By Bill Russo
"A cornucopia of oddballs, and a hilariously bad video from a guy wearing dark glasses and a facial expression that telegraphs his inability to sell the lie, he should absolutely avoid playing poker with that face." - portion of the comments by 'Wingman S'
If you are an author, performer, or a witness in a film or TV interview, you will be subject to bad reviews. It is part of the territory. As a writer of more than a dozen books I have a trunk full of bad reviews. Some of them were actually helpful. They pointed out shortcomings that I addressed.
The Golden Rule for those of us who have been involved in books, film, radio or TV, is 'simply ignore the reiews and NEVER respond to them'.
I am about to break the rule.
As a witness, I have appeared in film and television interviews about a creature sighting I had before the turn of the century. My blog about it (on Hubpages) has been read many thousands of times. There's a section in the blog that asks readers if they believe in ghosts, swamp creatures and such. 54 per cent of the readers have said they are 70 to 100 per cent believers.
Another 13 per cent say they are 51 to 69 per cent believers. "I just don't know" say 19 per cent. One per cent say they are 30 to 49 per cent believers. Ten per cent are 'total skeptics', and finally, two per cent of the readers say "Hey Russo, You're Nuts!"
I guess that 'Wingman S' from the UK fits the last category and that's ok. Speaking only for me, I do not drink and I say "NO" to all drugs except coffee. As for being crazy, I've always been crazy, it keeps me from going insane (to steal a line from Waylon Jennings): but to call the whole cast and crew of the film 'mentally ill' and suggest that the production was fueled by "Alcohol and Drugs" is just too much.
Here's the review Wingman posted on IMDB - after you read it, I hope you'll go to IMDB and post a review of your own. If you haven't seen the film, it's shown regularly on Destination America and can be streamed cheaply. The DVD is available at the Bridgewater Triangle Documentary Website.
The ONE STAR REVIEW....
by Wingman S..as posted on the Internet Movie DataBase - IMDB
"This review is actually for the shortened version that was shown on TV, but even after they had distilled it down to the better material there is still zero substance here.
Generally when someone tells you an unbelievable story you automatically start trying to figure out a logical explanation, but for most of the people on this show that isn't relevant, most of them can be dismissed out of hand simply because they are clearly suffering from some sort of mental illness, the rest is likely drug or alcohol related.
In the first few minutes we're reliably informed that all of the phenomenon are connected, the bigfoot sightings, UFO's, hauntings and devil worshipping etc, because these things traditionally go hand in hand and trying to connect them isn't the work of a lunatic.
4 minutes in and we get a cryptozoologist who doesn't know that bears can stand upright as well as run on all fours, I realise that it's Pseudoscience and he is actually just a quack, but you'd think he'd know simple stuff like the capabilities of a common bear. This unfortunately sets the trend for the entire show.
We live in an era where pretty much everyone carries a phone with photo and video capability, and this is supposed to be an area where loads of weird things happen, logic would dictate that people would be going out of their way to get pictures or video evidence, yet where is it? That's right not a single shred of credible evidence, just anecdotal evidence from a cornucopia of oddballs, and a hilariously bad video from a guy wearing dark glasses and a facial expression that telegraphs his inability to sell the lie, he should absolutely avoid playing poker with that face.
I think there is a greater mystery here and questions need to be answered, but that would only be solved by looking at the rate of mental illness in the triangle compared with elsewhere, as there does seem to be clear evidence to suggest there may indeed be something in the water there."
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