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[Guadaloopy 11,130]

On 3/18/2024 at 11:26 AM, yoladu said:

I am a sucker for cult docs. Not as many twist and turns as the NXIVM cult doc(s), but worth the watch.

We are suckers for these too.  Started watching "The Vow" last week, but they have really drug this one out.  2 Seasons?  WTF? 

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On 3/18/2024 at 10:11 AM, C-Man said:

Anybody watch the three-part documentary "Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God"? A buddy watched is last week and said it was pretty wild so we fired it up this weekend and blew through it. My ex-wife believed/s in some of the same shit and even went on a spiritual retreat to Mt Shasta back in 2018 when this group was there. I don't my ex was a direct follower of Mother God, mostly because of the substantial use of drugs/booze by Mother God. At any rate, it's a breezy 3-hour trip.

 

I'm two episodes into this and holy fuck are all these people insane. The mental makeup of the people that can fall for cult leaders is a fascinating study. Imagine being one of her three kids "Mother God" abandoned to start a faux science driven cult with her as the diety, just terrible. 

[C-Man 27,684]

29 minutes ago, TankedBevo said:

I'm two episodes into this and holy fuck are all these people insane. The mental makeup of the people that can fall for cult leaders is a fascinating study. Imagine being one of her three kids "Mother God" abandoned to start a faux science driven cult with her as the diety, just terrible. 

I was pretty heavy into the sauce on Saturday night when we watched E1 so my memory is a little fuzzy. I don't know what in the ever-loving fuck she ever did at the very beginning that got these morons to follow her lead in the first place because starting in E2, she's just a booze/weed-addled jackass who brings on raving asshole to be the Father God.

This doc was especially interesting because my ex is nuttier than a shithouse rat and is into all this New Age shit (mixed with a little bipolar/manic depression). She actually went on a spiritual retreat to Mt Shasta in 2018 about the time this group was out there. My ex also believes that she will "rotate" off the Earth at some point and go live on some other planet. I haven't gotten the courage to ask her if she knows anything about Amy Carlson or not. My guess is probably not because my wife is definitely not into the drug scene and probably hasn't had more than a sip or two of alcohol in 10 years or more.

[thunderlounge 8,316]

Well, regardless of the outcome, we now know why C-Man is divorced. 

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6 hours ago, C-Man said:

I was pretty heavy into the sauce on Saturday night when we watched E1 so my memory is a little fuzzy. I don't know what in the ever-loving fuck she ever did at the very beginning that got these morons to follow her lead in the first place because starting in E2, she's just a booze/weed-addled jackass who brings on raving asshole to be the Father God.

This doc was especially interesting because my ex is nuttier than a shithouse rat and is into all this New Age shit (mixed with a little bipolar/manic depression). She actually went on a spiritual retreat to Mt Shasta in 2018 about the time this group was out there. My ex also believes that she will "rotate" off the Earth at some point and go live on some other planet. I haven't gotten the courage to ask her if she knows anything about Amy Carlson or not. My guess is probably not because my wife is definitely not into the drug scene and probably hasn't had more than a sip or two of alcohol in 10 years or more.

She didn't really do anything in particular. When she got into the relationship with that 80 year old almost homeless guy the weird townsfolk started listening to both of their nonsensical ramblings and they both gained a local following. After that she set up a web page and started live streaming her drivel on YT to the masses and people seeking "gurus" to follow found her. She promptly dumped the old man and broke off on her own to start the cult and got a younger "father god". Shit is insane. 

[C-Man 27,684]

6 hours ago, TankedBevo said:

She didn't really do anything in particular. When she got into the relationship with that 80 year old almost homeless guy the weird townsfolk started listening to both of their nonsensical ramblings and they both gained a local following. After that she set up a web page and started live streaming her drivel on YT to the masses and people seeking "gurus" to follow found her. She promptly dumped the old man and broke off on her own to start the cult and got a younger "father god". Shit is insane. 

Guess I need to go back and watch E1 again as I don't remember all of that.

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[4th&Five 41,900]

Loved the Rory Scovel special. 

[RPM 26,557]

This should be really good. Love his roadshows.

 

[David Dennison 19,439]

Will watch.

[YChang 3,531]

Having Jordan on the travel show is a must. 

[Stringer 1,487]

1 hour ago, YChang said:

Having Jordan on the travel show is a must. 

This.  That guy has to be a bit, but they say he's legitimately that terrible.

[Buzzrock 15,115]

First episode of The Outsider is already better than the whole last series of True Detective.

[Buzzrock 15,115]

Ok it’s four years old but The Outsider is a pretty good slow burn thriller/mystery miniseries. Good cast headed up by Jason Bateman and Ben Mendelsohn. Based on a Stephen King book.

[billfromlaketravis 11,783]

34 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Ok it’s four years old but The Outsider is a pretty good slow burn thriller/mystery miniseries. Good cast headed up by Jason Bateman and Ben Mendelsohn. Based on a Stephen King book.

