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TO ALL THE MR. KNOW-IT-ALLS.....


I'm so sick and tired of reading these 'arm-chair' know-it-all movie critics who have NEVER made a movie and BASH Christian filmmakers.


1) YOU try raising $50 million dollars to make a film.

2) YOU try writing a script and selling it to Hollywood

3) YOU try directing a movie

4) YOU try getting Brad Pitt to star

5) YOU try raising $20 million in advertising

6) YOU try getting in the Top 10 at the box office.


Don't tell me you're an 'aspiring' filmmaker - keep your mouth SHUT until you actually do better yourself.

So easy to gripe until YOU have to make a movie as good as 'Courageous', 'Secrets of Jonathan Sperry', 'Seven Days in Utopia', 'Soul Surfer', 'Grace Card', etc.

Go ahead - what are you waiting for? Pick up a camera and let's see how brilliant YOU are.

LOSERS...WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS YOU ARE. Standing before Christ and telling Christ, "HEY I BASHED CHRISTIAN MOVIES! WHERE'S MY REWARD?"

LOSERS.

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I think I wrote a half-decent rebuttal to this attitude just a moment ago.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699147/board/thread/188835910?d=189504299&p=1#189504299


I would add to it, that by this odd logic YOU couldn't criticize a single movie either without having made one. Neither could you criticize a film critic without having been a film critic. Now, about 80% of film critics suck at their jobs, but those other 20% are quite well educated. They're not writing about making movies. They're writing about watching them. And because they've seen thousands of movies, they are qualified to tell a bad one from a good one, purely in terms of the viewing experience.

Here's a thought:
You're on a bridge, and you see a bunch of boats sailing around in the river below. One of them sinks. You say "That boat sank!" Someone else says to you "Don't go saying a boat sank! You've never built a boat!" Does this make sense? Or is my analogy flawed?

I mean no disrespect whatsoever to your opinions, but I think it's important people understand the importance of informed commentary on the arts, including film, and that they not lump all critics together without being familiar with the difference between a bad critic and a skilled, thoughtful one.

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and that's how internet bandit silenced slaveship freedom.

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you know, if this were a movie, you would have just lost your internet comment writing competition.

you would be washed out as an internet commenter, and your car would break down in a little podunk town with one stoplight and a farm supply store and a dairy queen as the only businesses.

then you would meet an old wrinkled man. thats right, its snidley higgenbothem, the greatest internet commenter of all time. you would look at him and say 'what are you doing here?' and he would laugh and say 'son i should ask you the same question'.

then down on his guest ranch, he would re-teach you the fundamentals of internet commenting. first, let me see how you punch them keys. you have to know why you are punching them, and how you are punching them. if you learn that, you wont be distracted.

then you have to learn underwater basket weaving, because weaving baskets requires patience and concentration, just like making internet comments does.

eventually, you will learn how the old man drank his wife away, and how his internet comments became worse and worse until he washed out of his big tournament.

etc etc etc.

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You forgot the part about how you and your arch-enemy dive off a 10-foot platform because it metaphorically represents the plunge you have to take to write Internet comments, and then you become friends.

Apartheid ending was a mistake. Period - i am disappoint

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Just show your enemies LOVE, sir.

God bless you.

Pastor Mark

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