Except, now we've been too hard on him.
From : http://www.postal-the-movie.com/index.htm
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To all of you writing now about me and the fact that POSTAL is not getting screens.its okay ..its fun kicking a guy nonstop who is on the ground
you are all not getting it that i'm the guy who made it against the big hollywood system and you are all only busy to destroy me and finish me up
and then you YOU WON WHAT ? the attention of the studios, michael bay .. ?????
if you damage me you feel closer to Hollywood ? what is your game plan?you want only movies like JUMPER , SPEED RACER , WHAT HAPPENDS IN VEGAS ...? then keep going and your dreams will be fullfilled. POSTAL makes some very important points ..but you dont wanna see that .... : that Bush used the SEPTEMBER 11 to start a war against a country what had nothing to do with Bin Laden etc.... but this all doesnt matter because you are all busy to THINK that INDIANA JONES or NARNIA are important movies ... but in real they are empty shells of an industry what wants to make money and what wants to keep you looking "escape movies" with nothing in it. in between they are putting some CONTROVERSIAL movies to show that they can do also IMPORTANT movies ...but also this movies are not really critical....they only supporting the system and not showing the big picture. and POSTAL shows the BIG PICTURE ...it nails the absurd situation with all the stupid religions, races and nations we are living in. POSTAL is not accepting bullshit politics. POSTAL has not the opinion that Bush made mistakes - POSTAL has the opinion that it is a scandal that BUSH is not in jail. What happened in America in the last 7 years is the biggest joke since Columbus stepped on that land.
but instead of seeing the courage i had in doing that movie against everybody who tried to stop me - you are sitting on your desks and you are working on stories about me ....and my image as the worst director on earth...and you fullfill what your editor wants from you in regards of uwe boll ...or you fullfill what you think makes you a cooler guy in the internet ...and you are not getting it that you are only interested in movies like IRON MAN or HULK or KUNG FU PANDA or the MUMMY 3 because the studios spending 60 mio. $ in advertising to make you interested in NON INTERESTING movies. how many times you wanna keep going in movies only because the TRAILER was so cool and the CGI was so great ?
thanks for reading this
Uwe Boll
Postal managed to snag all of FOUR screens in the entire United States for it's theatrical release
It's certainly paid off; the last I heard $500 million in revenue was just around the corner, if not already surpassed.
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Maradon! thought about the meaning of life:
Just remember: If you oppose the Iraq war, you are siding with Uwe Boll.
If only I had known this five years ago.
It's funny, though not nearly as full of "important points" as he makes it out to be. It's a heavy-handed, crude and offensive satire, so if that's what you want to see, then it's excellent. It's no surprise it got so few screens in the USA, considering America and its frenzy of anti-terrorist zeal following 9-11 is the butt of many of the movie's jokes. 
But then, it also mocks arabs, jews, whites, policemen, minorities, etc. A pure thrash comedy.
Uwe Boll, however, does take himself way too seriously. Nina fucked around with this message on 05-20-2008 at 07:04 PM.
Well, besides stop loss, rendition, lions for lambs, and fahrenheit 9-11, just off the top of my head
It's got nothing to do with the fact that Boll's movies are big corn filled turds, no, I'm quite certain it's the anti-american content.
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Maradon! had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I celebrate this idiotic man's suffering.
I believe that I've mentioned my personal policy of not deriving personal satisfaction at the misfortune of others, no matter how personally or professionally loathsome I may find them.
But in this case, I'm gonna give myself a mulligan just so I can roll around in the enjoyment of listening to his whiny, petulant self-pity.
Aaaaaah, that felt good.
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Skaw had this to say about Duck Tales:
The fact that he wanted to put Postal up against Indiana Jones and believed he'd crush it is signs that he's gone over the deep end, rather than just being a retard like he normally is.
He was below the deep end ages ago, when he stated proudly and publicly that he was the only genius in the business. Which, not counting his direct statements against Michael Bay and Eli Roth, means he considers himself above Spielberg, Lucas, Tarantino, Kubrick, Zemeckis, the Coen Brothers... Little things like 'box office success' and 'critical acclaim' don't factor into it.
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and you are not getting it that you are only interested in movies like IRON MAN or HULK or KUNG FU PANDA or the MUMMY 3 because the studios spending 60 mio. $ in advertising to make you interested in NON INTERESTING movies.
Yes. Robert Downey Jr's performace had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I enjoyed Iron Man. I am so glad that Uwe Boll is around to show me the error of my ways! 
Has anybody out there ever thought "hm man, this brand of string cheese tastes better, but the other brand had such a cool commercial..." Maradon! fucked around with this message on 05-21-2008 at 12:33 AM.
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Maradon! probably says this to all the girls:
Has anybody out there ever thought "hm man, this brand of string cheese tastes better, but the other brand had such a cool commercial..."
I don't think that's the way advertising is supposed to work. It's supposed to be "hm man, this brand of string cheese is pretty good, but I wonder if that other brand I've been hearing about is any better?"
It's more about getting your product out there. People who don't know you exist won't use your stuff.
This wasn't a conscious decision. It was something I realized after I'd been using their product for a long time. Taeldian fucked around with this message on 05-21-2008 at 02:27 AM.
Nothing else compares to those two.
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Vorago wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Oh wow, hit up google out of curiosity...Postal managed to snag all of FOUR screens in the entire United States for it's theatrical release
This sets up quite the conundrum for us. Are there four theater owners THAT fucking stupid in the whole country? Or if it's just one theater owner, how did someone that stupid get control of four screens?
Yes indeed, quite the poser.
If there was a discount movie theater which showed the exact same movies but had hand-drawn/crayon-colored posters and ads around; I'd probably go to that one.
