So, I had my first encounter with someone being rude over a crappy screener. Look over to the left side of the screen and read where Aleata wrote that she is "brutally honest in reviews". I'm not going to sugarcoat anything, If I think your movie is bad, I'm going to say so. Anyways let's get back to this person. I was being constantly harassed by this person to review their movie over and over again. I have a busy life, and also get quite a few movies to review. So being harassed constantly by this person pissed me off pretty bad. Then after I finally post the review, obviously it wasn't to the person's liking, because they went straight into ignore mode. Listen here, If I take time out of my day to write a review about your movie, which is promoting it anyways to my readers, don't cope a fucking attitude with me! You know beforehand that I'm not going to be kissing everyone's asses, have you read half of my reviews? If you're rude to me, do you think I'm going to want to review anymore of your crappy(Or perhaps good) movies? Pry fucking not!
If you send me a request to even watch a movie, I'm on it, eventually. Haha. I'm pretty cool when it comes to helping out independent filmmakers, etc. If you are polite and ask me to review your movie, I'm going to review it. But don't get a tude with me if it's not to your liking. I'm not going to lie to my readers, everything you read here is exactly how I feel, and what I think about these things. So please, in the future, be polite, or I won't deal with you again. Period. You are the one coming to me for help, so please know how to act. Let's just say if you don't want anything bad said about your movies, then don't make movies. Somewhere along the line your going to have to deal with criticism, that's how things work. I review movies. That's what I do. Remember that.
I'm the same way and you have every right to feel the way you do. When it comes to indie films, I do feel bad writing bad reviews if they're horrible. But it's the law of the land and you have to be honest with not only the people who read your stuff, but to yourself as well. So bravo for sticking to your guns.
ReplyDeleteRight on Fred! It's like if a movie is really bad, I'm not going to suggest it to people to buy/rent and then have them be like, "what the hell"? I don't slam every movie if there's good lighting, or acting, etc. I'll point it out. I guess most indie filmmakers just expect to get amazing reviews and praise for their movies, when not everyone is going to like them. People have to deal with the criticism sometime,that's life.
ReplyDeleteThere's just no reason for them to take their anger out on the writers if they get a bad review. It's our job to write reviews honestly.
ReplyDeletepissing somebody off with a review = you doing something right.
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ReplyDeleteI hate when that happens!! If you want a favorable review, how about making a good movie? And if you want nothing but favorable reviews, then show the film to your mother. She'll love it!!
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