Religulous
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Movie Reviews of Religulous
Movie Review: Almost flawless
Summary: 5 Stars
I just watched this over the weekend. It was equal parts hilarious, eye opening, and scary. Pretty fun combination if you ask me.
My only real complaint was that when a text commment appeared onscreen (or a sign, billboard, or anything that needed to be read) it often did not stay up long enough to read. I'm at least as fast a reader as average I'd guess, and I found myself hurrying through each text so I wouldn't miss it, which was slightly irritating.
In reading through the other reviews here, it seems to me that the people who gave it low marks are negative-minded folks with something on their mind other than their stated beef. I suspect maybe they're religious people put off by how this shows so much or religion to be frivolity and something people wield as a weapon.
To me the single most eye-opening thing about Religulous is how each religion is so completely certain they are right and that all others are wrong. It also draws a big red circle around the fact that relying on religion is kind of a cop out because it allows believers to absolve themselves from all responsibility to logic, fact, science, or reason.
I have nothing against believers but they really do push around non-believers, and always have. I hope this film helps end that.
Movie Review: finally!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
personally turning my back on all organized religion over 7 years ago, I found this documentary to be exactly what the modern world needs in order to start asking the right questions. finally someone has spoken up over the intentionally blind acceptance of the subject in a non-combative way. maher crafts his questions in all the right ways, at the right times. without forcing the issues, he points out that those who do believe merely just do not know the history of religion itself, or the history of humanity. all the while, he returns to the notion that if we continue to grip onto the ideas we always have, humanity cannot possibly survive. the real entertainment value of this film is seeing how little people really know about their own faith. maher cuts their legs out from under them, and leaves them with nothing but quoting scripture. most of them seem confused and misinformed. i am part of the 16% minority he speaks of, and believe more of this dialogue should be discussed in a wider forum. this documentary didn't get to any theater near me when it was released, enforcing even more my desire to support it by buying it. it is a must own for anyone who is a 16%er, or for any of those that have questions about their faith but keep getting the same old tired responses.....Movie Review: The Truth is out there
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched this with my 19 and 21 year-old sons. Maher is direct, sometimes sarcastic, and most importantly it's impossible to argue with his logic - because he is correct. Interestingly enough if one looks at the brightest and best intellectuals in fields across the spectrum they will note that the better educated/brighter segment of the population are much less likely to embrace religion (e.g., 95% of college professors are in fact Atheists). All Maher does is interview others with intellect who respond with emotional/spiritual idealism... believing they have all the answers, that God is on "their side"... that they are somehow exempt from death and will be rewarded come judgment day, etc. Maher simply puts us all on a level playing field... no one is special, knows what happens after death, practices the "one correct religion", has the right to kill others who have chosen another religion, or are nonbelievers. In the end Bill points out how destructive religion is and how much death and destruction is at the root of it (just look at the Crusades). People need to evolved beyond the fantastic fairytales and realize that we are all in the same boat... if we don't religious differences may end up killing us all.Movie Review: Satire or a true horror movie?
Summary: 5 Stars
Bill Maher's attempt of a satirical look at religion and the religious was intended to be satire - but in the end, this felt more like a horror movie (a real horror movie, not the Hollywood gratuitous gore).
While it is absolutely true that millions of people do many good things in the name of religion and G-d, it is also true that a lot of harm is done in the name of religion and G-d. Bill Maher's documentary focuses on the latter. Many people steeped in traditional religions will have a hard time watching this without turning the DVD into a coaster.
But there is nothing more powerful than the truth, and this documentary reminds people some of the crazy things done and said in the name of religion - things that a large segment of society has come to accept as acceptable without thinking things through.
This is a must-see for everyone, especially people who have been sheltered from logical reasoning. Because, as Maher points out, the only logical answer to the great existential questions is, "I don't know".
DVD Extras
1. 40+ minutes of deleted scenes and monologue extras
2. commentary track with Bill Maher and the director
Movie Review: A hard hitter for zealots
Summary: 5 Stars
many who are overtly religous will find this documentary extremley offending! Maher spends the movie pushing truth and plain questions in peoples faces and none of them can seem to give a straight answer! Many blunder and often say " its in the bible" or "its the will of god" or such. I love when Bill asks a woman " if jack and the beanstalk were in the bible and the story about a man living for 3 days inside a whale was a fairytale,, would you beleive jack and the beanstalk?" to which she says no, because its not in the bible. I absolutly enjoed this, and how it brings out the people whos religion causes so much strife, death and war. The people he interveiws talk only of how peacefull their religion is, only to be intereuppted by clips of suicide bombings, or maher butting in with facts of hanging, burning, bombing and the crusades that killed so many in the name of their god. Really makes you wonder....how can people beleive all the fairy tale like things? they dont beleive in sanata claus, but mormons beleive jesus lives on a star? Highly reccomended for anyone who wants to step out of fairy tales and into reality, and for those who are already in reality and want a laugh!