Documentaries

[Cire]

Netflix has a new doc about the recording of We Are the World, called The Greatest Night in Pop.  The footage is good and it's pretty impressive how they got all those stars to show up in one place at the same time.  There were lots of interesting mini-stories within this show and of course it talked about the efforts of trying to get Prince to show up.  Still no explanation of what Dan Aykroyd was doing there.  Drugs?

I just finished this and I can't emphasize enough how much I loved it. This is the perfect mix of wholesomeness and nostalgia. Even Waylon Jennings being a giant man baby didn't ruin this song or documentary.

Yeah, i never cared for that song and always thought it was so corny when I was young.

The doc really puts into context just what a huge deal it was to put together and pull off.  pretty incredible.

[pissclams]

Currently watching Quiet On Set. Oof.

i just finished watching this.  what’s your take on dan schneider?

[Spracne]

Currently watching Quiet On Set. Oof.

i just finished watching this.  what’s your take on dan schneider?

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Currently watching Quiet On Set. Oof.

i just finished watching this.  what’s your take on dan schneider?

i mean, no doubt he was/is an absolute creep and pervert, who has no business working with children, or women for that matter. What i can't get a read on is whether he did anything that rises to the level of criminality. Like, having children perform thinly veiled sex acts is absolutely gross and should probably put him on a watchlist, but i'm not sure if having someone squirt some goo on Jamie Lynn Spears' face is quite criminal. I think if he was touching or showing i'm sure victims would have come forward by now like they did w/ those other guys. I wouldn't be surprised if he is soon accused of something criminal, but it just seems like he doesn't really have any leverage to keep them quiet so i don't know why his victims wouldn't have said something by now.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Currently watching Quiet On Set. Oof.

i just finished watching this.  what’s your take on dan schneider?

on a scale of 1 - 10, how likely am i to recommend this to a friend? i would say 8. maybe 9.

[Stupid Fitz]

Had some drinks and instead of booking an expensive foreign excursion, Mrs SF and i settled in for some TV watching last weekend. Browsing the docs on Prime I found one about the lead singer of the Band Blue October. Trailer seemed fine and I kind of enjoy some Blue October myself, so why not. I thought, if they did a documentary on this guy and band, they had to be somewhat interesting??? Right? Well, I was wrong. There was literally nothing interesting about these assholes at all. We just kept watching and waiting and I can't figure out for the life of my why the doc was even made. 2-10 would not recommend.

[star seed 7]

 

[nicname]

Century of the Self from BBC

https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04?si=yjPy7N43ZSl2Dvgq

A deep examination about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations, and how it later helped influence the contemporary society of lifestyles and marketing.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just started _Endurance_ about Shackelton's Antarctic voyage on Disney+ last night. Very good so far. Truly a reality is more unbelievable than fiction sort of story.

[cfbandyman]

The new Waco doc series on Netflix is good. I was a child during the Clinton admin so I didn't realize it at the time but eff the DOJ were wildly incompetent on so many occasions in the 90's.

Very late to this party but agreed, I think personally the doc they nave/had on Netflix about the OKC bombing does a really fantastic job of threading Ruby Ridge and Waco to OKC. So it stands to really highlight all the tomfuckery going on.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

This American Masters doc about Art Spiegelman who created the MAUS graphic novel is very good:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/art-spiegelman-documentary/35215/

[_33]

We watched The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari over the weekend. It's terrifying and horrible and sad. But also it's a really well done documentary.

[pissclams]

i’d love for someone to do a deep dive behind the scenes of the filming of Weekend at Bernies.

how did they make bernie look so dead? any romance going on behind the cameras?  catherine mary stewart was such a looker, gotta think silverman was trying to woo her.  was mccarthy the douche everyone says he was? did he have special food requests, etc?