Georg Complains: Streaming "Documentaries"
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Are the lines between documentary and reality TV blurring? Are journalistic intentions being superseded by the product becoming entertainment first?
Discussed:
Tiger King, Making a Murderer, Atomic Homefront, The Real Bling Ring, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, David Foster: Off the Record, Exhibit A, Hype House, Don't F*ck with Cats, I Survived a Crime, House of Hammer, There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
Inside the Documentary Cash Grab: www.hollywoodr...
The pandemic really led me down the rabbit hole of watching more "documentaries" on streaming services. Most of them are crap, so thank you for covering them in this video. I noticed most of them are essentially just reality TV presented as a documentary to fool you into thinking there's some investigative journalism in them. Turns out they're mostly exploitative trash.
I could not get through the doc about Patton Oswalt's wife. It was so dull.
Hear hear.. amen to that.
I used my spare time during the pandemic to reacquaint myself with the work of Louis Theroux, such as Weird Weekend, his BBC specials, and When Louis Met... I found the episode were he was on the road with Jimmy Saville particularly chilling, as the man had (who I would argue as the greatest investigative journalist of my generation) wrapped around his little finger. Louis's follow-up documentary after Savilles death must have been incredibly difficult for him.
Tiger King
Those ones that are like 3 or more eps are always sus, like PBS and BBC could do a complex subject in an hour in the 80's/90's, why do you need 3+ hours to cover a murder?
"I noticed most of them are essentially just reality TV presented as a documentary" - that´s what i thought watching this video: "None of these are documentaries." But then again, i am no expert on genres, so it´s probably me getting it wrong.
Documentaries, in my mind, in most cases, dont require investigative journalism - most of the time school book knowledge is enough. They are mostly meant to educate the general public on a topic of general interest (so, not the private life of some celebreties, f.e., but say world war 2, or the carbon cycle or the Apollo program or our modern understanding of physics and how we got it ; to name but a few) on a level that would bore the hell out of an expert of it. The name kinda implies none-controversiality. It´s documented (=known, Kalessi).
Usually, if someone calls any of the things mentioned in this video a "documentary", i tend to form an opinion about that person, that is not very favorable, assuming, that this person has zero interest in education and does not even understand what can be considered part of it. Sounds snobby, but, alas.... that´s how i see it.
Anyone can, of course, watch whatever he or she likes, but in my mind it is literally impossible to watch a "documentary" about the kardassians. Also any piece about the murder of some rando, noone has ever heard about, is no documentary, imho. The two things combined (about the murder of a kardassian) would still be a stretch, in my book. (On self-reflexion, i cannot deny, that there is probably some old man´s bias here, cause i do think the murder of John Lennon is a viable topic for a documentary, and i cannot really say why i make a difference here, outside of personal bias).
In general: If there would be no way to justify showing a piece to a class in high school, then it´s no documentary, It HAS to have some educational merit.
(I keep editing this) - The more i think about it, the more i think that "investigative" journalism is completely outside the scope of documentaries. They are not scientific essays in the sense that they have to present something new to be valid. On the contrary. Imagine a crime show... there are the scenes in which the team collects the evidence and interviews witnesses - that´s the science part. And there are the scenes, in which the team assembles at a desk in front of a white board and someone asks: "Okay, what do we know, so far?"... and the answers that are coming and whatever gets noted on the board - that´s the documentary part. It´s all known stuff, repackaged in a presentable way, made digestable to outsiders. Though there are exceptions to this, too, when it´s about contemporary topics - but i tend to call those "reports", instead. If it´s about, say, the Panama Papers, f.e.
Thank god the lava lamp survived the moves
Indeed! 😀
This was my big concern as well.
Some say it was the lamp that insisted on the move
...some say the lava lamp is the last remaining horcrux containing a piece of Georg's very soul..... if it were ever to break :s
>comment made 5 days ago
>video is 6 hours old
Once the History Channel showed that you could get away with garbage like this, it went all downhill from there.
Discovery Canada did it first.
The soliloquy at 5:00 is so good I just have to type it out:
You know how Roman and Greek statues are often presented as the standard of refined art? as graceful and sophisticated? as subtle and meaningful.
But then it turns out, they were all painted to simulate real life, and before they all faded to their original marble, they all looked like the gaudy concrete bollocks you get at the Garden Centre.
