Is This The Real Life? Documentaries You Love

[chonies]

Apr 30, 2017 12:14:10 GMT -4 @mulva said:

I would agree with that. "Vegan" is animal- and environment-focused, with improving personal health being an awesome added bonus. Whereas "plant-based" is personal health-focused, with the awesome added bonus of being better for animals/the environment.

But six in one, half dozen in the other. It's all good stuff.

I agree, totally--for a lot of vegans (that I have observed), there is a range of how they ended up in there, but they are often the ones who are posting about whichever junk foods are accidentally vegan, which is somewhat at odds with the ethos of the "plant-based" crowd. It's none of my business, but to me, plant based is more accessible and less punitive, for lack of a better word. If I were Muslim and accidentally ate pork, it's not even a sin because it was not intentional, but a lot of vegetarians or vegans seem to have more world-rocking crises. I think even choosing to eat meat on a very rare occasion should not take away from the idea of eating a vegetarian diet. When I was vegetarian, my occasional (like, twice a year) cravings for turkey or fish would be close to debilitating, and part of what threw me out of the vegetarian mindset altogether. If I couldn't be 100%, why bother? Well, maybe being 100% 90% of the time is better in the long run, but it took me a long time to learn that.

And as a former vegetarian, I *do* object slightly to the veg-types who claim they "can't" eat something when it's an ethical or dietary choice, and not a food allergy or health complication. I know I'm taking a ridiculously hard line on semantics, but there it is. I would never say anything to anyone, but that's my grammar confession for today. You're welcome, everyone.

Topic: I haven't watched a food doc in AGES. I can't do any better right now and I don't need the guilt! I eat vegan sometimes, ovo-lacto veg the vast majority of the time, and pescatarian a couple times per year. When/if I ever get the strength to go full vegan, I will absolutely delve deep into the docs. They are VERY motivating!

For vegan stuff, there are some good podcasts like No Meat Athlete, which often has various interviews--some health, some animal-related, etc. I am more skeptical about documentaries--Supersize Me had its issues, and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead made me so angry for its bad science. Yes, clearly, our ancestors were busy juicing their fruit and vegetables back when we had smaller brains and no electricity. Grr! There's some persuasive evidence that cooking food (plants and meat both) was what pushed us into Homo sapiens territory, but I guess that's not, like, a super-interesting lifestyle change with a juicer and special tumblers and things to announce. "Guess what, people! I'm cooking my food!"

Sorry, really. If anyone can recommend a documentary to help me reduce my saltiness, I would be glad to watch it.

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I just watched 'The Champions' docu on Netflix and definetly recommend it, it follows the story of fighting dogs, of an NFL star(less said the better).

They were condemned but rescued and given a second chance. I fell in love with each dog and their good humans, again making me firmly believe that there is no bad dog just bad humans/experiences. Kindness, Patience and Love and you get the dogs they were born to be, they didn't need to be rehabilitated just given time to recover. (as said by someone in the doc)
Its on my list and staying there for a rewatch when ever I need renewed faith in humanity.

[americanchai]

I've had it in my Netflix queue forever but I just watched "Famous Nathan" about Nathan Handwerker, founder of the Nathan's hot dog stand at Coney Island. Sweet, family-oriented doc (made by his grandson) that shows why we need to keep letting immigrants from everywhere in. Cool footage of Coney Island at its height and '70s NYC.

I've also started "Franca: Chaos & Creation" about Franca Sozzani, late editor of Vogue Italia, made by her son. So far, it's good. I'm not sure if this doc gets to her illness or death as I'm only 1/4 in.

[LAX]

Salt of the Earth, a documentary on photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Loaded with heartbreak but well worth seeing it through to the end.

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This one has gone straight to No 1 for me, working on it before he died George Michael, Freedom was just shown on Channel 4 UK and it is everything sweet poignant and downright heartbreaking at times but a wonderful watch. What was going on in his own life as he sang the most spectalur Somebody to love for Freddie Mercury concert will, well it floored me.
Looks like that trailer in first link says its on Showtime (US channel?) Oct 21st/tmrw?!

Rest easy George.

[Alexis Machine]

If you don't have Hulu, Fyre Fraud, the Fyre Fest documentary is on youtube.

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Netflix has its own take on the Fyre Festival, entitled Fyre. It delves a little deeper than Hulu's, imo, though I enjoyed both docs.

Hulu has a doc called Killing for Love, which is about Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering, a couple who conspired to murder her parents in 1980s Virginia.

[scarlet]

I haven't watched the Hulu one yet, but the Netflix one is fantastic. Besides that main guy being a huge con artist, they just really had no flippin' clue what they were doing. Bunch of idiots.

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Jan 23, 2019 10:02:43 GMT -4 scarlet said:

I haven't watched the Hulu one yet, but the Netflix one is fantastic. Besides that main guy being a huge con artist, they just really had no flippin' clue what they were doing. Bunch of idiots.

And he basically just got rid of anyone who actually told him they couldn't realistically pull it off in such a short amount of time. I do feel bad for some of them, particularly the software developers who put all that time and energy into an app they believed in that never came to pass because of that a-hole. I had not been aware of the app aspect of the whole story until I watched the documentary.

[smitten]

Ok, I swear I read on here comments about the Netflix Ted Bundy documentary bit I can’t for the life of me figure out which thread it was. So I’ll just talk about the doc here... or maybe it was on Twitter?

But basically I have one major peeve about 15 minutes into the 2nd episode: is there really such a need to use frankenquotes that are clearly not all from the same taping session?? I’m assuming the information would be compelling enough without having to resort to common reality tv tricks/voiceover editing.