Darfur (2009)

[Trevor]

It is weird to write the name Uwe Boll in a "good movies" thread but I was at the South African premiere of his locally filmed Darfur last night. The film is horribly brutal, bloody, depressing ~ I cried bitterly at the end ~ but at the end, there is some hope.

Damn hard to believe that Uwe Boll could make a great film but he has done this. I told the producer Chris Roland that it had been a very long time since I cried in a cinema, that the Uwe Boll that made stuff like House Of The Dead was gone and that "Uncle" Uwe now had a new fan: me.

Please go see this if you can. 

[Joe the Destroyer]

Boll can be a good director when he wants to be.  I think that's why a lot of people hated him so much when he did those game-movies.  He wasn't trying as hard as he could or should have, and he was reaping full benefits from it.

Or so the story goes.   

[oxode]

I didn't see "Darfur" now but I will, after this thread. By the way, what makes me puke about Dr. Boll is not that he is not a bad director, but makes nonetheless movies he suold be blinded for. I saw "Postal" a while ago and kept banging my head on the table screaming: "Why dosen't this dork make his other movies like this one?" "Postal" is extremly funny, anarchistic, totaly political incorrect and proves that this guy must have a realy dark humor. He could be a B-movie icon.

[Neville]

I for one did enjoy "Tunnel Rats". It's not a masterpiece, but more like a small, focused film that Boll manages to keep under control. It shows hge is capable of far more than he usually settles for.

[Trevor]

I for one did enjoy "Tunnel Rats". It's not a masterpiece, but more like a small, focused film that Boll manages to keep under control. It shows hge is capable of far more than he usually settles for.

I believe that Tunnel Rats was also, like Darfur, made in South Africa. I will still have to see it too.