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Postal (2007)
One of my all-time favourite pastimes is making fun of bad movies with friends. And is there a better movie to do that to than one directed by Uwe Boll? Deciding to tackle another video game adaptation was probably not a very good idea, but this is Uwe Boll, a man with no actual talent and a man who doesn't even attempt to make a good film. Here, he barely tries to make a movie out of the admittedly stupidly enjoyable Postal video game, as a down on his luck loser is put into increasingly random- and offensive- situations, involving Osama Bin Laden, religious cults and Dave from NewsRadio's penis. Plus, hot chicks!
The biggest problem (among many notable others) I have with Uwe Boll and his films is that there is 0 ambition in his work. In Postal, he seems to throw nudity, violence, random acts of offense and severe stupidity into a blender and barely even hope for the best. It'd be frustrating, that is if this film had potential. I can honestly say that Postal is one of the stupidest movies ever made and a bad idea to adapt in the first.
But. And this is a substantial but. I did enjoy parts of Postal. And I don't mean like a part here and a part there, I mean that there was a good 20 minutes or so in the middle, and a nice 10 near the end. That's 30 minutes of good stuff (a third of the film's 90 minute running time) and for an Uwe Boll film, that's pretty ******* ok. Most scenes push the crude humor to the extreme, but in some cases, it actually works.
And despite being a completely stupid and unambitious film overall, I can see a certain charm and appeal in parts, especially in the over the top situations and performances, that if I was under the influence of marijuana, I would probably find it to be hilarious. And stoned or not, in my juvenile state of mind, offering Verne Troyer to the rape of 1000 monkeys is brilliant!
I'm not saying its a good film at all, but it is Uwe Boll's best film and I wouldn't be surprised if it developed into a bit of a stoner cult classic over the years.
One of my all-time favourite pastimes is making fun of bad movies with friends. And is there a better movie to do that to than one directed by Uwe Boll? Deciding to tackle another video game adaptation was probably not a very good idea, but this is Uwe Boll, a man with no actual talent and a man who doesn't even attempt to make a good film. Here, he barely tries to make a movie out of the admittedly stupidly enjoyable Postal video game, as a down on his luck loser is put into increasingly random- and offensive- situations, involving Osama Bin Laden, religious cults and Dave from NewsRadio's penis. Plus, hot chicks!
The biggest problem (among many notable others) I have with Uwe Boll and his films is that there is 0 ambition in his work. In Postal, he seems to throw nudity, violence, random acts of offense and severe stupidity into a blender and barely even hope for the best. It'd be frustrating, that is if this film had potential. I can honestly say that Postal is one of the stupidest movies ever made and a bad idea to adapt in the first.
But. And this is a substantial but. I did enjoy parts of Postal. And I don't mean like a part here and a part there, I mean that there was a good 20 minutes or so in the middle, and a nice 10 near the end. That's 30 minutes of good stuff (a third of the film's 90 minute running time) and for an Uwe Boll film, that's pretty ******* ok. Most scenes push the crude humor to the extreme, but in some cases, it actually works.
And despite being a completely stupid and unambitious film overall, I can see a certain charm and appeal in parts, especially in the over the top situations and performances, that if I was under the influence of marijuana, I would probably find it to be hilarious. And stoned or not, in my juvenile state of mind, offering Verne Troyer to the rape of 1000 monkeys is brilliant!
I'm not saying its a good film at all, but it is Uwe Boll's best film and I wouldn't be surprised if it developed into a bit of a stoner cult classic over the years.