Lakeland Mirror

Issue date: 1/31/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment

U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. - It's impossible to say goodbye to someone when they don't go away, so it came as a relief to many in the movie-going community this month when we finally bid farewell to Uwe Boll - at least, for now.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Mr. Boll's name, perhaps you've heard of his work. Boll directed "Alone in the Dark," "BloodRayne," "House of the Dead" and 10 other affronts to film so far. Three of his films reside safely in the depths of IMDb.com's "Bottom 100 Films of All-Time" list, and most of the others aren't available widely enough to warrant consideration for the list. He even once got into a war of words with Wired Magazine reviewer Chris Kohler, who gave his film "Postal" a bad review.

At one point, Boll wrote (with his spelling errors intact): "His whole goal is to destroy my business. If he cannot see that scenes are genius in that movie--then there are 2 possibilities: he is dump and has no idea what movies are or he hates me and is disappointed about his own shitty career."

But there's no need to worry, because Boll has officially declared he is through with making big-budget movies after his latest film, "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," flopped miserably at the box office.

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