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the WWII series on netflix. Almost all is film footage. Colorized, the effect makes it more real. Horrific, but good.

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Freed Roger wrote:the WWII series on netflix. Almost all is film footage. Colorized, the effect makes it more real. Horrific, but good.
The other thing series does, is deftly add in sound effects-like bombs exploding, the wind whipping a flag, as well as a creepy musical score. None of this seems overdone (color, sound effects, thematic score) and is woven in. It took me a while before it dawned on me, no way did they have that much color film footage, or good audio. this makes each episode look more real and awful, like it must have been.

Content wise, I am only a few episodes in. I suspect this would not satisfy all historical takes with points of emphasis. I think French people were behind this production, and looks like it has their perspective.

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http://www.ninenet.org/blogs/program-hi ... -courtesy/

This ought to be interesting.
Renowned musician Daryl Davis has an unusual, controversial hobby: meeting and befriending members of KKK, many of whom have never met a black person. When some decide to leave the Klan, Daryl keeps their robes and hoods, a collection built piece by piece, story by story. Accidental Courtesy captures Daryl's search for answers to the question, "How can you hate me when you don't even know me?"

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held off watching this because thought it would be a Nike infomercial. It isn't. there's some techy running stuff, but mostly character profile of the 3 incredible athletes


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I enjoyed Searching for Sugar Man. A wild music story from when the world was still big. It could have dug deeper in certain aspects (my spoiler below), but it's just a great story. If you're interested I'd suggest not googling much first.
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I think it could have played the 'what might have been' angle harder. I also wonder if it's a better movie from the perspective of Rodriguez and not from the South Africans.

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Not sure how i missed The Bridge all these years. Read the article that it was inspired by- and probably discussed it here.

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Watching "The River and The Wall"
99cents on Amazon.

Follows a group of 5 people with topic-relevant backgrounds traveling the Rio Grande stretch of the border. Sounds interesting eh?

I want to like it but haven't (I keep dozing off with ~ 20 minutes left)

It doesn't tell a story really. Documentaries don't require an overbearing central thesis - but this one is beyond random. Moves around disjointedly between the adventure travel, the group's character portraits, the politics (rather delicately --interviews Beto and GOP Rep Will Hurd ) and the ecology/environment and factoids.

Comes across contrived in all these areas. They do terrible jobs running their loaded canoes thru some class 3 rapids of the Rio Grande -this peaked my interest but it did nothing for the film.

The visuals of the actual border and wall vs the imagery in most our heads is interesting-it displays that ok , but here I am dozing off on it.

Grade C, but only because of scenery and I am now interested in paddling the canyon area of the Rio.

Edit bump to a B minus on the last 25-30 min. They have a thesis after all, and give time to the themes that matter. The Beto Will Hurd inclusions seem pertinent. Skip forward to last stretch of film.

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I'm big into conspiracy theories--don't necessarily buy into them--but find them interesting nonetheless.

Watched a documentary on netflix last night called Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers

If you're into aliens and alien technology, this doc is for you.

Basically Bob worked at a facility adjacent to Area 51 called S-4. He was tasked with reverse engineering alien spaceships and goes into great detail about the inner-workings of the ship he was working on.

I mean, could all be [expletive], but he seems like a legit guy who knows his stuff.

Anyway if youre into this stuff, definitely worth a watch.

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go birds wrote:I'm big into conspiracy theories--don't necessarily buy into them--but find them interesting nonetheless.

Watched a documentary on netflix last night called Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers

If you're into aliens and alien technology, this doc is for you.

Basically Bob worked at a facility adjacent to Area 51 called S-4. He was tasked with reverse engineering alien spaceships and goes into great detail about the inner-workings of the ship he was working on.

I mean, could all be [expletive], but he seems like a legit guy who knows his stuff.

Anyway if youre into this stuff, definitely worth a watch.
I'm not sure how much I believe in that stuff, but I agree it was interesting and at least made you think. He did seem credible.

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Watched Diego| Maradona on HBO the other night.

Thought it was pretty good. Going into the documentary, my recollection of him was vaguely remembering he was really good in the early 90s and then fell off the face of the earth for some reason. Then, he showed up when Argentina made it to the WC finals a few years ago, I guess in 2014. So, I had zero idea what to expect going into the documentary.

It did a good job recapping his story, but, like his life, it blanks out from the years 1994 - 2004. Literally, one second they're talking about his drug use, positive doping test, fleeing from Naples, and arrest in Buenos Aires for a gram of cocaine (is that a big deal, idk?), then the next it's 2004 and he's on some talk show +100 pounds crying about his family. What happened over those 10 years, was he in jail all that time? Your guess is as good as mine.

That said, it relied heavily on behind the scenes videos and I reckon in that time there were few of them to be found?

Still, it does a great job portraying him as a person turned deity by the masses that had to deal with the pressure on top of his desire to be accepted and loved.

If you like soccer, there was quite a bit of soccer porn in there too. I certainly had forgotten or never knew how crafty of a player he was. His first step was insane and like all the greats ball control was off the charts ridiculous. It wasn't really about that, but just watching it's easy to see.

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