For better or worse, Uwe Boll – internet meme – is now part of the zeitgeist and refuses to go gentle into die dacht nacht. Not content to be merely the film blogging world’s easiest punch-line, Uwe Boll has capitalized on the notoriety that his so-bad-it’s-bad catalog of low-budget videogame adaptations has garnered with a slew of publicity stunts – such as boxing his critics, even challenging hack-of-a-different-feather Michael Bay to some fisticuffed mansport — and in the process has fashioned himself into something of an anti-hero. Uwe is the guy we love to hate. And don’t think for second he’s not 100% self-aware. When Boll made the bold proclamation that his film Postal – which shares its May 23rd release date with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – was going to blow the aforementioned Spielberg/Lucas superpower team-up out of the water, his Teutonic tongue was obviously planted firmly in cheek.

Or was it?

Because last night Boll held a screening and Q&A session for Postal here in Los Angeles. And of course it was terrible, right? Right?

Wrong.

At least according to my sources, Boll’s film, while far from perfect, was something of a triumph. It was an over-the-top, tasteless, and quite often friggin’ hilarious exercise in excess that turned the audience – comprised mostly of ironic hipsters hoping they’d found their next The Room – into actual, bonafide Boll fans. Yes, that’s right. Uwe Boll killed irony. Killed irony dead.

Meanwhile, the buzz on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal of the Skull is less than favorable. In fact, word on the street is that it reeks of the same Lucas stench that made the last three Star Wars films ruinous to more childhoods than my creepy uncle with the sticky hands and van full of candy. Could it be that Boll has actually delivered on his “empty” promises? Make no mistake, Indiana Jones et al will Hulk-smash Postal with regard to box office dollars. But could it be that Uwe Boll – the most hated filmmaker in the world and perhaps the most hated German since Hitler – has, with a fraction of the budget, made a better film than the two most successful, powerful men in Hollywood?

It’s Bizarro Superman’s World, I’m just living in it.

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