Awesome. While you have access to the time machine, can you tell us if the last season of GOT is any good?

[TheStoicPaisano 9,948]

TCM subsection has some Criterion/Janus Films stuff. Harlan County USA was a good start.

Edited April 4 by TheStoicPaisano

[mr. sunshine 2,852]

Sugar. I like the Colin Farrell that embraces his handsomeness and slays some poon. The one that has friends that cut off their own fingers not so much

[4th&Five 41,900]

Sugar has its own thread and isn’t on HBO. Do better. 😉

[mr. sunshine 2,852]

49 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Sugar has its own thread and isn’t on HBO. Do better. 😉

Dammit

[C-Man 27,684]

We watched the first episode of the Synanon documentary last night and it was kind of boring. Made by one of RFK's kids.

I've never heard of Synanon before this documentary. Some online reviews said it takes way too long to get to the crazy stuff so I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the last three episodes.

[billfromlaketravis 11,783]

No GOT news?! Be better surly.

Jon Snow spinoff effectively dead. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kit-harington-says-jon-snow-184819162.html
 

The Hedge Knight cast announced. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/game-of-thrones-prequel-hedge-knight-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-cast-peter-claffey-dexter-sol-ansell-1235961895/

 

I liked Kit Harington as Jon Snow and I was looking forward to more Onion Knight. It kind of feels like Harington showed up with a creative team and GRRM/HBO were like who the hell does this guy think he is? 
 

The Hedge Knight is going to be a tough HBO adaption. It’s not a Sunday night show. It’s young adult fiction. I’d be shocked if there any sexual situations because it’s just not in the text. I think it could be a good hang, but please don’t stretch each novella into an entire season. Two eight episode seasons and get out clean. That said, who the hell knows what HBO will do? The basis for House of the Dragon, Fire and Blood, is a history textbook written by a maester and a jester. 

[WBT 20,879]

What is that kid, 6?  How old was Egg in the stories?

[billfromlaketravis 11,783]

1 hour ago, WBT said:

What is that kid, 6?  How old was Egg in the stories?

Egg 9-10 in the novellas. I believe it’s stated in the middle novella that he’s 10.

The announced actor is also 10.

Edited April 10 by billfromlaketravis

[billfromlaketravis 11,783]

Spoiler

A fascinating element of The Hedge Knight will be Dunk or Ser Duncan the Tall. He comes from literally nothing, might not actually be a knight, and isn’t particularly skilled. His greatest strengths are getting hurt but not dying in fights, bravery, and his friendship with Egg. 
 

Anybody expecting a bad ass swordsman like The Mountain, The Hound, or even Bronn is going to be disappointed. Dunk gets his ass kicked more than Indiana Jones. 

 

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On 3/12/2024 at 6:58 PM, The Ace of Aces said:

Conan’s new travel show debuts April 18. 

He did the Hot Ones podcast as promo for this. He was hilarious and went overboard on the sauce. The only time I’ve ever watched an entire episode. Well expect for the incomparable Sydney Sweeney. 
 

 

[RPM 26,557]

They used to call it HBO, but people found that too popular. So now it’s Max because that really rolls off the tongue.

[4th&Five 41,900]

I enjoyed the first episode of The Sympathizer.  OKC bombing doc. drops tonight.

[yoladu 4,187]

On 3/19/2024 at 4:23 PM, Guadaloopy said:

We are suckers for these too.  Started watching "The Vow" last week, but they have really drug this one out.  2 Seasons?  WTF? 

new cult doc on HBO/Max

the Synanon Fix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Synanon_Fix

I just dont get it.. how does one follow a guy that looks like this.

All these cult leaders turn into miserable alcoholics, it seems.

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We watched the first episode of the Synanon documentary last night and it was kind of boring. Made by one of RFK's kids.
I've never heard of Synanon before this documentary. Some online reviews said it takes way too long to get to the crazy stuff so I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the last three episodes.

We watched it all. I remember Synanon as there was a movie about it back in The 60’s. I also worked with a couple of folks in the late 90’s in San Fran that had parents that raised them in it. Took them a few years to uncult themselves. I don’t remember all the later hype and crash but I guess it was subsumed by Manson , jim jones, and similar. They were another version of them and Scientology.

[4th&Five 41,900]

It was at least 2 hours too long. If it was a 90 minute doc it would have been interesting. 

[mdmost 43,846]

Hell yes. Stax is f'ing greatness. 

 

[Texzilla588 772]

Can’t wait to see this. I grew up in Memphis and was in the radio and music business in high school and college. I knew a lot of these guys as Stax had gone away.

I met the great Willie Mitchell, David Porter, most of the Memphis Horns, knew Albert King, Carla Thomas, Mavis staples, and Duck Dunn was our bass player in between his Clapton tours. Wasn’t special access. These folks just lived in town. Met David Porter getting my car serviced and he invited us over to watch the Memphis state game. A wall of gold and platinum records. He explained the money was in writing. We had no writers in the band.

