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Pussy in Boots (1994)
You must love English humor.
It's OK. My nose for English humor has subsided somewhat since I've grown up, but I still find myself laughing at the material.
Caution: Heavy Accents! ;)
Mermaids: The Body Found (2011)
A very disappointing and misleading "mocumentary" about Mermaids
I don't think I'm giving any spoilers, since the title gives away the only possible spoiler, but I do discuss "tells" that point to the movie being a fiction.
Shown on the Animal Planet and Discovery channels, this movie is and was presented as fact, not fiction, and so has tricked many people into believing that it's true. Just the fact alone that Animal Planet and Discovery aired it, both supposedly channels rooted in describing fact, not making things up, lends credence to the show. And the fact that the notification that it is in fact fiction is only shown ONCE, AFTER the show has ENDED with the notice, "any resemblance to any persons, real or fictional, is purely coincidental." shows, to me anyway, that it is the intent of the creators and broadcasters to MISLEAD the viewers.
They DO give SOME hints that the documentary is a fraud.
The narrator says that all theories, even conspiracy theories require proof. First, that's not true. That's why they are called conspiracy theories, because there must be a conspiracy to hide the proof. The only thing required for a conspiracy theory is that the conspiracy be plausible to at least one person. Secondly, it's just an odd thing to say, and it's also strange to admit up-front that you ARE positing a conspiracy theory.
In the supposed footage smuggled out of a military base the way the "mysterious" "hand" pushes against the porthole like someone standing or leaning against the wall, NOT like someone FLOATING or SWIMMING. And the green lighting of the room.
The hidden "whistleblower" who says he "came forward", but does show his face or ID.
The grainy (and 1st generation) cell-phone footage that zooms into clear, non- grainy footage of a merman. Also the kid kneeling next to it showed no reaction when it jumped up and screamed. The apparently decayed hand of the freshly beached merman is inconsistent with the rest of the body and beached whales. Finally, when the "cameraman" ran from the scene, the camera pointed straight down at his feet. First, if the camera was hanging from his neck, it would be bouncing off his chest. Second, who wears a phone around his neck? Thirdly, if it WAS camera-phone footage he'd have been carrying it in his HAND, and the running footage would be swinging and bouncing all over the place, not clear footage of his feet.
The last tell that I recall are the pictures of so-called spears found in deep sea fish. Most of them looked obviously photo-shopped to me, especially the sepia colored picture of a great-white-shark looking like a pin cushion. Look at where they penetrate the shark, and tell me that looks natural.
Despite these tells, there was no warnings at the beginning or during the movie that you were watching a fiction. And the same goes