Watched this today... Was excellent. Highly recommend. Spoiler: Don't read if you haven't watched The Prince of Saudi Arabia is a bad person. The Dissident documentary about Shitty AMC Show of the Saudi journalist in Turkey was super sad, and tragic. However; before that became public knowledge, my wife is a consultant, and they actually did a consulting project for the Prince of Saudi Arabia for this museum he is building -- presumably, the one that the painting would be displayed in. Kind of cool. She was actually in a meeting with him iirc. She survived said meeting. I know she had meetings in the palace, and I'm pretty sure he sat through at least one of them. The palace security was weird. On random days people from her team were deemed a security risk and not allowed in meetings, and the people that were withheld varied from day to day. She was actually deemed a security risk one of the days, lol.
Finally watched this and really enjoyed it. Was $10 to rent for 24 hours. Recommend for any music/songwriter fans.
My mom finally watched Dear Zachary after I told her to do so like five years ago. She's currently on the phone with my fiancee crying.
Wife and I enjoyed it Spoiler kind of agree a crime wasn't committed. But couldn't it fall under fraud? They didn't mention that as a crime only rape, sexual assault, etc
The Kingmaker on Amazon Prime. Solid political doc about the Philippines. Holy shit that place us a crazy political history. And it looks like Bong bong is about to be president so even more topical….
Bet some on here would like this... I also know there's a lot of climbing doc fans on TMB. Thought about posting in the Alex Honnold thread, but went with this one.
I agree. That's why it's so fascinating to me. Something that is clearly so morally and ethically wrong but not illegal. Are there any other crimes that compare? (I can't think of any)
Michael Lewis (Moneyball, Big Short, several other good books) says he would walk by where this painting was on his way to school in New Orleans. Now it's on a yacht being destroyed by the salty air because MBS is embarrassed he got scammed. Had someone taken the painting prior to all the Da Vincification on Antiques Roadshow, it would have been one of the best appraisals in the shows history. You'd think Wahhabism wouldn't be cool with an image of Christ considering they view him as a prophet only surpassed by Muhammed.
I watched the Anthony Bourdain doc this morning, I only tangentially followed his career but the doc was really good, really sad for him and his kids. Even when it looks like you have what you want, the demons can still get you.
This just came out on HBOMAX Check out the trailer for HBO Original, Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which takes a deep-dive behind the 1986 disaster of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Watch never before seen footage and get real-life accounts of the horrific accident. Coming to HBO Max June 22.
So it’s either read the subtitles or listen to descriptive audio on that Chernobyl thing. That’s annoying.
I know I’m a decade late on this, but Queen of Versailles is an absolutely absurd doc. It’s almost too much to process with one viewing
New netflix doc about the revenge porn shitbro and his barstool cult is p good. The Most Hated Man On The Internet Thought I remember a bunch of edgelords around here being fans of isanyoneup
I was shocked that I didnt remember the site or any of this hoopla to the guy. I thought it was good, but like most docs, it was too long for what the story entailed.
These dragged out “mini series” documentaries that are like 4-6 hour long episodes instead of 1 1.5-2 hour movies is getting old
That being said, “Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99” and the most hated man on the internet were both good, albeit the latter being dragged out
I loved the Woodstock doc. Amazing how things are going about as bad as possible and the one promoter guy is just like
Anybody else watch "The Anarchists" on HBO? I found it to be pretty interesting, albeit some of that interest stemmed from curiosity in how so many of the main characters could be such arrogant douchebags. The intersection between anarchy and crypto was also choice, with so much if their identities becoming inextricably intertwined.
Crazy when they were blaming Fred Durst, and Kid Rock for hyping up the crowd too much, as if they are suppose to realize that there's no security out there. I did lol though when the Mayor asked the Red Hot Chile Peppers to go back out there and try to simmer the crowd with their lit candles, and they just bust out Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" as their encore.
To this day. (Or at least when it was recorded.) I can somewhat see the responses in real time as it seems they really spent no time watching what was going on out front. But to this day the one still swears it went well and it was just a few bad apples. It was obviously mostly the fault of his cutting costs to turn a profit. I get the sense that in spite of his role in Woodstock history, Michael Lang was just naive and held too strongly to a belief in human goodness when music is involved. Or maybe he just used that and his glazed over look and smile to help him play dumb. I won't say the kids are totally blameless. There was an angry, misogynistic, drunken fratboy attitude prevalent about that time. But it took the right, or wrong, conditions to spark what they did. Also, fuck Fred Durst. I can't blame the likes of Korn, Rage, RHCP, etc. for simply doing their thing musically. I just always saw Durst as the type of sadistic bastard who would get off on starting a proverbial fire then safely stepping back to watch it burn for his own amusement.
Durst was absolutely instigating to a level he shouldn't have. Some blame does lay with him. I was recently reading about Big Day Out fest in Australia. Someone got killed during Limp Bizkit's performance in 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Michalik
I'll admit to participating in enough mosh pits at smaller shows back in the day. But I can't imagine the terror of going down in one in a major festival-sized crowd, especially as a smaller person who is not as strong. There's almost no way to get out to safety. I'm honestly surprised this hasn't happened more often. That's a danger of huge crowds of fans who may be there for an eclectic bill of artists. And yeah, fuck Fred Durst.
I almost got trampled at a concert with Fuel and Eve 6 once. Can't imagine the shoving brought on by a Slipknot