This is a comment I left on a movie reviewer friend's thread...
I think this might be my epitaph. This is how I would like to be remembered...for being, if nothing else...
honest. Even in my ugliness.
"I should confess something...I usually take what goes on here in these movie chats with a grain of salt. BUT...on ONE occasion...I was in one of those movie groups, & this guy...the administrator, of all things...posted 'Ron Howard is the worst director in the world'.
I snapped. I wanted to track him down, & make little origami animals out of his innards.
I never felt like that before. It just...hit a nerve. I think knowing how hard it is to make movies... especially GOOD movies, but ANY movie is hard...
I must have reached my breaking point. Fed up with armchair critics saying insane things...when they have NO idea how tough the business is for most of us...DAMN! I have been working on a film for SIX years! It's almost finished...but I paid a severe price for it. some people...MOST people have NO idea the blood, the sweat, the tears...literally...the MONEY... that goes into some films. & to have them so casually dismissed?
My film...OUR film...almost killed me. I have NO idea what it did to the rest of my loyal crew.
But it damn near murdered me in cold blood.
You might argue, who the hell cares? But I guess my job is to make my film, and invite you to care.
Convince you you should care.
THAT...in an age where we are drowning in information...is MY job.
The viewers job...is to show...a little...humanity.
I suppose...the idiot dissing Ron Howard...caused me to reach my nadir.
If he had been in the room...I would have made lasagna out of him.
There...I have purged myself.
Thank you.
(nb: you are welcome to criticise me, but if i were you, i'd speak nicely about Mr. Howard...!)
