a 30 for 30 thread

yeah "two escobars" was absolutely fantastic

zero emmy nominations

smh

wtf I hate the Emmys

MJ one was cool

really interesting in the wake of the lebron thing tho

yeah it was rad

i like how everyone was like "yeah he would've made the majors"

is this the one that just aired?

yeah

next week's looks great too, about the US team at the little league world series that beat some unbeatable taiwanese team

I really want to see it -- hopefully I'll catch it later this week

yeah i had no idea he showed that much improvement. actually if you look at his stats from that year the one encouraging sign is that he walked quite a bit for someone who had never played.

yeah i noticed that too

you could just tell from the video clips -- i mean, obv it was selective but towards the end he was really staying back on the ball whereas in the beginning he was almost falling on his face

Best ones so far for me have been the two escobars and run ricky run

top 5 (nb I'm canadian and havent seen them all)

1. two escobars
2. winning time
3. the u
4.. guru of go/ loyola
5. allen iverson

yeah, winning time was also completely priceless

two escobars was some real cinematic shit

i'm biased for 'the u' so i'm gonna exclude that -- my top 5

1 iverson
2 run ricky run
3 two escobars
4 winning time
5 len bias

its impossible to pick between 2 escobars and winning time - escobars was the most moving, but winning time was the most entertaining. the one i really want to find on torrents is the OJ/day in June movie.

yeah i never saw that one -- should be on dvd soon

OJDay was pretty great; I remember that day really clearly. I was waiting tables in a restaurant and people were slipping me cash to keep them updated on the chase from the bar in the next room.

as a vancouver canucks fan, i'm prob gonna have to skip past the ny rangers parade footage - watching mark messier's stupid face is just too painful

2 escobars is popping up in oct a couple times--check the schedule site

another good one tonight

your boy the ump had the eric gregg strike zone working in that last inning tho

last 30 mins are better than i thought they would be

not a huge fan of directors explicitly telling stories in docs tho

unless it's werner herzog

god "one night in vegas" looks soooo fucking good

I'm just glad his teammates didn't get all resentful and jealous. Or maybe they did at the time, and as adults realize they had no reason to.

Who the fuck spits at a 12 year old kid, though?

man, child athletics are worse than the real thing

it's interesting to me how all the teammates talk about the game like it's in the present, using baseball cliches and what not

this was really well done tho -- did a good job of making you ride the same roller coaster

he sounds like john kruk!

I kinda would have preferred like 45 minutes of the aftermath of the championship. I guess there wasn't nearly as much footage of all the ridiculous crap that happened to Cody Webster et al after they won, but that segment was just so sad and so fascinating. The prior 30 for 30s have spoiled me to the point where this and Jordan Rides the Bus both came off kind of like "Eh this was interesting but it could have been a little better than it was".

One Night in Vegas seems like it could go either way. I am afraid they will spend a ton of time being like "Tupac's death was a truly significant moment in American history because blah blah blah metaphor" instead of being more like June 17, 1994, and just letting the story and the footage do all the work.

one of the things i really like about these is that they're (with some exceptions) only an hour long so you can watch them every week w/o feeling like you're going to film class or something, but i'm sure that's prob a bit of problem for the directors

Watching the Jordan ep finally...stupid Surewest guide kept lying to me.

I was never a huge Jordan fan, or baseball fan or anything but fuck that dude was everywhere back then, scary godlike to so many people...but I forgot how cool it is just to watch him move. Even when his swing is way off, just the...I dunno, beauty in his motion, the way he was *in* the moment of the swing...you forget that it wasn't just hype. Well, I forgot.

Getting the Little League ep tonight too, excited. Can't wait for Vegas.

I was living in Alabama the whole time he was in Birmingham. My dad tried to get us tickets when the Barons came up to play the Stars in Huntsville, but there was no way in hell to get any. I'd already kind of cooled on baseball at that point, so I really didn't remember the whole "Jordan Plays Baseball" thing being such a joke, but I was also in a place where just about everyone wanted to see him be awesome...so maybe a lot of the national scorn never made it my direction.

Bob costas looked like an infant

this wuz the 1st one that struck me like some major studio biopic that rly ddnt need 2 b made

The Jordan one was kind of a missed opportunity, I think. The story is great, but I didn't like the doc very much.

jordan is such an impenetrable subject

Little League ep felt out of place...i think it ties the Jimmy the Greek ep for overtelling what could be a good story. The narration was so distracting & cliched it kind of ruined the story...and I wanted to know the whole team a little better, not just how they felt abt Cody. It's like I could see the doc it should have been, but it tried too hard to tug at heartstrings. Which is dumb because the story seems like it almost tells itself, and I liked the kids and the coach...the director just seemed to persist in pulling me out of the story by trying to drag me in. Lots of great footage of the kids and the games though.

couldve done w/out the comic book style & poetry slam stuff but thought this was decent, not great

maya angelou was great in it

i do really remember at the time not thinking pac would die

also cant believe the coda at the end that tyson fought holyfield TWO MONTHS LATER?

yeah, this was kinda wack.

This Martina/Chris Evert one is much more interesting than I thought it would be based on the commercial. I hadn't even turned 10 yet when they were at the top of their game, so they always seemed a little before my time. I'm learning a lot.

yea despite feeling like it was made by lifetime, it was p good...made me think how male rival/friends could nvr be that open probably

there is really zero redeemable content in the steinbrenner one

didnt even consider that one

I'm halfway through it and I'm kind of torn. Part of it feels like a promotional film made by the Yankees...but then on the other hand, I kind of liked seeing such a loving portrayal of a team that so many people flat out hate. I dunno. I don't think it's all bad, but it's definitely pretty low down in terms of favorites.

Oh, and I finally saw the Martina/Chris Evert one. Didn't like the 'chick flick' feel at all, but loved the conversations between the two of them. Forgot how much I admired them both as a kid (my family were all tennis freaks, so I was pretty much born on a tennis court)...great footage. But yeah, could have done without the driving down a country road/rugged up in cozy sweaters sipping coffee...looked like a Tampax commercial for the most part.