Of Course Uwe Boll Thinks Postal Is A Better Video Game Adaptation Than The Last Of Us
In 1997, Running with Scissors and Ripcord Games released the isometric top-down shooter video game, "Postal." The story of a man known as "The Postal Dude" going, well, postal, was a solid release that spawned multiple sequel games. A few years after the release of "Postal II," director Uwe Boll secured the film rights to the game and released 2007's "Postal" starring Zack Ward ("A Christmas Story"). It is also one of the worst films ever made. Boasting a whopping 9 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Postal" borrows most of its plot from the second game, but is infused with offensive, tasteless absurdity that has to be seen to be believed.
Boll unsuccessfully tried to crowdfund a sequel in 2013, raising only $29,977 of his $500,000 goal. "Postal" is a film many point toward when discussing the dreaded video game movie curse, but if you ask the director, he apparently believes that "Postal" is not only the best video game film adaptation ever made, but also one of the best films in history. In a Facebook post that has since been deleted, Uwe Boll shared an article by The Daily Beast declaring HBO's "The Last of Us" to be the best adaptation of a video game ever put to screen, which he clearly took umbrage with. "POSTAL will always be the best based film ever and one of the best films ever shot," he wrote. "POSTAL has everything what is lost in [today's] movies."
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I mean, I guess he's right. Today's movies certainly aren't including scenes where *checks notes* Verne Troyer is thrown into a pit of monkeys to be sexually assaulted as a means to initiate the apocalypse.
Trolling for relevance
I'll admit that even acknowledging this likely troll comment from a director with a notorious history of popping off when he doesn't get his way will sustain his hunger for attention, but after hearing Guinevere Turner speak about her experiences working with Uwe Boll on "BloodRayne" in the documentary "Tales From the Script," I will never pass up the opportunity to dunk on him. Maybe if I'm lucky, he'll challenge me to a boxing match as he did with other critics as shown in his film "Raging Boll." As an adult woman who doesn't need to compensate for a clear sense of inadequacy with feats of masculine physicality, I am politely declining in advance.
What makes me think that Boll wasn't actually trolling with his comment that "Postal" is somehow better than "The Last of Us" (lol 4 ever, no) is the fact he deleted his Facebook comment. Boll is infamous for making outlandish statements and dying on truly ridiculous hills, especially when he's trying to stoke flames for outrage-inspired attention. The fact he deleted his post makes me think that perhaps he genuinely believes "Postal" is a great adaptation, and maybe, just maybe, people immediately telling him he's wrong with data-supported evidence got under his skin.
Or perhaps this is a sign that Uwe Boll has finally matured to a point where he's realized existing in a state of derisory is no way to live.