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Post by Burke on Jun 26, 2013 14:08:39 GMT -5
What are some that you like?
I finally saw Grizzly Man after hearing about it for years. It was interesting but the guy came across as really creepy and I couldn’t feel that sorry for him since he was putting not only himself but the bears in danger by being there (although in his mind he obviously thought he was protecting them).
The Bridge is depressing as hell but an interesting watch too.
I liked Biggie and Tupac even though the director clearly knew nothing about either of them outside of the fact that they were famous rappers who were murdered. The scene where he visits Suge Knight in prison and tries to interview him is hilarious. He's clearly terrified.
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Post by Burke on Nov 28, 2014 17:42:19 GMT -5
I’m watching this hilarious documentary called Room 237. It’s about the movie The Shining and all the possible interpretations you could take from it. I was looking forward to it because it sounded really interesting but it’s so ridiculous.
There’s one guy who says it’s all about sex and he points to a scene where one of the characters is standing behind a desk with a book sticking out and the guy is adamant that it is giving the illusion of an erection.
There’s another guy who says that in the opening shots when the family are driving to the hotel you can see an image of Stanley Kubrick’s face in the clouds. They even freeze the screen and everything to show you even though there is clearly nothing of the sort.
And the little boy is wearing a shirt with the number 42 on it at one point so one of the nutjobs is like, “this is obviously Kubrick making a statement about the holocaust, which took place during 1942.” A little bit of a reach there, no?
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Post by Wolfgang on Nov 29, 2014 0:46:47 GMT -5
Crazy people are so entertaining.
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Post by Brandon on Mar 8, 2019 2:25:47 GMT -5
I just watched Leaving Neverland and my heart is so heavy for James and Wade. My whole life, the Michael Jackson child molestation accusations have been a punchline and much like R. Kelly, didn't even effect his career. Hearing their firsthand accounts of what happened to them in gross detail and seeing the psychological effect it had on them well into adulthood and how it actually got worse as they got older, and just learning more about victims of sexual abuse and seeing what a pattern it was for Michael, I just feel so sad for them and wish they hadn't gone through that.
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Post by Burke on Mar 8, 2019 21:09:14 GMT -5
I just watched Leaving Neverland and my heart is so heavy for James and Wade. My whole life, the Michael Jackson child molestation accusations have been a punchline and much like R. Kelly, didn't even effect his career. Hearing their firsthand accounts of what happened to them in gross detail and seeing the psychological effect it had on them well into adulthood and how it actually got worse as they got older, and just learning more about victims of sexual abuse and seeing what a pattern it was for Michael, I just feel so sad for them and wish they hadn't gone through that. I just finished it. What a long and depressing watch. I remember back in the day I used to always believe that he was super strange, and it wasn't normal how infatuated he was with kids and how they would sleep in the same room as him, but I still thought that he was probably innocent of the sexual allegations. I just thought he was a naive, creepy weirdo who had a tough upbringing but ultimately was kinda harmless and had good intentions. At this point though I don't think there's any doubt that he was a monster.
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Post by Tarry on Mar 9, 2019 10:34:45 GMT -5
I remember back in the day I used to always believe that he was super strange, and it wasn't normal how infatuated he was with kids and how they would sleep in the same room as him, but I still thought that he was probably innocent of the sexual allegations. I just thought he was a naive, creepy weirdo who had a tough upbringing but ultimately was kinda harmless and had good intentions. I used to believe this too because that was the narrative he and his lawyers had invented to make us doubt his accusers. After watching this documentary there's no doubt in my mind that he was a calculated monster who preyed on kids. Fuck Michael Jackson, fuck his fans who refuse to believe Wade and Jimmy, and fuck that jury who were far from impartial during that second trial.
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Post by Mutant Couch on Mar 9, 2019 12:20:54 GMT -5
I haven't watched this, but I've been convinced of his guilt since they did that weird interview in his home and he unashamedly talked about sleep overs. Fuck all those parents too. There's no reason an adult should be having slumber parties with children like that. This wasn't him having his niece or nephew over and there being no other place for the kid to sleep. People defending him after that confused me. His interactions with children were creepy as hell full stop.