Well, David Foster is that, if it was all smeared in human shit.
The real true crime was the 1st wife we murdered along the way.
Gold, ahaha…
The docufakeries that get me these days are the ghost hunting ones :D
Usually the Ghost Adventures ones with Zack Bagans saying "There's something evil going on here, and we're going to find out what it is, and then we're going to fix it"
Then they go around finding "evidence" in nothing, and by the end of the show haven't actually fixed anything.
The best one was when they went to Transylvania to Dracula's Castle and started trying to annoy the spirit by shouting "You like to drink blood?! You like to torture people?!"
Even though the blood drinking Dracula is fictional, the real Vlad wouldn't understand modern English, and the castle they were in wasn't actually Vlad's castle.
Listen here friend, by the time Zach and his crew leave there are no ghosts present in those places. What more do you want?
these and big foot hunting make me so angry
Have you seen Grave Encounters? It's filmed as one of those ghost hunting shows, but then they actually find some ghosts. It's pretty spooky and I think they do a good job with the premise. Don't watch the sequel, tho.
Oh hey, they got it streaming free on youtube
ua-cam.com/video/-ASWIUM-78w/v-deo.html
Yo Ghost Adventures is one of the most entertaining things on television. I dont give a shit about ghosts but Zak Bagans will forever be fun to laugh at
Ghost molesterers.
So are you saying its like 'this is spinal tap', but filmed by spinal tap without the self awareness? what a time to be alive
No, that would be much more entertaining.
@@LividImp I just turned your thumbs up to 11.
@@jasonwomack4064 Why not just make 10 worth more thumbs up?
@@LividImp *chews gum*
*looks at thumbs*
*looks back at Livid Imp*
*looks back at thumbs*
...but these goes up to 11.
Documentaries may lose their way, however, Lamp, Lamp is eternal.
I'm a documentary buff but was spoiled by the likes of Arena and one-off specials on UK telly during the 80s and 90s- most documentaries on Netflix or whatever are 3 parts too long and over-sentimental.
I still think the BBC i Player should have a heap of the old *Horizon* docu-programs on the service; a good deal of those were really unique & superb watches
@@zetetick395 Maybe on Britbox? I am not paying for a streaming service full of old programmes I've already paid for via the license fee.
@@lexiwilson9501 Soo,
you say you've already paid,
but you'd prefer they _weren't_ available for you to watch?
It's not a warehouse, there's unlimited space on iPlayer for quality content we've already paid for previously.
@@zetetick395 No, I'm saying Amazon should up their quality control. Most of their docs are just filler.
These documentaries always existed, it's just the market was smaller. It is just now they emulate the editing style and structure of higher quality productions which used to be reserved for something with artistic quality
Was gonna say this, there's a TON of shit documentaries from the 80's and 90's, we just remember the good ones
Thank you for doing the important public service of dragging I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Possibly the most vain, overpromising doc series I've endured... to date. -S
I blame 2004’s Super Size Me. Turns out eating nothing but Macy’s is unhealthy. Who’d have thought. Tripe.
I blame history channel and E!
Macy's closed down years ago and they never served fast food. Oh you mean McDonald's.
The unfortunately cheesely titled 'Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes' is one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen and I've seen 'The act of Killing'!
It was good? You're right about that title, but now I'm gonna check it out!
OMG, The Act of Killing has seared into my brain. It was so horrible, so well done, and so necessary to shine a light on those atrocities.
Netflix documentaries are 10 minute youtube videos extended to be 1 hour
Meanwhile, you have people on UA-cam making 1.5-2.5 hour videos that are some of the best documentaries I've seen but don't get a fraction of the clout or money that some of this streaming garbage does. Dan Olson is on here destroying the NFT market, Kevin Perjurer made a beautiful tribute to a talented musician whose work millions of people have heard without even wondering who wrote it (and of course its surreal cousin, Harris Brewis's exposé of the pathological liar who takes credit for other people's video game sound effects), not to mention the dozens of creators have long-running, in-depth history series that constantly get demonetized at the mere mention of war. 😤
@@erraticonteuse Totally, also I´m gonna check out those that you mention thanks!
