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Are there any more good documentaries on cinephiles? I really enjoyed Cinemania. Come to think of it, I would love to watch something similar about audiophiles, too.
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FeastForCows posted:Are there any more good documentaries on cinephiles? I really enjoyed Cinemania. Come to think of it, I would love to watch something similar about audiophiles, too. I can't give you a title but for more successful Google searches about audiophiles I suggest including the search terms "idiot", "cargo cult", and "babies". Ideally all three at once.
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Jun 13, 2014 14:43
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Just watched Bert Haanstra's short doc Mirror of Holland. It's an absolute trip. Check it out, it's only 9 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6z8HqfZYfw
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Jun 15, 2014 20:43
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I doubt anyone in this thread is interested in Jean Austen, but just on the off-chance that that happens, a cast and crew recreated the ball of Pride and Prejudice, with the help of historians, a costume designer, a professional cook, a professional dance coach and dancers, and musicians. Lots of useful explanations on the Regency period manners, and how people really interacted amongst each other during a ball. It was serious, serious marital business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01h8nFLsmB8
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Jun 22, 2014 08:17
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discoukulele posted:Hey thread! Does anyone have any recommendations for documentaries about bizarre/interesting subcultures? Those are always my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6qw7goMEPI In New York there are these guys who like to wear masks and disguise themselves as women.
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Jun 22, 2014 10:05
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Had a recent doc-watching festival to avoid work. The Corporation (Youtube). The first thing I will say about this is that it's long. I did it in two sittings. I was genuinely surprised at how many corporate guys agreed to participate in the film (probably because some of them had very good points about how businesses operate and why they do what they do) on the "other side." It goes a little nuts at times, with the weird IBM/Concentration Camp connection, but otherwise a great film. Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Netflix) - Political corruption porn. Very similar in structure to "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" but not quite as good. Still a lot of fun. The first half, the bit about the crzy young Republicans of the 70's and 80's, was stuff I really didn't know about. Mail Order Bride (Netflix) - Too depressing to finish. I mean, I did make it through the fantastic Whore's Glory, which was much more difficult to watch but was an impressive film with things to say even without narration. This was just a bunch of white misogynists and Russian whores. Terms and Conditions May Apply (Netflix) - Just heaped onto my growing paranoia after watching Frontline's "United States of Secrets" which I also recommend. Basically, don't put anything on the internet that you don't want people to know. Ever. Even if you don't want them to know it 5 years from now, or 20 years from now. Homo Sapiens 1900 (Netflix) - An interesting movie about the birth and growth of the eugenics movement up to WWII and the various European attempts at "positive" genetic programs is really hurt by the awful narration and maddening score. Despite the poster art, it pretty much skips over the Nazi movement and the Concentration Camps entirely, which is weird, only to say later, "Then, obviously, eugenics went out of favor in the 40's and 50's." Wonder why. There are some interesting things here, but if you start watching and you think the score is going to improve, don't get your hopes up. Just go read a book. Also it's not long enough to be a documentary (and the actual documentary made by the guy who is interviewed is actually somehow worse) but this has gotta be one of the more unsettling and depressing videos on the internet, Vice's video on Kidnappings in Kosovo during the war. What happened to the kidnapped people? Nothing good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzdXoRH2H8 dj_clawson fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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Jun 27, 2014 08:30
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What'd you dislike so much about the score to Homo Sapiens A.D. 1900?
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Jun 27, 2014 13:58
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What'd you dislike so much about the score to Homo Sapiens A.D. 1900? The pianist knew about 3 keys.
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Jun 27, 2014 19:11
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Netflix has added a lot of really good stuff in the past week. God Loves Uganda - How conservative "missionaries" are causing the tone of local politics to shift to be hostile and violent toward anything that's not essentially a WASP type person. Really shocking, honestly. The Institute - About an ARG that took place in mid-California, and the people involved. The Source Family - Basically about a 70's style religious "cult", only with less Kool-Aid and murder and more free love and hippies. Really a great watch, with amazing footage and such because one of the members was a professional photo/videographer. The World Before Her - Beauty pageants in India, how they've been twisted by Western beauty ideals, and about the militant traditionalists that oppose them. Fracknation This one isn't Netflix, but it was funded via Kickstarter and you should really just watch it. Basically the author goes back to the things mentioned in "Gasland" and tries to get the true facts, and... well. Another one you really should just check out. http://viooz.co/movies/24296-fracknation-2013.html
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Jun 27, 2014 19:22
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That drat Satyr posted:The Institute - About an ARG that took place in mid-California, and the people involved. This was amazing. I've been thinking of making a GBS post about it, actually. I was living in SF at the time and never heard about this. I am very sad about it.
