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Been dipping into Netflix’s documentary catalog the past couple nights. Last night I checked out Muscle and Mayhem, a film about the American Gladiators show from the early 90’s. Also began the series about Trump and his origins as a mobbed up con man real estate developer in the 1970’s. Tonight so far has been the excellent film about Apollo 13, a so-so doc about the terracotta soldiers in China, and now the 4-part series about the 1986 Challenger disaster.
What documentaries are you watching lately?
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Nov 5, 2024 11:49 Haven't seen this yet but I see there's a limited cinema release for super/man the Christopher Reeves story, I saw the trailer and it looks pretty compelling. I brought this up in conversation and someone said Robin Williams helped pay for his medical bills. |
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Nov 5, 2024 13:37 Were the Gladiators roided up Lunatics? |
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Nov 5, 2024 14:04 Does YT stuff count as doco's? I mean if its in that vein? |
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Nov 5, 2024 17:23
Sure! |
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Nov 5, 2024 17:30 My teacher the octopus was one of the last ones I watched |
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Nov 5, 2024 17:39
^I just watched Octopus: Making Contact on like PBS or something like this past summer. |
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Nov 5, 2024 17:44
Not a doc, but Woman of the Hour is sort of a profile of Rodney Alcala without sensationalizing his background. |
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Nov 5, 2024 18:10 @trush octopuses are one of my favorite animals 🐙 they're so cute and goofy, and really smart! |
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Nov 5, 2024 23:09
I'm only 1 coffee in, and i read gladiators as the ancient version, and was about to ask WHERE they got drugs from... o_o |
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Nov 6, 2024 00:18 I think I’m going to watch the one about the anthrax attacks just after 9/11, I never really got the full story on that. There’s one on Vince McMahon of the former WWF / WWE / wtf ever it is or was - pro wrestling, basically. I’ve never been a fan of wrestling and have always seen it as something of an American cultural embarrassment, but I am mildly curious about how exactly it came to be so popular. |
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Nov 6, 2024 00:40 Uh count dankula has some epic shows "mad lads" i find them RATHER interesting honestly. OH YEAH! the WWE one omg.... |
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Nov 6, 2024 03:56
Was Idiocracy a documentary? |
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Nov 6, 2024 03:58
Like idiocy is a word, much like how i "spelt" it |
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Nov 6, 2024 08:20 People keep mentioning how prophetic Idiocracy is. I guess I could watch it if the general premise is that in the future, only idiots will run the show, well sister, we’re living in that reality. |
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Nov 6, 2024 11:46 I am sorry major respect lost, WATCH IT ya butterball, then you can go... holy s**t... And its freaking funny. Owwww my balls. |
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Nov 6, 2024 15:55 I am sorry to have failed you and will correct my errant ways, Malk. |
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Nov 6, 2024 17:14 Yeah ... You should watch it lol. Brawndo is what plants crave! |
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Nov 6, 2024 23:03
^ then you can do this with all of us |
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Nov 6, 2024 23:33
But i'd still recommend some "mad lads" he's gone over things like the usual suspects, everything from the killdozer and even about the chinese MMA fighter who just destroyed martial artists and so forth, maybe not your usual type of doco's but really some interesting stuff. |
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Nov 7, 2024 00:44 Something neat is the tia martial artists docs you can find on YouTube. I've practiced it and I never want to try anything like it again |
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Nov 8, 2024 23:10
American Conspiracy: the octopus murders was really good. Since we're on both subjects... |
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Nov 8, 2024 23:25
Pepsi where's my jet |
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Nov 8, 2024 23:27 Oh, and Bad Vegan, but that one was so sad. |
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Nov 8, 2024 23:42
Pamela, A Love Story. |
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Nov 9, 2024 01:49 How to Rob a Bank was good, watched that one a few months back. |
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Nov 9, 2024 02:06 How about menendez brothers documentary |
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Nov 9, 2024 05:31
^Watched that last night. |
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Nov 10, 2024 05:46 Oh f**k! I forgot about that one Gru, it was epic, I've watched it a few times now, along with the O.G. Pointbreak, which I've never noticed how objectively good that movie is. |
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Nov 10, 2024 05:49 That last one you mentioned is the reason (but not catalyst) I got into docs in the first place. I noticed myself gravitating towards fictional movies that could realistically happen. The more f**ked upbthe better, like Pulp Fiction. Then I saw docs that fit the slogan 'Truth is stranger than fiction.' and I became a doc lover. |
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Nov 10, 2024 06:34 Yeah I had never heard of that story before. That guy was super interesting, building a literal tree house and being this eccentric, reclusive dude. Then he decides to rob banks for the thrill of it? Wild. |
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Nov 11, 2024 01:52 I know, it's already this wildly bananas story, and then it's got this beautiful metaphor about the tree house. That flick really was, on an objective level, the best doc I've seen in the last 3 to 5 years. |
