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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on May 8, 2020 1:37:23 GMT -5
 The Last Dance is the greatest documentary ever made. Pure, unbridled kinography. The 95-98 Bulls were the greatest basketball team of all-time. That is all.     Also this documentary was so good that it made me rewatch Space Jam and realize several things. First of all, the only reason Bill Murray is in the movie is because he literally was friends with the producer Ivan Reitman (who also worked with him on Ghostbusters).   The whole movie was cutting edge as fuck using all kinds of CGI technologies that had hardly ever been used at that point in time. It was also the first live action Looney Tunes film. The character of Swackhammer played by Danny DeVito is cleary a parody of Bulls' GM Jerry Krause, an insecure fat jew manlet who did everything he could to fuck up the Bulls team, sour relationships with the players and coaches, forcibly kick coach Phil Jackson off the team and in turn, made Michael Jordan never want to play for the Bulls again after '98.  Also there's a particularly interesting scene where Jordan decides to make it "more interesting" with Swackhammer by gambling his life on the match the Looney Tunes are playing. This was likely a reference to Jordan's supposed "gambling addiction" and his habit of constantly making bets with people. Also I've always want to fuck the rabbit  fuck you it was my first boner  Anyhow you guys actually go out and watch it. Everybody I know is watching this documentary 2 or 3 times because it's just so fascinating. Every Tuesday at work we just sit down and talk about the latest episodes. Not to mention the moments of pure kino involving classic jams like this. Seriously the whole goddamn soundtrack is kino as fuck and fits in perfectly relevant to the time period being depicted. This is the real Mike Jordan, not the smiling guy who kept it squeaky clean in front of the cameras. This is the guy who would spend his off day golfing and making $10,000 a hole bets while smoking Cohibas, then go into an NBA finals game and put down 50 points, all dunks and layups. This is the guy who hates Isaiah Thomas and Charles Barkley to this day over some petty grudge shit, because Jordan does not forgive or forget. This is the guy who berated and hollered at his teammates to be better and better until they finally became champs. This is the guy who didn't even want to sign a contract with Nike, and then ended up creating the most iconic sneaker brand ever. I don't even wanna be like Mike, I don't have that kind of god tier genetics or competitive drive, I just admire the man's incredible achievements and business acumen. Seriously, this ain't no joke. Go watch The Last Dance. |
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Post by Batmanuel on May 8, 2020 10:37:47 GMT -5
Yo I've been watching this shit every weekend too. Always sad I got to wait another week for the next two episodes. I'm not even a huge basketball guy (only really bandwagoned the Raptors playoffs run last year) but this docuseries is interesting as fuck.
Fuck Tiger King, I want to watch Mike make everyone look like fools. Poor Kukoč, he didn't stand a chance.
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on May 8, 2020 14:45:33 GMT -5
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on May 12, 2020 9:42:18 GMT -5
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on May 23, 2020 15:55:02 GMT -5
So I'm gonna follow up on this post. I actually watched a couple Dennis Rodman documentaries. But to do something I almost never do, I'm gonna actually link something awesome. This is ESPN's 30 for 30 on Dennis Rodman: For Better or Worse. I basically cried watching this shit. Rodman himself cries like 10 times throughout it. By the end of the documentary I felt like I was Dennis Rodman. Also I had to register an account on this Russian site, in Russian which was a pain in the ass just to get this torrent file. I'll save you guys the trouble of that, but here's the file. Trust me, it's worth watching: mega.nz/file/CJNzHCyI#1Skx4U7Rw09cszDX6PTtpCa22EAFNd-WosJpUMx_6GwHere's another decent one about Rodman that came out in the late 2000s. The Hall of Fame Enshrinement speech is so hard to watch, because he is literally overwhelmed with anxiety and even tries to ask Phil Jackson to do his speech for him at first. The guy came out with this hilarious "Pistons-Bulls 10-91" jacket that should probably be a collector's item somewhere, and couldn't make his speech without shaking and crying uncontrollably. It was like a church confession. Rodman is the greatest rebounder of all-time, and likely the most unique and free spirited athlete to ever live. Seriously though, check out the 30 for 30 one. It actually goes through his whole life up to 2019, including him talking about meeting Kim Jong Un and how he likely lead to better diplomacy for the US and DPRK.  |
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Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Jul 10, 2021 6:47:45 GMT -5
I stood up on both feet and applauded after watching this. I kept trying to tell people Space Jam hits different after The Last Dance. But this... this is just beyond all my expectations. Bravo.  "These goddamn Irish people and their ways, man." The saddest part is, we really are never going to see the masterpiece of kino that could have been. This pale facsimile of IP integration that Warner Brothers is choosing to put out instead is simply disrespectful. But yeah I'll still watch A New Legacy in 4K because Bron is based. |
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