Movies

The Secret (2006) This is the most unintentionally hilarious movie I have ever seen. The insanely overproduced opening sequence, in which absolutely everything rushes, whooshes, clangs and booms, is a howl a second, and the rest of the film maintains a steady pace of atrocious absurdities. It goes from simple common sense one moment, to headsmacking non sequitur or astonishing obvious bullshit the next. Authority figures with lots of letters after their names to show how much they know, with professional titles like Visionary and Quantum Physicist, babble modernized versions of old-timey positive/magical thinking rants, illustrated by infomercial-class "examples" of success and failure like how locking your bike makes it get stolen. I love the way thoughts explode out of your head like lightwaves to cover the entire earth and whoosh out into the universe, to make what you want appear at your door. Hucksters of all varieties explain how they make parking spots and million-dollar checks appear just by thinking about them. In spite of its absolute idiocy I still found myself propagandized by it, actually applying its happiness-oriented visualization techniques the moment I awoke this morning. That's good mind-control, when you're laughing at its stupidity yet still doing it. A timeless classic. 10/10