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Dr Frank's Joint & Muscle Pain Relief Oral Spray As Seen on Tv
$24.99
I'm doing a cut and paste from a fibromyalgia web site. It's very interesting and explains the 5 star reviews. Hope this saves someone a lot of money and aggravation:
I read the reviews on Amazon and here is what I found. The positive reviews caught my attention.

The reason is that the job I just left was an SEO manager. Doing things for search engine optimization. It is a technique to get you higher in the search engines.

Anyway, that is what those positive reviews were! That makes me really mad! People will read those and believe that an FM patient got relief or someone who has been injured. A dead give away of this is where "Lauren" posted Inflammation, Pain & Stiffness in the middle of the sentence. It is old school SEO. Capitalize key phrases.

I am not saying this stuff doesn't work (although the reviews are overwhelmingly against it) but I would guess that the positive reviews are all either accounts that were set up for the purpose of writing that or they got people that work for them or are friends to write those reviews.

And no, not all SEO is like that. We used to post articles about our products. Not sales pitches, real information.

So not only is it snake oil, but they are using "black hat" SEO techniques to dupe people in real need

Frank Herbert's Dune (TV Miniseries) [VHS]
$39.98
The biggest complaint I have is that this version gives you no sense of place. Nothing tells you what Arrakis really feels like - how beautiful and horrifying it is, and what it means to be stuck in a place that lets only the fittest survive. The Fremen? Well, they look like just another tv-series-medieval-village-folk (ok, their eyes glow at night. Not that it makes sense...) instead of the tough, lean, skinny desert fanatics they're supposed to be. They're just not that serious (and overacting certainly doesn't help). That's the number one reason for me to still prefer the Lynch version. Unfortunately, there's more: both set design and CGI ranges from nice (Arrakeen, the Guild fleet) to mediocre (the desert storm looked really bad). And while this version sticks closely to the novel, some bad choices were made in showing the world at work (again, the filmmakers didn't "get" the concept of the Voice, and made the actors speak through a tube or something).
This said, there are things in John Harrison's Dune, that work. I actually liked most of the performances - including William Hurt (portraying a noble man dead tired from digging himself out of a hole), and even Alec Newman (annoying at first, inhuman at the end, just how it should be). And kudos to Karel Dobry (Kynes - this is a Fremen if I ever saw one), P.H.Moriarty (Halleck), and Saskia Reeves (Jessica - very effective as the "moral center" of the story).
Much has been said about the costume designs for the "nobles". Sure, they do look weird, but come on. They are supposed to look decadent and, above all, RICH. And they do.
As for filming it all in a studio - it surely adds to the problem I started the review with, but then again Vittorio Storaro made the most of it - as can be expected from an artist of this caliber. A well-deserved Emmy.
Final thought: Dune is obviously a tough one to film. This version, while more understandable than the Lynch one, presents it's own set of problems. I hope someone tries filming it again - and if You, the future director, are reading this - please, don't treat it like fantasy. It may have strange visions, and giant bugs, but it's Science Fiction.

Frank Herbert's Dune (Sci-Fi TV Miniseries) (Special Edition Director's Cut) (3-Disc DVD Set)
$14.98
The biggest complaint I have is that this version gives you no sense of place. Nothing tells you what Arrakis really feels like - how beautiful and horrifying it is, and what it means to be stuck in a place that lets only the fittest survive. The Fremen? Well, they look like just another tv-series-medieval-village-folk (ok, their eyes glow at night. Not that it makes sense...) instead of the tough, lean, skinny desert fanatics they're supposed to be. They're just not that serious (and overacting certainly doesn't help). That's the number one reason for me to still prefer the Lynch version. Unfortunately, there's more: both set design and CGI ranges from nice (Arrakeen, the Guild fleet) to mediocre (the desert storm looked really bad). And while this version sticks closely to the novel, some bad choices were made in showing the world at work (again, the filmmakers didn't "get" the concept of the Voice, and made the actors speak through a tube or something).
This said, there are things in John Harrison's Dune, that work. I actually liked most of the performances - including William Hurt (portraying a noble man dead tired from digging himself out of a hole), and even Alec Newman (annoying at first, inhuman at the end, just how it should be). And kudos to Karel Dobry (Kynes - this is a Fremen if I ever saw one), P.H.Moriarty (Halleck), and Saskia Reeves (Jessica - very effective as the "moral center" of the story).
Much has been said about the costume designs for the "nobles". Sure, they do look weird, but come on. They are supposed to look decadent and, above all, RICH. And they do.
As for filming it all in a studio - it surely adds to the problem I started the review with, but then again Vittorio Storaro made the most of it - as can be expected from an artist of this caliber. A well-deserved Emmy.
Final thought: Dune is obviously a tough one to film. This version, while more understandable than the Lynch one, presents it's own set of problems. I hope someone tries filming it again - and if You, the future director, are reading this - please, don't treat it like fantasy. It may have strange visions, and giant bugs, but it's Science Fiction.

Sitcoms: The 101 Greatest TV Comedies of All Time
$29.95
This is basic, "Sitcom 101" information that offers no new perspective and only rehashes whatever stories found in other books. The amount of info is minimal and this is not a book for the serious student of television. It's only for those who haven't studied situation comedies and just want a coffeetable book filled with pretty pictures.

The book has really odd choices for the "101 Greatest Of All Time." Alice? Bob Cummings Show? December Bride? Topper? Wings? The Nanny? SERIOUSLY?

There are also numerous errors. Then they include totally unrelated information in the already-short chapters on each show (about 3 to 4 pages per show). For example, why mention Eleanor Parker in The Sound of Music in the middle of the Brady Bunch chapter?

Then how can they include Perfect Strangers but leave out Family Matters (the much more successful show it spun off). Or not include FULL HOUSE??--which will be one of the longest-running comedies that will be rerun for the next five decades (like Leave It to Beaver is today).

They also limit their definition of sitcoms so it doesn't include all cable comedies like Lizzie McGuire. It was nice, though, that they included Saved by the Bell (which often gets overlooked in other sitcom books).

Then there are a few pages devoted to "Flops," "Military Sitcoms," etc. But they do nothing but show a few pictures and give little information about the show. There is no perspective here and they treat every show on their list equally, where Hazel gets the same amount of space as Friends.


The authors really have no background qualifications to write this book--simply because they wrote a book on Broadway hits they came up with this book as a follow-up? It's obvious that they don't know much about the sujbect and merely rely upon a few TV guidebooks that they have read. There is not much new here.

People who know nothing about TV comedy may enjoy the pictures and the trip down memory lane. But there are other much better books out there about comedies that include analysis and more historical information such as ratings.