As evidenced by Tim’s segue, when you’re talking about the most horrendous directors in contemporary cinema, it is impossible not to mention Uwe Boll. The German filmmaker has made a career out of making god-awful video game adaptations (a term that nowadays seems redundant anyway), and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
My first unfortunate experience with Mr. Boll was 2003’s "House of the Dead." As I’ve said before, I’ve seen some crappy movies, and even liked some of them, but I’ve never been so irritated, never felt so bombarded with silliness as I did when watching this film. From the nauseating fight scenes that scream "Hey look! We can do those cool ‘Matrix’ tricks, too!" to the barely stitched-together plot, it’s the only movie I can think of that actually angers me just with its existence.
He’s continued this trend with other video-game adaptations like 2005’s "Alone in the Dark" and 2006’s "Bloodrayne," a tragic film in that it featured actors like Sir Ben Kingsley ("Gandhi"), Michael Madsen ("Reservoir Dogs"), Billy Zane ("Titanic"), and, of course, Meat Loaf. It’s no surprise that this triad of gut-wrenchingly bad cinema has dug itself a permanent niche on the IMDb Bottom 100 Movies list.
But, see, it’s not only his films that make Boll a horrible director. He’s also made it painfully obvious (no pun intended) that he’s not quite the best at taking criticism, as in 2006, he challenged his most vocal of internet critics to fight him. Literally.
In addition to calling several of his critics "retards," the former boxer staged an event that saw him compete in actual boxing matches with five of his harshest critics, an event affectionately known as "Raging Boll." The bigger, more experienced Boll won all of his matches, setting his little German heart at ease, knowing he can beat the crap out of his internet critics. But fight or no fight, there’s no question that you’d be hard-pressed to find a worse director in the industry today than Uwe Boll.
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