Shark Week bites: Discovery criticized for hugely misleading documentary
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discover the fakeness! they really should stop making shows like this, but idk why people are getting crazy about a fake documentry, the history channel has all that crap with the guy with the big hair who completely discredits the entirity of human history
the megalodon "documentary" is on right now for me
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6tizOZ7cis[/media]
What happened to you, Discovery Channel? :(
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;41726306]Well the Military Channel has it's ups and downs too, but at least they usually pertain to the same subject matter. Their main problem is that most of the shows they broadcast can be down right boring and drag on for hours.[/QUOTE]
Some of the shows are pure entertainment (Top 10s and HI I'M MACK MACHOWICZ EX-NAVY SEAL AND LOUD WHISPERER), but their WW2 documentaries are great and surprisingly unbiased, especially the ones about Nazi Germany
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[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;41726134](Although the Military channel does venture into subjects outside of the military at times if it's somehow related with a war)[/QUOTE]
They also do stuff that have nothing to do with war at all, like mummies/pyramids and biblical stories
I remember I watched a documentary called "Monster Jellyfish Attack" and it was just a dull documentary about regular jellyfish.
[QUOTE=laserguided;41726142]Who cares its entertainment?[/QUOTE]
A week dedicated to sharks that's full of misinformation does not help sharks. The world is afraid of a timid and curious fish that sometimes has scary teeth because people who make TV and Movies have made people fear them.
[QUOTE=OvB;41726505]A week dedicated to sharks that's full of misinformation does not help sharks. The world is afraid of a timid and curious fish that sometimes has scary teeth because people who make TV and Movies have made people fear them.[/QUOTE]
They are?
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;41726189]shark week is a fucking disgrace and does nothing but fill peoples heads with the stereotype that all sharks are giant, violent, killing, machines.[/QUOTE]
Get off the internet, shark
Well i can see the uproar for mermaids, because human/fish creatures cant exist, and primates have hardly existed for long enough to evolve into whale-like seacreatures.
But the megalodon is at least somewhat plausible, The ocean has indeed been known to harbor giant predators that had been attributed to legend, i/e collosal squid, But still putting some fact-padded dramatization out there and calling it a documentary is fucking shameful.
[QUOTE=OvB;41726505]A week dedicated to sharks that's full of misinformation does not help sharks. The world is afraid of a timid and curious fish that sometimes has scary teeth because people who make TV and Movies have made people fear them.[/QUOTE]
If I remember right from reading something a long while back, sharks actually determine what objects are and what they're made of by biting them. Biting is apparently to sharks what touching and/or seeing is to humans. Sure, they might take your leg off in an attempt to figure out what you are, but that doesn't make them evil monsters.
Mind you, I don't remember when I read this and if it was backed up by facts, so I could easily be wrong.
[QUOTE=TurboSax;41726703]If I remember right from reading something a long while back, sharks actually determine what objects are and what they're made of by biting them. Biting is apparently to sharks what touching and/or seeing is to humans. Sure, they might take your leg off in an attempt to figure out what you are, but that doesn't make them evil monsters.
Mind you, I don't remember when I read this and if it was backed up by facts, so I could easily be wrong.[/QUOTE]
Usually in a non-provoked attack the first bite is a non-full-force exploratory bite that determines if you're food or not. They usually let go after that. It's like being bitten by a 9 foot, 1 ton dog. Shark attack fatalities are usually due to loss of blood or infection, not the actual attack. I don't think there's ever been a case of a shark actually eating a full human, that wasn't already dead and just scavenged at sea.
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Provoked attacks are much the same except it's a defensive bite rather than seeing if you're food.
[QUOTE=OvB;41726831]Usually in a non-provoked attack the first bite is a non-full-force exploratory bite that determines if you're food or not. They usually let go after that. It's like being bitten by a 9 foot, 1 ton dog. Shark attack fatalities are usually due to loss of blood or infection, not the actual attack. I don't think there's ever been a case of a shark actually eating a full human, that wasn't already dead and just scavenged at sea.[/QUOTE]
Some sharks are opportunistically vicous bastards though, just not the sharks popularized by horror movies/stories.
A bullshark doesnt care what the fuck you are, it will kill you and eat you.
Bull Sharks are one of the more dangerous sharks, but they too don't intentionally hunt humans. The Gulf Coast is packed with Bulls but yet Galveston is not a buffet. A 5-6 foot tall bather is not worth the fight for the amount of energy gained.
The majority of shark species have never attacked a human. It's just when people think about sharks, they usually think about Great Whites, or Tigers, or Bulls, and not a Dogfish.
[QUOTE=OvB;41726907]Bull Sharks are one of the more dangerous sharks, but they too don't intentionally hunt humans. The Gulf Coast is packed with Bulls but yet Galveston is not a buffet. A 5-6 foot tall bather is not worth the fight for the amount of energy gained.
