LogFAQs > #964806883

a bad documentary is disappointing to me in a way that basically no other movies are.

some things that I hate:
-the documentaries where a substantial amount of the footage is just people talking about how important/wonderful the subject is, without actually saying anything meaningful about it (CNN's tv documentaries stand out as being particularly guilty of this)

-nature documentaries with narration that humanizes their subject too much. often the narration suggests that, because the subject displays some behavior that appears to be similar to something that humans do, their motivation for that behavior must also be similar to humans.

(as a side note, I find two things extremely off-putting about nature documentaries:
-knowing that the sounds you're hearing are completely unrelated to the pictures being shown on the screen
-knowing that the presence of a camera has an effect on the way the animals act)