Louis Theroux Goes A Hunting

mike65

This should be a good one, our bespectacled hero heads to South Africa to get under the skin of Big Boers with Big Guns.

BBC2 9 pm.

Mike.

BaZmO*

Yeah should be good alright. Love the the Theroux documentaries.

Pacifico

Yeah i've yet to see a bad one

Setun

I shall be viewing it, love Theroux. Very interesting journalist.

KyussBishop

Ah cool, Louis's documentaries are always worth seeing.

SoupyNorman

Good, but not the best.

Shooting in the hunt farms resemble shooting Sable in a barrell.

Bros123

Not his greatest documentary.Those people should really be hunted and shot themselves though.

daisy123

Very interesting one that, I expected to come away feeling appalled at hunters, but some good points were made throughout. Why do we feel it is okay for animals to be killed in slaughterhouses, having been kept in awful conditions to eat, and yet so aversly to killing animals that are kept in a game reserve, well looked after etc.

I am not saying I agree with hunting, nor feel sympathetic towards their cause, although it is interesting that the Sable for example may have become extinct without hunting. Instead I can feel an empathy. In fact, am seriously reconsidering my omniverous diet, and am going to do some research into a vegetarian way of life...

RobAMerc

not a bad show - I have to say Louis should not have picked up the gun in the first place - he never got involved in the swinging or got locked up for a few days - This one to me seemed to be done from a more personal perspective than usual.

I don't disapprove with hunting - but Louis just wasn't getting it - it's called hunting not killing, Louis didn't seem to be grasping that at all as the old boy pointed out -
To be fair what they were doing in this program though was just that as they were just hiding out in spots they know the animals go to rather than use any skill in actually hunting down their prey.

mike65

Interesting, whatever about the "hunters" who would sh1te themselves if they had to go on a real expedition into the savannah, the guys running the reserves actually had my empathy. The younger guy who Louis spoke most to made some sound points about husbandry, if it were a "free for all" there would be nothing left. I knew he'd not want to pull the trigger - there was no hunt, no effort. Just turning up and shooting is pointless. Or even more pointless.

Mike.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

RobAMerc wrote: »

not a bad show - I have to say Louis should not have picked up the gun in the first place - he never got involved in the swinging or got locked up for a few days - This one to me seemed to be done from a more personal perspective than usual.

he drove the derby car..

I 'd the guy who was with louis when he was about to shoot the pig, he was great.

Holsten

Didn't really like this one at all, probably my least favorate that he has done.

Check out the prison one on Tv3 tonight I think.

It's really good.

ArmaniJeanss

Holsten wrote: »

Check out the prison one on Tv3 tonight I think.
It's really good.

Have TV3 been showing these for a while now, I've only seen about 1/3 of his programmes and would love to see those I've missed.

Also the Sam Quentin one was 59 minutes long when shown on BBC in January, anyone know if TV3 are cutting bits out to fit into an hour (with ads).

re The Hunting Party, only watched the first 25 minutes of it and whilst I enjoyed it the programme, I'd mixed feelings about the hunters. What they are doing seems silly and pointless and almost cruel, but yet without their money the animals would not be getting bred anyway.

And did anyone notice the size of the neck on the Cleveland woman at the start, if she'd wandered over towards the giraffes she'd have risked getting shot.

lostexpectation

i thought he got to the guy, when he was on the gangway, he was pissing him off asking the same question, but louis accepted it was business,the guy nearly said well what we do is hand he animals to these clueless people on a plate. he just didn't accept there was any skill in it, the people and poster above kept saying its hunting not killing and but i saw not difficult searching and keeping up with the animals.

that place was like tescos for hunting.

Mossy Monk

Goody. Something to watch tonight.

BaZmO*

It wasn't as extreme as I thought it was going to be, in the sense that I had seen a similar documentary years ago where big fat yanks that could barely walk under their own weight would stand beside animals that were penned in and they would just empty a few rounds into them.
At least the people in last night's show weren't that bad but they weren't that far off tbh.

Louis really got to the guy at the end but in fairness he does know how to get a reaction from people. But the guy did make some very valid points and he just seemed extremely p1ssed about the amount of negative attention he was getting in spite of the good he was doing.

The only thing that really annoyed me was when the "hunters" (and I use that term very lightly) would make a kill they'd stand over it and lament about how beautiful the creature was. Like wtf? Why did you kill it then? :rolleyes:

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lostexpectation

he was getting in spite of the good he was doing...

the good he was doing was creating business activity and breeding animals , louis, accepted these points and refferred to them constantly, it was the lack of skill that he didn't want to admit to on camera, he didn't want to slag off his customers.

BaZmO*

lostexpectation wrote: »

he didn't want to slag off his customers.

Why would he? He'd soon have no business if he did.

ArmaniJeanss

Louis Theroux - The Most Hated Family in America is on TV3 tonight at 10PM. Its one I missed when it was on BBC so looking forward to it.

Its about the Westboro Baptist Church, a bunch of far-right nuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Hated_Family_in_America

They are responsible for the rather wonderful GodHatesIreland website.
http://www.godhatesireland.com/

gustavo

It's a good one , the patriarch seems to be a hate filled monster , But I kinda liked the young student girl ,She seemed like a decent person

Gauge

Isn't this supposed to be on now? (the Phelps documentary). I've been waiting for an hour!

super_furry

Gauge wrote: »

Isn't this supposed to be on now? (the Phelps documentary). I've been waiting for an hour!

Cancelled because the Rangers match went into extra-time.

Gauge

Ah dammit! Did they say if it will be shown at a different time?

ArmaniJeanss

Bloody GlasgowRangers and their anti-football.
I'm destined never to see this Phelps documentary.
Please update the thread if anyone spots it reappearing in the schedules

KyussBishop

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Bloody GlasgowRangers and their anti-football.
I'm destined never to see this Phelps documentary.
Please update the thread if anyone spots it reappearing in the schedules

I think it's scheduled on uTorrent regularly (along with most other Louis Theroux episodes).