Twice... is not the charm
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Got one card, put it in the card reader. Formatted. Copied 1 file. Error.
Returned.

Got second card, put in the card reader. Formatted. Copied 100 files. No errors - GREAT! Put the card inside the tablet. Waited a month (not using a card at all). Needed to copy a few more files. Put in the card reader. Error. Formatted. Error..

SanDisk! SERIOUSLY???
816535
I loved the first ADGTH. It was excellent,from my stand-point. Above most average cartoons. But ADGTH2 ? No. I liked it when I first saw it (Come one..I was like...5) but re-watching it now, I see how bad it is. The plot is non-exgsistant and TOTALY doesn't make sense with the first one. Sasha (lead female) is not a bad character, but David is whiny and annoying. Annabelle is totaly changed - and her voice is WAY different. Charlie is not the same lovable rascal he was in the first movie. He's lost a sensee of real street-smarts that were so visible in the first one. You don't really conect with the characters in the movie, because you don't see them develop. Charlie doesn't change any, nor do Sasha or Itchy. David changes a little, but not enough to tug the heartstrings of the viewers. Its not a very emotional movie (Okay...1 song is), unlike the original. I just can't really get to like this movie. The three stars are for those who haven't seen the original. If you haven't, and can't compare it, than it stands a fair chance. I'm not saying your going to hate it. I'm saying /I/ didn't like it.
2216402
I watched it twice thinking I was missing something.  I wasn't.
588020
The third time may be a charm, but when it comes to NuMetal bands often times the second time is a disaster. The second album that is. So many times we get a great debut by a band with a great sound, only to either have the band fall off the face of the earth never to be heard from again (Sinch, 3rd Strike) or have their follow up album so polluted by the poison of a record company it's simply unlistenable (as was the case with Crossfade and Shinedown).

So when I found out one of my favorite bands - 10 Years - was releasing a follow up to 1995's `The Autumn Effect' (A simply AWESOME album, BTW. Go buy it) I was understandably nervous. But after hearing `Division' I was relieved... kind of.

10 Years is pretty unique and their sound on `The Autumn Effect' was somewhere just between A Perfect Circle and the normal NuMetal sound. For `Division' they seem to have taken a few steps away from APC and more toward the `norm' and I for one am not at all happy about it.

Yes this disk has half dozen legitimate songs worth listening to - basically the first half of the CD - before it deteriorates quickly to crap. Literally, after track 6 only one of the remaining 7 songs doesn't belong in the toilet (All Your Lies). But like I said, there are a couple of gems.

Actions & Motives and Beautiful are both solid songs, if lacking in imagination. 11 AM is a catchy song even if the lyrics are a bit on the thin side. The two songs that shine the brightest are Just Can't Win and Russian Roulette - both of which harkens back to `The Autumn Effect' and remind me why I fell in love with this band in the first place.

