The last few weeks I’ve been in a documentary watching kind of mood (including rewatching most of my Planet Earth blu-ray set), and I’ve racked up a small list of documentaries that other people should probably check out if the concepts catch their eye.
I find it kind of irritating that of the five weekends this year so far, two of the number one films have been found footage movies. First was The Devil Inside, which looks painfully awful. Then Chronicle won the box office this past weekend. While I actually liked Chronicle, I wish this found footage shit would go away. The entire time I was watching this film I wondered why couldn’t they just have shot it with a more conventional method?
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