Documentary

Birdmen: The Original Dream of Human Flight (2012)

How to make this documentary tolerable: take a shot everytime they call thrill-seeking a sport.  I've watched a lot of documentaries about nature and a few on history, so why not watch one about something as new to me as sky gliding.  Well, this movie only confirmed true stereotypes to me.  It wasn't so much about challenging the human body or experiencing flight, it was about the thrill.  People die doing this so often and spend so much money training for and attempting these jumps,l that when the jumpers said it was like an addiction that was the only way it made any sense to me.  Personally, I could see myself doing this once, but it takes 200 sky diving jumps just to begin to glide in the air, and that's gliding from a plane not yet from the base of a cliff.  I learned about the sheer extent that people push themselves for challenges and basically addictions, but I don't think I got what the movie wanted me to get out of it.  The go-pro camera views were really cool though.

4/10