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Online Store - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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List Price: $26.99
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Manufacturer: Premise
Starring: Ben Stein, Peter Atkins, Hector Avalos, Doug Axe, David Berlinski
Directed By: Nathan Frankowski
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883476004921
Format: Color
Label: Premise
Manufacturer: Premise
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Premise
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-10-21
Running Time: 90
Studio: Premise
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom ... What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth … that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the crime of merely believing that there might be evidence of design in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance. To which Ben Says: Enough! And then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben.
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Summary: Thought provoking....
Comment: Interesting movie, and yes I saw some flaws, but overall I think exposing how some schools and universities, do censor what is taught, and often, sadly have a hostile view of anything that has to do with religious thought, is of use. Especially when one considers that a majority of citizens believe according to numerous studies, in a God. But also remember that even the Vatican has noted that God and the idea of evolution can co-exist. As someone who has read Dawkin and Hitchens and others, I also note that a sense of humor goes a long way as Hitchens has shown.
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Summary: America: Where Anyone Can be a Science Expert...
Comment: ...even if they don't know anything about science. You see, in America, we have the freedom to talk, loudly, about subjects we don't understand. One's lack of knowledge shouldn't prevent one from challenging the status quo--it's about FREEDOM, you see, and all you liberal over-educated elitist thought-police who don't understand that should stop hating America and find God. And no, I'm not saying the intelligent designer is necessarily God, praise his name. It could be anything, but not space aliens, because that would just be too silly. I don't even know why I brought up intelligent design, because that's not what Expelled is about, despite the movie's title and content. It's really about evolution, and how, because it kills Jews, it can't be true, and if it's not true, intelligent design must be true, not that the movie's about intelligent design of course. But it's not really about evolution, what the movie is about, well it's really about two things: 1) the RIGHT to possess a loud and proud lack of knowledge and 2) the RIGHT to challenge prevailing beliefs with new ideas, even if those beliefs are backed up by painstakingly collected multitudes of evidence across multiple fields of study by thousands of people over decades, and your idea, well, isn't--because nothing beats "facts" and "evidence" like that feeling of absolute certainty that you are right.
I know, that wasn't really a "review", so, unlike most of the five-star "reviewers" who have been posting here lately, I've written an actual review:
A-hem.
Game-show host turned eye-drop peddler Ben Stein tries his hand as warrior for intellectual justice in "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed", a film which is supposed to show how "smart new ideas" are systematically repressed by "Big Science" but ends up documenting the massive scope of the filmmakers' dishonesty: From the staged introduction to lying to the interviewees to copyright violations to deceptive editing to simply making stuff up, there appears to be no tactic short of physical violence that the filmmakers feel justified in using to support their thesis. Perhaps even more importantly, the film shows once and for all how annoying Ben Stein really is. Stein's nasal, mush-mouth drone would serve as an excellent soporific if it weren't so smugly irritating. His artless delivery turns an awkward attempt at creating a "rebel fighting for academic freedom" persona into an embarrassing failure. This would still be true if his script contained facts. Stein, who was hilarious during his twelve second portrayal of a mind-numbingly boring high-school teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", in Expelled is merely mind-numbing. The liberal (no offense to the moviemakers, of course) use of images Michael Moore would find too literal and manipulative is at least as distracting as Stein's bumbling diction. I'm guessing that these distractions were intentional, so as to draw attention away from the film's shameless disregard of facts and logic.
The makers of Expelled claim not to be concerned with any particular "smart new idea", so it is confusing why the film focuses on intelligent design, mainly in the form of that classic creationist technique: raising objections to evolution (and they wonder why we compare intelligent design to creationism).
Expelled is bound to exasperate, bore to tears, or reduce to hysterics anyone who expects logical, evidence-based arguments in a film calling itself a "documentary", although people who watch reality television should find the film compelling.
Overall, two stars: One because Amazon says I have to and one because Expelled serves as an excellent example of the tactics used by people who think the rest of us are too stupid to recognize that intelligent design has less to do with science and more to do with religion than its proponents will admit.
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Summary: Very Well Done!
Comment: I rented expelled not really knowing what to expect. After watching it I was glad I picked it up. For a long time I've known that colleges and universities lean to the left in their liberal arts. But I never believed this predisposition would include the hard sciences. If half of the case Mr. Stein presents is correct, academia in this country is a joke. And I would add that the issue isn't really if you believe in ID or not, the issue is while seaching for answers that no one has does it make sense to exclude a theory just because you disagree with it? I thought it was a great movie and very well done by Mr. Stein.
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Summary: Expelled no intellagence allowed
Comment: Wow!! This is an amazing movie with remarkable interviews on one of the most imortant topics. Our freedoms are threatened. Why can't we believe that intellegant design is how life began? Why are we being tought that Darwin's theory on the origin of life is a fact? Ben does a great job bringing these issues to light. I'm happy to own this movie.
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Summary: Good, but not what I expected
Comment: I thought this was going to be a DVD of Ben Stein's thoughts, well it isn't. It's about Intelligent Design with Ben Stein talking to various and sundry folks about it. I didn't get through the whole DVD. I plan on donating my copy to the library, hopefully someone else will be able to enjoy it.
If you are interested at all in Intelligent Design, this is the video for you. If you find Ben Stein intelligent and want to hear his thoughts, this probably won't be your cup of tea.
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