RicardoTheWonk

From the opening sequences full of obviously expositional lines all the way through the formulaic and unconvincing fight sequences, and reaching the final, predictable, inevitable and thoroughly boring Hollywood ending this film was a disappointment. I confess that I have high standards for films, and I expect a little effort in the scriptwriting department.

For people who have one or two brain cells to keep their ears warm with, this film is very boring. The film equivalent of paisley wallpaper.

For those who just want a mindless action film masquerading as a thriller, go for it, but don't expect anything that hasn't already been done a thousand times since the mid 70's. Stephen Segal has done the same stuff for years, and in a more entertaining way.

Since I was a small child I have always enjoyed this little political message about the fallacy of not having a suitable rights-enforcement body ensuring property rights of individuals in their jurisdictional area are upheld.

The Lorax was clearly the sole caretaker/maintainer/improver of the land, fauna and flora and therefore the proper owner of the idyllic setting the Onceler came across. Rather than attempting to negotiate agreeable use of the land and resources in exchange for recompense, the Onceler just moved his gang in to systematically steal and destroy the Lorax's property (this is revealed in the first 5 minutes of the film).

Clearly this was an anarchic state with no specific judiciary or security forces to enforce property rights. The Lorax, lacking independent power to protect his property had to resort to negotiation, which the Onceler - with greater numbers, finances, and physical resources, and in the absence of any property rights enforcement bodies - was able to safely ignore.

My children love this story. They can appreciate that human rights include property rights, and they see that things would have been better for both the Lorax and the Onceler if a properly constructed rights-enforcing framework had been in place at the outset. Alternately the Lorax could merely have been in possession of a semi-automatic weapon.

I have watched "What the Bleep do we Know", and there's really not much I can say about this film, except that it is complete rubbish. It is a pack of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and outright lies and intentional misdirection away from honest science. This is packaged as truth and used to support the most ungrounded wishy-washy and vaguely defined "new age" philosophy, which is complete nonsense that is impossible to base a life of reality and reason upon.

The film contains what is worse than a complete misunderstanding and intentional misrepresentation of science, in particular, Quantum Mechanics.

Now, I have a degree in physics, and I can see that almost every time someone opens their mouth in this film, something completely and fundamentally wrong comes out of it. It's a complete farce. It makes your ordinary garden-variety farce look like the blueprints to a battleship by comparison. I can't even begin to describe how wrong this film is. I am flabbergasted. How did this nonsense ever get made? What sort of people are conned by it? Who wants to con them and why? The uncertainty principle is misrepresented. Thermodynamics, especially entropy, is ignored. The atomic model is used in an abusive and dishonest manner. Various bits of junk science are represented as undisputed fact.

What a waste of time. Stay away from this film. It lies to you.