Don’t mean that in a good way. Doc interviews some of the biggest players who were culpable of the 08 Wall Street crash but no blame. No criticism. Almost no self awareness for acknowledging what created the crash and how only the public suffered without any justice for the banker criminals.

It’s almost alien how the movie opens and closes during a dc lobbying event and spins it on a positive note. Really have no words for this, if you don’t mind a 90 min hate watch check this out. Feels like a doc on holocaust officers describing how hectic and stressful their days maintaining the camps were.

entered the thread being excited by the title
leaving the thread thinking wow that sounds like utter s***, i gotta watch that

It really is worth watching just for the spectacle

i could never hate watch something

i get the appeal of it but i just can't do that myself, same with movies like When They See Us or any slave/racism movie not named DJango

I'm not tryna fill my heart with anger and hate for 2 hours lol

I’m in

Act of killing is fascinating but I get your point

i might peep but sometimes it just be too exhausting fam

I feel you on that . A documentary every so often feels nice

Yeah I never hate watch stuff with low hanging fruit I already know is bad or I won’t like. I picked up the doc without hearing any reviews on it, I was just interested in the subject and its hook of interviewing major figures. And to my surprise the doc was clinically insane for how it tries to spin the Wall Street crash from the perspective of its main perpetrators and those in power who were negligent to bring justice to the crisis. It wouldn’t be like watching a new Adam Sandler or Kevin James movie for s***s with friends or whatever.

I feel you on sometimes avoiding heavy movies/tv but the best of them are dark and complicated and theyre aiming for more than just going for an emotional response. That’s too easy and it’s why a lot of oliver stone movies don’t hold up. Or insert any forgotten boring oscar bait movie. Like with when they see us, it’s important to also dramatize how the police and prosecutors justified themselves to arrest the boys in context with the real crime and state of nyc than just over emphasize the boy’s suffering. A worse filmmaker would’ve done that and they probably would’ve gotten away with it.

Act of Killing is great because it goes to great lengths to understand the political history of Indonesia that led to its mass killings and aftermath. And the psychology of its executioners with how they justify and celebrate the killings. It’s understated, complex, messy, and undeniably human.

Panic is awful because it offers a very narrow, abbreviated and inaccurate angle on the financial crisis without any self-awareness that its big shortcomings/ommissions are letting those responsible (nearly all its interview subjects) off the hook. It takes all their words at face value. You know the famous scene in the doc Inside Job where the interviewer calls the Wall Street plant economics academic out on his bs? This doc is that movie but the interview responds to every statement with “word”

It’s like an intern project from the ditsy niece of a goldman sachs exec who is too naive to realize how oblivious she is. The doc maybe could have unintentionally captured some of the wild psychology like the murderers in Act of Killing but all we get are glib lies, half truths and excuses. It’s a 90 minute pr email.

alright im off my soapboax no more free real estate in my head for this movie