Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Jordan Rife Overall Garbage Warrior was a documentary focusing on the architect Michael Reynolds and his advancements in ecological and sustainable living. Michael Reynolds is a trained architect of the University of Cincinnati. Soon after completing his studies Reynolds realized architecture as it stood then was worthless in the sense that it was not about people of the planet and what they needed. He then decided architecture as he knew it did not address the issues we are faces with and don't guide us where we need to go. Mike has since displayed strong focus in the efforts of these issues that people and the planet may encounter. The architect is obsessed with his work and often dreams of his projects. Michael Reynolds devotes his life to revolutionizing the world of architecture with a focus on ecological and sustainable living. Ecological and sustainable livings are seen as issues that need to be addressed NOW rather than later. These include issues of the quality of life and survival, working to discover methods of living that allow people to take care of themselves. The documentary stresses limited resources and the planet running out of oil and fresh water while also revealing issues of ozone depletion and their relation to population growth, thus expressing the planet will soon be uninhabitable. Michael Reynolds works to fight the ideas of big cities and infrastructure. He creates infrastructure inside of the structure, putting matter of life into the people's hands with potential to enhance the planet. These visions shaped the fundamental ideas of Reynold's earth-ships. Earth-ships provide their own infrastructure: providing internal sewage, growing its own food, and is also self-insulated. These earth-ships are glorifies in the documentary as big steps in directions for humanity. Earth-ships are self-sustaining and essentially provide no bills- they provide their own food with animals, bugs, and trees, and introduce ideas of thermal mass or self-insulation, along with other environmental alternatives. These earth-ships are stressed to be experimental houses. It takes clients to express Reynolds' visions physically and they are often cases of trial and error. Many times these experiments fail and the crew is sued for mistakes in building. Obvious examples of these earth ships are provided in the documentary such as Reynolds' "Thumb House". This house uses bricks made of mostly beer cans tied together with wire. This innovation lead Reynolds to other environmental building materials, eventually just using cans and bottles with mud to create walls of homes. This house also helped in the forming of ideas, such as orienting windows to the south for solar gain. These homes became more about function and possibility then of beauty, representing trial and error, experiments, and learning. Although each theory hypothesized and later proved by Michael Reynolds is not explained throughout the documentary it is easy for the reader to gain insight on the immense amount of knowledge Reynolds bears on his topic. Michael Reynolds, as portrayed in the documentary, uses his sustainable houses to aid in situations of natural disaster. In the case of the documentary, the architect and his crew build earth- ships in India made out of recycled materials. These earth-ships are proved beneficial economically, providing advantaged to the victims of disaster with the lack of bills and the decrease in the general cost of living in a self-sustaining home. By building these earth- ships in places of need, Reynolds' is not only able to help the environment but also to enhance the economy in these places as well. It is important to save resources by reducing the usage or electricity and gas but also to save money by cutting the costs of living and the dreadful bills that are seen by Americans as every- day expenses as well. Michael Reynolds is not the only master-mind behind these earth- ships though; he is generally accompanied by his crew, generally a group of men with an almost paternal, parasitic relationship to Reynolds and the earth-ship. Seen as a giant family, all members of the crew including Reynolds work towards a common motive of creating a self-sustaining society. The crew is responsible for building their own sustainable community, each granted 10 acres of their own land. An example of these communities would be the "Greater World Community" where crew members live with their families and teach the ways of their ecological studies to those around them. The members also work in a collaborative effort to create a sense of family and bonding and generally all feed off of the hard work and successes of one another. These are trained architects working together through physical labor and innovative thinking to create a revolutionary society that is not dependent on limited resources. It is important to exemplify not only the beautiful effect of stain glass created when burning plastic bottles into walls, but also to notice the architectural and environmental break-through these communities present. This was an enjoyable documentary to watch. I found myself fascinated with the work of Michael Reynolds. The documentary glorifies Reynolds almost in a sense of a God or a genius, which is not quite the entire case. The architect provides an example of larger-than-life thinking; who knows if earth-ships are really the answer to our problems or a temporary collection of recycled materials? The ideas behind his advancements and the evidence it provides obviously support his ideas of an architectural revolution with an emphasis on sustainability without exact portrayals of the success or failure of these experiments. Personally as a student of urban architecture, I envisioned Reynolds' ideas of sustainability and earth ships but on a larger scale of an urban area; imagining these structures or earth-ships as skyscrapers or multi-level structures. The documentary mostly places earth-ships in a rural or dessert-like site which may be unrealistic if these are being seen as revolutionary. Imagine earth-ships and the role they could play in regulating pollution in industrialized areas; now that could be closer to revolutionary.

