Nice effects though.
... View Moreif their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
... View MoreAlthough I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
... View MoreThe storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
... View MoreIt was not until toward the end that you found out that this is just a long pitch for the Ramtha cult. The movie mixes weak assumptions from quantum physics with New Age thought. Throw in some pseudoscience and magical thinking that you can construct your own reality, you have this garbage. The methodology is to start gently with some true, but very limited and selective statements about quantum physics and neurobiology. These parts are often said by scientists, but then these are mixed together with talks from Ramtha cult representatives in order to draw far-reaching (to not say completely incorrect) conclusions about metaphysics. I can understand that some people caught up in the rhetoric, but this is certainly a film that only spreads ignorance and misinformation.
... View MoreWhat a shockingly rough movie to watch. While there are plenty of clues in the film itself, it's pretty hard to discover who is REALLY behind the movie without digging deep: The Ramtha School of Enlightment (or RSE). RSE is another Scientology-like "cult"-like religion, so BE ADVISED that you are in for a namby-pamby recruiting tool rather than an informative movie if you go to see "What the Bleep Do We Know". The movie: Marlee Matlin mugs and grimaces her way through this horrendously-directed digital atrocity, making for plenty of unintentional and embarrassing laughs as she mouths her dialogue in classic "deaf" accent, surrounded by headache-inducing, often intrusive CGI animation (the entire theme of which is ripped straight from the classic short film "Powers of Ten"). The film presents a universe so perfectly caucasian that when ethnicity is finally portrayed you actually get a WISE BLACK BOY WITH A BASKETBALL (I'm not kidding) and a Native American in full stereotypical feathered head-dress. Matlin's character lives in a faux-industrial yuppie loft (appropriate, considering it was shot in the loft-happy Pacific Northwest) and has a "wacky" artist roommate.Furthermore, the film is so unsure of itself and its narrative that it winds up playing any attempts at humor with equally broad strokes; within one atrocious set piece (an apparent Polish wedding) there is a "Polack" joke which goes un-challenged, grotesque sub-Pixar CGI creatures running about, "Porky's"-level teen sex gags, an embarrassing "polka" dance number and even a very graphic near-porn moment or two. All of this "legitimized" by the often spaced-out meanderings of various real-life scientists, mystics (yes, mystics), chiropractors and writers, who throw quantum theory at the viewer through a series of impenetrable interviews (and none of the voices are given screen identification until the end of the film). There's even a totally out of place sequence discussing crystals, sure to tickle the new-agers in the audience. It all doesn't add up to a hill of beans in any informational sense... 108 minutes of a handful of simple messages, among them: addiction is bad, right and wrong can get very confused, black children aren't all thugs and monogamy is always for the birds.Previous cult leaders have made movies before; remember The "Moonies"' Reverend Sun Myung Moon and "Inchon"? At least that was basically just a dull war movie, rather than a blatant recruitment tool for a cult. You have been warned.
... View MoreAs a fictional Sci Fi film this movie is neat but as a documentary it is more a theological presentation not Physics. The part where this shows this to the viewer is at the end when they introduce those that they interview. Most are educated people of science then you meet the blond woman in with the odd accent. "Ramtha" Master Teacher – Ramtha School of Enlightenment Channeled by JZ Knight. WTF? So I looked tat up and found .a main authority for the information being presented, (in the film WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?) is a 35,000 year old warrior spirit from Atlantis, being channeled by this Tacoma housewife turned... whatever
... View MoreIf there's two points people should get out of the movie, it is:1. We train our brain the way we think. 2. If we have a negative (pessimistic) attitude about something, we won't change.I think #1 is very important in understanding why we get upset so easily sometimes. It has virtually nothing about what happened, but more about how we've trained ourselves to react and behave based on certain stimulus. That is why two different people can have completely different reactions to the same stimulus. If you get upset very easily, even at loved ones, and if you do nothing to try to correct the behavior, it basically gets worse and worse over time.Related to #2, if we don't open our minds and accept the fact that the way we've been thinking is wrong, we won't change. That is why people rarely change. In order for them to change, they need to accept the fact that the way they behaved previously was wrong.It is not surprising how certain people have reacted to this movie. I hope that they have their own ways to find happiness. I am sure that they do, but this movie is a step in the right direction if you want to be happy all of the time. If you don't believe you can be happy all of the time, see #2.
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