2 comments about Lisbon, Portugal.

1. This is a short video, only about 30 minutes, and it gives a condensed overview of Lisbon. While it does whet the appetite and remind me of the time I lived in Portugal, I wonder who taught the narrator how to pronounce the Portuguese names for places and things. This is so common with well-intentioned people who enjoy travel but who have no ear for foreign languages. His pronunciation of Alfama and fado made me giggle as I tried to figure out what he was saying. All that said Lisbon is a beautiful city and the Portuguese are wonderful people, just don't try to pronounce anything the way the narrator does and you'll be OK.



2. This DVD doesn't satisfy you if you once have visited to Lisbon.
   Although its title is Lisbon, it has few places to visit and I can't get interesting enough information for traveling there again.
   Maybe you can choose another one which will let you smile.
   Try to search it!
   Boa noite!

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1 comments about Caribbean Workout featuring Muscular Conditioning.

1. UNFORTUNATELY, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS WORKOUT BECAUSE I ONLY HAVE A DVD PLAYER. WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE IT WAS A CARRIBBEAN WORKOUT I FAILED TO NOTE IT WAS NOT FOR MY DVD PLAYER. SHAME ON ME...

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2 comments about The West Country - A Guided Tour of Southwest England.

1. This is a delightful and informative Travelog that is also a relaxing trip to England's West Country. It is smoothly presented with good photography as well as an unintrusive background narrative that is delivered in a pleasant voice.
   Best of all there is no ego-ridden, self-promoting face in every scene, stuffing himself with food and talking to the natives in an effort to entertain himself more than his viewers.
   This DVD makes a really nice armchair visit to an interesting part of Britain and I sincerely hope to see more just like this one showing us other parts of England in just such manner.
   As a dedicated anglophile who has traveled freqently in the West Country, I find that I don't really need to "hear" the guide, so sometimes I turn off the sound and use the changing scenery as "wallpaper" while I read. It is nice to glance up from my book and see the Exeter cathedral or Dartmoor -- and it almost makes me feel as though my living room window opens onto one of my favorite parts of England.



2. this was a nice little visit to the west country. i had read susan allen toth's books and found that this covered some of the places i had read about in her books. i enjoyed that.

1 comments about Cosmos: War of the Planets.

1. 
   This is either 1/5 if you are looking for a quality rating, or 4/5 if you flip it upside down and watch this b-movie that way too.
   
   Truly awful in a really wonderful way. When they finished filming, the director said, "post-production? Whassat?"
   
   The thing is a patchwork quilt of completely unrelated scenes and plot lines. Switch from computer expert analyzing a strange audio signal, to two crew members passing each other in the hall and, "smootchie, smootchie... lets have totall non-commital, non physical, mental sex." Cut somewhere else where something "evil" is happening, then back to the "smootchie, smootchie." In fact, a common theme through the entire movie is "bad guys, space walk, evil robot... meanwhile back at Spaceship A'moure"... we-ve GOT to find that red button... YAY!"
   
   Gads.
   
   One thing I'll give it is that in just two places, they have a great "special effect" that is really kinda mesmerizing: it's nothing more than a highly solarized "alien planet panorama" where the huge "sister planet" looms up over the mountain ridge and they pan across the plain. The "solarization" effect (don;'t know what you really call it - it's just a highly color distorted/heavy static view) is really kinda solemn and captivating.
   
   This movie stinks like a rose. Whaddaya expect when you buy it on a DVD of four complete sci-fi movies for a dollar at Walmart? This movie isn't even worth fixing my typos in this review.
   
   Next up: "Assignment Outer Space." I'll let you know.

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