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Jack Rebney shines, I wish I could have heard more than of what he had to say!
'WINNEBAGO Man': Four Stars (Out of V)
A documentary exploring 'viral stardom' (sudden net fame past accident) focusing on one man, Jack Rebney, and how it'south afflicted his life. The film is co-written and directed by documentary filmmaker Ben Steinbauer, in his characteristic moving-picture show debut. Steinbauer's past feel has been in the photographic camera department on other films and he's directed two short films as well. He sets out, with no real program, to find this man, Rebney, who was made famous by the cyberspace in hopes of finding out who he really is and how he feels about his 'youtube' fame. In one case he finds him he sort of aimlessly records video of him in an attempt to get him to open up upwardly to the photographic camera, badly hoping in that location's a story worth telling.
Rebney is a old CBS news broadcaster who quit when he got fed up with what he believes was the decay of the network. He later took a job on an RV commercial for Winnebago and was fired after a video of him circulated to his employers, by aroused co-workers, of him constantly becoming frustrated on the shoot and swearing repeatedly in colorful ways. Copied VHS tapes of the video circulated to the public and Rebney became notorious for them, which later made their fashion onto the internet, specifically youtube, and made Rebney a star infamously known as the 'Winnebago Man' and 'The Angriest Man in the Earth.' When Steinbauer finds Rebney he's calm and living a peaceful life in a secluded mount home in California. Steinbauer leaves and afterwards some time passes Rebney begins contacting him and admits to putting on a show for him and is actually upset about the youtube video. When the manager returns he finds Rebney blind and wanting to get out the earth with a better reputation and has a lot to say.
The film is extremely funny too as touching, a tearjerker in means. Jack Rebney is a fascinating and lovable grapheme who is extremely intelligent, honest and full of colorful dialog. When he really has something important to say he's often cut off by the director though who says no one wants to hear it (I wanted to hear it though and I'chiliad certain others would as well). Steinbauer insists that he needs to open up up more and talk about himself when in fact anything he has to say is interesting and entertaining. The film works despite it'south flaws considering of Jack Rebney and his functioning. It could accept been so much more than though at the easily of a more than talented director.
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Incredibly Touching And Entertaining Documentary
Winnebago Man is a hands-down great picture. For documentary lovers, this is a true winner. It has a swell subject, and the emerging story was first-class. It's amazing what an interesting person Jack Rebney is and how much he represents. In a twenty-four hours and age of technology, how does i accost the situation of Internet fame (for better or worse)? This film is a peachy testament to human nature.
Winnebago Human being had me literally laughing out loud and also had me property back tears. Sometimes even merely listening to Rebney talk is funny in its ain regard. Other moments were touching in how they represented the up and down nature of life.
I call back you'd have to be stone-hearted to not savor Winnebago Man.
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If you liked Anvil, you're gonna Dear this
Only came dorsum from an advance screening past the Cinefamily in Los Angeles. Don't accept it lightly when I state this is one of the all-time documentaries in contempo years. It'due south the portrait of a man known to many but every bit "The Angriest Man in the World," and it's a story of redemption, humanity, and oddly enough, an exam of one-act - what we're laughing at and how it affects those that get the object of our amusement.
It's best to merely know the premise and fiddling else going in. Jack Rebney was the star of a viral video titled "Winnebago Man" earlier there fifty-fifty were such things. His profane tirades were passed around from VHS to VHS for years and are at present readily available on YouTube. Documentary filmmaker Ben Steinbauer took it upon himself to find Ben, who was substantially living off the filigree, and notice him he does. What unfolds is at first funny and fascinating and eventually profound. It'southward like shooting fish in a barrel to dismiss those in the videos you email back and forth each day, just "Winnebago Man" shows that there might be a compelling story there, and it might non be what you think.
Over the grade of the picture show, Jack more than redeems himself, and his journey becomes our own. This isn't a pic where we're fabricated to feel bad well-nigh our actions or even feel bad for Jack. It but asks u.s. to think almost the things we practice and what they hateful to those effectually u.s.a.. And if something that we disregard as trivial becomes much more to others, was it ever so fiddling to begin with? Should we embrace that? This is just 1 layer in a picture that is alternately hysterical, deplorable, and ultimately hopeful. Above all it is humane. I'm not sure who's distributing information technology or when, only I tin't imagine someone walking abroad from the movie without a smile on their face up.
That is, of course, unless you're hands offended by profanity.
Highly recommended.
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Tin can't you make your mind work?
Some people run across documentaries every bit pointless and boring films that just collect information near a topic "no one cares near." Totally not the case, specially with Winnebago Human. It is easily one of about entertaining documentaries I've seen and probably focuses on 1 of the quirkiest topics a film in this genre has ever touched on.
