So here we are again. Like the last year's HBO documentary, the villains of the past are our present day villains: the toxic masculinity, the angry white man and their awful music and the corporate greed (as seen through the eyes of 2020s corporate greed).
The said corporate greed stretched this documentary to three episodes and it's beyond imagination how similar in scope this is to the HBO self contained feature and how they checklist the same checkboxes of modern documentary making. If the HBO's is an average and flawed opinion-piece, this one is just lazy on not improving upon the former.
The lack of hard numbers on anything is very telling on its journalistic quality. It's like the filmmakers agreed to not talk about it. No number on profits, damages, casualties, arrests. The real victims themselves were pushed under the rug. It's really empty.
Maybe we can wait another 10 year to look at Woodstock '99 again. Then we can choose to blame what happened solely on the incompetent organizers.
The said corporate greed stretched this documentary to three episodes and it's beyond imagination how similar in scope this is to the HBO self contained feature and how they checklist the same checkboxes of modern documentary making. If the HBO's is an average and flawed opinion-piece, this one is just lazy on not improving upon the former.
The lack of hard numbers on anything is very telling on its journalistic quality. It's like the filmmakers agreed to not talk about it. No number on profits, damages, casualties, arrests. The real victims themselves were pushed under the rug. It's really empty.
Maybe we can wait another 10 year to look at Woodstock '99 again. Then we can choose to blame what happened solely on the incompetent organizers.