Reed Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Say Goodbye to the President: A film looking into the death of Marilyn Monroe. I spent most of this thinking it was another flimsy conspiracy until the housekeeper who was with her that night just casually drops in that Bobby Kennedy visited her that day then admits she's tired of covering everything up. That was weird. Throw in some dodgy autopsy stuff (she's supposed to have taken 50-90 pills but they never found a trace of them) and it makes you think. Never mind the grassy knoll, maybe this is the one Kennedy conspiracy there is something to. "We killed Marilyn Monroe" probably wouldn't make for a good slogan for the democrats, admittedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Boy, Netflix loves putting up documentaries that make you really, really, really pissed. Fed Up feels like the third in a trilogy with Bully and Kids for Cash. Man did this leave me feeling, like I said, pissed. And sad too. One girl in particular is followed quite a bit throughout the documentary and to see her struggles with weight breaks my heart. To sum up, sugar is awful and our government doesn't give a shit because stepping up to those industries means losing money. It was eye opening to learn that kids should only get about 5 tsp of sugar a day and then see all the things they eat that vastly exceeds that. I try to make sure my daughter eats healthy when she's with me, but even then, I'm not doing a good job apparently. Her diet is something like: Toast or cereal, fruit and OJ for breakfast. That alone takes her right up to the daily limit of sugar. For a snack, it's whatever her school has, which could be baguette, crackers, fruit, veggies with dip, etc. Lunch is PB and J, fruit or veggies, a small bag of gummies, and a little less than a serving of Goldfish. She'll have another snack before dinner. Dinner is usually something healthy. By dinner, she's WAY exceeded the daily limit for sugar, and it's not wonder why she sounds like such an addict. Same goes for a lot of kids. You also look on the packages for food and there's no daily recommended amount for sugar listed, which is explained in the documentary. It's a very shocking look at how obesity has gotten as out of control as it has, and not just for adults, but for kids. Highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I liked when Michelle Obama's whole thing was "Hey, kids should eat healthy and have carrots and apples and stuff." Surely the most mild, inoffensive First Lady project in the history of mild, inoffensive First Lady projects. And still got crapped on for it. So they made her stop doing it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Killing ourselves with shitty food is a God-given American right. Look at the garbage we celebrate at state fairs (HURRR DEEP FRIED TWINKIES BACON HURRRR). Obama was already black and considered a Communicst Socialist black Fascist wife of an illegal black Kenyan Muslim black president as far as middle America was concerned. She was starting 3 steps behind the blocks and fighting against something everybody loves. It was a dumb battle to pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I liked when Michelle Obama's whole thing was "Hey, kids should eat healthy and have carrots and apples and stuff." Surely the most mild, inoffensive First Lady project in the history of mild, inoffensive First Lady projects. And still got crapped on for it. So they made her stop doing it. I forgot about all of that until watching Fed Up and that reminder pissed me off too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I thought it was depressing because the White House people clearly picked it for her as a project because it was the most non-controversial thing they could think of. Like, no matter what your politics, we can all agree kids eat too much junk food and should try more fruit and vegetables, right? But people still found away to twist it and turn into some "Don't curb my personal freedom!" nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Our country is just like Pawnee, IN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 I'd say Terre Haute myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Documentary festival started yesterday in Toronto. This evening I saw The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young. This is about an annual trail race in Tennessee. The doc covers the 2012 event. The whole thing is pretty... backwoods, for lack of a better term, but the race is insane. The course is a closed circuit, allegedly exactly 20 miles but runners claim it's closer to 26, and they have to run it five times (so, around 130 miles) within a 60 hour time limit. Runners can eat or sleep as much or as little as they want. It didn't seem like anyone was literally running most of the time, by the way. The application process is secret - I got the impression that the organizer pretty much has the final say on who he decides to let participate. It seemed to be about 40 people every year, and they get applications from all over the world. There were guys from India, Belgium and France in this. Runners don't know exactly when the race starts, they're just told it'll be sometime between midnight and noon on a certain day and they get an hour's notice on the exact start time. Also, it's a trail run, so you're like going through streams and brambles, uphill and downhill to a ridiculous extent, and getting lost (or not being able to find checkpoints) is a concern. In the first 25 years of the race, only 10 people actually finished the thing. So like, you're seeing people's legs scratched to shit from whatever they had to run through, people starting their third or fourth lap and hobbling like 70-year-olds, and everyone pushing themselves to their absolute limits. Don't want to overhype it, but I found it very enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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S.K.o.S. Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Saw Doglegs last night, about the Japanese promotion of the same name, which started off as worked bouts in 1991 but is apparently now all shoots, though participants still cut wrestling-style promos. DVDVR was the first place I'd heard Doglegs mentioned, but I'd never actually seen any of it until this movie. It involves both disabled and able-bodied people, sometimes even fighting against one another. The focus is on three people: Shintaro, who has some sort of mental disability (they didn't go out of their way to explain everyone's condition), has a long-standing rivalry against the able-bodied Kitajima, and is coming up on the end of his Doglegs career; L'amant, who has (again, I'm assuming) cerebral palsy, but also a healthy wife and child - and he fights his wife in Doglegs (!!!); and Nakajima (? might have this name wrong), who you'd think was healthy at first glance, but has cancer and clinical depression. The movie was really good. It's kind of an underdog story with a heavy dose of "what in the actual fuck". Kitajima is announced as the man who's "been beating up the disabled for 20 years". There's also footage from Shintaro attending a STARDOM show, and Fujita Jr. Hayato appears in the credits (he might have been in the movie too, there were a couple of times where they didn't identify people but I was thinking "that guy looks familiar, I should know who that is"). There's going to be a question of whether these fights are really shoots, but they're certainly presented as such. They have a Kickstarter here, which has already reached its goal, but check the link anyway for a trailer and more info on the movie. Honestly, it was good enough that I'm going to donate just to make sure I get a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Fujita Jr. Hayato being a shootstyle wrestler and also having a mentally handicapped relative (watch the 2008 title match with Yoshitsune in M-Pro where she's in the crowd) makes that an interesting connection. Funny, I remember DVDVR mentioning Doglegs but never was there a tape reviewed and I never really knew what they were referring to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Anyone watch Montage of Heck. Pretty good, very depressing. Love all the animated bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandonr4s Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Anyone watch Montage of Heck. Pretty good, very depressing. Love all the animated bits. Overall, I enjoyed it. The home videos of his early childhood were interesting. Very..."unique" to think of a young, vibrant, gregarious Kurt Cobain. The format of revealing his diary entries to progress through the years was well done and the animated segment, using his own voice recording, about losing his virginity and his first attempted suicide was top notch. Seeing Krist Novoselic was just...odd. He's changed so much, but he obviously still remembers that time vividly and is still in anguish over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I'm sure Krist has moved on, in his own way. But every time I see him and hear his audibly depressed but yet somewhat positive sounding demeanor, while recanting stories, I feel awful for him. He was a lot more to the band than it seems to the casual fan, he'll never get that recognition until it's too late or never at all. Having said that, this documentary was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 I'm sure Krist has moved on, in his own way. But every time I see him and hear his audibly depressed but yet somewhat positive sounding demeanor, while recanting stories, I feel awful for him. He was a lot more to the band than it seems to the casual fan, he'll never get that recognition until it's too late or never at all. Having said that, this documentary was great. I think I was a little disappointed. I was kind of looking forward to a Nirvana doc, but this was a Kurt doc. I totally understand that. There is this magical time before Nevermind where Nirvana was just an Indie band. I never knew that time, but it is fascinating to me. It seems like they did som much interesting stuff at that time. I think I'm going to read the Michael Azzerad book again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Caught the first half of this. It hurt so much to watch that I just tapped out and turned it off. I'm not even a Nirvana fan, just the shit he went through as a kid hit too close to home in some respects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Reed Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I'm sure Krist has moved on, in his own way. But every time I see him and hear his audibly depressed but yet somewhat positive sounding demeanor, while recanting stories, I feel awful for him. He was a lot more to the band than it seems to the casual fan, he'll never get that recognition until it's too late or never at all. Having said that, this documentary was great. Takes more than that to make you happy, though. Look at Kurt. I mean, I don't know a whole lot about Krist, but he does seem to have a decent enough life now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cwoy2j Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Has anyone seen Billy Corben's DAWG Fight? A really interesting documentary about Miami's underground backyard fighting world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04ZLmM46Ms 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Recently I saw Ivory Tower and Jodorowsky's Dune. Very different subjects but both were thoroughly enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Has anyone seen Billy Corben's DAWG Fight? A really interesting documentary about Miami's underground backyard fighting world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04ZLmM46Ms Add it to my Netflix queue but haven't watched yet. Nice to hear it's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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