Great Film overall

Boring

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Home uses stunning aerial footage to tell the natural history of the planet and show how human civilization are destroying the natural cycle of life that was provided to us by Earth. The focus on carbon's history and the advent of plant life and other bacteria that gave way to human life provides a compelling, full-circle narrative of showing how this delicate balance can be thrown off course if we continue our methods of extraction and energy consumption. Home as a visually-stunning documentary serves an important role in cleanly communicating the history of the planet, its unique systems, and the ways in which humanity has altered them. While we are on a path of destruction, the documentary hints at solutions. Hint, because it is not comprehensive in paving the way forward. This is truly a love song for the Earth. A film to teach about systems. The solutions are out there and require further investigation.

"Everything on Earth is interlinked". The film gives us evidence that the consumption of chicken is one of the major causes of global warming! There are many more such links that it points out. The film focuses on the evolution of the Earth and it's resources and how man over the last 50 years has altered the balance of the Earth more than in 200,000 years of his existence. The facts that the film conveys are presented with stunning images. The film contains the best ever aerial photography I've ever seen. The soundtrack is beautiful. There must be much more publicity for stuff like these as the average man does not have access to such important information. A must watch for all those who feel responsible for the sake of the Earth. "We can no longer afford to be a pessimist".

First of all I am relieved that a movie on this subject has been produced with such a high budget. It's about time someone really tried to sum up what the human condition is, and the relationship between our condition and the condition of our planet.The visuals for 'Home' are for the most part near perfect- pinpointing the beauties and miracles of this world, whilst also the disgraces and disasters with a total sensitivity and respect for all sides of the issue. The subjects covered are well chosen and diverse, and you really get perspective on how widespread and potentially devastating our manipulation of the natural world has become. Unfortunately though, what slightly let this movie down for me was its 'matter of fact' approach, and a lack of attention to some important details. In some ways this film avoids a one-sided approach, with interesting stats showing how our attempts at alternative fuels have their own negative effects, but for the first section particularly it felt like some very dated notes on the history of the earth. We know some amazing things about the history of our planet but it's important to recognise that there is far more that we don't. I for one stand firmly on the side of science that can admit to not knowing. The most blatant error, as picked up by IMDb in the 'goofs' section, is the narration that the first towns appeared 600 years ago- how could you get that wrong!!? Apparently they meant to say 6000 years ago, but even this isn't fact as there is evidence of towns up to over 8000 years ago. On top of this it is continually stated that human beings have been around for 200'000 years, a theory that has been far from proved and therefore should be treated as such. I think that in a film that is trying to be scientifically credible, in this case vague/speculative language would possibly be more accurate. At least they managed to avoid a '2001: A Space Odyssey' style chimpanzee scene! Scientific stuff aside though, the most inexcusable error is that in the fairly small amount of on screen text there are numerous spelling mistakes. In most cases that doesn't bother me, but in a high budget film production it does, and it certainly doesn't help the reputation of the Eco-warriors (hippies come to mind!)After watching this movie though, I'll admit that I had mostly forgotten the flaws because it really forces you to think about the issues. This is a good thing, and for the most part it is done with beauty, sensitivity and grace, which is why I've given it such a high rating. Watch this movie- the cinematography and well crafted narrative will open your eyes to the fragile state of our planet and cause you to appreciate your place in it more. Just don't be a sucker for the slightly anti-human philosophy.

YBA , makes wonderful and bestrangening photographs of our Earth.. these framed images give you a sense of awe. However.. filmed and moving above these images don't work at all.and especially when they are overdone with all kinds of digital techniques to emphasize their abstractness.the constant camera move over these landscapes becomes extremely boring.Accompanied by an awful uninspiring and unsurprising new-age-like-music score , digitally compressed , mastered and whatsoever..the whole form of the film is veeeery predictable.the montage of the film is sooo un-inspiring it sometimes made me 'puke '...how can it be that creativity works in one field , but absolutely fails in another? Well i guess creativity needs skills to work.That creative skill was not here when this film was made. the constant flow of helicopter images bored the hell out of me... the digitally pumped-up landscape images did nothing to me. I don't have to say much about the message embedded in this ' Film '... totally in accordance with the climate-change lobby crusade , where it probably will be engaged with laud applause.... How many tons of oil did Yann Bertrand Arthus and his crew spoil on capturing these images while filming at different locations all over the world flying hundreds of ours in airplanes , helicopters and hot air balloons capturing landscapes in order to bring they'r message of a spill-sick humanity across?This film is exactly what it pretended to set out against.a massive (maybe even toxic ) waste !