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"JimmyG_415: LOL, Whack Job Alert. Yeah the NYTimes is lying, not Trump & Hannity."
It is hard work being this dumb ... but PFA libtards will always find a way
muh hillary though, amirite?Quote:
Originally Posted by sah_24
I just watched the documentary:
Red Army (2014)
A very good watch.
If you are old enough and you know enough/experienced the Cold War, the whole communist USSR vs United States heated time period, and are especially educated on the "Miracle On Ice" in 1980, this is a great film that gives you the other side of things from the top USSR team members.
If you are young and don't know anything about the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team and didn't really experience the cold war, then I would suggest watching a documentary on that first. You'll get a feel for the tensions in that time period and why beating the Soviet Union was such an important victory and kind of a turning point.
Then watch Red Army.
If you don't know how things really played out on the Red Army team players post-1980, then you may be surprised at certain events but probably won't be at others.
I couldn't help but at certain times during the film think to myself "so how about that socialism?"; then by the end you see some of the players quite likely thinking the same thing...but most of them wouldn't dare say it in public.
If you cant find another place to watch it, it is available on a heavily seeded torrent.
Not to diminish this film or anything related to "The Miracle on Ice"Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordman
but what precedes that amazing event was the 1972 Summit Series and a film called " Cold War on Ice Summit Series '72 HD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPzaVDilFEI&t
Before professionals were allowed to compete in the Olympics or World Championships
the Russians ran up an impressive record of victories, more than any country.
To settle the who's best in hockey debate, an eight game series between Russia and Canada's best was engineered.
We thought it would be a cake walk. We were wrong.
What followed was the most amazing sports event I've seen.
I edited the above movie to show 3 or 4 of the most incredible moments
which occurred during that series. It's jaw dropping if you're a hockey fan
or of live TV
https://youtu.be/1Dt1q0IdAkA
[QUOTE=limitles;825002]Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordman
Currently watching:
Zero Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQf1NSf1oo8#
(Also available on HULU)
Im about half way through. Very good watch so far. If you're into computers, computer science, espionage etc you will probably appreciate this film.
Its basically about Stuxnet and the plot to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities. You might remember hearing about this somewhere in the past few years; i know 60 Minutes had a segment on Stuxnet several years ago- that's when I first heard about it.
2 hour film and so far it's worth it.
The Case Against Adnan Syed
It is a fairly interesting 4 part series on a murder.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gordman
Oh. by the way, in the spirit of Devidee... especially at the 1:18-1:20 mark and on, fucking Mossad! It probably continues like this but i paused it shortly after so i can get some sleep.
Fucking Mossad!
This is probably the best one I've seen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Built_America
this one is awesome too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms68m8ZP528
I enjoy 30 for 30
This was it. Growing up in Saskatchewan, an ice field for more months than not, hockey was god.
The rough stuff you see in this doc is no exaggeration. There were no mouth guards.
Trying out for the next level of hockey supremacy meant facing off with the thugs of the team
you were trying out for. To make the team you had to survive a crosscheck against the boards
from one of the biggest players. I did not make it.
Fighting was simply accepted. You did not play if you would not drop the gloves
I have knocked a couple of guys out but I have received as many or more
You stupid fuck, where do you think these players were fromQuote:
Originally Posted by big dick
Not from a gutless nation of sitting out World Wars one and two
fuck you fag
you suck the biggest hardonQuote:
Originally Posted by big dick
The Legend of Cocaine Island, a Netflix doc, is entertaining.
https://youtu.be/kK3c1zXnQgU
If from the UK or Ireland:
https://youtu.be/qyk73vMiJSg
can't wait for the rest of the Vice docs ^^^^^
Here's a really fun watch, 3.99 on the youtube and prob other platforms as well. Billy Corben covers the Biogenesis scandal, with ARod, MLB, and a bunch of half-baked characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJUhgT65r8M
Insta-watched on Crowe’s recommendation. Amazon Prime. $5
Just look at Rotten Tomatoes. Immaculate, 100% entertainment
This is the sort of fraud and hilarity old time PFA members have been missing from their lives.
