Audacity

It's actually shocking how terrible this "movie" is. It's almost funny but then you realize it's serious and he really does think being gay is a choice and all you gays should just stop gaying around already. Complete disregard for science, self-righteous proselytizing by Ray Comfort, and pure ignorant hatefulness that put a knot in my stomach more than once. I could talk about the terrible writing, the weird (possibly overdubbed?) interviews, and the kindergarten plot, but I really just can't get past how distasteful, factually inaccurate, and insulting the anti-gay rhetoric is.

TL;DR - Do you hate gays? You'll love this movie! Do you hate bigotry? You might want to skip this movie.

"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.

I'd like to say this is typical Ray Dumfart tripe but it's worse than that even. I don't know where Banana Man found worse actors than Kirk Cameron but I guess God works in mysterious ways, huh. The "plot" is nothing but an excuse to proselytize his religious bigotry towards homosexuals, with some self-grandiosing & publicity for his YouTube videos thrown in. The one positive thing I can say for this pathetic excuse for a "movie" is that it's only 1 hour long & not 90 mins (although if you can actually make it to the end in one go without throwing random objects at your screen you're doing better than me. If you're familiar at all with Ray then you know exactly what to expect, & if you're not, do yourself a favour & keep it that way by avoiding this piece of excrement.

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.

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.