sbrand21 Garbage Warrior is a documentary about an "Eco-architect" based in New Mexico named Michael Reynolds. Director Oliver Hodge gets a chance to focus on the life and works of this unique architect who develops homes out of using recycled materials like old tires cars or soda cans. This is truly a great film and I recommend everyone to watch this documentary because it will teach of the current and pressing issue of environment. The main point of this film to educate people on how there is a possibility to be completely self-sufficient but hardly anyone is pushing for this cause. Michael Reynolds feels that since we are part of nature there is spiritual connection and we have a responsibility to make this connection flourish.Michael Reynolds started began his career in the 70's, he had a very different set of mind believing that what architecture was providing for the world was pointless. He became very interested in building affordable housing that used recycled materials and where completely self-sufficient, like create its own power, or filter their own water, and/or grow their own food. Houses like this are called earth ship homes, while they sound very radical they turn out to be very beautiful. There is one scene where he is explaining the plan for his latest house and he was describing how trees will be growing in the center of the house and that birds will be able to live in there. He wanted to totally merge nature with modern living. In the 70's though was the first oil crisis so that gave him the incentive to start creating prototypes to present to people and companies. The first projects he came up with were unusual but he had faith that one day they would get more traction and more people would follow in his footsteps. HE states in the film "I always thought if you are doing things right for people, they will find you" this mind set is the reason he was able to continue his work to this day. All of his ideas have been trial and error, he did address the fact that no all of his ideas have worked and since this such an experimental project that there is a lot of room to fail. But this idea of thinking outside the box is what I believe to be the theme of this film. Reynolds was doing all of this work outside of the law and since they are self-sufficient buildings they didn't need any of the public services. The law quickly caught up with him and he was restricted so badly by the authorities of New Mexico that he quit working. Reynolds faced many adversities in this process and they labeled his work and unsafe and unhygienic. He fought relentlessly against this regulations and he wanted to create a bill that allowed areas of land to be considered land where experimental can be developed. By creating this bill the regulations that stopped him in the past would be more flexible so he could continue to work. Hodge was able to follow Reynolds through long process of the New Mexico administration. Reynold's license as an architect was revoked yet he still fought very hard to show the state legislature that his work was beneficial to not only Tsao, New Mexico but the globe as a whole. After years of hard work and persistence he was able to get the bill passed and was able to continue his work not only in New Mexico but in Honduras, Bolivia, and France. There is portion of the film where Reynolds goes to the Andaman Islands after a tsunami hit to see if he and his crew could provide any help to the redevelop the islands. He was able to design a house that captures rain water and stores it in the cellar, while air is drawn in over the water to keep the air cool. This house was built out of tires and old bottles. The film is very unique because of how it is able to capture so many things within it. Yes, it follows Michael Reynolds and his team but it follows the continuous battle of society becoming more Eco-friendly. It is people like Michael Reynolds who are the ones who inspire because it is easy to see that he is willing to die for what he believes in. Time Out New York says "Perhaps one of the primary reasons for the film's success is that the director felt it important to not preach to the choir: 'I wanted this to go out to as wide an audience as possible to get the notion of sustainable living to an audience that wasn't necessarily involved in green issues.' He notes that the film, which has been released in numerous countries, has already helped Reynolds win new commissions, including a seven-story building in Norway proving that Garbage Warrior succeeds as more than just a movie." I feel that this article expresses how much this meant not only to Michael Reynolds but to director Oliver Hodge. It seems like that this is what Hodge and Reynolds were trying to achieve this whole time with this documentary, all they needed to do was get the word out and with more people knowing about the benefits then more houses that are self-sufficient will be created. Reynolds expresses many times that humans will not be able to live on this planet much longer, and if don't make any changes soon then will be too late. I really enjoyed this film because it shows the creativity some people in this world have, while it is very hard to believe that someone builds homes out bottles and tires I would recommend anyone and everyone to watch this film. While watching this film you will learn not only the hardships of making change in today's system but see some truly beautiful homes. Sources Cited 1. Time Out New York

