This one’s for the politically/sociologically minded of you out there, you know who you are. I saw this documentary in the theater last year and it was just absolutely fascinating. It’s on Netflix now, I re-watched it a couple days ago, and I HIGHLY recommend it.
A really interesting chunk of history from my hometown that I never knew about until this film, it’s about the massive and infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project that was built in north St. Louis in the 1950s and torn down in disrepair in the 70s, and represents the earliest signs of failure of that particular high density, high rise model of public housing that could arguably be said to have finally ended with the demolition of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green last year. Footage of the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe was apparently international news, as was its reputation for crime- it got so bad there the police refused to answer calls from there. The film is really well done, very in-depth with lots of archival footage and pictures, and they examine all the different social and economic factors that contributed to things going so poorly.
Would be interested in discussion should anybody actually watch the movie. I work writing reports for low income housing projects though, so maybe nobody finds this as interesting as I do, but if you dig documentaries or history channel shit at all, you should be able to get into this.
That’s funny, with the new firmware update on my WDTV streaming box they removed the Blockbuster app. Netflix all the way.
The full movie is also up on Youtube broken into like 15 chunks, so I guess you could watch it that way. But for sure you’d find it interesting grmpy. Do it.
[reply]If its on blockbuster on demand ill certainly check it out.
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Blockbuster? They still exist?[/reply]
Yeah it exists as a store in sporadic locations but mostly as a streaming feature through dishbetwork. You can get streaming and dvds (and bluray no extra charge) sent o yer house in effort to compete with netflix. 1 movie at a time sent through the mail and all the streaming you can handle is only like 8 bucks. But the selection is way shitty compared to netflix (and I thought netflix was bad they stream movies that arenteven listed on imdb.) We switched our service last yar when netflix hiked their prices AGAIN.
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