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Uwe Boll is at it again, and this time he's blaming political correctness. The director, who's already on our collective shit list for being one of those people who won't take responsibility for their failures and constantly blames everyone else, has taken to blaming a culture that indulges in too much PC for the fact that almost no theater wants to show his new film Postal. The black comedy, starring Dave Foley and Verne Troyer, which makes references to September 11, President Bush and Osama bin Laden, will open this weekend on just 13 to 15 screens across the country. Though Boll had originally had the target of 1,500 screens on Friday, theater chains didn't cooperate.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a spokesman for the AMC theater chain said, "We carefully evaluate the movies that we choose to play in our theaters and elected not to put this film in our theaters because we feel is does not have potential for commercial success in the U.S." What appears to have been a financial decision from the theaters is all about politics, according to Boll, who said, "They don't like the political content. This is my personal feeling after trying for four or five weeks to get the distributors to book it." He went on to say "It's a ruthless comedy and makes jokes about Sept. 11 and all kinds of stuff, but at the same time I feel like it's my best-received movie so far." Which, not really buddy, if theaters won't even show it.
Boll claims that Postal is a Monty Python kind of comedy, but if I recall correctly, the Monty Python movies actually made it into the theaters. There's political correctness, Uwe, and then there's Verne Troyer. Stop bitching about how everyone else is wrong and go find a good script.
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