Uwe Boll puts Spielberg in his place

Is Uwe Boll the gift that keeps on giving to journalists or what?

The infamously awful director of videogame-based movies like "Bloodrayne," "Alone in the Dark," and most recently "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," has apparently scheduled his new film, "Postal," to open against "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" on May 23. And horror website Bloody Disgusting quotes him in an e-mail boasting he's going to take down that over-the-hill hack Spielberg:

On the Indiana Jones weekend - May 23 - we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up - would Michael Moore say! ... Spielberg gets sloppy. We saw that with War of the Worlds (why the fuck the older brother survived?) and also in parts of Jaws, E.T., Munich etc.! My performance in Postal as 'Nazi Theme Park Owner' outperforms easily Ben Kingsley in Schindler's List!

No official response yet from Spielberg, who is most likely furiously begging Paramount to reschedule his movie, or possibly just give up and release it directly to DVD.

For those not familiar, "Postal" and its better known sequel are ultra-violent PC games about an anonymous guy who, basically, "goes postal." They were published by obscure (possibly no longer around) companies Whiptail Interactive and Ripcord Games, which perhaps explains how Boll got the rights, since no legitimate videogame publisher would deal with him anymore, I assume. Here's the amazing description of the movie, which sounds very socially relevant, that Bloody Disgusting got:

Living on Social Security and unemployed, DUDE desperately seeks employment, but instead finds a life of violent action and adventure when he teams up with his UNCLE DAVE, a financially strapped cult leader, in an effort to rip off an amusement park, only to find that the Taliban are trying the same heist simultaneously.

Worth noting: The lifetime domestic gross for all of Uwe Boll's videogame adaptations, according to Box Office Mojo, is about $23 million. I have a feeling that's about what Paramount and Spielberg are aiming for on their opening Saturday with the new Indiana Jones.