Documentary

And you thought a movie couldn't piss you off.

Here's the deal: director Tony Kaye, of American History X
infamy, spent fifteen years putting together a documentary about the
most hot-button issue of modern times. Abortion.
Controversy ensues, natch.

Alright, I'm gonna have to break serious here for second. Stick with me, it won't last long. I promise.

The barbaric practices of the shark-finning industry are criticised in this award-winning film that combines hidden-camera footage of the atrocious treatment of sharks with glorious underwater footage of the predators from first time documentarian Rob Stewart.

Preachy. Its funny how for what seems like several decades now, veritable hordes of amateur filmmakers have been trying to emulate Romero, and now Romero makes a film where he emulates amateurs. Is it a compliment to say he nailed it dead on? Or is that just a bad pun? :)

Hello critters!. Documentaries offers most of the time the POV of the author instead the reality they pretend to show us. Editing is wizardry, it can rise or crack impressions in the audience by using music, dialogues and video in the right order to bang your mind. But for the new Philip Gröning's film, this is not the case.

Cloverfield seems kinda like a no brainer. Take the Blair Witch Style and attach it to a Summer Blockbuster type of film. Well,l I suppose it is a compositer's nightmare, what with so much CG carnage while the camera is bobbing and shaking all over the place. However, all that hard work paid off....Cloverfield is likely the best January movie you'll ever see!

This is some amazing little thing I discovered today.

I cant
put the direct embed code here, because it would be a copyright issue,
but I encourage to search around in google for "Jesus Camp" and see
what you can of this documentary.

It really had a huge effect on me.

EvilDirector's Cynical Review of Zeitgeist

* out of ****

"The reality is..."