Postal Review

[CptStern]

I was the only person in the entire theater. There were literally three times more people working the showing than attending it. Moviegoing?that consummate group activity?had suddenly become something weirdly private. I was being treated/punished with a private showing, for my eyes only.

....t was utterly, utterly surreal being the only person in a 1500 seat theater watching a Uwe Boll movie. Watching such a tacky little bit of pop culture ephemera in a sacred cathedral of film was like a black velvet Elvis painting occupying an entire wall of the Louvre: it was a terrible waste of a beautiful space.

When I got up to use the bathroom halfway through the film, the guy working concession quipped ?Do you want me to stop it for you??

lol

I?ve gotta say though: I really didn?t hate the movie. I was anticipating an unwatchable insult; what I got was a strangely watchable insult. There was a hellzapoppin, anything-goes free-for-all element of the film that kind of snuck up on me. A C- might be a little generous side but if every hack filmmaker had the personality and persistence of a Uwe Boll the film world would be a much more entertaining place. Not a better place, necessarily, but definitely a more colorful and enjoyable one.

I had expected something far worse and he abashedly confessed ?The opening scene, you know, where the terrorists are arguing about the exact number of virgins they?ll receive in paradise, it?s almost, you know, kind of,? and then, measuring his words very carefully continued ?mildly amusing?. This seemed to surprise him tremendously. Heck, it surprised me as well. This strange interaction summed up the whole experience of seeing Postal: Boll may not have made a movie that was, you know, good, or clever, but he certainly provided an utterly singular cinematic experience

I'd see it just to say I've watched a Boll filmbut I'm not paying more than $5 to see it ..and the ip boll is working with kind of writes itself ..in a more capable hands I could see how Postal the film could be good


http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/i_paid_ten_dollars_to_see_postal

 

[Bad^Hat]

I'd pirate it if I didn't have a bandwidth limit. Maybe.

Nice review.

 

[CyberPitz]

Hmm, I wonder if there is a DVD rip out already?