Reasonable Man

Yes. All available information suggests that your script would not be a successful movie.

There was no "good news" for poker. Quit being weird.

Look, I'm not here to denigrate this guy, and in fact part of me is still sort of interested in investing in this. He just hasn't acquitted himself very well by the way that he has acted, and I'm still far from sure that this is actually a script worth investing in. I realize your response will be about multiple awards, but I'm still skeptical unless the OP can add some credibility to these awards by pointing to scripts that entered the contests and actually ended up being turned into films.

I mean it wasn't Citizen Kane or anything, but it also wasn't an atrocious pile of dung.

Well, until said creative geniuses have gotten their foot in the door, they'd be wise to stay humble, or at least to fake humility. You catch more flies with honey and all that.

I mean I liked Rounders (my avatar probably gives that away though).

This was how I felt at first too, which is why I was interested in investing, but Gerry Burlage's continued behavior of lashing out personally at everyone who criticizes him put me off. That, and the review I quoted a bit ago casts serious doubt on the actual quality of this script. I think that we would all love to see another good poker movie get made, but more and more it seems that this isn't the script, or the author, that is going to give it to us.

I'm still curious as to why he thinks that he's got a bunch of people out to destroy him. Like that just sounds delusional.

I mean I guess I don't really understand why people would want to destroy you? Like what's the motive?

Ummm...it seems like you valued those credentials enough to send him your script? Then he only became "unqualified" when he didn't like the script. Seems legit.

Again, that's him not enjoying them. That's not him saying that they're commercially unviable. He said that your script was commercially unviable, and considering that he works in Hollywood I'm hardly able to ignore that.

I would need to see where he said this to actually see some context. My first guess is that he doesn't personally like them, which is a separate judgment from whether or not they could actually succeed (which they obviously do).

As an avid poker player who has enough money to make a competitive offer for a script like this, I had a fairly significant interest in possibly looking into investing in it. However, some quick sleuthing around the net turned up this review of Vegas Knights from a tough but seemingly fair reviewer: "Your script is very bad. The characters are boring, cliched and uninteresting. I didn't care what happens to them at any point while reading the script. The plot is uninteresting, predictable, and lame. This will never, ever be a real poker movie. Sorry." I realize that's just one man's o