6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full of Crap

[JoetheLion]

I am sceptic about both the documentaries and the claims in the article. There are no sources for the mentioned "fallacy" information and I've already read at least 3 articles on cracked that were deliberately making up some "facts" in order to sound more shocking and surprising.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Most hated conversation starters...

"So, I was watching this documentary and did you know..."

 

[mikeymikec]

Looking at the first documentary's explanation, a big mac meal clocks in at 1450 calories apparently, triple that equals 4350 calories, which is still 1.8x the amount of calories that a male with a sedentary lifestyle needs*. Add to the fact that it's McDonalds food we're talking about here, is anyone really going to dispute that such a diet is going to screw someone's health up pretty quickly and dramatically?

So, while the documentary may not have been 100% factual, it's not "full of crap". Perhaps it should have been more accurate, but who needs a documentary to tell them that McDonalds on a regular basis is going to fuck you up? I think that the intended audience probably would benefit from the facts being "dumbed down" a bit

* - http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/estimated-calorie-requirement

I'm surprised that the article posted in the OP didn't include the mythical tendency of the lemming to be suicidal. Perhaps because it wasn't just one source that claimed it.

 

[Murloc]

I've never seen any of those.
Most documentaries contain bullshit anyway.

 

[herm0016]

So in your Libtard head you actually believe that a guy had gas coming out of his water? Truth be told he hooked up gas to his hose and burned it claiming that fracking was the cause.

Boulder and San Fran, to city's they should just nuke!

adding it to a list of BS documentaries makes it factual? I think you need a sedative.

I am an engineer in the oil fields. I have worked on some of the fields he lied about in the film.

and I love Boulder, though I have to be careful who I tell the company i work for.

first time i have been called a "libtard" too. lol.


i agree with craig, you are an idiot. HEY! craig and i agree on something!

 

[Craig234]

I've never seen any of those.
Most documentaries contain bullshit anyway.

Unintentional irony.

I have no idea what Lithuania is like; no reason to find out, there's nothing there.

 

[leeland]

marked for later

 

[Ichinisan]

I can't believe What the bleep do we know? didn't make that list. I guess it's because the bullshit is too obvious.

 

[Ichinisan]

The amount of crap Christianity "resurrected" from previous philosophies has been documented many times over. The guy who made this list get's hung up on one simple issue.

Christmas is a pagan holiday, for Christ sake.

Both you and Bill M. are barking up the wrong tree. Christian scholars never claimed Jesus was actually born on December 25. Never.

They choose to celebrate Jesus' birth on that day specifically because it's a pagan holiday. Because they wanted to counter pagan celebrations with their own Christian celebration.

 

[John Connor]

You're an idiot, for the last comment. As for the rest, you call yourself a conservative, you can't spell "two cities", and you fail to understand he was critizing the 'gasland' film.

I know he was criticizing the gasland film you fucktarded asshole! Why did I mention that guy with a hose?

And you spelled criticizing wrong. LMAO!

 

[John Connor]

And further more I spelled Boulder correctly and abbreviated San Fransisco with the popular use of San Fran. Good grief!

 

[Pray To Jesus]

lol

lots of stupid atheists on this forum got pwned by God and is QQ

 

[pmv]

Never heard of most of them.

I don't see the big deal about the Supersize Me one. The only criticisms seem to be (a) the calories don't quite add up to 5000 a day as one guy in the documentary said they did at one point (by my reckoning its more like 3,500-4000 - two big mac meals are 2,900, plus breakfast would add another 500-1000 depending on choice of breakfast - but a few milkshakes or apple pies could easily bring it up to 5000) and (b) the swedish team couldn't reproduce the liver damage claim.

Given you are supposed to only consume 2000kcals or so, the difference between 4000 and 5000 hardly seems critical.

The main issue I had with that documentary was just that it was bleeding obvious. Eat a full McDonalds meal three times a day every single day, you'll get fat and your health will suffer - who on Earth finds that surprising?