Whedon did reveal that Mark Ruffalo's hugely popular Hulk gets a bigger part in the sequel, and said he hoped to add a realistic documentary-style veneer this time around.
It was a variety of elements, some of it realistic — documentary material in some ice floes near Greenland.
Julien Roumette felt Romain's depiction of the racial tensions in America at the time was "meticulously reconstituted, with a realistic, even documentary, rather exceptional dimension".
The wonder of Bergman's film is that on his fancy-dress setting he imposes a conviction which is much more disturbing than that provided by realistic "documentary" pictures, even in good films, of life as we know it.
I'm telling you, Bonekickers is brutally realistic documentary, not drama: just don't try ringing any archaeologist on Tuesday evenings to discuss it.
Nair then created a series of gritty and realistic documentaries that examined India's traditions and culture, including Children of a Desired Sex (1987), which examines the country's patriarchal society and its effects on unborn female children, and India Cabaret (1985), a portrait of two aging striptease dancers.
There are musical documentaries and romantic ones, war documentaries and Western documentaries and documentary comedies, experimental documentaries and realistic documentaries and hallucinatory documentaries.
New York Magazine critic David Edelstein called the film "One of the most realistic documentaries I've ever seen and, dry as it is, one of the most devastating in its implications".
To his eye, the documentary presented a realistic view of his adoptive home.
As with The French Connection, Friedkin drew on his experience in documentaries to create a realistic setting for its story of a 12-year-old girl (Linda Blair), daughter of a neurotic movie star (Ellen Burstyn), becoming possessed by an agent of Satan in Washington DC.
Loznitsa's odd decision to fabricate a realistic but obviously unreal soundtrack has the unintended effect of making the documentary images seem like skillful reconstructions as well.
