Netflix Untold: Johnny Football

[n_huffhines]

I haven't seen either of these docs being talked about here, but I've tried to tell y'all...these Netflix sports docs are made for people who didn't follow the events as they happened. For people who know who Tebow and Manziel are, and that they played football, but not knowing really anything else about them.

If you followed the event in question just moderately closely, it's just a regurgitation of facts and news reports you already saw. It's easier/cheaper to make a more superficial documentary that just summarizes previously-reported information.

IDC if I don't learn any new facts. I just wanna hear good interviews and takes. The Malice at the Palace one had virtually no new information, other than the opinions of the players involved and it was great.

These Florida personalities are just flat out boring.

 

[05_never_again]

IDC if I don't learn any new facts. I just wanna hear good interviews and takes. The Malice at the Palace one had virtually no new information, other than the opinions of the players involved and it was great.

These Florida personalities are just flat out boring.

New facts or information. If a doc is able to get an opinion or a take about something that wasn't known before, that could be interesting. But most of the time, these docs don't even get those. If you followed the event, they're like reading a book report about a book you've read a bunch of times before.

 

[n_huffhines]

New facts or information. If a doc is able to get an opinion or a take about something that wasn't known before, that could be interesting. But most of the time, these docs don't even get those. If you followed the event, they're like reading a book report about a book you've read a bunch of times before.

IDK, I read the Duke lacrosse book and still thoroughly enjoyed the doc. It's all about the subject and packaging

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

IDK, I read the Duke lacrosse book and still thoroughly enjoyed the doc. It's all about the subject and packaging

I think the big problem was that they didn’t produce what they sold us. We thought we were going to get a real insider story, warts and all, of the Gator’s rise and fall during Meyer’s tenure. Instead we got a watered down Florida sunshine pumping non story with no new info and A LOT left out that would have been much more compelling.

 

[n_huffhines]

I think the big problem was that they didn’t produce what they sold us. We thought we were going to get a real insider story, warts and all, of the Gator’s rise and fall during Meyer’s tenure. Instead we got a watered down Florida sunshine pumping non story with no new info and A LOT left out that would have been much more compelling.

I appreciated the Manziel doc because JM was a good interview and let us see the warts.

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

I appreciated the Manziel doc because JM was a good interview and let us see the warts.

Yeah but they even left some things out, the domestic violence with his girlfriend was merely touched on.

 

[n_huffhines]

Yeah but they even left some things out, the domestic violence with his girlfriend was merely touched on.

Yeah, not saying they really held his feet to the fire on everything. Just saying I found it interesting and more honest because a good deal (let's say 30 minutes) of the 70 minutes was focused on the negative stuff, and the Florida Gators doc was 180 minutes and probably 160 of it was a suck fest.

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

Yeah, not saying they really held his feet to the fire on everything. Just saying I found it interesting and more honest because a good deal (let's say 30 minutes) of the 70 minutes was focused on the negative stuff, and the Florida Gators doc was 180 minutes and probably 160 of it was a suck fest.

Can’t disagree there, I found both docs wanting but Manziel’s less so.

Honestly the Gator one is worse because it was so long and yet they still left so much out