For those unfamiliar, "The Winnebgo Homo" is a video from the late eighties that was passes around from VHS tape to VHS record like a virus. The video consisted of a human, presumably in tardily forties or early fifties, named Jack Rebney swearing between cuts and takes off a commercial him and his crew were shooting over the course of two weeks. Usually, once a have is shot and something fails in the middle of the have, the camera immediately stops rolling. The crew decided they couldn't hit stop just when Jack Rebney messed up and decided to go along the camera rolling only a tad bit longer.
The lines Rebney drops make me laugh just thinking about them. Quotes like "Will you do me a kindness?" "Don't slam the f**rex door...no more than!" "God, I can't f**rex make my mind work!" and "The acutrama that you volition need, ACUTRAMA? What is that s**t?" are all simply little tastes of the rage Rebney delivers in the four and a half minute clip. In 2005, a video sharing site named "Youtube" opened and the video equally uploaded to the site currently boasting over vi 1000000 views.
The real question was, what happened to Jack? Ben Steinbauer, the filmmaker responsible for this film, is hellbent on trying to reply that question. He calls in a private investigator to try and track down Rebney in hopes that he can answer one of his hundreds of questions. At kickoff, it seems like a lost cause. He has no voting registration, no social networking accounts, and the Winnebago company stated later firing him for verbal abuse to employees they heard zilch from him and they didn't desire too.
Ben finally finds Jack on a remote mount in Northern California living a secluded lifestyle and being "a hermit" as he refers to himself. He has a a domestic dog, he is going bullheaded, and has a George Carlin/everybody'due south crabby grandpa type attitude towards everything. He is now lxx-eight years old and has published a volume chosen Jousting With the Myth.
Ben is such a fan of "The Winnebago Man" clip that he shockingly did this out of the goodness of pure groupie curiosity. He is a likable guy and even goes into a detailed background about his obsession with the video saying how if he had a bad solar day at work he'd pop in the tape and also explicate how he showed information technology to his grandmother and his dates.
Winnebago Man was included in a 10 pack of Dvds my uncle purchased from the Found Footage Festival, a festival that two average joes named Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher put together showing random clips from VHS tapes they got from garage sales, austerity stores, etc. At the end of the movie, Ben convinces Jack to make an appearance at the festival because the two men recollect of Jack similar a movie star.
Being at the festival lands the brightest part of the motion-picture show; Jack interacting with the fans he thought he never had. The boys ask him "What is an acutrama?" to spice things up. While the actual definition is an add together on for something, Jack explains that he didn't know whether it was pronounced "acutrama" or "acutramaw." But he then goes onto say "When you lot're in Iowa, in a forrest, and it's 100 degrees it'south f**king acutrama!" Starring: Ben Steinbauer and Jack Rebney. Directed past: Ben Steinbauer.
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Wasted opportunity
c131a 10 November 2010
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Well if you are reading this, I am assuming that y'all already know what the documentary is near, so I will not cliff the storyline for you here.......... It's a great setup for a documentary, aroused former guy, net sensation, has a sort of cult following etc but the filmmakers let information technology all go to waste.
After getting lucky and be actually able to find and reach this guy, they simply do not let him talk. It seems like all they wanted him to do was do the same thing he did on those infamous tapes, what's the betoken of that?....... Y'all practise not get to know the homo through this documentary at all, not sure why this film is praised then much, certainly tricked me into watching it that's for sure.
At 1 indicate the filmmakers wanted him to talk most his childhood and life and such and he informs them that he would rather talk about his political behavior and why this country is going to hell and such and they merely stop the interview. Aye yous read that right; they simply stop the interview and end it right then and there. Are you kidding me? Think of all the gems of wisdom we missed, all his wacky political theories, peradventure some conspiracy theories, all lost in time now, never to exist found again. By doing that the filmmakers simply gave united states of america an extended "where are they now" sort of update. Hey say your catchphrase once more for the audition; hey announce our radio station in a 2 2nd sound seize with teeth sort of thing. You do not need a documentary for that.
The filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves for this wasted opportunity and lapse of judgment and turning this into a childish hehehehe session. What a letdown.
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Outstanding Doc Meshes Insight and Humor
For many years, I've been entertained by the video I know as "The Angriest Human in the Earth," featuring a frustrated Winnebago salesman melting downwardly during the hot summertime shoot for a promotional film. Originally distributed via VHS swaps and later disseminated on YouTube, the video comprising obscenity-laden out-takes is filled with quotable dialogue and deliriously funny meltdowns. When I had the pleasure of communicable this doctor almost the video and its star during a sneak last nighttime in LA, I expected fiddling more a quick and pithy revelation of the homo behind the mad. However I was thrilled to discover a thoughtful, provocative, and even quite moving written report of what it ways to become an unintentional glory. The narrative surprises of this moving-picture show are better discovered than discussed, but suffice it to say that Ben Steinbauer's utterly compelling and utterly hilarious doc should shoot to the top of your must- run across list if information technology hits a festival virtually you. And while the movie provides unadulterated joy for those who take already joined the cult of Jack Rebney -- the Winnebago Homo himself -- I'm confident that anyone interested in serious explorations of pop culture will be fascinated.
