Favorite Documentary?

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

sounds bad ass, what was name of the docu?

[Pak-Man]

Wish I could tell you. I only caught the middle of it while I was waiting for food at a wing place...

[MrTorso]

Sounds like http://www.thehotshoemovie.com/. I heard it was pretty good.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

looks cool.  I wonder if i can find it when i get back. 

[gbeenie]

ok let me get this straight we have gone from the darkest of the dark to the most trivial of the trivial. 

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Triumph of the Will is the best documentary ever.  Hmmm, I better not.

Actually as abhorrent as it is, the movie is actually worthy of discussion here.  are there any documentaries that arent above such propaganda. 

Fahrenheit 9/11 is Triumph of the Will 2004. Actually, it's worse. Leni Riefenstahl made Triumph for a paycheck; Fucking Liar Michael Moore sincerely believes that his mix of half-truths, deception and outright falsehoods is completely justifiable as long as it serves his idealogical ends.

[gbeenie]

Caught a documentary about the dude who invented card counting once. Guy formed a whole team of counters for the mob...

Was that the one where the group of tech folks kept developing new and different card-counting technologies to try and beat the house?

[Raven]

I really enjoyed Comedian, the one that followed Seinfeld around after he retired all of his material.  I'm a big fan of stand up and the Aristocrats was hilarious.

[Andrew1911]

I love Gimme Shelter.

[gbeenie]

I really enjoyed Comedian, the one that followed Seinfeld around after he retired all of his material.  I'm a big fan of stand up and the Aristocrats was hilarious.

Man oh MAN do I love The Aristocrats. Having dabbled in stand-up back in the late-80's/early-90's, I am intensely interested in the nature of what makes things funny. A feature-length discussion of the topic just made sweet, sweet love to my brain.

[Raven]

I really enjoyed Comedian, the one that followed Seinfeld around after he retired all of his material.  I'm a big fan of stand up and the Aristocrats was hilarious.

Man oh MAN do I love The Aristocrats. Having dabbled in stand-up back in the late-80's/early-90's, I am intensely interested in the nature of what makes things funny. A feature-length discussion of the topic just made sweet, sweet love to my brain.

Did you ever record any of your material or tape any preformances? 

[gbeenie]

I really enjoyed Comedian, the one that followed Seinfeld around after he retired all of his material.  I'm a big fan of stand up and the Aristocrats was hilarious.

Man oh MAN do I love The Aristocrats. Having dabbled in stand-up back in the late-80's/early-90's, I am intensely interested in the nature of what makes things funny. A feature-length discussion of the topic just made sweet, sweet love to my brain.

Did you ever record any of your material or tape any preformances? 

Luckily, no. 

[davo]

Being able to live that way still requires a huge knowledge of your surroundings.  You need to know what you can eat, where you can find it, how to track animals, how to build your house, what animals are dangerous, what other tribes are dangerous, learn their language.  It's not as simple as just moving there.  But even if I did move there, eventually people would contact us, because we are ever expanding.  You need to be able to move around as hunter gatherers, and that's becoming increasingly difficult without butting into tribes that are already there or us.  And if I just moved away, would that stop our culture from doing things that I see as harmful to our environment?  It's not as if we would be unaffected.  All the trash we burn here in Minnesota travels through the air and into the water and into the fish and has been found in the breast milk of women in Inuit tribes in northern Canada.  Pollution is a global problem.

in my opinion,that's a complete and total copout on yor part.  You could very easily live out your entire existence exactly how you want to without knowing a single thing about the outside world....you choose not to do it. 

And I very much disagree with your assumption that the Lakota would take over all of the U.S.  It is true that they went to war frequently with their neighbors, but their war is much different than ours.  They went to war to make sure their borders were secure and that they had enough land.

this is all i needed to quote from this section: what are implications when inevitable they grew to 10 times,20 times, 100 times their size?  they'd NEED MORE LAND. 

and uhh....many Native tribes moved around across the entire midwest during the changing of the seasons...

Murderball is the flick about the quadriplegic rugby teams.

yeah, it was really inspiring how they took this sport from nothing to an olympic event.

WORD WARS was hilarious.  To give you an idea of the competitors: one guy is this typical 40-something nerd in perpetual fragile health that lives with his dad and another is a militant black guy who lives in the projects. a third is the "stud" of the group, who thinks he's a real lady's man.  it's priceless.

[Variety of Cells]

And I very much disagree with your assumption that the Lakota would take over all of the U.S.  It is true that they went to war frequently with their neighbors, but their war is much different than ours.  They went to war to make sure their borders were secure and that they had enough land.

this is all i needed to quote from this section: what are implications when inevitable they grew to 10 times,20 times, 100 times their size?  they'd NEED MORE LAND. 

and uhh....many Native tribes moved around across the entire midwest during the changing of the seasons...

I completely disagree that one tribe would take over the entire U.S.  Each culture only knows how to live where they call home.  Tribes up north don't know all the secrets to living in the desert, and tribes in the south don't know what it takes to live up north.  And they wouldn't want to live up north.  They like where they are, and have no desire to take over other tribes land.

And the reason they could live that way is because their populations were not rapidly growing.  They had just enough food to feed how many people they had.  And if it did grow some, then war would have lessened it.  If a tribe had expanded to the point where they need more space, going to war probably would have reduced them to a point where they wouldn't need the extra land.  And they knew this, so it was a huge decision to go to war.  Their populations were checked, and not ever expanding like ours is.

And as for your first statement, I still disagree.  We are taught nothing about how to live on our own.  It's true that I could learn most of it through books, but there are some things that books can't teach.  And still, I would rather try and make a difference here then hide myself away as our society continues to make decisions that I feel are harmful. 

[mrbasehart]

I really enjoyed Comedian, the one that followed Seinfeld around after he retired all of his material.  I'm a big fan of stand up and the Aristocrats was hilarious.

Man oh MAN do I love The Aristocrats. Having dabbled in stand-up back in the late-80's/early-90's, I am intensely interested in the nature of what makes things funny. A feature-length discussion of the topic just made sweet, sweet love to my brain.

I really liked both films, too.  I love the bit in Comedian where Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld are talking about Bill Cosby in awe at how great his new stuff is and the meeting between Seinfeld and the newer guy.  I think George Carlin told the Aristocrats joke the best.   

[Raven]

I really enjoyed Comedian, the one that followed Seinfeld around after he retired all of his material.  I'm a big fan of stand up and the Aristocrats was hilarious.

Man oh MAN do I love The Aristocrats. Having dabbled in stand-up back in the late-80's/early-90's, I am intensely interested in the nature of what makes things funny. A feature-length discussion of the topic just made sweet, sweet love to my brain.

I really liked both films, too.  I love the bit in Comedian where Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld are talking about Bill Cosby in awe at how great his new stuff is and the meeting between Seinfeld and the newer guy.  I think George Carlin told the Aristocrats joke the best.   

I think my favorite was Sarah Silverman.  And I really enjoyed Stephen Wright's.