Sylvester Stallone's Kickstarter backlash

by Charlie Smith on August 25th, 2013 at 10:08 PM

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Like many directors, John Herzfeld decided he could go to Kickstarter to help finance his new movie, Reach Me.

Unlike other directors, Herzfeld recruited one of the most famous movie stars in the world, Sylvester Stallone, to explain why fans should pony up $250,000 to get the film completed.

"Coming to Kickstarter for John is a great move because he is a filmmaker for the people, by the people, and he makes films that are really enjoyable and understandable, about everyday situations that you can identify with," Stallone says in the pitch. "Reach Me is an incredible film. I'm telling you, it is something that is remarkable and it just needs a little finishing touch, and you guys can help provide that."

That caused a couple of YouTube contributors to take to the Internet to express their outrage over Stallone going to the people to get funding for his latest movie when he's worth a reported $275 million.

The first guy, who identifies himself as the Archfiend, gets practically apopletic over Sly's e-begging.

That tends to happen to those who spend too many hours hunched over a computer and not enough time out in the sunshine.

Comments

17 Comments

bigbadbiggie999

Aug 26, 2013 at 11:30am

Yes! Archfiend is on the news

remsobelttilym

Aug 26, 2013 at 1:13pm

Archfiend the God of Youtube!

TriniGuNner

Aug 26, 2013 at 4:43pm

Archfiend!

Robert

Aug 26, 2013 at 11:34pm

Archfiend sucks

Morons

Aug 27, 2013 at 6:40am

I don't like the Archfiend but I like how your whole retort to him is "LOLNERD". Especially since he does seem to have an actual life.

TT

Aug 27, 2013 at 3:43pm

"That tends to happen to those who spend too many hours hunched over a computer and not enough time out in the sunshine."

Way to completely miss the point.

Millionaires have no right to come to the common man begging for money; if Stallone wants this movie to go, he can fund it himself. If it's such a vastly important film to be made, let the millionaire stars take a pay cut (gasp) to make up the difference.

Rather than have that happen, the mega-millionaire stars (let's not forget Spike Lee and Smosh gaming) come to the common man to fund their projects for them so they don't have to take the risk financially of doing so.

And I DO get sun on my face.

TDKreviews

Aug 27, 2013 at 10:05pm

ArchFiend is one of the smartest people I've ever watched. Wish he'd write books.

46rain2

Aug 28, 2013 at 7:16am

Had you done Any research on the Archfiend, you would know he spends a lot of time outside. So next time you're thinking about being a judgmental douche, do what you're Supposed to before writing an article. Research! As far as Stalone goes. Why isn't he finding the movie? If he believes in it and all. Try watching those critical videos again, but this time try to take something from it.

Giovanni Vitacolonna

Aug 28, 2013 at 8:19am

As someone who has an excellent project which I am trying to get up and running, I approached Stallone and his people to help develop it. Little did I know that Stallone was hurting, too. What was I thinking?

Real easy for you to make fun of people who get angry about this exploitation. Doesn't Stallone remember how he got ROCKY going? Maybe he should work for scale. It would save a lot of money. I mean, if it's that good.