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Nasty Pasty
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Originally posted by pojy: also Supersize me kicks ass! Am I the only person who really had the urge to go and buy a Big Mac after that movie?
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by alexvilagosh: Originally posted by Melllvar: Live Forever: The Rise & Fall Of Britpop
Aye, thanks for that review. I've been wondering is that doco is any good - that it has footage of Common People at Glastonbury is enough for me. I spent far too much money buying the Mis-Shapes EP with the audio of that performance on it. There are seven genuine stars in the movie, both Gallaghers, Damon Albarn, Jarvis, Louise Wener from Sleeper, and both members of the Oasis tribute band, who are total characters. "This is why you took the Liam character, because you find it much easier to be a twat."The Pulp Glasto performance is not the one you're thinking of, when they stepped in for the imploded Stone Roses in 1995, but the "This Is Hardcore" show in 1998, which I was at.
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Metal: A Headbangers Journey
I picked this up when I was in America, from Tower Records in Philly, now it's out in the UK it's time for a review.
I freakin love this documentary! Anthropologist and hardened metalhead Sam Dunn sets out on a journey to interview the great and good of metal and get to the bottom of why it's caused such controversy over the years, what makes metal such a phenomenon, and cronicles the history of metal.
There are some brilliant interviews, with Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Zombie, Angela Gossow, Geddy Lee, Tom Araya, Kerry King, Joey Jordison, Corey Taylor and many many more.
Loads of insight, including a trip to Norway to venture into the realms of the Satanic Black Metal scene, and interviews some at the heart of the Church Burnings of the 90's.
Some great footage too, including Sam's trip to Wacken Open Air, and a frankly baffling interview with Mayhem (which has to be seen to be believed).
Awesome!
9.5/10
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Only a few documantaries stand out, if they look good, I'll watch them. Like last night, channel four showed a fantastic one on Ted Bundy. Natural Porn Killer.
God that guy had some fuckin nerve! Totally playing anyone he spoke to in interviews, about the fact that pornography drove him to kill, yet it didn't, actually. As one of the cops says, "one mans porn is another mans bore", Ted was reading Crime comics, and that depicted females in distressing situations, which fuelled his fantasties.
Compelling.
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I can't believe Planet Earth hasn't been brought up yet. It's just fantastic - some of the footage is unbelieveable - images like the close up stuff of the snow leopards is astonishing. Narrated as always by the marvellous David Attenborough, so much care has gone into the production - they really have done their research, and in some cases suffered a lot to get that perfect footage. Have a look-see at some of the clips here and you'll see what I mean. One of the programmes that makes high-definition TV worthwhile - new series coming up in the Autumn.
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Professor
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I think I actually posted in that thread. I am rightfully shamed.
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Alex Jones' TerrorstormTerrifying documentary on how 9/11, 7/7 and various other terrorist attacks are all self-inflicted "false flag" operations. Damn.
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CrapBag
Liquid Emperor
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Originally posted by Nasty Pasty: Am I the only person who really had the urge to go and buy a Big Mac after that movie? Nope. I can't stand McDonalds, and I had to get a Big Mac the next day. McDonalds should be thanking Morgan Spurlock for all the free advetising.
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HookerBot 5000
Liquid Emperor
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I love documantaries, mainly like animal stuff etc etc. I really enjoyed Tribe, where (for everyone who lives outside of UK and doesnt get Channel, uh, 2 I think)-it was about this guy who goes to different tribes and becomes one of them, learning about their customs and stuff, its very good. Also, Equator is a 3 part documentary about, well, land that lies along the equator,fascinating stuff...last one is on next week though...
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transgender nerd under canada
DOOP Ubersecretary
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I hear you there. Since I got Sky TV, I just can't get enough of the various Discovery and National Geographic channels. National Geographic do all these fantastic shows about huge machines and mega-advanced technological solutions to the smallest problems, Discovery do the intricacies of life in every environemnt on the planet, and there's the one channel that does all the re-runs of Time Team (I forget the channel, but Time Team rules). They also group the documentary channels together in the meu for ease of surfing through. Whilst I'm madly typing every single thing streaking across the surface of my mind, I'm also going to mention that the Biography channel has to be the only one that just isn't worth the voltage required to fart its signal out of the station, through the atmosphere, and relay it in hi-def to millions of homes that cannot possibly give a shit. Heh. Now after all that typing, my fingers are tired.
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Alex Jones' - Martial Law: 9/11 & The Rise Of The Police StateAnother terrifying doc centering around 9/11, and how a police state is being created in America. It even goes as far as Bush Snr's connections to the Nazis and the weird cult which Bush belongs. Just when you think it couldn't get weirder, it goes on and on. Watch it, if you've got 2˝ hours to spare. Click the linky for the Google video.
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Blastfax
Crustacean
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I just wanted to tell you, I used to be Hookerbot 5000 way back in the days of Futurama Depot. Just thought I'd say.
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Ribbons
Urban Legend
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« Reply #78 on: 09-12-2006 01:37 »
« Last Edit on: 09-12-2006 01:37 »
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Does anyone like John Safran? Have you seen his early work when he snuck into Channel Nine studios, harassed Ray Martin, critisized the ABC and docomentary film-makers? Also, how to get a clip on RAGE, cheat on Sale of the Century, John setting himself on fire.. Just a whole lot of crazy shit! It's main subject is the media and the absurdity of it all.. Here you go!They're in RealMedia downloadable format, so 4MB or so each and 14 minutes of content on each one! Great for dial-up! As he used a crappy webcam or something to film them.. They're of poor quality, but the content is fantastic. Definately worth checking out if you haven't seen them.. GO NOW! WATCH! WAAAATCH!
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Gopher
Fallback Guy
Space Pope
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Wierd. Watching one of those biblical archaeology shows "The Hunt for the Lost Ark," on the History Channel. This has been "missing" for thousands of years, and to most skeptical scientists is probably either lost forever or never really existed at all. I knew the general outline of this story from my religious education, but there was one really startling thing they said in the documentary.
Apparently there's a temple in Ethiopia, run by christian priests, who claim their temple contains the Ark, and has for over 1000 years. According to their legends and oral history, they converted to christianity in the 4th century AD, before which they were Jews.
The only refutation anyone on the documentary made was that "They won't let us see it, so it's not really there." Given that the only other major theory presented revolves around the Knights Templar and sounds a lot like the premise to the National Treasure, I don't understand why there is so much resistance to the Ethopian claim.
Wierd stuff, but pretty interesting if you're into that kind of thing. Though I'm not at all religious myself, I find serious research into these biblical legands interesting, just because there is so little concrete information on history that far back.
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