Loved the first season, the only one I didn't love was the Capone episode, but I guess it just fell a little flat for me
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Lapis_Lazuli_Blue — 10 years ago(March 31, 2016 09:26 AM)
I would like to see them spoof
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leucter, Jr.
I think Fred Armisen would be perfect as Leucter.
Maybe
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
. Granted, it would be hard to top this short film's absurdity, but I
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vogelkl — 10 years ago(March 31, 2016 12:21 PM)
I think an exit through the giftshop parody would be great, and maybe zboys lords of dogtown kind of thing, and I also thought of dear zachary off the bat since it's soooo stylized but yeah I don't know how you would make that without being tasteless.
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baileythedog — 10 years ago(March 31, 2016 05:28 PM)
-Dear Zachary is a real nail-biter though I have no idea how they could make that subject matter not depressing without changing the story a lot.
Ooooooohhhh.as much as I think that in comedy almost anything is up for grabs, this one might be a little sacrilegious to attempt.
But I agree that Fred Armisen is well prepared to take on documentaries as a liberal spoof. Michael Moore has so many docs, but it seems like "Roger and Me" would be the best / easiest to derive an alternate take on.
Some other favorites ripe for spoofing:
"Hoop Dreams"
"Grizzly Man" - I mean, come on, Werner Herzog should have been an obvious target in S1.
The "Up" series - every seven years, a new installment? Potential for comic gold there.
"Gimme Shelter"
"Olympiad / Triumph of the Will" the pomp, grandeur and gorgeous cinematography of Leni Riefenstahl
"Capturing the Friedmans"
Anything Ken Burns
"Stop Making Sense"
"Don't Look Back"
"Spellbound"
"Exit Through the Gift Shop"
"Catfish"
"Anvil: The Story of Anvil"
"Man on Wire"
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framptonhollis — 10 years ago(April 01, 2016 12:49 PM)
"Triumph of the Will" would be pretty hard to pull off, "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is already pretty comedic, but "Hoop Dreams", the films of Ken Burns and Werner Herzog, "Anvil", and "Catfish" are all really good ideas.
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baileythedog — 10 years ago(April 01, 2016 10:59 AM)
In Cold Blood is considered a documentary hybrid.
Can't be. As vague as the "documentary hybrid" category is, the films are, at their most basic, documentaries with fiction elements added to them, i.e. recreated scenes, etc.
"In Cold Blood" isn't that at all. It's a straight up narrative, scripted film based on a book that isn't nearly as accurate as it portends to be. -
baileythedog — 10 years ago(April 01, 2016 01:01 PM)
Ha ha. Well, but it is though. And it's imminently spoofable.
It may very well be spoofable, but just out of curiositywhere are you getting the "documentary" aspect of "In Cold Blood" from? It has zero documentary elements at all. In the same respect "Everest" isn't a documentary-hybrid, either. -
cookiela2001 — 10 years ago(March 31, 2016 08:46 PM)
In Cold Blood
SOME kind of Capote takeoffthough neither star's quite pudgy enough to play him : )
Capote's life was filled with such pathetic comedy, already. I think it was Lee Radziwill who said, "His voice was so high only dogs could hear it" (!!)Beyond that, what about the excruciatingly precocious
My Kid Could Paint That
(2007) ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Kid_Could_Paint_That
Or the insultingly, almost ineptly, fraudulent
Catfish
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_(film) -
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catjoescreed — 10 years ago(April 01, 2016 07:51 AM)
Meanwhile, my two absolute favorite documentaries,
Trekkies
http://www.imdb.com/board/10120370/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
and
Tribute
http://www.imdb.com/board/10297439/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5
are so wild they're practically spoofs already.
I also think that new Netflix abomination Making a Murderer is ripe for a sendup. It's so obviously slanted to a particular point of view there's no objective journalism there. -
Scott-101 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 11:29 AM)
I'm not a documentary person, the only stuff I know is Exit through the Gift Shop, Inconvenient Truth, General Tso's Chicken, Wordplay, Supersize Me, Spike Lee's stuff, Werner Herzog, and Michael Moore. I was vaguely aware of the origin for the Kanuck documentary.
So I'd like to say the more popular the documentary, the cooler it would be.
I disagree about the fake band, I think that Fred Armisen is too hyper-tuned into the social norms of the concert world, so what's funny in his head isn't that funny to the rest of the world. His humor is very esoteric and I already felt like the Test Pattern episode was derivative of the Blue Jeans Committee.
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