LDSGator

If I misunderstood I apologize. I remember my Grandfather and Uncles often referring to their Italian friends like “that Italian guy down the street? Yeah, he’s a great mechanic.” Not an insult, the Italian guy in the neighborhood did own a garage. (Not verbatim but similar comments, for the record) Or, “We go to the Irish church, the French people go to that one.” That’s what I was talking about. That terminology wasn’t popular when I was growing up.

Why would a Christian filmmaker bother making movies for a crowd that 1) will just complain anyway and 2) won’t go to the movie in the first place? I’m serious. If you knew those were the outcomes you wouldn’t do it either.

Sort of, but it’s dying out. The Baby Boomers might have referred to their friends with ethnic jokes and stereotypes but if you do that now you’ll get strange looks.

Catholic background too. I’m praying for your family bro-sorry I can’t offer advice.

I spit out my orange juice!!! 🤣

@mordorbund-he’ll work on that one after he finishes the sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show. 😉

That’s awesome. Lol.

Well, you and I are friends. So @Carborendum may be on to something.

I feel the same way about all those movies. Bizarrely, I had someone rant on my FB about how good Top Gun was and how everyone “Patriotic American” has a “requirement” to see the movie. All I could think of was “Really?”

Everyone does this, to be fair.

Sorry bro. 😞

100% correct.

and you can legit sing, so you have the talent. You’ve also tried to “make it.” @Ironhold and @LDSGator need to stay in our lanes. The only comparison I have (and it’s a lousy comparison) is my martial arts “career”. Which bombed when I realized in two seconds that my best jump turning 45 kicks did nothing against my opponent. Even more sad was this was a B tournament. We’re not talking Olympics here.

Yeah, it’s gross to think of, that’s for sure.

I know this sounds gross, but everyone has to remember that I didn’t grow up LDS, or in 70’s. Up until I joined the church, I thought Donny and Marie were husband and wife, and even then I didn’t think about them much

And again, you proved my point. Their record sales were awful so they had to create something else. And oh yeah, these guys created “Gabba Gabba”

That’ll make them some money, but even with all that they are still the extremely rare exception. Also, everything I said about their band is still true. If it was so easy, guys with talent like @The Folk Prophet would have figured out the formula twenty years ago.

@Ironhold, you just proved my point. In 16 years these guys have about 270,000 album sales. In sixteen years. You might like them, but that’s peanuts.

Sure, you can name one band that a few people know about it. The Aquabats are not a household name, either. What you aren’t naming are the thousands of comic writers, authors and bands who have tried and failed.

I fall squarely in this category. I’ve been kicking around our conversation a bit as well. I feel sorry for LDS artists of all types. Even in Utah, I’m not sure there are enough LDS who are willing to pay money for your comic book, music, or movie. Are there some? Absolutely, but in order to make a living off it you have to appeal to a mass audience.

Some humor.

In fact, more I think about it you could argue many crimes done in negligence aren’t based in “hate”. They should still be crimes of course. “Hate” is a strong word. I’ve seen guys push each other around (assault) then five minutes later act like nothing happened.

Speeding is a crime as well, and could be purposeful. It’s illegal and should be but not done in hate.

We agree fully here my friend.

I think one of the fundamental problems with liberalism is that it doesn’t understand that you can’t just throw money at a problem and make it go away. Give money to a drug addict and she’ll spend it on heroin. Give a house to an untreated mentally ill person and he’ll burn it down because the voices in his head tell him to. It’s not funny, it’s sad.