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Re: Awesome documentaries by Choson 06/15/2009, 9:26pm PDT
Creexuls, a monster >:3 wrote:

Choson wrote:

Quétinbec wrote:

Dear Zachary

You Canadian guys might have had this spoilt for you buy your news media, but I knew nothing about it and was very surprised. I gave up on it after 15 minutes because of the annoying narrator, but I came back later and ended up crying to it! This happened both times I watched it so it must be considered great for the sake of my manhood.


I'm kind of mixed on this doc, after watching it on your recommendation -- it's a fascinating story, but man, did this feel manipulative.


So it's like any modern documentary then.


Sort of, but I think it skews to the reality TV/true-crime! side of the spectrum, what with all the gunshot sound effects, multiple zoom-in to dead body shots, "crazy" red overlays and that whole bit where the parents speculate on how they could have solved the problem themselves. All documentaries that want to have a wider appeal than a Frederick Wiseman documentary are going to want to use commercially-friendly edits, but this definitely went a bit overboard in my opinion. At one point I swear they were using "EEE EEE EEE" horror-movie strings to signal foreboding. Now, maybe the whole thing was meant to build up off of all the Hollywood home videos the director and his friend were making as kids, I don't really know.
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Awesome documentaries by Quétinbec 06/15/2009, 3:28pm PDT NEW
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    I've seen the second two by I need clarification 06/15/2009, 6:07pm PDT NEW
    Re: Awesome documentaries by Choson 06/15/2009, 8:38pm PDT NEW
        Re: Awesome documentaries by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/15/2009, 9:18pm PDT NEW
            Re: Awesome documentaries by Choson 06/15/2009, 9:26pm PDT NEW
        I hope you all enjoyed the documentaries I recommended. by Quétinbec 06/16/2009, 2:39pm PDT NEW
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        Good work. by Quétinbec 06/16/2009, 8:35pm PDT NEW
    I downloaded the Feeders doc, and it might be too disgusting for me to sit throu by Fussbett 06/20/2009, 7:31am PDT NEW
        Excellent. Watch it and then post a couple of funny jokes about it. NT by Quétinbec 06/20/2009, 3:31pm PDT NEW
            No jokes! I didn't like this very much. by Fussbett 06/22/2009, 11:38pm PDT NEW
 
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