Director Proyas Destroys PC Film Critics

Gods of Egypt is currently playing, haven’t seen it, but apparently the movie is taking a financial beating.  I’m sure Gerard Butler is glad he’s going to be able to say ‘And now for my next trick, shit’s about to get stabby’ soon after this bomb.

However, the film has also taken a critical beating.  And a political one.  Too many white people who simply cannot check their privilege and accept employment.  Proyas though, is not happy with this line of thinking.  Those “who think for themselves and make up their own opinions” are “nearly all dead.” The full post can be found here, here’s an excerpt:

“I guess I have the knack of rubbing reviewers the wrong way – always have. This time of course they have bigger axes to grind – they can rip into my movie while trying to make their mainly pale asses look so politically correct by screaming ‘white-wash!!’ like the deranged idiots they all are. They fail to understand, or chose to pretend to not understand what this movie is, so as to serve some bizarre consensus of opinion which has nothing to do with the movie at all.

That’s ok, this modern age of texting will probably make them go the way of the dinosaur or the newspaper shortly – don’t movie-goers text their friends with what they thought of a movie? Seems most critics spend their time trying to work out what most people will want to hear. How do you do that? Why these days it is so easy… just surf the net to read other reviews or what bloggers are saying – no matter how misguided an opinion of a movie might be before it actually comes out.

Lock a critic in a room with a movie no one has even seen and they will not know what to make of it. Because contrary to what a critic should probably be they have no personal taste or opinion, because they are basing their views on the status quo. None of them are brave enough to say ‘well I like it’ if it goes against consensus. Therefore they are less than worthless.

Now that anyone can post their opinion about anything from a movie to a pair of shoes to a hamburger, what value do they have – nothing. Roger Ebert wasn’t bad. He was a true film lover at least, a failed film-maker, which gave him a great deal of insight. His passion for film was contagious and he shared this with his fans. He loved films and his contribution to cinema as a result was positive. Now we have a pack of diseased vultures pecking at the bones of a dying carcass. Trying to peck to the rhythm of the consensus. I applaud any film-goer who values their own opinion enough to not base it on what the pack-mentality say is good or bad.

From my limited experience covering movies I can tell you that if you want to get ahead, you need to kiss ass, lie and outright mislead your readers. Then they’ll send you SWAG and invite you to nice places.