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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Woodstock doc on HBO was alright. The “experts” were mostly terrible. The journalists I mean. The artists, attendees and organizers were interesting to hear from. The organizers look real bad. Their interviews were embarrassing. The promoters and certain media interviewees trying to blame limp bizkit was hilarious.

Too many media contributors, who weren’t even there, talking about their own agendas. The attendees were good though, they had some interesting insight. Lots of good clips and footage.

Some weird tangents, like racism and girls gone wild, which had no relevance to the documentary or the events.

Failed to really delve into the failures of the festival, the cultural influence, the capitalistic price gauging etc. Instead if felt like they covered a lot but none of it very deep. As expected, tons of bashing young white males but very little examination of why these young men were acting this way. It’s not like they became savages overnight. As covered, people showed up wanting their own Woodstock 69 and it ended up as lord of the flies.

I did like how they mentioned the failures of the original Woodstock in 69, which actually had many of the same issues as 99 (food shortages, safety, sexual assault), but it was very brief. The entire narrative that 69 was about peace, love and promiscuously sex is entirely false and is only a viewpoint that emerged as the myth of the festival grew as time went by.

Moby is an obnoxious dick. Scott Stapp, offspring and Jonathan Davis were all good though.

I actually said the exact same thing to my gf. Really enjoyed the doc but the journalist “experts” had some really bad hot takes