1. Dylan Avery has made several preposterous claims for the release of the movie, like that it will be in 3000 theaters in 12 countries. If he can't meet those claims, it's his own fault.
Ah, that is a valid point. Over-hyping and over-selling always ends badly.
2. Loose Change is ostensibly a documentary about a current event, meaning it is sensitive to time. The fifth anniversary of 9-11 was probably the best time to put the thing out, (snip)
True. But, that, alone, is not a reason to bash it.
You
should bash the movie for its focus on assumptions, in place of facts, etc. Not because it missed its best window of opportunity.
3. Various LC-related news items have revealed that Dylan is not very far along in the movie-making process. I can think of two off the top my head: the news about Charlie Sheen being unsure if he would be narrator, and Alex Jones announcing he would be a financier for the movie. How can the movie be anywhere near finished if he's still getting the funding and performance contracts ironed out?
Hell, I am making progress in my film, bit by bit, and I
still have some major casting issues to iron out!
This may be a result of bad management and lack of resources, on both our parts. But, that alone, is no reason to chortle at them.
I would like to see you, (assuming you have no major connections in the movie industry), try to produce one of these things! It ain't so easy!
If these delays are actually caused by their theories constantly getting splattered when presented with contrary facts, then
that would be a reason to laugh! ("Silly Twoofers, demolition tricks are for experts!")
4. Dylan Avery has been very busy doing radio shows, trying to get on TV shows, putting out press releases, and making Internet posts instead of working on the final cut, as satirized in
this poorly-drawn comic strip I made.
I have been very busy going to work, watching movies, assembling some sort of social life, participating in LARPs, traveling to conventions, and posting stuff on this Forum.
Some people like their plates a little full.
5. Most amateur filmmakers aren't equating themselves with Nelson Mandela, or saying that their pet projects are going to change the course of world history.
Ah, another valid point. Ego and arrogance tend to make things end badly.
(At least I have enough sense to claim I might be not better than Ed Wood, in the end.)
Given the tremendous gravitas of Loose Change's allegations, you'd think finishing the movie would be a tiny bit more important to Dylan Avery than having Internet squabbles with Killtown and the no-planers.
Is that really eating at lot of his time? Hell, I get into Internet squabbles, every now and then. But, I don't let them take up gratuitous amounts of time.
If a 9-11 conspiracy film was ever going to become a mainstream phenomenon, someone else would have made it by now.
I do not doubt that. But, such a statement, alone, is no argument against the film.
Loose Change Final Cut (assuming it ever gets completed) will certainly
not be worth anyone's time to watch. But, the reasons will probably have more to do with its veneer-thin arguments, bad physics, possibly out-of-context statements, lack of compelling evidence, disrespect for those involved in the event, and the annoying actor chosen for its voice over. Not because it was
delayed beyond reason.
But, for this thread, we could focus on his mistake of over-hyping and over-ego-inflating himself, if you wish.
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