Merkel’s party, which he was/is proudly a part of only made the situation as incendiary as it is currently. Excuse me for thinking well this guy sort of enabled this.

Banshee writes well, and he provides perspective to European affairs. I don't agree with everything he says, every position he takes- far from it, as a matter of fact, but I appreciate his presence.

What, you want him to be unwelcome here? Again, nothing in what he wrote- which you state you didn't bother to read- warrants a response such as yours.

You do make a good point. I could have voiced my frustration in a more eloquent way so I will do that going forward.

Thank you

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Originally posted by BansheeOne:
That's because it isn't banned. The Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK), which is the German equivalent of the MPA (so not a government agency) and rates movies as appropriate for audiences from age 0, 6, 12, 16 or 18 upon request by filmmakers, just declined to give it any rating, twice. This puts it in the good company of other vigilante and assorted splatter and rampage films like the original Death Wish (1978), The Punisher (2004), The Punisher: War Zone (2008), classics like Romero's original Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985) and Tom Savini's Night of the Living Dead (1990) as well as Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993), The Last House on the Left (1972) and the 2009 remake, My Bloody Valentine (1981) and the 2009 remake, Hellraiser (1987) and Hellraiser II (1988), Peter Jackson's Bad Taste (1987) and Braindead (1992), Leatherface (1990), Battle Royale (2000), Tarantino's Planet Terror (2007), Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2010), Hobo with a Shotgun (2011), etc.

On the third attempt, the FSK finally rated Citizen Vigilante 18 for theatric release yesterday. It's unclear whether that involved any editing; today, their appeals committee again declined to rate it for home entertainment release, so the change may be just down to procedures. The background is that rating requirements are somewhat tougher for home entertainment than theatric release, since the latter by nature provides a more controlled environment for access by minors. For example, Kenji Tanigaki's Furious (2025) was rated 18 for cinemas last year, but failed to get a rating for home entertainment this week. Its German distributor has also announced to appeal, and go for a top-level SPIO evaluation if unsuccessful - a step that remains open to Citizen Vigilante, too. Otherwise, either party could of course submit edited versions.

The FSK took the somewhat unusual step of announcing and explaining their decisions on their website, which shows the publicity surrounding the case. They did that in 2013 when they eventually gave a rating to the uncut episodes 2 through 5 of Season 1 of The Walking Dead, for example.

The debate remains overblown though given that Uwe Boll, despite his excursions into the fantasy genre and computer game adaptions, has rehashed the same stick of some frustrated loner going on a killing spree over and over since his 1993 Amoklauf (Rampage): embittered waiter hates everyone, spends his entire time at home watching violent movies, kills a woman who disrupts him while masturbating, gets finished masturbating and starts killing anyone he encounters (depending upon whether you subscribe to the view that Boll's movies are really intentional or unintentional satire, this character could of course be viewed as a representation of the good doctor's audience - or himself). His 2003 Heart of America, Rampage series, and 2013 Assault on Wall Street are variations of the same theme hitched to fashionable topics du jour: school/mass shootings, the subprime crisis, etc.

I had to watch it because with everyone saying it was so terrible, well, I just had to. I didn't hate it. Made some interesting points and I've never seen this Armie guy in anything.