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Jun 27, 2014 20:22
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That drat Satyr posted:Fracknation This one isn't Netflix, but it was funded via Kickstarter and you should really just watch it. Basically the author goes back to the things mentioned in "Gasland" and tries to get the true facts, and... well. Another one you really should just check out. Made by global warming denialists, so... well.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:24
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Wrong thread sorry.
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Jun 28, 2014 00:55
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Nothing to see here.
dj_clawson fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jun 28, 2014 |
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Jun 28, 2014 01:00
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acephalousuniverse posted:Made by global warming denialists, so... well. Fair argument, however the contents of the film does pretty well to counter the "hard facts" of the first film. Frankly I have little oppinion, pro or con vs fracking, so... meh. It is what it is. Another great (non-related) Netflix doc recently added is No Woman, No Cry, which follows several pregnant women from different continents and shows the hurdles women face to recieve basic care that we in the west often take for granted. edit: Another great one I just watched - The Boy With the Henna Tattoo - NSFW, and honestly not really mind safe either - about a couple that have a surrogate son and from the cradle groom him to be a sex slave that they sell online. There's nothing too graphic shown, thankfully, but just what's detailed is awful enough. :/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xufh8XysHJ4 That Damn Satyr fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jun 29, 2014 |
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Jun 28, 2014 02:41
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Pilli posted:I doubt anyone in this thread is interested in Jean Austen, but just on the off-chance that that happens, a cast and crew recreated the ball of Pride and Prejudice, with the help of historians, a costume designer, a professional cook, a professional dance coach and dancers, and musicians. Lots of useful explanations on the Regency period manners, and how people really interacted amongst each other during a ball. It was serious, serious marital business. nice jean trolling but I actually liked her in pasteboards and I don't need a thousand artisan IT workers' wives to tell me that mr collins was the star of the book and the teevee series
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Jun 29, 2014 01:50
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dj_clawson posted:
I saw one like this. It was about this creepy gross gently caress who found a woman off QQ. Happily she leaves his stupid rear end near the end.
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Jun 29, 2014 07:01
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Everyone who hasn't already should check out Hands on a Hard Body. It's a completely friendly competition and the participants are wonderfully odd and unique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzj-vb7Lj0A
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Jun 29, 2014 16:38
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fenix down posted:Everyone who hasn't already should check out Hands on a Hard Body. It's a completely friendly competition and the participants are wonderfully odd and unique. I've always thought if this came out a few years later in the heat of that Spellbound/King of Kong era, it would've been a huge hit.
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Jun 29, 2014 16:43
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penismightier posted:I've always thought if this came out a few years later in the heat of that Spellbound/King of Kong era, it would've been a huge hit. I saw this for the first time recently -a great documentary with great characters, but it looks like it was made in the 1980s, what with the washed-out and grainy video, tinny sound and low-tech credits. And the fashion-sense of the people they film. While we're on classic documentaries, I just saw Grey Gardens. It's a remarkable piece but maybe difficult to recommend due to being arguably exploitative, little background or setup being given, and a bit disturbing: two slightly crazy and unhappy people tear into each and then reconcile for 90 minutes. It's exhausting.
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Jun 29, 2014 21:44
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That's the great thing about Hands On A Hardbody. Once you leave the suburbs and big cities, you tend to forget there's places in your own country where time seems to have stopped in 1980 or so.outlier posted:While we're on classic documentaries, I just saw Grey Gardens. It's a remarkable piece but maybe difficult to recommend due to being arguably exploitative, little background or setup being given, and a bit disturbing: two slightly crazy and unhappy people tear into each and then reconcile for 90 minutes. It's exhausting. Grey Gardens does not commentate on its subjects, which is remarkable these days. Let the editing tell its lies and make up your own mind. If that's hard to recommend, Herzog, Theroux, Vice, etc are impossible to recommend.
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Jun 29, 2014 23:04
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outlier posted:While we're on classic documentaries, I just saw Grey Gardens. It's a remarkable piece but maybe difficult to recommend due to being arguably exploitative, little background or setup being given, and a bit disturbing: two slightly crazy and unhappy people tear into each and then reconcile for 90 minutes. It's exhausting. 
