Uwe Boll, the infamous director behind many terrible video game movies including Far Cry, Postal and Alone in the Dark, has called it quits.
He’ll no longer be making any more movies because he believes that the market for moviemaking is dead.
“The market is dead. You don’t make any money anymore on movies because the DVD and Blu Ray market worldwide has dropped 80% in the last three years. That is the real reason; I just cannot afford to make movies,” he told Metro.
Boll talks about how the business is no longer a profitable one to be in, and that it is no longer possible for him to make his low-budget action films these days. He doesn’t mention the German tax loophole he used to fund these films, however.
“I never had people giving me money. I’ve been using my money since 2005 and if I hadn’t made the stupid video game based movies I would never have amalgamated the capital so I could say, ‘Let’s make the Darfur movie.’ I don’t need a Ferrari, I don’t need a yacht. I invested in my own movies and I lost money.”
He defends a lot of the work he made, saying that they deserved a lot more positive attention than they received.
“Now when I don’t make any more movies, maybe [critics will] find the time to actually watch the movies, starting with Postal in 2005, the movies of the last ten years,” he said.
“They will see they were a lot of very interesting movies and a lot of movies that I think made sense and said a point about things. They deserve to be discussed bigger than they were.”
I hate to break it to you, Boll, but some of us have seen your movies and they were awful.