usalaa2 The documentary garbage warrior primary focus was based on ecological concern, and sustainable housing for all. It was very important because it will bring affordability of housing comfort to virtually everybody irrespective of societal status. But, due to the fact that its concept went against the normal bureaucratic acceptable standard of the capitalist ideology, the idea was vehemently antagonized. However, what they failed to recognize was the fact that the idea was a genuine movement that was born out of reality by the few who had witnessed it.The outline on the documentary main arguments can be classified as follows: recycling of waste product, ecological friendly environment, bureaucratic attack, and strong visionary attempt. Garbage warrior documentary emphatically proved that recycling of waste product could be useful in another dimension by turning it to remarkable materials for the construction of solid building for the betterment of many which had never been put to practice by any known person before; but architect Reynold was able to push his idea into reality for all to see the visibility of the structures.On creating an ecologically friendly environment; there is no doubting the fact that the world as a whole is highly polluted by many scientific chemical emissions that had created a lot of hazardous health problems for many people throughout the world. But, this innovation has brought up a different approach to the way and manner houses are being built or constructed through the regular conventional ways of doing things that had contributed to the deterioration of health of many, while uncountable souls had also been lost through it.Moreover, the bureaucratic attack that came the way of architect Michael was highly unprecedented in his attempt to push his idea across the bureaucratic conventional ways; because it was more or less an affront and somewhat confrontational to the already established status quo which was not meant to be challenged by not just anybody. But, due to strong visionary mind of architect Reynold, he never relent in his efforts to get things done, as he made his focus the priority of his mission to achieve what he initially set out to do by not allowing all the obstacles that came his way to deter him of his vision. Because he was very convinced that his idea was one of a kind that could change and turn the old concept around for better.The basis of the argument on the issue raised in the documentary could be said to be the durability, acceptability, and comfort-ability of the projected proposed housing idea movement; which came as a surprise to the capitalist bureaucrats who never wanted an alternative view to their already established ideology. But the practicability of eco-friendly housing structure was made possible by architect Michael and his few allies who had built some and had started living in it. The major fact of the matter is that they had succeeded in generating their own solar energy, growing their own food, providing their own water, and supplying their own heat, as well as recycling their waste without the support of any modern technology which is at the cost of cut throat rate. The combination and compilation of many waste products such as plastic bottles, empty beer cans, old tires, and other waste items put together by this genius architect was never thought to be possible, talk less of having acceptance in Andaman Island after the deadly tsunami attack. In furtherance of the set out goal, it was a mission accomplished for architect Michael and his team; but a no go area for the capitalist who never wanted a prospective change that will benefit the mass majority. Because the prospect of its success will be a huge compromise on their part. Although, no institution will like to lose its domineering trend, but the only thing that is constant in life itself is change; hence, sooner or later further research will emerge to give this noble development the authenticity it deserve for the greater advantage of the entire humanity. In evaluating the argument thrown up in the documentary Garbage Warrior; many factors will have to be put into consideration in the sense that there are already established procedures and protocols that must be dully followed before any meaningful housing structure can be erected. However, despite the fact that rules and regulations must be respected to promote a decent society. We should not also forget the fact that it is to the advantage of all to equally give room to positive change irrespective of where it is coming from; because nobody could claim monopoly of knowledge, and the way architect Michael went about his research and idea was never armful to anybody. In fact he was always ready to subject himself to the authority to proof his discovery whenever they are ready to listen to him. This conclusion could be attest to in many of the comments relayed in the course of the argument by various people, due to the prospect it will have on their wellbeing, and it equally shows how worried and concern many feel as it relates to the environment which they knew very well the eventual consequence will be to the detriment of many if the eco-friendly idea is not looked into. The quality of the data had a very good analysis because it was well looked into, and without being biased Reynold himself was a qualified architect that pretty much knew what he was doing. Also the effectiveness of the argument was very catching, and the presentation was equally impressive for adequate understanding of the issue. The missing part was not really visible for many to see, so it cannot be controverted as such. Therefore, without any fear of contradiction, I can convincingly say that the documentary surely added up to my knowledge of understanding on urban planning issue.

bbdavenport I found this documentary online after seeing an Earthship house outside of Taos NM. What the houses represent is compelling - self-contained off-the-grid houses built mostly from local materials. Dozens of these houses dot the high desert blending into the landscape. The movie is about Michael Reynolds, the man behind these novel structures and his thirty year journey. Initially, he is a dreamer, then a designer and experimenter. Over time people join him and his vision starts to spread. He and the people he attracts come across as a little crazy, but in a fun way.There is a bit of real-life problems for the protagonist. The movie shows how he adapts to some serious adversity. This makes the movie even more interesting. Perhaps the forces arrayed against him are simplified and not given a fair shake in the film that approaches the issues firmly from the point of view of Michael Reynolds. That's okay really. Michael and a lot of the people he deals with come from two different worlds, Most of us were born inside the system or 'the box'. Michael Reynolds (and a lot of people) think the system isn't sustainable. He is looking for solutions outside of the box.This is the crux of the movie. If you are worried about where things are headed, the movie should give you a little hope. And that isn't a bad thing.