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Up Your Fern
There is simply so much to know well-nigh people who aren't willing to share who they are, but Ben Steinbauer tried milking every bit of information he could about the reclusive, well-read curmudgeon Jack Rebney, who is reluctantly the star of his own Outtake reel on YouTube. The result is a film, very similar to Alan Berliner's archetype "Nobody's Business organization". In that, a filmmaker tries to get through to a broken down man. Jack Rebney is about every bit broken down every bit an old Winnebago, minus the accoutrement. As evident in the clip online, and in this documentary, Rebney hates the 21st century, and stupid people, and Dick Cheney... but mostly Dick Cheney. Jack is an exceptional human existence, despite his temperament, and about every bit wise any elder you know of. Against his will, mayhap, he unravels hither with the assist of introspective filmmaker. This is a hilarious, fascinating documentary.
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Don't forget to leave your brain at the door
This film petered off most thirty minutes into it. That isn't the worst affair nigh the movie. That would have to be the Director of the film. Simply, I'grand getting ahead of myself.
This motion-picture show begins like almost documentaries, by giving some context. We are given a brusk history of Viral Videos and a little info about the Manager'southward experience'south watching the Winnebago Human being in his youth. This was all very interesting and put together in a not glorious, just sustainable fashion. The Director spends some fourth dimension looking into how to get in touch on with the Winnebago Man, and is unsuccessful at offset. We do get to meet the crew which was around during the shoot, which is probably the best role of the motion picture. Later we see the Winnebago Man and he gives a dishonest view of his stance of his fame.
Its at this point the film heads south. We are treated to another hour of psycho babble (and drama) about the Winnebago Man past the Managing director. The worst office is the mode it is so transparent the Director is trying to use his subject to assist out the film instead of trying to document the Winnebago Homo as he is. Its kind of funny that he mentions that he taught a class in Austin (which would explicate the lack of skilful films from in that location).
The climax of the picture show is the Winnebago Man speaking at some "hip" SF show, which shows viral videos. I'm guessing nobody told whatsoever of these hipsters almost Youtube, as they watch reruns from "America'due south Funniest Domicile Videos." At this indicate the Winnebago Man and his gay counterpart (a graphic symbol I willfully forgot to mention), go and get some wine from some chic bar and the moving-picture show shortly ends afterward.
This pic isn't terrible, its merely not very good. The way the Director forces himself into scenes and acts dishonestly towards the audience leaves ane with a sense of discomfort. It would have helped if the Director looked at more than accomplished film makers like Werner Herzog and tried to make the motion-picture show in that same vein. Instead we are treated with xc minutes which gives little more satisfaction than watching a ane minute viral video.
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A Look At Internet Infamy
Jack Rebney is the most famous homo you take never heard of - later cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an surreptitious sensation and fabricated him an cyberspace superstar.
I confess that I was not aware of Jack Rebney or the "Winnebago Man" clips from YouTube. Of all the memes out there, this one somehow escaped me. But that in no fashion lessened my enjoyment of this picture show, considering information technology was just partially about Rebney and more well-nigh Internet infamy, and the lives of those who have been shamed on the Net. (Though, luckily for Jack, he was more honored than shamed.) I would have liked to know more virtually "Star Wars Kid", but that could easily spin off to exist its ain documentary, and possibly a far more fascinating 1.
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So much promise
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One of the few documentaries that I have been waiting for since the cyberspace first introduced me to Jack Rebney. After seeing a trailer for the movie i similar well-nigh people couldn't wait to grab a glimpse of the film in its entirety. It starts off perfectly introducing u.s.a. to the clips that made this man then famous. And then without alert information technology tanks and just keeps getting worse and worse. Non only does this filmmaker have no idea what he's doing but he really came close to ruining Jack for me. With no clear direction, rhyme, or reason it becomes 90 minutes of garbage. Every single time I showtime to get interested in what Jack is about to say he is cutting off and asked stupid questions no one wants to hear the reply to. I almost wish this Documentary had never been fabricated well lets not go that far. I wish this Documentary had been made by anybody else then Mr. Steinbauer who has a knack for taking a good thing and but absolutely turning information technology into a pile of steaming ****. If i owned a time machine i would go back in time non to assassinate Hitler or save the globe in anyway, just to make this Documentary myself for the remainder of my life i volition be wondering what Jack actually had to say. His world views and his solutions to the problems we face today instead I have been left even more confused most the Man from the Winnebago commercials then i was from the outtakes. I would never normally trash a pic to such degree only i hope all proceeds get to cure Jack glaucoma then he tin see Ben well enough to punch him in the rima oris for turning what could have been ane of the greatest documentaries always into a joke. With no data learned from this entire projection I am amazed this flick fabricated it off the cutting room floor. Side by side time y'all want to brand a Documentary Ben accept my advice and produce it and zilch else, don't be on picture, don't direct, and don't ruin anything else for me.
