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Groovelord Neato posted:
Sounds like a balanced volume on the war.
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# ? Jul 19, 2018 18:46 |
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"balance" is the bastion of morons.
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# ? Jul 19, 2018 19:22 |
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cloudchamber posted:Sounds like a balanced volume on the war. Balance is not what I would look for if I'm out to learn something new. There is a vast area between biased, extremist and balanced, toothless content which offers perspectives I had not been aware of before I enjoy watching/reading about.
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# ? Jul 22, 2018 11:57 |
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cloudchamber posted:Sounds like a balanced volume on the war. teach the controversy I say
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# ? Jul 26, 2018 05:49 |
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https://twitter.com/errolmorris/status/1022176687176462336
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# ? Jul 26, 2018 21:04 |
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Mo Hawk posted:Balance is not what I would look for if I'm out to learn something new. There is a vast area between biased, extremist and balanced, toothless content which offers perspectives I had not been aware of before I enjoy watching/reading about. balance is stupid because reality isn't "balanced".
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# ? Jul 26, 2018 21:59 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:balance is stupid because reality isn't "balanced". And sometimes it IS fun to watch a batshit crazy conspiracy theory documentary, just to kind of do a gut-check, "do I really believe Uncle Sherman about 'back in Nam'?"
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# ? Jul 30, 2018 23:36 |
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If you want a good conspiracy movie watch Chris Smith's Collapse. You're really drawn into the Michael Ruppert's web of derangement. It's all speckled with just enough truth about the way power operates in the world that it's easy to want him to be right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQhjqCd7Eec
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# ? Jul 31, 2018 02:04 |
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magnificent7 posted:And sometimes it IS fun to watch a batshit crazy conspiracy theory documentary, just to kind of do a gut-check, "do I really believe Uncle Sherman about 'back in Nam'?" watching room 237 was a hoot cuz i thought it was gonna be a documentary about the making of/themes/etc of the shining and the people talking just got more and more insane.
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# ? Jul 31, 2018 02:22 |
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The best part in Room 237 was that "Kubrick faked the moon landing" guy who accidentally spelled moron instead of moon.
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# ? Jul 31, 2018 03:17 |
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Kull the Conqueror posted:If you want a good conspiracy movie watch Chris Smith's Collapse. You're really drawn into the Michael Ruppert's web of derangement. It's all speckled with just enough truth about the way power operates in the world that it's easy to want him to be right. Seconding this, it's a good 'un.
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# ? Jul 31, 2018 06:13 |
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Was that the guy that was on Vice for a couple videos? fake e: yes it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVHbzlzUS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWdeTERAsc
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# ? Jul 31, 2018 06:17 |
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"The Staircase" prosecutor Freda Black found dead at 57.
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# ? Jul 31, 2018 10:24 |
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Did she fall down the stairs?
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# ? Aug 1, 2018 01:33 |
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No, she got hit by an owl.
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# ? Aug 1, 2018 01:34 |
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BAI SEXUAL
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# ? Aug 2, 2018 12:53 |
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God that lady reminded me of so many old women at my grandmother's church.
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# ? Aug 2, 2018 19:27 |
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Kull the Conqueror posted:If you want a good conspiracy movie watch Chris Smith's Collapse. You're really drawn into the Michael Ruppert's web of derangement. It's all speckled with just enough truth about the way power operates in the world that it's easy to want him to be right. (totally pre-judged the movie based on your description, so, feel free to tell me if I'm wrong). EDIT: and YEAH, I totally said the exact opposite just six posts above this one no you shut up. magnificent7 posted:And sometimes it IS fun to watch a batshit crazy conspiracy theory documentary, just to kind of do a gut-check, "do I really believe Uncle Sherman about 'back in Nam'?"
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# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:01 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aprPbaq1V04 If ever there was a documentary that screamed to be made.
