Are you saying they edited different sentences together?
You're apparently assuming that all we saw on film was the whole shebang of footage. That's like walking in on an argument & assuming everything you witness from the point we walk in onward is the entire discussion. From what you witness you might get a certain perspective but without knowing what was said BEFORE you walked in, you have no idea what else was said!
Who knows, except for those that were there, what else was said? For all we know, Mustaine may have stated some pretty hard truths very conherently & very well. We'll never know b/c I HIGHLY doubt the unaired stuff will ever be shown for public consumption. As was stated before, for the segment the film makers may have needed a 'villian' or, in this case, 'sad sack' & some of Mustaine's footage fit the bill.
Then again, he actually may have spent the whole time bitching, lol!
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Druff
14 years ago
I never said that I believed Mustaine spent the entire session being whiny. I never said he was whiny 100% of the time. All I know is that he is definitely a whiny person, because they show him whining. You're right, for all we know, they might have another 17 hours of additional footage where Mustaine isn't being whiny. But... so what? That wouldn't magically negate the 15 minutes we see of him whining.
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willydoe71
14 years ago
Well, to be fair, you're whining about Dave Mustaine behing a whiny person based on a few minutes of a movie. So, based on that logic, are we safe to assume that you are a whiny person as well?
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Druff
14 years ago
Assume whatever the hell you want.
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philZman
14 years ago
I agree that blaming this on editing is pretty childish. Unless they edited sentences together. It's not like they followed him around a full year and only "edited" the whiny parts in. This was a conversation boiled down to a few minutes and they showed him whining A LOT.
Whether or not he was whining the other time he was being filmed, who cares? We've witnessed him whining first hand that "everything he's done has backfired" which is insulting to his band members, his fans and to every musician out there that would give his liver for 10% of Megadeth's recognition.
I think Metallica were *beep* for the way they kicked Mustaine out. No pre-warning, no second chances, just a wakeup and a bus ticket. But this was in the early 80s and since then Dave's been touring the world and influencing generations of metal people. He's succeeded, and to see him whining about it instead of being grateful was really, really low.
I think Lars said it perfectly in that interview: "Do I feel guilty? Yes I do. But it's difficult for me to comprehend why all these years, everything you've been doing is rooted to Metallica" (paraphrasing, sorry, haven't seen this movie in a while)
Mustaine is a great musician but his attitude and insecurities have both dragged down and insulted his fellow band members and fans.
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MrBook_
12 years ago
I think what I would have liked out of that scene is a context for it. I think that's what people are talking about with editing, not necessarily chopping things up to change the meaning. What did he say before he said the stuff that got into the movie? And more than that, what is he like normally? That's what bugs me the most. Say what you want about Dave Mustaine, but one thing he's not, ordinarily at least, is a sad-sack. He's arrogant, confrontational, and well-spoken. So when they show only this remarkable footage of him being all sad about his relationship with Metallica, with no context, it leaves people who don't know anything about these guys with a warped impression of Dave Mustaine, but even more jarringly, people who know what he's like are left going, What the f`ck? What led up to this?? It's so unexpected that it deserves an explanation. It's one of the few notable flaws in an otherwise really good documentary.
END THE WARS. TAX THE RICH.
THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE.
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