What's the best documentary you've seen?

[Strike 6,021]

23 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Gotta say, Roger & Me was real good. Before Moore went full batshit hack. 

Girl who worked for me, who was from Detroit, recommended this.  I watched it.  It sucked.

[HTH 95]

[Herbivore 1,197]

3 hours ago, DonS said:

Music wasn't bad but I can only take so much harsh vocals.  Thanks for the heads up though. 

I just recently started listening to Enslaved, which is also Norwegian.  Has more of a mix of clean and harsh vocals. I'm working backwards through their discography as latest album came out this year.  Really enjoy it, but as you said with the other band it's probably not for everyone. 

For sure, I don't usually go for the harsh vocals either.  Just seems more like an instrument on his albums.  The whole wall of sound style too is weirdly relaxing.  

I have been listening to Nero di Marte album Immoto.  Its amazing.  Give that one a try.

[DonS 3,319]

5 minutes ago, Herbivore said:

For sure, I don't usually go for the harsh vocals either.  Just seems more like an instrument on his albums.  The whole wall of sound style too is weirdly relaxing.  

I have been listening to Nero di Marte album Immoto.  Its amazing.  Give that one a try.

Just put it on.  Thanks. 

[Herbivore 1,197]

15 hours ago, DonS said:

Just put it on.  Thanks. 

what did you think?

[supermike80 2,082]

19 hours ago, Strike said:

Girl who worked for me, who was from Detroit, recommended this.  I watched it.  It sucked.

Agreed.  Hated it back then.  Thought it was so biased.    GM bad..Ragardless of anything else----GM bad.   

Not a fan

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

Just now, supermike80 said:

Agreed.  Hated it back then.  Thought it was so biased.    GM bad..Ragardless of anything else----GM bad.   

Not a fan

GM is bad. The worst. 

[HTH 95]

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

The Real Rocky

Would like to see the doc on Mr. Rogers.  Looks amazing.

[DonS 3,319]

2 hours ago, Herbivore said:

what did you think?

Didn't really grab me, but thanks for the suggestion. 

[Herbivore 1,197]

Just now, DonS said:

Didn't really grab me, but thanks for the suggestion. 

that first 7 minutes of Sisyphos is insane.  L'arca. .  but yeah, funny what grabs me with music. 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

Idiocracy.

[TK0001 99]

To be clear, I think listening to Norwegian black metal is akin to scraping my ears out with a wire brush, only not as pleasant. But I'm wildly interested in the movement behind it, and the fact the music is so focking terrifying. 

[kilroy69 1,268]

I really enjoyed exit through the giftshop and the deepest depths of the Burrow.  Both graffiti movies.  

[Hardcore troubadour 15,911]

1 hour ago, kilroy69 said:

I really enjoyed exit through the giftshop and the deepest depths of the Burrow.  Both graffiti movies.  

If you like the graffiti theme, check out “The Art of Conflict “.  It’s about graffiti in Belfast having to do with the troubles. Really cool. 

[Cdub100 3,995]

Best in show

 

https://youtu.be/94y9n9lNy2Y

[kilroy69 1,268]

3 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

If you like the graffiti theme, check out “The Art of Conflict “.  It’s about graffiti in Belfast having to do with the troubles. Really cool. 

I absolutely will ty. 

[JustinCharge 2,397]

7 hours ago, TK0001 said:

To be clear, I think listening to Norwegian black metal is akin to scraping my ears out with a wire brush, only not as pleasant. But I'm wildly interested in the movement behind it, and the fact the music is so focking terrifying. 

Its the long hairs snagging on the wire brush that probably irritates the most!

[TimmySmith 2,783]

23 hours ago, HTH said:

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

I am sure every foodie has seen this, but if you haven't, see it right now. There doesn't need to be another film about sushi after this one. After seeing it the first time, I realized that all the Sushi I have have eaten and may ever eat, is absolute crap. 

[BufordT 440]

The Last Narc was fantastic

The Sheik (bio of The Iron Sheik) was good stuff. Surprisingly every doc I've seen on wrestling (the fake kind) has been pretty good.

