01-22-2014, 02:43 AM | #1 |
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Just watched The Price of Gold: Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan. It was ok.
Huge fan of this series. Anybody else watch these? What are your favourites? Anything that you'd like to see get covered? Would love one on the old WHA. Great stories there. Favourites: Tim Richmond: The NASCAR driver with AIDS John Spano buying the Islanders The U. The Fab 5 Broke Who Killed The USFL. |
01-22-2014, 08:03 AM | #2 |
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01-22-2014, 08:16 AM | #3 |
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Keep meaning to watch that one.
Watched the Marion Jones one last night. Had a feeling it was going to be "poor Marion Jones, let's feel sorry for her".....and it was. She's pretty hott though. |
01-22-2014, 08:34 AM | #4 |
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All of them that I've seen have been pretty good, but I absolutely loved the one about the U. Makes me sad to think how awful they have been for the last 10 or so years compared to what they were.
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01-22-2014, 09:47 AM | #5 |
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The one about the Baltimore Colts Band was my favorite
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01-22-2014, 01:00 PM | #6 |
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love these, have every single one downloaded except The Marinovich Project, which I eventually got to see on Netflix. Too many favourites to list, The U, The Fab Five, Jordan Rides The Bus, Four Days In October, Once Brothers, Free Spirits, Unguarded, The Dewey Bozella Story, Pony Excess, The Best That Never Was, Without Bias, Catching Hell, Fernando Nation, The Guru of Go, Jimmy The Greek, Survive and Advance, Big Shot and more I'm not listing etc etc, they are all pretty great regardless of the subject. Benji is probably the best of the lot however. Have Youngstown Boys and The Price of Gold/the most recent two on the laptop, need to see them still.
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01-22-2014, 01:05 PM | #7 |
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Elway to Marino, Winning Time and Roll Tide/War Eagle are outstanding as well. Would like to see more hockey and baseball ones, things that revolve around drafts, maybe something about Eric Lindros/the Nordiques (saw a 20 minute bit on this, a 30 for 30 version of that with current day interviews with everybody involved maybe), Eli/Rivers/Roethlisberger/2004, the original Browns moving to Baltimore/subsequent "rebirth" etc
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01-22-2014, 02:46 PM | #8 |
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I am a huge fan of this series.
My Favorites: Pony Excess The U Who Killed The USFL Tim Richmond: To The Limit Catching Hell June 17th 1994 The Best That Never Was (Marcus Dupree doc) The Two Escobars Ghosts of Ole Miss The Legend of Jimmy The Greek Into The Wind (Terry Fox doc) The Announcement Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs The New York Knicks Straight Outta LA Without Bias Many of these are available on Youtube btw. |
01-22-2014, 03:18 PM | #9 |
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Without Bias The 16th Man The Two Escobars Four Days In October Catching Hell Liked those the most out of the 30 For 30 series. |
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01-23-2014, 12:13 AM | #11 |
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They're all pretty well done. I guess I liked Pony Excess, Marinovich Project, and Broke the most, but they're all pretty damn good.
Also, Youngstown Boys, but that one was a bit personal being my hometown and all. Even if you don't care about the sport or team they're covering, they've all been pretty compelling stories. |
01-23-2014, 08:33 AM | #12 |
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I forgot about Pony Express, I only saw the last half or so of it, but that was also really good.
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01-23-2014, 10:15 AM | #13 |
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This is one of the best series on Television.
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01-23-2014, 12:53 PM | #14 |
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All of them have really been outstanding but I would say my top 3 would be
Tim Richmond: To The Limit June 17th 1994 Catching Hell Watched Jordan Rides the Bus the other day on Netfix and I enjoyed it as well. |
01-28-2014, 11:31 AM | #15 |
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the 2 boxing ones, about Ali and Homes, and No Mas are my two favourites.
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01-28-2014, 06:30 PM | #16 |
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Loved Ali Holmes.
Was kinda disappointed with No Mas. Enjoyed the first 2/3rds. Hated the last 1/3rd. |
01-28-2014, 06:39 PM | #17 |
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yeah, pretty much the same. The Real Rocky and One Night In Vegas are both good also. Best boxing documentary I've seen in a long time is The Good Son: The Ray Mancini Story. Well worth tracking down.
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01-30-2014, 09:31 AM | #18 |
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You should also check out thrilla in manilla, fucking incredible.
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01-31-2014, 03:42 AM | #19 |
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Have seen the Mancini one. Very very good. I'm a gigantic boxing fan, especially the old time heavyweights.
Check out Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed. Amazing documentary. Proves what I've said for years: Ali is a piece of shit. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is amazing as well. |
01-31-2014, 03:56 PM | #20 |
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Thrilla in Manilla also proves how big a piece of shit Ali is. I mean I don't think he is one hundred per cent a piece of shit, but he's done some shady ass things, and he really fucked over Joe Frazier. The Mancini is fantastic, fucking gutwrenching at points as well. He seems like possibly the nicest person that ever lived lol.
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01-31-2014, 06:04 PM | #21 |
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That was part of Ali's thing. He was a troll. With Joe Louis though, he was just cruel to him.
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01-31-2014, 06:28 PM | #22 |
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will check out that Joe Louis doc, it's on Youtube. Know Ali said some "questionable" things when he was getting shit from all angles for his Elijah Muhammad ties and during Vietnam, always thought a lot of it was from being backed into a corner/persecuted during a hugely "flammable" period of history and the rest just him ribbing people "playing the bad guy"
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02-01-2014, 12:17 AM | #23 |
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He was downright mean to Joe Louis. Calling him an uncle Tom and mocking him despite Joe Louis being the reason why a black man even got to fight for the title again after all the Jack Johnson hate. There's getting under an opponents skin, there's standing up for a cause and then there's just being cruel to someone who opened so many doors for black athletes and was shit on by the government when he fell from the limelight, who never had a bad word to say about anybody.
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02-01-2014, 12:20 AM | #24 |
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Would LOVE a proper Sonny Liston documentary to be done. Fascinating life. Ving Rhames did a movie about Liston but it was terrible. A introspective into the life of Primo Carnera would be cool as well. He was mob run and sooooo many shady things went into his title reign. Probably the worst World Champ of the Golden Era of heavyweight boxing.
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02-01-2014, 11:46 AM | #26 |
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Legit took pride in giving him parkinsons.
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02-01-2014, 12:09 PM | #27 |
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saw the doc, Ali was definitely out of line for saying the things he did about Louis. Would def put it more down to him being young and getting carried away with the racial divide tho and naively saying what he thought would make an impact, would be very surprised if he felt the same/was proud of his words in later life.
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02-01-2014, 04:24 PM | #28 |
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Yeah I've seen the Frazier one as well. I love boxing documentaries.
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