Prepare to be Dumbfounded
580337
Super lame. The focus of this of this doc is a religious nut who scares children into worshiping Christ
3285268
Oh, God. Let's just get it over with and say that EVERYONE ON EARTH IS SECRETLY GAY. EVERYONE. This is one of the stupidest books I've ever glanced through - yes, GLANCED through, since I couldn't stomach slowing down to allow the words to stick in my head. Madsen, who I believe is secretly gay himself, is hellbent on making as many dead people gay as possible. And he can't write. I take particular offense at his chapter on Barbara Stanwyck. She was a brilliant actress and a very private person. Her life was relatively scandal-free. Mr. Madsen, you would be hurting right now if she were alive to crucify you in court. If only I could see that!!!
2031319
Totally incoherent!!!I shouldn't evengive it a star.
861694
So fantastically dumb that it is brilliant. NASA ain't got nothing on the tech used to get these travelers to the moon. The science in this SciFi is purely hardcore Hollywood clueless creativity. And the acting...the acting...amazing! Costumes? Stunning! The sets and space scenes? Likewise a pure assault on rational mind. It's a masterpiece of absolute silliness.
140245
This thing is ridiculous.  I bought it thinking "hey, it's got to be better than the ground, or a balled up sweatshirt."  Turns out I was right by a factor of roughly a million.  Buy one now.  Even when it comes you'll hold it in your hands and think to yourself, "That guy is smoking rocks.  This feels like a sack full of foam cubes and can't possibly be any good."  Fair enough there sport, that's what I thought too.  Just wait until you go out into the wilds and it's time to crash after a long day of whatever awesome backwoods tomfoolery you've gotten yourself into.  Unpack it, fluff it, then lay that tired, filthy head down and you too will wonder if "Thermarest" translates into "stuffed bag of baby angel down."
2458816
A pair of incredibly stupid women separated by time and re-incarnated, who are supposed to be the "good gals." But they are so dumb as to be completely unaware of the plots around them. And the plot? To get the three book of the old, weird, ancient, and holy "Trilogy." Which will lead the lucky person to the Holy Grail, which in turn allows them to, dare I say it? Live forever! Ah, that pesky Holy Grail is at it again. It will not stay lost or dead. And a word to Kate Moss, I am really happy you speak French, but most of us don't want to. And Watch out! As for our heroines, Xena and Gabrielle they certainly are not. This soap opera is basically Katherine Neville's "Eight," but not as well traveled geographically, nor does it have funny cross-desert jaunt in a convertible by the two gals.
2388654
Somehow, I thought the stars and constellations would brightly light up.  I actually bought it for part of a halloween/christmas display inside my living room.  (Don't ask.)  It, in fact, shows the stars IN SHADOW.

The light, it warned, would glow SO BRIGHTLY, it was a danger to view directly.  It is simply-at least in my case-a relatively DIM, tiny light.

To insert the THREE AAA batteries, you have to remove a miniscule screw, then manually unscrew a cap.  (WHY?  Do they think the batteries are going to EXPLODE?)

You are supposed to be able to set the sky to an exact time and date, if you like...however, I had no "pointer" to set ANYTHING to, even after carefully checking and double and triple checking the manual.

I couldn't see ANYTHING, until I brought it into my TINY powder room-and then, it ONLY worked if I held it closely to the wall.  FORGET seeing anything on the ceiling.

This was the exact OPPOSITE of what I hoped for-but then, seeing the low price-I shouldn't have expected much more.

The whole thing is simply bizarre...and not at all what you would imagine.  I stupidly bought one for myself, one for my friend's son, and I bought a "moon phases" thing for her other son-same brand.  I will be returning ALL of them. This gadget was so stupid, I have ZERO faith in the moon phase thingie, even though-like this-from the BOX, it looks great.

Please, please, save your time and money.  This thing is terrible, from beginning to end.  I'm so relieved I was very careful unpacking it, so I can return it.
389571
Better if you keep your eyes open, this is a piece of s***
1896086
This book was at first intriguing, turned frustrating, became confusing, and ended just plain dumb. If you are religious (I am not), you will be offended by the subject matter. If you are atheist (I am not), you will be offended by the subject matter. If you are intelligent (I think I am), you will be offended by the ham-handed framing of the narrative and non-sensical resolution of the plot. If the plot description intrigues you, I encourage you to drop the couple bucks to purchase. However, if a quarter through the book you find yourself disliking it, trust me it does not get better.
2217199
As for a "problem" with the story of the man of Gadara the scripture say's they were in the "country" of the Gadarenes not in Gadara. Had the author actually read the scripture he might have seen there is no problem with this. Another huge issue I have is with this statement: "Perhaps this is one more clue in our contention that, despite parasites and scary cryptids, the ultimate message of the paranormal is one of unity and love" I almost fell out of my chair when I read that statement! It shows just how ignorant and out of touch the authors are if they really believe that! We are witnessing the greatest deception in the history of mankind at this moment. It is a deception that has been planned for thousands of year and is about to be sprung on a spiritually ignorant populace. This book in my opinion helps to confuse the ignorant just that much more. The author call's unbelievably  powerful and extremely intelligent fallen angels "parasites" These angels have an agenda and the authors (wittingly or not) are helping to push their agenda. There is an evil world system coming, these paranormal manifestations are bursting forth for the specific purpose of deceiving. Jesus said that deception would be the main sign of  the end of the world and just about everyone will be deceived...if possible, even the very elect! This book is just another piece of that deception. It's a very poor time in history to be spiritually ignorant!
1889074
This book is convoluted for the sake of being convoluted and allows pseudo eccentrics to continue bolstering their own nihilism.

