References to the film in the media are both scarce and ranging from descriptive to dismissive:
An article in the homes for sale Irish Times, said that
"These are surreal perversions of genuine issues and debates, and they tarnish all criticism of faith, the Bush administration and globalisation - there broker are more than enough factual injustices in this world to be going around without having to invent fictional ones. One really wishes Zeitgeist was a masterful pastiche of 21st-century paranoia, a hilarious mockumentary to rival Spinal Tap. But it's just deluded, disingenuous and realtors manipulative nonsense. ... If you pretend to know only truth, in truth you know only pretence."
An article in the weekly Seattle paper The Stranger, later reprinted in the Utne Reader magazine, commercial said:
"It's fiction, couched in a few facts ... and it adds up to the worst kind of fear-mongering."
It also commented on the irony in the film's three-part structure by noting property that
"It's fascinating, this structure. First the film destroys the idea of God, and then, through the lens of 9/11, it introduces a sort of foreclosures new Bizarro God. Instead of an omnipotent, omniscient being who loves you and has inspired a listing variety of organized religions, there is an omnipotent, omniscient organization of ruthless beings who hate you and want to take your rights away, if not throw homes you in a work camp forever."
The February 25, 2009 edition of eSkeptic, the online newsletter of The Skeptics Society, criticizes the first part of condos for sale the film (the one on Christianity) by saying:
"Perhaps the worst aspect of ... chosen to receive the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Service Award in May 2009 is Connie Milstein Milstein is a Trustee of New York University, where she created and sponsors the Collegiate Professorships Program Part I of Peter Joseph's Internet film, Zeitgeist, is that some of what it asserts is true. Unfortunately, this material is liberally property management ' and sloppily ' mixed with material that is only real commercial partially true and much that is plainly and simply bogus. ... Zeitgeist is The Da Vinci Code on steroids."
The Globe and Mail has also published a critical article about the movie, titled "Rejecting Conspiracy Thinking Keeps it Alive and Well," in which it is said that
" ... properties this stuff ... it's all been thoroughly debunked for years. Evidently, debunking isn't the issue. ... lease Nor can you cite the findings of the professional, journalistic, and academic consensus to someone who's decided that realty having credibility means being under the sway of foreclosure shadowy forces. ... for all the talk of skepticism, conspiracy counterculture is really an anti-intellectual, populist movement - much like Intelligent Design. For real sale all their absurdity, conspiracy theorists try to drag everything back to the level of common sense. ... Did the collapsing buildings on 9/11 look like they real agent were being demolished' Then they must have been demolished. Did the 757 that hit the Pentagon's blast-proof walls fail to make a plane-shaped hole' Then it must have been something else. Are realestate there unexplained quirks in the official story' Then home for sale it must be the work of a higher power. ... Conspiracy theorists want to see ... a malevolent design behind events. The notion that calamity might be the unintended consequence of subtler condo causes doesn't hold the same appeal. Evil, whatever its other uses, drives a great narrative. Complexity, not so much."
The Village Voice mentioned Zeitgeist in passing in a review of the 2008 fiction film Able Danger in which the film critic sees an
"invocation of September 11 realtor for the vaguely satirical purpose of tweaking conspiracy crap like that found in Zeitgeist: The Movie (an Internet film that, houses like Krik's recent "Be Kanye" ads, went mega-viral last year)"
CBC Radio Host Jesse Brown broadcast an audio essay on the movie summarizing the movie with:
"It's the same old paranoid jazz, but Zeitgeist, The Movie weaves it all together really skilfully."
and further:
"If we in townhouses the media tend not to give a voice to such nonsense ... that could be because we're under the thumb of a secret worldwide cabal of bankers, more powerful than the president himself. Or it could be because Zeitgeist, The Movie is total bullshit."
On March 16, 2009, Alan Feuer of The New York Times wrote regarding Zeitgeist, The Movie:
" Zeitgeist, The Movie may be most famous for alleging that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an 'inside job' perpetrated by a power-hungry government on its witless population, a point of view that Mr. Joseph said he has recently commercial property 'moved away from.'"
and regarding Zeitgeist: Addendum:
"Indeed, Zeitgeist: Addendum , the focus of the event, was all but empty of such conspiratorial notions, directing its rhetoric and high production values toward posing a replacement for the evils of the banking system and a perilous economy of scarcity and debt."
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