Agreed. They clearly were too committed to Pug to turn back (3 year following with no development unfortunately), and a doc with good potential turned out to pretty much suck (imo) because of it.

The Notorious Mr. Bout
I'll be excited to see this if/when it comes out. It premièred in January at the Sundance Film Festival and is about infamous arms dealer Viktor Bout, the guy Lord of War was based on. It seems that he was filming a lot of his life.

as someone who loves louis theroux (BBC/Channel 4) and has watched his entire body of work i was quite pleased to see him unite with another favorite of mine, joe rogan!



rogan's podcasts are always insightful and entertaining, check them out!

I've not listened to Joe Rogan for ages but I love Louie Theroux so will give this a go.

I got my geek on over the weekend and watched these two:

Monster Camp

Very similar to Darkon, it looks at a community of LARPers. I think I enjoyed it slightly more than Darkon but overall I wasn't blow away by it. It gets a bit depressing when it follows the NPCs who turn up to the events only to role play monsters who just get killed repeatedly.


Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fans Hope

Morgan Spurlock looks at Comic-Con. It follows a variety of people attending, as well as lots of clips from famous people talking about their views on the convention. Like the convention itself, the documentary felt to me like it tried to cover too much at once, however it was still enjoyable.

^ will be watching both of those. i watched a doc on netflix a few days ago about grown men being obsessed with My Little Ponies. actually i've watched about 15 since i signed up about a week ago, but this one is the one that sticks out so far.



watch this and you'll definitely be a more complete geek.

If i was a brony i'd want someone to beat me up.

i think they have an initiation process similar to joining a street gang. to become a Brony you have to stand in the middle of 5 surrounding little ponies (real ones, not the dreamy ones with sniff-n-scratch rainbows on their asses) while they for five minutes use their hind legs to pummel you into the elusive club Brony. go for it!
in all sincerity though, i'm pretty sure they've been beat up enough by bullies throughout the years and are happy to find others that can relate. the pony part is just a reason to congregate.

rogan recommended this documentary on bare knuckle fighting, has anyone watched it?

heh weird, absolutely did not expect louis to be on joe rogan. thx.

for those who can't be bothered listening to it, i assume he's talking about the fact that he has 3 new documentaries set in LA airing sometime very soon (probably in april)

he also discusses older episodes so if you aren't familiar with louis' work this may be a good introduction.

preview:

Yeh Knuckle is good, lots of great characters. It's a really bizarre world where they have their own set of rules.

I enjoyed that podcast, it was a shame Rogan had only seen/only mentioned a few of Louis' documentaries, I'd of liked to have heard more stuff on some of the other ones. In fact I think just a Louis Theroux podcast would be awesome.

in the preview rogan mentions going on a 5 hour theroux binge (who hasn't?) the previous night, as well as saying he's been a fan for yeeeeears, so i don't really know where you're getting a sense that rogan's only watched a few of louis documentaries...
(i have only watched the first hour of the entire podcast+the preview)

yeah, i figured there'd be some original characters in this one! definitely will watch.

in the preview rogan mentions going on a 5 hour theroux binge (who hasn't?) the previous night, as well as saying he's been a fan for yeeeeears, so i don't really know where you're getting a sense that rogan's only watched a few of louis documentaries...
(i have only watched the first hour of the entire podcast+the preview)

(discussed on joe rogan podcast)
i guess i hadn't seen his entire body of work! i hope there's more i've missed...

Unless you're from the UK the 'When Louis Met...' ones are fun but probably won't be of huge interest as they focus on slightly odd/eccentric UK figures.

Looking at his Wiki I've realised I've not seen some of the later Specials he did, which imo are the best stuff he's done. I'm watching 'Twilight of the Porn Stars' now.
Louis + porn = hilarious

louis is porn, imo!
no previous knowledge of these uk celebs are needed to appreciate these weirdos. odd people are interesting no matter what nationality! i really like the When Louis Met... series. the chris eubanks one is great! jimmy savile's eccentricity actually reminds me a lot of chris'.

An ITV documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile was broadcast on 3 October 2012. It was researched and presented by Mark Williams-Thomas, a police investigator in the successful prosecution of Jonathan King over sexual offences involving children in 2001.
In it several women said that, as teenagers, they had been sexually abused by Savile. It was said Savile obtained access to teenage girls through television programmes such as Top of the Pops and Clunk, Click (1973-74), and his charity work. Savile's former colleagues said he made no attempt to hide his interest in girls from them, while another said she had walked in on him french kissing an underage girl. One woman who said Savile had sexually assaulted her when she was 14 in 1970 explained she had not pursued her complaint to police in 2008 after being told it would lead to a "media circus".[31] The founder of ChildLine, Esther Rantzen, was shown the interviews by Williams-Thomas and commented that "There were always rumours that he [Savile] behaved very inappropriately sexually with children."[32]
An update to the original documentary, Exposure Update: The Jimmy Savile Investigation, was shown on ITV on 21 November

(please excuse my spamming the thread)
almost forgot, i watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi last night and it was fantastic! the cinematography, soundtrack, characters involved and story were all fantastic. what an inspiring people the japanese are, not to mention jiro! an extremely compelling documentary - a love for sushi not needed!

Major Fraud - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

the louis meets the hamiltons episode is very entertaining even if you don't have a clue who they are. my all-time fav louis stuff are the light-hearted ones, so the weird weekends episodes 'off off broadway' 'hypnosis' 'bodybuilding', etc. the coked up guy on the vegas episode is absolutely hilarious also.

sweeeeeeeeeet!!
yeah, the hamiltons were quite bizarre.

Louis Theroux mega thread! All documentaries with links. [1998 - Present]

too bad basically none of the links work in sweden, hopefully they're more useful to you guys.

How to be a billionaire is an interesting/entertaining mainstream documentary about the personalities and lifestyles of 3 billionaires. The guy who sold bebo for 850 million then bought it back for 1 million a few years later, a Russian transhumanist and a guy trying to be the first to make commercial trips to the moon.

If you're not in the uk you'll probably need to use https://hola.org/

It shows how much time i spend reading about wacky **** on the internet that i wrote more about the bebo guy than the guy who spends all his time working on becoming immortal by 2045

Is it this guy? it seems he's doing quite well...
Bahamas: Billionaire claims he is getting younger

Ya this was an amazing film. Its currently on HBOGO, very sad yet also so inspiring.