Doug's Daze: Documentaries I didn't fall asleep watching

Friday, June 6, 2008

Documentaries I didn't fall asleep watching

Looks like I'm not the only one who may have watched the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?". The author at OzTech posted an appropriate blog about GM and their Hybrid mistakes. Oh, the error of their ways. Actually this film actually did quite well for being a documentary. It came out back in 2006, only made $45k it's first weekend but ultimately grossed $1,764,304 worldwide (95% domestically). You can read more about it's statistics here or check out the IMDB listing for more details on the film.

As of this posting, you can watch the entire 92 minutes at Google Video
Or, for your viewing pleasure, here:

To digress a little bit, this might be a good segue to another documentary I just got done watching. My brother really wanted me to watch this one and it's the reason he won't shop at Walmart anymore. Perhaps you have heard of or seen on tv the documentary called Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices
The official website for it is here where you can read about it, see the trailer, "join the revolution", and get additional info. It's really amazing the stuff you don't know and the lengths big companies go to in order to squash, hide, cover up, or eliminate anything that's not in their interest. After watching this, I kind of felt like, among other things, that Walmart was a mafia ran organization. Another real eye opener and a well put together film. It even got some great reviews by the big film critics.

While everyone else is watching the latest superhero movie of 2008 (Ironman, The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy II, Hancock) I recomend watching these documentaries (from the comfort of your own home even or anywhere you can get an internet connection). I won't say these movies are necessarily better than those out this summer but once you get done watching those already released, run out of money for the theater, or have some downtime waiting for the next big hit to come out, click on the links above & discover the truth about these behemoth companies.

2 comments:

Marina Martin said...: Thanks for this video link! I'm going to try to catch it at some point this week. I just love documentaries. (Good ones, at least.)

Another interesting one I saw recently was "Jesus Camp" -- it's usually up on Google Video but the links change a lot, so I'd suggest searching for the title if you haven't seen it before (or renting it).; June 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Kel said...: thanks for the comment on my blog. i love grayson's taste in music, of course i would, i influenced it. he loves to sing the beatles, and u2 as well as the cranberries. which is about the only "girl music" that he has taken to. he loves to sing with the guys!

aaron and i love to watch documentaries. electric car was great, but we hadn't heard of the walmart one. that is one i will go find on netflix. i hate walmart. there are only a handful of things that i just can't find anywhere else for a better price so everyonce in a while i give in and grudingly go there.
other documentaries we liked: "why we fight", very good!!, "inconvenient truth" was informative but at times felt like a campaign ad. "supersize me" was interesting but a little disgusting. i've always hated mcd's. and one we saw on youtube was called "america: freedom to fascism." i know we've seen a lot more but i can't think of them at the moment.; June 13, 2008 at 1:16 PM