"Max Schmeling" movie... directed by Uwe Boll

[KOQ24]

Originally Posted by TheGreatA

That's Henry Maske. Hopefully he is not as boring an actor as he was a boxer.

Maske is THAT boring.
I always fall asleep when he gives his "analysis" on ARD Boxing events.
They should've kept Ottke

[OneOneTwo]

Yea, Uwe Boll is a fucking terrible director. Like someone else said, he gets something like 50% or more of the money he spends making the movies back from the goverment or something. That added with the small amount of money he makes in theaters are usually just enough for him to cut even so he can keep making movies. I wish he would just go bankrupt and stop making movies, i really do.

[IMAF#1]

Not of fan of Uwe Boll, but I'll look into it and probably watch it. Be a good movie to watch to help my German hopefully.

[Kforcer]

Originally Posted by Producer1

I would if you properly understood what you're discussing. As has been pointed out, this is a German-language film funded with German money (that would be Euros these days), starring Germans and directed by a German telling the story of a German boxer who was a contender for Heavywieght Champion of the World.

And being a German-language film, I'd hardly call this "mainstream".

Now, somebody out there tell me in what way racism is involved in that.

If I made a movie with home funding about Les Darcy, would I be accused of racism for not making films about black foreigners?



Right, to use my previous logic: Raging Bull, a film starring an Italian-American, directed by another Italian-American about a third Italian-American...are we seeing a pattern here.

If you want a Sugar Ray biopic, e-mail Spike and ask him where he's been the last 20 years...Ali, directed by a white man, Hurricane, directed by a white man (from Canada)...



Hmm, maybe you should go here...

Joe and Max (2002) (TV)

But none of that really matters, not really, not when Uwe Boll is going to butcher the life of a former European Heavyweight Champion and contender to the World Championship...

If you thought Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich made bad movies, they ain't got nothin' on Uwe Boll. I mean, he makes Michael Winner's last dozen movies look classy...

Couldn't any other German director have got a hard-on for Max? ANY other German director?

...where did I accuse anyone of racism? You mentioned racism, not me. I never once said anything about racism.

One of the things I mentioned, which of course, is just speculation on my part, was that if Robinson and Louis, the greatest pound for pound and the greatest heavyweight respectively, were political radicals and black power-types, they'd have had a movie done by this point.

Relax, man.

[Sigh GunRanger]

I agree with Kforcer's assumption. People don't like boring types no matter how adored they are.

[jay98107]

This is bound to be the worst boxing movie of all time.

[JKD]

There was a great one a few years ago called Joe and Max. It was an HBO movie.

[a DIDA s]

Raging Bol

[the absurdist]

One of the things I mentioned, which of course, is just speculation on my part, was that if Robinson and Louis, the greatest pound for pound and the greatest heavyweight respectively, were political radicals and black power-types, they'd have had a movie done by this point.

In context of American cinema I suggest you watch America Beyond The Color Line With Henry Louis Gates Jr: Black Hollywood. Henry Gates interviews a movie producer how Hollywood makes a profit.

[Mumrik]

Boll is an absolutely horrible director (with a few turds in IMDB's bottom 100), so the natural reaction should be to forget everything about this movie right away.

The problem is though, that Boll, who usually rapes computer game and horror licenses, actually boxed when he was younger. On top of that he mentions that he has been thinking about this movie for 8 years...

It seems possible that this movie could end up being the exception to the rule regarding Uwe Boll movies. Who knows.