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Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers (2005)
David Miscaviage and the terrible no good very bad sickening year for promoting Scientology.
This video documentary was written and produced by a devout Scientologist and functions as a promotional film for the Church of Scientology. Supposedly a tribute to the volunteers who helped out in the aftermath of 9/11, it serves to promote the efforts of Scientology's Volunteer Ministers who dominate the second half of the film.
It takes 49 minutes of buildup before the movie introduces a brief segment on the faith based efforts of the Salvation Army then quickly segues to the other "faith based" group from Scientology.
This juxtaposition is purposeful and gets repeated later in the film when a Christian minister gets inter cut with a Scientologist volunteer minister who proclaims "we all share the same beliefs." I'm certain the Christian minister doesn't buy into L. Ron Hubbard's belief that Christ was an alien implant.
The film also gives a lengthy plug to Scientology's detoxification program created, as the film explains, by noted author and humanitarian, L. Ron Hubbard. The Detox has never been found medically sound, is widely recognized as quackery and known to use dangerous levels of liver damaging niacin.
In effect, the movie attempts to safe-point Scientology, which in their terms means to make the group acceptable to mainstream society. Not surprisingly, no mention is made of the scandal which erupted after 9/11 when Scientology sent out anonymous press releases offering mental health assistance to victims of the tragedy and routing people straight to Scientology. They were widely condemned for this fraudulent action.
There have been many moving tributes to those who have lost their lives on 9/11. This film is a little more than a recruiting tool for a group many consider to be a dangerous cult.
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Had there been more than one family in the audience (whom I'm wagering got in free since the theater was admitting firefighters, police, military and other rescue personnel and their families for free) I would have refrained from my audible "boos" every time Scientology or humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard were praised in the film. The end credits saw lots of Scientologists being thanked including Golden Era and John Carmichael.
I give it 1 and 1/2 stars ranking it just above "The Profit" and "Battlefield Earth."
The Different TR Courses and Their Criticism (1998)
Like other propaganda films. This one adds another layer of BS
I first watched this film at my local Church of Scientology, hoping to learn more about interesting technology to improve my mind.
Unfortunately this film was nothing more than a presentation of junk science. There is no scientific basis for any of the "scientistic" sounding mumbo-jumbo they present in the film.
The film takes as a premise the fact that Intergalactic Overlord Xenu, ruler of the Marcabian Confederation destroyed 10 billion space aliens with H-bombs inside volcanoes on earth. He rounded the aliens up with help from the psychiatrists and tax agents in spaceships that looked like DC8 airplanes.
The souls ("or thetans" as this movie refers to them) of these aliens infest all of you! Luckily, the Church of Scientology knows a way to get rid of them. It will only cost you a few hundred thousand dollars.
So all in all, this film was not what I was hoping for.
It's just another sick and perverted PR film for a dangerous and cultic organization (what Time Magazine calls the "Thriving Cult of Greed and Power").
Assists (1995)
More awful goodness from the Cult of Greed
In this film, we learn all about "assists", which is the way Scientologists claim that people can be cured of physical ailments. Supposedly if a person lightly touches you in the correct spot while thinking the proper thoughts, you can be cured.
Of course nothing in the movie is backed by scientific research. It appears to be a lunatic talking about a lot of psychobabble nonsense.
Unfortunately they neglect to mention the story of Xenu in this movie. This is a big omission, since the church believes that all physical ailments are a result of galactic overlord Xenu's h-bomb explosion of space aliens in volcanoes 75 million years ago.
All in all, the movie is funny to watch, like all of the Scienos films, but if you are going to watch it at your local Scientology "church", just make sure you leave your wallet at home, before the sticky-fingered church leaders get their grubby paws on it.
The Cycle of Communication (1996)
The Cycle of Greed continues
In this silly movie we learn how to communicate. We are taught to stare in the face of people and never blink.
This is often the 2nd movie you'll see after you watch the Church of Scientology's orientation film.
It ends up being just another film that attempts to indoctrinate you into what Time Magazine and Readers Digest both called "The Cult of Greed".
My one suggestion is if you choose to go to the "church" and view this film, leave your wallet at home. You can be sure if you don't, that the Church of $cientology will be trying very hard to get their sticky fingers into it.
Orientation: A Scientology Information Film (1996)
This movie was just plain awful. It deserved a Razzie
This movie is an introduction to what Time Magazine and Reader's Digest have called "The Cult of Greed", otherwise known as the Church of Scientology. If you want to learn what the film is about, go ahead and visit your local Church of $cientology and watch it. Just make sure you leave your wallet at home.
Your indoctrination begins simply and cheaply with a personality test, or stress test. Then you learn that you need to join the church to fix your problems. Then you learn that you need to spend money for various courses to fix your problems. These courses aren't very expensive at first, but just wait...they get over $1000 each soon...and then over $10000 later...and to achieve the highest levels in the church it costs over $300,000 !!! You'll learn about L. Ron Hubbard (but not the truth...you need to visit a search engine to learn the truth) You'll learn about Dianetics, but you won't learn that it is a 50 year old bunch of psychobabble and nonsense that has no research to back up its scientific sounding claims.
You learn that "thetans" and "engrams" infest your mind and cause you to feel pain and unhappiness.
But you won't hear what thetans are until you fork over $100,000. When you get to OT III Level of Scientology, (Operating Thetan III), also called "The Wall of Fire", you'll learn that 73 million years ago Galactic Overlord named Xenu blew up billions of space aliens in a volcano on earth and released the souls (what LRH calls "thetans"). These thetans -- thousands of them per person -- infest your mind and body and are the direct cause of all your ills.
And you'll discover that Xenu and every other bad thing that has happened in the entire history of the universe is a direct result of psychiatry. Yes, for trillions of years psychiatrists have been battling to take over the universe.
Only by paying even more money can you remove these Body Thetans and rid the universe of the psychiatrists once and for all.
Sound crazy? I think so too, but its the god awful truth. Do the research. Please don't waste your time, money and sanity on this dangerous cult. Visit a search engine and type in "Scientology". Read both sides of the story and make up your own mind.
"You could walk out that door and never think about Scientology again, and it would be your choice. It would be incredibly stupid, but you are free to do that. You could also jump off a bridge, or blow your brains out. That would be another choice." --Closing remarks from an introductory film from the Church of Scientology. (this is the point where you must tell them you left your wallet in the car and high-tail it out of there)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The best Monty Python movie !
This movie does tell a story, but it really is more a serious of funny skits. It's a movie to watch time and time again as many of the subtle jokes are missed the first times through.
"Bring out your dead!"