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Maradon! had this to say about Pirotess:
Where do people get this idea that advertising can hypnotize people into buying products that they don't really want?Has anybody out there ever thought "hm man, this brand of string cheese tastes better, but the other brand had such a cool commercial..."
Advertisement usually works via recognition. If confronted with two products of the same type, consumers most likely go for the one they have heard about.
Quoting myself from a 18 months old thread:
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Tarquinn:
Creating the urge to own a product is just one of the functions of advertisements, the other, and perhaps more important one is to put the product into peoples' minds, that they are aware of it if they were not before, or to remind them of the product.For example, people going to a supermarket to buy butter. If they don't have a certain brand in mind, they will most likely go for the one they have heard about before.
Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 05-21-2008 at 12:11 PM.
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Rodent King had this to say about Robocop:
I use the Target Brand Mouthwash because it was $1 cheaper, next to Listerine on the rack and said: "Compare to Freshburst Listerine"If there was a discount movie theater which showed the exact same movies but had hand-drawn/crayon-colored posters and ads around; I'd probably go to that one.
You may be missing the point. I'm not saying that advertising makes a product better; I'm saying advertising works better than a lot of people like to think.
When I buy Listerine, I feel like I'm buying "the good stuff" in spite of the fact that I should probably know better. I've never seen anything showing that Listerine outperforms any other brand in any other way, but the commercials over the years have driven the idea that Listerine is the best into my mind.
A theater using home-made advertisements (assuming this were a real possibility, and I'm pretty sure it isn't) would be a shithole. Even if it were just as good or better than the standard theater, it would still be considered a shithole by just about everyone whether or not it was true.
Advertising is effective not only because it makes you aware of products, but also because it portrays the product as top-quality.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Taeldian booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Advertising is effective not only because it makes you aware of products, but also because it portrays the product as top-quality.
This is absolutely true, however it assumes that the consumer completely lacks any other knowledge of the product. If all other things are equal, then yes a consumer will often buy the product with the most convincing advertising.
It's rarely the case that the consumer completely lacks any other knowledge of the product, though. In the hierarchy of consideration, personal experience and word of mouth recommendation are almost always foremost. Advertising can get a consumer to buy a product once, but personal experience builds brand loyalty, it leads to people buying products countless times.
In the case of movies, the advertising is more a free sample than a commercial, which in itself makes Boll's statement stupid.
The point of all this is that the consumer is ultimately in total control of what they consume, and no amount of advertising will change that for any worthwhile amount of time. Advertising is only very effective if it's for a quality product. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 05-21-2008 at 04:37 PM.
quote:Fair enough.
Maradon!'s fortune cookie read:
This is absolutely true, however it assumes that the consumer completely lacks any other knowledge of the product. If all other things are equal, then yes a consumer will often buy the product with the most convincing advertising.It's rarely the case that the consumer completely lacks any other knowledge of the product, though. In the hierarchy of consideration, personal experience and word of mouth recommendation are almost always foremost. Advertising can get a consumer to buy a product once, but personal experience builds brand loyalty, it leads to people buying products countless times.
In the case of movies, the advertising is more a free sample than a commercial, which in itself makes Boll's statement stupid.
The point of all this is that the consumer is ultimately in total control of what they consume, and no amount of advertising will change that for any worthwhile amount of time. Advertising is only very effective if it's for a quality product.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Taeldian booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Fair enough.
Then how the hell do you explain-
oh wait
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Rodent King Model 2000 was programmed to say:
I use the Target Brand Mouthwash because it was $1 cheaper, next to Listerine on the rack and said: "Compare to Freshburst Listerine"If there was a discount movie theater which showed the exact same movies but had hand-drawn/crayon-colored posters and ads around; I'd probably go to that one.
I will probably always buy the generic/store brand because, if you compare the active ingredients, they're the same.
EXACTLY THE SAME.
Same thing with generic medication.
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Maradon! attempted to be funny by writing:
Where do people get this idea that advertising can hypnotize people into buying products that they don't really want?Has anybody out there ever thought "hm man, this brand of string cheese tastes better, but the other brand had such a cool commercial..."
In regards to the motion picture industry, a large advertising blitz used to be good for buying a good opening weekend/week for even a mediocre movie, usually enough to pay for the advertising blitz. But, And I think it was posted here while back, With the advent of Cell phones that could Txt and have web connectivity, this strategy hasn't worked as well since if the movie totally bites, many people can post or message this fact while still in the movie. So rather than have 1-2 days for the word of mouth to get out, it's a matter of hours.
Peter fucked around with this message on 05-22-2008 at 07:52 AM.
Though I think the greatest advertising success of late has been all this Angus beef malarkey, The council is really reaping the benefit from it, since if you took the same cut and grade of beef from a herford and an angus, unless you were told, you wouldn't notice any difference in taste.
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Nobody really understood why Gadani wrote:
I will probably always buy the generic/store brand because, if you compare the active ingredients, they're the same.EXACTLY THE SAME.
Same thing with generic medication.
Unfortunatly in the case of medication it's whats not the active ingredient that sometimes makes the brand name more important. This is not always the case but in some cases the additional ingredients put into a medication can affect the rate and manner of absorbtion causing the brand name to work better or more effeciently than the generic. Also I do know cases of people who are allergic to a non-active ingredient in the generic that doesn't exist in the brand name.
However I will agree that in almost all cases the generic is just as good as the brand name. Well aside from some foods where the brand name just plain tastes better.
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Taylen had this to say about Knight Rider:
Unfortunatly in the case of medication it's whats not the active ingredient that sometimes makes the brand name more important.
Right, which is why I said "active ingredient" and why we still keep brand name medication in stock 
