Destroying the paper makes no sense

Look, I like this movie, it's charming, it has great humor and fun premise and all that. Great acting performances and it looks very polished, yada yada.

However, not a LOT about it makes much sense once the time travel stuff starts, and it gets crazier and more nonsensical as.. time goes on?

In any case, the whole 'this paper makes us famous'-bit makes absolutely no sense. I have written before how the editors come at the wrong moment, they want the paper desperately, but then kill everyone and just leave the paper there, so how the heck would the dead people become famous just because there's some paper on a table?

This time I want to focus on a couple of more thoughtless things about it that also make no sense. First, it's not the PAPER that's important, is it? It's the IDEA he wrote down. They all read the paper, so they all know and remember the idea, so WHAT is preventing any of them from writing it down again and becoming famous, OR just not writing it down and becoming famous anyway because they utilize the idea somewhere (taking it to a publisher, for example)?

Also, wouldn't them dying in the pub accomplish the same thing as destroying the paper (why does it have to be BURNED instead of torn to pieces etc.?) anyway? They die, so they can't become famous, game over. The paper gets destroyed, so it isn't taken to any publisher, game over. Same thing as far as 'becoming famous' is concerned.

As 'Kathy' said, the editors would kill Kevin Costner AFTER he made the wolf movie, not BEFORE.. so why would the editors want to kill these three BEFORE they become famous?

Also also, why would the 'painting' have them all wear the clothes they were wearing, if they become famous afterwards? Why would any publisher (let alone future non-timetraveling people) know what they were wearing in the pub? Why would the weird, dirty clothes and the pub even be relevant at all and show him writing something, when he DID NOT WRITE it wearing those clothes and in the pub?

It might be shorter list to write what DOES make sense in this movie.. why would the editor ask him to give her the paper, if she's gonna just leave the paper on the table after killing everyone? Why would the painting depict Pete wearing the hat when he immediately takes it off after they sit down? Why would anyone even know what they were wearing in the pub, that's NOT RELEVANT to how they become famous..?

The less said about the paradoxical, weird ending with the parallel universes and all, the better. I wish the time travel leak was at least explained a bit better, and we would be told where the 'future them' were in the party.

However, there can't ever BE that future party, because it never happened, since they never became famous.. did they get whisked to another timeline, where they did become famous in the original one, because they surely can't do that in this timeline due to the 'editors'..?

So do the editors kill people just in SOME timeline, but not in others? There had to have been a timeline where the editors DIDN'T kill the people, for them to even have been able to become famous in the first place, right? How else would the editors even know about them? So they HAD to leave at least one timeline 'unedited', which means 'our guys' are just very unlucky to have ended up in an 'edited' timeline..

Why would going to a parallel universe help, if the timeline(s) is (are) screwed up, or do they have different timelines there? Can't there be different timelines in the same universe?

This movie actually poses more questions than it answers, so the title is sort of accurate; it's just common for a 'FAQ' to actually ANSWER those questions, too, which this movie doesn't even attempt.

I could even forgive that, if at least something made some kind of sense... even the beginning really doesn't - WHAT kid goes to a ride in amusement park, then starts to cry and the boss immediately comes to interrupt the whole thing? Kids cry in amusement parks all the time, it's part of the fun to go on a scary ride that makes you cry, what the heck?

I want a movie that makes sense, I would pay 100 euros without blinking an eye for one (I would pay more, but I am poor).