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Is it worth watching though? I wouldn't mind if a documentary was an interview with just 1 person if it's good. The problem with those Netflix ones is they hav
by jahnu 2y ago
Is it worth watching though?
I wouldn't mind if a documentary was an interview with just 1 person if it's good. The problem with those Netflix ones is they have a handful of people repeat the same thing over and over and over. Then they pad it out even further in between those repetitions with pan and zoom of a couple of barely relevant photos or newspaper clippings or illustrations, perhaps a clip of a news anchor reporting from the relevant time etc. What would be 30 seconds in a good documentary ends up being 5 minutes and 1 episode becomes 6.
I now usually give up and read the Wikipedia page once I spot these techniques.
- illwrks 2y agoI watched this when it first appeared. From memory it was a good behind the scenes documentary and worth the watch if you had a passing interest in it as a kid.
- mavhc 2y agoyou'll be wanting https://www.youtube.com/@century21films28 https://www.youtube.com/@century21films28
- HeckFeck 2y agoI tried to watch the McAfee documentary and gave up after 20 minutes of that slog. How they managed to make the documentary about this man boring is beyond me, and answering that would itself make a more interesting documentary. In short, it was so bad that I will no longer watch any Netflix documentary again.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoWell some info about the concept, making of, follow-up series, and the people involved revisiting the studio (which is a car garage now but still has some of the original sets / movie making gear like gantries) was interesting enough, but honestly I was watching it in bed in a few sittings and kept falling asleep, lol. The story would make for a decent book I'd say.