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Louis theroux

  • 05-08-2015 09:30PM
    #1
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭


    Ive been watching a few of his documentaries over last few days..some really good and some disturbing.have you watched many? Do you like them?


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  • #2
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Who?


  • #3
    Magnate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 877 ✭✭✭Magnate


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Who?

    Louis theroux I believe.


    Edit: The documentary filmmaker.


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Love his stuff but his newer material is a bit too serious for his style imo.

    I wish he'd do another series of Weird Weekends.


  • #5
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,402 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Aye, I saw the one on prisons and the one where he went to Thailand to have a look at the auld mail order brides.


  • #6
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Who?


    Louis theroux


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  • #7
    Niemoj
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    Yeah I love his documentaries.


  • #8
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Love him. My favourite is the one about a bunch of people living in the idaho mountains to hide from the new world order and train/arm themselves should they track them down. Irrational stuff but still fascinating.


  • #9
    Links234
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    Yeah, his stuff with the westboro Baptist was nuts, I've watched quite a few of his docs.


  • #10
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,365 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    He's the person who got me interested in proper documentaries really. Top notch journalist/writer/presenter/producer.


  • #11
    Ranchu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Ranchu


    His use of kids and people that are mentally unhinged for entertainment is ropey. I have no time for him.


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  • #12
    fred funk }{
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    I've seen all his stuff and love his style. He has the ability to get his subjects to open up to him and he let's them do the talking.


  • #13
    buried
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    The Game Ain't Based on Sympathy

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #14
    tinpib
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Love his stuff but his newer material is a bit too serious for his style imo.

    I wish he'd do another series of Weird Weekends.

    I'm the opposite, looking back at Weird Weekends I thought he was taking the piss out of his subjects just a bit. Even though the subjects seemed to love him.

    I think his output of the last few years has been excellent.

    I'm still waiting for him to do one on stalkers. I think it would be perfect for him.


  • #15
    anewme
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    His Jimmy Seville documentary was excellent, both fascinating and scary at the same time. Powerful stuff


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    He's kinda like an Alan Whicker for eejits.


  • #17
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Excellent documentaries really like his new stuff as well.


  • #18
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    mod: OP, just for future reference it'd be a very helpful if you gave a quick description of who the person is. It'd fix anyone having to google the person or asking who they are in thread
    Tombi!


  • #19
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    'Waldo the one and only, this Saturday at the Georgia Dome, tune in. Pistol Pez Watley the legend, with the utmost respect I'm afraid to tell you. I think you are going down'

    Yeah the Pro Wrestling one is a personal fave of mine




  • #20
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I think he's great. I'd easily watch anything he does. I think what is great about him is that he's very non threatening. He's very likeable and the subject he's investigating always has a way of rising to the top naturally. He doesn't have to do much poking and prodding.


  • #21
    Cold War Kid
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    Ranchu wrote: »
    His use of kids and people that are mentally unhinged for entertainment is ropey. I have no time for him.
    That's a fair point. Come to think of it, it's the subject matter that I love - the guy himself can be a bit inflammatory and disingenuous. Still, hats off to him imo for doing quite daring investigations.


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  • #22
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I'm a fan of his work. He has an excellent way of asking subtle questions that extract sometimes extraordinary answers from those he is asking questions of.

    One of his most depressing documentaries is where he explores the porn industry. So sordid and lacking in humanity. Broken women and drug-addled psychopathic directors making gonzo porn to feed an audience that want more and more disturbing scenes to get their masturbatory kicks.


  • #23
    yogi37
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    Love his documentaries. If there is nothing good on tv I'll often stick on one of his documentaries on Netflix. Apparently he's working on a documentary on Scientology. Obviously the Scientologists aren't too pleased about it and have threatened to do their own documentary on Louis Theroux. That'd be gas, can't wait to see both sides documentaries.


  • #24
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    yogi37 wrote: »
    Love his documentaries. If there is nothing good on tv I'll often stick on one of his documentaries on Netflix. Apparently he's working on a documentary on Scientology. Obviously the Scientologists aren't too pleased about it and have threatened to do their own documentary on Louis Theroux. That'd be gas, can't wait to see both sides documentaries.

    Louis tweeted that he can't wait to see what they reveal about him and he hopes they make him look interesting!


  • #25
    Cold War Kid
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    The dark side of porn in relation to women is well documented. He has explored the effect it has had on men too, which isn't done so much - one guy developed a devastating drug habit and killed himself, another is now middle-aged, carreer finishing and has nobody - very poignant when he talked about his loneliness and regret, another guy pretending to be all OK about the stuff he did bit clearly messed up and coked ta fuq, a guy whose partner was a hardcore porn actress and he hated what she was having done to her and worried about her welfare (it was a lot more than jealousy). Very interesting, if bleak.


  • #26
    nokia69
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    if you like Louis this is very good



    Lake Palmer, an amazing man just amazing



    :eek:


  • #27
    nullzero
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    anewme wrote: »
    His Jimmy Seville documentary was excellent, both fascinating and scary at the same time. Powerful stuff

    "I've got ye on the ropes, on the ropes. Next".

    Complete looper but he managed to take Louis and his crew in, a talented deceiver.


  • #28
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    The dark side of porn in relation to women is well documented. He has explored the effect it has had on men too, which isn't done so much - one guy developed a devastating drug habit and killed himself, another is now middle-aged, carreer finishing and has nobody - very poignant when he talked about his loneliness and regret, another guy pretending to be all OK about the stuff he did bit clearly messed up and coked ta fuq, a guy whose partner was a hardcore porn actress and he hated what she was having done to her and worried about her welfare (it was a lot more than jealousy). Very interesting, if bleak.

    Does it show much sex/nudity in the porn one? I've watched most of them with my younger sister and I don't mind the subject matter but am reluctant to show her this one if its very graphic..


  • #29
    Cold War Kid
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    anna080 wrote: »
    Does it show much sex/nudity in the porn one? I've watched most of them with my younger sister and I don't mind the subject matter but am reluctant to show her this one if its very graphic..
    There are two I think. One from the 90s and another from probably ten years later - revisiting the people from the first one. Ive only seen the second one and there's not much graphic content but a lot of explicit dialogue. I'd say the first one is more about the graphic.


  • #30
    retro:electro
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    nullzero wrote: »
    "I've got ye on the ropes, on the ropes. Next".

    Complete looper but he managed to take Louis and his crew in, a talented deceiver.

    The best line in the Saville one was where Louis questioned him on his earlier admission of tying up young girls when he ran a youth club. He said it when he didn't realise the camera was rolling. He later backtracks saying "oh that was just a figure of speech louis". What a nut job.
    The Max Clifford one is very revealing too right to the very end. Had I watched that ten years ago I would whole heartedly believe that Simon Cowell was gay.


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  • #31
    Bobby Baccala
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    I've seen pretty much everything he's made so far I think he's great at making a dick out of the people who deserve it like the westboro baptist church heads and and neo Nazis.


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