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NarryBorman
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  1.  Depraved, offensive, twisted, bizarre, brilliant??

    Posted: 

    This is a really tough one to rate. I imagine it will fall under the 1/5 or 5/5 category depending on your taste in movies. I give it 5 because I love 70s and 80s grindhouse and expoitation cinema. Now, I have seen many controversial movies and this is up there with the best (or worst?) of them. I won't go into the plot, it is so bizarre you wouldn't believe me anyway. Suffice to say 99% of viewers will find this repulsive and sick. I think it is a monumental achievment based on a $10000 budget with many of the actors being the writers and directors of the movie. The movie was made by a group of 5 called Astron 6 and funded by Troma. Think Hobo with a shotgun, Terror Firmer, Poultrygeist, Nude nuns with big guns and take it up about 12 notches. If gore, sleaze, genital mutilation, chainsaws, male rape, head squishing and a non existant budget is your thing then I recommend it highly but if you are easily offended steer well clear, hell even if it takes a lot to offend you you may still want to steer clear.

  2.  Not bad but not great

    Posted: 

    With me being a big Family Guy fan I thought I would love this. I didn't. It was humerous without being hilarious. The idea was good one but something about the movie left me disappointed. Was it a good idea poorly executed? Family Guy works as a 20/25 minute tv show, I'm not sure a 100 minute Family Guy episode would work, which is essentially what this is.

    Enjoyable but instantly forgetable. Give it a year and it will have faded into the background.

    Decent try Seth but either stick to tv or step up your game.

  3.  Superb

    Posted: 

    Knew little of the books or tv series. Friends had been going on about this show for ages (friends with normally notoriously bad taste) so I ended up picking up this box set to see what the fuss was all about. I was transfixed within minutes. This is without doubt one of the best tv shows I have ever seen. The storyline, acting, costumes, scenery are top class. Moving in parts, gruesome in others, shocking and sometimes sexy. Sadly, I got through the 10 episodes within one weekend. Cannot wait for series 2!

  4.  Poor Build Quality

    Posted: 

    Was reasonably pleased when the item arrived. Hooked it up to wifi nicely, screen was good and responsive. First couple of apps from Getjar downloaded nicely. Then as I delved into Getjar further only 1 out of 4 apps would download. I tried using an sd card but it wouldn't recognise it 50% of the time. Finally after about 2 weeks, say 25 hours of use it failed completely. Upon switching on it wouldn't get past the 'Disgo' screen. Now useless. I have returned it to Play for refund. In my experience this is a poor quality product.

  5.  A class above your standard ipod headphones

    Posted: 

    Having had 2 sets of the standard ipod (classic) headphones fail on me I thought I'd try a 3rd party set. The previous decent reviews led me to these. Glad I did, these things are excellent.

    They feel solid and well built. The wires are roughly twice the thickness of my bog standard ipod phones. I rekon they are a good 25% louder. I listen to mosty rock music and they work perfectly, throw on some bass heavy Rage against the machine or something to really get the bass working.

    Comes with 3 different sized rubber type attachments for the earpieces. I must have slightly mutant ears as I had to use a small on one ear and a medium on the other, but they fit perfect and do not fall out. They do stick out of the ears more than the phones they were replacing but I don't see that as a problem (some might).

    I have been really impressed by these little beasts, I never imagined such an improvement in sound could be attained by spending so little money.

  6.  Something of a let down

    Posted: 

    This was a movie I was really looking forward to, sadly it fell some way short of the hype. Sure, the performance by Hailee Steinfeld is superb but she is the one and only bright light in this dull movie. Jeff Bridges mumbles and slurs his way through the movie as a poor Rooster and Matt Damon (who I highly rate) looks as bored and uninspired as I was watching it. The cinematography and score work well but when 2 of the 3 main characters are so weak its difficult to pull the movie much above mediocre. Not the worst movie I have seen and some will like it but if you ask me it was a massive missed opportunity.

  7.  Missing a few gems

    Posted: 

    Solid enough box set, a half decent representation of the late, great John Candys work but it inexcuseably misses 'Stripes' and 'Planes, Trains & Automoblies' which are 2 of his best movies. And if they are including the blues brothers, how about National Lampoons vacation? where he has a similar, short, but influencial cameo.

  8.  Troma-esque

    Posted: 

    A previous review mentioned Troma and was bang on. This movie plays like a higher budget troma movie (Terror Firmer, Poultrygeist, Toxic Avenger etc). It possibly lacks the over the top comedic elements of the former but is certainly up there in terms of bad taste and gore. Every character in his movie is completely and utterley insane except perhaps the 2 main characters. The movie is true grindhouse, far more so than its brother Machete. If heads being squished between bumper cars and random boob shots is your thing you might want to check this out.

  9. Nebraska

    Nebraska

    Bruce Springsteen - CD

    22 New from  £4.97  Free delivery

    Available  used  from  £5.56

     Beautiful

    Posted: 

    Bruce has done some great albums ...............and one or two stinkers. Thankfully this is up there with the best work he has done (Personally its my favourite). As mentioned in other reviews this is a raw, stripped down album, little more than Bruce, an accoustic guitar and a harmonica. The album was created at his home studio and handed over to the music execs. who loved it. They decided to rerecord it with the e street band (more guitars and voices and more expensive production). Upon completion it was decided they had not come close to matching the magic of original version and so they released what you hear today. Perhaps one day they will release the 'Electric Nebraska' version? What you have here though is a beautiful, haunting masterpiece of raw emotive folk songs. Like I said, in my opinion, Bruces best work.

  10.  Decent enough but way overpriced

    Posted: 

    Am a fan of both Star Wars and Family Guy so I am do enjoy these episodes. However, due to the short running time 33.49 is way too much. Be a far better buy if the price was to drop to the 15/20 mark.