By now, I’m sure everyone has read about the petition to stop Uwe Boll from making more movies. I don’t know how long the thing has been around, but it got a huge boost over the weekend thanks to a FEARnet interview with Dr. Boll, in which he said it would take a million signatures to convince him to quit filmmaking. Various blogs picked up the story and thanks to support almost webwide, the number has gone up from 18,000 to more than 60,000 (it was apparently only 40,000 this morning). As New York’s Vulture blog points out, that is a whole lot more people than went to see Boll’s film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, which makes me sort of dubious and disappointed. If you’re not going to his movies anyway, why do you care if he keeps on making them? Personally, I would expect most blogs would favor him continuing his career. He gives us all something to write about, and on slow days like this that’s something to be thankful for.
Vulture also notes that while the petition could easily reach 1,000,000 signatures by the middle of this week, Boll is not going anywhere soon. Of course, even if he didn’t have a number of projects in the pipeline the guy is not really going to disappear just because people (either one or a million) ask him to. Why should he? He has as good a reason to keep making films as you have to try convincing him not to: he can. I wouldn’t stop blogging just because a million people who don’t even usually read me don’t want me to continue (in fact, I’d probably appreciate the traffic from everyone checking to see if I’m still here). Would you stop working at Starbucks because a million Dunkin Donuts customers petitioned for you to quit? We don’t have to like Uwe Boll’s films, but we also don’t have to worry about them. And presumably, Boll isn’t worried about your signatures, either.
So, I’m boycotting the Boll boycott. I might even go see Postal when it opens May 23, just to rub it in. Isn’t he supposed to be as good as Stanley Kubrick, anyway?
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