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Interviewer is a big pal of Gazza too supposedly, so probably didn't want to take the interview to a dark place with Gazza looking like he's having the D.T's in front of her.

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. Could've been in depth and probing sure.

You mean like a documentary?
Look there are documentaries that prove deep and delve like Blackfish, and Roger & Me etc, and this clearly wasn't designed to be like that.

 

It is what it is, all I'm saying is that there have been things on TV that have looked at his dark side. This is obviously supposed to be a celebratory film, rather than an analysis on his past.

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Not sure if it's ever been mentioned in this thread but watched Deep Water the other day and it's really good. 

 

It's about Donald Crowhurst's ill advised attempt make the first to sail solo non stop around the world in 1968. Under huge financial pressure and with the weather deadline for the attempt fast closing in, he sets off despite his boat not being fully built. The documentary also follows a dozen or so other attempts going on at the same time. 

 

It's brilliant, scary, moving and on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR_K466VBQI

i have that on DVD, i bought it years ago when i read a review in a movie mag. great doc. i need to dig it back out and watch it again.

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Think its been mentioned on the TV thread but The Jinx was a really great watch, watched all the episodes in 2 sittings. One of those cases where there is so much archive footage its almost unbelievable (Very much like Capturing The Friedmans)

Made by the same guy!

 

Sure someone mentioned how the last fifteen minutes were like nothing else they'd seen. Finished it last night and wow, unbelievable stuff. I've been thinking about it all night. An incredible series, Bob Durst is one cold fish, the whole family are odd.

 

Just got done viewing that, incredible stuff.

 

If anyone wants to see it, i highly recommend you read nothing about the case before you do because significant things have happened since the documentary has aired.

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I'd highly recommend Rich Hill if you haven't seen it. I'd describe it as a documentary covering a subject in a very similar style to Louis Theroux but without an interviewer or narrator.

 

A really beautifully shot documentary and some really fascinating personalities and stories involved. I'd recommend not reading anything about it, and just watching it. I did that and reading the reactions online (which varied from one end of the scale to the other) was very interesting.

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I'm off to see The Look Of Silence today. It's Josua Oppenheimers follow up / companion pice to The Act Of Killing. This one tells the story of the victims of the Indonesian Genocide so I'm not expecting many laughs.

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I'm off to see The Look Of Silence today. It's Josua Oppenheimers follow up / companion pice to The Act Of Killing. This one tells the story of the victims of the Indonesian Genocide so I'm not expecting many laughs.

Fucking hell.

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Anyone else been to see Going Clear? Really interesting Scientology documentary, I think it's been on HBO and possibly Sky Atlantic but the cinema release was this weekend.

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Yeh, its really good. Any HBO documentary is worth watching. Plenty of Tom Cruise weirdness included.

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Still haven't caught it yet and it doesn't appear to be showing round my way, which isn't a shock at all because despite being capital of culture in 2017, Hull is largely full of utter mongs who a) would completely miss the point of it being an exposé and actually convert to Scientology after seeing it and b) wouldn't go see it as it requires the need to actually pay attention

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Still haven't caught it yet and it doesn't appear to be showing round my way, which isn't a shock at all because despite being capital of culture in 2017, Hull is largely full of utter mongs who a) would completely miss the point of it being an exposé and actually convert to Scientology after seeing it and b) wouldn't go see it as it requires the need to actually pay attention

The cover of the Hull Capital of Culture programme featured Poppy Morgan......

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Just watched Going Clear, quite scary to believe such things can happen in modern times. I have been quite interested in the Charles Manson story recently and saw some similarities between the two. Scientology is almost like what the Charles Manson family could of become if things were different. Really creepy hearing how the president of the church is apparently in the hole along with the leaders wife. I feel really creeped out by the whole thing.

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Just watched Going Clear, quite scary to believe such things can happen in modern times. I have been quite interested in the Charles Manson story recently and saw some similarities between the two. Scientology is almost like what the Charles Manson family could of become if things were different. Really creepy hearing how the president of the church is apparently in the hole along with the leaders wife. I feel really creeped out by the whole thing.

 

Scientology was a huge influence on Manson!

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