Documentaries: Deep Web, Indie Game The Movie, Atari: Game Over

We hebben een netflix abbonement en netflix heeft ook veel goede documentaires. Deze drie heb ik laatst gekeken:

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Indie Game: The Movie
Indie Game: The Movie, directed by James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot, looks at the underdogs of the video game industry, indie game developers, who sacrifice money, health and sanity to realize their lifelong dreams of sharing their creative visions with the world. This Sundance award-winning film captures the tension and drama by focusing on these artists’ vulnerability and obsessive quest to express themselves through a 21st-century art form.

Erg leuke documentaire om te kijken en om te zien hoe de indie-game wereld in zijn werk gaat en het vele werk dat in het maken van een game zit, door de ogen van een aantal game ontwikkelaars. Cijfer: 8

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Deep Web
Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century — the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused to be ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. The film explores how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance.

Interessante documentaire, soms wel een klein beetje hak op de tak. De documentaire gaat meer over Silk Road, de arrestatie van Ross Ulbricht en de vrijheid van het internet dan echt over the Dark Web in het algemeen. Maar toch interessant om te zien.
Cijfer: 7

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Atari: Game over
Atari: Game Over is the Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” As the story goes, the Atari Corporation, faced with an overwhelmingly negative response to “E.T.,” the video game for the Atari 2600, disposed of hundreds of thousands of unsold game cartridges by burying them in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Leuke documentaire, ook al heb je nooit op een atari gespeeld. Cijfer: 7,5