 "The Quality of Thinking" | 2008-10-01 |
| - Reviewed By zindwillbipkin |
| When "What the Bleep Do You Know" came to the theatre, I was almost alone in the audience. I told a lot of my friends about it; and the second time I went there were seven of us in the audience, six of whom I knew. So this was not well publicized in our small city, but still drew people to it. Had it played more than a week, perhaps we'd have had a dozen! I recently saw a used copy and decided to add it to my collection. br /br /I really enjoyed this docu-drama. I found the use of actors, scientists and animation to have enough diversity to keep my attention. It was both informative and entertaining. Marlee Matlin won an Oscar Golden Globe for "Children of a Lesser God" in 1986. She does good work as Amanda who has come out of a marriage with an unfaithful husband and chip on her shoulder. Her houseguest Jennifer is played by the perky Elaine Hendrix, who gets to foot paint. I also thought John Ross Bowie as Eliot that Amanda meets while she photographs a wedding did a nice job. br /br /The subject matter intrigues me. As I've thought about this film, I keep considering how our expectations color our perceptions. If you ever heard a record by Harry Nilsson called The Point! (Deluxe Packaging), I keep recalling, "You see what you want to see; and you hear what you want to hear." In much that same way, if we work to make our thinking positive, I believe we perceive the positive aspects of things happening around us and draw more positive things to us. I particularly was impressed when I watched the DVD how one scientist planned his day. I've been trying to work with this idea, thinking about being positive and loving with the people with whom I'm in contact, even praying for those where disagreements seem to persist. My experience is that when I do this, I have a better day! br /br /I was also very impressed in The Urantia Book how it says that thoughts are things. We know although it's not able to be seen, air is a thing. For those of us living in the hurricane belt, we know air (wind) can be destructive. In the same way, I think this film illustrates the chemical counterparts of thought in the brain. Just like air can be positive and life-giving or destructive and life-taking, I believe the consequences of thought can also be similar. Yet few work to seriously address the quality of their thinking.br /br /When I watch this film, I don't perceive it as having to believe everything in it before I can get something from it. Parts of it have relevance to me, particularly I'm in a bit different place in 2008 than I was when the film came out in 2004. So I recommend this film. I seem to get new things as I watch it over time. Enjoy! |
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| "Pretty Good Worth Watching" | 2008-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1T802PUUZZYGG |
| I enjoyed it very much. The scenarios with the deaf woman were really unnecessary but not so distracting to make it unwatchable. It was fun, thought provoking, etc. I would recommend it if you like this genre. |
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 "We literally create our own possibilities" | 2008-09-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3HREGZ51J1Q9J |
Have you ever had a movie recommended and watched it just to see what all the fuss was about? That's how I came to watch "What The Bleep Do We Know." If you are interested in the power of the human mind and how it affects self-development, it's my turn to recommend this DVD to you.
First let me say I know nothing about quantum physics. What The Bleep Do We Know isn't a DVD for scientists; it's for everyday people who want to understand how the human mind works to help create our day-to-day lives. Think of What The Bleep as The Secret under a fascinating scientific microscope.
My husband and I watched this DVD for the third time last night and we were both taking notes. I have five pages of notes and "aha's." If you're ready to change negativity into possibility thinking, I suggest it's time to watch What The Bleep Do We Know.
Marlee Matlin plays the main character Amanda who is negative, angry and stressed. In Amanda's life, the glass is always half empty. Through a series of eye-opening "coincidences" she begins to see how her life can be more content, fulfilled and satisfying.
This DVD is a wonderful lesson about quantum physics and the human mind disguised as a well-made Hollywood movie. Every assertion made in What The Bleep Do We Know is backed up by scientific fact and explained in very colorful and interesting detail.
If you're ready to understand the scientific "secret" of your mind and how it literally creates the world around you, I highly recommend What The Bleep Do We Know. I believe though, you have to be in the right place at the right time in your life to truly appreciate the power of this message.
The biggest lesson I learned: We literally create our own possibilities.
