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Dear Mr. Watterson (2013)
Piggy backing on a great product for his own purposes
I really should have stopped watching when the filmmaker said "I'm really not interested in Bill Watterson the man...", but alas I did not. This documents absolutely nothing about the promised subject matter. It focuses on a handful of fans that love the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and why those individual love it. That would be a good start if we learned something about the strip, anything, but that is the all this movie does. Looking at the filmmaker's IMDb page my guess is that the underlying purpose of this movie is to showcase his skills and promote his services, he does many of the tasks required to make a documentary as a career choice - if this is the case as it appears to be, it's a shame he's using such a beloved and important piece of pop culture to promote his resume.
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Prepare to research
As a philosopher Slavoj Zizek has impressive credentials and ideas worth studying. In this movie however, he seems to present a skeptics point of view on his opinion and subject which can be dangerous. Many the counter facts presented are just plain incorrect. The arguments are presented as a "Don't believe them, believe this" structure which is unusually, I'd expect a offering of information rather being told what to believe. The movie is worth watching if you're willing to follow up with your own research to get better information and answers than presented in this movie. If not, then viewing this movie alone is dangerous and it stands as irresponsible product.
UnHung Hero (2013)
Poorly crafted demo reel
A young man excitedly prepared proposes to his girlfriend. To make it special and memorable, we waits arranges to pop the question on the Mistletoe Cam Jumbotron at the UCLA game. To his shock, the girlfriend declines on camera and runs away. The video of the failed proposal goes viral. That poor young man confesses his in a documentary that the size of his is at fault and he travels the world to find out if any why this is a important any issue was society claims it to be. What would make a better documentary is that if Patrick Moote had included more behind the scenes information like his frustrations as a struggling actor prompted the idea for this to create an emotional range demo reel and that the famous viral video was a complete setup, a fake event put on for a cheap pre-promotional tool for this film, or rather, this demo reel. Regardless of this film being a shame and the viral video a phony, this movie isn't good - it's self indulgent, full of unbelievable scenarios, and the acting - sorry - isn't all that impressive. Maybe a traditional short form demo reel is what should have been done so all the terrible performances could have been cut.