Closed for Storm (2021)
In 2000, New Orleans opened the amusement park Jazzland. In 2002 -- after bankruptcy for the previous operators -- Six Flags took it over. In 2005, Katrina hit the city and killed the park. Since then, despite many grand plans, it's remained abandoned and an eyesore.
There's no need to watch this as I pretty much told you everything above. If you're interested in abandoned buildings/parks in general, you'll still be jonesing after watching this since we get almost nothing. Instead of haunting shots of quiet/moss-strewn rides, we enter the administrative offices and visit several rooms just so that our narrators can exclaim over yet another water-lined wall and act surprised that the calendars they see are from 2005. I got the feeling they didn't have permission to film there, otherwise I can't make sense of the weird choices they made.
This felt like a high school report rather than a focused documentary with a point to make.
D+
Labels: 2021, Documentary, Dplus, Drama
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