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Hilarious, Fascinating, Poignant -- As Great As "Anvil!"
Alright, here we go: this is ane of the best documentaries I've ever seen, on any bailiwick. Information technology'due south not simply for members of the Cult of Rebney (in instance you live under a g--damn rock, I'm talking about Jack Rebney: the Winnebago Man, the Angriest Man in the Globe, the original viral video star, and the greatest swearer who ever lived).
The film has one-act: Rebney is i of the great crotchety old men of all fourth dimension.
It has mystery: who is this monumental homo, where does he live, what's the bargain with his acrimony, what the f--k is this thing?
It has commentary: most Americans accept "room-temperature IQs," the Ford Fiesta (or is information technology Festiva?) is a great motorcar, and Bush-Cheney-Rumseld-Rove all deserve hot pokers up their a--es.
It also has flies, towels, windshields, seat belts, yelling, doors slamming, s--t hitting the fan, all types of "accoutrama"...and, concluding but non least, Tony! (If you accept no inkling what whatsoever of this means, become to YouTube and search "winnebago man.")
See this movie ASAP, ya m--damn jackass. Or you can put it up your fern, if you want to.
NO MORE!
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Completely incompetent documentary near an interesting man
This documentary is worth watching due to the vigor and articulate nature of the subject, Jack Rebney. My recommendation for viewing comes despite the clumsy efforts of the filmmaker, not because of them.
Director Steinbauer's exploitation of his subject crosses the line in such vulgar ways that it reminds me of Tod Browning's "Freaks". Mr. Rebney clearly is alone, despite his solitary endeavors, and wants to share his listen with others. While Jack's opinions may or may non fit in with any narrative Steinbauer'southward trying to construct, to filter them out of the film is disgraceful and disrespectful to Mr. Rebney.
The director is an amateur. He has admittedly no idea how to harness Mr. Rebney'south energy nor how to allow the man tell his story without ham-fisted direct questioning in forepart of a camera.
I firmly believe that the vast majority of the accolades put upon this film are built-in out of skillful-will towards Mr. Rebney and not because of the artistic merit of this documentary.
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Grotesque Documentary that Willfully Manipulates its Subject
In 1989 Jack Rebney made a series of videos promoting Winnebago products. The shoot was not a happy one, taking place in Iowa during midsummer, and Rebney became highly frustrated with his efforts. Unbeknownst to him the camera crew edited many of the outtakes together and released them on VHS; they showed Rebney cursing everything and everyone in the basest terms.
Due in no pocket-size part to the ease of copying tapes, the video became something of a cult with Rebney bandage equally "The Angriest Man in the Globe." With the appearance of the internet its popularity soared - so much and then, in fact, that filmmaker Ben Steinbauer was persuaded to search for Rebney's whereabouts and find out what he had been doing since the videos were made.
WINNEBAGO MAN follows a familiar thematic path with Steinbauer at first finding difficulties in his quest, then discovering Rebney; trying to establish a human relationship with Rebney; and at the end persuading the reluctant ex-salesperson to appear at a fan convention in San Francisco defended to the original video. Steinbauer manufactures a happy catastrophe in which the fans congratulate Rebney, and the one-time man returns domicile evidently touched by their affection for him.
But that is not how the documentary pans out. Throughout the action there remains the distasteful suspicion that Rebney's sensibilities are existence willfully exploited past the filmmaker. Now in his mid-seventies with a glaucoma rendering him almost blind, Rebney uses aggression to recoup for his shortcomings, and by doing so conforms precisely to that sobriquet that has stuck to him ever since 1989. At one point he tries to act at-home, but eventually admits that this was nothing more than a form of pretense.
In truth it's non Rebney who pretends, but Steinbauer himself. Saddled with the responsibility of making an "hilarious" motion picture for the fans, he willfully allows Rebney to give vent to his anger. The fact that he is now a delicate old person seems irrelevant. When the two of them end upwardly in San Francisco, the sight is grotesque: I was reminded of the near notorious sequences in Tod Browning'south FREAKS (1932) in which the disadvantaged were presented for our amusement.
The film reveals one of the seamier aspects of fan studies: whereas people of all classes, ages and ethnicities might be devoted to a particular text, their addiction can destroy every bit well equally enhance. This is precisely what happens to Rebney. For all the director'due south attempts to manufacture a happy ending, the old man'southward melancholy expression (revealed in close-up at the stop), denotes his true state of heed.
