Still, these documentaries have a worthy and serious intent, advising a new generation that the bombing of Pearl Harbor wasn't simply a bunch of cool special effects.
Following Radiohead guitarist (and Anderson's regular composer) Jonny Greenwood as he journeys to India to record in collaboration with Israeli muso Shye Ben Tzur and brassy qawwali troupe the Rajasthan Express, it's a making-of project that pleasingly avoids any worthy statements of intent, focusing on the thrilling playing itself.
Although Fox and Lewis would be worthy candidates, Bradway seems intent on not delaying a decision.
Eradicating poverty, for example, is a worthy but deceptive neo-liberal intent; a flagrant myth of the free-market song-book.
In his new "Innervisions," set to songs by Stevie Wonder, Mr. Rhoden seems intent on producing an entertaining pop-worthy piece to close a show.
Usually one of the individuals will be a politician or similar worthy, and the other a popular entertainer, so the intent is obvious: to denigrate the former by association with the latter.
The Chinese international, tugged back in the build-up, flicked an arm out in frustration as his marker stood his ground and, if Sun's waft lacked real intent, the referee Howard Webb still deemed it worthy of a red card.
The paddling wasn't hard, and yet the Jacksons, who routinely descend steep creeks and giant waterfalls, seemed intent on making my outing into an accomplishment worthy of recording and then foisting onto the world.
He seems intent on proving that he is, if not worthy of the golden ticket he received at age 10 (because who could be), at least working as hard as anyone could to show he won't squander his fame.
How this is achieved is worthy of its own essay, but it is clearly central to the intent and responsible for much of its impact.
