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Insane or Con Man

posted 13 years ago by rustblack
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I sure felt conned into watching this movie. Not one scene struck me as laughable, but many scenes were absurd. My belief is this guy is intentionally over the top because every now and then, a sucker will come along and take the bait. Case in point, anyone who would pay this joker $5 to lecture, much less make him a top ten highest paid speaker in the world.

The filmmaker probably thinks he advanced his career by exploiting a mentally unstable egomaniac. I think it was the other way around.

A water powered bike for ~$200k USD that by the way, you have to pedal. A roller skate boot mounted on a remote control car. Nakamats was just too coherent when speaking of these wacky products. It's fraud if you know its a lie, so one has to pretend to believe.

[–] milesdigby 12 years ago

The man obviously does not know its a lie. Yes he probably is not on the top 10 paid lectures either. How could you ever take that seriously, there were 100 people in the room.

Also the prize he won in America is the IG-Noble awards (the anti Noble prizes) given out to silly people. Most would never come to the awards out of shame. But he sees a great photo op and he is there.

Was not the best doc I have ever seen but its only 57 minutes and it held my interest.