Despite consistent failure and a petition against him to stop cinematic travesties, Uwe Boll continues to make films. Staff Writer Ryan Bryant walks through the director’s history and the current controversy around him.

Few directors have a worse record than Uwe Boll. The director’s films are constantly panned by critics and perform poorly at the box office. Boll has three films that rank in IMDB.com’s 100 worst rated films list. His last film, “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale,” cost about $60 million to make but brought in $4 million at the box office.

An online petition was formed recently thanks in part from a suggestion from Boll himself. Boll once said if he receives one million signatures, he would stop making movies. Soon after, a plead at petitiononline.com formed asking Boll to stop making motion pictures. On Monday, there were more than 229,000 signatures.

Boll responded quickly to the vast number of signatures — he posted a video reply asking for a pro-Boll petition to be formed. The new petition has fewer than 5,000 signatures as of Monday. In the video, Boll said he is “the only genius in the whole [damn movie] business.” He bashes Michael Bay and Eli Roth calling them “retards.” At the end of the video Boll said he wants people to submit their real names and addresses instead of screen names so he can “track [them] down and rip [them] apart.”

Both Bay and Roth have responded to Boll’s video. Bay said he didn’t care about Boll’s comment, while Roth said Boll’s statement was the “greatest compliment ever.”

Boll’s upcoming film, “Postal,” is both a video game adaptation and a satire of Sept. 11. In the first five minutes of the film, the terrorists decide to fly to the Bahamas right before crashing the plane into the Trade Center, while the passengers take over the cock pit and crash the plane. The director’s brash attitude is likely to fire up viewers and critics alike.