documentaries

Originally Posted by Evangelitan

Supersize Me

I think this movie could have been a lot better than it was, simply because the Morgan Spurlock fellow who hosts it is not entertaining in the least. After Michael Moore's success, everyone started making these self-aware bullshit documentaries where they try to shift to premise from actually documenting something to trying to make the audience laugh.

Michael Moore's films succeed because, while the information presented is never groundbreaking or even always accurate, he at least presents it in a way that can be entertaining. With Supersize Me, Spurlock has taken a documentary that could have been very interesting and not full of bullshit biases, and instead of making that film, he imitated Moore and tried to make jokes for two hours while the films "serious business" went on around him. It was a movie made not to warn of obesity, but for some hipster elitists to have a laugh.

Jam it back in, in the dark.