The Idea just came up in another thread to bring a bit more general discussion to the GoG forums and here we are.
This thread with it's wonderful title is not actually restricted to Uwe Boll movies... it just made for a good title, but to get things rolling I'll actually start with Uwe.
Most people (especially the ones who like video games) seem to think that he's a sort of anti-christ, but I'll have to say that I actually enjoyed two of his movies, although at least one for all the wrong reasons.
First, there was Alone in the Dark. A movie of such record-breaking badness that I can't even begin to describe it. Sex scenes inserted at random moments (with the characters sitting around in exactly the same order and wearing their clothes exactly the same way after the scene was over) and action that ... oh forget it.
Anyway, I still have fond memories, because at some point the audience started commenting on the movie. First, very quietly. But then louder and louder and at the end everybody just yelled out whatever was on his/her mind. The peak was when Tara Reid walked, with a pyramid in hands, up to a wall that had a big pyramid-shaped hole in it and said "it's a key". The whole cinema suddenly yelled in unison "no, really!?!"
The second one is Postal, which I actually really enjoyed. Those politically incorrect, over-the top bad jokes are wonderful. From the first scene I knew that this was THE movie for me and when in the middle the wonderful old joke popped up "My Grandfather died in Auschwitz" - "Mine too, he fell drunk off the watchtower"... I don't know... it was just too funny. These are the kind of jokes Germans are usually not allowed to make and seeing them in a big Hollywood movie is just great.

Sorry but I tend to avoid movies from games because they shorten my lifespan by approximately 10 years, cause irreparable genetic damage, and the fat goes straight to my thighs....

I just watched Postal today.
It's pretty funny.. it's wrong.. and horrible.. and disgusting..
but funny...
I have conflicted emotions over this.

I just watched Postal two days ago and found it absolutely hilarious. While I can completely understand why a lot of people would hate it, I couldn't help but love it. I don't think I've actually seen any of the other movies since everybody says that they're horrendous, but I had heard pretty good stuff about Postal and decided to give it a shot. Actually no, I did see about 5 min of House of the Dead and changed it since it was already halfway through.

Weclock, yeah that sums it up pretty nicely... It's not a "good" movie, but in difference to other bad movies it knows it's bad. It constantly jokes about how terrible the movie is and how stupid it is to try and turn a video game into a movie. And that's what makes it stand out.

Its not that we think Uwe is the anti-christ, its that he just can't seem to make a good movie based on a video game and has even gone so far as to intentionally make them badly in order to use them as tax shelters when they flop. If he just stopped making bad movies, or even better, just stopped making movies period, I'm sure could all learn to like him.

But then we wouldn't have Postal :) Anyway, it probably depends on how you think of videogames. For me they are mindless entertainment. I may like a game, I may even shed a tear when one of the character dies, but at the end of the day, it's all just "yet another game" to me. And by making fun of the movies about games, these movies indirectly make fun of the people who take them and the games too seriously. And I have to admit I get a bit of perverse pleasure out of making fun of people who do that as well :)

I haven't seen Postal, so I can't really comment on it, but practically all of Uwe's past video game based movies weren't tongue-in-cheek or self-deprecating bad, they were just... bad. Forget about the fact that it is based on a video game, if those movies were original works they would still be just plain bad. So bad that they make Sci-Fi Channel original movies look good (in case you've never seen one, they are some of the most horrendous pieces of television ever produced). It is really hard to describe just how bad the movies are, since there is really nothing that can compare to how bad they really are.

Oh, I'm not arguing about the other ones, just Postal. Another wonderful example to me is Dead or Alive... just as terrible as Postal, but whoever made the movie was fully aware that he was making a movie based on a sexist, stupid game (which I enjoyed tremendously BTW) and he's making fun of it. The cheap Japanese voice during fights. The volleyball game, the bikini fights. On it's own, it's just really, really bad. But when you remember what the game was like, you suddenly see the joke.

Uwe does a pretty good job of making fun of himself in Postal.

Look guys there are FAR worse stinkers out there!
Can we spell "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" or "Manos: The Hands of Faaaaaaaaaaaate"?
Compared to those glistening dungheaps (and that's putting it mildly) all of those video game movies will start looking like masterpieces.
One thing that bothers me is if we all know that these video game movies are bad (and Hollywood does too) then why in the hell are they still being funded and exposed to the general public???? We can't have such horrible taste that even someone with a low two-digit IQ can't see these stinkers for what they really are.....can we???

I don't know these... but lets turn to good movies... Right now I'm watching Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) for the 110 time and am tremendously enjoying myself... It's just so... fulfilling to see the world through the eyes of a dreamer, who doesn't bother with the real world.

These two movies can kill cancer. "Manos" came close to be the end of me. However, the One putrid piece of filth in the world of movies that nearly became the end of me...is the godless and sickening "Sextette". Mae West, 85 years old and still being 100% Mae West, in a musical so horrid and evil that my DVD copy doesn't cast a shadow. It has an aura of hate, bitterness, torture and death. It drives you suicidal, paranoid, confused... After viewing this devil-ridden ritual of occult black arts, I wandered the wastelands of my destroyed mind for years.
Highly recommended!

Or lay FBI, NSA, BND and all the rest to ashes. Seems far more useful to me that way ;)