Nearly all nature documentaries have devolved into clearly choreographed material. Placing small animals onto sets to get dRaMatiC footage of them, editing together rapid cuts between multiple different times and events to try to make it look like something is going to happen, or they caught footage of an animal before it was preyed on, all tied together with CONSTANT sound effects placed over everything… they don’t even have the decency to overlay music, they just add unrealistic nOiSeS and constant cuts so nobody gets bOreD. I think it should be common knowledge that when filming very small, or very far away animals, you can’t exactly get audio from that. That’s where you place music, or narration, not random dude bro audio, pings, booms, and crunching sounds.
It’s atrociously sad to me, that wildlife documentaries have gone from beautiful presentations of life, to narrative-based dude-bro-nature-is-cool-bruh top ten content, or baby-safe, the butterflies migrate for the millionth time by disney, here’s a CGI background in our nAtUrE fiLm.
I’m definitely not coping because I didn’t finish watching blue planet II before it got taken off of Netflix 😵💫
I absolutely _hate_ all the annoying sounds they add to insect documentaries. It makes them unwatchable. I also hate ASMR vids, they gross me out. Fake sound fx insect ASMR is what a lot of the new docs are and it makes me want to go nuclear.
@@user-ellievator
I find the food "ASMR" videos particularly offensive.
How anyone can find the sounds of (insert name of favourite obnoxious, 400lb American and/or petite, child-like Asian "Mukbanger" here) slurping down a sink-full of live cephalopods, or malling several buckets of fried chicken dipped into another bucket of dressing, relaxing?! Ugh, the sound of them suckling their greasy fingers and declaring "uhhh, sooo good..." is the worse 🤢🤮
Like TikTok and Only Fans, I just find the whole endeavour another backed-up flush in the overflowing toilet of humanity...
I thought it was just me!!!! I HATE those corny sound effects, music stings, and forced narratives. I came to watch a nature doc, not Tom & Jerry.
Also everything is in slow motion at all times.
@@residentelect I thought you were being funny then I searched for food asmr. What the f**k is wrong with these people? The sound of someone slurping their way through a plate of curry makes me want to commit murder--I think the jury would find I had just cause.
This has got to be the best nonsense on the internet. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Thank you for saving me at least six hours, for letting me know things that I do not want to watch.
For something half decent - Dopesick with Michael Keaton was a pretty good drama piece, after watching all of Georg's videos on the Sacklers. I mean, it's "fiction", but it's well shot, well acted, with a decent story behind it.
Glad to hear an esteemed gadfly intone that this isn't the documentary premise about Patton Oswalt & his former wife that we actually wanted to see. 🥃💊👌😏
I'll never understand how Oswalt and her editor weren't charged with negligent homicide, or similar.
They were clearly supplying her with stimulants. And when she complained about not being able to sleep, she was told that that was perfectly normal and not to worry about it. A few days later, she was dead.
The Oswalt widow one was terrible... The ego!!! At the end, I just waited to know what she really did for the case. They tried to arrange the facts in a way to paint her as the leading force behind the investigation, but she still was an amateur trying to prove to her mom she was the real deal. It's quite tragic how they edit the thing to present her drug problem as an accident. Worse, they almost tell you that she negligated her kid, but they couldn't go that far, because she was suppose to be the hero of the story. A really sad affair.
That said, it was not worse that the FX one about the guy who thought his father was the Zodiac Killer. Turns out, he wasn't. That's it. That's the conclusion after 4 episodes!! What a waste of my time.
I watched the Zodiac one as well. Imagine being devastated to learn your dad wasn't a serial killer ha ha!
I absolutely agree.
Patton Oswalt was an accessory to his wife's death.
@@lexiwilson9501
"You mean the fact my surname is 'Goebbels' and that I chose a career in marketing, is nothing more than a coincidence..? Damn... Well that's just made me a lot less interesting to talk to at dinner parties..."
Yeah, she literally did nothing to catch EARONS. All she did was give him a badass nickname. The East Area Rapist is a far more repugnant and fitting name.
I saw the Diane one years ago, and I thought it steered away from her drug use too much, after asking a bunch of people who saw her the day it happened they all claimed she was "fine"...until she wasn't? Thanks for another vid Georg, glad to see you're still reasonably sane after the move and you saved the lava lamp
I think they steered away from it because other than the tox screen there wasn’t anybody saying she did drugs. We didn’t even get to hear from the other side of their family which speaks volumes itself. I also doubt the husband was itching to talk about anything else other than trying to clear her name due to being sued.
