There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly call \u201cInternet Bad\u201d movies. The worst of these feel like shallow fearmongering, playing up the fears of older viewers like a modern \u201cReefer Madness.\u201d Part of the problem with this subgenre is that too many filmmakers try to paint something as complex as the internet and technology in general with a very broad brush. The truth is that our technological revolution is way too complex for most feature films to begin to capture or even really comment on, especially as it’s shifting every day,\u00a0so doc filmmakers end up not saying anything by trying to say too much. \u201cThe Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem\u201d has a little bit of this problem as it traces the impact of 4chan from Rickrolling to the insurrection, but it\u2019s more engaging than a lot of this doc subgenre by virtue of the filmmaking acumen of directors Giorgio Angelini (\u201cOwned: A Tale of Two Americas\u201d) and Arthur Jones (\u201cFeels Good Man,\u201d one of the best films in this category, by the way).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly call \u201cInternet Bad\u201d movies. The worst of these feel like shallow fearmongering, playing up the fears of older viewers like a modern \u201cReefer Madness.\u201d Part of the problem with this subgenre is that too many filmmakers try to paint something as complex as …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary-movies","tag-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}