Celebrities you like that nobody else seems to

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I like myself.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    I like that you're infamous.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    QBranch wrote: »
    I like that you're infamous.

    That s something. Perhaps everything.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I like myself.

    You certainly are a celebrity of MI6 Community. Everyone is famous to somebody or one set of people when you think about it. I remember someone making that point on a daytime TV show in the late 1990s, which incidentally featured Shirley Eaton as a guest.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I had a conversation the other day with someone who genuinely, unironically liked Uwe Boll and his movies. I didn't know what to say. It felt surreal.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    I had a conversation the other day with someone who genuinely, unironically liked Uwe Boll and his movies. I didn't know what to say. It felt surreal.

    If he was a pratt in real life, but made some good films, I could understand that. Seperating him from his work. But he is a failure on both fronts. His films are so bad, they aren't even so bad they're good, they're just bad.

    And I am convinced that the Bloodrayne films killed the game series. Bloodrayne 2 (game) was released in 2004, Bloodrayne (film) was released in 2005. And that, I won't forgive.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    I had a conversation the other day with someone who genuinely, unironically liked Uwe Boll and his movies. I didn't know what to say. It felt surreal.

    If he was a pratt in real life, but made some good films, I could understand that. Seperating him from his work. But he is a failure on both fronts. His films are so bad, they aren't even so bad they're good, they're just bad.

    And I am convinced that the Bloodrayne films killed the game series. Bloodrayne 2 (game) was released in 2004, Bloodrayne (film) was released in 2005. And that, I won't forgive.

    AND he actually made two even worse BloodRayne sequels. It's unbelievable. Who gave this man a budget for that?
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    I had a conversation the other day with someone who genuinely, unironically liked Uwe Boll and his movies. I didn't know what to say. It felt surreal.

    If he was a pratt in real life, but made some good films, I could understand that. Seperating him from his work. But he is a failure on both fronts. His films are so bad, they aren't even so bad they're good, they're just bad.

    And I am convinced that the Bloodrayne films killed the game series. Bloodrayne 2 (game) was released in 2004, Bloodrayne (film) was released in 2005. And that, I won't forgive.

    AND he actually made two even worse BloodRayne sequels. It's unbelievable. Who gave this man a budget for that?

    It's a tax incentive, or something, isn't it? Or a tax loophole, it's something like that. Otherwise, no sane person would give him £10 to make a film, let alone several million $$$$'s.

    The funny thing, is that I thought Kristanna Loken was a good choice in the first film. In the right hands, like the games, they could have been fun action/horror hybrids, different enough to the Resident Evil films. Rather than the jokes they were, that I am convinced damged the games. Not that the games were massivly respected, but they were popular enough, until that fool came along.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I had never played BR but I was a huge fan of the first Far Cry. And yes, Boll made a film of that game too. Needless to say that despite a reasonably enjoyable cast, he screwed up. One of the biggest monster/horror/jungle shooters out there... and Uwe made it look like some backyard brawl. I also think that part of the reason why people fear game adaptations is Boll. Not that Max Payne or Doom were that much better, of course. 😉

    I have actually met Boll at a convention. He had just made a pretentious holocaust film called Auschwitz. I thought it a good idea to talk to the man and get his autograph, just for fun. Next thing I know, he's complaining to me about why the likes of Spielberg (i.e. Jews?) think they are the only ones who can address this subject matter and whatnot and how that is so not the case. So he made a holocaust film to honor the many Jewish victims Hitler made while telling modern Jews to ef off so he can make movies. 🤨
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Oh I definitely think he IS the reason. Super Mario Bros. might not be a fondly remembered film, but it's a damn sight better than anything Boll has pinched out.

    I have seen Far Cry too. From what i remember, th eone thing it did get right, was casting Udo Kier as a mad Dr. I mean, naturally. ;) Kier does make a great villain.

    Boll sounds deluded, on top of being awful at his job.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Oh I definitely think he IS the reason. Super Mario Bros. might not be a fondly remembered film, but it's a damn sight better than anything Boll has pinched out.

    I have seen Far Cry too. From what i remember, th eone thing it did get right, was casting Udo Kier as a mad Dr. I mean, naturally. ;) Kier does make a great villain.

    Boll sounds deluded, on top of being awful at his job.

    Exactly. Cast Kier in a villainous part and you've already half won, right? Not Boll, no. Worse still, his hero in Far Cry is Til Schweiger, who seems lost in this production, like a child looking for its parents in the mall. One year later, QT cast Schweiger in Inglourious Basterds and made him rock as Hugo Stiglitz in a part that's not even the most interesting part of that film. Boll is the exact opposite of QT in that sense. He gets the talent and he still doesn't know how to make proper use of it. QT gets the talent and finds ways to elicit performances unlike any they've ever given before.

    The only thing Boll seems concerned with is getting young ladies to strip for him. Tara Reid wouldn't do it, and so Boll blacklisted her, which technically means nothing except in Boll-land. But poor Kristanna Loken took the bait--I wonder how much she regrets that today, poor girl.
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    Steven Seagal nobody really likes him however, I like him.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    If most people don t like you, you re not really a celebrity, are you?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Mazouni wrote: »
    Steven Seagal nobody really likes him however, I like him.

    I don't think he wants to be liked.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    If most people don t like you, you re not really a celebrity, are you?

    Perhaps they're celebrating how much they dislike him? ;)
  • Posts: 235
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Mazouni wrote: »
    Steven Seagal nobody really likes him however, I like him.

    I don't think he wants to be liked.

    I
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Mazouni wrote: »
    Steven Seagal nobody really likes him however, I like him.

    I don't think he wants to be liked.

    To be honest why should he care what other people think about him?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    He shouldn't and he doesn't.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Unless it involves Gene LeBell. ;)
  • edited February 2021 Posts: 1,637
    Uwe Boll , Fiske Boll :D (= fish ball)
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Geoff Johns. He’s one of the best Superman and Batman writers. I’m having a hard time believing that he’s that evil as Ray Fisher keeps saying he is.
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