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Director Uwe Boll has retired

Uwe Boll, director of the worst movie of all time, has retired.

During an interview with Toronto Metro, the 51-year-old ‘filmmaker’ revealed that he’s retiring from the movie business. The reason? His film’s don’t make an impact anymore.

“Rampage 3 will be watched on Netflix, DVD or iTunes or whatever,” he said, half-assed.

“They’ll say, ‘That wonderful movie! I liked it blah, blah, blah,’ then watch Avengers. With streaming everywhere there is just a big wave of movies flooding around and you have no impact.”

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Of course, the German director (and wannabe actor) famously earned the nickname ‘Raging Boll’ after challenging several of his critics to boxing matches.

He defeated every single one.

Unfortunately, his filmmaking skills never quite matched his prowess in the ring, with several of his movies - primarily videogame adaptations - earning their place amongst the worst movies of all time. In fact, ‘Alone in the Dark’ retains its impressively miniscule 1% rating on film aggregate site, Rotten Tomatoes.

And now, he’s decided to hang up his hat.

“The market is dead,” he added, “you don’t make any money anymore on movies because the DVD and Blu Ray market worldwide has dropped 80 per cent in the last three years. That is the real reason; I just cannot afford to make movies.”

“I can’t go back to student filmmaking because I have made so many movies in my life, and I can’t make cheaper and cheaper movies at my age. It’s a shame. I would be happy to make movies but it is just not financially profitable.”

And he revealed that he’s been self-financing his films for decades.

“I never had people giving me money,” he explained. “I’ve been using my money since 2005 and if I hadn’t made the stupid video game based movies I would never have amalgamated the capital so I could say, ‘Let’s make the Darfur movie.’ I don’t need a Ferrari, I don’t need a yacht. I invested in my own movies and I lost money.”

Either way, Uwe Boll isn’t one to back away without a fight… and he still has plenty of fighting talk for his critics.

“Now when I don’t make any more movies,” he says, “maybe they’ll find the time to actually watch the movies, starting with Postal in 2005, the movies of the last ten years. They will see they were a lot of very interesting movies and a lot of movies that I think made sense and said a point about things. They deserve to be discussed bigger than they were.”

I’m not so sure about that.

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