Audacity

"Audacity" is the latest project from Ray Comfort (aka "the banana man"). This time Comfort and his friends have raised their ambitions (after movies like "180", "Evolution vs God" and "Noah") and actually made a movie (although less than feature length) with a story and real actors (actors we've never heard about before and whose careers are probably dead after this film).

But, as usual in a Ray Comfort movie, the big hero is Ray Comfort playing himself. We get lots of footage of his trademark street interviews. This time the topic is homosexuality, and Comfort uses his brilliant intellect to convince his interviewees (all intelligent interviewees are, as always, left on the cutting room floor) that homosexuality is evil. Because the Bible says so. Meanwhile, we have the story of Peter and Diana. Peter is a Christian who knows homosexuality is evil. Diana doesn't agree but after seeing Ray Comfort's brilliant Youtube videos she will inevitably change her mind. The tag line of the film is "Love can't stay silent", and our protagonist, Peter, shows his Christian love by never missing a chance to preach to the gays or break up their relationships. Becauase as always in the Orwellian world of Ray Comfort's god, love is hate, hate is love. This film exists only to tell homosexuals they must change, to remind others they must never accept homosexuals for who they are but, in the name of "love", always remind them of how wretched and sinful they are, and (last but not least) to provide Ray Comfort with another ego boost. And I'm a sucker who was so curious about this movie I actually paid to see it before it's going to be released for free on Youtube.

He tweeted "Atheists hijacked IMDb and gave "Audacity" bad reviews. Feel free to leave yours" in an effort to get a higher rating by people who didn't even see the movie. I'm tired of this fake, money grubbing, evil jerk pandering to his crowd by demonizing atheists. He needs to crawl back into the Bronze Age hole he came out of. This movie is also a joke. What is not a joke is homophobia and the persecution of people this movie intends to incite. This movie is propaganda at its worst. No self-respecting human being would watch this garbage. It is simply a piece of trash designed to take the money from people who believe it already. Any movie theater that shows this should be shamed and anyone who sees it should be ashamed of themselves. I would give this a zero out of ten if I could.

Most of the top star reviews are from Comfort's Facebook page, rallying supporters to tout the movie as the next best thing since gasoline. Do not be fooled, and find something better and less nausea inducing. Of course, if you happen to share the bigoted views of this trash production, you'll suck down this bucket of chum like it's bacon sundae night at Dairy Queen. Honestly, I had more fun watching Plan 9 from Outer Space, or even Psychos in Love. Those were terrible. I think I will use my copy to cause that awkward moment that makes unwelcome guests finally leave. Maybe Banana Man will have better luck with his next dumpster-dive into the film industry. Probably not.

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a spoiler but if you've ever seen a Ray Comfort evangelical tract or a clip of Ray Comfort's ham-fisted approach to preaching, nothing here will be new.

There is no question in my mind Comfort has deliberately presented an unbalanced set of responses in the interview/preachy section. We know this is probably the case because some of his interviewees in EvolutionVsGod explained that Comfort cut important parts of their answers out of his final edit in order to manipulate the material to his preferred end. Comfort is a devious and dangerous buffoon.

$300,000 worth of donations to create a bit of confirmation bias for the religious, anti-gay fringe element was no doubt a good bit of business, but Ray Comfort will always be remembered as the man who tried desperately to pump the brakes and then slam society into reverse.

Meanwhile, common sense continues to prevail and love has won.

Forget about the political motivation of hate towards the gay community. I am not an activist trying to demolish this movies reputation. I think anyone who thinks that is actually happening is delusional and unwilling to admit who dreadfully amateurish this film is. It is just plain bad. Terribly directed. Awful actors. The dialog is contrived. The clothing is hokey. The plot is loose and unrealistic. I wouldn't force my worst enemy to watch this movie. My baby brother could make a better movie with GI Joes and an iPhone. I think I made a better movie when I accidentally filmed the inside of my pocket. I understand that not everyone agrees with the LGBT community but anyone making a movie so badly just for the sake of spreading hate shouldn't be offended by the reviews that rate it for what it is... One of the worst pieces of videology to ever grace a screen of any kind.