Reality??

 

 (themoviedatabase)

DIE FIGHTING-2014-A group of martial artists, The Z Team, go to Hollywood. Their kind of leader is Fabien (director/writer Fabien Gorchon/Garcia). His girlfriend Meilu (Adelyne Liu) is kidnapped by some nut who blackmails the group into making a "reality" martial arts film. He sets them against various deadly scenarios. Robbing an armored car, fighting a SWAT team, battling a dojo of black belts, a gang of killers, LA street gang and finally each other. 

The fights are very well done, some resemble the old classic ones from the Shaw Brothers. It draws some inspiration from the SAW movies. Ludicrous plot with not great acting but great fights. Twist ending goes on way too long.

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Real Hippies...??

 

(imdb)

CHANGING-1971-Unusual cinema-verite' about a hippie like couple and the struggle to preserve their marriage, raise their children and help another couple. When they get together with some friends they all smoke pot. It's rather pointless and too long (although only 28 minutes). If it's all on the level, it could be the first reality series. I'd like to know what happened to the family though. 

Part of a series called “The Social Seminar” produced by UCLA for The National Institute of Mental Health. The producer Gary Schlosser also produced another short film COWBOY (1966) which was nominated for an Academy Award.

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Cruel Movie

CRUEL WORLD-2005-In this stupid movie a reality show reject psycho (Edward Furlong) kills the husband and wife winners and takes9monster over their house. He creates his own life and death reality show and invites a bunch of young people to participate in it. He monitors it all from a special room while talking, smoking cigarettes and laughing. He also has the big dumb Claude (Steve Franzese) who kills the contestants. Furlong is a good nut but this movie is like a hundred other direct to video slasher movies despite it’s updated trappings. The director, Kelsey T. Howard was a second unit director on many films.

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