Show The object of Tinsel Towns Town's scorn aul Brownfield Bro LO Los Angeles Times Uwe Boll is a German German- accented party crasher at at the he gates of legit Hollywood product His movies are reviled on the Internet by video gamers and genre movie mavens people incensed that Boll Bollis is tarnishing the movie movie- making art with titles such as Blood Rayne House of the Dead Alone in the Dark and In the Name of the King movies whose ancillary purpose Boll will tell you is to offer a tax benefit to his high-end high German Gennan investors Weeks before the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull the 42 year-old year German purveyor of f video-game-based video genre flicks had made a abold abold abold bold pronouncement He would send out his latest movie Postal an rated R-rated screwball comedy with lots lotsof lotsof lotsof of out gross-out humor and war-on-terrorism war gags togo togo to togo go to head-to-head with Indy where everyone else feared to tread Boll funds his movies in Germany and makes them in Canada then tracks their returns in every market of the world Never mind the big studio theatrical release he exists outside that system now saying it involves too prohibitive a acost acost acost cost for his investors Thus his plan to wrestle Indy appears to have hit hita a snag Postal which opened Friday in a few theaters failed to attract attracta a crumb on the multiplex schedules of the giant and Regal cinema chains forcing Boll to do what he has sometimes done in the past cobble together a release himself j s a hodgepodge of bookings or screen rentals I He was sitting at a Beverly Hills cafe on a recent afternoon When hen Boll gets on a roll like this he becomes more not less endearing Never mind the oeuvre of Fassbinder of more relevance to him is the oeuvre of German tax regulators and how they affect movie financing Everyone invests to tomake tomake tomake make profit but they cannot lose more than 50 percent of their money said Boll of his investors noting that changes in German Gennan tax laws have restricted the number of investors he can bundle to 20 or fewer The first time I met Boll who lives in Vancouver British Columbia and Germany he told of his struggles smuggles to get domestic distribution for Postal whose bigg biggest st star is Dave Foley of the sitcom and the comedy group Kids in the Hall The second time I met him was in New York at ata ata ata a screening for Postal as part of the New York City Horror Festival Boll boyishly handsome if unpolished and typically dressed down moved arou around d the gathering wearing a sheepish grin as if in on his own private joke I dont don't think he cares that much about the movies for the most part really Foley said by phone speaking with admiration H Hes e s muc much h more interested in the back and forth with the people who hate him Its almost like hes he's feeding a petri dish and watching what happens Foley said There is a bitof bitof bit of a scientific quality to it t 1 J BoWs Bolls Bolls Boll's p passion and ingenuity seems to o j li lie i itY seeing to what extent extent h he can jam his genre flicks the American multiplex H He loves to point to the latest box office disappointment and force the money men mento mell to f fess ss up to their numbers number numbers game so many time slots so little product to fill th the seats j l He has a point Though its it's not as studded star-studded a as previous efforts Sir Ben Kingsley played a in Postal is new product and it has had hai topless chicks and shoot ups em and the Soup Nazi from Larr Larry Larri Thomas playing Osama Osam bin Laden d Boll who said even his German investors were were 80 percent upset with hi when they saw it said Postal was too much o oa oa of ofa a political hot potato fo fob or Regal to touch its opening sequence has two 9 11 hijackers arguing about the virgins coming their way land and a a. simulated explosion on impact Regal's Cooper did not return calls for comment A spokesperson for said only We did carefully evaluate the movie like w we wedo we wedo do with all films and w we made the business decision not to play it Boll is coming off a a flop the tacky sword sorcerers and-sorcerers movie In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Name of the King A Dungeon Siege Tale which was shot in the wilds wilds' of Vancouver and based on on the video game Dungeon Dungeon Siege jj As he raised more an and more funds in German Germany he became more focused on producing But hes he's still passionate about directing m II a iii Ii j I i |