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I really can't stand the new Netflix style documentaries as you call them. Like, there's no coherent sentence or point being made by the speaker when it's liter

I really can't stand the new Netflix style documentaries as you call them. Like, there's no coherent sentence or point being made by the speaker when it's literally not even full sentences just parts of sentences being strung together. It's really disorienting and obviously any nuance that the original interviewee was trying to get across is completely lost when every word they say is taken out of context into whatever the point is that the editors wanted to make. How are people enjoying this?

4m1rk 4y ago
I suppose it's all because of the topic or the content itself. They try to use any technique to keep the view and to make it longer. They sometimes build miniseries from something that could be an hour max.
JumpCrisscross 4y ago
Is there a good example of this style?
- joshlemer 4y ago
  The Netflix documentary "13th" comes to mind. At about the 19 minute mark: Speaker 1: The election of ronald reagan was in many ways transformative in a negative sense Speaker 2: President Richard Nixon was the first to coin the term "a war on drugs" but president ronald reagan turned that rhetorical war into a literal war Reagan: It's back to school time for america's children, and while drug and alcohol abuse cuts across all generations, it's especially damaging to our young people on whom our future depends Speaker 2: The modern war on drugs was declared by ronald reagan in 1982 Reagan: As we mobilize for this national crusade, I'm mindful that drugs are a constant temptation for millions: Speaker 3: Popular opinion polls of the day show that it wasn't an issue for most people in the United States. But reagan was determined to put this onto the agenda to define it as a problem Reagan: A war against drugs is a war of individual battles Speaker 3: Reagan used his wife for example in this "just say no" campaign Reagan: She has helped so many of our young people to say no to drugs. Nancy, much credit belongs to you Clip of 80s anti drug commercial: This is your brain. This is drugs (cracks egg into pan). This is your brain on drugs. Speaker 4: I joined it. And some people said... I think that's a pretty decent example
- atchoo 4y ago
  There is this satire of Netflix documentaries that sums the style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUrNe3Vhtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUrNe3Vhtk
m463 4y ago
Sort of loosely related. when I first streamed netflix years ago - my queue was full of 5-star movies and shows to watch. As I worked my way through my queue I developed a pattern. Everything I hadn't watched became 5-star documentaries. I would develop "documentary fatigue" where there were so many well-documented, well produced and important issues to learn about, that I would quickly saturate and at that point I wouldn't watch documentaries anymore. I would literally put 2-star scifi movies with unbelievable monsters or cataclysms before all the 5-star documentaries.
- xu3u32 4y ago
  What do you mean by 5-star? 5 on netflix? imdb?

4m1rk 4y ago

I suppose it's all because of the topic or the content itself. They try to use any technique to keep the view and to make it longer. They sometimes build miniseries from something that could be an hour max.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago

Is there a good example of this style?

joshlemer 4y ago
The Netflix documentary "13th" comes to mind. At about the 19 minute mark: Speaker 1: The election of ronald reagan was in many ways transformative in a negative sense Speaker 2: President Richard Nixon was the first to coin the term "a war on drugs" but president ronald reagan turned that rhetorical war into a literal war Reagan: It's back to school time for america's children, and while drug and alcohol abuse cuts across all generations, it's especially damaging to our young people on whom our future depends Speaker 2: The modern war on drugs was declared by ronald reagan in 1982 Reagan: As we mobilize for this national crusade, I'm mindful that drugs are a constant temptation for millions: Speaker 3: Popular opinion polls of the day show that it wasn't an issue for most people in the United States. But reagan was determined to put this onto the agenda to define it as a problem Reagan: A war against drugs is a war of individual battles Speaker 3: Reagan used his wife for example in this "just say no" campaign Reagan: She has helped so many of our young people to say no to drugs. Nancy, much credit belongs to you Clip of 80s anti drug commercial: This is your brain. This is drugs (cracks egg into pan). This is your brain on drugs. Speaker 4: I joined it. And some people said... I think that's a pretty decent example
atchoo 4y ago
There is this satire of Netflix documentaries that sums the style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUrNe3Vhtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUrNe3Vhtk

m463 4y ago

Sort of loosely related. when I first streamed netflix years ago - my queue was full of 5-star movies and shows to watch. As I worked my way through my queue I developed a pattern. Everything I hadn't watched became 5-star documentaries. I would develop "documentary fatigue" where there were so many well-documented, well produced and important issues to learn about, that I would quickly saturate and at that point I wouldn't watch documentaries anymore. I would literally put 2-star scifi movies with unbelievable monsters or cataclysms before all the 5-star documentaries.

xu3u32 4y ago
What do you mean by 5-star? 5 on netflix? imdb?