Much as Uwe Boll’s movies are a searing, provocative satire of the very idea of movies—from the idiots who would ensure their competent execution to the idiots who idiotically demand they be watchable—Boll’s methods of financing those movies can also be read as social commentary, specifically on the idiotic loopholes of German tax laws that give him the money to make his idiotic movies for idiots. So it’s perhaps inevitable that a man so dedicated to mocking the audience for whom he feels such contempt would eventually turn to Kickstarter, where he can more directly implicate them in the production of Postal 2, thus making the point that the entire movie business is terrible and also something about Osama Bin Laden.
Unfortunately, Boll’s campaign to create “the most offensive film of all time”—which is a sequel to his 2008 attempt to create the most offensive film of all time—has hit a slight snag in the form of no one being certain whether it is a joke. Or perhaps realizing it is a joke, but in the way that watching a couple of terrorists bicker before they crash into the World Trade Center is a “joke.” Or, as Boll complains to The Hollywood Reporter, believing that’s the sort of joke well worth revisiting, but not having any money to make it happen, because you’re the kind of person who would find that funny.