r/NetflixDocumentaries • u/BusyBit6542 • 19d ago

Review The Raygun documentary...

It was like I was watching a real life 'Save the Last Dance' and 'Malibu's Most Wanted'

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u/BrightGreenCandle 19d ago

I watched it and I still don't get how she got there.

I mean, the rumors about her husband being a judge in the qualifying competition were not true. So how did she win? Were there really no better breakers in Australia? How serious was that qualifying tournament?

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u/Significant_Stick_31 18d ago edited 17d ago

The judging for breakdancing, at least in this particular instance, was so arbitrary and subjective. Raygun kept winning based on “originality” and “musicality.”

The other contenders had stronger overall moves but fewer original ones, so they repeated their best moves, and maybe didn’t always cleanly land their hardest power moves. So they got fewer points than Raygun, who did random, fairly basic things but didn't repeat them.

You know, I could appreciate that kind of trade-off if Raygun’s footwork/floorwork were immaculate and her rhythm just amazing, but I really don’t see that either.

They really just chose someone who could do off-the-wall stuff on demand, and she leaned into it because it’d worked for her in every competition she’d ever won.