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Unbelievable!
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Posted on Feb 14 2005
I cannot believe that Joe Weindl would be so cavalier as to give a movie an “F” grade without even watching it! Nor can I believe that any self-respecting, albeit self-styled, movie critic would judge any movie—much less an independent one—on the amount of money it earned in a one-week run.
Contrary to Weindl’s low grade, Baptists at our Barbecue, now showing at our local Hollywood Theatre, is a very enjoyable film. It is light-hearted, it is funny, it is told in very human terms. There are no super-heroes, there is no violence, there is no unacceptable language. It is, all told, quite a delightful film for the entire family.
Yes, it is an independent film, made with minimum funding, and it has a couple of errors, if you will, but it also carries a message meaningful to all of us—that it doesn’t matter what people profess to on the outside—on the inside they are all the same, and all equally vulnerable, equally likeable.
Weindl, if he had been a true critic, would have made much more of the fact that the local theatre has finally deigned to offer to its long-suffering audience an independent film! We should all go see it—just to prove that independent films are at least as popular, can be equally profitable moneymakers, as are the commercialized Hollywood-type films we are otherwise subjected to.
Ruth Tighe
Tanapag, Saipan
