Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Simply Put Whilst this documentary tackles a very meaty subject (technology and its effects on humans, the world and the universe), it unfortunately is very dry in its delivery and quite limited in its effectiveness.I think this is for 2 main reasons - firstly, Herzog mainly interviews people who are very tech-savvy, tech-driven people who are completely and totally immersed in their chosen field. As such, they talk very enthusiastically in very technical terms about very dry topics. Imagine asking a Maths Fan Club to tell you all about what their favourite prime number is and why and then filming it....DRY, BORING & INDECIPHERABLE for those of us not on the same page, right?! I feel like a lot of the film was like that! I learned a couple of interesting facts from these people, but not enough to sustain a whole film's worth of interest. The more 'human' element, where Herzog talks to people about the effect technology has had upon them, is far more interesting - but there is much less of that in the film than the technical stuff. I think he was trying to link the 2 together - i.e. here is what the intent was/is, but this is actually what has happened/will happen - but he doesn't pull it off.This brings me to my second point - Herzog has picked a really expansive subject, and as such, cannot possibly give each element the attention it needs or deserves. He should have just stuck with, say, the effects of the internet, or the looming figure of artificial intelligence. There is not enough time and space in one film to link all aspects together efficiently.So, if you are a very logical, tech-savvy person, who enjoys technically informing documentaries, you may really like this. If like me, you're more into the psychological/emotional angles, you likely won't.

MartinHafer The overarching theme of this documentary by Werner Herzog is the internet. However, this is a HUGE topic--way too much for one film. Additionally, Herzog chooses to go off in many directions--any of which could have merited an entire documentary in and of itself. So, had "Lo and Behold" been a series, it would have been terrific. As is, it's enjoyable but often frustrating because it lacks a concise focus.The film begins with a tiny introduction to the birth of the internet through the ARPANET. I really liked this historical aspect of the film...but it was very brief...frustratingly so. The film then bounced to topics like self-driving cars, cyber bullying, living off the net and folks who claim to have illnesses caused by various waves (such as cell phones, microwaves and the like), hacking, the vulnerability of the net to solar activity, artificial intelligence and robots and the future of the internet and technology! As I said, too much information and it's presented but often not adequately explored. So is the film worth seeing? Yes. But it's also maddening to watch as it often felt as if you've been invited to a gourmet meal....with 156 different courses and each one comes and goes like lightning in order to get the meal completed on time!I have seen many of Herzog's documentaries and have loved many of them. I know he's a brilliant and talented man...but here the whole project just seems as if it was slapped up on the screen without regard to the subject matter or the effect it would have on the viewer. A misfire.

Jimmy Baginski The was a small disappointment for me. Wheeling in a long succession of intellectuals and posing philosophically abstract questions at them about the implications of the Internet seems like something that could yield interesting results. In this case it leads almost nowhere. Boffins and great minds are sometimes a slave to their own sense of purpose and grandeur, always looking to imagine the most incredible eventualities and possibilities regardless of how impossible or possible they are. The people in this documentary are no doubt amazing intellects who have the native IQ to leave myself and the majority of humans dead in the water. However, it takes an intellectual to sell the idea that the Internet could gain autonomy and want to control us as a species. This is anthropomorphic projection on the grandest Earthly scale.Werner also employs a deeply foreboding soundtrack of elongated drones and celestial dread to add weight to the scientific poetry and future doomsday predictions of his interviewees. At times you could almost be drawn into this darkening of mood, but then you hear another piece of vague mumbo-jumbo and interlocutory nonsense and chuckle, remembering: it's a documentary by Werner Herzog, which sadly means you are just experiencing his default style. As well, the question "can the Internet dream of itself?" is so deeply boring and unbound by any objective framework it merely acts as a conceit from which to further ramble on the topic of non- biological sentience (something this film does rather well) and ends up in another cul-de-sac, (like all conceits do). The area of AI is seemingly in a very strange cultural place right now whereby hitherto rational people are being drawn into imagining a secular religion based around a technological cosmology. Technology is either the devil, God, or both. Either way, the great power it possesses comes from the mundane necessities of our collective lives. Mythologising is fun but really we just want the same things we've always wanted (see Maslow 'hierarchy of needs'). The internet will not change that. This strange, almost creepy substitution for God in Godless world, or power bigger than ourselves, is silly to watch coming out of intelligent people's mouths. Humans will not sleepwalk into the matrix. We will not eat the apple in the garden of Eden and reach a tipping point between our desire for technological innovation and the rise of AI overlords. This won't happen because humans won't desire it. Even if it was plausible, the road to such an event is not clearly laid out here. Lastly, moral questions about the effects of technology are useful. This poses some but doesn't go deep enough into them in order to create a basis or first principle to work from. Too much technology is one thing but please explain why. What should we keep and why? What should we discard and why?Anyway, partially thought-provoking but ultimately limited to thought experiments and conjecture about a future we can only vaguely imagine and will likely not happen.

ian_bolton I watched this still not knowing what the internet was. I've seen friends talk about it, or my brother bought a TV from the Internet once, but this film was really fascinating. It was fascinating how Herzog portrayed all sides of this massive electronic thing – from the dark side, of how a family were abused through the internet or even how internet sends out signals through your hi-fi and can send you crazy. I didn't even know you could connect to the internet using dangerous hi-fi signals, but you can. I really loved how Herzog looked into how it will evolve, and admittedly nobody really knew, but Elon Musk is going to get the internet onto Mars soon. Like who will need eBay on Mars, duuurrrr!!!Anyway, this film was amazing.