As an American, I'm so happy I got the Judge Rinder reference.
I love to watch a good documentary. That being said, I've definitely have noticed that streaming documentaries are only sensational and unpleasant. They're just a soggy sack of awful. You end up learning nothing in the end. Not that I've been able to make it through a whole lot of them. The exception being 'Screwball' on Hulu. Hilarious.
Although their contemporary work is considered "Left Wing biased" I still think the BBC make excellent documentaries.
Their "Natural World" documentaries such as "Serengeti" The Blue/Green/Frozen Planet series, "Dynasties" and "Seven Worlds, One Planet" are stunning.
They also do very good procedural documentaries about the work of the emergency services, which concentrate on the human side of those jobs, the toll it takes on First Responders, and explore more than just the "blood and guts" action. "Ambulance" and "The Met: Policing London" are excellent if you're into that type of gritty real life drama.
@@residentelect Funny, the BBC's contemporary work is often labelled 'Right Wing biased' as well.
@@residentelect Of course! I totally still respect BBC docs, PBS still puts out quality stuff too. You can still feel the journalism in their productions. I don't normally feel that with the docs found on the streaming service heavy hitters. "Documentaries" that are the equivalent of imitation crab meat.
@@KitchenSinkSoup
Yeah, I think it depends on which media/content you happen to be consuming at the material time. The more radical Leftists believe the organisation is still a platform fie the "Establishment"⁶, while many down the pub watching Match of the Day will argue the exact opposite lol
peanuts are actually legumes so they are more peas than nuts. they have everything to do with peas and nothing to really do with nuts
nuttypeas.
To answer the Armie Hammer thing, do you not have Arm & Hammer baking soda over there? It’s one of the baking staples in the US. And has been for like 100+ years. He is named after his grandfather, who eventually gained control of the company because he got teased because of his name.
As a brit, I’ve never heard of this product name! Thanks for explaining
Armand Hammer was also a big and enthusiastic investor in the early USSR, pencils were one of the products he sold, beautiful advertisements
I started watching that Golden State Killer documentary and turned it off real quick when it became clear it was going to be 6 hours about Patton Oswald
Hey Georg, love the videos.
They look amazing but the volume is always quite low in comparison to other people's videos.
I have to really crank my speakers to hear you over my one incessant internal monologue.
Would be great if they could be a little louder in future?
it's not just you. i use a firefox addon that boosts volume for when youtubers do their dynamic audio wrong where it sounds too quiet like this.
THANK YOU for pointing out the stuff with Don't Fuck With Cats. Worthless film. The Internet Sleuths did nothing other than wait for the police to catch the dumbest criminal in history and then went "TOLDYA SO"
I especially hated the ending where in true "it's just a prank bro" form the filmmakers tried to make some kind of meta statement about our attraction to the macabre and how we should be ashamed of ourselves for watching their documentary. You're right, documentarians, because your documentary was shit.
@@mistersydster dont fuck with the cats was a prank/fake?
@@mistersydster especially as the music and editing did everything to dramatize the story. If I watch it for the topic matter and you try to make a thriller out of it that's on you, not on society.
@@mistersydster Gotta love when they validate AAALL the people who passed up on their shit documentary lol
that story and that guys victim's story was so horrifying, i couldn't believe it when it was framed around a bunch of bubbled up reddit folks.
The best 'Documentary' I have seen on Netflix is a documentary about rolling cheese downhill!
In fact I will go one stage further, I think this is the best documentary about rolling cheese downhill that has ever been made! 🧀🤔
The secret to it's success is not just the characters involved, but it is one solitary episode... One thick tasty whimsical slice of life.
Not a 30minute idea condensed into twelve 30 minute episodes, where we learn not just the motivations behind chasing a cheese downhill, but where did they buy their knock-,off trainers from? What did they think of Trump? and most importantly of all... what did the cheese-chasers get up to in the bedroom?
