Collapse

I'll be honest and say I don't fully subscribe to Ruppert's opinions on everything. However I do feel that not everything he says is just a bunch of conspiracy nonsense and some of it has serious validity and serious implications. The important thing to keep in mind when watching this is that some of it is correct and that thought is quite frightening.

Regardless of how good this movie is, it has left me shaken, disturbed and absolutely in shambles, both mentally and physically.

A more coherent, left-underground version of Glenn Beck. Complete with crying episode, Ruppert only lacks the blackboards. When someone compares economic collapse/energy transition to the extinction of the dinosaurs and the Holocaust, alarm bells should be ringing. Almost every case study and comparison he gives could be shot down; he ignores the effect of the Green Revolution/vaccines/etc in favor of granting oil singular responsibility for the population explosion. Also he's a truther.

I agree wholly with Ruppert that we need a revolution of thought. People suck and are greedy. I can get behind that. A lot of his reasoning is totally wacky and can be refuted, but it's still a fun watch.

Good. The former cop turned futurist, Micheal Ruppert, discusses his theories about the present and future in this poignant interview. And while he may seem like a ranting doomsday preacher to some, all he really does is state the obvious with such sincerity it'll give you nightmares. Highly recommended.

It's no American Movie, which sucks, but it still kept me interested. He seems to just be spouting off rhetoric a lot of the time, in fact when Smith asks him a question about human ingenuity he has no response so he just goes on another pre-written rant. "Uhh, we were talking about human ingenuity..." Rolled my eyes a few times but I still enjoyed watching it. Also, if I believed everything Michael Ruppert said I would just kill myself.

The production is great and I agree with the high-level themes on oil dependence and certain economic points but the actual argument details are often weak, wrongly projected, or mere ranting. Ruppert's own behavior lines up with an annoying conspiracy theorist: overly-confident, self-aggrandizing, and convinced that all events are a part of some bigger, carefully-made secret plan. Another review mentioned that this is as much about Ruppert as it is his conclusions, i agree.

I'm astonished that no one seems to take Michael Ruppert seriously, even the condescending Chris Smith. Unfortunately, Ruppert IS telling the truth, it's just that he has to fight the cognitive dissonance of the average Western viewer, who can't bear to part with his/her luxurious lifestyle and face the very different oil-less future.

Well, all that he tells might not be true. But there is truth to certain things that he tells - clear logic that is disturbing & frightening. Anyone who sees this will start seeing our dependence on oil and sustainability in a new light. I never had an idea that there is so much oil around us in all forms, shapes & materials. Its definitely not going to be simple - finding a sustainable energy source. And the success or failure of that process may well determine our failure/success as a species.

What Ruppert lacked in direction and oratory skills, he made up for in passion. The real kicker of the documentary is the very true fact that our society could improve in a second with a "revolution of thought", one which Ruppert unfortunately didn't live to see.

I thought that this film was going to have more to do with fact than with conjecture or hearsay. It's probably hurt by the fact that it's filmed as a soliloquy. It would have benefited from some edits or fact checking. That is, if it wanted to be convincing. As it is, it is not.

It's hard to say whether much of what spills from Ruppert's mouth is as credible as he would like you to believe, but it's an interesting profile nonetheless.

If anything, this documentary raises awareness for the inevitable depletion of oil. Whether 'collapse' comes as soon as Ruppert predicts or if his pessimistic views about other sources of power are to be fully believed, he does have one unquestionable point and that is we as a race will have to adapt to this new problem via a massive upheaval of thinking. Collapse is a compelling look into a subject most of us would have little knowledge about & unfortunately even less power to influence.

Collapse is a captivating look inside the mind of Michael Ruppert, though some may find the film's fast pace and lack of objectivity demeaning.

90 minutes in a basement listening to Rupert's onslaught of doomsday prophecies can depress even the happiest of campers, but valid points aside (of which there are many) his conclusion is too gloomy to take serious. With one man ranting away, you start wondering why there isn't an alternate opinion, until you realize that this documentary is as much about Ruppert as with him, a man whose determination to his cause is slowly overtaken by bitterness. It ends up being more depressing than scary.

Not a typical feel good movie

Since this is little more than a prolonged soliloquy, I'll give him a 10 out of 100 instead of a 0 because the alternate energy snippet of his speech was actually fairly straight forward and cogent. The rest is ridiculous nonsense...can you imagine people watching this 15 or 20 years from now? You wouldn't know whether to laugh or feel bad for the guy. I must say that my favorite part was him saying that seeds would be currency in the future.

The subject, Ruppert, is somewhere in between a more grounded Fox Mulder and Errol Morris' most delirious and orgasmic wet dream. In that way, his assumptions of collective subconscious and character are tainted by a bizarre worldview that hints towards a fundamental truth of mankind without ever reaching that necessary epiphany. But God knows I don't know it, either. The result is an interesting if not fully satisfying masturbation session on economy and suicidal institutionalism.

Alarming, but the last 30 minutes gets too preachy and crazy for me. Sorry bro, I'm not going "organic", I'd rather chill with my Doritos instead.

Ruppert's is not a "Bizarre worldview" or "Too gloomy to take serious" (sic) as some have commented. It's undeniably true, hardly alarmist, he's just trying to prepare us for the inevitable future of Industrial Civilization.

The paranoid fantasies of a man convinced of his own brilliance and infallibility. There is some good stuff here but it's presented as a drama, complete with dramatic music and an unseen questioner only there to elicit more brilliance from the world's smartest man. What the hell was with the cigarette lighting shots? Some good stuff but idiotically presented and with not a single dissenting voice saying "excuse me are you sure"