Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? (2011)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

After thinking about this film for a while, I am convinced it is indeed propaganda. I do not know how it was supported or produced or by whom, but the end result is to associate things that are true (and we must address) with things that are normally associated with acknowledged conspiracy theories that appeal to a small group of people but mainstream media successfully ridicules. The effect is to impugn very legitimate and clear concerns and solutions by associating them with outlandish unlikely fantasies. If intentional is is scurrilous. If not it is grossly irresponsible.A brief visit of the website associated with this film reveals an agenda of climate change denial while the film actually advocates sustainable energy. This contradiction cannot be ignored . . . It is clearly understandable why many of those interviewed decided to write a letter publicly disassociating themselves with the final product . . .

In its essence Thrive is not a film which promotes bad ideas... That we would live in a better world with its wealth equally spread around people and with humanity leave a lesser environmental print...However, from the first minutes a big Propaganda/sect alarm rang in my head. The first animation made me think of the creation of the world and all.. matter being formed, life starting in the ocean and then the dolphin evolves in a reptile... Yes you read me! That's how I interpreted these first shots... From that moment I was watching being very caution!!Then just after that the statement that life is made to thrive and why then we as human beings, for a majority of us it's more about survival? Come on! The life a of cheetah is not about thriving, it's about being fast enough to get a meal... Life is always (whether human or other) about competition... Like eat or be eaten. Of course, due to our intellect, we humans may be able to solve one another's problem so we as a specie can get closer to that thrive ideal...But what really irritated me in Thrive is the tone or some aspect of the form. If the first part which is more science isn't to bad, I really hated the world domination conspiracy theory where Gamble sitting in his nice arm chair is almost always sitting as God in space or above Earth or some earth features... Did we really need that? Did we need the cheap animation which sometimes made me think more of a Goa fest than a pretending serious documentary?There are many many many examples in this film of things which could be interesting but are treated lightly. Also I had the feeling sometimes really was getting twisted to fit the purpose... The crop circles and UFO bits are a good example of this. It's rather strange to have those things next to Nicola Tesla's findings. More science and less theoretical blah blah would have surely done a better job in convincing me!I really hooked off after 90 minutes and by the time the film became an advertising for the website (where you are kindly ask to make a donation for I don't know what's purpose) I was really absent minded...You should watch the film as it will make you think on things you may not think about in your every day life. But don't expect to get excited...

Host was using every now and then some key words, talking about him on life-long quest in search for answer, ancient wisdom he learn about universal in Universe patterns, he called him self "independent journalist" as well.If you'd like to know what's this about, well it's just poorly made propaganda on Illuminati preventing us from having clean source of clean energy, from contact with friendly aliens, from being happy, libertarian society with unlimited income and extremely limited taxes.And apparently they'll kill some of us with laser beams from orbit, because we have now microchips in our bodies and government can track us down, and there are camps (I can't see why not) all over the USA just getting ready for American citizens to be contained, and probably slaughtered.Just save your time, please and watch something else.

Besides the alien stuff which is harder to prove this documentary is very accurate according to my own research over the past few years. To the guy from Denmark who said this was nothing but propaganda, maybe you should take them time to do your own research on these subjects. Also I agree people should not always believe everything they see or read especially when it comes from known liars and people with an agenda. No one fits those characteristics better than corporations and governments. If people are interested in a few books of well sourced material on some of these topics, I recommend En Route To Global Occupation by Gary Kah, Mankind At The Turning Point which is a book put out by one of the elites think tank groups the Club of Rome. A few more books that get in to the agenda of the elites and the organizations and think tanks they run try The deliberate dumbing down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt and Behind The Green Mask: UN Agenda 21 by Rosa Koire. You can get the original edition of the deliberate dumbing down for free in digital format at deliberatedumbingdown.com or buy her new revised and abridged edition on that site or Amazon.