Spaceship Earth

A very cursive treatment of a bizarre and expensive project that fails to touch on any real explanation how a $200M investment achieved nothing.

A truly missed opportunity, dealing with an interesting topic of a band of idealists, visionaries, hippies, in what is basically a cult-like setting, the show never develops into a coherent narrative that reveals much of interest. It kind of weaves, bends and meanders all over the place and, in the end, the viewer is left wondering about their individual motivation, why exactly they have failed, the dynamics of their relationships, the crux of the outcome or anything really besides the most superficial. A truly missed opportunity.

This was nothing but another hippie commune that failed.

It was exposed back then as being a bogus scam, that they weren't sealed off from the world, at all!

Water and air were piped in regularly, and they had a huge food stockpile inside that they depleted.

I watched ~twenty minutes, then gave it up as just another eco extremist propaganda film.

I knew very little about this story going into the movie and so I enjoyed all the background it presented. What makes this film work so well is the mass amount of archival footage it has. It has great characters and well shot interviews with a good message.

The first 30 minutes was a little slow and I wanted to get into the main story sooner is my only negative.

Take a group of people, friends, a bit of imagination and an open mind, a desire to make a difference and a vision for our future - take another group of people interested in money, greed, power - and...

A fascinating documentary that shows what a small group of well intentioned pioneers can achieve in the cause of humanity and ecology, with passion and belief, with teamwork and adventure - it's well worth a visit to Biosphere 2, if for no other reason than that.