Got a couple of Smithee-worthy and related things for y’all to read. First off, here’s an excerpt from this brilliant review of the movie BloodRayne:
…If I find out that you went and saw this film after I told you not to, I’ll phone your friends up and tell them to go to your house and pour ants in your bed. And when you wake up screaming, covered in ants, you’ll think “at least I’m not still watching BloodRayne.”
This led the reviewer (one Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary fame) to do some poking into the background of the guy who directed this film… Turns out he’s a German by the name of Uwe Boll, and he deliberately makes bad moves to exploit a loophole in German tax laws. There’s a Cinema Blend article describing the whole sordid situation.
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