Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (Morgan Neville July 16, 2021)

Bourdain means so much to me and has been a huge influence on how I view the world. I'll definitely be watching this (and crying)

 

man. im gonna cry so hard.

 

Cannot wait

 

1 ticket please.

 

I'm all for artistic liberties but the way the director talks about the whole thing is pretty strange. I still plan on, and am excited to see it, since I have AMC A-List and Space Jam and Escape Room 2 are my only other options for the week, but I'm glad to at least know about that going in.

 

"we can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later"

what. the. fuck.

 

I can’t wait to see this and I guarantee I tear up.

 

still watching this today but still yikes

 

Huge Anthony Bourdain fan, so I was obviously extremely interested in watching this - but almost every single thing I have read the filmmaker say about this documentary has made me want to watch it less and less. He sounds like an ass. I'll probably still watch it because of how much I loved watching Anthony Bourdain over the years, but I'm not sure I wanna support this Neville guy.

 

Sneakily using AI software to fake Anthony Bourdain's voice in a documentary that heavily features Anthony Bourdain's actual voice is a really big deal, and the more I think about this guy just casually pretending it's not a big deal the more pissed off I get. I realize I should probably stop ranting about this now, but if they were hell-bent on doing something so fucking stupid and deceptive, there absolutely should have been an on-screen disclaimer explaining what they had done.

Pretending it's a non-issue strikes me as extremely disingenuous.

 

completely agree

 

movie was the best i’ve seen this year. completely moving and incredible.

at the same time, the line that is AI is very obvious, completely unnecessary, and adds nothing to the movie while being something that could have easily been read by another person and probably would have been more impactful read by that person. it’s very odd. but the movie is still absolutely fantastic and i’d recommend it to anyone. conflicted feelings.

 

the AI stuff only encompassed like 30 seconds of the movie if that impacts anyone's decision
the stuff about his latter years was a little problematic and messy but I think it's natural for his friends and family to grieve that way, and I don't think there's any right or ethical or perfect way to tell someone's story after they can no longer tell it, especially with someone like Tony who was flawed

 

i don't think there was anything problematic about the way the film depicted his last few years. the last few years of his life were certainly problematic. but the way the film depicted their reaction seemed pretty earned and real.

 

Is David Choe the worst?