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jenc
I can’t believe it was shown at this theater in NY – it normally shows pretty artsy films. I also can’t believe how much the prices were jacked up. I want to write and complain to someone but don’t know who – we felt pretty duped by the whole thing
Thank you for the review! From the sound of it, this "movie" is not going anywhere. It sounds like an extremely poor attempt to mimic "What The Bleep" and "The Secret".
As far as the theatre, they just rented it. You give the owner of the theater the money, they give you the theatre for the night.
They probably also "paid off" whoever promoted the movie in the magazine, or duped them with PR releases. Maybe that person is a Landmarkian too.
They clearly did this as a mock "premier" and then stacked the audience with followers. Now they will send the Esties-Landmarkians out to make fake-blogs about the movie, to try to create "buzz", etc. They will create many fake-movie reviews that promote it.
It probably won't even get reviewed by real movie critics. If it does, make sure to email the real critics the truth that it is a shill-doc, a hoax-doc, and they may say so in their review. Roger Ebert was initially fooled a bit by "What The Bleep" but after people told him what was going on, he revised his review.
As far as the money, if you would have walked out, you can usually get a refund by the theatre. After the fact, if you are really ticked off, write a letter to the theatre, or go in person, and try to get your money back, if you still have the ticket-stub. They MIGHT give you your money back, and then do a "charge-back" against the producers of the movie (LANDMARK obviously owns and produced this movie using others as a front, like Ramtha did with "What The Bleep". That is why Landmark owns the copyright to the movie, what she said was false, of course.).
So if you are really ticked off, you might get your money back from the theatre. But after the fact, they don't have to give it back.
But your money mainly went to the theatre, its not cheap to rent a legit movie theatre.
Clearly, this movie is produced and financed by Landmark, using others as a front, to try and promote Weiner Erhard.
Just make cross-posts everywhere over the internet that the "documentary" is a fake, and a hoax, and its OWNED (copyright) by Landmark, and they are just using others as a front to promote Werner Erhard, and recruit more people to Landmark.