Top 5 of the Last 5 – Documentary.

Part five of six. Is it Friday already? Fuck me, time flies when you’re busy with real work. Anyway, this week we take a look at documentaries. Below is a list of the top five movies from the past five years (in my opinion). Be sure to check back next Friday for the last week of my picks for the best of the best.
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Sicko. (2006)

I first saw this on the bootleg at my buddy Jims house. While you may not agree with Michael Moore’s views, the facts presented in the movie are pretty affective. Reading news report of people bitching about HMO’s doesn’t really make you think twice. But seeing someone who has to choose between which finger to attach after a freak accident due to not being able to afford the entire surgery, it has an entirely different effect.

Quote: “Keeping people hopeless and pessimistic – see I think there are two ways in which people are controlled – first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”
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Super Size Me. (2003)

Yeah the movie didn’t make me stop eating McDonalds right after I initially saw it. But after catching it on TV a year ago, I’ve only eaten it once. A horrible stomach ache soon followed and I haven’t set foot inside since.

Quote: “See, now’s the time of the meal when you start getting the McStomach ache. You start getting the McTummy. You get the McGurgles in there. You get the McBrick, then you get the McStomach ache. Right now I’ve got some McGas that’s rockin’. My arms… I feel like I’ve got some McSweats goin’. My arms got the McTwitches going in here from all the sugar that’s going in my body right now. I’m feeling a little McCrazy.”
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Super High Me. (2007)

TV’s Doug Benson (High Times Stoner of the Year) takes a play from Morgan Spurlock’s playbook and decides to smoke the herb all day, every day, for 30 days. Tries to remember to film it and make his scheduled doctors appointments. Then reports back on what affects it has had on his body. What’s not to like?

Quote: “It is rude to bogart a joint with your vagina. Don’t do it fellas.”
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Good Copy, Bad Copy. (2007)

Before you see this movie, please [illegally] download DJ Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, Girl Talk’s Night Ripper, and Girl Talk’s Feed The Animals. Then once you’ve listened to those three albums, you can then watch or download Good Copy, Bad Copy for free here: http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/.

Quote: “I’d be happy paying royalties for every sample on the record. But thats not what it would be, you know? To actually license a sample would cost millions of dollars which I cant afford. If sampling would be this form of music that, you just can’t make music off of cause you’d have to give all your money away, that would still be cool. It would still be this, you know, new way to make music. I think that would be wonderful. But in a theoretical world, if I could clear every sample on there, and I had a million dollars or a billion dollars to do it, it would still take me 50 years to go through the legal hassle. And that’s just absurd.”
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Fahrenheit 911. (2004)

OMG two Michael Moore movies as billyG’s top 5?! Is he a hardcore liberal?!? Does he <3 Michael Moore’s terrible voice narrating a movie for 90+ minutes? No. No he doesn’t. And I’m not even registered to vote. But the war is still going on, our country is on the brink of falling into a depression, and it’s time for a change (vote Obama!). Fuck Bush.

Quote: [quoting George Orwell] “It’s not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.” 
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Pretty sure a lot of people are going to disagree with my choices this week, and that’s fine. Opinions are great. But no one will know your opinion if you don’t leave comments. If you agree and <3 me, then leave a comment. If you disagree and </3 me, then leave a comment. You don’t need to register with WordPress to do this.

Next week I’ll be back with… a surprise. But the genre chosen has some of my all time favorite movies.

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