The secrets out, there's a whole world of unrestricted entertainment outside of talent shows and period dramas, boring documentaries and heavily edited films on the information superhighway... we, the industry will never beat them, so sooner or later we're going to have to join them, or just give up... Yours, Rupert.
Because you will have a mindset that all documentaries are boring.
Don't think that all documentaries are boring, some are funnier and better than your favourite TV show.
When I tell you that several critics were snoring during the press screening of No Greater Love, I don't mean to imply that Michael Whyte's fly-on-the-wall documentary is boring.
As the long-awaited Untold History of the USA by Oliver Stone finally hits the airwaves, there is an expectation that the viewer will be in for an audacious piece of TV, but here, the unpredictable happens: Stone's documentary is boring beyond belief, and he flexes his egocentric muscles talking, talking and talking non-stop while old pieces of celluloid are rolled out from archives.
Astonishingly boring because people make interesting documentaries about such boring shit gun control, penguins, spelling bees, babies, the Buena Vista Social Club that it has become part of the rhetorical strategy embedded in every documentary to presume your lack of interest and turn it back: Whoa, did I just watch penguins flirt for three hours?
"I would have thought that as a documentary it was boring.
The question was phrased not aggressively but hypothetically, as part of an adoring (if boring) hourlong documentary, which showed him looking youthful as ever, lifting weights, swimming laps at his residence and dismissing his critics with customary zeal.
Documentaries, she said, "are boring".
But then they end up having to use actors because everybody's bored by straight documentary.
Reviewing for Blogcritics, Chris Beaumont wrote "[he] was enthralled and bored by the documentary".