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One Human being's Human Condition...A Shot Heard Around The World
Ben Steinbauer'southward documentary nigh Jack Rebney is an interesting and entertaining piece of filmmaking. I realize in that location is a huge sub-culture of "YouTube junkies" mind-boggling in diversity and size. Because I do not regularly peruse YouTube videos I was unaware of 1 of the virtually iconic characters always to achieve a kind of mass popularity in cyberspace: "Jack Rebney, The Angriest Human In The World". It is definitely a cultural miracle whereby a homo who would otherwise be as unknown equally any other has go a world-broad star. His dialog, and I'm non but talking about his profanity, has transcended the internet catastrophe up fifty-fifty in Hollywood movies. The industrial video he made for Winnebago probably helped shift some units past helping dealers sell their production...maybe not? Merely, the outtakes, which originally just went to a few executives at Winnebago and the crew, accept transcended fourth dimension place and product & will "live in infamy" on the internet and within pop-culture.
How could one man'southward frustration shooting an "infomercial" come to this? Who is the human, the so-chosen "Angriest Man in The Earth"? What became of him after the video and, more saliently, is he notwithstanding alive? These are some of the questions that Ben Steinbauer was interested in and he had to expend some effort, indeed, because Jack Rebney had long ago retreated and go a true hermit. Finally when Steinbauer found Jack, Jack was not often non honest, but still capable of swell bursts of anger-many times all the same laced with linguistic communication more suitable to jail and wartime. Jack is a juxtaposition who finds his notoriety irritating and exhilarant. He seems miffed that he is a kind of cultural icon due to the cyberspace, more specifically due to film he thought shouldn't take ever existed in the first place. Mayhap in his seclusion he has found peace, but yous get the feeling that under the surface he'due south mad every bit hell even so with a lot of it centering around events culminating with the George West. Bush presidency. At one point I recall Jack believes Ben'southward picture show will to allow him to profess his manifesto regarding politics (and the full general refuse of the United States) which, it seems evident, is where Jack thinks his importance to his audience should lie. Ben tries to make it clear he seeking something more like how Jack got to the point he was as when he made the Winnebago video, that is what his fans are more than interested in. This serves to irritate Jack and all grinds to a halt for quite some time. Ben does an end-effectually and finds a fashion to get dorsum to Jack though and because of that nosotros do end up getting this documentary.
As mentioned earlier, the film Winnebago Human being is entertaining. We get a slice of Jack Rebney, though not a whole picture of who this man actually is. The holes are unavoidable as Jack Rebney has covered his tracks, purposely brutal away from the twenty-four hour period-to-day trappings of civilization. Who Jack is, perhaps, is truly but known to Jack himself and he is playing his cards close.
In the end "Winnebago Man" fans are not terribly interested in Jack's life-story and/or his deeper views. The whole phenomenon rests on actually seeing a man vox "over-the-top" frustration so oftentimes and with, seemingly, abysmal profanity. Ben Steinbauer succeeds admirably by, start, finding the human behind the expletives who tin can still get only as frustrated and angry. This is what Jack's fans love him for...he'southward like united states, but he has no need to fit in at all anymore. To coin Jack: "You believe whatsoever of that $#!+"?
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Doesn't practice Jack a kindness
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The concept for this documentary was intriguing and filled with promise, and the piece of motion picture that inspired it was non only very funny only mysteriously appealing beneath its surface. While nosotros watch Jack Rebney the RV salesman, nosotros simultaneously feel on the ane manus that he sounds like a an angry, overbearing, foul-mouthed, pompous blowhard -- and on the other manus we feel for him beingness trapped in a horrible, humiliating state of affairs, and appreciate him for colorfully expressing the mountainous frustration that we come to feel along with him.
With this documentary, history repeats itself. Jack is placed in but as frustrating a situation, and is just as eloquently, extraordinarily, literately uncouth about it. And that makes information technology an entertaining picture show -- inadvertently. In the terminate, "Winnebago Homo" is not a deliberate success, simply information technology's ironically a mesmerizing vehicle for the strangely interesting man that Jack Rebney is in the same way as the corny Winnebago advertizement that inspired it. And you go the sense that Ben Steinbauer is rightly as irritating to Jack as Tony, the hundred-degree estrus, and the flies were in 1989.
Steinbauer wants to observe the human in the video and make a film about him, but despite this he seems to make no endeavour to understand him. In fact, he near seems adamant non to sympathize him. Jack is a literate, opinionated man who wants to express his views about the world. Steinbauer says Jack sent him columns and the typhoon of a book, but doesn't say anything that even suggests he read them. He says he wants to understand Jack, but asks him quests he specifically doesn't desire to answer, and ignored he organic attempts to talk. I tin't help but retrieve that more would take been achieved past letting the cameras roll every bit the bailiwick was allowed to relax and speak his heed. Instead Steinbauer condescendingly tries to drive him to boondocks so that he tin buy a video camera (which, owning a reckoner, I look he could take already acquired if he wanted it) to post on YouTube (a medium he hates).
