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Religulous (2008)
A Documentary built on the Strawman Fallacy
What do you get when you debate people that know little to nothing about the position they are defending? This movie. It's like watching someone beating up children. Does Bill interview theologians, professors, apologists, or any leading scholars in faith? No, he picks on idiots. (Ken Hamm is NOT a leading Christian scholar.) This is called a Strawman fallacy. Congratulations Bill. You defended Atheism by debating truckers. Impressive. Now, in fairness one could argue that his point is that the average person of faith doesn't know much about their faith. I would agree that this is often the case for religion, as well as in Atheism, politics, cooking and so on. However this doesn't prove a religion wrong. It only proves that many people don't bother to educate themselves on the issues to which they ascribe. I feel that this film is deliberately deceptive and manipulative.
The Unbelievers (2013)
This isn't a documentary it's a personal promotional video.
The sole executive producer of the film is Lawrence Krauss who is also one of the main subjects of the film. So if that seems like a bit of self-promotion propaganda that is exactly how the movie feels. If you are an Atheist or a Theist looking for a film about the best arguments of Atheism and intellectual stimulation from two of the leading proponents of Atheistic thought, you won't find it here. If you're an Atheist looking for mindless hero worship of Atheist leaders, this is your flick. This isn't a documentary it's a promotional piece. We don't learn more about the subjects, we don't really learn more about the subject. There is no plot, no hero's journey, no 3 act structure, or even a story line. The editing is nonsensical. At one point it seems to be edited to show (we assume unintentionally) that Lawrence Krauss is a hard worker and in demand while Richard Dawkins isn't. It is filled with meaningless images that don't set the mood or even transition well to the next scene. This film was poorly conceived, poorly made, poorly edited, and is a waist of time.