Documentaries

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched the whole Ancient Apocalypse documentary series from Graham Hancock that's on Netflix. Entertaining. Just annoying that he says "proof of" and "proves" all the time. He'd be taken much more seriously if he replaced them with "evidence for" and "suggests". But then, genuine science hasn't really done a good job of getting people thinking in these kind of hypothetical rather than dogmatic terms either, so I can't really hold that against him too much. Anyway, very entertaining, and loads of interesting places in it.

Joe Rogan just hosted a tête-à-tête between Hancock and archeologist Flint Dibble (who's already won in the "best name" category anyway). It's quite possible I will never get around to watching all four and a half hours of this, but so far so interesting half an hour in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DL1_EMIw6w

[Born of Fire]

Had that on in the background today at work. I enjoy Hancocks ideas in a fun "what if" kind of alternate history scenario but he really had nothing in that debate.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

I find his theories interesting to think about but his constant poor me thing outs him as a grade-A bullshitter

[astfgyl]

Could that Dibble chap be any more of a stereotype? Anyway, Hancock doesn't really have anything other than "we don't know" but he presents it as if he has something, which is unfortunate i think as it will drive a lot of people away.

I think the general theory that there's a lot more history than we know about is fairly sound but what can we do only dig and speculate until we know more? I don't like how a lot of the alternate history crowd are always jumping to mad conclusions instead of simply pointing out that nobody really knows. Anyway, saw a few clips of that debate and won't be watching four hours of it.

[Trev]

Made it through about an hour and a half,  Hancock started getting more and more personal, and repeating the same question Dibble had answered three or four times already. Didn't feel like there was going to be any big revelations after that point

[open face surgery]

He's a stoner coming up with wild ideas.

[astfgyl]

That sounds about right

If he just focused on the things we don't know he'd be more interesting instead of trying to tie it all together into one big story. There's enough evidence out there to suggest there's far more to history than we have generally accepted or there was more global trading of ideas and things than we give credit for and there's always new old things being found but wild hypotheses are just that at the end of the day.

[Mooncat]

Watched Supersize Me after Morgan Spurlock died the other day. Very entertaining watch! Took me right back to the early to mid-2000s and that kind of expose Michael Moore-esque documentary style. The sequel is pretty good too.

One thing from the first one, there's a whole scene where three different docs are telling him how healthy he is and how good his genetic history is. That's one part that didn't age well...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Now watch Super High Me, undoubtedly the superior documentary 

But also, seriously.

[son of the Morrigan]

There's a documentary about Rory Gallagher on RTE, Monday at half six.
The ad for it looks promising. I'm sure it'll be nothing new but hopefully it'll be heavy on the live footage and light on the shit talk.

[Carnage]

The Irish Tour '74 doc is the one to see, but I have this set to record anyway.

[son of the Morrigan]

Yeah, its feckin great. If I had a time machine and could only use it once I'd travel back to 74 and go to that gig in Belfast.
Live at Montreux is mighty too.

[Carnage]

The Rockpalast collection is mighty too.

[Mooncat]

Now watch Super High Me, undoubtedly the superior documentary 

But also, seriously.

I'll have to hunt it down. Watched another of Spurlock's there, "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold", about product placement and financing in movies. Interesting watch! If the usual lighthearted Spurlock bullshit as opposed to an in-depth expose.



One doc I would recommend to everyone on this forum is Not Quite Hollywood, about the history of Ozploitation cinema. All the b grade schlock that came out of Australia in the 70s and 80s. Action, porn, horror etc etc. All low budget, all great. It's a super entertaining doc, and will give a ton of recommendations if you're into that sort of thing! Amazing trashy clips and footage from the films etc.

It's on American Prime video for those of you who VPN.

[Sworntothecans]

Now watch Super High Me, undoubtedly the superior documentary 

But also, seriously.

I'll have to hunt it down. Watched another of Spurlock's there, "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold", about product placement and financing in movies. Interesting watch! If the usual lighthearted Spurlock bullshit as opposed to an in-depth expose.



One doc I would recommend to everyone on this forum is Not Quite Hollywood, about the history of Ozploitation cinema. All the b grade schlock that came out of Australia in the 70s and 80s. Action, porn, horror etc etc. All low budget, all great. It's a super entertaining doc, and will give a ton of recommendations if you're into that sort of thing! Amazing trashy clips and footage from the films etc.

It's on American Prime video for those of you who VPN.

Not quite Hollywood is great, same team as the Cannon films doc I think. . Was kinda shocked at how many of those movies I'd seen.
Aussie stuntmen are legends.