The next Ed Wood
I consider myself a cinephile and would never compare Ed Wood with a filmmaker of our time if I hadn’t come across the most peculiar persona – Uwe Boll – and his latest film called Postal.
Now I was actually happy to hear that Uwe Boll was quiting making high-profile movies a few months back and was even one of the people that signed the online petition to make him stop making movies.
Who can blame me? I hated how he salvaged the game licenses to make his movies and wrecked one game franchise after the other. How can I ever go back to playing “Alone in the Dark” without remembering his stupid version of the story?
But all this started to change after I saw his latest movie release:
At first I thought to myself “This guy will never stop, will he?”. But almost at the same time, the images of such surrealism brought me to mind Ed Wood’s work (anyone recalls his aliens and vampires mash-up?). I’m not yet ready to “crown” Uwe Boll as a phenomenon of same magnitude as Ed Wood is today but I’ll be looking into his future work with this point of view from now on.
If I could dare a comparison between the two, I’d say that:
- both were focused on low budget special effects to excite people
- that “different” element they wanted to bring to cinema was simply awkwardness
- a quality storyline was beyond them
Actually, I think you can do the comparison effortlessly as Uwe seems to be walking on his predecessors footsteps.
Can he be so persistent against what everyone says as to becoming the next big thing in cult cinema? Will he continue to release movies so bad you can only appreciate them for the craft of making them so bad?
I must admit this sounds intriguing and I can only hope my prediction comes true. Uwe Boll, you’ve made a fan out of me 
