Woodstock 99: Peace Love and Rage

I thought that this was an enjoyable and entertaining documentary but it watched more like a college film thesis then a true-to-form found footage documentary. While it is always important to highlight the social and cultural ramifications of an event such as this, I felt the filmmakers spent too much time trying to explain what happened during the festival and compare it to modern events.

This is an insanely entertaining and bewildering story to tell and there is real footage of everything that happened - show it to us! I thought this documentary had a very loose and unstructured feeling: it didn't know what it wanted to say but it tired to hard to say something.

I think with a documentary such as this if you just gave a thorough detailing of events with background from performers and attendees then that would be enough. We don't need New York Times writers hypothesizing about why they thought people were angry in the late 90s or concert attendees giving us their "woke" take 20 years after the fact about what happened.

The sheer absurdity of this event is enough to make a compelling and honest documentary. For me, this came down to too much speculation and opinion and not enough objective footage of the event itself (the subject of the documentary).