Poetic Justice

One piece of news that brightened my morning and made my day. I laughed and laughed and kept laughing. I still do.


From BBC News Text-TV:

Filmmaker knocks out his critics

A German filmmaker repeatedly panned for his work has quite literally hit back at his critics… in a boxing ring in the Canadian city of Vancouver. Director Uwe Boll took on four of his critics in a boxing match after he became so annoyed at their criticism. One said the horror moviemaker was «one of the most inept filmmakers ever». But it was the director, now dubbed Raging Boll, who emerged victorious in the boxing ring, watched by a crowd of 600 people.

Boll is just one of several filmmakers that in various ways has hit back at the critics lately. Among them is M. Night Shayamalan that incorporated the theme into his latest great film Lady in the Water.

Critics are basically the leeches and parasites of art, and they deserve all the payback they get…

Boll’s films are not great, but they are fairly good, and he does in no way deserve his bad reputation.