Sentence examples for bad documentary from inspiring English sources

But, more seriously, "Living Old" is not a bad documentary, filled as it is with lively and less lively old folks and facts galore about chronic diseases, physical decline and nonagenarians and their overburdened 70-something children.

It would still be a bad documentary, marred by dribbling camerawork and pointless choices — a ha-ha scene of one trainer golfing with hard liquor and a fat cousin, filler images of Derby crowds in wacky hats and far too many shots of the trainers staring into the distance — but it wouldn't smack of exploitation.

But while the program was somewhat behind the "specialist" (i.e. that of the games media and associated communities) thinking on the subject, fair enough given its mainstream reach, it wasn't a bad documentary at all.

But while the programme was somewhat behind the "specialist" (i.e. that of the games media and associated communities) thinking on the subject, fair enough given its mainstream reach, it wasn't a bad documentary at all.

Bad documentaries do that in a boring way.

Because of this, I think they are making bad documentaries and passing them off as fiction".

Yet, even its primitive effects sparked vanity-press books and bad documentaries claiming that Stanley Kubrick photographed Neil Armstrong's moon walk in the Southwest.

And what I think what separates good documentaries from bad documentaries is finding that balance between truthfulness and storytelling.

The feel-good movie has its corollary in the universe of cable television in the feel-bad documentary, the exploration of some illness, catastrophe or political horror whose primary purpose is to wrest viewers from their complacency but whose effect, invariably, is to validate their blessed fortune.

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What a shame British fans of Michael Jackson will not get to see Spike Lee's terrific music documentary Bad 25 in cinemas.