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Post by Burke on Mar 9, 2019 12:59:13 GMT -5
His obsession with Britney Spears and trying to get info about her sex life was new to me. I had never heard about that. I haven't watched this, but I've been convinced of his guilt since they did that weird interview in his home and he unashamedly talked about sleep overs. The one with Martin Bashir? I forgot all about that. Everyone was talking about that at the time. I remember him claiming that it was edited to make him look bad, despite there being zero possible way for the things he was saying to have came across as normal anyway.
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Post by Brandon on Mar 9, 2019 15:43:48 GMT -5
and fuck that jury who were far from impartial during that second trial. That was so gross, that old lady voting him not guilty because Gavin’s mother snapped her fingers at the jury. There were similar gross old jury members in the R. Kelly documentary, who voted in his favor because he didn’t like the way the girls dressed. 😤 The Britney bit was the only scene that gave me a bit of a chuckle. Michael being an obsessed fan lol smh.
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Post by Brandon on Mar 9, 2019 15:47:14 GMT -5
Also LaToya tried to expose Michael years ago, but then retracted her statements and said her husband put her up to it. Clearly in retrospect the family shut her up. 😕
Props to Auntie Toya for trying. I’d be interested to hear her speak on it now.
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Post by Burke on Mar 23, 2019 15:21:47 GMT -5
I'm almost finished The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
I don't know exactly what happened but one thing is clear and that's how incompetent the Portuguese police were. If this incident had happened in the UK or the US I think there's a pretty good chance that it would have been solved.
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Post by Burke on Jun 6, 2019 13:54:09 GMT -5
There's a 3 part documentary airing about a woman who went missing in Glasgow last year. The police end up finding out that the guy she was living with murdered her, cut up her body and hid all the pieces of it around nearby. Some of her bones were found in the grounds of my old high school. The fact that children were playing around there for weeks/months with those around before they were discovered is so disturbing.
And there's CCTV of the guy days after the murder and he's casually shopping in ASDA, standing in the same queue I'm in a couple times every week. It's so creepy that you never know what kind of person you could be standing next any random time you're out in public.
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Post by Burke on Jun 18, 2019 14:02:21 GMT -5
My List on Netflix keeps getting longer and longer so I decided to finally try catch up with stuff and I'm starting with documentaries.
Abducted in Plain Sight - I had never heard about this story before. Holy shit it's so fucked up. The parents role in all of the stuff is infuriating.
LA 92 - About the Los Angeles riots. I had heard a lot before but it was still interesting.
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press - One of the things they discuss is that Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit. It's pretty annoying because everyone on both sides seems like garbage and you just want them both to go bankrupt. Hogan talking in court about how the Hulk Hogan character has a 10 inch penis was a thing that happened.
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Post by Burke on Jun 28, 2019 7:48:48 GMT -5
Long Shot (not the new Charlize Theron/Seth Rogen movie).
This story is wild. I remember hearing about it a few years ago.
A guy is wrongfully accused of murder and is almost certainly getting life in prison. He remembers that he was at an LA Dodgers game on the night/time of the murder but can't prove it. They go through hours and hours of television coverage of the game to try and spot him but can't. Then, in like a one in a million occurrence, it turns out that Curb Your Enthusiasm were filming a scene at the stadium that night. They ask HBO for any footage they have from that night and in the very last tape they check Larry David is kneeling down filming a quick scene and the guy and his daughter walk by him on their way back from the concession stands, right on fucking camera. He's completely oblivious and obviously doesn't even know who Larry is lol.
It's scary to think that without that lucky coincidence this innocent guy's whole life would have been destroyed.
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Post by Burke on Jul 8, 2019 12:55:29 GMT -5
Interview with a Serial Killer - The guy is an old man at the time of the interview but he's still creepy as fuck. He's so blasé about all the horrible stuff he did that it's chilling to watch. If I was the interviewer I wouldn't have wanted to be in the same room as him.
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Jim Carrey is insane. I'm glad he is because it made for a great film/documentary but if I was working with him at the time I'd probably have wanted to kill him like Jerry Lawler did, especially if I was one of those poor make-up people or someone on that level just trying to do your job and having to deal with his shit. Also, it never dawned on me until he mentioned it here that Dumb & Dumber, The Mask and Ace Ventura all came out in 1994. That is just ridiculous. There can't be many other instances of someone having that kind of success in one year.
I think I've finally watched all the documentaries I want to on Netflix. On to the movies!
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