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Jun 30, 2014 02:29
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That drat Satyr posted:Fracknation This one isn't Netflix, but it was funded via Kickstarter and you should really just watch it. Basically the author goes back to the things mentioned in "Gasland" and tries to get the true facts, and... well. Another one you really should just check out. Well, the only real reason to check Fracknation out would be to see the certifiably insane couple that Josh Fox based a large portion of "Gasland" on implode hilariously on camera. The one well-researched point this film drives home is that Josh Fox is an insufferable, disingeniuous douchebag that misrepresented/omitted things about Dimock, Pennsylvania, arguably the most infamous town in the entirety of the fracking discussion. Another thing is the whole argument that fracking doesn't cause earthquakes, but while this is something the average Joe can basically research himself, the film doesn't really do a clean job of offering a solid argument for that as a rebuttal to Gasland. Outside of the very genuine message of "You shouldn't judge fracking by noted ill-researched and misleading 'documentary' Gasland.", the rest of the film is basically "Fracking is good because": - It secures the livelihood of farmers that aren't able to otherwise sustain themselves - Josh Fox is a dickwhistle. Josh Fox opposes fracking. Josh Fox lied about fracking. Therefore fracking is good. - Russia says fracking is bad. Russia is bad. Therefore we should frack the poo poo out of the planet to not be at Russia's mercy. - Here's a poor old polish lady in Warszaw that can barely afford rent because Russia is dictating too high energy prices. Uh...fracking is good. - Energy is good. Energy is basically what allowed humanity to progress to where it is today. Fracking provides energy. Fracking is good. - Countries without energy are shitholes and the people living there will never see their dreams fulfilled. Fracking provides energy. Fracking makes your dreams come true. - My friend Bart gave a kidney to his childhood friend Link. This required a really long surgery. That used energy. Energy is good. Fracking is energy. Fracking is good. I mean, I'm more than willing to give McAleer considerably more leeway in terms of agenda than Josh Fox because he's a crowdfunded irish sweetheart and freelance journalist, but if he points fingers at Fox for trash-journalism, then he should kinda go easy on the trash journalism in his own documentary. I really wish he would have adressed in more detail questions raised by inaccuracies or outright misrepresentations of Gasland, like how the Energy Policy Act of 2005 affected regulation. Instead, it goes "lol, no that act didn't deregulate at all, it just exempted fracking from federal law and kept it regulated at state level, all is well" and that's the end of it. Basically, I'd wish for a documentary that neither goes "FRACKING IS HITLER", nor "FRACKING IS JESUS, BECAUSE THIS DOUCHEBAG SAID IT'S HITLER!".
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Basically, I'd wish for a documentary that neither goes "FRACKING IS HITLER", nor "FRACKING IS JESUS, BECAUSE THIS DOUCHEBAG SAID IT'S HITLER!". In other news, Finding Vivian Maier FINALLY came out and it is absolutely wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2nBhQ67Zc
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Has anyone made it out to see Jodorowsky's Dune yet?fenix down posted:In other news, Finding Vivian Maier FINALLY came out and it is absolutely wonderful. I've never heard of this, looks interesting! Dr.Caligari fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Jun 30, 2014 16:02
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The Internet's Own Boy was released by the director on the Internet Archive for free. https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz Pretty cheap to rent it on Vimeo or VOD though if you want to throw them a few bucks for their work. Dr.Caligari posted:Has anyone made it out to see Jodorowsky's Dune yet?
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Jun 30, 2014 16:18
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Interesting, I was debating a day or two ago whether or not to see The Internet's Own Boy.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:19
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Dr.Caligari posted:Has anyone made it out to see Jodorowsky's Dune yet? I did, it's very good... had to go twice because my first screening had a crazy person yelling at the screen, which I now realize would have probably enhanced the movie had I stuck around.
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zenintrude posted:I did, it's very good... had to go twice because my first screening had a crazy person yelling at the screen, which I now realize would have probably enhanced the movie had I stuck around. "I'm the only one who's actually seen the movie" 
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's the great thing about Hands On A Hardbody. Once you leave the suburbs and big cities, you tend to forget there's places in your own country where time seems to have stopped in 1980 or so. Perhap, but I was actually getting at the point that GG just dumps you in the story ("little background or setup being given"). I watched it because I know it's Grey Gardens and I'm aware of the background, but someone would knew nothing of the picture might wonder who these people are and why we're watching this pathological and sad relationship. My partner and I had the same reaction - we thought GG was great but were hesitant to recommend it to anyone because it's hard to say why they should watch it. But then again, I've read people describing the life of the Beales as "inspirational" and talking about "Grey Gardens style", so my own reaction may be astray. nonathlon fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Jun 30, 2014 20:46
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You should watch it because it's an incredibly well-made film about a bizarre situation. Documentaries don't have to be about WORLD SHATTERING ISSUES OF THE DAY to be worth viewing. "Two old ladies with a weird relationship in a dilapidated mansion" is a fine subject for a film. Certainly a lot better than "I have a small dick," "I ruined my marriage because I have a fetish for cheating on my wife with prostitutes," "I have an agenda against environmentalists and people gave me money to make a movie about it," or whatever other bullshit.
