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I just watched the documentary Hitler's Hollywood, about the Nazi movie industry. It got a lot into the sort of ideology and values expressed by official Nazi cinema and how they changed from 1933 to 1945, but the most interesting thing was just seeing clips from all of those various Nazi movies. Other than Triumph of the Will and the 1943 Baron Munchausen, I don't think I'd ever seen anything from the Nazi era before. Plus it's narrated by Udo Kier, who has the perfect voice for a documentary on Nazi movies.
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Interesting 4 part thing on Netflix now called "Evil Genius." Don't know how long it's been on there, but I recently stumbled across it. It follows the developments on a bank robbery case over a period of several years. One day a man with a bomb strapped to his chest, and carrying a homemade cane shotgun, walked into a bank and tried to rob it. He was eventually surrounded by police. He said that he was a pizza delivery man, and that he had been abducted by some black men who had strapped the bomb on his neck. He had been set off on an intricate scavenger hunt to find keys to take the device off. He didn't make the deadline, and the bomb went off, killing him immediately. From there, you go down the rabbit hole.
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May 16, 2018 02:48
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the family bemoaning the coroner's office for severing the deceased's head, thus preventing them from having an open casket funeral is.. odd. Dude just had an IED go off while hanging around his neck and detonate on his chest. If you thought you were having an open casket, I feel like you are sorely mistaken.
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May 16, 2018 04:35
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Chairman Capone posted:I just watched the documentary Hitler's Hollywood, about the Nazi movie industry. It got a lot into the sort of ideology and values expressed by official Nazi cinema and how they changed from 1933 to 1945, but the most interesting thing was just seeing clips from all of those various Nazi movies. Other than Triumph of the Will and the 1943 Baron Munchausen, I don't think I'd ever seen anything from the Nazi era before. I've watched one of the German movies from that era, Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (the King of California). The best way I can describe it is what if the Nazis had won the Civil War? The main character is basically Hitler, rolling his Rs, and when he makes his entry into San Francisco at the end, it's like watching a Nuremberg rally, except cowboys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxmD4UeHBe4&t=4847s
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May 16, 2018 11:45
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Volkerball posted:Interesting 4 part thing on Netflix now called "Evil Genius." Don't know how long it's been on there, but I recently stumbled across it. I hope it's better than the comedy made about that story, "30 Minutes or Less."
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May 16, 2018 11:53
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Evil Genius is a good watch but way too long
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May 16, 2018 17:21
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Garth_Marenghi posted:I hope it's better than the comedy made about that story, "30 Minutes or Less." Didn't the makers of that movie try and claim that it was their totally original idea and that they had never heard about the real life case at all?
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May 16, 2018 19:08
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Are any of watching Dirty Money on netflix? Seems good so far and I liked Smartest Guys in the Room...
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May 19, 2018 16:54
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dirty money is amazing (apart from the quebec maple syrup one) - especially the trump episode.
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May 20, 2018 14:47
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Groovelord Neato posted:dirty money is amazing (apart from the quebec maple syrup one) - especially the trump episode. How dare you, the great Maple syrup caper is an important part of our history! (Nah, you're right)
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May 20, 2018 20:53
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i was expecting some big reveal but there was just...nothing.
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May 20, 2018 21:07
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Currently enjoying Captive on Netflix. Very interesting real life stories of people being held... eh, captive.
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May 21, 2018 09:55
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Groovelord Neato posted:dirty money is amazing (apart from the quebec maple syrup one) - especially the trump episode. Agreed, its really good and also will probably make you very angry!
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May 22, 2018 20:31
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Just saw a theatrical screening of Ramen Heads and it was just really a good time. I coulda done with a bit more of a look in the cultural pervasiveness of Ramen outside of Japan...but that was beyond the scope of the project, so I don't hold my wishlist against it.
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May 24, 2018 22:03
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I watched 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide on HBO and it's... quite the trip. In retrospect a friend telling her "you should throw all of these away immediately " should have been a clue how things would go. Obvious content warnings apply, but it's also  for nude photographs.
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May 28, 2018 06:17
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Groovelord Neato posted:dirty money is amazing (apart from the quebec maple syrup one) - especially the trump episode. I liked the maple syrup episode because of how bizarre the syrup business in Canada is.
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May 28, 2018 18:04
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New season of The Toys That Made Us is up. This season they go into a lot better detail (and the episodes are longer). The one on Hello Kitty is pretty interesting, and the one on Transformers is great.
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May 29, 2018 01:48
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Alhazred posted:I liked the maple syrup episode because of how bizarre the syrup business in Canada is. it is kinda interesting but the other episodes are - car company brings us closer to the apocalypse to become market leader and succeeds and gets away with it, payday lender and his wife and lawyer whine about how unfair it is that they're getting prosecuted for bilking hundreds of million of dollars out of poor people, drug company dooms people to death or bankruptcy (or both) to increase shareholder value, the government decides not to pursue a slam dunk case against a giant bank that's been washing money for ultraviolent drug cartels, and the most powerful country on earth elects a transparent huckster and failure to the highest office in the land. it's like having a horror anthology full of extremely grotesque and depressing stories and one of em is about a guy who stubbed his toe real bad. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 04:13 on May 29, 2018 |
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May 29, 2018 04:08
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precision posted:New season of The Toys That Made Us is up. This season they go into a lot better detail (and the episodes are longer). The one on Hello Kitty is pretty interesting, and the one on Transformers is great. This program is what the [skip intro] button was made for. I hope these episode are better than the first season, I want more interesting facts and anecdotes and less of the head up it's own rear end set pieces. Garth_Marenghi fucked around with this message at 16:15 on May 29, 2018 |
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May 29, 2018 15:59
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Wait, is that a standard Netflix feature now? That's pretty funny.
