We Are The Champions (2020, Netflix) - 4/10
First two episodes we're weird and interesting - in a morbid sort of way, it's exciting to see people who voluntarily partake in dangerous activites get hurt; it's almost like the fun absurdity of JackAss in that sense. It's something that you shouldn't like, but you do. But as with AlphaGo, which I absolutely hated for the people making it out that the human competition was bigger deal than it really is (i'd probably rate that about a 1), the overwhelming triviality of the way it's framed is the main criticism I had. You had social justice warrior type vibes from forcing people in there to represent some sort of group just like what happened with the dreadful "High Score (2020)" documentary and it doesn't work when you do that.
Also, what is the point of having a women's category for something as relatively obscure as cheese-rolling? I mean, yes, a lot of people know of it, but how many actually partake? I think I counted four women participating and there we're a load of men competing for their category. It makes it pretty arbitrary, especially considering the record is never going to be as impressive at 22:3 but whatever. If it makes them happy, go for it. I just don't understand why you'd do it if you're not proving anything. I will say that you have to have some guts to roll down that hill, though, but it's unnecessary blind courage that doesn't mean that much when it comes to the record-holding.
So I was enjoying the first two episodes on cheese-rolling and pepper eating but then the other four episodes we're dreadful - didn't even bother watching it all the way through. They were so trivial that I became aggressively bored from how stupid and inane the activities we're: I mean, hairstyling, yo-yoing, dog dancing, frog leaping? You might as well call in the person who has the record for world's biggest crap. After all, we know from South Park's thirteen-year old "More Crap" episode that in real life that person is definitely Billy Mitchell. All of those activities, apart from maybe yo-yoing, are incredibly subjective too. What objective measurement can you even use for those? I don't know. I found it very boring and stupid at that point and tuned out.
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Was going to watch The Last Dance (2020) on Netflix, but it's 10 episodes long and to be honest, I am really not in the mood for that right now because I've got a lot of video scripts to write. Plus, I don't really care about Michael Jordan. I played Basketball for a time in secondary school and had a fun time (when the ball wasn't rebounding and almost hitting my face, which made me nervous) but I'm mostly a fan of Michael Jackson over Jordan.