come up with this.

This Boll guy sounds like a douchebag and the movie looks like tripe. No thanks.

Ok so I watched the trailer.

What's the point, exactly? Does the "protagonist" find redemption? Or is this just hey let's make a movie where a guy kills a bunch of people, the end?

Seriously, it looks completely asinine.

And the "have you ever considered it?" tagline is pretty irresponsible, at best.

To all of you who are concerned that this might inspire someone to carry out the rampage seen in the film, just please be quiet. The L.A. 1997 thing has been shown so many times. We're still hearing about Columbine and showing footage on TV. And school shooting have been happening long before movies, tv, and video games were ubiquitous. We see violence in movies all the time. Anyone inclined to engage in this sort of behavior could be pushed over the edge by anything. This film in nothing to worry about. Also, anyone that would actually do this L.A. bank robbery style would have to be extremely dedicated. They aren't gonna see this and think, "Ya know, I never knew what I was going to do with that arsenal and all that body armor I have stockpiled. Perhaps I should do what happens in this movie."

You see this shit on the news.

I think it's worrisome that a German man who makes light of the Holocaust is making a living creating hyper-violent films that portray Americans as gun crazy killers lacking empathy.

Posted by: J Stride at October 1, 2009 10:39 AM

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with this quaint American saying: "NIMBY." It stands for Not In My Back Yard. We lack empathy and we have guns.

Even still Dustin, it's a Uwe Boll movie. How many virgin sacrifices to the Gods of Not Sucking do you think have to be made for any film of his to be at least decent?

I would rather watch the "Human Centipede" than this.

Pissant the premise of the film is about a young man channeling his anger and aggression into homicidal actions. It's not geared towards escapism, it's more in line with a recruitment video as implied by its title "Have you ever considered it?" If you still don't find an issue with the homicidal encouragement Uwe Boll is creating with this film, I suggest you read a little about Robert Hawkins and the killing spree he went on last year in my hometown.

Its got Brendan Fletcher...he plays a good crazy guy.

Boll kind of makes me not want to see it. *sigh*

I like horror movies. But something about this really, really bothers me. Maybe it's the "isn't this BITCHIN'?!" vibe about the trailer, like mowing innocent people down should be viewed with glee instead of terror. Besides, if the dude wants to lower the population of the planet, shooting up a single town will have zero impact. That dude in "12 Monkeys", he knew how to do it right.

Or support the Zero Population Growth fund, or Planned Parenthood, or something. I think I agree with J Stride up there. I won't be seeing this movie.

And don't say you do care Pissant because you've managed to work yourself into a tizzy defending UWE BOLL! Read that sentence twice before you respond.

No thanks, I only need to read that sentence once. Use all the exclamation points and capitalization you want, but not once did I mention Uwe Boll. I never defended anything he said or did. I'm simply decrying the concrete connection some people are making here to people watching violence and acting it out. It's the same bullshit people brought up about Marilyn Manson and violent video games around the time of Columbine. All of these acts of violence boil down to isolated incidents involving people who have serious problems.

I doubt Uwe Boll will take the time from random explosions and graphic headshots to show the agony experienced by the family and friends of the victims.

Glad you could glean that from the trailer.

And how was it that a 19 year old boy believes they he is going to be famous from shooting several patrons at a mall? By having news reports, made for TV movies, and feature length films about his exploits. So yeah, I kind of believe the premise does matters.

What? I'm well aware that it is shown, ad nauseum, in the news, but how many feature length films have shown this? How many feature length films were made before Kent State? Everyone knows what guns are, and everyone has violent fantasies from time to time. The only people that act them out are people how are very disturbed. The amount of influence, if any, films like these have on people like that is insignificant.

True, one cannot critique a film that has not been released, but you can however compare it to his past films, namely 'Postal.' Boll has a tendency to use graphic violence for no other purpose then to recreate a head exploding, or person being beaten to death. If there was a hidden message satirizing America's love of violence in that film, it was lost in the gunfire.

You seem to think I'm coming from a Tipper Gore/Dr. Phil stance where I believe exposure to sexuality or violence influences children. As a fan of Prince and Grand Theft Auto that's far from the truth. My gripe with viewing this trailer as its own entity is that it strips any humanity and repercussions from these actions. Its two minutes of a misdirected kid channeling his angst into acts of horrific violence.

I believe that violence feeds violence, plain and simple. I can't fault a studio for making something that doesn't contain a positive message, but I can feel weary when it's selling violence and bloodshed for the sake of it. That means, much like the Saw franchise, there is a market out there of people out to see blood, guts, and misery. I realize these acts have existed long before television, but it’s when it's attached to an angst young man who feels like an outsider and chooses this course of action, that I am concerned about those waiting in line on opening weekend.

It's when this type of violence is not only accepted as common place, but cheered on that worries me, especially when applied to innocent victims. Much like public executions or torture devises from the 12th century, I believe we've come too far to digress back to this type of behavior.

Oh, and before I get the hate...
JStride, I haven't read your last entry before posting mine (and you mentioning SAW as well made me think I might be psychic after all... ah, just an idle wish of mine) and I do agree with what you say.
BUT it's still just a movie. AND a movie not even in the cinemas. AND a movie not even in the cinemas made by Uwe Boll.
And we should actually worry more about children dying in Africa and Chinese farmers being slaughtered by their own government than people lining up on the box office.

I feel a little uncomfortable saying this, but...that looks good. I mean, it looks horrible, but in a good way. It looks like a movie I'd be interested in watching. Like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

J. Stride writes, " I suggest you read a little about Robert Hawkins and the killing spree he went on last year in my hometown."

No one feels bad for you. You are not alone in your knowledge. You are not unique in your understanding of real violence. Every town in America suffers killing sprees.

In my hometown a man came in to the back of a restaurant, shot the chef with a shotgun and then scalped him. He made it halfway through PA before he was caught.

In New York, the week after I moved there, my downstairs neighbor was stabbed to death in the doorway of my tri-plex. He was robbed and the suspects were never caught.

It happens every day. In every city. In every state. Everywhere.

You write your words like you are unique in your tragic experience. You are not.

I have no interest in seeing this, and it has little to do with it being a Uwe Boll picture.

I feel like a film of this nature can only be successful in truly capable hands. And even then, there's a fine line between being a thought-provoking film, and being purely crass exploitation.

How about it's stupid and it's unhealthy and it sucks. I'm really tired of all the whiny negativity in our culture. Start eating some good foods, get some sunshine, and start fucking each other.

By the way, superasente, the trailer presents the movie as a documentary.
Take from that what you will.

Here is one nightmare I have no interest in taking a glass bottom boat tour of. Especially after reading three magic words: "Uwe", "Boll" and "fun". A "fun" killing spree. Jesopus wept.

Uwe Boll is actually a smart, thoughtful guy. I'm not saying that comes across in his movies, but I edited a show that interviewed him one time and I was impressed with how much he'd thought out the movie industry and the way the medium works.