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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:02 am Post subject:
numero-ocho wrote:
Watched the first episode of Kamau Bell's "We Need to Talk About Cosby.".
I also watched the 4 episodes. I guess it was a decent documentary, but not an enjoyable watch. If true, the guy was basically a monster for his entire career. On thing I found surprising was how many of the females claim that he actually gave them the pills and they took them. I was under the impression it was almost always a spiked drink or something.
Watched the first episode of Kamau Bell's "We Need to Talk About Cosby.".
I also watched the 4 episodes. I guess it was a decent documentary, but not an enjoyable watch. If true, the guy was basically a monster for his entire career. On thing I found surprising was how many of the females claim that he actually gave them the pills and they took them. I was under the impression it was almost always a spiked drink or something.
Wow that’s interesting. Wonder how that went. “Would you like some melatonin?”
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:32 am Post subject:
Snipes wrote:
adkindo wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
Watched the first episode of Kamau Bell's "We Need to Talk About Cosby.".
I also watched the 4 episodes. I guess it was a decent documentary, but not an enjoyable watch. If true, the guy was basically a monster for his entire career. On thing I found surprising was how many of the females claim that he actually gave them the pills and they took them. I was under the impression it was almost always a spiked drink or something.
Wow that’s interesting. Wonder how that went. “Would you like some melatonin?”
From what I recall it often involved a situation where a younger female that was probably naïve needed to "lower some anxiety" and trusted the public image of Bill Cosby. I do not recall it informing on where he continued to get Quaaludes after the mid '80's when they were taken off the market in the US.....it supposedly was his chosen drug to use.
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:46 am Post subject:
Just finished "Red Army" which tells the story of the players from the Soviet hockey team that competed in the 1980 Olympics.
I don't know much about hockey but I found it interesting to hear their stories and get a glimpse of what it was like for athletes who trained and competed for the former Soviet Union. _________________ "Suck it up. Don't be a baby. Do your job." - Kobe Bryant
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:23 am Post subject:
non-player zealot wrote:
ChickenStu wrote:
Heartburn wrote:
Night Stalker on Netflix.
Boy, does it take me back. I remember Ramirez's run through East LA and the SGV that summer. It was hotter than hell and not being able to open the windows that summer SUCKED.
Yeah I watched this doc last year. Really liked it.
I commented on a bunch of Netflix docs I have watched recently on the TV thread, but I should have put it on this thread. I won't post that again, but the ones I mentioned recently seeing were The Devil Next Door, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Amanda Knox, The Staircase, and Misha And The Wolves. I enjoyed all of them.
Do you think lovely Amanda did it? I can't see it given her demeanor. But that can be a facade. There are cases of women contributing to murder that is perpetrated by their man. Karla Homolka is the most disturbing. Total sociopath herself.
If I had to bet, I'd say Amanda is innocent, and the case was never close to being proved beyond a reasonable doubt, despite the original conviction. But hey, evidence and the law don't seem to be the guiding principle for many a jury and/or judges.
Just finished "Red Army" which tells the story of the players from the Soviet hockey team that competed in the 1980 Olympics.
I don't know much about hockey but I found it interesting to hear their stories and get a glimpse of what it was like for athletes who trained and competed for the former Soviet Union.
That's a great sports doc. A nice companion to that would also be the Russian Five doc which details when those soviet players started deflecting after the fall of the USSR. Mostly talks about the Russian guys that played for the Red Wings in the early to mid 90s and all that they went through in order to leave their home country. It's not as good as the Red Army, but it's worth a watch.
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:00 am Post subject:
panamaniac wrote:
numero-ocho wrote:
Just finished "Red Army" which tells the story of the players from the Soviet hockey team that competed in the 1980 Olympics.
I don't know much about hockey but I found it interesting to hear their stories and get a glimpse of what it was like for athletes who trained and competed for the former Soviet Union.
