What the crap did I just watch?
Apparently, it's been around for a while. It's called What the Bleep Do We Know, and as far as I can tell, it is the worst thing ever filmed. It has Marlee Matlin as the world's least interesting protagonist. It's...everything awful all at once.
Words actually fail me. It was a rambling incoherent mass of bad...everything. Fuck! Five for Hell suddenly seems polished!
It's a bunch of interviews about quantum physics by people who are basically unqualified to have opinions about such things. Oh, and an alien-spirit-thing named Ramtha. I had heard of Ramtha, but I never realized how fucking ridiculous it was.
It's a cult film, not in a good sense, but a film made by cult members. Seriously. I believe the phrase "quantum flapdoodle" was invented to describe this film.
Marlee Matlin made me hate her personally in this movie. Man. MAN! Marlee plays Amanda, the world's most utterly self-absorbed borderline, no, full-fledged psychotic who goes off her meds. Some smug asshole kid on a basketball court says that basketballs are everywhere at once and her spiral into complete unwatchability begins. She has baggage, Amanda does, and not only the mildly retarded hippie roommate who needs to be punched repeatedly.
There are Polish jokes, rather a lot of them, and terminator-enabled horny teenagers and dancing burping fat cells, and CGI brain animations and cartoons and a total rip-off of the "flatland" section of Cosmos. Also, Armin Shimerman, Principle Snider from Buffy, shows up spewing total crap. Holy mother of fuck those actors must have been well-paid.
The film making was as utterly nonsensical and chaotic as the non-story and non-argument that the interviewees made. From beginning to long-delayed end, it was clearly the product for disordered minds. Totally...unfathomably unwatchable.
I'm so going to assign it to my class. :)
HJ







7 comments:
I saw it (or parts of it) a few years ago on HBO or Starz, before I really got interested in skeptical stuff, so I didn't really know what it was at the time.
I thought it was just something you were supposed to watch while high. I remember a lot of tie dye lights shooting across the screen like they filmed a winamp visualizer through a lava lamp and then filled the audio track with electronic crap while some hippy stoners droned on about how everything was connected or some shit.
Oh I watched that! Your students will hate you forever.
HAHA. When I saw your headline on my news feed I thought, "He must have just watched Glen Beck or the stupid Quantum Matlin movie." The first time I watched it I laughed my ass off. Then I watched it with my daughter who was taking college physics at the time and because of her laughing I lost a few more body parts. If I watched it now I'd die because I'd hear Penn Jillette doing a "Bullshit!" voice over with an incessant, "WHAT. THE. FUCK?"
Excellent choice of crap to show your students! It's all in there. That film has it all deliciously presented, too, with the smiling, and the watery eyes....
I am downloading it so I can hate it again.
Good, now on to "The Secret". Together with "Expelled", this should make for an excellent fockumentary marathon. Order extra beer in advance.
Oh, man. That's so, so harsh. I'm getting hives just thinking about it.
HJ
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