Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
What do an elderly topiary gardener, a retired lion tamer, a man fascinated by mole rats, and a cutting-edge robotics designer have in common? Both nothing and everything in this unconventional documentary directed by Erroll Morris. (imdb)
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Directed By: Errol Morris
Starring: Dave Hoover, George Mendonça, Ray Mendez, Rodney Brooks
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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control belongs to 25 collections
1. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (public: moderated by kozan26 - 214 stars)
2. Features under 91 minutes (public: moderated by epiphany - 51 stars)
3. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 36 stars)
4. New York Times' The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (public: moderated by theficionado - 29 stars)
5. Onion AV Club: The New Cult Canon (public: moderated by theficionado - 26 stars)
6. Criticker: Neglected Gems (public: moderated by theficionado - 23 stars)
7. Humanity and the Natural World (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 18 stars)
8. Doubling The Canon (public - 13 stars)
9. Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen (public: moderated by katsuben - 11 stars)
10. Skandies (public: moderated by toro913 - 6 stars)
11. Doubling The Canon (2010 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 5 stars)
12. BFI 100 key Documentary films (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 3 stars)
13. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (public - 3 stars)
14. Doubling the Canon (2011 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 1 star)
15. Doubling the Canon (2012 update) (public: moderated by Cinephile - 1 star)
16. Filmed on 8mm (public)
17. The Canon podcast (all films) (public: moderated by psim)
18. The Canon podcast (only the Canon) (public: moderated by psim)
19. Photographed by Robert Richardson (public: moderated by iconogassed)
20. The AV Club 50 Best Films of the '90s (private: TychoCelchuu - 8 stars)
21. Essential Cinema (Jonathan Rosenbaum) (private: snallygaster - 2 stars)
22. Coheed's Celluloid Pit (private: Coheed - 1 star)
23. 1997: Year in Review (private: polanski28)
24. Antagony & Ecstacy: The Best Films of All Time (private: Nroo)
25. AV Club 20 Best Films of 1997 (private: TychoCelchuu)
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the dork in the ridiculous bowtie who's so besotted with the ugliest most insectile mammals on the planet that by the end he's all but married them, i have boundless affection for that dude.
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Not uninteresting although it appears to aspire to something far more engaging than it is, a kind of Herzog-lite. Very lite. Sometimes I think it's good to watch a film like this, if only to develop an appreciation for more successfully executed films which aim for the apprehension by the audience of some synthetic concept that is not explicit. Quite a fine balancing act between simplicity and complexity, which Morris here calculates a bit awry.
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I have no idea what this was about. Weird but not very wonderful.
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Not my style at all, found it unwatchable but harmless in its way so I didn't give it a rockbottom score
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jkwall | 6 0% |
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cmiles | 50 40% |
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At first the juxtaposition of the 4 different characters, sets of imagery and ideas was fascinating, creative and interesting - after 30-45 minutes I was really no longer interested...
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jakncoke | 75 30% |
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Lilarcor | 55 14% |
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A documentary that does absolutely nothing. Probably made fast, cheap and without much control.
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I LIKED IT WHEN KITTY PUT ITS PAW IN THE WATER AND THEN LICKED IT.
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filmaffinity | 67 71% |
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BillyShears | 85 86% |
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Those poor lions :( Son of a bitch, I wanted to hear more about naked mole rats.
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sebby | 70 71% |
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Errol Morris is best when keeping to one subject rather than sewing together a wayward cinematic quilt constructed from his cadre of nefarious weirdos. However, there's still some real fun in this film, particularly as it pertains to the life of the bow-tied child snatcher.
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Editing together four rather unrelated pieces into a pretty coherent whole like this is rather impressive, and having found three of the film's four subjects to be thoroughly intriguing I quite enjoyed the experience. Even so, it doesn't always fit together as well as I would have liked, sometimes feeling unfocused or repetitive.
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Almost comes together well enough, just almost. It should have been exclusively on the robotics and mammal man, with the horrid animal trainer cut right out, despite the synchronicity of it all. And I kept forgetting the gardener was even in this until another of his small segments regrettably resurfaces. The flow is just not right; a good 5-10 minutes must have been used on the superfluous circus stunt shots.
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Reminded me of Errol's first film, Gates of Heaven, but this time he had much more interesting material to work with. The soundtrack was a bit overbearing and he added a lot of stuff in with stock footage just to make it feature length, some of it was unnecessary. Pretty interesting but a forgettable film from the legendary documentarian.
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Inspired madness abound!
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flowing | 69 80% |
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The robotics engineer was fascinating (I wanted to see more of those robots!), the mole rat specialist was also really interesting, the bits with the topiary gardener would have been boring if they didn't seem so ridiculously lame, detached and unrelated (inducing some laughs even), and the animal tamer I just wished would get eaten alive for his distasteful practice and the miserable condition the lions were in. I think Morris hoped everything would get pulled together by analogy.
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One of the few documentaries that has managed to hold my attention. The four men initially seem completely unconnected to each other, but through some brilliant editing a much deeper, much subtler picture emerges. A must-watch.
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| Aug 06, 2008 | goran | 99 95% |
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Stain | 80 68% |
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Another of Errol Morris's refreshingly unconventional documentaries
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Human beings are wondrous creatures.
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meester | 78 71% |
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NeuroticErot | 78 58% |
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Svankmajer | 80 46% |
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Ytadel | 4 42% |
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A study in how powerful editing is. Creates a lot out of a little.
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MartinTeller | 64 24% |
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Occasionally interesting, but on the whole not really worthwhile. The topiary guy was especially useless, contributing almost nothing of substance. Morris went overboard with the stock footage, bloating the movie by at least 10 minutes, perhaps closer to 20. The musical score was also annoyingly intrusive.
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laika | 69 40% |
| Aug 06, 2007 | doleitout | 90 55% |
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supergloo | 10 93% |
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A deceptively profound film.
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dumbjaw | 74 83% |
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| Jan 18, 2007 | mullacc | 60 43% |
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