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Roger Avary
Roger Avary@AVARY·
Is @UweBollRAWNet the boldest and bravest auteur working in cinema today?
National Conservative@NatCon2022

I watched Citizen Vigilante on Amazon Prime (Banned in Germany). The US/Canadian release is today. It is playing at a tiny number of theaters and is available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Fandango. Amazon Prime charges $6.99 and you can watch it for 30 days. It was entertaining. There definitely are not any boring parts. It is not a mega-budget movie from one of Hollywood's Big Five. More like an adequately funded indie movie. The character is like the Punisher, but with a wealthy background like Batman. Unlike Batman, there is no personal catalyst like the Joker killing his parents. The main character is obsessed with wanting a high trust society. He is also angry about blind obedience to authority. He believes the people in power don't give a shit about you and law enforcement and the justice system exist more to control the law abiding than to stop, catch, or punish actual criminals. The film was effectively banned in "democratic" Germany by the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft [FSK]. This is Germany's version of America's Classification and Rating Administration [CARA]. Both the FSK and CARA are billed as independent, voluntary, private regulatory boards free of government imposed censorship. However, in the case of the FSK, they have been empowered by the German government to completely block a movie from being shown in theaters, sold on DVD, or streamed in Germany. It is a way for a movie to be banned, while the German government says, "we didn't ban anything, we had nothing to do with it." The FSK is allowed to simply refuse issuing any rating and it is illegal to exhibit, sell, or stream the movie. What makes the film unique, and why it is banned in Germany, is twofold. It is inspired by real-life crimes. However, unlike the BBC in Britain or American media companies, the filmmakers do not race-swap all the non-White criminals into White people. The criminals in the movie are a mix of African, Middle Eastern, and White Europeans. Second, unlike traditional vigilante movies, the main character goes after both the criminals and the people in the criminal justice system who coddle and protect them. In one scene, it shows a judge explaining to the media how a group of teenage immigrant gang rapists are just as much victims as the 14-year-old girl they brutally raped. Sending them to jail would supposedly just make things worse. The scene is based on real dialogue from real judges. I believe this is what sparked the meltdown at the FSK.

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Marc Adler
Marc Adler@marc__adler·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet People forget that the whole point of the genre of exploitation movies was to piss off the prissy deciders of good taste.
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Truth Avenger
Truth Avenger@levine2001·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet I’m still going with S. Craig Zahler. But this latest by Boll has me both curious and excited.
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Justin Harris
Justin Harris@BlackishJustin·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet He's come a long way from really bad video game adaptations and boxing the critics that talked shit about them. 😅
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DatingLame
DatingLame@DateLame·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet He always has been. He put video game clips directly into House of the Dead. He’s a maniac.
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Preston Horner
Preston Horner@TheKramer89·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet It's just like that scene in Men In Black when they point out that all of the trashy, shitty tabloids are actually the ones telling the truth. Uwe Boll is the National Inquirer of cinema...
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mayhem ⚔️@mayhemRBC·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet I always knew that Roger Avery was way more based than Tarantino. Yeah, Uwe has come a long way from boxing haters to actually making watchable leftsploitation trigger movies 🍿
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LaughingBhuddasMC
LaughingBhuddasMC@bhuddas_mc·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet Makes me think of charles bronson. I wonder if movies in the style of "Death Wish" are making a comeback. Might be, especially with the Elite's, "Let them eat diversity!" mantra.😄
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CG@Christian_CGW·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet He gets way too much hate. I still like In The Name Of The King and House Of The Dead. You can hate the screenplays he chooses, but the dude knows how to use a camera. His movies are always fun. I know he's mentioned you in the past, but I'd actually love y'all to work together.
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Mercury Fiction
Mercury Fiction@MechaHitler420·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet Good argument to be made that Megalopolis is among the boldest, bravest, and most audacious original films in modern cinema.
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Steve Coulier
Steve Coulier@stevecoulier·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet I will say he would probably beat the shit out of Curry Baker, if that's the yardstick you want to use to assess a director.
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Les Rectificateurs
Les Rectificateurs@Rectificateurs·
@AVARY @UweBollRAWNet He may be. I haven’t yet watched this one, but his Rampage trilogy is pretty good and insane, and Stoic was excellent, and very grim.
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