10 Bullsh*t Documentaries That Aren't Worth Your Time

2. What The Bleep Do We Know!?

Spending years as one of those cult classics that get passed around by evangelical fans who claim it changed their life and therefore it'll have the same effect on everybody else they know as soon as they watch it, this "documentary" combines interviews, narration and a bunch of trippy CGI animation to suggest a link between quantum physics and spirituality. The basic thesis of What The Bleep Do We Know!? is that that individual and group consciousness can influence the material world, something which is explored through the story of a photographer who goes through some sort of spiritual awakening and then goes on to talk to a bunch of smart people about it. Or, at least, people who look smart. Because it turns out that all of those €œsmart people€ are talking 100% bullsh*t, completely misunderstanding how quantum physics work and generally chatting a bunch of quasi-hippie baloney over the course of 109 minutes. First of all, the photographer story? That's complete fiction, a scripted storyline onto which the filmmakers can hang €œinterviews€ with €œexperts€ about their crazy beliefs. It claims that the universe is made out of thoughts rather than solid matter, that you can change reality by thinking really hard, and that electrons are some magical beings who disappear and reappear from existence at will. What are they doing when they're away? Magic stuff? Probably! Well, no, obviously not. We spent a lot of time daydreaming that we'd be astronauts or Spider-Man as kids, and that never came true. Basically every scientific claim made in the film is totally wrong, and it makes a bunch of worrying conclusions like telling people to throw away their anti-depressants and channel Ramtha, the 35,000-year-old Lemurian warrior instead. Yes, this is supposed to be a documentary. About real things.