Boll adds a little 9/11 to his Postal movie, folks aren’t happy

There are several names in gaming culture that just stand out like sore thumbs. Some just love to hate the people who own those said names with the reason being that said people tend to do a lot of things that piss folks off. Take videogame to movie director Uwe Boll and his silver screen adaptations for instance.

Below is a snippet from a report on NY Post about the trailer for Mr. Boll’s movie version of the Postal videogame series. It talks about a brief scene included in the trailer where an airliner crashes into a skyscraper.

“How can you parody an act of mass murder?” fumed Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. “Eleven-hundred families got no scrap of remains. Does that mean nothing to him? Is there any line this man wouldn’t cross?”…

Boll of course, has his reasons.

“It’s harsh, but in the context of the movie it definitely makes sense,” Boll says of the scene showing a plane heading straight for what appears to be a World Trade Center tower… Boll said the 9/11 crash clip was being viewed out of context, and the makers of the film discussed it at length before including it in the final cut. “We did it to show the unbelievable stupidity of suicide bombers,” he said.

Well, sometimes Mr. Boll does have people on his side, and to be honest, a good number of his supposedly “bad” movies do serve as decent pop-corn fun fests where the requisite to enjoy yourself is to turn off your brain.

Given that the original Postal game had little in the way of plot, and point of it was, well, “going postal” perhaps silliness such as the supposed “parody” is at home in the movie version of the game.

So what’s your take on this? Are folks just being a bit too sensitive regarding the issue almost six years on, or did mister Boll decide to inform folks about the actions of suicide bombers in a wrong way?

We now wonder what he’ll do with Far Cry.

There are several names in gaming culture that just stand out like sore thumbs. Some just love to hate the people who own those said names with the reason being that said people tend to do a lot of things that piss folks off. Take videogame to movie director Uwe Boll and his silver screen adaptations for instance.

Below is a snippet from a report on NY Post about the trailer for Mr. Boll’s movie version of the Postal videogame series. It talks about a brief scene included in the trailer where an airliner crashes into a skyscraper.

“How can you parody an act of mass murder?” fumed Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. “Eleven-hundred families got no scrap of remains. Does that mean nothing to him? Is there any line this man wouldn’t cross?”…

Boll of course, has his reasons.

“It’s harsh, but in the context of the movie it definitely makes sense,” Boll says of the scene showing a plane heading straight for what appears to be a World Trade Center tower… Boll said the 9/11 crash clip was being viewed out of context, and the makers of the film discussed it at length before including it in the final cut. “We did it to show the unbelievable stupidity of suicide bombers,” he said.

Well, sometimes Mr. Boll does have people on his side, and to be honest, a good number of his supposedly “bad” movies do serve as decent pop-corn fun fests where the requisite to enjoy yourself is to turn off your brain.

Given that the original Postal game had little in the way of plot, and point of it was, well, “going postal” perhaps silliness such as the supposed “parody” is at home in the movie version of the game.

So what’s your take on this? Are folks just being a bit too sensitive regarding the issue almost six years on, or did mister Boll decide to inform folks about the actions of suicide bombers in a wrong way?

We now wonder what he’ll do with Far Cry.