In the finish, there are some moments that consist by and large of what Steinbauer has filmed occurring at a live stage event, and Rebney does get to speak his listen rather insightfully if briefly about the entreatment of the video itself.
Some points accept to exist awarded for this being an entertaining film -- only the only credit the filmmaker gets for that is for physically finding an entertaining subject and owning a video camera. His lack of marvel about the man he finds seems to miss the entire betoken of this kind of film.
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Grumpy Old Homo
Ben Steinbauer has been one of the many fans of the bootleg outtakes on VHS tapes of a Winnebago industrial promotional film. He is obsessed with the angry Jack Rebney swearing his way through the filming. Jack seems to be a tough homo to observe until Ben finds him equally a zen-like caretaker of a remote fishing camp in northern California. Later, Jack reveals his truthful foul-mouthed angry old guy persona as Ben convinces him to meet his fans.
I didn't meet the found footage tapes before this film. Afterwards watching this picture, I watched the footage and can see why information technology has gathered such a cult following. It's hilarious. The non-terminate flow of expletives builds to a funny short. His angry tirades just go on coming. As for this documentary, it takes that tape and does the expected route of tracking Jack down. He doesn't disappoint. He's a grumpy sometime human and everybody knows at least one in real life. He has a quaint charm and 1 can't hate on the onetime guy going blind. Although the narrations could be cut back.
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Killer subject matter; fumbled execution
As viral videos go, The Winnebago Human being is one of my very favorites (I know it'south been a meme for ages, but just I came upon information technology recently). And to observe out that someone actually made a documentary about Jack Rebney certainly piqued my curiosity. Sadly, it'due south not nifty.
The movie's fantastic for the get-go 30 minutes or so. Its focus is on giving context (what the video is, how it came nigh, why we love it), and this is where it's really entertaining. Near of the proficient stuff is plant in the interviews with the product coiffure, and this is where I laughed and enjoyed myself the most.
But the director crafts a narrative out of tracking down the reclusive YouTube star and trying to bring him out of retirement for more Internet celebrity. This was my problem with the moving picture; it got away from what made that original video fun and tried to exploit the guy'due south unwanted celebrity for new fame. It gets uncomfortable, and I really wish the director would've kept himself out of the movie. It'south very forced.
At that place's a sizable function of me that regrets having seen this. As one of the interviewees in the movie said, to dig deeper into the legend is to ruin the fun of it. And in this case, I wholeheartedly agree. Rebney was far more entertaining when he was railing against flies and had problem proverb "accoutrements". I still very much love the ill-fated Winnebago sales video, simply this movie I tin do without.
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An interesting documentary subject
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*Spoiler/plot- Winnebago Human being, 2009. Some raw video footage of a Telly commercial pitch-man for motor homes gets bootlegged released on the Internet and makes him a celebrity. A documentary catches up with the pitch-man in retirement and let's him enjoy his new audience.
*Special Stars- Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer.
*Theme- Cyberspace videos can cause some fame.
*Trivia/location/goofs- Documentary, Northern California about Reddening.
*Emotion- An interesting documentary discipline that could only exist due to the rising of the Net and You lot Tube. This movie speaks well of the ability of the download.
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One of the finest documentaries I have always seen! A MUST come across!
The filmmakers behind "Winnebago Man" have crafted a thoughtful, entertaining, and engrossing piece of documentary journalism. I had never seen the internet clip of Jack Rebney but I was hooked in the beginning five minutes of this movie. The director leads the viewers through his quest to discover "the angriest human in the world" and the pay-off is well worth the ride. I tin't say enough adept about this documentary and merely when you fear that the ending may turn out to be distasteful and unsettling the tide turns and you run across a side to Jack that makes the unabridged viewing experience memorable.
My merely frustration with this review is that there are only ten stars available--it deserved higher. In an historic period when Hollywood screenwriters seem virtually unable to write a decent script with a satisfying ending, this documentary sets the bar loftier.
A trip with this Winnebago man is well worth the effort!
