Subject: Vice Season 1-3 General Discussion Thread (Spoilers) [Print This Page] Author: codebreaker Time: 4-8-2013 01:17 Subject: Vice Season 1-3 General Discussion Thread (Spoilers)
Vice Premiered on HBO on April 05, 2013
HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. The weekly series will be executive produced by Bill Maher, Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti, VICE's chief creative officer, with CNN's Fareed Zakaria serving as consultant. Titled VICE, the HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child suicide bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.
I was surprised how many bodies they shown that had been killed but the head after the suicide bombings was sick and the fact the Taliban manipulates children into committing these acts is disturbing Author: codebreaker Time: 4-14-2013 04:59 Subject: 1x02 Bad Borders
What a risk to get the girls across the border and the girls getting caught while the crew crossed the border legally was unfortunate but at leased they they didn't get sent back Author: codebreaker Time: 4-14-2013 05:00
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Author: codebreaker Time: 4-22-2013 04:06 Subject: 1x03 Guns & Ammo
Having five loaded hand guns in the schools makes sense as we know what can happen but training the staff and children how to react is a scary thought and the cost of war and the children born with birth defects is tragic Author: codebreaker Time: 4-26-2013 23:06
Author: codebreaker Time: 4-28-2013 06:43 Subject: 1x04 Love & Rockets
The amount of bachelors in China was strange especially with some of their dating rituals Author: codebreaker Time: 5-3-2013 22:34
Being followed while filming the polygamist story could of been dangerous and can you believe parents would send their daughters to fattening camps, where they are force-fed in the West African country of Mauritania but how diabolical that over a million people living in poverty while billion-dollar single-family skyscrapers are being built on top of them Author: codebreaker Time: 5-11-2013 02:47
What a waste with the ghost city in Inner Mongolia, built to house one million people but now sitting as abandoned construction sites Author: codebreaker Time: 5-18-2013 01:07
It's hard to believe how many young children smoke in Indonesia and the way they treat the heroin addiction in Mexico was an eye opener Author: codebreaker Time: 5-31-2013 23:57
The pre-fight rituals and dances were bizarre but thinking he would let the kid win in-front of his father was amusing as the kid as winning anyway and the rising sea levels is a disturbing fact but denying what's happing is bizarre Author: codebreaker Time: 6-7-2013 21:34
The statistics for the school age children that have been shot in Chicago due to the out of control gangs is a scary thought and Nigeria oil piracy is unbelievable Author: codebreaker Time: 6-16-2013 09:04 Subject: 1x10 The Hermit Kingdom
Using pro basketball as a reason to visit North Korea was surprising but having the Harlem Globetrotters with them made in interesting and stopping off at the kids park was awesome Author: codebreaker Time: 2-11-2014 02:25
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Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 10:25 Subject: 2x01 The Afghan Money Pit & The Pacification of Rio
The U.S. having spent almost $100 billion on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan since the invasion is crazy especially the disused power plants and Rio getting ready for the upcoming World Cup and the Olympics was interesting but finding the bullet riddled body in the boot they have a long way to go Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 10:30
The ice melting at approximately 27ft a year was surprising but using a 30ft pole left for a year is a great way to check how much has melted and the fact almost every building in Pakistan is made of brick with many of those bricks are made with slave labour is diabolical Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 10:45
Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 11:33 Subject: 2x03 American Scrap & Children of the Drones
I'm not surprised there is a boom in illegal scarp metal when you can earn more in one day than you can earn in two weeks manual work and the Drone operators may fire the missile but they are going on other intelligence but civilians dying are tragic and are bound to effect the operators Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 11:35
Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 11:52 Subject: 2x04 A Syria Of Their Own & White Gold
Thomas Morton was brave visiting the front-line of the battle for a Kurdish state and why shouldn't the women take up arms an fight and the video of the way the rhino horn poachers leave the animals is sickening Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 11:54
Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 12:11 Subject: 2x05 Terrorist University & Armageddon Now
The footage of the small car bomb to bring in rescuers only for a larger car bomb to kill them was sickening and Thomas joining an Evangelical tour group in the Holy Land was not what I expected Author: codebreaker Time: 4-24-2014 12:11