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# ? Aug 14, 2018 03:42 |
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Quick question, since the name rings a bell: Was "The Staircase" on Netflix any good? I feel like I recall hearing about it in here.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 14:35 |
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Yes. It’s up there with the best true crime/courtroom documentaries in my book. It’s a hell of a ride.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 15:26 |
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Quick question, since the name rings a bell: Was "The Staircase" on Netflix any good? I feel like I recall hearing about it in here. It's very good, but it's far too long IMO. I know the nature of it being like three separate seasons combined into one is why, but there's a lot of repetition and the stuff outside of the original run didn't need to be as long as it was.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:12 |
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Are there any good follow up reads on that case that dive in to what the documentary didn't show? Based on what I saw in the documentary I have no idea if he did or did not do it, but it feels very much like he shouldn't have been convicted.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 18:18 |
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Asnorban posted:Are there any good follow up reads on that case that dive in to what the documentary didn't show? Based on what I saw in the documentary I have no idea if he did or did not do it, but it feels very much like he shouldn't have been convicted. My initial thought was "he probably did it but there was reasonable doubt... I'm not sure why the jury found him guilty?!" But then, especially in the newer stuff it becomes clear the documentary crew left some stuff out intentionally. How was the footprint on the back of her leg NEVER in the original series??? That seemed really damning. So then I just felt like I didnt' get near enough of a balanced view to make a decision. Still really fun though.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 23:40 |
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Derren Brown: The Push is on Netflix, in which a mentalist magician enlists a crowd of actors to help guide a supposedly unaware subject through a variety of increasingly crazy scenarios culminating in what the subject believes to be murder. Pretty interesting take on what could arguably be a case study form of a documentary. "So now he's dragging a dead body out of the room without questioning it, this is good"
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# ? Aug 23, 2018 01:05 |
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Derren Brown is awful do not watch his crap
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# ? Aug 23, 2018 01:49 |
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Used to think he was the poo poo when I first saw his special in the 90s (before he had a TV show etc), but he lost me completely with that stupid lottery thing. Can’t go back after them at.
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# ? Aug 23, 2018 03:29 |
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edit: wrong thread
El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Aug 23, 2018 |
# ? Aug 23, 2018 04:51 |
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precision posted:Derren Brown is awful do not watch his crap Why's that? Never heard of him before.
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# ? Aug 23, 2018 13:09 |
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baquerd posted:Why's that? Never heard of him before. It’s all fake bullshit. Stooges, tricky editing, brute force, etc.
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 03:50 |
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Isn't it only fake in the same way that all magic is obviously not real?
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 18:24 |
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I think a good magician learns skillful tricks in order to convey something else happening. Slight of hand work, especially close up, is difficult to pull off so even though you know they’re not physically manipulating objects through space with their mind, it’s still clever and has you scratching your head as to how it worked. The example of Derren I gave was his lottery guess, where he specifically said they weren’t going to use camera tricks to do it. He then went and used a camera trick. It was easy to guess, and easy to execute. The guy is obviously very talented, and it was such a cheap trick that it ruined his act for me. What’s to stop him just using actors and camera tricks going forward, I might as well just watch Now You See Me or whatever.
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 18:56 |
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Am I remembering wrong but wasn't Derren Brown one of the guys who fully acknowledged that it's all misdirection and bullshit what he does?
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 18:57 |
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Stare-Out posted:Am I remembering wrong but wasn't Derren Brown one of the guys who fully acknowledged that it's all misdirection and bullshit what he does? As opposed to ... what? Being actually magical?
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 19:52 |
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You're right, he does say it's all bullshit. To the guy above, what exactly was the easy trick he pulled off in the lottery one.
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 19:53 |
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BonoMan posted:As opposed to ... what? Being actually magical? No, as opposed to even pretending that it's something other than blatant suggestion and misdirection. It comes across to me that even if he says that no trickery was used in something he does, he still does cheat and use camera tricks and that's kind of the point. I'm not terribly familiar with the things he's done but he's always struck me as more of a debunker than anything else from what I've heard.
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 20:15 |
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There is something stupid about a magician explicitly saying “this isn’t how I do it” and then immediately doing that thing. Obviously adults watch magic for the moment of mystery. Either let that have its own life, or be crazy good like Penn and Teller and tell people how you’re going to accomplish the trick...and then STILL astound them.
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# ? Aug 24, 2018 21:30 |
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The Perfect Bid on Hulu is a very fun and entertaining doc on a Price is Right contestant.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 09:10 |
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I started watching Paradise Lost on HBO, and I’m on part 2 now. Holy poo poo the stepdad of one of the victims just basically screams ‘I’m the murderer’ at me. And that was even before he gets weirder in part 2. E: fair warning, they do not censor the little boys’ naked corpses. E: holy poo poo, the big twist in episode three; the previously suspicious stepdad going all super-sleuth LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Aug 31, 2018 |
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LadyPictureShow posted:E: fair warning, they do not censor the little boys’ naked corpses. It's like 4 minutes into the first one, too. No warning at all. I'm surprised I watched em back in the day.
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