m.mk

I confess horror is not a genre I gravitate to, but putting my "prejudice" aside, it looked very good and the acting seemed well done.

I liked the lighting a lot and the sound.

It might have benefited from running a title before each segment to minimize confusion.

As Dylan is often confounding in interviews and so forth so it is with this film.

A possible goof (I'm too lazy to go back and verify): Seems the dusty old guitar case that Billy the Kid finds on the train had a pickguardless guitar in it whereas Woody's guitar had a pickguard for a left-handed player.

Maher does a good job of pointing out the folly of faith without reason, but, like perhaps most what I will call rationalists, overlooks that reason without faith is just an inversion of common religious fundamentalism.

When not all the facts are in on a question (and may never be), some faith is required unless one wants a full-time "job" as an agnostic.

In any case, Maher strongly implies (especially at the end) that it is religionists who are responsible for the bulk of violence in the world, but what of official atheists such as Stalin and Mao? And all those nasty weapons were brought to us in the first place by: SCIENTISTS.

Things like this are rather lacking in integrity (from the Trivia tab): 'During the sequence set inside the Dome of the Rock, Bill Maher and his guide are approached by two men who speak in Arabic and are supposedly objecting to Maher's presence. In reality, what they are saying is "We don't normally hang out here..." and "The boss only gives us five minutes..."'

Disclosure: I am a panentheist with a "minor" in process theology.

I rate average films at 5.