I, Douglas Fairbanks (2018) User Reviews

Peter Facinelli cannot narrate.

[ExPresidents · 1/10 · 5 October 2023]

It's quite simple: when you make a documentary, you better have a great narrator.

If said documentary is told in the first person, and that person is dead, and you must hire a voice to sound out his loves, laughs, and Lives, you better make sure that voice is immortal. John Facenda, maybe; Peter Facinelli, no.

God no. Please K-I-double hockeysticks me he is bad, so bad I now hate Douglas Fairbanks. And he's from the silent era? Great, now all his movies have the taint of Facinelli's voice all throughout.

This is why Prime should be free. Because this is garbage, and require no Money. Ever.

Stay away.

Interesting tho factual mistakes & horrible narrator

[Musicianmagic · 5/10 · 28 February 2024]

If this was made by a High School class project I would cut them some slack. It plays like a High School project. There are several factual mistakes such as Florence Lawrence being the actual first movie star. Every silent movie enthusiast knows this. Look it up.

Much of the old film (not movie) footage is much later than what is being discussed at a given time in this documentary.

Another problem is the narrator who is supposed to be the voice of Douglas Fairbanks. Doesn't sound at all (from available samples) like him. The narrator also often lacks real emotion.

Last problem is what they miss or chose to ignore.

I am rating this documentary a 5 out of 10. Probably being too generous.