Where have all the good documentaries gone?? Man, I love a new Netflix documentary. Makes my day. But this little doozy here was a disappointment. I knew I was in for it when I saw the lying, sensationalist, cry baby tAyLoR lOrEnZ segments start. Garbage. No value added, just a talking head some mega corp, news juggernaut tells us is relative, even though she's been caught several times lying, being deceptive and arguably doxxing another journalist. The documentary reached in to many directions - the story of the comany, the social phenomenon vaping and crap while we're at it let's do a drill down on Gen z, too. Oh and there's a scandal somewhere in there. This was a two part series at best. Take out the dribbling talking heads and give us the meat.
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Flamin' Hot
(2023)
White hate propped up on a lie...
28 June 2023
So, I watched this movie a month ago and I enjoyed rags-to-riches sentiment. However, I noticed then there was an odd presence of anti-white sentiment - every white person in the movie is shown in a negative light. But now, this morning, I'm reading the news and I find out this whole story is a lie. In fact, the man claims to be a Christian, speaks in Churches, and he made it all up, basically.
Can we just accept this as a decent, entertaining movie, despite the fact that it is not true; I mean, most movies aren't true, right? Not when it is being presented even at the White House as fact.
This movie needs to be exposed for what it is - white hate propped up on a lie.
Can we just accept this as a decent, entertaining movie, despite the fact that it is not true; I mean, most movies aren't true, right? Not when it is being presented even at the White House as fact.
This movie needs to be exposed for what it is - white hate propped up on a lie.
Be Water
(2020)
Bruce Lee's life through the lens of race
21 February 2023
I'm almost in shock at how brutally uninformative and unoriginal this documentary was, but the real tragedy is how the director uses Lee's life to make a trendy statement. The doc returns to the ideas of wokism ad nauseam. The major topic in the doc is race, however the director never even tells you about Bruce's real name, but we get a detailed look at race in America. Yay us.
In fact, if Bruce Lee thought about race as much as the director implies, it seems he would have written about it. But, it didn't. Or, at least we aren't treated to any examples of how Bruce Lee felt about race, or racism in American. In fact, Bruce Lee seems to have loved American, such that he was flown back to America to be buried. He married a white woman! Was Lee held back as a film star in Hollywood due to race? Yes. But, I'm not even entirely sure Bruce Lee didn't use that to strengthen his resolve, rather than to resolve to a sense of victimhood.
There's still a Bruce Lee documentary to be done.
In fact, if Bruce Lee thought about race as much as the director implies, it seems he would have written about it. But, it didn't. Or, at least we aren't treated to any examples of how Bruce Lee felt about race, or racism in American. In fact, Bruce Lee seems to have loved American, such that he was flown back to America to be buried. He married a white woman! Was Lee held back as a film star in Hollywood due to race? Yes. But, I'm not even entirely sure Bruce Lee didn't use that to strengthen his resolve, rather than to resolve to a sense of victimhood.
There's still a Bruce Lee documentary to be done.
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