Reviews by Friends of D347H

Reviewlady21 says "Amazingly Gifted Musicians" about Trans Siberian Orchestra

Reviewlady21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:40:56 GMT

Trans Siberian Orchestra was founded by composer, gutarist Paul O'Neil in 1996, he asked his friends John Oliva, Rober Kinkel, and Al Pitrelli if they were interested in forming a band together.

the idea was to re create christmas songs in more of a rock opera fashion at first the idea didn't sit well, but as it turned out alot of people both old and young really like the music.

TSO uses a 60 piece live orchestra and a choir in all their concerts and albums. I think while the band was touring in 04' their lineup inlcuded (aside from the band) 14 vocalists, 14 musicians and 2 narrators.

since 96' the band had released a total of five studio albums the latest realese is a non christmas album (night castles).

the band's musical styles seems to incorporate; heavy metal, progressive rock, symphonic metal, and classical music.

the band's music is usually considered part of the following genres: Symphonic Rock, Progressive Rock, Christmas Rock, Symphonic Metal, Progressive Metal, Classical and...

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Reviewlady21 says "Great Game" about THQ - Evil Dead: Regeneration

Reviewlady21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:45:55 GMT

Evil Dead: Regeneration was released in 2005 to the PS2, Xbox, and PC.

the game is a (what if) scenario and puts Ash and Co. in a alternate reality. In the game Ash is sent to a mental hospital (sunny meadows) after the events of evil dead and evil dead 2, while Ash is in his rubber room his doctor ( Reinhard) somehow has professor Knowby's diary and the book of the dead otherwise know as Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in his possession. the doctor wants to ascend into power, during which he unleashes the army of deadites into the unsuspecting world.

In the mean time Ash's lawyer (Sally) is searching for clues in order to help her client, but ends up being kidnapped. Ash is tasked with stopping Reinhard, the deadites and save Sally.

unlike he previous installments Ash is paried with a half human half deadite(Sam) voiced by Ted Raimi. turns out the Reinhard tried to do some experiments on poor Sam which turned him into a half deadite, what's interesting about Sam is that he's immortal. players...

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Reviewlady21 says "Very Funny" about Army Of Darkness: Screwhead Additon

Reviewlady21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:21:36 GMT

Army of Darkness: Screwhead Addition

is the third installment in the evil dead series and picks up where the second movie ended. Ash (Bruce Campbell) is sent back in time, he winds up in medevil england and has to save the human race from the deadites, and find a way back to his own time.

unlike the other two installments this movie is more action based but has elements of comedy and horror.

the movie does a pretty good job bringing viewers up to speed, but isn't quite in synch with the previous movie. what I mean is towards the end of the second movie when ash was desperatly from being sucked in to the vortex, a small piece of his hair was gray. in this movie the gray was gone, also Ash was in the cabin with Professor Knowby's daughter Annie but was killed by Ash's possessed hand. since Ash and his car where sucked in the vortex why wasn't Annie's dead body? I mean she wasn't holding on to anything. I know I shouldn't concern myself with such trivial matters.

During the movie Ash falls...

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Reviewlady21 says "Above Average Band" about Amberian Dawn

Reviewlady21 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:08:43 GMT

Amberian Dawn is another finnish symphonic power metal band. the band was founded by several members who happend to played together in another band called virtuocity but the band eventually split. while working on another band project Atheme One the members put out an ad searching for a classically trained female singer. eventually the found Heidi Parviainen (soubrette soprano) and former member of iconofear and after hearing a few samples it was decided that heidi was the vocalist the band was looking for and thus Amberian Dawn was formed.

some people may believe that Amberian Dawn was another Nightwish copycat since both bands are from finland and both have female vocalst (AD with heidi and Nightwish with former vocalist tarja). I doubt anyone would compaire AD with the current NW with anette.

anyhow to date Amberian Dawn has two albums and is currently working on a third album that is expected to be released in 2010.

Heidi's vocal ability is somewhat similar to tarja's except heidi's...

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Reviewlady21 says "Original " about American Gladiators

Reviewlady21 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:11:51 GMT

American Gladiators (1989-1996)

In most cases the original is always better and will always be better than any remake.

the original American Gladiators originally started out as a competietion that took place in a high school gym in Erie, PA. the competition was overseen by Dan Carr and John Ferraro who in turn sold the rights to Samuel Goldwyn Productions/MGM who expanded the format into what is now know as American Gladiators.

The main diffrence between the remake and the original is that the events from the original didn't have the pool of water. plus most of the events featured in the remake where taken from the british version called gladiators.

also the original gladiators weren't as over the top as the new gladiators, the acting from the remake AG is terrible. plus the original series had only two hosts not three and none of the previous hosts aren't over the top like hulk hogan.

from season 3 and on ward the show featured segments that focused on the gladiators like gladiator moments...

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Reviewlady21 says "Interesting and yet scary" about Deadly women

Reviewlady21 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:53:21 GMT

Deadly Women (2005, 2009)

what began as a mini series, Discovery channel's Deadly Women is a show that focuses on female killers. first aired in 2005 as a three episode mini series, each of the three episodes contained four cases with a theme; Obsession, Greed and Revenge.

In 2009 the mini series became a televisionseries shown on investigation discovery channel, now each episode contains only three cases instead of four. like the mini series deadly women has a theme for each epsiode: forbidden love, born bad, and so fourth.

people will notice the cases featured are actual cases: Andrea Yates, Alieen Wuronos, and so fourth.

one case in particular still stands out is the sylivalikens case which was featured in the born bad episode. for those of you who are unfamilar with the case the liken sisters (syliva and jenny) are sent to live with gertude baniszweski and her seven children, during their stay the girls were beaten by gertude when their father's payment was late, but then gertude...

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