Total Badass is a 2010 documentary

Documentary

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 by American director / producer Bob Ray

Bob Ray

Bob Ray is an independent American filmmaker based out of Austin, Texas.In 1994 Ray founded the production company CrashCam Films. CrashCam Films' first productions were narrative Super 8 mm films and music videos...

 that first premiered on May 19, 2010. Forgoing the usual route of signing a deal with a film distributor, the film will instead be showcased at different venues around the United States, along with some of the filmmaker's other independent film

Independent film

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s; such as the 2007's documentary Hell on Wheels.

Critical review

Total Badass has received generally positive reviews. Despite many scenes of explicit behavior by its subject, it is considered an admirable movie of "life on the artistic and social fringe, and a thriller."