The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation karma all that stuff.
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death reincarnation and karma it has very serious implications for our behavior.
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.