What The Bleep Do We Know? Movie Question

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Yea, my physics teacher wants to show this movie to the class, and because I hadn't heard of it I just did a search on google and came up with some pretty harsh reviews. Some calling it a New Age hippy propoganda video. There was also something about blasting water with different emotions to change it's molecular structure mentioned. Anyone else seen this movie? Is it really as bad as some of the reviews are making it sound?

Just want to add the reason the teacher wants to show it. He said it might make a good introduction to the idea of QM, being a friendly video not requiring any prior education in it. This is also a Catholic highschool, so if it's religious maybe that's also part of the reason.

I would have suggested The Elegant Universe as I saw that this summer and thought it was pretty cool, but the idea only came to me now.

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See Skeptico's brilliant article on it and the hillarity that ensues when the woo-woos come out of the woodwork to defend this garbage. Too n00b to post links. He's a member here: rrockley. Just check his blog and search for "What the (Bleep)".

The flick is hillarious, btw.
 
It may be interesting to know that the "leader" of the AVN (an anti-vaccination movement) in the USA, one Sheri Nakken, was profoundly moved by this movie, thinks it is a masterpiece, and that it "answers all the science questions about homeopathy".

No wonder they sound so looney, if this is the quality of their leadership!
 
Have to agree. It is one of the most insipid and brainless movies I have ever seen. (and I see quite alot of them)
 
Thanks for the warning! I had seen the previews for the movie and thought that it was actually scientific in nature. But now I can save my hard earned money to rent the Family Guy movie. Once I can actually find it in stock that is...
 
Oh man. A very close friend's wife called me to rave about the movie and to tell me how she just knew I would love it. She kept telling me it was all about this cool "universe stuff" and that it was right up my alley. I was diplomatic and thanked her and told her I'd look into it.

I imdb'ed it and, well, oh man. I got the very firm impression it is so full of new age idiocy that I would probably throw up in the first 15 minutes of it. I think the Family Guy Stewie movie probably has more to say about physics and cosmology than this thing does, but I haven't seen either of them.

AS
 
Well thanks for the information guys. I've shared it with a few others in the class and we've decided to just have agood laugh that day. From the review I read that was suggested above, I will be laughing quite a bit.
 
I can't wait until your class gets to the bits with JZ Knight and "Ramtha" doing scientific explanations of stuff. *snort* What money the whole class will crack up at that point? ;) :D
 
If you have time, why not conspire with some classmates to make it a sort of Rocky Horror Picture Bleep?

Find out some key WTF?! moments from some of the reviews and plan a clever group reaction for each one. Or at least plan ahead and conspire to be on the lookout for those key moments and break out in incredulous, uncontrollable laughter.
 
chipmunk stew said:
If you have time, why not conspire with some classmates to make it a sort of Rocky Horror Picture Bleep?

Find out some key WTF?! moments from some of the reviews and plan a clever group reaction for each one. Or at least plan ahead and conspire to be on the lookout for those key moments and break out in incredulous, uncontrollable laughter.
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I love it!

and costumes, you must have costumes.
 
Yeah, you could all dress up as transvestites.

jordan_o, you go to a Catholic high school? What do you learn in biology class? Do they mention the "E" word?
 
My favourite part of this 'mockumentry' is when one of the commentators suggests that when Columbus arrived in some far off land with a fleet of tall ships the natives couldn't actually see the ships because they had no concept of what they were!!!!

yes folks, just imagine how stupid you would have to be to even think of diggesting such an idea.

I would advise everyone you likes a good laugh to see this film, it is hilarious. One of the funniest things that happened when watching it was the woo-woos sitting infront of me turning around and asking me to stop laughing so loudly!

I rank this kind of entertainment up there with Pat Robertson's daily 700 club broadcast, if you haven't seen that already just google for the 700 club and watch online. Its pure gold, yesterday the guy suggested that the inhabitants of a Pennsylvania town that they would be cursed by god for voting out pro intelligent design school governers. You couldn't make it up! You can read this story on cnn:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/10/religion.robertson.reut/index.html
 
I've actually seen a portion of this film. It was one of the free shows offered on digital cable in my area.

The 2 sentence summary looked interesting so I punched it up one evening. I kept waiting for it to get better but it never did. I kept waiting for it to discuss QM but it never really did. Eventually I could not "suspend disbelief" any longer and had to leave the room. It sucks that you are going to be forced to watch it.

LLH
 
dogbite666 said:
My favourite part of this 'mockumentry' is when one of the commentators suggests that when Columbus arrived in some far off land with a fleet of tall ships the natives couldn't actually see the ships because they had no concept of what they were!!!!

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If you are lucky, you can find the thread where Interesting Ian insisted that this was true. It might be the same thread where he claimed that two monitor colors that were exactly the same were, in fact, not.
 
dogbite666 said:
My favourite part of this 'mockumentry' is when one of the commentators suggests that when Columbus arrived in some far off land with a fleet of tall ships the natives couldn't actually see the ships because they had no concept of what they were!!!!

yes folks, just imagine how stupid you would have to be to even think of diggesting such an idea.
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Sometime last spring this "fact" was brought to our attention during an extended family gathering by a certain relative. I laughed and said is was rediculous, especially since the Carib indians there were on ISLANDS... and they used large canoes to often travel between those islands. Reminding this relative that I happened to have spent about a third of my youth in Panama and Venezuela... and that the latter required a designated amount of education of kids in the "American" schools in the local history (which is where I learned about the slaughter of the entire population of the Carib being the reason for importing slaves from Africa -- I got the "PC" version of the history of Cristobal Colon way before anyone noticed in the USA).

Anyway, she blathered on more about.

The reason I am bumping this thread up NOW ... is that this same relative gave us a copy of the this video. Oh, blech! She claimed it made her happy... to which I whispered to dear hubby "That it should make us hilariously happy!". Later that evening I showed him Skeptico's review of it, and laughed along with me.

Oh... also during Christmas dinner she revealed to us that sea salt is better because "regular salt" is 30% sand! Which I commented would be interesting since mined salt is from ancients seas that have dried up before human pollution, and then told her about how much fun hubby and I had touring a salt mine near Salzberg. I also thought it would be harder to keep sand out of "sea salt" if it was dried on beaches.

It seems there are some who believe too much of what they read on the internet.
 
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