Good man. Apocalypse Now.

Alrighty...

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Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

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Vague Accusation of An Activity You Regularly Participate In!

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Fuck you, buddy, I'm taking this all the way to impossible now.

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I made it a little way into Menace, but I'm not a fan of comics in general and it wasn't something that kept me reading. I'll check out that link, though.

Not in Nuke, but it sounds like you have the right idea. I'd use a particle render of just exhaust that fades from white to black over the course of about half a second, with some variation, and use that to control an adjustment layer in AE that runs a turbulent displace. Like I said, sounds similar to what you're doing.

We just partnered with TVTropes.org, we call out stuff we see in movies that they've discussed, and they pimp us a 'lil bit. We've tried to make the transition enjoyable by putting a sexy voice on the barrage.

Both have giant babies.

Well, the first thing I think about with documentaries is their purpose. Typically, you can assume a Ken Burns documentary has an honest purpose: to shed light on some cultural or historical item and flesh out the stuff you may not have thought about before. Also typically, you can assume a Michael Moore documentary has an agenda based on the filmmaker's opinions, and its purpose is to disseminate them.

Thusly I sort of break down documentaries into two umbrella categories: essays and persuasive essays. Neither inherently better than the other, but I tend to like the straightforward "essay" type documentaries more than the alternative - even though, frankly, it's a hazy distinction. For instance, I wouldn't immediately think to put King of Kong in the "persuasive" column with Bowing for Columbine, but I do wonder if Billy Mitchell is the utter prick he appears to be in the movie. It seems conveniently dastardly, and while the documentary could be completely honest, I have no way of knowing if they're playing an angle on me. Hazy. And even if they are, is that enough to put it in with the likes of Super Size Me or Sicko?

We might need to bring in the Doty guns on that one.

On the subject of Dear Zachary, I would describe it as a very compelling, slightly cheesy documentary, obviously incredibly dear to the filmmaker's heart - but occasionally to the detriment of the story its trying to tell. He gets a little too pissed off in the edit - not in his opinion of the situation, which you'd completely expect and understand, but in the actual film. He's a little punchy and color correcty and TLC cold case murder special-y about it in the gut wrenching montage bits, that I think was a decision made because he felt the best way to get you to agree with him was to trick you with an editing style that he thinks will make you the saddest, instead of just laying it out there. (For the record, the latter would have worked just as well for me.)

The triumph of Dear Zachary, as a viewing experience, is in his structure for telling you the story and the absolute horror of the sucker punch it brings up later. (Y'all know, if you've seen it.) That, as a delivery mechanism, is what makes this so unbearably sad. Anything above and beyond that feels a bit disingenuous to me.

Ultimately, whatever. It's nitpicking. I look forward to seeing where this thread goes, and in the mean time, here's a list of some of my favorite documentaries.

Exit Through The Gift Shop (at the very least an exercise in satire with the documentary form, if not legit history)
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
The Bridge
Helvetica (this is a font bias, the film itself isn't particularly special)
Man on Wire
F for Fake (again with the "not-sure-how-much-but-fuck-it" uncertainty, with additional Orsony Wellesy goodness)

I'm forgetting just as many right now, but I guess that truly means these are my favorites. I think I've fully exhausted (and maintained an exhaustion) on the documentaries section of Netflix for the last couple of years.

I agree with the point you're making, but not the hill you're trying to die on.

In other words: Riddick is, uh. Riddick is pretty bad.

Lawl. Nope, all good.

As far as I know. *paranoid face*

The Strange Days commentary was too glitchy to release, but we absolutely want to have a commentary out for that movie, so here we are.