You know how sometimes, you have no motivation to do anything, even something as simple as finding and watching documentaries? Ok, well that is my life this last week. I watched a lot of The Event, and the Daily Show, and Law and Order.
A few docs made it; Selling God which is a funny and smart look at how churches use marketing tactics to get more people into the pews. It is clearly biased against evangelicals, so you know I enjoyed it. :D
Iraqi’s Hired Guns is a NatGeo doc about Iraq. Nat Geo loves Iraq! It’s your typical Iraq movie, talking about contractors working in Iraq. It is a little odd to me how this show explains in decent detail how to make an IED called an EFP Explosive Formed Penetrator. Thanks NatGeo!
Hot Coffee is a great movie about the civil judicial process and how the media uses half-truths to convince people that capping civil judgments and having strict Tort Reform is the way to go, when it really harms people. This movie made me a little sick, because for example, the woman who spilled McDonald’s coffee on herself, that was the butt of many jokes about frivolous lawsuits…that woman had third degree burns all over her inner thighs from the coffee. She had to have skin grafts, and only sued after McDonalds refused to pay for her medical expenses. Great movie. (this is available on HBO but not Netflix, so sue me).
Next up is After Innocence about people who were convicted of crimes and then exonerated after DNA evidence was tested. Some of these guys were exonerated, but their records weren’t expunged and so they still have to say they were convicted of a crime, even though they were released because there was evidence they didn’t commit the crime. That’s messed up. Holy crap, the guys who are released are given no services like parolees get. Just the money in their accounts and their property. Messed. Up. You know, I just keep watching movies about how embarrassed Americans should be. Seriously.
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