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Does he tell a lie for every possible detail? It's not a Hogan story without that.
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As soon as I saw the YouTube embed load, I knew a killscreen was coming up. For further Kuh craziness, he once worked a really long week at an arcade (he made a good amount of money in investments or similar from memory, so retired really young and took a job at one of the arcades all the classic gaming people love). Because of this incredible achievement, they tried to auction off his pay check for... reasons? I don’t care much about classic gaming, but I do find the culture around it quite fascinating. Todd Rodgers recently got the boot because finally people realized all the impossible to achieve scores he/friend of his logged for him meant he was cheating. The guy is obviously a really good player too which is crazy. The Billy Mitchell stuff is of course great and hilarious. He lives down here so goes to one of the local events quite often, I wanna meet the dude but I wonder if he’ll be keeping a low profile for a bit. Man Vs Snake is another good video game documentary which felt a bit more real than the ‘staged for the narrative’ King of Kong. Chasing Ghosts is fun too, just for the final on screen text before the credits.
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# ? Apr 12, 2018 18:43 |
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King of Kong is now more real than ever imo
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Mahoning posted:I watched Andre the Giant on HBO last night. It’s not overly long, but man oh man did they interview absolutely every big name that crossed his path. Wrestlers, actors, directors, family, friends, etc. If you're looking for something more personal I recommend the graphic novel Box Brown wrote, it's good HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Does he tell a lie for every possible detail? It's not a Hogan story without that. This is very, very true. There's a running joke in the wrestling forum that every time Hogan talks about bodyslamming Andre, Andre's weight at the time seems to gain about 100lbs from the previous telling. The funny part is WWE kind of pulled a fast one in terms of it being a great feat, since a bunch of people had slammed Andre already. Antonio Inoki, Riki Choshu, Stan Hansen, Steve Williams, Yoshi Fujiwara, El Canek, Harley Race, and Seiji Sakaguchi all did it before Hogan. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Oddly enough, there’s none of that with Hogan in the doc, and mostly everything he says is confirmed by other people like Gene Okerland or Andre’s best friend/handler.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Billy Mitchell has been officially outed as a fraud, and I have chosen to exploit this opportunity to fondly remember an all-time great documentary character, Brian Kuh. Can you link a story about this? I grew up in the classic arcade era and played the gently caress out of Defender and Asteroids among others (never Pacman or Donkey Kong though) and really enjoyed The King of Kong although it could have been about jealous competitors in ANY endeavor. I found Mitchell and his toadys to be interesting characters.
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Mahoning posted:Oddly enough, there’s none of that with Hogan in the doc, and mostly everything he says is confirmed by other people like Gene Okerland or Andre’s best friend/handler. The magic of editing!
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Zwabu posted:Can you link a story about this? I grew up in the classic arcade era and played the gently caress out of Defender and Asteroids among others (never Pacman or Donkey Kong though) and really enjoyed The King of Kong although it could have been about jealous competitors in ANY endeavor. I found Mitchell and his toadys to be interesting characters. OK, I read up on this. I actually thought it was ok to use MAME for some of this, although maybe I remembered it wrong and it's just an issue where they keep MAME records separately. MAME is pretty cool by the way.
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Zwabu posted:OK, I read up on this. I actually thought it was ok to use MAME for some of this, although maybe I remembered it wrong and it's just an issue where they keep MAME records separately. MAME is pretty cool by the way. From what I understand, a lot of it is due to personal submissions that could utilize the emulator for cheating (I'm still okay with using MAME or emulators, personally). There was a piece I read that alleged that it was likely that Mitchell used the emulator to make random factors swing his way. The kind of randomness that was alluded to in that King of Kong clip where "You can have a bad run" such as how barrels generate or enemy patterns/items popping on screen. I'm not familiar with the intricacies of Donkey Kong enough to know how the gamble/core loop works.
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# ? Apr 12, 2018 20:00 |
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The Andre the Giant doc is great and includes Hulk Hogan doing a Macho Man impression
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El Gallinero Gros posted:This is very, very true. There's a running joke in the wrestling forum that every time Hogan talks about bodyslamming Andre, Andre's weight at the time seems to gain about 100lbs from the previous telling. And Andre died 2 days later, and the WM3 attendance was 250,000 people, and,
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:And Andre died 2 days later, and the WM3 attendance was 250,000 people, and, Haha that too. About the only redeeming aspect of Hogan's odd behaviour is that he obviously looked up to Andre and probably earnestly believes he's doing Andre a favor by making him seem like such a insurmountable man. In his own weird way, he's trying to mythologize Andre in such a way that Andre lives forever. But in typical Hogan fashion, he's doing it such a way that Hogan looks good too. Not very fun fact: Hogan is an all lives matter supporter.
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# ? Apr 12, 2018 20:29 |
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The Andre doc is both recommended and disappointing. It’s very much about Andre the mythological figure and not Andre the man. I do wish it had gone a lot deeper in to him as a man, but it was a fun feel good documentary.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Man Vs Snake is another good video game documentary which felt a bit more real than the ‘staged for the narrative’ King of Kong.
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Zwabu posted:OK, I read up on this. I actually thought it was ok to use MAME for some of this, although maybe I remembered it wrong and it's just an issue where they keep MAME records separately. MAME is pretty cool by the way.
