Hooked On Vice
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- hektor911
I spent all my sunday reading their well covered stories, documentaries, and some ongoing projects.
Any of you liking their stuff?
- epic_rim2
the one about fucking the donkeys was pretty funny
- mg331
They've got good content and bad content. The TV show ruled, and I like anything they do or print that reveals something you'd never find anywhere else. They're telling stories and exposing things you will never find on cable news or from many online sources. But their cultural/fashion/tastemaker stuff is borderline psychotic sometimes. They've been playing this momjeanshorts, waifish semi-heroin-chic thing for way too long.
- inteliboy1
Yup, love their stuff. Even though that seems to be an incredibly uncool thing to admit on places like qbn.
- Ambushstudio1
The Do´s and Dont´s section will always be a classic
- _niko0
- ahahaha I remember thatGeorgesIV
- Err. Context?Continuity
- do's and dont's. definitely a do._niko
- see what I mean!Ambushstudio
- bogue0
Can't stop watching the "Munchies" series on youtube.
- d_rek0
Some of their journalism is outright gonzo sensationalist stuff. But I really like their Travel series - both the videos and the articles. They also do some bang-up jobs on exploring other cultures, places, etc.
It Stays.
- Ambushstudio0
I remembre the "guis for Prostitutes" or something like that it was GOLD! (link anyone?)
- 74LEO0
Check out ganja thread 2.0
- pr2-6
You guys sounds like a bunch of tools. Comments like those bring about fail of actual journalism. It's sad when people with college degrees can't see the nonsense behind their trivia. There are people doing real work for real causes and tools like you spend their valuable time watching mostly made up sensationalizing nonsense with not actual value to their lives.... Bravo! The committing of "IQ Award Below 12" called - they've lost your numbers.
- committeepr2
- So post some of your documentaries or STFU!74LEO
- i type slow just for you... go to netflix, scroll to documentary section, pick highest rated, watch.pr2
- < journalism for this idiotic age - noone gives a shit about anything important anymore. fair play to them - found their market - idiotsfadein11
- market - idiotsfadein11
- lol,
+1 pr2gilgamush
- fadein110
^ people dont give a shit about anything important anymore - they are just serving a market and to be fair quite well sometimes. perfect for the times. don't shoot the messenger.
- moldero4
Vice has some awesome stuff and some bad stuff just like any other.
its not fair to say their stuff is horrible just because some of their stuff isn't that great or even bad.
Just because some of its content isn't "top rated" on mainstream places like Netflix doesn't mean shit. + if you only watch mainstream top rated docs, your really limiting yourself. its like limiting yourself to only listening to the local (top ten) radio station vs. looking for alternate sources to find some fresh new shit.
Vice covers lot of topics no one has even heard of before like Colombian Devil's Breath (worlds scariest drug), their travel guide series is great too.
- ernexbcn0
Their documentaries are good. At least the ones I've seen.
- moldero3
+ havent you ever watched a movie before and loved the hell out of it only to later find out it got really bad ratings? were all wired differently, we all like different things. and who rates this shit anyway?
its people who get too caught up with, "that effect didn't look real" well,
of course it didn't look real because its not, and besides dinosaurs are fucking dead. people lack the use of their imagination these days, they act more like critics, watch a movie and critique it rather than let their imagination take them away for 90 minutes or so, then they go out and rate that shit. I'm not going to watch a movie or a documentary based on what a bunch of short attention span sheep prefer to watch, they can go watch their "top 100 most whatever" show on Discovery, short attention span television at its finest. maybe that should be a movie, i bet the ratings will be through the roof!
looking at all the formulaic garbage with no storyline Hollywood has been pumping out lately,• insert intro here
* insert character build here
• insert foreshadowing to predictable twist here
• insert WTF shot here
• insert Nicholas cage here
• insert predictable twist hereI don't trust anyone with an opinion on a flick or doc, let me watch it and I can judge it for myself, then I'll keep that opinion to myself so you can judge for yourself. I for one welcome our alternative documentary overlords.
- pr2-8
Moldero, your argument is so backward - i don't even know where to start refuting it. You seem to come from the camp that talks to a surgeon with many years of experience telling him: i eat a steak with fork and knife so i'm as qualified as you are to perform heart surgery. WHAT? Just because you've seen thousands of films doesn't mean you have the best way to judge what is good. Cut this 90s crap: you are special and can be whatever you imagine to be. You are not. To be special in any discipline takes years of HARD work, not a weekend of watching uninspiring Vice docs. You know how i know that they are shit docs (and i have seen my share of them) because i work in the business. Those docs are more cookie cutter shit then anything, even the Hollywood - not exactly a bastion of originality - is doing. I can shoot docs like that with my eyes closed and my wife (who's an editor for crap load of reality shows) can edit it without even looking at the footage. For you to even assume that you are watching some break-through filmmaking here is just laughable.
In times where you have a whole library of works even create by mankind at your fingertips and you choose to watch a show about a guy fucking a donkey, or some shitty drug in Mexico? Wow, my cat staring at the mouse cursor right now is doing things more intellectually demanding.
- You sir, are truly the king of the assholes.bogue
- ps.. your ground breaking work with DJ Qualls doesn't make you the expert on taste you think that you are.bogue
- my not-so-ground-breaki... work make me that much more credible expert then Joe Nobody who's only expertise is that he simply watches lots of TVpr2
- ...watches lots of TVpr2
- i get what pr2 is saying. i don't think he means to be a hardnosed critic he's just making a point.uuuuuu
- I hear you pr2ORAZAL
- Columbias in Mexico?
wow, its much closer to me than than I thought!moldero
- uuuuuu0
http://www.qbn.com/topics/674296…
we've had this conversation before. I see the same old thing, people defending mediocrity. their "documentaries" are mostly amateurism videography, no context, no investigative substance. or at least very rarely.
- bogue1
I don't think anybody came here to say that Vice is the be-all-end-all of documentary film making... in fact moldero said
"Vice has some awesome stuff and some bad stuff just like any other."
To say that he, or anybody else shouldn't have an opinion because they "aren't in the business" is the most arrogant thing i've ever heard.
I just went to the documentary section of Netflix and the highest rated option is "The Art of Flight". I would have to argue that Vice's piece on afghanistan "This is what winning looks like" or their piece on liberia have more substance than a snowboarding film.
But it's all subjective. And to think that your subjective opnion (I'm talking to you PR2) is better than everybody elses because you make films is beyond arrogant.
We get it.. you don't like vice.. that's fine. But lots of people do.. and that's fine too.
- vice is to journalism what soap operas are to tv programminggilgamush
- ORAZAL-4
Where does that leave the people that neither nor dislike Vice?
I might be having a midlife crisis here.