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Gem of a movie, gem of a character
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I but saw Winnebago Man at the Traverse Metropolis Film Festival. It was ironic because I originally had the same attitude as Jack has in the movie: why the heck would I desire to watch a movie about some guy swearing on RV commercial outtakes? It's agreeable but not really my idea of one-act I'd want to spend money on, and then I almost didn't buy a ticket. I decided to take a chance on it anyhow, rarely has the TCFF steered us incorrect (*cough* soccer *cough*) and I'thousand actually glad I did! This movie, and information technology'south main character Jack Rebney, is both funny and deeply philosophical. This is one of those films (and real-life characters) that yous want to watch several times to pick up on all the layers. Not merely is Jack Rebney the greatest swearer of all time, but he's as well smart, sharp witted, annoying, and endearing all rolled into one man. I hope that a publisher does pick upwards his book, Information technology would actually be interesting to read an entire book of his thoughts, fifty-fifty better to take the book on audio read by him. Anyway, this movie is highly recommended, you won't be disappointed!
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Jack Rebney: The Worlds Angriest Philosopher
Summary: If you are like me, one of the greatest days of your life was the day you discovered "The Winnebago Man", a compilation of outtakes from a promotional video gone horribly awry. The reason for the luminescence of the video is a man named Jack Rebney, a human being who forgot his lines, mercilessly harassed the crew, and commented on the idiotic nature of his ain dialogue. After recovering from the epidemic of laughter that swept through the land, America was left with just one question: Who is Jack Rebney? Ben Steinbauer, a documentarian with nobility in his heart and backbone in his heed, decided to step up to the plate and take the daunting job of tracking down Mr. Rebney. After multiple Google searches and a visit to a private detective, Steinbauer finally finds the truthful Jack Rebney, although the results are initially disappointing. A sweet, well spoken old human who lives a life of monk-similar solitude in a remote cabin expresses remorse at his coarse language and attitude he adhered to in the past. Steinbauer, seemingly defeated, retreats dorsum home, but to be contacted by Rebney a few weeks subsequently with a startling confession: the innocent Jack Rebney Ben had met earlier was a deception, and the real Jack was dying to get out. From this point, we begin to meet Jack Rebney as he truly is: a bitter, cantankerous, only somehow lovable old human who has an affinity for cursing.
Review: Over the next hour, we begin to meet a 18-carat relationship grow between Ben and Jack, and this human relationship is easily the strongpoint of the movie. Ben's patience and gentle nature acts every bit a perfect antithesis to Jack'southward short-fused attitude and explosive personality. As the two brainstorm to bond, the audience takes a trip through Rebney's mind, finding potential clues as to why The Winnebago Man is the disgruntled, frustrated trounce of a human being he is now. Although the moving-picture show never probes as deep into Rebney'south psyche as it ought to, leaving many questions posed at the beginning unanswered, information technology still provides a fascinating look at a terminally aroused human. Although this journey through the mind could end upwardly being dark and depressing due to the somewhat tragic nature of its subject, Rebney throws in enough absurdist quips throughout the pic to keep things lite and entertaining, creating the perfect mix of comedy and drama. And yes, the movie is quite funny at certain points (a live appearance by Rebney at a comedy gild left me in stitches.) Overall, Winnebago man fails on some level by sidestepping some of the darker elements of Rebney'south graphic symbol, but it more than makes upward for it with a smashing dynamic betwixt the 2 leads and some genuinely funny moments.
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something they'll empathize
I can't say that I've ever witnessed such a heartwaking and true cinematic representation of a man in my life. Jack Rebney is shown from every possible angle as a complex, contradictory, and intensely intelligent homo. The fact that he works and so hard to subvert the grade in which he is being captured is what makes this piece of work so well. The documentarian aspects are skilful enough. But information technology's the subject on display that brings it together. Rebney isn't just a source of amusement, he'south an example of true, real, complete humanity. Someone how achieved some measure of peace and happiness in life through self-credence and understanding. The anger is a side issue.
This is a peachy movie.
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A fun watch and overall decently made documentary
Winnebago Man is nigh a viral star by the proper name of Jack Rebney, who was popular even before the beingness of Youtube. He's i who I admit non beingness all likewise familiar with. With Rebney's video predating Youtube and then being one of its earliest icons one time the platform was launched, I may have been slightly too immature to remember him properly. Just the first section of this documentary does a skillful job at summarising what the original video involved, why it became so popular among certain people, whilst also providing a truly fascinating wait at how videos went "viral" earlier Youtube and the Internet as a whole made that procedure so much easier and instantaneous. The method of copying videos to physical tapes to spread them round looks exhausting, only I estimate people made practise with what they had. It may well be that in another 20-thirty years, the way we currently share videos volition expect anarchic and far too time-consuming, thanks to unforeseen technological advances.
This part of the film was the most interesting to me for the higher up reasons, also as for the insight it gave into the personal furnishings on a person who becomes a viral star. It delves into how there are oftentimes quite negative consequences, including unwanted attention, harassment, and in some cases even bullying. This is a fascinating subject field that the documentary as a whole does somewhat deal with once the filmmaker tracks downwardly Rebney, but non as explicitly or equally in depth as it does here. There was a whole host of content that the documentary could have explored further here, and they mayhap should have taken the opportunity to split the film between more than subjects beyond Jack Rebney. But on the other mitt, he is an interesting person with an explosive, entertaining personality, then focusing on him was far from a bad idea.
