10 Movies That Blatantly Troll The Audience
6. Postal
For years Uwe Boll has been the undisputed king of trolling in the movie business. The German writer/director first gained infamy by making a series of awful video game adaptations, starting with 2003's House of the Dead. All of that run were critical bombs and commercial failures, and he gained even more notoriety for attacking his critics online and challenging them to boxing matches.
In 2007, Boll reached what was perhaps his peak of irritation with Postal, another movie based on a video game. Postal included a subplot involving Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush as best friends, offensive 9/11 jokes, Boll (playing himself) owning a Nazi-themed amusement park, and Verne Troyer (i.e., Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies) being sexually assaulted by chimpanzees, all of which had nothing to do with the video game.
On the DVD commentary for Postal, the director admits that he added all these elements in part to offend people who didn't like his previous movies as "revenge." To promote Postal, he also released videos in which he vulgarly denounced far more successful filmmakers like Michael Bay, Eli Roth, and George Clooney. Like most trolls, this was simply an attempt to get attention.
Boll has continued to aggravate movie fans and even went as far as trying to raise money for a Postal sequel by asking his "fans" to raise $500,000 for him on Kickstarter to make "the best movie ever made" (he cancelled the fundraiser after raising $30,000). Boll cancelled two other crowdfunding attempts to make Rampage 3 after failing to meet their goals, after which he uploaded two videos to YouTube in which he ranted about how much he hated crowdfunding, Hollywood, Angelina Jolie, and anyone who didn't support his movies. He threatened to continue making films no matter how many people hate them. Now thats commitment!