a 30 for 30 thread

The marion jones one ended up being a puff piece. Disappointing.

Well Singleton's always been a softie at heart, I'd argue. (I might be alone.)

Been watching a slew of these off and on over the past couple of weeks. A couple of editing decisions aside The Two Escobars probably ranks as my favorite -- in retrospect I'm surprised something so openly nuanced about brutal social conditions and populism in Colombia made it to a massive US network like that.

The one with the news broadcasts on the day of OJ Simpson's arrest looked great but the decision to add in the backing music sucked. Unless it was some sort of metacommentary on typically overblown music for sports profiles, but even then.

yeah the music didn't bother me, that 1994 one is one of my favorites of the series.

man 9.79* was fantastic, calvin smith is a hero

this buying the rules of bball one is really repugnant

not sure i can even hate-watch it

ok alternatively the benji wilson 1 is p dope

why do i have the feeling that klostermann was intimately involved with these corny animations

Ghosts Of Ole Miss was GAAAARBAGE.

i finally watched the benji wilson ep the other weekend, it was really good

I knew zero about him or that story so I found it really interesting/sad/crazy

Bo was great. Even growing up in Alabama, nobody really knew what was real and what was legend about that guy. The doc didn't peel away any of the mystery, and it was all the better for it.

Broke sucked, 9.79* was great

Watching 9.79 now, loving it.

Bo was fantastic. Loved it. Johnny Fever otm -- keeping the myth around him made it better. He still came away seeming like Superman, lol.
And of COURSE he hunts with a bow and arrow. I said to Mr Veg I'm surprised he doesn't chase them down and choke them with his bare hands :)

Actually the doc triggered a vague memory - I *think* I saw Bo play at Comiskey Park with the White Sox in 1993. we had a 2 week exchange trip through high school, and we went to a White Sox game while we were in Chicago. I was bored out of my mind at the game though so even if I saw him I didn't 'see' him, lol.

god the animation in the bo doc, why

Just watched the Loyola/Westhead doc and it was great. I didn't like some of the filmmaking and music choices but the story is so good.

Have also seen the yugoslav team one, the reggie miller, the two escobars, the allen iverson, loved all o them

Broke sucked

Just watched this one (and Benji, which was sad/good). I understand there are some socioeconomic background factors at play with many professional athletes, and I agree with the one guy in the doc who said the universities the players come from should absolutely be preparing these kids for the cash windfalls that are about to come their way, but blowing millions of dollars on straight up bullshit in just a few years is such an alien concept to me. I want to feel sorry for a few of them, but it's hard to.

it's really less that the story was uninteresting and more that it was a poorly told doc. i think the story is actually really interesting!

watched the terry fox story on the bike this morning, highly recommended.

it's weird, netflix streaming said it's not available for streaming, then it showed up as a recommended/option from another 30 for 30 film which was available.

yeah I loved that Terry Fox episode

ha, at breakfast my kids asked what i had been watching on the trainer, and as i explained the story to them, i got so choked up i had to stop talking for a few secs. they were sorta "?????"

;_;

jimmy v one is good, prob didnt need to be 2hrs but w/e

never really noticed but a young valvano looks sorta like a very italian joe namath

pre shot clock game strategy was a trip. you can also tell this was a diff world cuz the final 4 is in ALBUQUERQUE

yeah I'm halfway through the Jimmy V -- it's funny for me because I don't actually know the story. I sort of know about Jimmy V, with him passing on from cancer and that great speech but I don't actually have the backstory. So it's kind of cool building it backwards so to speak. Love learning about this stuff!

its kinda crazy the # of missed free throws by opposing teams that gives state even the chance to move on

elway in a yanks uni looks a lot like mark teixeira

they need to go back to the corded helmet phones as the teams only means of communication on draft day

otm

that lawyer had the most insanely detailed notes.

not sure i wouldnt prefer bill simmons doing this voice over instead of kev connelley jfc

yeah that was terrible

I haven't seen this week's yet -- the No Mas one last week was pretty good, except for the cheeseball meeting where they had to stand in a boxing ring and talk to each other. So dumb.

did anyone else watch the Tonya Harding ep?

pretty good retelling, though not really a whole ton of new info. I think the best thing it did was get you right in on side of being sympathetic towards Tonya, leading you up to that last 20 minutes where she basically undoes all that goodwill right on camera. Just that couple of bitter remarks and that's all you need to keep right on wondering

But no matter what her involment was, Gilooly sounds like a grade A creep. And her mom? jesus.

i liked it a lot

yeah, it was excellent. real american story. just wish they'd have gotten kerrigan to talk. she looks like the embodiment of the early 90's to me.

this was great. amazing that tonya still gets unhinged so easily about perceived slights from 20 years agp.

she reminds me of girls from my high school

i was trying to be cool with her and then she got furious about kerrigan not wanting to talk with her at the rink and it's like wow

yeah that was a v. revealing moment

she dropped that "princess" and it was all over, gloves are off

when she said she went up to nancy at the training session & apologized & was so spitting mad that nancy didnt say anything to her
that was unsettling, because it seemed to suggest that she had no emotional understanding of what happened. that moment to me she really underlined the suggestion that maybe she had fabricated her own reality out of whole cloth, like her friend suggested at the end.

pretty good retelling, though not really a whole ton of new info. I think the best thing it did was get you right in on side of being sympathetic towards Tonya, leading you up to that last 20 minutes where she basically undoes all that goodwill right on camera

came here to post this exactly

really enjoying this big east doc, so many fun characters

john thompson is an amazing dude

yeesh the hillsborough one, what a horrible story

I'm just starting this and already getting emotional

excited for bad boy pistons one in a couple days

should be a good contrast

xxp yeah i was v. emotional by the end, it's just so needlessly sad.

Well that was kinda awesome