Apr 5, 2021

Anybody watch the Seaspiracy documentary on Netflix? I don't watch many documentaries, but it’s got high ratings and a decent amount of hype right now, so I decided to give it a go.

Thoughts: it was pretty terrible. Cherry picked, told half truths, contradicted itself throughout, very one-sided, it jumped all over the place without a clear direction, the conclusion was ridiculous, etc.. Seemed like a big money grab and an individual’s search for fame.

I couldn’t even buy into the points that I knew were valid (and there’s some serious issues with the fishing industry -- the slavery & bycatch portions were pretty disheartening), because they went about proving the truths in manipulative ways.

 

Apr 5, 2021

Haven't seen this one but I'm not surprised it's bad. Nearly every netxflix doc I've seen the past year or two has been trash and took 2 hours to give me the same basic information I already knew from reading a 750 word article on the subject.

 

Apr 6, 2021

@MovieSXN

yeh here's your recap:

• pollution from plastic in the ocean is terrible
• the fish industry is terrible
• dolphins are being killed in some areas because they're eating all of the fish that humans want to consume
• actually, backtrack: that's not true and dolphins are being killed for other reasons (serious: they just corrected themselves while speaking over an all black cut scene and then quickly moved on from that)
• the fishing nets account for 46% of all of the garbage in the ocean
• all fish are going to be gone by 2046 (this was quoted from an old study, where the publisher retracted it later on, after every other marine biologist & scientist discredited them)
• showed a clip of an industry lady saying that some of this can be eliminated by having ("consuming") fewer fish
• interview 2 w/ interviewee 1's boss: your employee said that we should eliminate k--- more fish. interviewee 2: huh? <cut scene w/ daunting music>
• slavery & bycatch are real and pretty f----- up out in the sea (this was the real, disheartening takeaway from the film)
• every single year, the underwater sea floor equivalent of greenland, norway, germany, iceland, poland, finland, australia, & a few additional countries are being completely destroyed by large nets that are dragging along the ocean floor. simple human math: if this were true, then all of the ocean's floors would have been entirely wiped out long ago...that's a lot of surface area every year)
• fish have feelings
• large fishing captures/corporations are taking away from areas who depend on fish to survive
• we should stick to sustainable fishing
• "I'm unsure what sustainable fishing is"
• sustainable fishing isn't possible
• cut to a scene using a highly filtered video that showed the fish blood as a bright magenta, taken at a local legal fishing site <somber music>
• nobody in the world should eat fish (serious -- this is how it ended)

 

Apr 6, 2021

this was pretty bad. I saw everyone posting about how it made them depressed about social media and then I watched it and was dumbfounded that so many people didn't know this stuff, cuz I've been thinking about how depressing this s--- is for nearly a decade lol. And while I was glad all these former facebook and google spoke out I was kinda like "if I knew this stuff was evil when I was a dumb 21 year old destroying my braincells with well whiskey every weekend then you tech people sure as s--- knew this was evil f--- off." Also laughed out loud when they introduced someone with the title "venture capitalist."

 

Apr 6, 2021

What is it about (recap?)

 

Apr 6, 2021

this was my biggest takeaway as well. i understood that not everybody can/could wrap their heads around how their strings are being pulled on and manipulated, but not knowing, or just living in blind bliss, how much data these cos have is another thing

 

Apr 7, 2021

s--- like this proves Netflix will fund anything.

 

Apr 7, 2021

why's that weird?