I like documentaries more so than regular films, because in general most of them are good. Or at least there is a better ratio of good to bad compared to regular films.
Anyways, I haven't seen anything lately besides the cheesy stuff on discovery/history channels. And I'm looking for some recommendations. Anything about science, space, ancient history, conspiracies, religion, specific things (people, places, etc).
Stuff I've seen in the past year: Tyson Gonzo Future Of Food Sweet Misery: The World Reacts to an Adulterated Food Supply Religulous Obama Deception Scratch:Hip-Hop Zeitgeist Addendum The God Who Wasn't there Various Graffiti docus Steve-O (thing off MTV) King Of Kong The Corporation Deep Blue Heavy Metal In Bahgdad Confessions Of a Super Hero etc. (not saying these are all great but just giving you an idea of what interests me)
So what good/interesting docu's have you guys seen lately?
For thirteen consecutive summers, the American Timothy Treadwell moved to Katmai in the Alaskan Peninsula to live among the grizzly bears, with the pretext of studying and protecting them. In 2003, his girlfriend Amie Huguenard and he were surprisingly attacked and ate by a bear. Werner Herzog somehow accessed more than one hundred hours of footages filmed by Timothy and released this documentary, showing the life and death of Timothy Treadwell
On September 30 2009 21:53 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: Grizzly Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogYDUmIigw0 For thirteen consecutive summers, the American Timothy Treadwell moved to Katmai in the Alaskan Peninsula to live among the grizzly bears, with the pretext of studying and protecting them. In 2003, his girlfriend Amie Huguenard and he were surprisingly attacked and ate by a bear. Werner Herzog somehow accessed more than one hundred hours of footages filmed by Timothy and released this documentary, showing the life and death of Timothy Treadwell
I watched this with a friend and we both just wanted to punch this dumbass, he was all crying and berating the bears for eating their young when they were starving, and getting mad at some squirrel stealing his hat, and blahblah, all the while claiming that animals are basically people and live in happy little civilized communities. And that rant about the USA Gov was just so unbelievably dumb. "Fuck you!!! Fuck you!!!"
The doc is still definitely worth watching, it'll make you think, make you angry, or whatever. It gets a reaction either way.
Did you watch that Half-Ton kid thing that was posted in general? That was pretty good too.
Can you give a description at all besides the overt title? Btw is that link started at the beginning of the film?
It starts at the beginning. The film documents how corporations do some very bad things for profit and how they have enormous political power and influence. I am very for capitalism but this film changed my mind on a few things, namely that corporations shouldn't have the same rights as people and they should not be allowed to lobby (this is equally the fault of politicians who allow themselves to be bought).
Can you give a description at all besides the overt title? Btw is that link started at the beginning of the film?
It starts at the beginning. The film documents how corporations do some very bad things for profit and how they have enormous political power and influence. I am very for capitalism but this film changed my mind on a few things, namely that corporations shouldn't have the same rights as people and they should not be allowed to lobby (this is equally the fault of politicians who allow themselves to be bought).
I don't know if it's necessarily the politicians allowing themselves to be bought so much as they NEED to be bought to win. So maybe it's more of a problem with our system and culture and what have you.
- a interesting perspective to corporations: it compares two persons, the legal entity, person, a corporation with a real person with a personality disorder, a psycopath http://www.linktv.org/programs/special_corp1 again u got to find the torrent
Can you give a description at all besides the overt title? Btw is that link started at the beginning of the film?
It starts at the beginning. The film documents how corporations do some very bad things for profit and how they have enormous political power and influence. I am very for capitalism but this film changed my mind on a few things, namely that corporations shouldn't have the same rights as people and they should not be allowed to lobby (this is equally the fault of politicians who allow themselves to be bought).
On September 30 2009 22:48 wbirdy wrote: As part of my exam prep, my teacher asked me to watch a series of documentaries on Picasso on youtube. Quite an interesting watch i would say.
I forget what its called, but theres a documentary on the musician "Girl Talk" which is quite cool.. talking about copyright infringement and everything to do with sampling (if you are unfamiliar with him, he is a dude who takes little bits of popular songs and mixes them up, and releases them as his own work, yet has been able to avoid being sued)
really cool doc I caught yesterday on HBO. About children illegally immigrating (or trying to at least) from Mexico to US. Really makes you realize how hard and dangerous it is to cross the border. Really sad at parts
I would watch the 'greater meaning of water' i don't know if you know what free diving is, but i love that documentary.
Also another on that i really enjoyed , but i forget the name- was about all of the suicide jumpers off of the golden gate bridge. Basically the movie is wondering why people travel to the golden gate each year to just jump off of the bridge. I think it's somewhere in the realm of 270 people+++ jump off the bridge each year.
I also watched the documentary mini-series "The Genius of Charles Darwin" by Richard Dawkins on youtube a few weeks ago. Really good series that explains a lot about evolution if you are still having problems understanding it. A little too "anti-religion" in the last 2 episodes, even though I basically agree with it I felt it would of been more effective to be less aggressive (and thus more accessible for religious people).
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