Is Uwe Boll the Ed Wood of our times?

[Gabriel Knight]

What the title says.

Personally, I don't think Ed Wood was that bad. I mean, I've seen stinkers made with millions of dollars that are much worse that the crap good ol' Ed did. In fact, Uwe Boll makes movies like IN THE NAME OF THE KING with 60 millions, and they're nothing but pain. BRIDE OF THE MONSTER is actually an ok movie, mainly thanks to Bela and his amazing monologues, and had almost no budget.
I think Uwe Boll is more like Ed Wood because of the reputation. A lot of his movies are in the bottom end of IMDb, and if you watch them you can see why. Hell, there's even one reviewed on this very same site by Andrew, and it has a single slime.

It's funny how the bad name of that guy isn't just limited to the Internet crowd, which quickly follows every trend that comes out - Wood's included. Since Boll is very fast to pick up a video game franchise to rape with his adaptations, he contacted Blizzard during the making of WARCRAFT and their response was "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you... especially not to you". Even they knew he's terrible.

So what do you think? Is he going to be remembered like the Ed Wood of our times, and his awful, awful movies be celebrated with love for years to come, or will he be swallowed by the sands of time?

[WingedSerpent]

I'd say if anything-he'll be considered a real life Max Bialystock

[Trevor]

Uncle Uwe made two movies in South Africa: 1968 Tunnel Rats (a Vietnam war film) and the emotionally devastating Darfur / Attack On Darfur: both are well worth seeing but Darfur is very violent and upsetting.

[Gabriel Knight]

I'd say if anything-he'll be considered a real life Max Bialystock

That one is on my to-watch list!

[claws]

Uncle Uwe made two movies in South Africa: 1968 Tunnel Rats (a Vietnam war film) and the emotionally devastating Darfur / Attack On Darfur: both are well worth seeing but Darfur is very violent and upsetting.

Yeah but Boll will never be remembered for those. It's House of the Dead and his boxing antics people will always remember.

[Trevor]

Uncle Uwe made two movies in South Africa: 1968 Tunnel Rats (a Vietnam war film) and the emotionally devastating Darfur / Attack On Darfur: both are well worth seeing but Darfur is very violent and upsetting.

Yeah but Boll will never be remembered for those. It's House of the Dead and his boxing antics people will always remember.

The sad thing is, good though Darfur and Tunnel Rats were and are, they went straight to DVD, not to cinemas. 

[bob]

I don't really think it's fair to compare them because as far as I know Uwe Boll had a reasonable budget for all of his films and Ed Wood only had 1 decent sized budget for everything he directed, that being Bride of the Monster.

I consider Bride of the Monster to be a good movie. I think Plan 9 and Glen or Glenda are hilariously bad.

Everything I've seen by Uwe Boll has been junk: Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Blood Rayne and Postal.

[Trevor]

Darfur / Attack On Darfur is on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tmYOSCKI4

Just a warning before you click: definitely NSFW and not suitable for anyone who is easily upset. I couldn't sleep or eat after seeing it in 2010.

[RCMerchant]

Wood had Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson and Vampira.

I know Verne Troyer was in POSTAL...he told me about it in rehab. He was a nice man and had a good heart.  I still haven't watched it.

[chainsaw midget]

Ed seemed to have genuine passion for what he did.  Uwe not so much.

[RCMerchant]

I just watched ATTACK ON DARFUR- dam. How did Uwe make that?  
That's actually a terrifying movie! I couldn't sit threw parts of it without cringing or turning my head. It's so f**ked up. Some parts even made me want to cry! Dam.  
It's...good. But not in a fun way.

[Gabriel Knight]

Just to clarify: I'm not comparing them, I know they're nothing alike, mainly in their passion about making movies and the resources they had at their disposal. What I'm trying to see is if Boll will achieve the "recognition", and become the same cult phenomena. Who knows, maybe in ten years he'll end up doing porn too!

I think that, if he manages to snatch a somewhat popular actor and put him in a couple of his movies, and then that actor dies, a new Ed Wood will be born. Let's be honest here: barely anybody would've known Ed today if it wasn't for the repetition of the Internet about "worst movies ever made" and stuff; perhaps Bela Lugosi fans and b-movie nerds like us, but that's about it.
Even ED WOOD by Tim Burton, regardless of its quality, is an extremely unknown movie, you will barely see it mentioned, including situations in which people talk about the director himself. In fact, I never heard of it until I saw a video made by James Rolfe.

I can imagine this very same conversation when Ed Wood was alive and making movies. People coming out of the teathers thinking that nobody would ever remember the garbage they just saw, and that, in the future, the quality of the films will only improve, especially when they start to have bigger budgets... 

[RCMerchant]

Just to clarify: I'm not comparing them, I know they're nothing alike, mainly in their passion about making movies and the resources they had at their disposal. What I'm trying to see is if Boll will achieve the "recognition", and become the same cult phenomena. Who knows, maybe in ten years he'll end up doing porn too!

I think that, if he manages to snatch a somewhat popular actor and put him in a couple of his movies, and then that actor dies, a new Ed Wood will be born. Let's be honest here: barely anybody would've known Ed today if it wasn't for the repetition of the Internet about "worst movies ever made" and stuff; perhaps Bela Lugosi fans and b-movie nerds like us, but that's about it.
Even ED WOOD by Tim Burton, regardless of its quality, is an extremely unknown movie, you will barely see it mentioned, including situations in which people talk about the director himself. In fact, I never heard of it until I saw a video made by James Rolfe.

I can imagine this very same conversation when Ed Wood was alive and making movies. People coming out of the teathers thinking that nobody would ever remember the garbage they just saw, and that, in the future, the quality of the films will only improve, especially when they start to have bigger budgets... 

I think ED WOOD (the movie) is  watched more than the actual films themselves.
That film is so far from the truth-ugh! 
Good performances-Landau is fantastic and earned his Oscar. It just ain't true!

[chainsaw midget]

barely anybody would've known Ed today if it wasn't for the repetition of the Internet about "worst movies ever made" and stuff;

Ed had that reputation way before the internet started.  I can even remember back in the 80s seeing a PLAN 9 VHS box that referred to it as the worst movie ever made. 

[RCMerchant]

barely anybody would've known Ed today if it wasn't for the repetition of the Internet about "worst movies ever made" and stuff;

Ed had that reputation way before the internet started.  I can even remember back in the 80s seeing a PLAN 9 VHS box that referred to it as the worst movie ever made.  

Ed was known as a crazy motherf**ker back in 1953! He was considered bad back when he started.  Famous Monsters of Filmland  magazine kept his movies alive because Forry  Ackerman and Ed hung out together. Not Long. Ed was a drunk, and Forry didn't drink.
Plus he dressed up like a girl! And didn't hide it. Kinda made folks think-"YIKES!". Maila Nurmi was a beatnik (aka hippie), and Bela was an old addict who needed friends- and a job. Tor was a big hearted guy, and one of Bela's best friends.