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Ilikethepixies 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 6051 Globally Banned	I'm a lover of documentaries. Given the choice between fiction and non-fiction, I tend to go non-fiction these days. The only ones I can't watch are A) those filmed in a foreign language, and B) those long, dreary historic ones about holocaust survivors or genocide in an African country. Call me close-minded, but at least I'm truthful. Its not that I don't sympathize, but I am just too desensitized to watch 2 hours of people crying. I need some explosions or something peppered in there if that's the case.

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ghiti 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 447	I like documentaries because I can rent them free at the library and can have them out the full 3 weeks. Well, that is why I have been seeing a lot of them recently at least. Docs that so far have totally changed my view on things: Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Blue Vinyl. My favorite documentary of this century so far is The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Some docs I like/recommend: Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (John Waters narrates), Best Boy (that's a retro one!), Tales of the Rat Fink (retro theme), Jesus Camp (disturbing), Nanook of the North, 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama, The Origin of AIDS, Who the $#%@ Is Jackson Pollock?, The Atomic Cafe, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Unzipped Of course Hype! needs to be mentioned, THE documentary about grunge. Not really a doc but close enough: The Notorious Bettie Page Docurama company has a lot of good docs out. FUCK MARCH OF THE PENGUINS!!!!!!
	GHITI is pronounced "fish". THE BEST TRIP IS A NOSTALGIA TRIP! [quote=OMGWTFBBQ][quote=ghiti]I know some people who would say they were a child of the 60's even though they were born well a
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Ilikethepixies 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 6051 Globally Banned	Anyone ever see "F for Fake" by Orson Welles? That is a GREAT documentary. It follows the story of an artist that sells fakes of great painters and a journalist that claims he interviewed Howard Hughes. It goes off into wild tangents, comes back around... plot twists... oh its fucking great, and kindly ol' Orson Welles in his black cape is there guiding you through it. Watch this if you can... its fucking fantastic.

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Kriller 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 567	my favorite doc. is "The Kids are Alright" a Who documentary that was pretty cool!
	You dont know them but they do!! THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
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I love documentaries about CLASSIC ROCK!
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Protegejoe296 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 188	I really enjoyed "Choke" and Rickson Gracie and Vale Tudo, and "Beyond the Mat" about pro wrestling.
	"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue--Realize the strength, move on"--Henry Rollins "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."--Robert Heinlein "Shop smart, shop S-Mart"--Ash
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System 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	Ilikethepixies wrote: Anyone ever see "F for Fake" by Orson Welles? That is a GREAT documentary. It follows the story of an artist that sells fakes of great painters and a journalist that claims he interviewed Howard Hughes. It goes off into wild tangents, comes back around... plot twists... oh its fucking great, and kindly ol' Orson Welles in his black cape is there guiding you through it. Watch this if you can... its fucking fantastic. F for Fake! I have it! Awesome doco. And I think that every documentary needs at least one magic scene. Richard Gere was in a movie about that guy who said he had an interview with Howard Hughs recently and apparently it was pretty damn good. I'm a big fan of documentaries but I don't understand why so many are getting screened in cinemas now just because they are documentaries.

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Check out Murderball. That doc was a really feel good documentary. I loved it.
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Another good one is Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog. Actually all Werner Herzog's documentaries are great.
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pjb2377 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 952	DebrisStorm wrote: Check out Murderball. That doc was a really feel good documentary. I loved it. That's the one with the guy in the wheelchair, right? I've seen most of Michael Moore's docs.

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System 6 years 10 months ago Posts: 74809	pjb2377 wrote: DebrisStorm wrote: Check out Murderball. That doc was a really feel good documentary. I loved it. That's the one with the guy in the wheelchair, right? I've seen most of Michael Moore's docs. "A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs - overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece." From IMDb. They could put better than I could. The movie is amazing.

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ghiti 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 447	Murderball is great! I like how they incorporate the players' personal lives as well as their game lives. (Zupan is way hot, too).
	GHITI is pronounced "fish". THE BEST TRIP IS A NOSTALGIA TRIP! [quote=OMGWTFBBQ][quote=ghiti]I know some people who would say they were a child of the 60's even though they were born well a
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mr3urious 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 3359	"This Film is Not Yet Rated" is another great one, which is about the hypocrisy of the MPAA rating system.
	"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I'm not." -Kurt Cobain
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Ilikethepixies 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 6051 Globally Banned	I just watched "Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years". Very awesome.

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jujubeeme 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 403	Gitoku wrote: Another good one is Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog. Actually all Werner Herzog's documentaries are great. Grizzly Man was awesome. I, too, have seen Jesus Camp and it's intense!

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Catra 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 104	Ilikethepixies wrote: I just watched "Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years". Very awesome. I love that the guy (from WASP?) was in the pool chugging vodka while his mom watched from a lawn chair.

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thecrow174 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 9805	I just watched this documentary called Escape from Death Row. It's about these six death row inmates that escaped from Virginia's Mecklenburg Correctional Center in 1984.
	There is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil and the other one is good. Which wolf will win? The one you feed the most. http://unbelievableyou.com/a-native-american-cherokee-story-two-wolves/
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Funky Guy 6 years 9 months ago Posts: 2638 Account Disabled	The latest one I watched was Derailroaded about L.A. street singer Larry Wildman Fischer, it's about his career since the 60's, his mental illnesses, his relationship with his family (some support him, some try to avoid him out of fear), albums he recorded with Frank Zappa and later Barnes and Barnes and how he was the first artist to record for and have stuff released by Rhino records who at the time were an indie label who tried to revive the careers of L.A. area recording artists from the 60's and sign unusual new artists (they later went on to become Warner Bros' official reissue label) and a misunderstanding he had with Weird Al in the early 80's.

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elron 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 693	Crumb was excellent and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes comics. Also Henry Darger In the Realms of the Unreal was a good one, about a lonely introverted man who created his own fantasy world through pictures and drawing.

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elron 6 years 7 months ago Posts: 693	Crumb was excellent and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes comics. Also Henry Darger In the Realms of the Unreal was a good one, about a lonely introverted man who created his own fantasy world through pictures and drawing.

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