Steineded How sad is this?

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Boba_Fett1138 The foremost thing that can let a documentary work out as a good and interesting one is its subject. And let me just say, I could barely finish watching this documentary! There were several issues I was having with this documentary. The first is the most obvious one, that this documentary is focusing on four unrelated persons and completely different subjects. You could say that they are all connected through their passion for their work but there are millions of people out there with a passion for something. I mean, what makes these guys so special and worthy of featuring them in a documentary? And that brings me to the other problem of that the documentary just doesn't ever manage to get deep or involving with anything. The way it's set up, is that it just lets its subjects talk about their work but it doesn't tell you anything about the person itself, or what drives and motivates him. You were supposed to take all of this out of the way they were talking about their work I suppose but it just didn't worked out too well for me.It might had worked out for me if the different subjects were being a bit more interesting ones. But one involves a gardener, the other a robotics designer and the other a guy who is fascinated by mole rats. The one interesting subject involves a lion tamer but because every different subjects take up about as much screen time as the other, the documentary just doesn't ever find the time or space to let any of them work out as something good and interesting enough. It was really lacking some depth, which was due to the combination of its concepts and the approach to all of it. It actually became a very repetitive documentary after a while, since nothing in it ever felt as if it was progressing and going anywhere interesting or surprising. The style also became repetitive and predictable after a short while. The style actually seemed to be the foremost thing that was supposed to keep this documentary together and provide it with pace and visual splendor (with the help of acclaimed cinematographer Robert Richardson) as well but it really started to work against the documentary after a while. It actually helped to prevent this documentary from ever becoming a well enough focused one.I'm not exaggerating when I'm saying that, about half way through the documentary, I already got fed up with it and lost all interest. I really had a hard time finish watching it and when it finally did, I was glad it was all over with. It's not like I hated watching it but it just was a documentary I got absolutely nothing out of!5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Mustang92 There are so many problems with this so-called documentary I don't know where to begin.For starters, this is really a fake documentary. There is so much stock footage and scenes from an old film strewn throughout, one wonders if the title Morris came up with for this film actually refers to his OWN film and how he made it. He probably shot this very quickly, very cheaply, and is just plain out of control as this story is a big mess.Most of this film is entirely boring, and most of the anecdotes the 4 subjects relate are boring. This film is also filled with scenes that have nothing to do with the story being told and it shows. How Roger Ebert and some other critics could have listed this in their top 10 the year it came out is shocking.One of the biggest problems, is that none of the 4 people being interviewed are very interesting. In truth, they probably could be, or likely have interesting things that could have been related/shown, but they all come off boring... and this is clearly Morris' fault, not the 4 people's. The lion tamer is the more interesting of the bunch, but he still is pretty boring in Morris' hands. What a shame. What a waste of celluloid. I really expected a better film, because I recall some of the critical claim it had gotten 14 or 15 years ago. But now that I finally saw this on one of the movie channels, those critics must have been on drugs. Actually... that might be the way to view this film... if you're high, you might actually like it since it's all over the place with weird, non-linear footage. And then if you fall asleep, you won't miss anything.

nick hadeen this movie was a little hard for me to get interested in. the way it was filmed, and how the information was presented was very entertaining, but the information itself was rather boring in my opinion. it's not a movie i would rush to the nearest rental store to get by any means. But if i saw it was on TV i might flip to it and watch it for a few minutes, then would become bored and find something a little more entertaining. All in all this is not a movie i would want to watch more than once, which is a major contribution in how i rate movies. if it entertains me enough to watch it more than once, i would give it a semi good or good rating, but if don't enjoy it enough to watch it more than once, it automatically becomes a pass in my book.

Sandra Dee so altogether i found this documentary to be strange and really pointless. i know it got awards and things, but i personally did not enjoy it too much. there was no humor or drama in it to keep you interested, just a bunch of wierdos and their jobs. some of the people in are rather different which isn't a bad thing, it just didn't leave a good impression on me. i was thoroughly bored by this movie, no offense to my creative writing teacher. the circus theme throughout the whole movie was kinda cool but i didn't get it, and robotics and lion taming is definitely not my thing. the green animals thing was neat, i really liked the garden lots of colorful flowers, but how did these four jobs connect? it just didn't make much sense to me why someone would make a movie about that. But if you are into stuff like this you might enjoy it. who am i to stand in your way. I am just forewarning you about possible suffering.