Wild, wild country is an amazing Netflix doc and I still think about it often. Great soundtrack too
I got my fill with SpiegelTV "Documentaries" of the 90s. Yes yes watch us follow a garbage truck for like a day or two in which nothing at all remarkable happens and let's extract one and a half hours of footage and commentary out of it. I'm glad that these people depicted do their job and I'm sure they do it well, but it doesn't make for adequate entertainment or education. I don't even think there is anything wrong with subject matter per se, just with complete failure to apply any sort of effort. I mean there's this guy who pumps and services people's septic tanks blowing up on UA-cam because he always has interesting stories to tell and he packs them in 60 seconds, so you could make something out of it, not sure what, but well, SpiegelTV never did.
the magic of documentary or especially Reportage. kein Plan ob des uff english nomo anners heißt. anyways. the magic is you just follow someone around and if nothing happens you can say that's authentic. no need to go in actual depth. yes let's film the 4th person today going 20kmh too fast, it was so exciting the last time.
I’m going to make a documentary about people who make documentaries about people who watch bad documentaries about documentaries.
…always should be someone you really loooooveeeee
About "I'll be Gone in the Dark".
I'll never understand how Oswalt and her editor weren't charged with negligent homicide, or similar.
They were clearly supplying her with stimulants. And when she complained about not being able to sleep, she was told that that was perfectly normal and not to worry about it. A few days later, she was dead.
Where did you get that information about her editor and what they told her about the drugs?
@@piggy201 From "I'll be Gone in the Dark". It's mentioned several times.
Without Georg Complains youtube would basically be useless
I worked a 17 hour shift today and now I'm eating Sheppards pie and watching this.
That sounds terrible. I hope ya got the weekend off.
Can i suggest you up your sound mix? I know everything on youtube is screaming at me. But I can barely hear you even at max volume.
I used the IT classes as background ambience when I played Minesweeper in elementary school. 👀💣
... Then by highschool, several of us would collectively share that ambience whilst playing emulated SNES Bomberman (5 people on one keyboard) it was certainly an upgrade to the original thrilling formula.
👁️👄👁️👌💣
I love you and your work. Thank you Georg! It's always a good day when I see you have a new video!
No matter how successful Patton is, all jokes and criticism of him are considered punching down. That's for 2 reasons.
when he made a joke about the underage child star having a porn name at comicon, in front of him and all the fans and cast i knew he was suss. that's such gross behavior to just riff out like that
Cant stand him
I can't wait to see the documentary about Hip-Tang! and all the birth defects it caused. I am also looking forward to Collaborator.
* Allegedly * caused.
(Jesus man, do you want to get black bagged in the night?? You can't imagine what the HipTang people are capable of!)
Was that a clip from Atomic Cafe? That’s a great documentary.
with a great soundtrack!
He made good points. Looking like I would enjoy this channel.
I am looking forward to seeing your film.
Can you turn the bloody audio up for God's sake man.
I have been wondering where Collaborator is. Thanks for the update, excited to see it. I have faith in you Georg.
1:04 - "...be detrimental to documentaries being a reliable conduit of information?" Ha! When were they ever?
The reliability and completeness of documentaries has always been in the hands of those who make them. I like a good documentary but I always watch with the knowledge these are crafted documents, something that somebody has made. Somebody with a particularly viewpoint that drove them to spend months or years making something that usually barely gets seen and often makes them no money. The documentarian always has an axe to grind. The best ones try to win you over with a good argument based on evidence. Others will cherrypick stuff that supports them and ignore everything else or even just make stuff up.
Nice effort, Georg, but we can trace this back to Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, and whoever the asshole was who made "Who Killed the Electric Car?" All of them made popular "documentaries" that distorted the truth--when it wasn't just making shit up entirely.
I watched Fire of Love in my local cinema and it's an utterly beautiful, tragic and existentially profound work of art.
Stream it if you get chance
I can't say i've watched more documentaries in recent years...i'd say i watched more of those 10 years ago.
There’s something wrong with aunt Diane is a wild doc honestly. The levels of denial and cope on display are extraordinary.
What's what made it so good I found.
not sure they are extraordinary at all - you should really think about all of the unsaid things among your friend and family, and then think about what might happen after people stick their head in the sand for while.
Every single documentary I have watched that wasn't on UA-cam (by a creator, not MSM) has been pure propaganda. To call them documentary is an attempt to deceive the viewer into thinking the information is valid. It is not.
Then there are the UA-cam “documentaries” that are just five-minute clips of guys recording themselves getting arrested or complaining about their lives, then claiming the videos are evidence of… something.