The State of Florida, MLB, The Feds, the Players, Univeristy of Florida, parents, children .... no one looks good.
10/10
Informative, hysterical, well told, characters galore.
As a Boston guy, ARod was a scumbag and really really strange dude in my mind.
Then there was Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. Boston’s own Nazi lover and right wing nut job Curt Schilling gets shit-canned. Jessica Mendoza and Alex Rodriguez show up in the booth. I’m expecting my blood pressure may prevent me from watching with the volume up. To my surprise ARod was pretty good in the booth.
ARod got a pass from me. Jennifer Lopez has such a nice ring. Lovely couple.
This documentary while hugely entertaining also served to remind me what a gangster and fraud ARod was/is. God, he is a smooth sociopath.
Well played ARod
Crowe,
Commissioner Rob Manfred at the Sawks Opener and Ring Ceremony
Manfred was in the booth followed by Manny Ramirez. That documentary changes my perception of events even the next day.
What I’d give to watch as they passed each other in the hall
Ted Williams doc on Netflix was really good
Quote:
Originally Posted by MumblesBadly
I watched this when it first hit Netflix
Overall a pretty good watch
I really expected some bland "what if" scenarios that don't produce anything real.
I didn't want any spoilers, so I avoided Google searching about this beforehand.
If you haven't watched it yet, just watch it without looking for spoilers.
dont know if this is the right place for it, but didn't know where to put it...
im a fan of vice's long formed stories/documentaries whatever you wanna call 'em...just finished watching this one while seeing red and green ping across the screen...if you are a financial guy/gal I think you'll enjoy this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz79sd_SDA
Sounds good GBCP. There was a lot of nonsense that went down and I’m sure Vice will have some fun with that.
Curt Russell’s father, Bing Russell, bought a minor league team in Seattle. Really good tale. An independent league team of scrubs from open tryout kicks the shit out of the MLB affiliate minor league teams.
Story is told by Curt Russell who played on the team. Didn’t know he was an athlete.
Bing Russell was an actor too. He was most famous for Bonanza. Never knew that. Guy was pretty interesting. Loved baseball and produced a lot of training videos with his teenage kid, Curt Russell, demonstrating the moves. For me, this is tons of rich trivia.
Cool take.
@san...it was pretty 'just the facts' piece...got a little vicey at the end (youll see what I mean)…
even though Paulson is a goldman guy I left this piece liking him...his most brilliant move was making every single bank take government money so that the market couldn't figure out who was close to fucked and who wasn't...these guys playing these $100K poker tourneys think they know how to play poker...fuck that...that was the greatest boss move in the biggest and most consequential poker game in the world...
My favorite living author, Michael Lewis, did the Big Short. I was in love with the guy from the jump with Liars Poker.Quote:
Originally Posted by GambleBotsChafedPenis
Lewis used the following as the opening scene from Liars Poker. Poker was the essential metaphor for trading.
I have a fascination with the Housing Crisis prolly similar to others’ fascination with the JFK Assassination. It’s effect on my generation is as important as 9/11. To date: both the Tea Party, the populist movement and Trump can be credited.Quote:
One hand, one million dollars, no tears." So said John Gutfreund, chairman of Salomon Brothers, to bond trader heavyweight John Merriwether. The challenge to Merriwether was clear: One hand meant one game of Liar's Poker, one million dollars meant one million dollars and no tears meant that the loser could not complain about the loss.
While we are on politics.... the McCain story is how I will forever remember him. McCain’s legacy was fittingly destroyed by this documentary. He suspends his campaign and calls the meeting at the White House. I never heard that W.H. story. He was revealed to be significantly over his head and unfit to be President during such a tumultuous time. What a clown.
