Drain Alcatraz

painfully repetitive and boring. for a documentary about alcatraz it spends surprisingly little time actually talking about the prison and instead shows you the same computer graphics of the drained san francisco seabed over and over again (even though the seabed is probably the least interesting thing about, you know, the water that surrounds alcatraz).

painfully repetitive and boring. for a documentary about alcatraz it spends surprisingly little time actually talking about the prison and instead shows you the same computer graphics of the drained san francisco seabed over and over again (even though the seabed is probably the least interesting thing about, you know, the water that surrounds alcatraz).

Super repetitive and focuses on all the wrong things. This isn't really an Alcatraz documentary, it's a documentary about the land around it. I don't give a fuck about some random ass boat that sunk in the same bay as Alcatraz and I don't need to hear about how tectonic plates formed the island and I certainly don't need to hear about their predictions about a future mega-earthquake. We hear very little about the actual building or inhabitants and what we do hear is the same case over and over again, with each commercial break ending with a reminder that one guy and two brothers made it off the island. What's funny is that they treat this whole thing like a real science doc and tell us that draining Alcatraz has revealed its secrets, as if they uncovered something new or important and didn't just take some sonar pictures and extrapolate. They don't find any body's or escape vessels; all they get is pictures of underwater terrain. Incredibly boring and not remotely what I wanted.

Super repetitive and focuses on all the wrong things. This isn't really an Alcatraz documentary, it's a documentary about the land around it. I don't give a fuck about some random ass boat that sunk in the same bay as Alcatraz and I don't need to hear about how tectonic plates formed the island and I certainly don't need to hear about their predictions about a future mega-earthquake. We hear very little about the actual building or inhabitants and what we do hear is the same case over and over again, with each commercial break ending with a reminder that one guy and two brothers made it off the island. What's funny is that they treat this whole thing like a real science doc and tell us that draining Alcatraz has revealed its secrets, as if they uncovered something new or important and didn't just take some sonar pictures and extrapolate. They don't find any body's or escape vessels; all they get is pictures of underwater terrain. Incredibly boring and not remotely what I wanted.