That being said: the one primary downside with this documentary may exist that it had a slight lack of content, with its premise feeling stretched to what was barely feature length. It says most of what it needs to say and features most of its truly entertaining and thought-provoking scenes within its first one-half. That's not to say that the 2d half is terrible; moreso that it isn't quite as potent as what came before, although I did actually enjoy the very last scene and the last line of dialogue from the film's narrator.
Overall, it's solid. There are better documentaries out there, but there are also a bunch that are much, much worse. It's a breezy, sometimes funny, occasionally touching look at an early viral star, and the upsides and downsides of having unexpected fame thrust upon you lot. It'due south certainly worth a coincidental watch if the premise piques your interest.
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Dad, is that you lot?
Reminds me of my dad on a rant in the 80's. Hilarious stuff. Language is somewhat like Shut Upward, Little Man. Unlike story, though.
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Not a happy camper
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I'm with Jack Rebney -- I but don't sympathise people's fascination with those over-hyped (yet absolutely entertaining) outtakes to the Winnebago marketing videos he hosted, back in 1989; footage which has gone onto attain popularity among certain circles and that made Rebney, much to his chagrin (supposedly), a cultural icon of sorts. But then, present millions of folks are hands tickled by endless, mindless viral videos; a phenomenon which to me is beyond reason as well, but I somewhat digress.
Circa 2007, director and Rebney-fan Ben Steinbauer felt the need to seek out the subject area of this documentary. Steinbauer's search ultimately led him, not to a cosmically ironic trailer park, but to a secluded shack nestled somewhere in the northern California boondocks. Information technology was here Steinbauer discovered the one-time infomercial legend living the life of a recluse...with non ane RV in sight, I might add.
At the fourth dimension WINNEBAGO MAN was made, Rebney was in his high seventies. Plainly, he had no idea just how famous he had go for appearing in these iconic video clips until he was informed of the craze by Steinbauer. (Really?) As much as Rebney says he wants to be left alone, he welcomes repeated visits past the camera-toting filmmaker. Despite his claim of not wanting an audience, Rebney agrees to make an advent at a San Francisco motion picture festival, where he is treated every bit a glory and looked up to as an idol.
As cantankerous as Rebney is, he seems a likable fellow, every bit one gets the sense of a soft eye beneath that crusty, gruff outside. Yous would have thought, yet, that time spent living equally a solitary in a peaceful wooded haven would have brought some repose to Mr. Rebney but lo and behold if Steinbauer doesn't find the same former cranky graphic symbol as the one from those aforementioned outtakes.
The aged Rebney feels the need to want to express himself, but what exactly does he wish to impart to the world? The director tries to get the codger to open upward a little but Rebney resists, a couple times practically telling BS to go have a hike. I question I would have asked Rebney is, if he disliked making those Winnebago videos so much, why he didn't just quit? Perhaps masochists come up in different forms.
Here and there Rebney hints at wanting to speak about his political views but, disappointingly, the interviewer doesn't seem the least bit interested in this, despite it apparently being of utmost importance to the film's discipline.
WINNEBAGO MAN feels equally if it's equanimous of three parts: There's the beginning half-60 minutes, which deals with the Jack Rebney of the flick'southward title; the next half-hr, that focuses on a three-dimensional Rebney living as information technology were the life of Thoreau's "Walden"; and the final thirty minutes or so, which leads up to Rebney making a special guest appearance at said film festival. I enjoyed the 2d of these three 'parts' the most and as such would have preferred hearing more from Rebney's inner human being, his contemplative elder side. Unfortunately, Steinbauer doesn't allow for this. A shame, since for me Rebney is far more interesting as someone who'south said to have written a manuscript on religion and politics than the one-dimensional self-caricature and so loved by his doting fans. Indeed, I think the point Jack Rebney tries to make hither is how much he would like to be taken seriously.
In the end, Jack Rebney is most known and liked for his excessive use of fibroid linguistic communication. But surely in that location's got to be more to it than that. After all, it takes no talent and zero originality to be able to swear (profusely). That said, it almost goes without proverb that, for a cracker-barrel philosopher, Rebney's agile vocabulary is rather express.
And so once more, mayhap all that his fans want is to be amused and not to have to think besides much. Rebney as 'the Winnebago Man' was a notorious grouch and even so isn't it funny that, by this very act of being overly and perennially miserable, he's managed to bring smiles and giggles to many who've seen these outtakes. Here's 1 sourpuss who, far from being a downer, has inadvertently brought cheer to others. My guess is, not likewise many curmudgeons possess the natural charm to be able to pull that off.
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