Tiger King : Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Netflix)
 

I wouldn't even tell my wife what I was putting on. I knew she'd be hooked and after 1 episode she is. Craziness!

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It was something else. The teeth, the outfits, the ammo abuse, Walmart meat, watching Carol's hair drive me crazy, I could keep going.


Hopefully they do something with all the extra footage they must have. I knew from the first minute that drugs had to be involved and all that stuff kinda got skipped over. They probably didn't want these people to be viewed with that lens, but you could see it in their faces and behavior.

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Tiger King
 

Me, to my wife after one episode:

"Is this the best show I've ever seen?"

Got one left. It's every bit as good as people are saying. At a certain point I couldn't even react to the things happening, you just imagine the nuttiest thing that could take place and when it does you're not even surprised.

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Interesting. A lot of people are saying it’s horrendous. It’s in my Netflix Q someplace.

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I mean, it's absurd, and full of horrendous people. But it's wildly entertaining and well made.

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⬆️ Isn’t there animal cruelty?

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Hmm, I suppose it depends on how you define the term. Maybe "mistreatment" would be a better word for some of it, though whether or not some of the actions qualify is part of what the film is about. The central dispute that all the insanity stems from is whether it's inherently inhumane, for example, to breed tiger cubs and then let people pet them and play with them for awhile. But even if it is, obviously watching people do that isn't especially upsetting.

I'm pretty sensitive to footage of mistreated animals, though, and I haven't found it difficult to watch on that front. No examples just being killed or made to overtly suffer or anything like that, that I can recall.

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⬆️ Thanks. People on twitter do seem to have been in a tizzy about it. Will definitely watch it, but will bail out if it’s unpleasant. To me, it looks good, but will wait & see.

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The only unpleasant parts are with the human beings! :)

I found it by accident a few weeks ago and binged my way through over a weekend. By the end I really wasn't "rooting" for anybody anymore. It was just impossible to stop watching.

Naturally. :rolleyes:

Only implied stuff. There's also a documentary on YouTube from a few years ago that is not as sensational. Animal stuff is the one thing I can't handle and I don't remember having any issue.


The opening features a Wes Anderson homage.

Re: Tiger King : Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Netflix)
 

Early on in the series someone mentions that Joe Exotic liked to film EVERYTHING going on at the zoo. I think their take on it was that he was a bit egotistical. (Ya think?)

Also... reality show being filmed there! They film everything! :)

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@Austruck

But supposedly all of the reality show footage was destroyed in the fire. That’s what denim is talking about.

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I must be mismembering :suspicious:



They made such a deal out of Joe Exotic's studio catching fire and that was where all of Kirkham's footage (supposedly) was as well. So this was extra footage that wasn't in a studio where all the footage burned?


I can't see Joe Exotic volunteering his own footage to be used in a documentary that paints him in such a poor light. If so, I don't think he would offer it without a "final cut" clause.