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Fauci (2021)
Enjoyable and Informative
I very much liked this movie for two reasons:
1) It's a useful and evenhanded documentary of one of the leading Public Health experts in the world and, because of that, very much worth watching if you have an interest in Fauci, epidemiology, or public health. Well paced, interesting, and informative.
And;
2) The long list of sad, triggered keyboard warriors that couldn't help but give 1 star "reviews" of this title (ironically showing they hadn't bothered watching it) that amount to mass-screaming "Dunning-Kruger!!" into the void because their fee-fees were hurt.
More content like this, please.
Good documentaries with a delicious dessert of willfully ignorant tears is just the best.
The. Best.
One Nation Under Trump (2016)
Ridiculous
Leaves out most of the behind the scenes despair at winning, which has been openly reported.
Largely propaganda for the Trump regime.
Sad.
What the Health (2017)
Drivel and lies in a package that appeals to the dim-witted
I'm primarily just sad I can't give this movie a zero out of ten. "Why is that?" I hear you wondering...
Well, concerned moviegoers, it's because I expect any film calling itself a "Documentary" to have rigor, honesty and facts in it.
This film finally lost me when they tried to explain how sugar doesn't affect insulin levels, and does not cause diabetes, but fat does... ??? This would come as a shocking surprise to literally the entire medical community. In fact... I'm struggling for words to sufficiently describe how stupid this is.
Try this for an analogy: It's like claiming that the steering wheel in your car has nothing at all to do with the direction you go, and then explaining that its actually the radio dial that steers the car. Abject idiocy and easily verifiable as fundamentally wrong.
Why I want to give it a zero, however, is not because they are stupid. It's because they are NOT stupid... but assume you are.
You see, making a mistake is one thing. People do it all the time. Even in documentaries. But stitching together a smorgasbord of ridiculously laughable lies and half-truths, and doing it knowingly and deliberately to mislead the person viewing your work is criminal, unethical, and points to the fact that the position you are so desperately trying to push, is weak. i.e. If the Director had the actual facts to support his case he'd obviously use them. Alas, he's lying because he doesn't.
Worse... the movie is replete with emotional manipulation through music, shot choice, concerned anecdotes (that prove nothing), and a general forced impression of danger and conspiracy.
Both of these things (the easily check-able lies, and the emotional manipulation) assume you, the viewer, are ignorant and easily manipulated.
Take a breath and mull that over before you consider bothering to watch this.
All-in-all, I'd put it on the same moral and ethical level as any one of Steve Bannon's emotionally manipulative piles of excrement, or those classy hit pieces by James O'Keefe (the "Planned Parenthood" guy).
Of course if you're a psych major who would like to understand techniques of pseudo-scientific manipulation via visual media you'll probably find it quite informative.
For bonus laughs you can take a look at the large proportion of really short (2-3 sentence long), 10/10, glowingly positive reviews of this movie on IMDb that all say the same thing in the same way... over and over and therefore were most likely the result of vote-brigades and/or paid-for reviews.
"Ground breaking", "amazing", "must-see"... all with the same structure, similar words, similar lengths... but weirdly, they all say very little about the actual content of the movie other than vague hyperbolic praise. Yep... You really know it's tripe when a substantial percentage of your 9/10 and 10/10 reviews have the same level of integrity as your "movie".
I'd like the last 2.5 hours of my life back, personally.
The Greater Good (2011)
Read this before considering viewing this complete tripe.
One of the saddest refuges of those wanting to make a buck off the backs of suffering parents, and the naive is the manipulative pseudo-science "debate" based on false equivalence.
This movie is the epitome of half-assing the science coupled with emotive pulling on the heart strings, coupled with "experts" who have no background or rationale in the area they are talking about. I can only assume they hoped if they showed you enough sad stories of parents and children with difficult medical issues you would forget about expecting some evidence, logic or a rational basis for their claims.
If you needed further evidence... the film-maker, Leslie Manookian Bradshaw, is a registered Homeopath. You know... that ridiculous non-medical treatment that claims the more you dilute something the more powerful it gets.... (I guess Dinosaur urine is the most powerful thing on the planet, then)... which was just classed as not a medical treatment by the FDA.
Don't waste your time.
Since I'm not going to waste my time with a breakdown of the various unfounded claims, if you want a more scientific and section by section refutation of this complete crock of a movie... You can find one at the "Science Based Medicine Blog".