When we remember people we tend to try to picture them in a happy way. We don't want to think about when a person was sick with an illness, or fragile and weak from age. We like to remember everyone from loved ones to celebrities when they were in their prime. Stan Lee's physical health has been cataloged as being very poor in his last handful of years, with basically everyone in his orbit taking as much advantage as possible to wring any money from him they could. "Stan Lee: The Final Chapter," contains a bunch of footage regarding Lee's last days and how bad things got. The person behind it is himself surrounded by controversy too, even with the questionable taste of the film aside. I'm not linking to the Kickstarter itself as I do not support it.
I'm not sure I'd want to see Lee in a way besides his energetic, spritely self we all remember. Jon Bolerjack is making a movie all about the terrible ways Lee was milked for money (and sometimes literally blood) but seems to be misrepresenting how important he was to the Stan Lee estate or how much of an effort he made to try to, "Help," Lee as opposed to being with all the handlers, Lee's daughter, and so forth in taking him for everything he was worth. Look, Stan Lee was not a perfect person and screwed plenty of people over, but that doesn't excuse what happened to him in the last years of his life. We should be allowed to live with dignity when we're older and be cared for as opposed to having all the wealth we worked for taken for a ride--specifically out of our pockets. Having this movie as a way to gawk at all the terrible things that happened to Lee as he was in a physical and mental decline already sounds gross, and reading that Bolerjack is by no means the saint he claims to be is making things even worse. I won't be backing this Kickstarter campaign and would advise others to do the same.
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