Uwe Boll Trashtalks Malick’s TREE OF LIFE, Lars Von Trier And Michael Bay.. And Boll Kinda Makes Sense

To many, Uwe Boll (Bloodrayne, Dungeon Siege, Postal) is considered the worst director alive. He once claimed to be a better filmmaker than Michael Bay and even invited Bay to a boxing match with him, an invitation which Bay did not take seriously of course. But in his latest interviews, I’m startin’ to think Boll may make some sense in his arguments. Granted he still has a cocky attitude of presenting his argument but he tells it like it is.
Via The Playlist, Boll took the time to chat with ScreenJunkies and for some reason the topic of Terrence Malick‘s THE TREE OF LIFE came up. Apparently Boll watched the film, I didn’t even know Malick’s movies were Boll’s cup of tea but perhaps Boll was in theaters just to see what the buzz was about and the following is his brief review, if you will..

“I think ‘Tree of Life’ is a piece of shit. Totally, and I think Sean Penn is ridiculous in it, like walking around in the elevator. It’s nothing. This is the thing. It’s so overrated because it’s Terrence Malick.”

“You have to tell a story that you get a connection to something. When he starts doing after 25 minutes a National Geographic break where you see volcanoes and planets coming together. Then his dinosaur episode with ‘Jurassic Park.’ You think well, what’s going on with him? What is wrong with wrong with the guy? I was not engaged to keep watching. If I would have known how this ends, I would have walked out. But I watched the whole movie because I wanted to see how it ends also. The end was I think the most pathetic thing, when they’re all at the beach hugging each other. It was fucking disastrous. It was a complete disaster and it shows also that a lot of stars have no taste. Like Sean Penn, Brad Pitt have no taste what a good movie is. They trusted the director but you have to have your own brain.”

“You cannot tell me you were not bored to death while you watched ‘The Tree of Life.’ ”

That cracked me up! I don’t completely agree with Boll but I can understand why or or certain folks would find Malick’s movies boring. Boll probably just wanted to see Pitt and Penn beating each other up and a dinosaur carnally killing and eating another fellow dinosaur.
Boll also took the time to comment on Lars Von Trier who caused a stir this past summer with his Nazi comment at Cannes ’11..But Boll was mostly attacking Trier’s films..

“I like ‘Breaking the Waves,’ ”
“After that was all crap. The thing is he gets all the Hollywood stars, ‘Oh, I want to work with him,’ and they don’t know what kind of retard he is.”

Trier a retard huh?! so.. what does that make Boll? A genius?
Boll chatted with Movieline and once again, he took aim at Michael Bay. And I gotta tell ya, after Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, I think Bay is no better than Boll is..But here, check out what Boll said about Bay this time..

“Look, I just don’t like the Michael Bay movies and I’m sure I won’t like the new ‘Transformers’ movie,”
“I think there is a very combative, patriotic thing behind the Michael Bay movies which is what I hated in ‘Pearl Harbor’ and other movies like this. It’s just, for me, over the top… The thing is, in Bay’s movies, it comes across as [the U.S.A.] is always right. As a European, you get sensitive. You get like, ‘No, you’re not always right. You were wrong with the Iraq war. You were wrong in Afghanistan. You are wrong now bombing Libya. It’s just wrong.’ In Syria, the guy killed everybody and we do nothing. In Libya, Qaddafi killed 20 people in the last 10 years and we’re bombing him. It’s absurd.”

Wow! I’d hate to say this but for once I kinda agree with Boll.. not all of his point but agree with some of them at least..
But then again, I think Boll is just jealous.. because he makes sh*tty movies that don’t make much money or aren’t viewed by many while Bay makes sh*tty movies that make him get richer and richer each time.