That's a great sports doc. A nice companion to that would also be the Russian Five doc which details when those soviet players started deflecting after the fall of the USSR. Mostly talks about the Russian guys that played for the Red Wings in the early to mid 90s and all that they went through in order to leave their home country. It's not as good as the Red Army, but it's worth a watch.
Those Red Wings teams of the 90's/early 2000's were just unreal. Maybe the best collection of talent in the NHL during my lifetime, and that includes those 80's Oilers teams with Gretzky, Messier, Kurri, Coffey, Fuhr, etc. Those Red Wings teams had 11 Hall Of Famers on teams that won Cups in 1997, 1998, and 2002, plus a 12th if you count the GOAT coach, Scotty Bowman. Those Oilers teams had 7 HOF players, by the way: the five I listed, plus Glenn Anderson and Kevin Lowe. You could include an 8th by adding coach Glen Sather.
Watched the first episode of Kamau Bell's "We Need to Talk About Cosby.".
I also watched the 4 episodes. I guess it was a decent documentary, but not an enjoyable watch. If true, the guy was basically a monster for his entire career. On thing I found surprising was how many of the females claim that he actually gave them the pills and they took them. I was under the impression it was almost always a spiked drink or something.
Wow that’s interesting. Wonder how that went. “Would you like some melatonin?”
From what I recall it often involved a situation where a younger female that was probably naïve needed to "lower some anxiety" and trusted the public image of Bill Cosby. I do not recall it informing on where he continued to get Quaaludes after the mid '80's when they were taken off the market in the US.....it supposedly was his chosen drug to use.
I remember model Beverly Johnson saying that he drugged her unsuspectingly, but she was worldly/astute and knew he had drugged her and she told him, "You MFer...." She said he was taken aback by the comment probably because he had never heard it before and he realized he finally got one who instantly realized his game and after more heated flings, she somehow got out of there. Iirc, he arranged for her to make a hasty exit because he didn't want to deal with someone who was both physically helpless and innocent or unstreetwise enough to not instantly recognize what was happening to them. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
Boeing on Netflix, didn’t expect it to be good but it is, started with the Lion air crash and opened up everything, go watch it
Yes, I watched this in part on your recommendation and found it fascinating but of course disturbing.
What a sad thing to see Boeing's decline as a company as depicted in this, don't want to give spoilers but if you haven't seen it, I would check it out and see what you think. _________________ Love, Laker Lanny
Saw a bit of a recent/new one on Morton Downey, Jr. He lived in Trump Tower in his heyday of 2-3 years. Not surprised they were pals. I totally forgot Morton's Jussie Smollett attempt in 89. He claimed he got jumped by skinheads in a SF airport restroom and he drew all screwed up swastikas on his face, shirt, and pants. None of them even looked like one because he was drawing them upside down on his clothes and in reverse in the mirror. He also buzzcuted his head up.
I think the entire world forgot about that one because I don't ever recall being reminded of it by a CNN/MSNBC anchor or by anyone else here during the entire Smollet thing. At the time, he was being likened to Tawanna Brawley. That was the end of his show, he lasted 2 years because he was an insufferable prick who couldn't get sponsors and who (along w/ his audience) trolled every political guest who was on early never to return. He had Allred, Sharpton, Dersh, Ron Paul, etc. The camera loving talking heads, but even they stopped showing up and his show tanked in less than 2 years of him becoming a known name. I didn't know he got his start by going on Wally George and out-wallying him in order to put his name on the map of conservative shockjock/host yucks. I thought Wally was the original, but apparently there was one in the late 60s of that mold, they showed a clip of it. Obviously not as wild as the 80s guys, but a show w/ a conservative host questioning beatniks, hippies, etc.
