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My War (2018)
Embarrassingly Bad
I have watched many documentaries about the Syrian Civil War and this one is so bad that it has to be seen to be believed. Absolutely nothing happens in this documentary and this could just be classified as extreme tourism.
What you have here is a dumpy French Canadian guy who has zero combat or medical experience and a romanticized idea of fighting against ISIS. He spends the entire documentary sitting around, struggling to communicate with the sketchy people he's fighting under and walking around like he's an experienced combat veteran. In reality his combat experience is shooting custom paper targets in his backyard with a CZ858 sports rifle. A really distracting aspect was that he has a lot of loose equipment and bags hanging off of him which would seriously get in the way if he was to suddenly be engaged by an enemy. Not even the YPG commanders seemed to know why he was there but they don't care because its just more meat for the meat grinder (harsh but true).
There are also other people in this documentary, like a 40 year old women who just looks out of her element because she's in an all women's unit that are much younger than her and don't speak her language.
Definitely the worst aspect of this documentary is that the participants paint themselves as heroes and the documentary makes zero effort to explore how complicated the war is and how sketchy and disorganised the YPG is (YPG has ties to Communism, Anarchism and numerous suspected war crimes). There aren't really any interviews with YPG fighters or commanders and you get the impression that nobody really knows what they're doing.
Seriously don't watch this unless you want to watch a bunch of mentally unstable westerners play soldier in a proxy war.
The Mist (2017)
Not Great
The Mist is not the worst thing ever made but its not good enough for me to recommend to anyone.
For starters its nothing like the book/movie, there are no monsters which is something that greatly disappointed a majority of people including me.
This whole show focuses on the conflicts between survivors but its dragged out way too long and its not particularly well written. Its one of those frustrating to watch shows where characters make dumb decisions and things happen for the sake of drama. This show feels very much like The Walking Dead but without any actual threat, its just people standing around arguing and making illogical decisions.