Trailer for Uwe Boll's Darfur movie debuts
- November 02, 2009 00:00 AM PST
Uwe Boll's new movie isn't about games. It's about the genocide in Darfur, and this time, his casting methods may draw controversy.
Earlier today, my cube neighbor and cult movie buff Patrick Shaw sent me an article from Cinematical about Uwe Boll's new movie, Darfur, the "trailer" for which can be seen above. I put trailer in quotes because I had a hard time believing Uwe Boll, director of lowly-regarded video-game-turned-movies like Postal, BloodRayne and House of the Dead, would take on a subject like genocide in his latest movie, Darfur. This had to be another movie, right? But then there's Billy Zane and Kristanna Loken, both former Boll-collaborators, and then I found an article about the movie on G4, so it probably could be true.
Then I read in the Cinematical article that Boll actually cast rape victims to re-enact rape scenes. Nobody would actually do something so insane, right? Then I watched a video of him beating up his critics and realized that could possibly be true, too.
Then I saw a comment on Cinematical and checked for myself... yep. At the 1:40 mark, the word "existence" is spelled wrong. In a professionally-edited trailer meant for consumption by thousands of viewers, nobody bothered to spell check the title cards? Really?
Then I read his email back-and-forth with Wired's Chris Kohler and realized that could probably be true too. So enjoy the trailer for Darfur, which is probably real, given the evidence.
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- Nov 02 2009 at 08:47:03:PM PST
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Everything that this guy does is calculated and for a reason... publicity. I'm shocked he didn't throw any white folk in there in black face makeup for good measure. I wouldn't be surprised if he purposely misspells words either. It got you talking about it.
At some point in his career don't be surprised if he actually makes a masterpiece of a movie, he's got to hit the bulls-eye at some point, right?
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Oh. My. God. I don't know whether to be appalled, enraged, laughing my ass off, or really, really confused. I think this sums it up:
Remember Scanners?
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ha! even at the end - "AN Uwe Boll film".
the guy's a rahTard (seen The hangover?).
sad.
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I'm genuinely sad and appalled that a legendary hack like Boll would get the funding to do a movie on an ongoing human rights disaster. I cant bring myself to watch this again but it looked like there were Arab actors I guess portraying the genocidal Janjaweed. This is hollywood (yes I know Boll is german) BS in fact the 'Arab' Janjaweed generally look 'African' to Western eyes and anyone who's taken a couple minutes to study Sudan knows this. What appeared to be journalists heroically picking up pistols and blowing away fighters with automatic rifles is more Hollywood BS. I dont even want to think about Boll, a wealthy westerner paying very poor people to reenact their own rapes. What a travesty-even compared to the Bloodrayne movies.
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I've always wondered who's worse for the video gaming community: this guy or Jack Thompson. I'd say it's a toss up.
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. . .
Oh wow, it's Uwe Boll again. Anyone else going to skip this when it comes out?
I am.
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Its a great concept but the only thing that turns me away is one thing, "Uwe Boll". Everything he does is crap. He adds too many lame talking parts that add no concept to the movie. The plots never move along and the movie turns out to be complete rubish from start to finish. I believe the only reason he did this movie because of everyone else who is using this same theme, such as 24 and if you think about it District 9(awesome movie!) This will turn out to be crap end of story
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I saw a screening of this film last week and i think it was Fantastic. Very gory, but real. The cast was incredible, David O'Hara did an amazing job, and Sammy Sheik was extremely powerful.
I don't care if it's Uwe who made it. Other major directors never took the initiative
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