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peter-tryfoss
Reviews
The Secret (2006)
Absolute garbage!!!
This movie has been praised and recommended by many people around me for a while now. Unfortunately what most of them have taken away from it is the concept that if you believe you have money, and you live + spend like you are balling', money will eventually come your way, and you will indeed be filthy rich... needless to say they are now all even more broke than they had been before, struggling to make lease payments on expensive vehicles that are way out of their leagues. As I did not like this heavily materialistic message, I kept on putting of watching this move for a long while, but eventually I gave in to the pressure and watched it... for about 5 minutes. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LOAD OF CRAP!!! The underlying message is simple, and is no secret to anyone: be positive, and your chances of succeeding at anything will be far greater, just because of your mindset, and the way you approach things. HOWEVER, to claim that there is scientific proof for this, based on brain frequencies emitted (and whatever crap they claim in the name of science...), is PROPOSTRUOUS. I have no idea what else they claimed was proved by science, because my blood pressure shot through the roof watching this garbage, so I had to stop watching it, but I can assure you, there were plenty. I saw one guy claim, that every time he drives somewhere, he envisions his favourite parking spot being available. Apparently, because of this (the secret), 95% of the time his parking spot is there waiting for him, and the other 5% of the time it will become available within a minute or two of him getting there. GREAT JOB YOU IDIOT!!! NOW EVERYBODY WHO HAS SEEN THIS MOVIE WILL WANT YOUR SPOT TOO!!! HOW IS THE SECRET GOING TO HELP YOU NOW?!?! And guess what? If I really want to park in a spot, all I have to do, is wait patiently until the car currently parks there leaves (which may take up to a few days), and voilà, I got it!!! I'd love to give you loads of other ridiculed examples, but like I've said, I simply could not watch this crap. Based on my acquaintances' praise, I expected a lot of overwhelmingly positive reviews on IMDb, and as such, I was eager to write a terrible review for this movie. However, as soon as I looked it up on IMDb, I was delighted to see that many others had already gave this movie ratings it truly deserves. WELL DONE FELLOW IMDb FANS!!!
Sharkwater (2006)
A botched documentary
I have heard nothing but great praises about this movie. Since I also love documentaries and animals, I set out to see it with great enthusiasm. The movie started off quite well, so I figured I was in for a treat. There were beautiful underwater shots, and it seemed like a legitimate documentary, although the narrator's lack of commentary skills, and low audio quality were foreshadowing bad things to come. I have seen enough documentaries to know to take every one of them with a grain of salt. The problem with documentaries is that (while they should be presenting facts objectively) they are all created to serve one purpose in mind: to convince the viewers of the author's ideas/ideals/point of view. In the case of Sharkwater the ideas and ideals of the author were at the level of an elementary school student. His 'scientific' reasoning makes perfect sense if you are either 6 years old, or are completely brain-dead. Don't get me wrong, I am all for saving this planet, and I agree, eradicating animal species one after another is unacceptable. However, a marine biology themed movie made by a complete amateur without any scientific training is probably going to do more damage to the cause than good. Introduce a complete hack of a Greenpeace activist as a 'subject matter expert', and some shameless self-promotion tactics in a pathetic attempt to be recognized as a hero, and you have a complete disaster. These guys filmed themselves sinking fishing vessels in international waters, armed with the argument that out there no one has authority over them, claiming themselves to be heroes for enforcing local laws. Get it? They were enforcing local laws outside of the country's borders. Needless to say, they were also outraged for being arrested by authorities for attempted murder. I guess, enforcing local laws in international waters has made them forget about the existence of international laws... no matter where you are, attacking other people, and trying to sink their boats (even if they are engaged in illegal poaching) is attempted murder. There is also a completely unnecessary section about the author being attacked by flesh-eating disease. Apparently the doctors had to amputate his leg. Then he made some phone calls to his relatives, assuring them that he had things under control, and that everything was going to be fine. All this with astounding confidence from a person who's about to have his leg amputated. Then guess what happened? He was tougher than the flesh-eating disease! He defied all odds against him, saving his own leg, ripping out the IV tube from his arm, and and then immediately rushing off to the very country that had an arrest warrant against him for attempted murder, just because his cause for saving the sharks was more important than his health, leg or life in prison... For these reasons I found this movie extremely pathetic. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people that loved this movie... however, now that I think about it, they all had the IQ of a tadpole...