Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Did you people see the same film I saw?

A Major Disappointment

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Well i'm not an American, nor Japanese the examples given are too specific and might have nothing to do with many people in the rest of the world. The example of ethnicity by names, and sumo wrestlers, they could have given better examples as i was expecting some real economics in this documentary.. too low to be called a documentary. There were some interesting parts of how crime rate reduced by legalizing abortions. The incentives article made no sense, totally. Do they wanna show incentives work or not?

As for the movie and book I thought they were both great. I would just like to add my own personal insight on the portion a out the sumo "cheaters.". I don't think they are cheaters at all. I think their behavior falls into a different category called self preservation. Just like any NFL team that has already sealed a playoff spot facing a team trying to make the post season. The better playoff team is not going to try as hard. i.e. not play all their starters or not play as aggressive. That team is not throwing the game in hopes of getting the favor returned. They are just just avoiding injury and resting up for a more important match. I imagine in japan as in America it's not a big secret that teams or wrestlers in these situations are expected to perform sub-par and the statistics showing this pattern would be accepted as normal.

A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics. I did not read the book, but now feel I do not need to (unless I want to examine the data). The film did such a thorough job of explaining its findings and making it fascinating and somewhat entertaining.I found out that sumo wrestling may be as rigged as the WWE, though not quite as bad. Black names have an impact on your job prospects, but more interestingly there is a socioeconomic status of white names -- a name's popularity can rise or fall based on social factors.I learned why not to trust a real estate agent, and that once upon a time people thought ice cream causes polio -- a great lesson in correlation and causation. They went over the controversial claim that legalized abortion lowers violent crime.And, perhaps the strangest thing of all, a kid makes a tattoo gun out of an electric toothbrush... and even with this mind of ingenuity still cannot pass his classes. We are guided on this journey by such notable documentary filmmakers as Alex Gibney and Morgan Spurlock.

The first scene with the real estate segment is interesting. The rest is useless information and strange hypothesizing about things. With information interpretation one could arrive in opposite conclusions using the same data according to a philosophy that suited him.The school incentive segment is exceptionally distasteful. Paying kids for doing their homework, great idea, maybe the grading teachers can get in on that deal. These guys appear smart none the less, maybe they should try to understand the underlying causes of these problems and come back with some real answers. Definitely not what you expect to watch and definitely not worth watching it.