 

[kutulu 1,703]

6 hours ago, BufordT said:

The Last Narc was fantastic

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Yeah I liked that one, think I mentioned it in the netflix thread

[TimmySmith 2,783]

8 hours ago, BufordT said:

The Last Narc was fantastic

The Sheik (bio of The Iron Sheik) was good stuff. Surprisingly every doc I've seen on wrestling (the fake kind) has been pretty good.

Saw The Shiek, but it's unfair,  every doc of a former wrestler is Oscar worthy, including The Wrestler which was a film. They need a doc on The Wrestler. 

[supermike80 2,082]

23 hours ago, TimmySmith said:

I am sure every foodie has seen this, but if you haven't, see it right now. There doesn't need to be another film about sushi after this one. After seeing it the first time, I realized that all the Sushi I have have eaten and may ever eat, is absolute crap. 

Coulda told you that before this

[TimmySmith 2,783]

21 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

Coulda told you that before this

I kind of knew it already. Oh well, will continue to eat it.

[Masshole 642]

It didn't get anywhere near the acclaim that his civil war documentary series got,  but I thought that Ken Burn's Viet Nam documentary was excellent.    It's something like 8 one hour episodes, so it takes a commitment to get through.    But if you want a good understanding about the French and US wars in Viet Nam, it's very good.   I've read a lot of history about those wars, but there is/was so much video and pictures available - having that combined into documentary was fascinating to me. 

There's a couple out there, but I thought Nova's 1 hr documentary about how they salvaged and refloated the Costa Concordia ship was really interesting.    Just the idea of the engineers and salvage people having to come up with a way to do something that's never been done before was really interesting (refloating a capsized ship that size had never been attempted before).   What's mind blowing was how after working for years to do it, if the ship just rolled a little too much or the waves got a little too rough (just to name a couple of the hundreds of things that could have gone wrong) - the whole thing would of been a total failure.   Years of work and millions just flushed down the drain and still you'd have a giant ship sunk on the side of a island.  

[Rusty Syringes 478]

Ken Burns' Civil War is my favorite. The one on Vietnam is pretty good as well. Haven't watched the one on country music. 

[supermike80 2,082]

5 hours ago, TimmySmith said:

I kind of knew it already. Oh well, will continue to eat it.

Blah.  

[supermike80 2,082]

5 hours ago, Masshole said:

It didn't get anywhere near the acclaim that his civil war documentary series got,  but I thought that Ken Burn's Viet Nam documentary was excellent.    It's something like 8 one hour episodes, so it takes a commitment to get through.    But if you want a good understanding about the French and US wars in Viet Nam, it's very good.   I've read a lot of history about those wars, but there is/was so much video and pictures available - having that combined into documentary was fascinating to me. 

There's a couple out there, but I thought Nova's 1 hr documentary about how they salvaged and refloated the Costa Concordia ship was really interesting.    Just the idea of the engineers and salvage people having to come up with a way to do something that's never been done before was really interesting (refloating a capsized ship that size had never been attempted before).   What's mind blowing was how after working for years to do it, if the ship just rolled a little too much or the waves got a little too rough (just to name a couple of the hundreds of things that could have gone wrong) - the whole thing would of been a total failure.   Years of work and millions just flushed down the drain and still you'd have a giant ship sunk on the side of a island.  

I saw a few episodes of this and I learned a lot in just those few.  Burns makes good stuff 

[TimmySmith 2,783]

55 minutes ago, Rusty Syringes said:

Ken Burns' Civil War is my favorite. The one on Vietnam is pretty good as well. Haven't watched the one on country music. 

I enjoyed them all, but the country music one was his best, IMO. 

[Cruzer 1,996]

10 hours ago, Rusty Syringes said:

Ken Burns' Civil War is my favorite. The one on Vietnam is pretty good as well. Haven't watched the one on country music. 

His Baseball documentary is as fascinating as his Civil War or Vietnam ones.

His Country Music one is great too - but prolly 4th on the list. 

[fricker66 93]

On 12/4/2020 at 9:34 AM, HTH said:

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

 

I forgot about that one.  It is excellent.