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Some of these I actually like... but this one I agree with:

averagejoel posted...

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)

A delayed documentary is eventually good, but a bad documentary is bad forever

I absolutely loathe narration and annoying loud music in my nature documentaries. It's missing the whole point, I want to actually see and hear nature: the gazelle running on dried leaves of grass, the cheetah silently stalking, the buzz of crickets, the babbling brook, the splash of a penguin diving for fish and coming back out. I tried watching one doc on netflix and the loud as fuck music was the by far the most obnoxious noise I'd ever heard in my life, it was like a cacophony made to torture my eardrums.

I assume it's done to make the doc more "exciting" but if I wanted "excitement" I'd watch bang boom pointy-and-shooty movies.