Author: codebreaker Time: 5-2-2014 03:39 Subject: 2x06 Rocky Mountain High & North Korean Defectors
I didn't know on January 1st of this year that Colorado lifted the prohibition on recreational marijuana use and with the cartels could potentially lose up to several billion dollars in profits there is obviously a risk to the legal cannabis vendors. Author: codebreaker Time: 5-2-2014 03:40
Author: codebreaker Time: 5-7-2014 05:19 Subject: 2x07 The Pink Gang Rebellion & Genetic Passport
I know rape is bad anywhere in the world but every 20 minutes in Delhi is unbelievable and the story of the 12 year old being raped by her 42 year old neighbour was tragic, the Soviet Union detonated more than 450 nuclear bombs in Kazakhstan as a test site was unbelievable and the way the people suffered from the blasts was disturbing Author: codebreaker Time: 5-7-2014 05:22
Author: codebreaker Time: 5-15-2014 04:18 Subject: 2x08 The Resource Curse & Deliver Us From Drought
You would think that bringing the underdeveloped country into the 21st century should be a good thing with the presence of Exxon Mobil but the fact they still don't have electricity is unbelievable, Texas experiencing the worst drought in its recorded history was terrible and some thinking it's the almighty God who is responsible was surprising but each to their own Author: codebreaker Time: 5-15-2014 04:20
Author: codebreaker Time: 5-20-2014 13:57 Subject: 2x09 Crude Awakening & The Enemy of My Enemy
If the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was bad enough but them and the Coast Guard dumped nearly 2 million gallons of a chemical dispersant called Corexit into the Gulf causing just as much suffering was a double tragedy. Declaring Yemen as the "next Afghanistan." is a worrying thought Author: codebreaker Time: 5-20-2014 13:58
[ Last edited by codebreaker at 7-10-2014 14:59 ] Author: codebreaker Time: 7-10-2014 07:17 Subject: 2x10 Playing With Nuclear Fire & No Man Left Behind
The Tohoku earthquake causing a nuclear power plant disaster not seen since Chernobyl was surprising as the government had down played the disaster, the solider using hard drugs to cope with his post traumatic stress disorder was such a waste of their lives after serving their country Author: codebreaker Time: 7-10-2014 07:18
Since the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, heroin production in the region having sky-rocketed and making the country the number-one producer in the world was surprising, no surprise the five nations bordering the Arctic are fighting over this prime real estate as there are billions of dollars' worth of natural-resource Author: codebreaker Time: 7-10-2014 07:34
As Camden, New Jersey's murder rate is 12 times the national average I'm not surprised they so many cameras but on the other hand with so many cameras why was it still so high, Ben Anderson going to the refugee camps in Chad and Sudan to meet the victims the world has forgotten was surprising as it been over ten years and the rebels poised for civil war were surprisingly well armed Author: codebreaker Time: 7-10-2014 08:51
Vice Season 3: Promo (HBO)Author: codebreaker Time: 3-4-2015 07:18 Subject: Special Report: Killing Cancer
This cutting-edge cancer research was fascinating as I'm sure we all know someone who has been diagnosed with cancer or died from it and with Stacy who had already been saved by this revolutionary medical breakthrough there is hope for the future, Emile's story also gives hope to the kids with a 90% success rate is remarkable Author: codebreaker Time: 3-8-2015 02:30 Subject: 3x01 Our Rising Oceans
The rising sea level already effecting places like Bangladesh is unbelievable and with some of the most significant glaciers having tripled their melt rate it's only going to get worse Author: codebreaker Time: 3-14-2015 02:38
Getting military-grade equipment to police their communities was asking for trouble as the police were getting to aggressive and with the gang violence in El Salvador you cant blame them for leaving and try to get into the United States Author: codebreaker Time: 3-16-2015 12:37
The armed service backing down against the armed domestic right-wing groups seemed unusual, Isobel looking at the dangers of overfishing sharks in Africa was disturbing Author: codebreaker Time: 3-31-2015 04:19
Trying to determine who is profiting from the increase in cocaine use in Europe is going to be a never ending story, it's hard to believe how big the surrogacy industry is in India Author: codebreaker Time: 3-31-2015 04:36
Trying to police the Synthetic Drug industry is virtually impossible as there are far to many variations and who would of thought in this day and age that homosexuality in some parts of the world is punishable by death Author: codebreaker Time: 4-11-2015 07:34
The doctor himself going in the search for plants in the attempt to create new antibiotics to cure these new super bugs was surprising, our need for Palm oil threatening rainforest in Indonesia is disturbing Author: codebreaker Time: 4-21-2015 04:17
