Dreadfully Boring

Awesome Movie

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's quite unfair for those who tune in for the science stuff that the latter half of the movie started going "spiritual". It's really exciting for the scientific parts, but I gotta say, you see, science experiments that seem unexplainable are often inconclusive, controversial, debatable, and might later be explainable. For example: the 2 slit experiment. Remember the tiny electrons that got shoot out? As it turns out, they don't emit light. So for scientists to be able to observe it, the observation device (which is presented in the movie as a big eye) shoots out photons somehow to make the electron detectable. So, what collapses the wave function of the electrons to become particles is actually caused by the photons. It's called the observer effect. Something like taking a photo of a man and he closes his eyes because of the flash. Plus, the latter half of the movie is really, really creepy. It's like they were trying to convince you and convert you into some kind of spiritual cult, like a cult gathering or wake-up-now gathering, brainwashing. I am truly disappointed.

I actually liked this movie very much, even though there are lots of things to be disliked. The first time I saw it, I thought that it was jaw-dropping. Then after that I researched some of the claims and unfortunately it seems that some of the things presented as truth are not true at all. And yes, I'm also very cautious with people who claim that they are a medium and there is one medium in this film...But next to that there are a lot of interesting things said in this film by some very intelligent people. So my advise is to not take everything too seriously and to draw your own conclusions about the things said in this film. Don't let the false claims and the medium distract you from the interesting stuff this movie has to offer.

A load of pseudo-scientific nonsense seemingly aimed at the gullible by members of a New Age cult/organisation fronted by J Z Knight, who according to John Olmstead (http://skepdic.com/ramtha.html) said the warrior/god Ramtha "...first appeared to her, while she was in business school having extraordinary experiences with UFOs.She must have a great rapport with her spirit companion, since he shows up whenever she needs him to put on a performance. It is not clear why Ramtha would choose Knight, but it is very clear why Knight would choose Ramtha: fame and fortune, or simple delusion?" "...conducts sessions in which she pretends to go into a trance and speaks Hollywood's version of Elizabethan English in a guttural, husky voice. She has thousands of followers and has made millions of dollars performing as Ramtha at seminars ($1,000 a crack) and at her Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and from the sales of tapes, books, and accessories (Clark and Gallo 1993)." Another reviewer, Johann Hari, had this to say: The global understanding of science is being slowly contaminated.If you want an example of this new pseudo-science, check out the dismal, brain-rotting movie What the Bleep Do We Know? which arrived in the UK fresh from sleeper-success in the States. Marlee Matlin plays a woman who is having a strange day; she meets a boy who is capable of bizarre physical tricks, and he asks her, 'How far down the rabbit-hole do you want to go?' The film claims to be a serious study of the philosophical implications of quantum physics, and Matlin's story is intercut with interviews from people who seem to be scientists. At first, they simply point out some of the extraordinary things that have emerged from the study of matter at a quantum (sub-molecular) level. But gradually the film begins to stir in unscientific (and absurd) extrapolations from quantum physics. The movie's 'scientists' begin to claim that discoveries in quantum physics provide proof for a whole range of fantastical New Age claims. They say you can walk on water if only 'you believe it with every fibre of your being'.The real scientist Richard Dawkins summarises the film's assumptions: 'Quantum physics is deeply mysterious and incomprehensible. Eastern spirituality is deeply mysterious and incomprehensible. Therefore they must be saying the same thing.' Sadly, Dawkins' reaction is an exception; many newspapers have lauded the film as a 'brilliant scientific study'.Okay, so it's a dumb movie, you might think, but what harm does it do? On its own, very little. But What the Bleep ... bears all the hallmarks of the new pseudo-sciences. One typical tactic is to take a gap in scientific evidence and fill it with faith-based claims. For example, geologists have discovered a gap in the fossil record which makes it hard to explain how evolution worked at certain periods. The neo-creationists seize on this and claim it as 'proof' that evolution didn't happen at all. (Incredibly, over 40 per cent of Americans believe them). The New Agers do the same with the gaps in quantum physics. (From The Independent a UK quality newspaper).

As can be expected, the comments on this run the gamut as though people were picked randomly from a crowd to watch it. For anyone who has looked into Science, Metaphysics, Occultism-Ugh, Spiritualism, Rosicrucianism, Templarism, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Shamanism, hypnotism and ESPECIALLY post-classical physics, this is HIGHLY interesting, particularly the Double-Slit experiment segment. For the most part, these are intelligent no-nonsense people in Part 1, have not seen Part 2 yet. OK, so ignore the parts you don't like, quit getting huffy about pseudo-science and enjoy! For anyone who is interested in the world around them and attempts to understand it, this will be very entertaining. If you're only interested in confirming your own beliefs, or in just slamming it for slamming sake, go back to grade school, or into a coma so the world might be a better place without your "observation." BwAAAAHAHAHHAHAMuaaaaHHHHHH !!!