I remember him becoming quieter and he dropped the belligerence after he got the terminal cancer diagnosis. One of those bastards who couldn't recover from that kick in the nuts. He went on public service ads telling adults not to smoke, etc. I vaguely recalled seeing him on CNN Larry King towards the end. He looked gaunt and I wondered if he ever had private moments wishing he wasn't such an ahole. Some of those older guys who were Type As get more emotional as they age and start feeling sorry after they realize they pushed their fams/friends away. Kind of like Eastwood in Gran Torino. He died in 2001. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
Re-watched a great documentary on Ali based on his opponents' recollections. Called "Facing Ali" (2009). It's currently free on YT.
Reason I think this one is a very important docu is because they got a lot of his opponents before they died. List is:
Henry Cooper (dead)
George Chuvalo (Mikey from The Fly, arm wrestling snap scene)
Ernie Terrell (dead)
Joe Frazier (dead)
Ken Norton (dead)
George Forman
Ron Lyle (dead)
Earnie Shavers (dead)
Leon Spinks (dead)
Larry Holmes
To me, that's akin to why the Library of Congress has "The Blues Brothers" in their essential movies list. It's because it got Ray Charles, Aretha, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, and Cab Calloway in it while they were still alive. This docu also treats all of the boxers w/ dignity and they go into some of their interesting backstories. That includes Spinks who wasn't especially camera friendly like the rest of the gents. But they didn't shy away from him. They all got to talk about their appreciation of Ali save for Frazier who got the worst of Ali's meanness and psychological warfare. Joe was an easy target as an apolitical black man in that era, but he was an earnest and honorable man, making Ali's stuff hurt him for the rest of his life. But they go into that among other stories about some of those guys that wouldn't have been talked about at all if not for Ali as Ron Lyle stated. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
Saw one from 2020 called "The Delicacy". It's rentable thru YT. It was about sea urchin gonads, principally (uni), but it turned into more of a human interest story of the divers, a restaurant biz story, a rape of nature story, and a gruesome white shark incident. It was more engrossing than I thought it would be. Did a historical sweep of the near extinction of otters for pelts, then the near extinction of abalones, then the current hit to kelp from invasive urchins. Sushi people or restaurant peeps might get it. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 9:55 am Post subject:
Thought I'd resurrect this old thread to suggest a couple of really cool docs I watched recently.
The first is HBO's Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos. Pretty much what you'd expect from the title, and interview from Chase's perspective of how The Sopranos came to be and what the experience was. It has some very cool unexpected things like screen tests from famous people who didn't get roles and other behind the scenes stuff. And then there is an interesting discussion about the series controversial ending and what it meant, but no spoiler here.
The second is a very cool Netflix doc called Buy Now!: The Shopping Conspiracy. It's an investigation into how corporations drive consumerism to dangerous excesses and the environmental/social ramifications told through former corporate execs. But what makes it really fun to watch is it production value and format it. It's constructed as a sort of AI driven corporate training video combined with a psychedelic experience (closest description I could think of). It takes what would otherwise be a dry subject and becomes quite compelling, which is aitself a demonstration of the power of marketing. _________________ Code 8647
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Recently watched “How to change your mind”. Really interesting stuff.
Anyone have positive/negative experiences with psychedelics?
Shrooms are great. I’d recommend microdosing if you’ve never tried it before. I use it recreationally as my drug of choice. I prefer it to cannabis and I don’t drink alcohol.I don’t touch MDMA any more but, for the effect, it’s a close second to shrooms.
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2024 10:31 pm Post subject:
Zhivago _________________ Hoy por ellos, mañana por nosotros
“You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons“
The animal ones are pretty 🔥 even tiger king and the chimp lady one (not Jane Goodal, the crazy one)
Ancient apocalypse
Lenny Cooke _________________ “The main goal for the Lakers is to win a championship. All I care about, all we care about, is to raise another banner in the rafters.“
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:11 pm Post subject:
Music fans, if you haven't already watched the SNL doc Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, do yourself a favor and do so ASAP. It's amazing, and if you watching nothing more, the introductory montage alone is a masterpiece of film/video editing that should not be missed.