I’m no fan of Bush 43 but he came across as positively likable. A feat I could not have previously imagined. Candid, self effacing and even funny. He acknowledged he was not equipped to respond but he and Cheney nailed it with the Dream Team. Appointing those 3 saved democracy - wink.
The absence of the Vice narrator made this un Vice-like. Getting Sorkin (Too Big to Fail) and then in turn all the central characters and letting them speak was what made this work.
I dismissed this Vice story initially - you caught me at an impressionable moment GBCP. Loved it. Will watch again at some point.
i loved the bush part of it...
paraphrasing...'wait you want to use government money to bail out these banks? fuck 'em let 'em drown'...loved that part of it...true capitalist speaking...sad that it had to be done in order to basically save civilization as we know it...he trusted his guy (Paulson)...gotta do that when you are over your head on things...takes more as a leader to do that than to think you know everything...
liars poker, brilliant book...
Fun 30 for 30 that just premiered.
The Good, The Bad, The Hungry,
The rivalry between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi.
https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/10365079
Timely as Clint Eastwood breaks the picket line in Georgia to film the Ballad of Richard Jewell.
He lived in my neighborhood - I remember the media frenzy, camped out around his apartment complex.
The ESPN piece is touching.
20+ years later and the world is filled with dumbasses that still watch and believe what the news tells them. It's unbelievable.
off topic. i've meant to ask you for a long time. the next time wall street goes for the huge payday, what will be left smoking and where will the money come from? Daly, jump in also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
Diego Maradona (HBO doc) was well worth the hype, loved it. 1980’s Naples looked WILD. ,Same director as the equally great Amy doc.
Going to check out his first doc, Senna, soon w/o nothing a thing about the subject.
Started watching as a break from the cricket, without any expectations of anything other than a basic short travelogue thing, was surprised to find it hit right in the feels. There’s a bit near the end with a fake yak that matches Wagner’s Liebestod.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/t...91227/2022287/
IMAGINE having to take a break from watching cricket the most electrifying sport in the world
Yeah, I need to move on to some bigger highs, baseball maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by lol wow
Quote:
Originally Posted by lol wow
No joke I had to take a break myself, between that, snooker and darts I almost got hypersomethingexcitment disorder.
Did I ment I also have bad teeth, like bland food, afternoon tea and god save the queen.
Michael, the last rock star(Hutchence)
On youtube, ten seconds in you know this is the nuts.
And I heard there doing a movie, ala Queen/Freddie
but this is the real McCoy
Time to get serious. Don't know how we never crossed paths but Apollo 11 is a good as it gets
The subject matter obviously is unbeatable. It boggles the mind to relive it.
But this doc is unique in that there is not a word of narration.
Everything was taken from original sources.
The words of Kennedy come at the end.
There is no time in history that Americans should be more
proud of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
Its basically about a chef who spent 10 years undercover infiltrating NK's shady arms dealing.
I just downloaded this and will be watching it tonight - looks pretty good. It appears it just came out a few days ago.
There are 2 one hour episodes (im not sure yet if there will be more or not)
It is not available to stream in the US (unless you obv use a vpn), but there is a torrent available with plenty of seeders.
I also have a mega link:
Here is a straming link if you are in the UK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...eries-1-part-1
This documentary "The Donut King" was fascinating:
http://<a href="https://www.youtube....Y2jXx0OP88</a>
It's about a Cambodian refugee who built an empire of donut shops in California and started a trend of Cambodian-owned donut businesses.
There's a good mix of history on Cambodia and the rag-to-riches story of this guy Ted Ngoy. There's also some Vegas and degen gambling content (ruh roh!).
When you're done watching the movie, read Ted Ngoy's wikipedia page which fills in some of the stuff they glossed over in the documentary (they definitely sanitize his life story quite a bit).
I learned a lot about the donut culture in California. You guys love your donuts. How accurate is it that all these donut shops are owned by Cambodians? Is it normal for commuters to eat donuts every morning on the way to work? Tim Horton's dominates the market in Canada but we mostly go there for coffee and other food items.