>>Really...what have you done?
>
>What do I have to say to satisfy your requirements of having
>done something? I am a produced screenwriter. I have been a
>development executive in the past. I work in DVD distribution
>right now at a company that is the biggest distributor of
>independent black cinema in terms of market share. But what, I
>can't speak on the state of black cinema because I don't have
>Tyler Perry type success?
>
>And I don't mind you guys
>>calling someone like Tyler Perry garbage. The problem is
>that
>>you really don't support your opinion well because you
>>probably didn't even see what you're talking about.
>
>Stop making assumptions.
>
>A good
>>example was Bignick's rant on Daddy's Little Girls. He
>DIDN'T
>>see the movie. How can rant on something you haven't seen.
>
>This is slightly off topic, but I firmly believe that, save
>for the the rarest of exceptions, I have more than enough
>experience as a moviegoer to be able to tell from the
>marketing material whether I will like a movie or not. I think
>anyone should be able to do this. And it is the job of the
>marketing folks to ensure this. So I am always puzzled when
>people say stuff like this. But that is neither here nor
>there. I have seen enough of Tyler Perry's work to know he has
>made nothing that interests me. Maybe he will one day, but I
>doubt it.
>
>
>>The real problem is that you guys don't judge black movies
>>individually.
>
>Stop making assumptions.
>

First off, I'm not making assumptions. If you go back and look at some of those old threads, you'll see that there is a lot of blind criticism going on. I'm not making that up. And you can't say that you and Bignick judge black movies individually because you both said in those posts that you don't actually watch all of those movies. I'm saying that you really can't criticize something you haven't seen. Sure you may be right some of time about movies when you watch the trailer and say "That looks like shit". But you really can't truthfully say it's shit until you've seen the movie.

My point is: if you're gonna comment on whether a film's good or bad, at least see the movie you're talking about. And if someone says they like ...., you really don't need to try be condescending about it. I'm not saying you did that (that one was Bignick) but there's a lot of conscending attitude floating around some of these posts.



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