{"id":36626,"date":"2024-09-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36626"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:35:23","slug":"36626","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36626","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Amazing Johnathan Documentary&#8221; (2019) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091024zview_amazingjonathan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Ben Berman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Ben Berman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Edward Szeles <\/strong>(aka<strong> The Amazing Jonathan<\/strong>)<strong>, Eric Andr\u00e9<\/strong><strong>, Criss Angel, Penn Jillette, Max Maven, Scott &#8216;Carrot Top&#8217; Thompson <\/strong>and <strong>&#8216;Weird Al&#8217; Yankovic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Magic. Meth. Mayhem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Amazing Jonathan was a magician\/comedian who regularly appeared on television, in Vegas and around the country.\u00a0 But that was decades ago.\u00a0 After being diagnosed with a fatal heart condition, Jonathan gets the itch to perform again.\u00a0 Ben Berman agrees to create a documentary of Jonathan&#8217;s final tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berman begins filming.\u00a0 The Amazing Jonathan has earned enough to live in a mansion and never work again.\u00a0 The stress of\u00a0 preparing for the tour, let alone the actual performing could kill him.\u00a0 So why not live out his final days in the comfort from the wealth he&#8217;s earned?\u00a0 Then Berman learns that Jonathan still smokes meth regularly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Death wish, maybe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the documentary continues, Berman discovers that The Amazing Jonathan has another documentary crew filming&#8230; and another&#8230; ultimately there are four crews with each thinking that they have the rights to The Amazing Jonathan&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film starts out interesting enough.\u00a0 I remember seeing The Amazing Jonathan perform many times on television.\u00a0 His act was entertaining.\u00a0 As the documentary continued, I began to lose interest.\u00a0 Jonathan comes off in a bad light.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not just smoking the meth.\u00a0 What kind of person enters deals with multiple crews for the same thing.\u00a0 And the documentary director decides to smoke meth with Jonathan to prove&#8230; what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z091024zview_amazingjonathan2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019) Director: Ben Berman Screenplay: Ben Berman Stars: John Edward Szeles (aka The Amazing Jonathan), Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36758,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36626\/revisions\/36758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}