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Playstation 3 80 GB - Backwards Compatible
$390.94
First, the list price for this is $599, not $899- it was never $899 and there is no reason to buy it for a $1 over $599.

Other than though the system is great, the game it comes with (Motorstorm) is great! (A racing/rally type driving game with all types of vehicles and better-than-realistic graphics)

Be aware though- it does not come with the cables needed to hook it up to an HD TV... it comes with the standard def RCA cables. If you have an HD TV you will want to buy a standard HDMI cable or, if need be, the special Playstation HD Component cables.

Backwards
$0.99

Backwards Guidebook
$15.95
Nanci does an excellent job of expounding on her first book and provides more insight into her
revelations and experience. I highly recommend it.

The Dark Backward (Special Edition)
$14.94
I found this new for $3 at Big Lots, but I'm afraid it wasn't even worth that. I don't know what kind of sense of humor you need to have to find this funny, but whatever it is it's clear I don't have it, and am no doubt better off because of it.

Perhaps writer/director Adam Rifkin fancied himself a cross between David Lynch and John Waters, but it ends up an extraordinarily lame and humorless imitation, with the worthwhile features of neither. The movie would be full of "droll" surrealist or absurdist humor, if anything in it was actually the least bit funny. The protagonist is intentionally a incredibly lousy comedian, but everything about this movie is about as funny as the complete dud jokes he tells-- I felt about the way the deadpan patrons of Sid's nightclub look at the beginning of the movie. Painfully unfunny to the point that I couldn't even tell what was *supposed* to be funny, and that which was apparently supposed to be shocking was simply pathetic in the attempt (except the necrophilia, which was a little on the sick side for my tastes).

I can laugh at a lot, I find much humor in Lynch and Waters for instance, and can at least understand what is supposed to be funny in movies like "Airplane," though I find it mostly to be an endless collection of "groaners." I don't offend or shock easily, but perhaps that's the problem here. Frankly, I couldn't even identify something worth groaning about. And I found Bill Paxton's hyperactive screaming character mostly just annoying. In the hopes that I would find at least SOMETHING in the movie funny I sat through it to the end, and even when the "jokes" were supposed have gotten better at the very end (I could tell that much at least), still found nothing redeeming. The director's "introduction" extra was incredibly amateurish and lame as well.

The Q&A extra reveals that his motivation may have been to make the viewer uncomfortable and resent him for it (based on a feeling he got from a friend who did a bad standup gig), but I wouldn't say it even had that effect on me-- it didn't have the fascination of a train wreck, more like watching the paint dry on a lead balloon.

Even the surreal world that sets the stage is poorly done, with the overuse of the same droll "Blumps" product gags (they might as well have used, ACME), bad tv programs, an itchy & scratchy cartoon equivalent, Dr. Scurvy reminds of the dentist in Little Shop of Horrors (but far less funny), everything here has been done much better elsewhere.