Feel stuck/lack of progress? Unrealistic expectations?

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A common mistake that companies make when they have surveys is to fail to ask about how much the survey takers would pay for a feature or what other features they would be willing to give up in order to have one. Even if it is a legitimate review that is based on the merits and positive, that doesn't necessarily mean that the reviewer would pay any money for it. They may well just think they'd like to watch it if it were on, but wouldn't really go out of their way to get it, and certainly wouldn't pay for it.

You seem to be a bit disingenuous in the way you argue.

You keep whining about other people needing ambition, and implying that they're jealous of yours, but when those same other people tell you what they already do and have done, you ignore the accomplishment and try to turn things into an insult by implying that they just got defensive.

Now you're back to telling people they should be more ambitious (like you of course), but if we list off more things we've done, will that make us sound ambitious, or will you just treat it like defensiveness again?

Even if it was defensive, it's still also quite ambitions - and d'ya suppose maybe people got "defensive" cos you claimed they lacked motivation, couldn't understand success, and had insecurities related to a lack of influence in life? Were you expecting to be able to just accuse people of such things, and they would just go "oh my, you're right, I'd better go re-evaluate my life"...? Or were you just not expecting that the people you were speaking to already have a number of ambitious accomplishments.

You keep bringing up how people are salty cos they can't influence things. Is that another confession? Despite all your talk of being able to shape your world as you want, you haven't really been able to, have you? If I recall correctly, your script isn't the only thing not going how you want, is it? And you haven't been able to influence us, either. And it really seems to bother you.

As for your insinuation that I might feel one way or another about a supposed "lack of influence" in my life, I'm afraid I can't agree with that either - much like your comment about ambition and supposed lack there of, it's quite mistaken - I do in fact possess / carry a satisfying amount of influence in my life, and do not feel lacking in that regard any more so than I do regarding ambition or accomplishing dreams.

You are half correct about my inability to influence the sale of your script. Nothing I do could possibly make it sell. I don't have to do anything to prevent it from selling, it's already not-selling without any intervention from me. Neither of these facts bother me. It's not my script, I have no horse in the race.

Let's be blunt - in the last 12 years, your script has earned you zero money, and cost you, according to you, thousands of dollars from having people edit it. In the last month I've made about a thousand dollars just doing side gigs here and there, related to my passions and dreams - specifically, modified cars and high-end computers.

Oh but wait, that's right, you "know" you're gonna make a big fat stack off of your script. Some day. Sure.



Show me the money instead of just talk, and then hit me up about self-reflection. In the meantime, I'll gladly stack my "have done" and "am doing" against your "gonna do, someday, maybe, definitely".

Oh, and do tell us how your law firm meeting goes. I'd still like to know what you expect them to do for you. Yes yes, I know what services they OFFER, I want to know specifically which service you plan to retain from them. I have no way of knowing which service you plan to use, from the many they tend to offer.

I’m aware of how it works. I don’t think that even your idea is strong enough. It seems rather cliched as do the characters and dialogue. Due to these and other issues, I’m not invested enough to care about what happens next. Especially when you’re starting from scratch, it needs to be very strong and not comparable to something they likely receive on a daily basis from other people wanting to “make it big.”

I’m not trying to discourage you when I say that. I just think that you need to keep on working on your goals so you can accomplish some of them.

It was reasonable for us to conclude that honest opinions were welcome here given that “unrealistic expectations?” is in the title and comments like the following were made:Then when that didn’t go your way, you chose to say that only opinions from folks who are “qualified” matter:After it was established that I have a BA in English, you decided to go with: being in the film industry is a necessary requirement to have a valid opinion here. It seems like you are grasping at straws to dismiss opinions you don’t like. If I had said that the script was perfect and that it was sure to bring you fortune and fame, I don’t think you would’ve brought up the issue of qualifications or made insinuations about me and another member. With that being said, it’s okay not to want critical feedback, but you might want to make that clear next time rather than claim to be open to “any thoughts” one may have on your work.