Daniel Snyder

Westender
$14.99
The service in receiving this movie was exemplary. I wanted a copy so I could point myself out to friends and family. As movies go, it is slow, disjointed, and painfully predictable. Some of the acting is decent and some of the choreography was excellent.

The Avenging Angel [VHS]
$14.98
Have wanted this video for quite awhile. It was new in the box and was just as described. Very happy with my purchase.

Dreams on Spec
$16.95
It's like they chose deadbeat wannabe types instead of actual writers on the verge of selling something. It leaves one with a bitter aftertaste. Imagine a documentary about actors that are trying to make it, and then watching people who will never make it desperately try to break into the business.

It is also a weird structure they use in this documentary. They intersperse those aspiring writers with professional writers, with little clarification or introduction, as if the two groups were one and the same. Only the professional ones made it, we are supposed to think. Of course, they show an aspiring writer printing out her ideal cast list. That made me think, "What kind of writer is this?"

Some of it was interesting, but I found it depressing. It also has poor production value and not much of a unifying theme.

One caveat: this film is interesting in a psychological sense, a case study of how persistence is not always great. I think people need to have a lot of moxy and political smarts in the business, and this documentary showed three people that seemed a bit out of the reality of it all.

Thoughts of the girl who was "producing her own scripts" comes to mind. She was already casting her ideal movie, printing cast lists, etc... And I am thinking: "What are you doing?" Write a good script!

Kinesiology Foundations for OTAs
$67.95
This book is totally useless as most of the information is wrong. It came with a booklet containing corrections but it didn't cover nearly the amount of mistakes there were. Also, the powerpoint slides for teaching that are being developed for this text are equally disturbing. I spent more money on supplemental materials to make sense of kinesiology that I completely regret buying this book and I wish the publisher would refund the money. Don't buy this book!!