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Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
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Stephen Hawking: "Suppose we are only a highly developed breed of monkey that lives on a small planet, but we can speculate about the universe as a whole." :)
Though the film bears no new information - it generalizes the previously accumulated knowledge (and this is good) but I watched it with pleasure, because it has a beautiful computer graphics and pleasant ambient music. Ending the series "History of the Universe" was a pleasant surprise - it reminded me of transhumanism. I immediately imagined the genetically modified Space Marines who travel through the galaxy for Make Benefit Glorious Imperium of Mankind :)
Knowing (2009)
about aliens (warning! spoilers!)
Creators used rumors about UFOs, stories about the end of the world from the Bible and played on the sentiments of the crowd that humanity - navel universe, therefore worthy of salvation. Not Jesus was a savior in the film, but humanoids-aliens, not the court of God chose "the righteous", but newcomers from space. Then why in the movie mentions faith and religion, why the film has characters phrases like "we will all be together", why the aliens glow and with transparent wings like angels? For what all this mysticism?!
Planet will be burned because of the random flash on the Sun, but about it the aliens know of at least half a century, and they are silent. Who now, after this, our elder brothers of the mind? :) Maybe they were the cause of this outbreak?! Actually in the movie is not all in order with the mind of the newcomers (may be because their brains glowed as Christmas garland). They trying to say about the end of the world through telepathy, but they can not simply use the TV. They have space ships, which for 50 years can to remove from the Earth all population, but they did not want to do so. Then why would they save the "chosen" children? Where is common sense? Or aliens have the highest, the so-called "divine" sense? This means that aliens play the role of the gods, which punishes "sinners" and save the "righteous"?! I feel sick of this vision of the creators of the film. I am convinced that the more advanced civilization should be less severe and must more to appreciate life. The Roman Empire fell because the foundation of its prosperity was slave labor. Napoleonic hordes, Nazi of Third Reich (with their primitive ideology and violence) were defeated by peace-loving East Slavs (Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian), which had never attacked first and had defended themselves from attacks of enemies throughout all their history. Any civilization, based on a cult of cruelty, will be destroyed. Therefore, there can be no civilization of Predators and other militant aliens (such as in the movie "Independence Day"). Therefore, aliens from the movie “Knowing” should have to rescue all the people of Earth (even more so that they could easily do so), rather than play the role of tiny gods.
In short, the movie is "suxx" and also have "no boobs!", so please "author! drink poison! " :)