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One of the best things to come out of the internet in recent years is crowd funding. Yes it's led to some terrible products and terrible let downs, often promoted by terrible people, but more often than not it lets the public decide what's worthy of being made. And that's exactly what's happened in the case of filmmaker Uwe Boll, who has repeatedly released movies over the years that many have felt tarnished the properties they are based on. Fortunately for those people then, a trio of crowd funding failures has left him despondent, so much so that he's quitting the industry.
In his defence, that 360 degree camera trick in House of the Dead was kind of cool
This comes as his current crowd funding project, Rampage 3, enters its final few days on Kickstarter, after it previously failed to reach even 10 per cent of its target on IndieGoGo. Clearly frustrated by the lack of support for his filmmaking ideas, Boll updated the campaign with a video entitled “f*** you all,” where he explained that he was done with crowd funding as it was a waste of time.
The video is very much NSFW due to language used. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT1J65KHX8E']
In the video, Boll describes Kickstarter as “absurd,” suggesting that it was merely people trying to make a quick buck by offering to promote him in exchange for 10 per cent of what's made. That is likely a legitimate frustration, as there are certainly many people looking to scam content creators as much as consumers when it comes to crowd funding.
However Boll does not have a history of strong fan support for his movies. Indeed films like Alone in the Dark and Blood Rayne are considered some of the worst ever made, regardless of their customer perceived butchering of the video games they were based on.
Despite this, the man is worth around $10 million, so as he puts it, he has enough money to go and play golf until he dies. But then again, he does close out another video by saying “kill the rich.”
NB. This video is even more explosive. NSFW. We're not kidding. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQJwEAqzFs4′]
And while he does that, Hollywood will continue to laugh at us. Apparently.
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KitGuru Says: It's funny that someone who repeatedly exploited German film subsidies to make movies profitable despite their horrific reviews and turnout, considers the rest of Hollywood shysters.
How this guy amassed a 10 million fortune is beyond me, I bought Blood Rayne from a bargain bin years ago and my poor brain still hasn’t fully recovered.
If I see his name attached to a project – anywhere – I run. Far, far away.
He abuses a law that gives him % of his investments in movies so whenever he spends money to make a movie, he will recoup loses while also get income from the movie. These tax returns are whats killing the economy since that capital goes straight in his pockets, not the movie company.
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a german concerned about genocide. my, how times have changed.
Of course you can make that sort of money for just a few hours a week. Can’t really understand why we don’t all just do that …..OH WAIT
And they say the internet is a terrible place that can do nothing positive for society. Proof right here how wrong that is.
Did you not read the article? Not everyone can scam kickstarter for quick cash!
I was going to chime in, but you’ve already summed it up as well as can be said.
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This man deserves nothing short of a solid roundhouse kick, right in the nutsack. Fuck us all? He’s the one destroying brands, one after another, with terrible (that’s saying it mildly) movie adaptions. The only reason he can continue to make movies, is due to that loophole in the german movie law. What a self-absorbed arrogant petty excuse for a human being. He will only be remembered for making the worst movies in history, and when the day comes and he is dethroned by another smug hypocrite, he will be forgotten.