Nuh uh. You're forgetting the ones that make 15 minute summaries of internet drama and exist to get the attention of the YT doco King: a guy with a toffy voice rambling for an hour showing google definitions of basic psychological concepts to pad it out and make him seem smart and hiding his past of being a despicable right-winger. Yes I do really hate TRO.
@@taranullius9221 Who is TRO?
@@taranullius9221 Are you talking about The Right Opinion?
TV documentaries started going downhill just about the same time the format shifted from 4:3 to 16:9. I always get excited when I stumble across a new (to me) documentary in 4:3 format. The current crop of documentaries is just painfully bad.
I like finding old documentaries uploaded to UA-cam. I keep asking my husband why we pay for a crapflix subscription as there is way better content on UA-cam for free.
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@nfb is the national film board of Canada channel with a whole backlog of Canadian documentary content if that interests you at all.
I saw some of the Dalmer docudramraseries. Many episodes that weren't a documentary at all but a drama which happened to have some basis in fact. I think we'll see more and more of these and they're awful for someone who actually wants fact based documentaries.
So it sounds like the ample offering of documentaries is similar to that of books, podcasts, streaming music, and live productions in that they cover the entire spectrum of quality and relevance.
This is partly why Amazon stopped accepting unsolicited documentary submissions in the On Demand program, effectively screwing lots of legit independent film makers.
I feel like this has crossover with the subject matter in Folding Ideas recent video, "Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins" - also a good watch.
I didn't know that about Patton Oswalt's wife. I remember on some TV show, he said it she died unexpectedly in her sleep, and sometimes it just happens, and he was all alone with his daughter. I felt for the guy. So it was a cocktail of drugs that killed her, huh.
I love investigative journalism, that blows the lid off something. These documentaries on all the streaming services are just ghoulish trash and everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
It was a cocktail of drugs that he procured for her, knowing she had a problem. Although, to be completely fair, she'd had the problem for a long time, and I'm sure he didn't suspect she was courting death. Life IS complicated that way. 🤷♂️
Nice to hear a rundown of popular things I will never watch so that I can at least pretend to be relatable to others
As a Canadian Of A Certain Antiquity, thank you for roasting my longterm nemesis, that glossy puddle of fraud, David Foster.
Big thumbs up! Would have added 88 thumbs up if I could.
Patton Oswalt was probably sad that OJ already took "If I did it"
"If I did it:
My wife would probably try to find that out and fail but write a book about anyway"
lmao at going in on patton. i was super curios how she could have died in her sleep without a drug problem that he didnt know about. turns out, he helped!
I'll never understand how Oswalt and her editor weren't charged with negligent homicide, or similar.
They were clearly supplying her with stimulants. And when she complained about not being able to sleep, she was told that that was perfectly normal and not to worry about it. A few days later, she was dead.
or the netflix docs that could have been done in 20 minutes that are 4-10 one hour episodes long
You should do a follow up on this regarding the fall out from the Dancing for the Devil doc or even Baby Reindeer (not a doc but perhaps relevant)
4:28 excellent collision
I think I saw a pretty cool little documentary about the Girardi case by some UA-camr a while ago.
There are few documentaries worth watching. I would watch one about the origin of Lava Lamps, but I do not think I would be interested in a documentary about Killer Lava Lamps. Nor would I be interested in one called Lava Lamps of the Moon, or a History Channel episode about How Aliens Invented Lava Lamps. That would be very silly. I like my documentaries about Lava Lamps to be grounded in reality.
The Internet is actually run by a wall of lava lamps. I'm not even kidding. Look it up if you don't believe me. Type wall of lava lamps into a search engine.
@@1pcfred Are there any documentaries about this Wall of Lava Lamps? I hope it has sub-titles and some slow-motion segments. A re-enactment with a look-alike Lava Lamp is always a good sign. It would be grand if Peter Graves were to narrate.
Something tells me you would appreciate Drop Dead Gorgeous. It is a dark comedy masked as a fake behind the scenes documentary of a beauty pageant. It is intelligent and twistedly funny.
Thanks alot again.
The brown note is the message.
This was a great documentary. Which ironically undermines it's own subject matter, if you think about it.
Bravo.
I agree with you for the most part, but as an american from an inner city neighborhood who grew up in poverty, then yes- you absolutely SHOULD question and mistrust authority and the police. So.