All in all a solid album, I guess, but still very disappointing. Only if it's because I was expecting better from these guys. I mean honestly, if Shinedown or Crossfade had released this album we'd be triumphantly championing their return to NuMetal relevance. But they didn't, 10 Years did, and this is quite a fall from `The Autumn Effect.'
2846686
Watched it twice... Not a favorite DVD- but gave it a chance
959981
Says you get two and only one shows up.  Don't waste your time.
3001949
I didn't get enough the first time, so I've actually rented it twice.
607478
The timing of release of "18" is not proper: It comes as a follow-up to one of the most innovative and one best albums of the 1990s, "PLAY". Of course, the expectations for this follow-up, was pretty high. This alone is bad for the follow-up. If this is not enough, the follow-up turns out to be strictly mediocre.
Frankly, overwhelmed by the gargantuan success of "PLAY", MOBY has tried to repeat what he had done with its predecessor, to "18". Moreover, it seems as if he has run out of ideas for this album, and didn't have enough of them to make this album unique and special in any way, hence making it sound a lot like "PLAY", only worser. The result: a good number of songs, which sound more or less the same as some songs on "PLAY". The songs, "In This World", "One Of These Mornings" and "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)", are amongst the best songs on "18", and these sound really good. But sadly, any of these numbers could be "Porcelain" or "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad" from "PLAY", if one changes the lyrics. It is because of the striking similarity of these songs from "18" to the ones on "PLAY", that they don't seem as enjoyable as they ought to be. In a way, there is a feeling that not enough justice has been done to both these set of songs, from "PLAY", and from "18".
Still, not everything is disheartening about "18". There is also a good deal of reasons to smile about this album. Not every good song on "18" sounds like a copy of the ones on "PLAY". To begin with, the first single, "We Are All Made Of Stars", with an uncannily 80-ish feel to it, is a perfect `radio song' - irresistibly likeable. Other songs like "At Least We Tried" and "I'm Not Worried At All", not only have fantastic vocals, but their melancholy and their musically simple and honest nature, are touching. As a matter of fact, "I'm Not Worried At All", is such a beautiful way to end the album: positive lyrics, simple and somber tune; it really invokes a teardrop or two.
So, "18" is not as good as "PLAY". It is made even worse, as its expectations are set too high by "PLAY", to which it sadly doesn't live up. Tough it has a few or even more than a few memorable moments, "18" is strictly a decent dance album, nothing spectacular though.
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Those who have raved over this movie must have seen a different one than I did. Two intersecting stories - one about a hunt for a serial killer and the other a gay romance between an LA cop and a supposed FBI psychic - were both amateurish and not even remotely credible. The FBI agents wander around LA like the walking dead and keep taking coffee breaks in the midst of investigating a number of murders, thereby leaving one of their fellow agents in danger. Gun shots from nowhere keep threatening our investigators who are able to "sniff" out the whereabouts of our serial killer in no time flat despite the fact that the scene of all this action takes place in one of the heaviest populated areas in this country. The gay part of this film appears to be based upon the idea that gratuitous male nudity and simulated sexual activity will be a draw for a huge audience. Talk about "love at first fright" - whoops, I meant "sight". A supposedly psychic FBI agent
who later admits that he really isn't psychic makes contact with a hunky black policeman at the outset of investigating a murder attributed to a serial killer who has moved on from Seattle to LA. And before you can say West Hollywood, the two are in bed together doing the nasty even though the cop claims that he is a novice. Despite his best efforts, it seems that everyone finds out that the cop is gay except for his immediate boss and partner. I expected the FBI agent and the cop to appear on The Tonight Show at any moment to confess their new found love. The murderer is revealed very early on for those who are "psychic" or just pay close attention (or not) to the story. With a known serial killer on the loose with more than 40 known killings to his credit, we can only wonder at the fact that we have one police car showing up at the scene of a crime who just happens to be our favorite cop and a junior officer at that. This film gives new meaning to the
term "man hunt".  To add some "horror" to our story, the dead are always found in a decomposed state requiring men in special garb to come and clean up the mess.  When the bodies are discovered, everyone recoils and holds his nose. Ironically, I did the same during the greater part of this movie.  This was a major disappointment on both its levels, especially after seeing the same director's Capital Games
only a few days earlier.
3783103
Ordered twice, broke twice. Could have been amazing!!!
2751936
Seems like they took material from the cutting room floor to compile this second DVD.  I was really pretty disappointed.  There's a few good tracks, but not compared to the first one.  Perhaps the first one raised my hopes up too high?
2364505
NOT AS GOOD AS THE FIRST ONE!!!!  Not nearly as good.
1412996
I thought you get two. That wasn't the case. Had to order the 2nd one and pay shipping again.
2299117
It's not easy catching lightening in a bottle twice!! It had no uummph!!! Way over the top with advancement and had maybe one or two spots where you felt a bit of the original. But it was ok for the effects.
3890620
I ordered twice, the first time was OK, and the second time, there was one that didn't light up.. The battery used up very quickly, I have to change the battery which is hard to change it without some kinda of tool. I will not consider buying it again though
4965947
An aptly chosen title: for the second time in a row, I am fairly disappointed with a Susanna Gregory`s Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew... It may be that, was I to re-read the first chronicles, I would get similarly unhappy about the enormous suspension of disbelief required by the novels.

The current story actually reminds me very much of an earlier chronicle,&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/A-Wicked-Deed-Matthew-Bartholomew-Chronicles/dp/0751525448/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">A Wicked Deed (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles)</a>, as the setting (a dispute about a succession in a remote village away from the University) is fairly similar. There are many many reasons why I find A Vein of Deceit highly implausible (warning, spoilers!): a plot involves an unlikely tryst between a Cambridge scholar and a back-country heiress, a Michaelhouse faculty turning into a greedy traitor, a pair of super-villains who freely terrorise the whole city of Cambridge by having won an earlier legal trial, a huge frequency of chance meetings, an equally large amount of related crimes, venture capitalism, acceptance of homosexuality (at a time homosexuality was punished by death) and of concubinage, a general freedom of women that seems incompatible with the time, geographic impossibilities like having no road to the nearby and bustling Haverhill (to the point the group from Cambridge gets lost on its way there), consecrated chapels used for raising poultry, &tc., &tc... The plot unravels in a messy way with new threads being continuously brought in. (warning, spoiler!) The (hidden) reappearance of Matthews' love in the novel is equally contrived and implausible. (As much as I was looking for it...!)

Overall, I did not get much pleasure from reading the novel and fear the inspiration of the author has dried out. (This was first written as a review in xianblog.)
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If you want accuracy, well this scale is not for you! You can weigh the same object twice and get two different readings.