An “Insider” Speaks: “Six Days in August” is “Absolute garbage”

[Gadianton]

on the fingers of two hands

I admit that's not a lot of fingers, and it makes you wonder how these folks will be appraised going forward, knowing that one of them by logical necessity must be the mole.

Will it be YOU Brother Green? No, perhaps not -- Sister Stevens, tell me it isn't so! Traitor!

These events must be unfolding intracranially for the time being, but we shall see if the pressure becomes too much to bear as the countdown to release marches forth without a trailer to be had.

[Doctor Scratch]

I suspect that the lack of a trailer is partially due to what Everybody Wang Chung and my “informant” said: the movie is a snooze-fest with serious pacing problems and it’s therefore hard to find enough dramatic “beats” to assemble a decent trailer. Not that that should stop them—why not slap something together like they did for “Witnesses”?

Meanwhile, it may be that the late release of the trailer is due to financial problems. As I recall, they were “begging” for a couple hundred thousand specifically for marketing and distribution costs. So, a trailer might fall within that particular budget category.

I admit that I enjoyed a hearty chuckle today as I watched the Proprietor explode with derision and enraged condescension over a commentator who dared to bring up peer-reviewed research that demonstrates the unreliability of eyewitness accounts. lol! Well, hey: if my “informant” was a legitimate eyewitness to the making of “Six Days in August,” is DCP prepared to defend the validity of his/her statements?

You are right, Dean Robbers: this must be eating them alive. You have to wonder if this “mole” deliberately did things to undermine the project. Maybe inserting obviously anachronistic props into a scene here and there? Maybe allowing a boom Mike to slip into the frame? Messing up scene continuity? Well, they could always bring in Interpreter’s crack team of editors to go over the film with a fine-toothed comb….

[Doctor Scratch]

Excellent points, Tom. Perhaps the role of the “super fans” can be to help the Mopologists take a firmer and more aggressive stance against the Prophet’s unreasonable and untimely request that the Saints abstain from media for a while?

And I agree with you about screening the film beforehand with test audiences. Why not seek out an audience of Community of Christ folks? They could screen it on the grounds of the Kirkland Temple! What an opportunity to prove to everyone that the temple belongs in the hands of the Brighamite faction!

[Moksha]

What's with the name Afore? Where does it come from?

Criticism seems unfair when this entire film project has been plagued by swamp gas. The suggestion that faith-promoting history be replaced by accurate history is ludicrous. Would you want the entire Interpreter team run out of Orem on a rail?

For the next film, using Disneyland for a day to film The Final Battle would be great. We could see Moroni bury the Book of Mormon at the Space Mountain of the Yucatan and then look Celestial-bound at the Magic Kingdom Castle. Adventureland could be the setting of the great battle. Computer-generated Cureloms and Cumoms could be seen gathering up battlefield artifacts such as obsidian swords, injured tapirs, and seer stones afterward.

[drumdude]

What a coincidence, the trailer just released:

https://youtu.be/8JcNJzfDtyY

[Doctor Scratch]

What a coincidence, the trailer just released:

https://youtu.be/8JcNJzfDtyY

Yes, and the Comments are disabled! They must be fearful of criticism. Well, at least the trailer for this one is more "polished" than the initial one for Witnesses. I wonder which part of the movie made DCP cry? Was it the scene where BY denounces Sidney Rigdon? And the over-the-top title cards on this are hilarious. If the movie is a flop, at least they could recoup some of their expenses by offering classes on propaganda filmmaking.

[Everybody Wang Chung]

What a coincidence, the trailer just released:

https://youtu.be/8JcNJzfDtyY

Oh man! This trailer is glorious! I am counting the days until the premiere.

Aside from the awful acting, here are just a few quick observations:

-- at the 10 second mark, you can clearly see the anachronistic asphalt shingles and anachronistic rain gutter
-- at the 46 second mark, you can clearly see the anachronistic exhaust trail of a jet airplane in the sky
-- at the 57 second mark, the 1:29 minute mark, the 1:34 minute mark and several other places, you can clearly see the anachronistic manicured, mowed, fertilized and watered lawn
-- at the 1:06 minute mark, the guy is wearing an anachronistic plaid Newsboy cap, which wasn't manufactured until 1910
-- at the 1:30 minute mark, you can clearly see the anachronistic truck tire marks on the dirt road
-- at the 1:55 minute mark, a woman is clearly wearing anachronistic modern eyeglasses

BUT THE BIGGEST and most HILARIOUS anachronism in the trailer is a subversive subliminal message. Please PM me for the timestamp. I really don't want to draw Afore's attention to this message because he will have it removed asap.

Based on this hilarious message inserted into the film, there are definitely subversive elements working behind the scenes. Six Days In August is leaking like a sieve.



ETA to change: "at the 46 (instead of 37) second mark, you can clearly see the anachronistic exhaust trail of a jet airplane in the sky"



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[Tom]

What a coincidence, the trailer just released:

https://youtu.be/8JcNJzfDtyY

Yes, the timing is ... well, unusual.

In any case, I've emailed the link to the Little Old Lady (from Pasadena Ward), the Relief Society sister in Parowan, and the Old High Priest in Ogden for their reactions.

Two months ago, I wrote:

It will be interesting to see whether Six Days in August will include a scene depicting a blind man jumping up during Brigham Young's speech to proclaim, "Joseph is not dead; he's speaking to us!" or the like.

00:01:49: Brigham Young declares, "We have all done the best we could without [someone says, "Joseph"]. We will now have to walk by faith, not by sight." Cue the blind man (shown at 00:01:55 sitting behind the woman in a blue dress)? One note: the congregation looks rather small. (Ron Walker has written: "The congregation included perhaps six thousand or more.")

I am looking forward to October.

[Doctor Scratch]

I am looking forward to October.

Indeed. I see that they are proposing an October 10 release date, which means that if the rumors concerning a “media fast” are correct, then no obedient LDS will see the movie until much later, which will completely destroy its opening weekend box office figures.

Then again, there are other possibilities. Maybe the delay of the trailer was because they were waiting for confirmation from the COB that Nelson is *not* going to request the “media fast.” That said, it’s not as if the apologists have much of an issue with just ignoring what the Brethren say. Hence why the Proprietor hasn’t signed up for a senior mission.

[Bond]

The jet streams (:47) and power lines (:09) really helped get me into the 19th century state of mind.