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Better Call Saul: Something Stupid (2018)
Production quality
Loved most things about the show, as always, except the prosecution quality, or cameras used, or cinematographer hired, or something... was different and not in a good way... Makes me wonders if all previous episodes were shot using film, and this was the first video, or, if it was just a poor director for this particular episode?
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Terrible
Wow is really all I can say. First off, the commentator is obviously narcissistic to the point that they didn't realize how terrible of a voice over voice they had. There is clear an anti American biased as such films like Casablanca go unmentioned (possibly the greatest script ever written) instead of the Matrix, he brings up House of a 1000 daggers to convey the same point, even though House came three years after the Matrix and the title of the section led me to believe we would be discussing American and Australian film... Maybe the filmmaker is as bad at geography as he is voice over work... I don't know, but overall, something that should have been amazing and informative was boring and uninformed... Like a really really bad intro to film professor teaching a lame and boring class to weed out those who aren't serious about film. Terrible overall...could have been better if the filmmaker had hired a writer to write the commentary and an actor to do the voice over, but instead, the ego maniac has failed in every way... he doesn't even know what post modern is as he claims Goodfellas is a post modern film and the 90's is when post modernism started... DUMB, dumb, dumb, dumb.
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan (2004)
not a hoax
personally, I don't believe, "hoax" is the correct term to use for this film. No, it's not real; however, M. Night himself tells us that several times in the film... "It's about believing." "people will believe what they want." This film is all about what Night himself is about, and in that since, it is a true documentary. He is all about the what if, or the possibility of these things being true, that's exactly what this doc is about. If you want to believe that Night is "connected," more power to you.
But that's not really what this film is about. It is publicity for his upcoming movie, just as was the Sc Fi channels stunts with the Blair Witch Project, but it is also an in depth look at M. Night, the filmmaker. If you listen to what he says in the interviews, he is saying the same thing the doc is saying.
I enjoyed the film, and after viewing, I feel like I know a lot more about M. Night. No, I don't think he actually sees dead people, but I do think, he believes in the possibility of ghosts and other supernatural happenings, which is really what this film is all about.