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I watched Pennywise: The Story of It yesterday. I'm fascinated by this rising new phenomenon, of which it is a part: documentaries that have nothing to say. They line up a few interviews with clips of the thing they're documenting and then off they go to streaming...Permalink On twitter.com
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Part of this, especially in horror, is the phenomenon of the 'fan documentary'. Someone kickstarts the doc with money from fans who just want their egos flattered and an intellectual excuse to watch glorified Best Of X clips somewhere other than YouTube, but it isn't just that...Permalink On twitter.com
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Some of The Movies That Made Us and some of the Woodstock 99 docs aren't fan docs but are mechanically very similar, where they feel more like DVD behind the scenes sequences for a world where those no longer exist...Permalink On twitter.com
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And some, like the nearly 4 and a half hour In Search of Darkness, feels half fan doc and half a desperate attempt to get a few interviews on record with major figures of the genre before they die but is still directionless and without the short of thesis you'd expect...On twitter.com
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But so many of these just pile on interviews with famous fans, filmmakers whose work isn't under discussion, and journalists who don't really have much critical to say. The It doc was surprising since it was almost entirely interviewing people actually involved...Permalink On twitter.com
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I don't really have an objection. It's just weird, right? These types of documentary feel designed to throw on in the background while you do something else, only occasionally focusing on. Is it a function of YouTube, streaming, or some other cultural phenomenon?...Permalink On twitter.com
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I feel like it's an entirely different genre. I know we call them 'Documentaries', but a documentary usually has something to *say* other than 'this thing exists' right? I don't know what to call them, but it's def a thing that's happening and I'm curious where it has come from.Permalink On twitter.com
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