Documentaries on Unusual/Odd/Cringy Subjects

autisticdragonkin said:
What I wonder is why anyone willingly participates in these documentaries
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People who are crazy enough to fit the bill for the documentary are often also crazy enough to think they're going to be the ones to pull the sword from the stone and normalize their weird thing to the masses. Unfortunately this lack of self-awareness makes them the weirdest weirdos of all and they usually end up pariahs within their own communities (see: that furry who showed up on Dr. Phil).
 
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The "My strange obsession/love" documentaries are always weird, so weird in fact that I'm still torn on whether or not they're fake.
here's a weird one. It's about a girl who's sexually attracted to Rollercoasters and a girl who's sexually attracted to Fences. It's just a clip of the full episode, but in my opinion, it's the only part you'll need to see...
 
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Welp, I know what I'm spending today watching.

As my offering, here's the infamous Guys and Dolls, a documentary about guys who spend their lives treating sex dolls like real women.


Also, the comment section is lulzy as fuck because it's full of people trying to defend the men in the video. Observe:

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http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/i_think_were_alone_now

"I Think We're Alone Now" is a documentary that focuses on two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, who claim to be in love with the 80's pop singer Tiffany. Jeff Turner, a 52-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California has attended Tiffany concerts since 1988. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Jeff lives alone off of government checks and has never had a girlfriend. Jeff spends his days hanging out on the streets of Santa Cruz, striking up conversations with anyone who has a moment to spare about conspiracy theories, God and Tiffany. Kelly McCormick is a 35-year-old intersex sports fanatic from Denver, Colorado, who claims to have been friends with Tiffany as a teenager. She credits Tiffany as the shining star who has motivated her to do everything in her life. Through both humorous and heartbreakingly sensitive scenes, the film takes look at Jeff and Kelly's lives, revealing the source of their clinging obsessions.
 
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An AIDS denialist documentary featuring a conspiracy theorist who thinks AIDS symptoms are caused by fisting, a woman who's negligence led to her daughter dying of AIDS-related pneumonia, and a scientist who is responsible for the deaths of over 300,000 South African citizens. And these people are being promoted as champions of the truth. There's also lots of sleezy editing to make AIDS researchers look like they're in league with the denialists.
 
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CatParty said:
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/i_think_were_alone_now

"I Think We're Alone Now" is a documentary that focuses on two individuals, Jeff and Kelly, who claim to be in love with the 80's pop singer Tiffany. Jeff Turner, a 52-year-old man from Santa Cruz, California has attended Tiffany concerts since 1988. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Jeff lives alone off of government checks and has never had a girlfriend. Jeff spends his days hanging out on the streets of Santa Cruz, striking up conversations with anyone who has a moment to spare about conspiracy theories, God and Tiffany. Kelly McCormick is a 35-year-old intersex sports fanatic from Denver, Colorado, who claims to have been friends with Tiffany as a teenager. She credits Tiffany as the shining star who has motivated her to do everything in her life. Through both humorous and heartbreakingly sensitive scenes, the film takes look at Jeff and Kelly's lives, revealing the source of their clinging obsessions.
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This is actually a really good movie, and I came in here to suggest it.

Since it's already been brought up, I'll go with my fallback choice, Jesus Camp. It's a documentary about batshit religious fundies who homeschool their kids and send them to a summer camp to get indoctrinated, here's a clip:

 
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Super Collie said:
This is actually a really good movie, and I came in here to suggest it.

Since it's already been brought up, I'll go with my fallback choice, Jesus Camp. It's a documentary about batshit religious fundies who homeschool their kids and send them to a summer camp to get indoctrinated, here's a clip:

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Watched this when it came up on Netflix, and goddamn, man, it's weird. Comes with some pretty hilarious moments for those in the right mindset, though.

On the opposite spectrum, and also on Netflix for at least a while, is The God That Wasn't There, an hour or so long documentary about one guy talking over 360p pictures of bible excerpts about how Christianity is nonexistent and then ends off with the guy going to the church he was in as a kid and giving a big ol' fuck you to the big man.
 
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Something that just came up today, that would clearly qualify for this thread. And probably make us Kiwis weep in despair.

Beware The Slenderman, a documentary on the crappypasta humanoid thing, talks with the girl who tried to kill her friends (Using friends fairly loosely, since I would say that being stabbed repeatedly would be one of the things that would ruin a friendship.), and, of course...

The fact that Slenderman is related to The Pied Piper.

2 hours of stabby Slenderman goodness.
 
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