Saw three docs over the weekend...don't think any need their own thread.
1) Hornet's Nest - follows a father/son reporting team embedded with Army and Marines in Afghanistan in a very dangerous area in 2011. Pretty harrowing footage and really a good glimpse of what those particular units had to deal with on a day to day basis.
7/10
2) Path of Blood - uses recovered footage from Islamic cells in Saudi Arabia. Intertwines this footage with Saudi police footage. The terrorist footage is pretty amazing. And while the majority of the guys were pretty ignorant and unsophisticated, some of the attacks were devastating and underline how hard it must have been for the Saudis to deal with this. Pretty disturbing at times.
8/10
3) Into the Abyss - Herzog doc following a murder case in Conroe Texas starting from the crime through death row. Really well done. Herzog's gets the most out of interviews with all involved...the murderers, the victims of the family, even a former death row captain.
7.5/10
I really liked Into the Abyss. Saw it a while back, really good stuff. Not big on the military stuff but have pondered on watching Hornet's Nest. I'm deep into true crime docs and some off the wall stuff as it's almost all I watch when I watch the tele. Almost out of all the good, original crime docs.
Southwest of Salem was really good. I didn't think a doc about 4 lesbians wrongfully charged with gang raping some children would be good and about 20 minutes in, you're wondering if it gets any better and it's not very "in your face" like other docs based on wrongful convictions but it's really well done and a shows how far our society has come in 25 years. I recommend.
Thanks. I'll give it a try. True crime docs are my favorite as well. Although I do tend to shy away from some of them that deal with sexual abuse of kids.
That was the reason the wife and I were both reluctant to watch it, but it doesn't go far into detail since the case was so shallow as the details were all hearsay from the kids' testimonial and junk science.
I like almost any kind of do entary.
eg. Alpha Go was fantastic for me.
So Keep putting them up. I use them at night instead of reading if my wife has to get up early for work. The light from the iPad does not bother. Gotta be careful as I have The ability to watch too many.
Netflix?
Into the abyss
Fracking started under Trump.
Yaaaaa No.
I do enjoy those good docs about something about something off the beaten path. Something not so heavy like a crime doc or some current affair. Alpha Go fit this for me.
A couple others that come to mind...
Jiro Dreams if Sushi
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Just watched this. Good recommendation. Those girls got screwed. Glad there was a happy ending but it’s hard to fathom the despair they must have felt and the monumental loss of time.
It ended a little abruptly. Would have liked to have followed them through the final appeal but that must have been determined by the doc budget or time table.
I had a friend who grew up in Cut 'N Shoot, TX. He said it was every bit as rough as the doc made it seem.
That part really stuck out. Seemed like everybody interviewed was in jail or had been in jail as well as all of their family members. That guy matter-of-factly taking about getting stabbed with a 2 foot screwdriver through the torso. But having to get to work in 30 minutes and not ever going to the doctor. Or the bartender starting to cry thinking of "all the things she's seen". Someone could probably do a pretty interesting do entary on the town.
What else was surreal was seeing the Camaro they stole from the victims sitting in the tow yard after all these years, was pretty damn creepy.
Do any of you guys like Al Profit docs? He's an Italian dude who does a lot of drug dealer/crime docs that are low budget but good. I would recommend his Detroit doc and all of his drug dealer docs. Love the guy, got to meet him randomly at a comic con and he was super cool.
Don't expect the greatest production, but the info and the gritty feel to them are great.
How long do those cars sit there? That's crazy.
Havenn't heard of Al Profit but will give one a watch.
Last night I watched All the Queens Horses. A short doc about a lady who embezzled $53,000,000 from a town of 16,000 people.
It's an interesting story but the doc was pretty dry. Probably just reading the Wiki page would provide the same story much quicker.
I always thought they go to auction if they're still sellable. That one was still sitting there despite the case being well and over for a long time. It was just creepy looking at it.
Three people killed over that thing. The son and his friend were incredibly unlucky to have driven back home that night.
Here's some I've enjoyed over the last few months..
The Bridge - Older do entary from 2004 I believe.. Some guy set up shop and filmed the Golden Gate Bridge for a year.. he captured 23 suicides. The do entary interviews the families and friends to try and understand what caused this person to end it all.
Who Took Johnny and An Open Secret - Grouped them together as they both expose secret pedo rings ran by the rich and powerful in Government and Hollywood.
Kim Dotcom - an account of Kim Dotcom, founder of mega upload, and his rise and fall over internet piracy and copyright laws
I second Into the Abyss.. very interesting do entary.
Who Took Johnny...I saw that one. I'm not saying PizzaGate but it does provide and example of people in political/powerful positions that use that power to suppress the truth.
I saw some Paul Bonnaci interviews regarding some weird like Bohemian Grove. Crazy .
He's a very intriguing interviewee.
Pizza Gate was allegedly part of the Russian fake news brigade to influence the election.. but how do you deny the things they exposed.. The strange paintings, weird entertainment at Besta Pizza, symbolism, etc.. Definitely ran by a weirdo. If you thought Who Took Johnny was interesting, then you will like An Open Secret.. They cornered the president of the Screen Actors Guild and exposed him as pedo too during the movie.
Paul Bonnaci taking America's Most Wanted back to the house he says he was held captive at was crazy af.
Who Took Johnny was good.
Do any of you watch The Hunt with John Walsh...it's basically a better America's Most Wanted...one of the better crime series and the acting is way better than the murder mystery porns on ID
Haven't seen that one, but will favorite it and check it out ASAP. Sure you've seen them, but I still enjoy watching the old HBO Autopsy Series with Dr. Baden. He needs a new show.
Yeah...it was nuts. I had seen his interviews well before I saw WTJ and I thought he was a crackpot. But him taking them back to the house completely changed my mind on some of the bizarre stuff he said in the interviews.
Stuff dealing with MKUltra, Bohemian Grove, etc.
I'll check out Open Secret. Was that the one that WTJ was mentioning that Discovery Channel didn't air?
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