Uwe Boll Goes 'Postal'

On the Town spent a surreal evening with infamous German director Uwe Boll on Wednesday following a UCLA screening of his latest pic, the 9/11 satire "Postal." Based on the popular violent vidgame of the same name, "Postal" has generated plenty of controversy for being unabashedly politically incorrect. It's opening scene features a pair of 9/11 hijackers arguing about the number of virgins they'll receive in the afterlife as they fly a plane into the World Trade Center.

Variety's Peter Debruge hosted the post-screening Q+A featuring Boll and several cast members including Zack Ward, Chris Coppola, Jackie Tohn, Chris Spencer and Larry Thomas, who plays a Bush-loving Osama Bin Laden.

"Even if I offend everybody, I think it's necessary to do this now. 'Postal' reflects what is really going on. The world is going down the drain. It's time to wake up," said Boll. "With 'Postal,' I was lucky with the actors. They really went for it and all of them agreed it was time to make a movie like this," explained Boll, whose first film was the comedy "German Fried Movie."

Thomas, himself no stranger to comedy having played The Soup Nazi in a memorable episode of "Seinfeld," also weighed in on the controversy. "I read the script on a plane and after the first few pages, I stopped and just sat there. Another passenger asked if I was alright and I said, 'I'm not sure.' But The Three Stooges were making fun of Hitler in 1938. If you can't make fun of things then they get the better of you. The things that terrorize us, if we can laugh at them, we're much better off."

Boll went on to address what some critics have perceived as anti-American sentiments in the film. "The film isn't anti-American. What the government used 9/11 for, to start the Iraq War, was anti-American. I hope people see 'Postal' and discuss it," said Boll, who made international headlines last year when he challenged four of his harshest critics, including yours truly, to a boxing match during a break in the filming of "Postal." Clips from the fights were supposedly going to be edited into the film but the footage didn't make the final cut. After deflecting blame to his publicist, Bill Wanstrom, Boll admitted the publicity stunt "was a mistake." It's unclear whether Boll's attitude towards his critics will affect "Postal's" reviews, but so far reception has been more positive than negative, including from Variety's own Dennis Harvey. (J. Sneider)

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