Oh my goodness, I had to turn a page upside down to read it... So scary. Give me a break.

If you bought your kid a Toyota, and he/she complains that his/her life is ruined because it's not a BMW, they will enjoy this book.
878351
OK, WOW!!!

 Before I put this on my gun, futszing around, I made the mistake of pointing it at my face and looking at it at arms length, just for a split second.

DUMB mistake.  I literally had the after glow image burned on my retina for at least the next 10 minutes.  It was night, but I had ALL the lights on in my room.  Seriously, I had a magenta or blue (depending upon the background) mini-doughnut floating three feet in front of me no matter where I looked.

Their claims of incapacitating an intruder with its brilliance are not far fetched.  If my eyes had been dark adapted and someone pointed that at me from twelve feet away...  well, look, I'm not even going to test this scenario.  You do it, that $%^& kind of scared me, I thought that I might have done some permanent damage to my retinas there for a while.

All this to say, this product functions as claimed, more so than you would believe.

So why the 4/5 stars?  Well, it didn't fit the Picatinny rail of my Beretta 92A1.  I had to jam it on there.  I damaged the plastic parts of the product putting it on AND YES I followed all the directions.  When the batteries drain, I will have an ordeal to replace them.  -BUT-  I am OK with this, because, A.) HOLY COW the performance of the product and B.) the light itself is metal and the adjustable mounting parts are plastic, so I should be and if nothing else, to get replacement parts at that time.
1369471
When I saw this commerical for the dvd, I shook my head in disbelief. While many excellent tv programs have yet to see the light of day, crap like this gets produced by the millions. Simple Life, Punk'd, Viva La Bam, Newlyweds, and now this. How stupid are people that watch this? Im going follow someone around with a camera, not hold it steady, and say some stupid crap. Im a millionare now!
969244
Even considering that this is a fiction novel that supposedly pushes the boundaries of modern understanding of science and religion, the best single word description I can muster is; implausible.

I could spend all day echoing complaints about how maddeningly stupid Langdon has apparently become since "The Da Vinci Code". In the previous book he always seemed to have already figured everything out and spent most of it explaining to his companions what he knew or had discovered and what made it significant. It was a very clever way of advancing the plot while also educating the reader without having to fill pages with side step background information. In this book,however Langdon instead seems to realize nothing. Why it's maddening is, his entire explanation for why he didn't realize it, is simply that "it was just a legend" or some other excuse, so he just didn't consider it. What? That couldn't be a more opposite stance from the attitude he took in the previous book. We've gone from consider everything to consider nothing. Pretty sure the reason it really bothered me is that what it amounted to, for me as a reader, was nothing more than a plot device that was purposefully meant to obscure information that would have blown the whole story wide open if even one single piece of information had been known. That amounts to an extremely weak story.

The main thing that bothers me, that no one else seems to have mentioned in reviews I've read so far, is that lack of activity in D.C. on this particular night. There are several scenes in which it's described as being deathly silent, not even people, where they are in the city. Really? I know of no cities that are completely devoid of people at any time of the day, let alone after a substantial portion of a major architectural structure in the heart of it is obliterated by an almost sub-nuclear detonation. Where were the cops? The Firefighters? All the security forces after that? What about people? Observers, residents that are curious as to why helicopters are flying around D.C. in the middle of the night? Did no one hear the explosion? Did D.C. get shut down and everyone evacuated before this all took place? Did I miss that somewhere? Are we to believe that things like this can happen in the nation's capitol and no one would notice or be concerned? As if every single member of every possible official government organization wouldn't be out in the streets with lights, sirens, bullhorns and people barriers is that happened? Get real.

Unfortunately for me, The Da Vinci code was my first Dan Brown read. I read several of his other books after hoping for more of that. What I found instead was very poor writing based on highly improbable situations and miraculous circumstances that push plot devices that, at the end of the day, really wouldn't amount to anything of significance outside of anyone directly involved in the story. The literary equivalent of burning down a house because the bathroom needed to be cleaned. I guess he just got lucky with that one.
3996437
The moment I saw this book I was the moment I realized how far we have fallen as a species. Anyone who knows how to computer will be driven to madness by the sheer forces of stupid waiting within this tome of travesties. This book is so stupid sponges laugh at it. Anyone who works with computers will be driven into a frothy rage watching this dumb bimbo prance around screaming that she can computer. If you value your mind, your pets, your loved ones, do not buy this book. It summons zombie unicorns. They aren't friendly.
1814615
Religious baloney masquerading as science. Don't be fooled. Well-known skeptic Richard Dawkin's name was put on this movie without his permission to make it seem like a balanced, thoughtful perspective.
3953201
Words can't even describe the let down with this situation