In an article in this week's Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty says loud and proud, "I hate superheroes" -- or, to be more specific, superhero movies. His opinion is that there are too many of them, that they're all the same and that they're ruining the summer blockbuster season, apparently by forcing non-superhero movies to go elsewhere, or not get made at all. If Chris wrote this article in an attempt to find his nemesis, like Samuel Jackson trying to find Bruce Willis in Unbreakable, well then, Chris, you've found me.

It used to irritate me to no end when I'd hear people saying that Hollywood celebrities should keep their political and world views to themselves. After all, they're regular people, too...under all the makeup, lighting, Botox, sex tapes, assistants and money. They have an opinion and the right to share it with whomever they choose. I would further lecture those who wish to silence the celebs, but Sharon Stone has basically ice-picked my position to death. Ms. Stone somehow managed to recast herself as some kind of Magic 8-Ball, dispensing absurd answers to a question only Mother Nature can explain. Maybe her massive brain fart resulted from an unusual case of too-tight panties cutting off the circulation to her brain? Perhaps that's a bad explanation; we've all seen Basic Instinct.

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.

If you've been online for more than two days in your entire life, you've probably come across (or been part of) chat room discussions that go a little something like this:
Studlychip1982: I didn't really like the movie. Too long and drawn out.
moviesRluv: yeah well what do u no? the movie rocked and u sux!!!

A few posts later, there's an out-of-nowhere comparison to Nazis and/or reference to gun control, general expressions of paranoia, lashing out at uninvolved parties, and suddenly you've got a name-calling internet shouting party that has little to do with the starting discussion. Uwe Boll seems to have taken this phenomenon to heart: When his own movies are criticized, he unleashes a tirade against other directors. Does he address the comments about his movies? Not really. Does he shrug off criticism as one of the slings and arrows a professional endures? Does he quietly go about his work and improve his craft? No, and no. When internet movie fans start up a petition to put an end to Boll's movie career, he points out how much Michael Bay sucks.

A lot of people might agree with him about Bay, but what's that got to do with Boll's widely panned film adaptations of video games like Bloodrayne and Alone in the Dark? Nothing, really. Boll fancies himself a movie maker, but behaves more like an internet troll. If he wants to be a professional, he should act like one, and quietly badmouth other directors in private or start a secret collection of voodoo dolls or something. Don't indulge in that would make all but the most volatile and grammatically challenged of hotheads cringe in embarrassment.

Uwe Boll says he'd make a better movie than Michael Bay, given the same budget. Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't. He's unlikely to ever find out if he keeps up his current habits. Would yougive a cool 150 mil to the angry guy who shows up in the movie chat room?