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'Postal' offends some
AUDIENCE TAKES WALK
HOBOKEN - About 200 people were present Friday night at the start of the free screening of Uwe Boll's "Postal" at Pier A Park, but three-quarters walked away long before the closing credits.
Mat Levy - who had his 15 minutes of fame as "Cheezy" on season two of VH1's celebrity dating show "I Love New York" - was one of those who found the movie in bad taste.
The last straw for Levy was a scene in which two terrorists hijack a plane in a 9/11-style attack, but then decide to abandon the suicide mission and fly to the Bahamas instead - only to wind up crashing into a building after the passengers storm the cockpit.
Mayor David Roberts, citing the same scene, refused to attend Friday night's premiere.
"I did not like Uwe Boll's perception of 9/11," Levy said.
"It's too soon to mock a plane going into the World Trade Center. Do you not think there are families out there that had their loved ones killed on 9/11? It really upsets me that he couldn't care less."
Boll told NJ.com's Hoboken Now blog that he knows the movie will provoke people - that's the point.
"Being politically correct, let's say, the big studios are kind of overdoing it," he said. "I feel it is time now to make a really wild movie, something over the top."
The German-born director, who also directed "Alone in the Dark" and "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," added that the movie doesn't play favorites.
"We don't spare any group. We don't want to hurt anybody but we want to break the rules," he said.
"We want to make people think: What is a taboo? We want to make people start thinking about their own boundaries and rules."
Uhhh, no Uwe Boll. No.
AUDIENCE TAKES WALK
HOBOKEN - About 200 people were present Friday night at the start of the free screening of Uwe Boll's "Postal" at Pier A Park, but three-quarters walked away long before the closing credits.
Mat Levy - who had his 15 minutes of fame as "Cheezy" on season two of VH1's celebrity dating show "I Love New York" - was one of those who found the movie in bad taste.
The last straw for Levy was a scene in which two terrorists hijack a plane in a 9/11-style attack, but then decide to abandon the suicide mission and fly to the Bahamas instead - only to wind up crashing into a building after the passengers storm the cockpit.
Mayor David Roberts, citing the same scene, refused to attend Friday night's premiere.
"I did not like Uwe Boll's perception of 9/11," Levy said.
"It's too soon to mock a plane going into the World Trade Center. Do you not think there are families out there that had their loved ones killed on 9/11? It really upsets me that he couldn't care less."
Boll told NJ.com's Hoboken Now blog that he knows the movie will provoke people - that's the point.
"Being politically correct, let's say, the big studios are kind of overdoing it," he said. "I feel it is time now to make a really wild movie, something over the top."
The German-born director, who also directed "Alone in the Dark" and "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," added that the movie doesn't play favorites.
"We don't spare any group. We don't want to hurt anybody but we want to break the rules," he said.
"We want to make people think: What is a taboo? We want to make people start thinking about their own boundaries and rules."
Uhhh, no Uwe Boll. No.
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Date: 2008-06-06 12:04 pm (UTC)