The majority of shark species have never attacked a human. It's just when people think about sharks, they usually think about Great Whites, or Tigers, or Bulls, and not a Dogfish.[/QUOTE]
Can only relay what i think i know. I feel youre more into the subject than me though.
I can't find a good picture of "Collin Drake", but I kept thinking he looked really familiar. If anyone has a good pic of him from the documentary please post it, but I want to say that Collin Drake was played by this man:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0Ow35WD.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224565/?ref_=tt_cl_t15[/url]
He was on Arrested Development season 4, and this latest season of The Office.
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(Interestingly enough, Megalodon isn't listed on IMDB)
[QUOTE=Frisk;41725446]I remember this. My mom and sister insisted mermaids were real after they saw this, with their evidence being the show and the "fact" that "You can't CG that footage they had, the technology just isn't there to make it look that lifelike".[/QUOTE]
I went to look the mermaids thing up becuase I like fakumentaries, they're really interesting to me.
I found the best comment ever.
[quote]The many people that refer to this as "Fake" are the ones who will believe everything the government tells them. The government hides a lot of things, such has been known for a long time now. Just look at how hard they are trying to get this guy that hacked the• US back out of Russia, who knows what the hell he's found in their records. The US covers up, what they don't think 'the public' can handle. So, at the end of this documentary, ever think the government made them say it was fake?[/quote]
~~WAKE UP SHEEPLE~~
I had a feeling that people would end up thinking it was genuine. As far as I remember they didn't have a disclaimer but the beginning completely gave it away as a fake documentary. If an entire fishing boat had been attacked with no survivors and that kind of audio was left behind the newspapers would have gone batshit.
It was enjoyable to watch for the entertainment factor, at least.
[QUOTE=OvB;41726907]Bull Sharks are one of the more dangerous sharks, but they too don't intentionally hunt humans. The Gulf Coast is packed with Bulls but yet Galveston is not a buffet. A 5-6 foot tall bather is not worth the fight for the amount of energy gained.
The majority of shark species have never attacked a human. It's just when people think about sharks, they usually think about Great Whites, or Tigers, or Bulls, and [B]not a Dogfish[/B].[/QUOTE]
I live on a decent sized freshwater lake connected to Lake Michigan via Dam, I always surprise guests/friends when I take them fishing and tell them that we have 'fresh water sharks' because dogfish are a relative of sharks.
They are called dogfish because sometimes they make a weird barking sound when you pull them out of a lake. It's one hell of a fight, I love it, they aren't so good to eat however.
I only watch the silly documentaries like the zombie one they did and all the ones about aliens and area 51 and such. They're all just silly and hilarious fun. The mermaid one and this megalodon one though take themselves way too seriously.
After seeing the commercial for "sharknado" I can't say I'm surprised
I wish people weren't scared of sharks, I like sharks and people look at me weird when I say that I do
Sharks are so cool
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5jFgCa8PRY[/media]
I mean common.
[QUOTE=Aman;41725488]Discovery channel and history channel. Completely misleading names that's for sure.
History channel sometimes will have some interesting shows on WW2 or medieval times late at night but that is it.[/QUOTE]
I miss the times I could spend an entire day watching WW2 documentaries on History
I fucking [b]loved[/b] those documentaries man.
[QUOTE=laserguided;41726543]They are?[/QUOTE]
When people say they're afraid to get into the water because of a fish that sometimes bites people, I would say a large percentage of people are afraid of sharks.
Honestly I'm still terrified of sharks (I used to be scared of swimming in the deep end of the pool when I was a kid because of Jaws) but it's more of a fearful respect for them.
The moment that I saw aliens on the history channel, paranormal bullshit on Discovery Science, and 'Secret Lives Of Jesus Christ ' on NatGeo, I threw in the towel..
I only really trust documentaries by specific authors now.
[QUOTE=TurboSax;41726703]If I remember right from reading something a long while back, sharks actually determine what objects are and what they're made of by biting them. Biting is apparently to sharks what touching and/or seeing is to humans. Sure, they might take your leg off in an attempt to figure out what you are, but that doesn't make them evil monsters.
Mind you, I don't remember when I read this and if it was backed up by facts, so I could easily be wrong.[/QUOTE]
Facts also state that there are three types of sharks that will openly attack and devour humans. Bulls, Tigers, and Great Whites.
Granted, these attacks are primarily accidental, but they hardly stop attacking after they taste you like normal sharks.
Guess what else is going to be part of Shark Week, at least in Canada
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado[/url]
That's right, a shitty movie about a tornado that spits out sharks. RIP Discovery Channel.
I swear Shark Week happens like twenty times a year because I turn it Discovery at any time and I'm greeted by nothing but fucking crab fishing and advertisements for Shark Week.
[QUOTE=TheCombine;41728247]I miss the times I could spend an entire day watching WW2 documentaries on History
I fucking [b]loved[/b] those documentaries man.[/QUOTE]
Mail Call was pretty sweet too.
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