Brain Games

2011
8.2| 0h30m| TV-G| en
Synopsis

Get ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our brains create the illusion of seamless reality through our memory, through our sensory perception, and how we focus our attention.

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National Geographic

Trailers & Clips

Also starring Cara Santa Maria

Reviews

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Ismaël Chabani I'd heard about the show here and there. I've seen the Nat Geo announcement on TV, suffice it to say, it piqued my interest. The show came with a promise: "You watch it, you'll learn stuff!"What unquantifiable disappointment that was...Watching it, I couldn't help but feel cheated, belittled and robbed of my time. I'm not basing what I'm about to type on 1 or two episodes I've watched, no. I bore with it... for a whole season, including the start of this year's latest batch.You see, the problem with this show is that it is founded on the basis that you, the viewer, MUST be stupid. And quite frankly, I do feel stupider upon watching it. I haven't watched the very first episodes, from what reviewers say, they were the best. But it doesn't take a rocket-scientist to tell you that they are trying way too hard to keep this show afloat. It all feels stretched WAY out of proportion. I have yet to watch a single episode where I learn something and don't facepalm (literally) every second, where the host and his band of "experts" aren't so pretentious.Now that's another great problem: The pretentious cast. Once you realize how none of what you see or hear actually "fools your Brain" (as they claim it will), or whatever the hell they thought it would do, it starts feeling like a grand scam. It's a show, on TV. It's not live, sure, and a wide variety of profiles are watching it... But then, WHY have this pseudo-interactivity, with their puzzles and games? I get it that it's supposed to engage the viewers, you aren't just passively watching the show... But when all your stupid easy 'games' (which are supposed to be corroborated by what mumbo-jumbo of a scientific explanation you throw next) all end with the assumption that WE got it wrong... Woah the anger. Really, this show makes me angry. And I've no anger issues whatsoever in general.It could be that I'm not part of the targeted audience (although I have no pretension of knowing everything that there is to know about everything), but then WHAT is that target? Watch at your own risk if you have a shred of self conscience. Hell, if you have a shred of anything... I'm not going to judge you like that show does.
amgod-18233 This show is far from scientific, intellectual or even honest. For the first perhaps nine episodes they actually provide some level of honesty, entertainment, and a decently simplified scientific explanation. After that they abandon honesty, they LIE to you, offer pseudo-scientific explanations as well as abandon creativity. They decide that their audience is a collection of absolute imbeciles. They masquerade fancy slight of hand type tricks as explanations of stress, and memory. In season three they do not abandon this, they begin to resort to what is rather obviously bad acting. Their experts almost always have a pretentious tone. Their goal is to fool those without a shred of common sense to continue watching. If you are looking for something intelligent or even entertaining look somewhere else.
poot pooter I gave this show a chance, National geographic channel has put out some great shows (locked up abroad, documentaries, Alaska troopers among others etc) in the last few years and was surprised how bad this was. I am really baffled by this shows high ratings here.I watched one episode it comes off as extremely pretentious and more like to something I would be forced to watch in middle school science class rather than entertainment. The show consists of people being tricked over and over in different manners and claiming it is based in neurological science and "brain games" when in fact it comes across as pretentious, boring and extremely dull. Not funny, not clever, not based in actual science or any semblance of logic, if you enjoy watching a bunch of parlor tricks for a half hour then by all means watch this garbage show with little to no entertainment value I would rather not.
setkdcaldwell Just a little dog poop in the brownies. Shame on National Geographic! Could have been a great show except they intentionally include inappropriate content. Why?! I watched four episodes and they all had it. Bikinis, pole dancers, more bikinis. It's all about the science right? The three cheerleaders that "took their tops off" were wearing slightly revealing shirts underneath each with a large word on their chest which together said "Made, You, Look." Maybe, but now I'm angry and I for one choose not to look any more. Not that they care. For every one of me there are a hundred teenage boys and girls who will continue to look and National Geographic or whoever is behind them can continue to play their "mind games" on them. Who will take a stand?