Uwe no!

The news that madman / hack filmmaker / possible financial genius (he's financed and profited ion all of his horrible, flopped movies via a German tax loophole) Uwe Boll will retire from filmmaking if a petition asking him to stop gets one million signatures has been all over lately, and seems to be largely getting a ton of support (the only exception I've seen is this article on Chud.com, which I admit is covering pretty the same ground as this post).

I, however, will not sign this stupid petition, and am thoroughly against it. Seriously, who cares if Uwe Boll makes movies? Yes, they're horrible trainwrecks (though occasionally entertaining, if only for the sheer bizarre spectacle of them), but I can't see how they're hurting anybody (except maybe Ben Kingsley), and nobody is making anybody see them. Sure, I understand dweebuses and nerdlingers the world over are upset that Boll's movie are adapted from videogames, but chill out guys, you've still got the games, and its not like anybody was ever going to make a good movie of House of the Dead (or really, any videogame, for that matter). Besides, do you people hate Kristianna Loken, Zack Ward, and Michael Pare that much?
I'll admit I've got a bit of a soft spot for the Bollster (possibly because out of his entire oeuvre, I've only seen House of the Dead and parts of Bloodrayne). Last year, both the Onion A.V. Club and Chud.com ran interviews Boll (he was promoting the straight to DVD Bloodrayne II, in which the protagonist for some reason challenges a vampiric Billy the Kid) in which Boll came off as strangely endearing. The guy's a nutball, and there's something great about watching him try and try again.
So I won't be signing the stop Uwe petition (I won't even link to it! ha ha!), and neither should you. And even if the petition does reach a million signatures, I hope Uwe blatantly ignores it and goes right back to making horrible movies that I can catch parts of on the Sci-Fi channel when nothing else is on.

UPDATE: Just a few hours after my post, Uwe made some comments on this issue. And you people want to stop this guy? Who provides so much entertainment? Come on.