Pls give a reason as to why you like it

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    2 months ago

    An Honest Liar.

    World-renowned magician and escape artist James “the Amazing” Randi dedicates his life to exposing fake psychics and others who claim paranormal powers, while keeping a secret of his own that takes up the latter portion of the Documentary.

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    “Who killed the electric car?” A fascinating look at the EV1 — an electric car developed by GM in the early 90s and leased to customers in California. The customers then had to give it back when the lease was over… so that GM could crush them all into little pieces and pretend the car never existed. It will make you angry.

    Second choice would be “Hands on a Hardbody” about a radio station giving away a truck in East Texas. It’s a great time capsule of its time and place. Both sad and funny.

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      Oh man Hands on a Hardbody is one of my favs. A true classic. I even saw it in the theater when it came out!

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    Action Park

    Supposedly there is another one that doesn’t make it sound quite so awesome and emphasizes more for balance purposes the negligence and corruption that killed a bunch of people aspect. But many people who were around at the time seem to like this one.

    Also, “Kunuk Uncovered” from Documentary Now on Netflix.

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        Not the same documentary, as far as I know, but the same park

        There are other more professional ones on the same park but this video is by far the best I’ve seen in terms of getting to the heart of things

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    I really liked Behind the Curve. A crew follows around some flat earthers to see how they got into it and what it’s like living your life believing the Earth is flat. All of them talk about the friendship and comradery of the group more than why they believe the earth is flat. In fact, one of the members explains that if he was given definitive proof the Earth wasn’t flat, he’d still pretend it was because he wouldn’t want to lose his friends.

    It really shows how people who hold extreme views often hold them because it gives them a group to be a part of. You’ll never be able to get someone to leave an extremist organization without giving them another group to be a part of.

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      I really liked Wild wild country. It was very well put together and told Osho’s story in a way that showed all the bits and pieces.

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    Space Jam. I grew up with it even if didn’t knew who Michael Jordan was, he had a interesting career.

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    The “Alone in the Wilderness” videos by Dick Proenekke. Middle-aged guy gives up on the rat race and heads to a remote spot in Alaska, builds a cabin, chills there for 30-years.

    The man is amazing. Using hand tools he packed in by himself, he builds a nice cabin, hunts and fishes, all that. Dick needs a spoon or a table or a shelf? He makes one. He makes everything he needs.

    No video has ever brought me such peace as listening to the narrator.

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      I started watching it because the guy was making a spoon for himself and I thought it was so cool that he was so self sufficient

      Then I turned on one of the episodes and we was going into his HOUSE that he made for himself, mucking around with the door and trying to make a good way of doing the hinges

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    American Movie. Sweet film about a quirky but determined film maker to make a movie and hit it big. The characters are fantastic slices of Americana.

    Anvil. Film about a heavy metal band who almost made it and try one last time. The crazy part is the night I watched it they were playing in my home town. I regret not going to see them. They are just a few normal guys who are lived by their community and once rocked out on the same stage as Metallica.

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    https://youtu.be/sRlvDKcDvsI?si=C6nf9dL3A7j32tEL

    The Realms of the Unreal. It’s a documentary about a hermit named Henry Darger who created his own little world while living alone all his life. The guy could read and write, but lacked an education on just about everything else.

    I just find it neat that this entire world he created could have been easily thrown away, never to be discovered if his landlord wasn’t curious. The guy had some serious mental issues, but it’s still fascinating.

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    A Certain Kind of Death. It’s a very stark and dry documentary about what happens to the bodies of people who die with no next of kin. It follows the journeys of three people who die alone, with no heirs, and no relatives to come pick up their stuff.

    I remember the guy in charge of the place talking about how very often he’d call the family of a decedent and the survivor would say something like “Oh… well, we always wondered what happened to him.” It struck me, made me realize that this is how I was going to go at some point if I didn’t change my ways.

    I have yet to change my ways.

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    The private life of plants, by David Attenborough. I love it because it shows plants living at our speed (timelapses) with clear explanation and interesting facts. The soundtrack is nice and weird with a lot of synths, which is different from the normal orchestral backing. Also I love David :)

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      2 months ago

      Ngl following the life of a plant sounds ultra boring, I don’t think even Sir Attenborough can do that interesting for me.

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        I get where you are coming from, but you could not be more wrong. They fix the boring part because they speed up those parts by a factor of 30000 or more. I learned so much from this series of docu’s. Also… It’s Sir Attenborough, arguably one of the best in his class. He can do it, nobody. He can do it.

        Spoken by a person who is almost infinitely interested in everything, hahaha.

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        You haven’t lived until you see two vines desperately trying to choke the shit out of each other in “real time” for them which is like 20x speed for us.