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InternetBully posted:The other one that rounds out this trifecta is Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters. Yeah! I remember enjoying that one too a few years back. There’s one called Nintendo Quest too from the last year or two, about a guy trying to buy a complete NES set, but it’s nothing too special. Pleasant but not essential, anyway.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Not very fun fact: Hogan is an all lives matter supporter. Uhhhh it's way worse than that. Have you seen Nobody Speak?
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InternetBully posted:The other one that rounds out this trifecta is Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters. Oh yeah, I forgot about that one, and it is fascinating
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Mahoning posted:I watched Andre the Giant on HBO last night. It’s not overly long, but man oh man did they interview absolutely every big name that crossed his path. Wrestlers, actors, directors, family, friends, etc. Obligatory 'Greatest Drunk on Earth' fanfic. The Greatest Drunk on Earth
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Ropes4u posted:I would like to hear more about this myself, was the doc worth the time? Sorry, did not see this, yeah it was pretty good, if you got some time to spare, you could find worse.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 20:24 |
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For those of you who watched WILD WILD COUNTRY, Esquire just published an article about a ghastly murder associated to the Rajneesh family, (though it happened 5 years after the cult collapsed in on itself). The doc maker said even if they DID find out about it during the making of WWC, they would've left it out; quote:The story of Kruse, however, never came up in their search, the Ways brothers told Esquire.com. "Even if it did, we would have not included it in Wild Wild Country. Our series primarily focuses on the events in Eastern Oregon from 1981-1985, and this horrific murder occurred five years after the collapse of the commune in Northern California," they said in a joint statement released through a publicist. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a19733709/wild-wild-country-rajneesh-friederike-kruse-murder-angela-bretnall/
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 00:13 |
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The original "The Decline of Western Civilization" is currently on Starz. Since I've pretty much found this only as a grainy VHS in the past, worth a watch. It's a doc about the early punk scene in L.A. Pretty wide difference in the talent and charisma levels of the various bands. Well worth a watch in my opinion.
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# ? Apr 19, 2018 17:07 |
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Decline of Western Civilization is also perma-streaming at Shout Factory: http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/the-decline-of-western-civilization/57715974fef27c0d7b022cec I gotta point that out because I've been trying to see it "clean" for years now and it only seems fleetingly available. There it is!
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What about Decline of Western Civilization Parts 2 and 3? I remember 2 being great but I never saw 3 because it sounded terrible.
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precision posted:What about Decline of Western Civilization Parts 2 and 3? I remember 2 being great but I never saw 3 because it sounded terrible. They are about different genres of music (hair metal etc.) Did Penelope Spheeris even make those?
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# ? Apr 19, 2018 22:57 |
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She did and they’re all great. 2 is maybe even better than the first but it’s a very different kind of movie
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Yeah I like 1 and 2 both a lot for very different reasons. edit: 2 is on Youtube, should have figured it was
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precision posted:Yeah I like 1 and 2 both a lot for very different reasons. What about 3 turns you off?
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DeimosRising posted:What about 3 turns you off? I never did see it, I just remember thinking it didn't sound good, but that was probably 10-15 years ago. Having just looked it up, I'm now confused because I could have sworn Part 3 was about gangster rap, not homeless punk kids, so I'll give it a watch. e: holy poo poo, Spheeris directed Wayne's World hahaha
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I just resubbed to HBO for Westworld, what's a good documentary to watch in there? Open to most topics except graphic animal cruelty, I can't really stomach watching stuff like that.
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Ignis posted:I just resubbed to HBO for Westworld, what's a good documentary to watch in there? Open to most topics except graphic animal cruelty, I can't really stomach watching stuff like that. Andre the Giant one was good. And I think ‘There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane’ is still up, just fair warning, you see a dead body towards the end. We tried watching a few episodes of The Traffickers, we had to skip the first two because the first one was rhino horns, with like, graphic images of a rhino laying on the ground with a big chunk of its face cut off, the second one was Pangolin meat trafficking. My friend said ‘okay, how about the guns episode? I’m sure they’re not killing animals to smuggle guns!’
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Ignis posted:I just resubbed to HBO for Westworld, what's a good documentary to watch in there? Open to most topics except graphic animal cruelty, I can't really stomach watching stuff like that. Paradise Lost is the old classic. I also really enjoyed Clinica de Migrantes.
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precision posted:I never did see it, I just remember thinking it didn't sound good, but that was probably 10-15 years ago. Having just looked it up, I'm now confused because I could have sworn Part 3 was about gangster rap, not homeless punk kids, so I'll give it a watch. 3 is definitely worth a watch, especially given how it follows up 1 and 2.
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# ? Apr 23, 2018 15:43 |
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Watching No No: A Dockumentary and it's fantastic. Great pacing.
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Sounds good.
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# ? Apr 29, 2018 12:14 |
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There's a really good documentary about Stuxnet on Hulu right now (it was made by Showtime) called Zero Days
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Friedkin meets the Devil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpjRQokeQNo Survivor's Guide to Prison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfUh5wstN04 The Search for General Tso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0hmBIR8BE
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ruddiger posted:The Search for General Tso Pretty sure that's already on Netflix.
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# ? May 8, 2018 23:19 |
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Yeah, that's a couple years old. Surprisingly good doc though, I wasn't expecting much.
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precision posted:There's a really good documentary about Stuxnet on Hulu right now (it was made by Showtime) called Zero Days It's quite good until that weird reveal
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