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 "Garbage" | 2008-09-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3SFO2GSP5CVSM |
Recently, on a visit from my mother-in-law, I was surprised that she wanted to take me and my wife to see a documentary film about `quantum physics'. The surprise came from the fact that she is far more wont to New Agey beliefs than either of us. The film was called What the #$*! Do We Know? After seeing it I understand why my mother-in-law was interested in this `physics film'- because it's not about physics. Instead, it's a propaganda film put out by a cult headed by a bovine blond woman named JZ Knight, who's claimed for decades that she channels the spirit of a 35,000 year old warrior from Atlantis named Ramtha. Yet, it's not even a clever little film as propaganda, because it's so poorly edited, atrociously acted, and inanely backdropped against a dozen or so talking heads of the sort that usually delineate documentaries. Except, there's a difference. These talking heads go uncredited until the end of the film because they are all charlatans and quacks. The film also had three directors- William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente- who just happen to be Ramtha cultists. Worse, the film's a mess- all that spiritualism and not a dram of creativity? This is not like New York Stories where three great directors- Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese- did three small films that were independent. This film is tripartite, but interspersed like water, oil, and- oh- New Age bilge. It's part faux documentary, part lame Junior High/Industrial film, part psychedelic cartoon. Tag team directing, yet no one in charge.
This film is a combination of bad art, and emotional and intellectual dishonesty- the very reason they do not give the names and backgrounds of the `experts' until the end. The problem is not that the film has no answers to the questions it posits, but the questions, themselves, are asked with annoying smirks by condescending fakers who seem contented with their own superiority, and ignorance. Here's hoping rationality still has a place in President Bush's world (grimace). |
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| "What a Review on What the Bleep and the Rabbit Hole" | 2008-09-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A34LJPQJ5VWVZV |
| Interesting concepts on taking responsibility and our place in the scheme of things. However, there is a lot of repeat material and two DVDs would have done the job. |
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 "Well, not that" | 2008-09-16 |
| - Reviewed By wiredweird |
This movie presents an odd mix - a positive personal outlook with scientific substrate. The writers draw on brain imagining, neurochemistry, and quantum physics. Using those bases, they describe how the intention to feel a certain way or to have specific events occur comes from a personal choice. That in turn changes the body, the physical substance of the mind, to reinforce those feelings. It's a positive and empowering message.
The problem is, they distort or simply invent the science to support their message. Yes, in a common interpretation, the quantum wave function collapses when the observer measures the phenomenon (creating profound philosophical quandaries). That does not imply that happy thoughts affect the outcome of that collapse. There's some unsound biology, as well, too much to go into.
On the whole, this comes across as a gram of genuine fact diluted in liters of wishful thinking.
-- wiredweird |
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| "wow" | 2008-09-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2R601SA938FZU |
| love this edition. love the randomization. learn something new every time and want to go further down the rabbit hole. |
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| "Someday maybe churches will be 5% as worthwhile" | 2008-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A9TYTZ7RT5ADR |
Awestruck In Action....... Good place for scientists to show... NO FEAR.. to grow. As well as THE DIRECTION the churches WILL GO....... or those churches will go. As in "away".
PRAISE THE LAW! PRAISE THE LORD! no diff. |
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| "A Metaphysical Journey Captured On Film" | 2008-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By ulearn2seekup |
| The timing of my watching this movie a couple of weeks back was impeccable due to the unexpected death of a very dear friend. "The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery," is one of the many brilliant thoughts you'll hear throughout, as an abundance of teachers and scientists give their view on the meanings of life. The concepts and applications of science and spirituality do come together throughout this movie, and all cleverly woven into a storyline featuring Amanda(Marlee Matlin)as a frustrated photographer who begins to question her own purpose on this earth, and comes to understand, as we all should, how there's always a deeper meaning to everything we experience. You will be enthralled as this film gives you the opportunity to take your own spiritual-metaphysical odyssey as you follow the story and words of wisdom offered, and you will likely feel like a different person by the time the credits are rolling. The storyline itself is also very witty, touching, and funny, plus the whole scene where Amanda observes everybody and then lets loose at the wedding reception is unforgettable, creative, and simply classic. |
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 "THIS IS NOT THE MOVIE" | 2008-08-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A28PU8PCKODAOL |
| I liked this longer version of "down the rabbit hole" but it is not the movie that I thought it was, the movie is "what the bleep do we know" |
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