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  Review by Mike D'Angelo

  62/100

  Unlikely that I'd have enjoyed this film had it been made by anyone but Herzog—call that favoritism if you like. (It's not really auteurism.) Usually, docs that skim lightly over numerous loosely connected topics drive me nuts; while Lo and Behold largely fails as a wide-ranging treatise on "the Internet," however, each individual section is compelling enough to make me wish it had gone both on longer and into more detail. That's true even (maybe especially) of Part 3, a bizarrely stilted, quasi-Lynchian interview with the family of "Porsche Girl" Nikki Catsouras that's in a radically different register than the rest of the film. But the whole thing is steeped in Herzog's personality (or "brand," if you're getting exasperated…

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  Review by Wood ★★★ 1

  *Werner Herzog talking to programmer about robot*

  "do you... love it?"

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  Review by ghostdinosaur ★★★ 11

  List Of Things I Like About Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World

  1. That robot pouring that drink. It's maybe the most haunting image of any movie I've seen in 2016.

  2. Automated soccer match.

  3. Further evidence, via the Kevin Mitnick interviews, that a lot of
  computer hacking comes down to manipulation of people as much as programs.

  4. Solar flares. I could probably watch a whole movie of just different close-ups of the sun.

  5. How much this made me want to rewatch Blackhat.

  6. Elon Musk’s love for Mars colonies.

  List Of Things I Don’t Like About Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World

  1. While Herzog’s penchant for self-conscious oddity occasionally prompts unexpected…

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  Review by Graham Williamson ★★★★ 3

  Reviewed on Cinema Eclectica.

  What could interest Werner Herzog, a man who probably thinks indoor toilets are a newfangled abomination, in the internet? As it turns out, the same things that interest him in everything else; what it says about human nature, what it says about consciousness and the way we perceive the world, and whether or not it can dream. No, really.

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★½

  "But how could we talk to those on Mars? Who might tell them the winner of the baseball World Series?" - Werner Herzog.
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  "Do you love robot 8?" - Werner Herzog.
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  "To us, you appear to be the only one around who is clinically sane" - Werner Herzog.
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  "Have the monks stopped meditating? Have the monks stopped praying? They all seem to be tweeting." - Werner Herzog
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  "Can a robot tell when a woman is falling in love? - Werner Herzog,

  - Werner Herzog Ranked: boxd.it/3MAT6

  The weirdness of people that never use the internet is enough to make me continue to use the internet.

  Werner Herzog is scared of everything. He hates nature, academia, art,…

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  Review by Thomas ★★★

  This documentary feels rather scattered and all over the place. It´s more like an overview of several interesting topics that are more or less connected to technological progress, for example the history, benefits, dangers, and cultural impact of the internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, and space travel. The film features insightful interviews with fascinating people as well as lots of Werner Herzog´s eccentric musings and out of the box questions, but a better structure and stronger focus would definitely have helped the overall experience. Still, a Werner Herzog documentary is never a waste of time.

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  Review by Sigfred Storstrand ★★★½

  The first words ever sent over the internet was the word "lo" you say?

  Dude probably just saw the dankest meme and lold so hard he couldnt even manage to finish typing lol.

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  Review by MUBI

  In this thoughtful and engaging doc, film adventurer Werner Herzog digs into the online world to spy on our escalating dance with progress. A work of personal-essay cinema that observes and provokes in equal measure. Fact: despite his skepticism towards technology, Herzog does own a cell phone.

  Now showing in 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇾 🇦🇷 here.

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  Review by Leticia Fernandes ★★★★ 3

  Gonna go think about my own mortality and wonder if the internet dreams for like 7 hours now, goodbye.

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  Review by Cody Walker ★★★ 3

  Worth it for the moment in which Herzog interrupts Elon Musk, begging the billionaire to send him to Mars no matter the risk of not returning.

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  Review by Sebastian Klein ★★★½

  This internet sounds like a big deal.

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  Review by Astrid ★★★★½

  This is a really bizarre and heartwarming take on the Internet by the person who is equally best / least suited to the task: Herzog. Likely throughout, you'll be swept up in it's purely singular Herzog-isms, dizzying tangents and side-stories that swiftly shift from devestating to hilarious without warning.

  Unforgettable and certainly the best documentary I've seen about the Internet, perhaps among the best ever films about the net full stop. You've got to be willing to take Herzog's unique perspective seriously to fully enjoy the ride.