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The Challenge: Battle for a New Champion: Family Knows Best (2024)
Worst season in a looooooong time
So many worsts.
This new crop of challengers is the worst. Out of 25 maybe 4 are decent. MTV really scrapped the bottom of the barrel with this talent search.
The stages maybe looked good on paper, but the way MTV set the eliminations really edged the new people to win. This is a terrible format and it falls really flat.
Each episode keeps getting worse and MTV needs to get back to business. New challengers without any of the vets to keep the game on the rails is horrible.
In this episode and thus the season: The popular kids keep the good competitors from getting to the end. In prior seasons at least it was one group of good competitors keeping another faction of good ones out. This season has one faction of crap keeping out the best talent.
Been a while that the Challenge has sunk to this level of low. It is typically a great show, but get back to the elite level talent. These knockoffs Challengers are soooo bad.
Hell and Back Again (2011)
Not really a documentary
Sgt. Nathan Harris has a great story. Not too uncommon from many battle veteran soldiers.
The director took pieces of war and civilian footage to make a movie. The film maker uses the footage to show his personal feelings of war. I do say movie and film maker, because it is hard to call this 100% documentary.
Of course critical acclaim comes from a group that has political stances that are shared with the film maker.
This does not take away from Sgt. Nathan Harris. His journey in war and readjusting to life at home is a story that people need to see. The story itself is very real. But, there is a bias from the film maker that is easily seen throughout the film. But, in reality it makes you feel for Harris a lot more. Knowing that the film crew knew how they were going to portray things and betray confidence.
The director did not show any footage to the Harris prior to completion nor did he receive an invite to showings even for an Oscar nominated movie. Further showing that soldiers have enemies at home as well as on the battlefield.