Movie Bitmeter: Religulous
I gotta tell ya folks, I’ve gotta tell ya… When it comes to religion and faith I’m as logical as I can be, maybe that’s why half the world seem illogical to me. But well.. I’m not preaching this today… This is a great documentary movie if you haven’t seen it yet. It talks about religion and wanting or not showcases how crazy humankind is. Be it religious or not, this is a must see movie by everyone. I’ve seen it twice now and I just can’t stop laughing…
Movie Info
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion.
Director: Larry Charles.
Writers: Bill Maher.
Cast: Bill Maher…
IMBD Rating: 7.8
Year: 2008
Links: IMDB
Teaser Trailer
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I saw the movie too and i liked it a lot. It’s damn crazy. Especially the ex-priest at the end that’s sick.
Hmm…interesting. I’m sure it’s an amusing piece of film seeing that we’ve been known to like similar things. I do have some issues with the trailer how ever. Since it isn’t released in Finland yet I’ll have to wait for it to be available before going into it any further, but I wrote a short response to my own blog:
http://mindseas.blogspot.com/2009/02/impressions-religulous.html
Again, cheers for sharing, will be keepin’ me eyelids open for it.
I’ll be changing my nick here soon, I’ll give you a hint once I have do so you’ll recognize me =]
@Providus – Hey Provi! :D Great to see you writing again. Will be following. :)
Regarding the movie, I tell ya it’s incredible. Really, it’s funny but it’s meant to be. You have to laugh at this things, even if you believe in god you have to agree after seeing this that this has nothing to do with the Divine, because stupidity is very human like. Hey Provi! :)
Totally agree with when you mention the reference to previous work of the movie authors, it’s lame and I’m another one like you that find that a major turn of. When I start seeing a movie and in the case it says “By the Director of:” It says to me that the movie needs to be sold by who it was made and not for what it actually is.
Religulous, It’s a Documentary type of movie, because you can’t really call it anything else. The movie is really about religion and it’s diversity. It kinda states the point of the author and writer (Bill Mayers) since he is Agnostic (just like me). Like he says he likes to preach the Certain of “I don’t know” and during the movie he is trying to understand why people are so sure why God exists. Why they are so irrational when it comes to religion, why people are not logical about it. I kinda think you can’t be too logical when faith comes into play… But well, he dwells from religion to religion to show their idiosyncrasies.
A really worth watch, specially because at the end they are not trying to sell you something, if you are a Believer, you will not probably change your opinion (well if you did… you are not much of a believer to begin with). At most you will end the movie thinking the crazy, is a crazy, crazy world.
If you haven’t seen the movie, I recommend you to see this little excerpt: “Father Maverick”. :D Priceless.
@Chocksy – Yes Chocksy, is really crazy at times, but sadly it’s only a reflection of human kind at the 21th century.
Some quotes from the movie:
“The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people, by irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about lraq, but he didn’t learn a lot about it.(…)
(…)Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It’s nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are our intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it’s wonderful when someone says, ”l’m willing, Lord. l’ll do whatever You want me to do.” Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions , – limitations and agendas.(…)
(…)And anyone who tells you they know- they just know what happens when you die, l promise you, you don’t . How can l be so sure? Because l don’t know, and you do not possess mental powers that l do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion but doubt. Doubt is humble and that’s what man needs to be considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong.(…)
(…)This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.(…)
(…)If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence and sheer ignorance as religion is, you’d resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a Mafia wife, with the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travellers. lf the world does come to an end here or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of a religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let’s remember what the real problem was: That we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That’s it. Grow up or die.”