Yeah, I definitely stopped watching “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” part way through. I was pretty disappointed about the bait and switch. It’s definitely about some lady and her book, I learned very little about the actual case.
these are more of a reality shows than documentaries
I can't think of a better documentary than Paradise Lost - The Robin Hood Murders.
and the two follow ups - anyway, 'nice' to know the actual person or person who murdered those kids got to walk free because right wing conservatives want to prosecute the other instead of the actually guilty persons.
What decides the line between reality show and documentary? I wonder if the distinction is more important during production rather than after. “We’re making a documentary” vs “We’re shooting a reality show”. One’s going to get you in more doors and past more fences.
Actually peanuts do have something to do with peas. Both are legumes.
But Marvel have been turning out garbage for two decades at a hundred times the cost.
Georg. Thank you for making content. its the only dry humor with commentary, that i can relate to on youtube. sorry for bad grammar.
The only real documentaries are by Herzog and Morris.
Everything else is a facsimile. Unless narrated by David Attenborough or Jonathan Meads.
Ken Burns should write books.
Herzog admits to faking shit for drama.
@@cookieface80 good.
How did you find yourself watching so many docums?
I don't know if there's a pattern, but you seem to upload every time I drink one too many beer in a pub. Cheers!
Are there any documentaries that aren't about Hitler, Ted Bundy or sharks?
yes. Some are about Stalin.
@@gur262 I forgot Stalin.
@@gur262 Stalin is the crossover documentary of Hitler, Ted Bundy and sharks.
@@1pcfred Stalin was quite a character ... I should probably watch something that crazy guy's hijinks. He's almost certainly been a bit cheeky.
@@FatNorthernBigot Stalin was quite the cheeky character. He's famous for saying, Dark comedy is like food, not everyone gets it. And coming from him that one's a real rib buster!
Dude your cinematography is so choice
'In search of bigfood / ghosts comes to mind. Dozens of different shows and episodes of guys/girls with dodgy tech, standing in woods/ old houses jumping at every sound they hear. ..😅
Dear Zackary is an amazing true crime doc, that was originally not meant to be. The people in it are amazing.
That was one of the first movies I ever watched that taught me that the real world can be very scary. But the more I think about it as I continue grow, the more I realize that the point wasn't the crime, it was that someone cared so much for Zachary to show him that there were people in his life that loved him and wanted all the best for him. Now I'm trying to getting out of that "nothing matters" mentality and finding my own people who would make a documentary about me.
@@megamegapop12 it's one or the other
Saddest thing I’ve ever watched, honestly took me a few days to recover from it
Where can I find it?
This man is the GOAT.
"George Rockall-Schmidt
curating glorious, wonderful sh!t..."
Sounds like the beginning of an A.A.Milne poem from "And now we are in our cynical late thirties"
One thing is for sure: Georg will always retain journalistic integrity unless Byron Nominal Howitzer kicks him out of the basement and onto the streets
I guess in a way it was inevitable, that a boom in documentaries would result in reality TV being repackaged as documentaries.
I guess bad documentaries are nothing new, I guess many of them are just reality shows with classier editing.
Reminds me too how there are tons of 'video essays' that are all style over substance. Put some flashy graphics and jazzy music and pause.... for emphasis a lot, so you seem like you know what you are talking about but it's all just a huge load of rubbish. Nerdwriter1 is an especially bad example.
why your videos always have so low volume?
Turn up your own volume then
The conclusion of "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" made me angry, really pissed me off. My opinion of Patton Oswalt plummeted.
Looking forward to seeing my name in the credits of that Collaborator shit.
As news of a Nickelback documentary reached my ears, this video could not be more timely.....Nickelback.....
Dad wasn’t there when I needed him but at least Georg is here for me now
Documentaries died years ago, now all we have is one sided diatribe. If there is one person that his convinced himself that his excrement emits no odor it’s Patton Oswald.
Dont Fuck With Cats is when I started to really understand what was happening in the documentary space. Im a really big fan of Ken Burns war documentaries and PBS NOVA type things, but everything now is so sensationalized and biased, it watches like an embellished UA-cam video from Jake Paul
Grown up man deliberately wastes his time watching some crap, and then complains about it. My favorite genre of youtube videos.
Wild Wild County & Evil Genius are two more well done documentary series
Damian or Bill Burr on your right side? :)
@GeorgRockallSchmidt if you don't mind me asking, what is the music track playing at 5:24 ?