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Paul DeLouisiana

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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #90 on: January 19, 2011, 07:55:21 AM »
Any recommendation's for good Netflix instant watch documentary's? Lately I am having the hardest time watching feature length films. I don't know what it is, I just can never devote the time. Oh I have the time though, believe me. Instead I just wade through episodes of Parks and Rec or recently, Dog Bites Man. Can I get any documentary rec's so I'll stop skimming the choices aimlessly, never being able to make a decision?

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« Reply #91 on: January 19, 2011, 09:46:21 AM »
It's probably a cliche by now, but I got a kick out Best Worst Movie.

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« Reply #92 on: January 19, 2011, 09:50:30 AM »
It's probably a cliche by now, but I got a kick out Best Worst Movie.

Delightful film. 
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« Reply #93 on: January 19, 2011, 08:28:25 PM »
Surfwise was pretty interesting.

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« Reply #94 on: January 19, 2011, 09:29:37 PM »
Surfwise was pretty interesting.

I was very moved by that film.

The dad was in great shape for an 80 year old.

And naked on an exercise bike.
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« Reply #95 on: January 19, 2011, 11:38:26 PM »
Surfwise was pretty interesting.

I was very moved by that film.

The dad was in great shape for an 80 year old.

And naked on an exercise bike.

I, too, was moved. Especially at seeing how utterly unable to cope with the real world those kids ended up being. I also thought it weird how they brushed over physical abuse a little too quickly.

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« Reply #96 on: January 20, 2011, 02:58:10 PM »
Just watched Sick.  The Bob Flanagan story was pretty moving, though a lot of it seems *really* dated now.  The framing of sexuality with identity politics, the constant transgression, the relentlessly narcissistic first-person performance art, the piercings.  The 90s were not as cool as I thought they were at the time.

Also, in the unlikely event that anyone missed this when Hugman posted it, this garage rock doc is pretty fantastic: New Garage Explosion!!: In Love With These Times

I also just watched the BBC series Walking With Prehistoric Beasts.  Some of the CGI is a little creaky, and they do goofy things like cracking the lens of the "camera" that is somehow shooting nature footage 30 million years ago.  But I learned some stuff and my inner 6-year-old was ecstatic.

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« Reply #97 on: January 20, 2011, 03:31:03 PM »
I also just watched the BBC series Walking With Prehistoric Beasts.  Some of the CGI is a little creaky, and they do goofy things like cracking the lens of the "camera" that is somehow shooting nature footage 30 million years ago.  But I learned some stuff and my inner 6-year-old was ecstatic.

The close-ups of the animals looked really good and realistic in all of those docs, I thought.

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« Reply #98 on: January 20, 2011, 05:09:05 PM »
watch The Carter, the documentary about Lil Wayne. it's our generation's Don't Look Back.
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« Reply #99 on: January 20, 2011, 08:44:38 PM »
watch The Carter, the documentary about Lil Wayne. it's our generation's Don't Look Back.

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« Reply #100 on: January 20, 2011, 08:45:27 PM »
Anybody seen Marwencol yet?

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« Reply #101 on: January 21, 2011, 12:21:58 AM »
watch The Carter, the documentary about Lil Wayne. it's our generation's Don't Look Back.

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« Reply #102 on: January 21, 2011, 11:44:03 AM »
I watched RESTREPO last night. Very powerful. Right now I am just about finished reading WHERE MEN WIN GLORY which is the Krakauer book about Pat Tillman. I went to bed last night feeling like I had been beaten with a lead pipe.
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« Reply #103 on: January 21, 2011, 12:58:42 PM »
watch The Carter, the documentary about Lil Wayne. it's our generation's Don't Look Back.

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Re: Documentary recs
« Reply #104 on: January 21, 2011, 01:07:36 PM »
I liked Dave's post.