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Reviews
Hungry for Change (2012)
Apparently processed foods are fake foods
This health documentary attempts to address the societal question of "Why are there so many fat people in America?" It does so with plenty of fat-shaming, assuming everyone is an emotional eater, and without raising points of how genetics or other factors might impact a person's weight.
While I can agree with some of the points that they made, such as diet culture being harmful and needing a balanced diet to stay healthy, the way they go about giving suggestions don't feel helpful to me. Obsessing over how much sugars are in every single food at the grocery store is not normal behaviour. Juicing to cleanse your body of the toxins you've been feeding it should not be proclaimed to be the be all end all without mentioning some of the downsides it can cause, especially if a person doesn't eat any solid food alongside it. And again, it demonizes all fat people simply because society says thin is healthy.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023)
Disappointing for how hyped it was.
For all the attention that this show was bringing to itself, I'm pretty disappointed with how it turned out. Ignoring what was changed from the source material (since that's always bound to happen), the writing, the acting, and the personification wasn't pleasant. The only thing I can really definitely say I'm pleased with is that all the campers are meant to be teenagers. It's the acting the stands out the most to me as being... not Good; it feels overly dramatized and not at all like people in real life should act. The amount of times someone was nodding or shaking their head the entire time they spoke was so distracting.
I'm not sure what I expected them to do for the gods, but all I was really struck with by the gods were that they didn't look or even act very "godly." They just seemed like regular humans with a power trip. Hades didn't even seem menacing. I wasn't given a sense of wonder at the personal demigod powers they might have because it seemed like the only power that existed was Percy's water powers that acted of their own accord.
Overall, not abysmal, but not something I enjoyed watching either.
Animal (2021)
Rather bland
The episodes that focus on less species are the ones that thrive, rather than trying to pack several animals in a single episode. I always enjoy watching animals, but this documentary is better suited to a first time watcher of nature topics; I didn't hear much that hasn't already been told by better writers and shown with better camerawork. It's an interesting twist to switch the narrator with each episode, but ultimately provides nothing except a little excitement if you know the actor (which, as someone who doesn't keep up with actors, I only knew one). Every episode slips in a mention of how destructive humans are, and yet there is still an encouraging scene of a lady feeding urban foxes in the UK.