The worst movie ever!
September 8th, 2007
Tonight we almost finished what might be the worst movie ever: “What the Bleep do we know?”. We’re about 3 years late to reviewing it, but just in case you are thinking about renting it — don’t! I will spare you the torture by highlighting a couple of tidbids about the movie.
The summary of a plot: your thoughts literally create your reality because quantum physics says so (the phrase “quantum physics” is used in almost every sentence throughout the film). The format: mix of computer graphics, talking heads, and several mini-stories loosely related to each other. No wonder that the talking heads weren’t introduced till the end of the movie — most of them are members of a particular cult and include an Oregon housewife aka the cult leader who was not talking to the camera as herself but rather she WAS CHANNELING A 35,000-year-old warrior spirit. Says so in the credits to the movie itself. Should I even continue debunking? Oh, what the hell…
The movie uses several examples of how thoughts supposedly change reality: an “experiment” where a large-scale meditation group decreased violent crimes in DC by 25% (in reality, the murder rate went up 18% during that time and the pseudo-scientists who conducted the exercise got Ig Nobel prize for it.) Another “proof” is somewhat-known experiment of water freezing in different patterns depending on what emotions were channeled to it, so water that “was loved” produced pretty crystals while water that was “hated” didn’t look so good. A brief googling of the experiment reveals that the “scientist” knew what words were spoken to a particular bottle of water, so if the word was “hate”, the guy just keep looking for a mal-formed crystal to photograph etc.
By the time the movie made a statement that each individual cell in our body has independent contentiousness, I had to turn it off. What a waste of time and how very sad that this movie did well at the box office.
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