[mdmost 43,846]

If you’re a fan of the Gilded Age

 

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2 hours ago, mdmost said:

If you’re a fan of the Gilded Age

 

Holy shit that's a film short/horror film

 

[mdleast 8,491]

Just finished watching all 4 episodes of STAX: Soulsville U.S.A. about the rise and fall of Stax Records. Really good stuff.

[hornian 5,281]

On 5/21/2024 at 12:13 AM, atomheartbevo said:

Holy shit that's a film short/horror film

 

The horror version is ... weirder. I have a lot of questions. Like - was that a deepfake, or did they come back and film that?

Edited May 22 by hornian

[rage-a-holic 4,707]

This is what would happen if you gave one of the bobkitten sugar babies a travel show.

She's not....smart. Or knowledgeable about alcohol, despite claiming to have started a booze company.

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[zman13 183]

MoviePass, MovieCrash is an interesting documentary about the so-called founders of MoviePass and the real founders of MoviePass. The documentary digs into the "what the hell were they thinking" and "how did they spend $150 million in one year" questions.

 

 

[Michael Knight 13,187]

On 5/22/2024 at 8:46 AM, hornian said:

The horror version is ... weirder. I have a lot of questions. Like - was that a deepfake, or did they come back and film that?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6952952/

[billfromlaketravis 11,783]

On 5/31/2024 at 8:54 PM, rage-a-holic said:

This is what would happen if you gave one of the bobkitten sugar babies a travel show.

She's not....smart. Or knowledgeable about alcohol, despite claiming to have started a booze company.

Super hot Filipino chick + booze. I’m in. 

[yoladu 4,187]

32 minutes ago, zman13 said:

MoviePass, MovieCrash is an interesting documentary about the so-called founders of MoviePass and the real founders of MoviePass. The documentary digs into the "what the hell were they thinking" and "how did they spend $150 million in one year" questions.

 

 

The 2 original founders got SO screwed. Pushed out of the company after years and years of building it up. They left with tens of millions of dollars worth of stock (yay!) only then to helplessly watched the guys that pushed them out totally run the company into the ground in a year's time; leaving the value of the stock virtually worthless (oh no!).

Edited June 3 by yoladu

[Hozz 1,033]

I never understood how MoviePass was going to make money long term.  I still don't after watching the doc.  Pretty decent watch though, I'd recommend it to anyone on a thread like this.

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34 minutes ago, Hozz said:

I never understood how MoviePass was going to make money long term.  I still don't after watching the doc.  Pretty decent watch though, I'd recommend it to anyone on a thread like this.

I wondered that too, and it was frustrating that they never really dug into that. I'm wondering if it was a legal/CYA thing.

But I suppose one way to envision it: you know how AMC has their own app/subscription service/rewards program now? Imagine if they outsourced that work instead of doing it in-house. I think Movie Pass wanted to provide that same kind of product for theater chains before they looked at it and said, "good idea! we'll do it ourselves." 

Edited June 4 by CurlyDumps

[Ted Lange 16,348]

This just dropped, anyone start watching yet?   It's on my list for the weekend.

 

 

 

For those not familiar, here is the trailer

 

 

Edited June 4 by Ted Lange

[kevwun 16,269]

I mean I knew the people who worked at the Renaissance Festival were weird.  It appears I severely underestimated it.  They're batshit crazy cult members.

Edited June 4 by kevwun

[4th&Five 41,900]

i watched about half of the first episode and then bailed.  y'all let me know if there's any reason to finish besides laughing at horny weirdos.

[Deej 77,661]

Huzzah!

[zman13 183]

2 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

I wondered that too, and it was frustrating that they never really dug into that. I'm wondering if it was a legal/CYA thing.

But I suppose one way to envision it: you know how AMC has their own app/subscription service/rewards program now? Imagine if they outsourced that work instead of doing it in-house. I think Movie Pass wanted to provide that same kind of product for theater chains before they looked at it and said, "good idea! we'll do it ourselves." 

I'm guessing the documentary didn't want to explicitly say "they were dumbasses with half baked revenue ideas", but that's what they showed. Their ideas didn't add any value to the studios or movie theater chains. 

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2 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

I wondered that too, and it was frustrating that they never really dug into that. I'm wondering if it was a legal/CYA thing.

But I suppose one way to envision it: you know how AMC has their own app/subscription service/rewards program now? Imagine if they outsourced that work instead of doing it in-house. I think Movie Pass wanted to provide that same kind of product for theater chains before they looked at it and said, "good idea! we'll do it ourselves." 

They probably saw services like Fandango and thought they could get a piece of the pie, not understanding that loyalty/subscription services are too lucrative to be farmed out (and/or it’s data that the chains don’t want shared with third parties).  Fandango is just a gateway to the chains, but the chains want full control once you’re in the door.