Customer Reviews

From Here to Andromeda

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I enjoyed this 2 DVD set. It was very thought provoking. I gave the DVD five stars because of the scientific content and discussion.

Honestly however, I found the presentation to be uneven, and perhaps in places, even corny. The DVD starts with David seeing a ghost. Later on he takes a trip to Mount Shasta hoping to be beamed aboard a spaceship. Very late in the program they have a round table discussion with many experts about whether Extra-Terrestrials are waiting for us to destroy ourselves so they can occupy the Earth. I found these, and similar portions of the DVD to be mildly amusing, but not that interesting.

However, the scientific portions of this presentation were absolutely amazing and kept me wanting more. I actually watched the entire program in one sitting. When they were discussing the implication of a binomial expansion of Einstein's equation E=mc*c and how it points to the fact that there are possibly 3 forces in the universe that we don't even know about, I was riveted. When they were demonstrating how magnetic forces interact with copper and aluminum and reduce the force of gravity I was amazed. When the discussion centered on going faster than the speed of light, I found the information easy to understand and compelling. The implications of this radical information could transform life on this planet in short order.

Even with its shortcomings, I cannot recommend this DVD highly enough. If you have a scientific bent and want to expand your horizons, I can't think of a better DVD to watch.

I watched clips on youtube focusing around Boyd Bushman who was a Ceo of Locheed in the 50's, this made me want to purchase this video and see if any more information could be gained.

The majority of the film centers around the story of this man and his wife who go on a mission to call down UFOs and leave the planet. Alnong the way, they meet and talk to various knowledgebable people and gather information.

All the juicy bits are on Youtube. I was quite dissapointed with the long lenght of the film, the ammature techniques used and the extraneous plot scenes that just go on too long. There are two discs so its about 3 hours long with about..... 1 hour of interesting info.

This is a dreadful mess of a video...badly filmed with a home cam feel and painfully acted by a hysterical wife and the actor. Very disappointing. However, I did enjoy the very brief moments during the film when Robert Thurman spoke.

This video has much valuable information from valid sources. Ignore the poor acting, and you may learn much information.

This film is loaded with information about physics, UFOs, propulsion theory, human origins, cosmology and features many great interviews including that of Boyd Bushman who was a Senior Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin. He speaks frankly about the existence of Area 51 and black budget research projects being conducted there. I also found Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University equally fascinating as he speaks about ancient cosmology and an ET connection to our ancient past. All in all a great film from researcher and filmmaker David Serada. I enjoyed this 2 DVD set. It was very thought provoking. I gave the DVD five stars because of the scientific content and discussion. This presentation is loaded with science theory and cutting edge ideas. I cannot recommend this DVD highly enough. If you have a scientific bent and want to expand your horizons, I can't think of a better DVD to watch. I saw this film at a special screening by the director but that version was much longer. This DVD version apparently is the revised final cut and for me is much more fun to watch. I'm glad I waited and purchased this revised 2nd edition.

Summary: It is about David Sereda's (shortened DS henceforth) personal patchwork of experience with UFO's/extraterrestrial entities, religious mysticism, perspectives on a future Earthly apocalypse and planetary exodus, with attempts at science dashed in.


Its narrative is severely disjointed; it's purported science is fatally confused. It has no real target; if it had originally, the producer got too confused or carried away during its production to stick to it.

The actual narration and voice-overs are amateurish. There are lots of voice bloopers that the producer didn't bother to correct (fx. that DS, when referring to the Roswell incident, mention in the same sentence that it happened on the 5th or July or the 9th.).

To those praising it for its science; I'm sorry to say that you are way off. This movie does not communicate scientific concepts either correctly nor in an educational fashion. It mixes concepts in a dizzying machine-gun spray of words that will confuse the genuinely scientifically interested. The occasional grain of truth (point where I was almost siting at the edge of my seat, hissing "Yes! he got something right!") always and inevitably break back down into in wild non sequiturs that almost defy belief, fx. how airplanes are affected by special relativity (confusing aerial resistance/drag with relativistic mass gain) and the hilarious hand drawn (lots of hand drawings!) explanation of how anti-gravity/UFO-propulsion is based on that electrons fly around protons counterclockwise, while anti-electrons do it clockwise (woot, science!), and besides does it in a manner that the rest of the scientific world doesn't know about. In short; there is no science; not even hypotheses; only outlandish allegation.


It's flow of ideas is wildly shifting, fx. from one moment going on about religious meditation, the next faster than light travel, from global warming to reincarnation, from global mass exodus by means of UFO technology to just staying at home leading energy-efficient lives with solar heated homes and zero-point energy powered hover-cars, etc.


You can probably guess that I'm writing this review with a smile on my lips; because it is, like so many other turkeys though the times of motion picture, unintentionally funny. Besides the botched science and the highschool-level video editing (and pre-highschool level narrative), there is inclusion of family drama (between DS and his lovely wife, Krystal) and common conspiracies (yes! conspiracy theories!) puts it over the top (...and rolling down the hill behind it). While they do not explicitly say that JFK was gunned down because of UFO's, they clearly imply, with imagery reminiscent of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK", that his assassination was tied to making inquiries into above-president-top-secret UFO research.

Besides, Berkeley Kabs is in on the UFO thing as well, because as, DS explains early in the movie, he saw a UFO for a solid 20 minutes when he was in grade school; a further proof of the alien visitors to Cornell Elementary, is that a kid had drawn a flat-headed person on the playground asphalt with chalk while they were shooting the movie.



To end the review on a positive note: It's not all rubbish; a few of the topics -principally the spirituality, fx. the interview with Robert Thurman of Columbia College on Tibetan Buddhism - could have been interesting enough on their own, if they had been covered more in depth, or rather, been the actual, central topic of the film.

I've decided on two stars, one because the music (synthesizer style which I like) combined with the smidgeons of interesting tidbits around, the second star is awarded alone due to the comedic value of it all.

(If you cannot appreciate the entertainment value of absurdity, you may subtract the additional star).


As for alternatives about the mind-boggling nature of the universe that doesn't leave a taste of crackpottery, it is possible, and it has been done by both Michio Kaku and Brian Greene, both in the written and audiovisual.


Thanks for reading.