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May 29, 2018 16:05
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precision posted:New season of The Toys That Made Us is up. This season they go into a lot better detail (and the episodes are longer). The one on Hello Kitty is pretty interesting, and the one on Transformers is great. Was coming here to suggest this, I kinda liked the first season although I wished the episodes were longer. It was neat hearing the guys talk about how they came up with names and ideas and I'm a sucker for some of the concept art 
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Jun 4, 2018 21:52
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The Transformers episode is cool, as is the Lego one. Especially nice to see how Bionicle saved Lego, I had no idea it was that popular, because I always saw them as "Not-Lego".
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Jun 5, 2018 00:58
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:The Transformers episode is cool, as is the Lego one. Especially nice to see how Bionicle saved Lego, I had no idea it was that popular, because I always saw them as "Not-Lego". Lego is such a weird company. I keep waiting to hear about some bizarre corporate rituals they have or something involving sacrifices to Moloch because by all accounts they are one of the most chill and awesome places to work on the entire planet.
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Jun 5, 2018 03:01
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There is a 3 part documentary about the Paris attacks on Netflix. It is really good. It's called: 13 Novembre: Fluctuat Nec Mergitur
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Jun 6, 2018 00:22
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I know lots of folks think he's a blowhard (they're not really wrong, either), but I wish someone would make a Jello Biafra documentary. He's definitely led an interesting life. Heck if you wanted to just do a doc on the PRMC situation and how it ruined the Dead Kennedys (and influenced music buyers for a decade), that could be hella engrossing. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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Jun 6, 2018 02:33
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I know lots of folks think he's a blowhard (they're not really wrong, either), but I wish someone would make a Jello Biafra documentary. He's definitely led an interesting life. There's a doc on that but I can't seem to Google it up right now. If I can remember it I'll post it.
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precision posted:There's a doc on that but I can't seem to Google it up right now. If I can remember it I'll post it. My man! Thanks.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:My man! Thanks. In the meantime, I recall the fictionalized movie about it being pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning:_Parental_Advisory
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Volkerball posted:Interesting 4 part thing on Netflix now called "Evil Genius." Don't know how long it's been on there, but I recently stumbled across it. It follows the developments on a bank robbery case over a period of several years. One day a man with a bomb strapped to his chest, and carrying a homemade cane shotgun, walked into a bank and tried to rob it. He was eventually surrounded by police. He said that he was a pizza delivery man, and that he had been abducted by some black men who had strapped the bomb on his neck. He had been set off on an intricate scavenger hunt to find keys to take the device off. He didn't make the deadline, and the bomb went off, killing him immediately. From there, you go down the rabbit hole. Well the bomb was a little too sturdily constructed,it didn't shrapnel the way it was supposed to. If it had gone off as intending he likely would have just been a pair of red pants in the middle of the road. Since it failed to shrapnel however it really just blasted a giant hole in his chest and shoulder, but his head and neck were fine(relatively speaking). He lived for a few minutes afterwords and was able to sort of communicate, so it's not unreasonable to expect that they could have had an open funeral. I understand why they had to to decapitate him, but I did wonder why they couldn't put the head back on for the funeral. Just bury him in a turtleneck to hide the neck scars.
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Anyone see the Mr. Roger's doc that is playing at select theaters right now? Its getting pretty good buzz.
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The Staircase has been added to Netflix. It’s a true crime doc series from before true crime doc series were a thing. I wanna say it’s maybe 10 years old. It’s really good and they’ve actually produced 3 new episodes of it. I haven’t seen it in a few years so I’m kind of interested in watching the whole thing again with the new episodes.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Wait, is that a standard Netflix feature now? That's pretty funny. Combine that button with a browser plugin that automatically clicks it, and you're done with intros forever.
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Mahoning posted:The Staircase has been added to Netflix. It’s a true crime doc series from before true crime doc series were a thing. I wanna say it’s maybe 10 years old. It’s really good and they’ve actually produced 3 new episodes of it. I haven’t seen it in a few years so I’m kind of interested in watching the whole thing again with the new episodes. Blowpoke 
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Win by Fall is on Amazon Prime. It was one of my favorite films at sxsw last year. It's about a wrestling school for girls in Germany and it has some absolutely riveting fly-on-the-wall work. If you like great sports narrative, it's a fine example.
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Mahoning posted:The Staircase has been added to Netflix. It’s a true crime doc series from before true crime doc series were a thing. I wanna say it’s maybe 10 years old. It’s really good and they’ve actually produced 3 new episodes of it. I haven’t seen it in a few years so I’m kind of interested in watching the whole thing again with the new episodes. The new episodes are largely more entertaining than the originals, I thought. Maybe because they're a lot more focused and there's only 3 of them.
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magiccarpet posted:Evil Genius is a good watch but way too long yeah after the first couple episodes it's so blah. plus i loathe true crime where the author/director inserts themselves.
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Jun 10, 2018 17:07
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the first 2 episodes are really good though, just know you can stop before the end if you want
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Jun 10, 2018 17:18
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precision posted:the first 2 episodes are really good though, just know you can stop before the end if you want This is the way to watch the Bobby Kennedy series
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achillesforever6 posted:Anyone see the Mr. Roger's doc that is playing at select theaters right now? Its getting pretty good buzz. Saw it tonight, was already tearing up about 5 minutes in.
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Hope that Rogers doc comes to Netflix
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