ITT: great documentaries
I recently watched this and was totally blown away. It was amazing.
>>69683635
I didn't even like that one when I was an edgy teenager. He just goes around being a dick to religious people.
It was too heavy handed. It's like God's not Dead, but for athiests.
>>69683907
I disagree. He was not only funny, but also very insightful.
Any Werner Herzog doc
Any Joshua Oppenheimer doc
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Wtf I hate religion now!
>>69684437
I loved Jiro. I know it's a Japanese mentality anyway but I thought he was really inspiring. He had the attitude that it doesn't really matter what you do for a living if you take pride in it and try to excel.
Paradise Lost m8
Dear Zachary
It's the saddest movie I've ever seen; I cried, so much. It's on Netflix. Don't read into what happens, just watch it.
>>69684705
is The Endless Summer any good? I'm a huge fan of surf music and love the theme song, but I've never bothered to check it out.
>>69685016
It's really great. It basically uses surfing the planet as a framework for two bros travelling around the world and visiting places they've never been before.
It's worth watching the sequel as well, they revisit most of the same locations and they've been commercialised so the guys are horrified.
>>69683907
It's been awhile so I only really remember the guy that was building a creationist museum and the Jews that thought they could trick God on the sabbath rules. Whats wrong with being a dick to them?
>>69683999
He was wrong about nearly every assumption he made about religion, i.e. thay nonsense about Christianity being based off the resurrection of Osiris and his twelve disciples, who never appear anywhere except for in this film.
He just makes people made enough to make themselves look like fools and it's kind of sad.
>>69684939
one of the worst most biased and manipulative pieces of shit i've ever seen
Documentaries that aren't by Attenborough, or about some kind of neutral subject, always mislead you. See anything Michael Moore's done, Morgan Spurlock, this Bill Maher one. "A Tree Falls", the one about thw ELF was pretty good, it had me punching the wall out of rage at one point.
>>69685294
I'm pretty sure everyone knows Bill Maher and Michael Moore aren't making documentaries about neutral subjects. most of their stuff is political, thats going to have them taking a side.
>>69685291
Well yeah, of course.
It's a movie told through his family and friends. It's not some detached crime documentary.
>>69685291
That's a statement. Do you plan on expanding? Biased? Should they have shown that psycho in a better light?
>>69685144
thanks dude, I'll definitely check it out then.
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Marwencol
Grizzly Man
>>69685234
Those people made themselves look like fools, like the Islamic rapper guy.
>>69683635
>bait/10
the thin blue line
waco: rules of engagement
titicut follies
cropsey
to name a few
>>69685586
That's exactly what I'm saying bud. It doesn't discredit religion, it just says "Hey, look at these stupid dumb idiots. YOU aren't a stupid dumb idiot and that's why you'll take my side, right, viewer?" It's inflammatory rhetoric that says nothing and attempts to either shame you into take Meher's viewpoint, or buoying your unwarranted sense of self worth if you already hold it.
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
The Killing of America
The Thin Blue Line
Megacities
Man with a Movie Camera
Born into This
Its been a while since ive been into docos. Ive been meaning to watch Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
>>69683635
Why isn't he mocking the jewish faith?
I remember thinking this movie was amazing, but it's actually riddled with false information and a deadly level of arrogance.
>>69685671
Well yes it's not a movie that will probably convert (or de-convert) anyone, but it does deal with people who are taken seriously by very many, and it points out the hypocrisy of many of these influential figures.
>>69685224
>what's wrong with being a dick
See, this is why some religious people think atheists are amoral poison to society, because often times they come across that way.
Be nice to people. Show that you're living a good life without being a snarky jerk. People will naturally gravitate towards you because your presence is pleasurable. Bill's only accomplishment with Religulous was pandering to spiteful people with personal issues regarding religion. He didn't heal relations or turn anyone to his cause who wasn't already headed that way.
>>69685775
Maybe if that was the point of the documentary, but he's not discrediting the figures, he's discrediting religion as a concept USING those figures (and blantantly false information) to do it. That thunderous fanfare at the end as he explains how religion is the greatest evil in the world really drives that home as the intended purpose of the documentary.
>>69685797
In general I am very nice to people. If you want to have crazy ideas then go for it. But if you build a museum to spread you crazy ideas as facts then I get to call you a crazy idiot.
>>69685910
This was very good. I also enjoyed The world according to dick cheney
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>>69685858
I don't see it as a documentary that aims to ''discredit'' religion. Mainly the documentary aims to be comedic while using religion as fodder, and I think it succeeds at being pretty funny.
He does discredit those figures in many ways, especially that Islamic rapper.
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Anyone watched Up the Yangtze?
>>69686034
Very biased movie but very entertaining also. These nerds are all such characters.
Did you see that world record has recently been broken again?
i thought discovery channel's human planet was amazing
so many people living in so many diverse places
>>69686193
You'd probably like this one then.
>>69686193
Watch megacities brah
>>69685622
>cropsey
I keep reading this here, but it's shit.
>>69684939
straight garbage.
>2016
>people still believe in religion
literally why?
>>69686790
because the word is filled with stupid people.
>>69686790
I might not believe in any religion, but I do believe there might be a higher power.
>>69687297
but why? I'm genuinely curious as I can't see why you would believe in any of it.
>>69687653
>>69686790
have you ever been outside? fucking hell. just because you live your whole life in one chair and wade thru every day in an anhedonic stupor doesnt mean other people dont appreciate the impenetrable mystery of existence and the vastness of the universe you fucking dink
>>69687784
that's nice, but you still didn't explain why you would believe in a ''higher power''.
>>69688068
He's in a twelve-step program.
>>69688068
well, there are all these nations out there, atomic weapons, virtual reality masterpieces, and he lives in his basement with a cat
obviously there's a higher power, dipshit
>>69687784
What
>>69687784
>the world is mysterious
>therefore god
>>69685234
Gee, who would believe that someone who hates Christianity would actually tell LIES about it.
>>69689604
"god" is a loaded term that i did not use. undoubtedly there are, as people say, "higher powers." it might just be the interactions between a chain of causality that stretches back to the beginning of time and the random, indeterminate swirling of physical matter that we (and other intelligent life, if it exists) sways so gently with our tiny machinations on isolated planets. it doesn't have to be like a giant old man with super powers.
>>69686790
>the current year
Perhaps 2017 will be religious, then 2018 fedoraic, then 2019 muslim then 2020 mormon...
I seriously hope you are not one of the people that think in terms of le current year and le zeitgeist?
