http://ambival.net/movies/what-the-bleep-do-we-know Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://ambival.net/movies/what-the-bleep-do-we-know#comment-1535 Ambival.net » Movies » What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:48:58 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=444#comment-1535 [...] What can I say, The Prestige triggered and broke down my fantasist node, and I just love a good natural high so I followed it with this overblown sequel to 2005’s What the Bleep do We Know!? and quite honestly, the subtitle is apt, it really made me feel a little like Alice. I’m first to admit I have no clue of the science that these documentaries discuss, except that I hear from the IMDb message boards (that reliable font of knowledge) that it’s all pretty shaky – the most scientific things I’ve read since school are the works of Carl Sagan and that’s all I personally need. These movies take a similar approach to Sagan (though for some reason I think his baloney detection kit might go off the chart at some point), really just giving some kind of hope through babble that sort of makes sense. [...] [...] What can I say, The Prestige triggered and broke down my fantasist node, and I just love a good natural high so I followed it with this overblown sequel to 2005’s What the Bleep do We Know!? and quite honestly, the subtitle is apt, it really made me feel a little like Alice. I’m first to admit I have no clue of the science that these documentaries discuss, except that I hear from the IMDb message boards (that reliable font of knowledge) that it’s all pretty shaky – the most scientific things I’ve read since school are the works of Carl Sagan and that’s all I personally need. These movies take a similar approach to Sagan (though for some reason I think his baloney detection kit might go off the chart at some point), really just giving some kind of hope through babble that sort of makes sense. [...]

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