Whether you're like me, and are old enough to have watched SNL essentially from the beginning and enjoy the doc nostalgically, or are younger and aren't aware of how eclectic and avant garde the early days were, it's very interesting. _________________ Code 8647
Foxtrot Delta Tango
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:53 am Post subject:
Just finished watching "Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War" on Netflix. It gets a little slow in some places, but there's a lot of information in there that was not public or that I didn't have the brain power to appreciate at the time (or in the years following the end of the Cold War). _________________ You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously. - Richard Feynman
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 10:03 am Post subject:
DaMuleRules wrote:
Music fans, if you haven't already watched the SNL doc Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, do yourself a favor and do so ASAP. It's amazing, and if you watching nothing more, the introductory montage alone is a masterpiece of film/video editing that should not be missed.
Whether you're like me, and are old enough to have watched SNL essentially from the beginning and enjoy the doc nostalgically, or are younger and aren't aware of how eclectic and avant garde the early days were, it's very interesting.
Having seen all of the SNL docs now, I can totally recommend them all. And I would say the Cow Bell one is a must watch. _________________ Code 8647
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 10:06 am Post subject:
Heartburn wrote:
Just finished watching "Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War" on Netflix. It gets a little slow in some places, but there's a lot of information in there that was not public or that I didn't have the brain power to appreciate at the time (or in the years following the end of the Cold War).
Yeah, that was quite interesting even of it did have some slower moment, but the depth of information and backstory was worth those moments. _________________ Code 8647
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 10:12 am Post subject:
I watched Will & Harper, the doc with Will Ferrel and former SNL writer Harper Steele (who recently transitioned) about their road trip across the country and it was deeply moving. It is simultaneously heartbreaking, infuriating and up lifting.
I'm sure it's not for everybody (though it should be), but if it at all sounds interesting, I can't recommend it enough. _________________ Code 8647
Foxtrot Delta Tango
Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 90942 Location: Formerly Known As 24
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:23 pm Post subject:
DaMuleRules wrote:
I watched Will & Harper, the doc with Will Ferrel and former SNL writer Harper Steele (who recently transitioned) about their road trip across the country and it was deeply moving. It is simultaneously heartbreaking, infuriating and up lifting.
I'm sure it's not for everybody (though it should be), but if it at all sounds interesting, I can't recommend it enough.
Recommend this one wholeheartedly.
Also enjoyed the recent Netflix three part documentary on black hawk down through the eyes of many participants, including many Somalis. _________________ Hoy por ellos, mañana por nosotros
“You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons“
After what seemed another endless search for just the right thing, I ended up with Can't Stand Losing You, on Prime about the Police based on Andy Summers' book. I always enjoy these sort of rags to riches stories of our great musical artists and this is not only no exception, but probably the best of the lot. It is well made with a mix of concert footage and some of the notorious behind the scenes footage of this very, very talented, creative, and brilliant trio, but just as strong willed and contentious.
One aspect I did not know was that according to a UK newspaper, Andy Summers, along with Beck, Frampton, and Mick Ronson were all in the running to replace Brian Jones.
The Police did not die slowly; no, they quit while at the top. Their last album, Synchronicity, was not only number one, but number one for months and Platinum in the US, the UK and Canada.
This video reminds me and demonstrates why I no longer listen to their music much: They were so popular their music was EVERYWHERE. It was on AM, on FM, on different stations, different musical genres, and, of course, MTV. For me, there can be too much of a good thing, but nostalgia and reflection can put it back in its proper historical place. In so realizing I recall now, back in the day, I literally wore out The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, with the Police headlining.
Beyond a glimpse of their immense talents, we get some sub stories, Andy's brilliant photography and a bit about his personal life that is very much rock and roll, but also very unexpected. _________________ Hey Doge, ever hear of “measure twice, cut once?” It is not cut first and measure later.
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