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Jun 30, 2014 21:17
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outlier posted:Perhap, but I was actually getting at the point that GG just dumps you in the story ("little background or setup being given"). I watched it because I know it's Grey Gardens and I'm aware of the background, but someone would knew nothing of the picture might wonder who these people are and why we're watching this pathological and sad relationship. My partner and I had the same reaction - we thought GG was great but were hesitant to recommend it to anyone because it's hard to say why they should watch it. Isn't that better sometimes? GG isn't trying to make a didactic point so it has no obligation to lay out the key players. It just thrusts you in and you're immersed in the world of these faded debutantes. I suppose if you'd watched Whatever Happened To Baby Jane right before, it wouldn't seem that jarring. But I really like when a documentary just drops you in and says "watch this for a while". It's like you found someone's home movies.
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Britain's War Against Napoleon covers is a good starting point in learning both the events that led to the Napoleonic Wars and details the eventual fate of both countries. Whilst it tries to cover too much with too little, It still does a decent job of informing the viewer enough to dig deeper (read books!) It is a Channel 4 documentary after all. Part 1 Armies covers the development and differences of both nations armies in the struggle in land in Europe. Part 2 Navies looks into the structure, political differences and the fate of the Navies of both countries. And finally, Part 3 Freedom is a deeper look into the background of how the French Revolution happened and how it affected the people of Great Britain as well as the people of mainland Europe.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Isn't that better sometimes? GG isn't trying to make a didactic point so it has no obligation to lay out the key players. It just thrusts you in and you're immersed in the world of these faded debutantes. I suppose if you'd watched Whatever Happened To Baby Jane right before, it wouldn't seem that jarring. But I really like when a documentary just drops you in and says "watch this for a while". It's like you found someone's home movies. Perhaps. But it does make it difficult to recommend to someone. "What's it about?" Uh ... Another classic documentary I saw recently was The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Reifenstahl. Arguably not without it's faults (it's old and shows it, nearly three hours long and the interviewer handles Reifenstahl with kid gloves), but it's a fascinating story: the ingenue Reifenstahl rising to become Nazi Germany's leading documentary maker, mixing with the powerful and famous, gettting flown to England to show them how to make propaganda. Then in her old age filming in the remotes of Africa and underwater. There's a lot unsaid and skirted over, presumably due to Reifenstahl's cooperation. But she's an incredible person.
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I watched The Internet's Own Boy, tonight, the doc about Aaron Swartz. It was really inspirational and yet depressing. He was such a visionary, he actually wanted to do the cliched "make the world a better place," but it was reasonable, and achievable. loving depressing what the Federal Courts were trying to do. Anyway, it was good.
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appleskates posted:I watched The Internet's Own Boy, tonight, the doc about Aaron Swartz. It was really inspirational and yet depressing. He was such a visionary, he actually wanted to do the cliched "make the world a better place," but it was reasonable, and achievable. loving depressing what the Federal Courts were trying to do. Anyway, it was good. This sound interesting. Where can I watch it? E: never mind, I found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNRTb4RXkPo Waltzing Along fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Jul 5, 2014 06:51
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Documentary about the castles that King Ludwig II built across Bavaria, hosted by Dan Cruickshanks. He's a bit like Meades but friendlier, less opinionated and without the Jeremy Clarkson-for-pseuds contrarianism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIsCrlqPFrY
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Waltzing Along posted:This sound interesting. Where can I watch it? I watched the first hour of this and it seemed to be mainly romanticised hagiography than documentary. Does a critical voice about Aaron appear at any point during the documentary? The long magazine pieces that came out right after he died seemed to be me to be much more balanced and informative.
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cloudchamber posted:I watched the first hour of this and it seemed to be mainly romanticised hagiography than documentary. Does a critical voice about Aaron appear at any point during the documentary? The long magazine pieces that came out right after he died seemed to be me to be much more balanced and informative. No, there's no NPOV to be found. That said, if someone likes to idealize free speech and free information, or is simply anti-government, they'll probably enjoy it.
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There's something about that Aaron Swartz documentary that's really tasteless in a naive way, but I can't put my finger on it.
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The documentary about the rise of TMNT in pop culture is pretty good. Currently on Netflix.
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