<story><title>Wish I was here by Zach Braff</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869987317/wish-i-was-here-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Hold on, the original Garden State cost only 3.5 million to produce. You&apos;re telling me Braff doesn&apos;t have 3.5 million to finance this thing or get a loan from a traditional outlet/rich friends/George Harrison&apos;s Estate?&lt;p&gt;It sounds like this is his pet project, with him starring, and him getting most of the profits, but he wants his fans to take all the risk? Seems off to me.  Granted, he may not want to personally take on the risk, which is understandable, but its a personal vanity project no one is demanding.  Just bankroll it, Zach.&lt;p&gt;Kickstarter being used by well funded celebrities who just want to minimize their risk to zero seems wrong to me. It should be for startups and good ideas that can&apos;t get funding elsewhere.</text></item><item><author>podperson</author><text>Here&apos;s what I think is missing from this kickstarter (and was a huge part of the Veronica Mars kickstarter success) -- you can&apos;t pay a reasonable amount of money and &lt;i&gt;get the final product&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I realize he probably can&apos;t sell advance tickets (beyond special cases like opening night) but how about, say, the DVD/Bluray/iTunes/Amazon version when it becomes available. I&apos;m not a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; Zach Braff fan, but I liked Scrubs a lot, and I enjoyed Garden State. I would totally pay $20 to get the production diary + digital version when it becomes available.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the &quot;pay me to make this movie/tv series and if I get the money I will deliver it to you&quot; model is the future for a lot of entertainment (especially for known quantities like -- say -- the people who produced Stargate SG-1). The inefficiency of paying a network to speculatively create and back TV shows based on guesstimated potential advertising revenue and a tiny chance of a massive payoff if the show is a hit is horrendous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webwright</author><text>He&apos;s worth about 22million (according to a google search).  I imagine much of that might be tied up in stocks/real estate, etc.  3.5M is not a trivial sum at that level of wealth.&lt;p&gt;He could certainly borrow it (with interest), but why?  Fans aren&apos;t taking risk-- they are buying something that they want.&lt;p&gt;Rich/influential people can dodge most risk.  Example: the top 7% of the US had their net worths soar 28% from 2009-2011.  The rest of us lost 4%.  (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-economy-wealth-20130423,0,3711482.story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-economy-wealt...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></comment>
<story><title>Wish I was here by Zach Braff</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1869987317/wish-i-was-here-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Hold on, the original Garden State cost only 3.5 million to produce. You&apos;re telling me Braff doesn&apos;t have 3.5 million to finance this thing or get a loan from a traditional outlet/rich friends/George Harrison&apos;s Estate?&lt;p&gt;It sounds like this is his pet project, with him starring, and him getting most of the profits, but he wants his fans to take all the risk? Seems off to me.  Granted, he may not want to personally take on the risk, which is understandable, but its a personal vanity project no one is demanding.  Just bankroll it, Zach.&lt;p&gt;Kickstarter being used by well funded celebrities who just want to minimize their risk to zero seems wrong to me. It should be for startups and good ideas that can&apos;t get funding elsewhere.</text></item><item><author>podperson</author><text>Here&apos;s what I think is missing from this kickstarter (and was a huge part of the Veronica Mars kickstarter success) -- you can&apos;t pay a reasonable amount of money and &lt;i&gt;get the final product&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I realize he probably can&apos;t sell advance tickets (beyond special cases like opening night) but how about, say, the DVD/Bluray/iTunes/Amazon version when it becomes available. I&apos;m not a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; Zach Braff fan, but I liked Scrubs a lot, and I enjoyed Garden State. I would totally pay $20 to get the production diary + digital version when it becomes available.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the &quot;pay me to make this movie/tv series and if I get the money I will deliver it to you&quot; model is the future for a lot of entertainment (especially for known quantities like -- say -- the people who produced Stargate SG-1). The inefficiency of paying a network to speculatively create and back TV shows based on guesstimated potential advertising revenue and a tiny chance of a massive payoff if the show is a hit is horrendous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwallaceparker</author><text>&amp;#62; Kickstarter being used by well funded celebrities who just want to minimize their risk to zero seems wrong to me. It should be for startups and good ideas that can&apos;t get funding elsewhere.&lt;p&gt;Shouldn&apos;t the users of Kickstarter determine whether a project is worthy?&lt;p&gt;You have personal reasons for not funding this project but seem to suggest that other people shouldn&apos;t be allowed to fund it either.&lt;p&gt;If Kickstarter users think they&apos;re getting value for their money, let them fund the project.</text></comment>