It’s Fourth of July weekend, so let’s head into the holiday with some fireworks courtesy of Uwe Boll. The man who gave us HOUSE OF THE DEAD, ALONE IN THE DARK, POSTAL, BLOODRAYNE, BLUBBERELLA and AUSCHWITZ recently made some explosive statements regarding THE TREE OF LIFE, Terrence Malick and Lars von Trier.

Screen Junkies spoke with the controversial filmmaker, who had this to say about THE TREE OF LIFE: “The opening of that movie was really good but then he completely lost it,” offers Boll. “I think TREE OF LIFE is a piece of shit. Totally. And I think Sean Penn is ridiculous in it, like walking around in the elevator. It’s nothing. This is the thing. It’s so overrated because it’s Terrence Malick. You have to tell a story that you get a connection to something. When he starts doing after 25 minutes a National Geographic break where you see volcanoes and planets coming together. Then his dinosaur episode with JURASSIC PARK. You think well, what’s going on with him? What is wrong with the guy? I was not engaged to keep watching. If I would have known how this ends, I would have walked out. But I watched the whole movie because I wanted to see how it ends also. The end was I think the most pathetic thing, when they’re all at the beach hugging each other. It was fucking disastrous. It was a complete disaster and it shows also that a lot of stars have no taste. Like Sean Penn, Brad Pitt have no taste what a good movie is. They trusted the director but you have to have your own brain. You cannot tell me you were not bored to death while you watched THE TREE OF LIFE.”

Boll also had some thoughts on ANTICHRIST and MELANCHOLIA writer/director von Trier. “I like BREAKING THE WAVES,” he says. “After that was all crap. The thing is he gets all the Hollywood stars, ‘Oh, I want to work with him,’ and they don’t know what kind of retard he is.”

Say this much for Boll: he never minces his words.

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