implaxible The "4" rating is solely for the stunning cinematography (meaning, the points added). The points taken off are for the deceptive nature of its presentation on the disc.Sure, I'm all for saving the planet and absolutely support the need to handle global climate change. But this "message" movie is not the way to present it. Combining beautiful footage of spectacular, mundane, and even unpleasant scenes with a wave of statistics in the narration makes for a disjointed experience at best.If it had been presented as what it was (or even described as such on the cover) I would not have had as much of a problem with it.My recommendation: turn the sound off and put on some relaxing music for the first 90 minutes or so. All the info is presented as text in the last several minutes anyway, so save that for another time.

luisgut92 The movie gives beautiful aerial views of the planet to give a visual on the beauty of Earth and also the impact of human beings. The aerial views makes one really notice how beautiful Earth is as our HOME. It is hard to comprehend how beautiful the Earth is even though parts of it are being negatively impacted by us. The movie provides a background and explanation of how everything in nature is interlinked in the hopes of convincing any skeptic or doubter about the impacts of humanity. While the movie highlights the already present dangers of the impact of humans, it offers some hope in reversing these effects. The combination of the aerial views and the tone of the narrator are almost meant to scare the viewer in the hopes of motivating viewers to act on stopping the negative impacts on the Earth by people. Just as technology is constantly evolving, human care of the world's ecosystem must evolve. The combination of efficient use of our resources and reducing our impact should restore the balance now lost. Movie should be seen all as it provides a wake up call with visuals.

dooglesdead 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.

Motherspot 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 !