Epinions Recent Reviews for darksentinel

Cloverfield: Worthy of Praise -- and Dramamine

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:42:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I liked Clover Field, the movie named for the place where the SD chip from a movie camera was found. The entire movie is from the point of view, or POV, of the camera this chip came from. I had second thoughts about seeing it because, after reading...

Forget the Flesh Eating Monsters, Kill The Sheepish Christians!

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:55:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - Rarely does a horror movie come along that forces me to think as deeply as this one did. The mist quickly set up a world invaded by opportunistic monsters from another dimension opened up by the military, possibly while researching ways to send incoming...

Wow! It has a Hotshoe! Oh Yeah, and It Takes Decent Photos

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:49:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I'm releasing this review a year late. I wrote it, thought it was too negative, and just forgot about it, so this article is written after becoming intimate with the camera and taking over 4000 photos with it. It's amazingly feature-laden for $379! It...

Great headphones. Not-So-Great Headset.

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:34:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I picked this unit up at Circuit City for $50. The Cyberacoustics AC-850 comes with no disc, no documentation and less to say about itself on its website than it says on its single-panel cardboard and glued blister packaging. I tried to approach this...

Works, but other DVD Players/and readers might have a problem with your discs

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:16:30 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - What’re you gonna do? You have way too much stuff on your computer. You’re a graphic artist and you have to move many MANY gigs of photos and edited photos and videos and God knows what else off your computer. You have a 120 Gig hard drive and a 40 gig...

I Love It But It Could Be So Much Better With Small Changes

Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:21:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - For the past 25 years, I’ve shot 35 millimeter film in my Minolta Maxxum or Yashica TL ElectroX, which was my first camera. I’ve never had a complaint about the quality of my images until the late 90s when I noticed that some of the new non-pro...

You get what you pay for

Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:00:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - This is a good unit but you can't use this unit without a USB port. If your USB port is located in the back of your computer, and your PC isn't easily moved, you might want to look elsewhere. I’m not a big fan of creative products, but I...

The Best Suite Yet

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:49:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - Nero Burning Rom 6 Ultra Edition is simply the best, farest-reaching CD suite I’ve ever used. Nero suites have always tried harder than the others, looking a bit slicker and offering more features even if they were testy. However, while it tried...

Not For Audiophiles

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:31:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - This device accepts audio input through it’s mini headphone jack and broadcasts the audio in stereo over one of four FM channels in the 88 Mhz range. You pick which channel has the best reception. For me, it was 88.1, but for you, depending on the...

A Decent Movie if You're Not a Genre Snob

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:28:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I rented Catwoman along with another movie that I was told to run away from. The other movie was indeed a yawner. I was pleasantly surprised by Catwoman. It was entertaining. And I actually watched parts again. It was not a man-hater’s film. Where...

Apex AD-1000 DVD: The Little DVD Player That Could

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:53:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I have only seen this device at Wal-Mart, and it’s the cheapest one on the rack at $58. Mine rang up for $48. Must have been a sale. This is a good piece of work. Its model number is the Apex AD 1010W, and it’s a full-featured DVD player at an...

NetZero: I Used to Think That Cheap and Reliable was a Good Thing

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:10:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I’ve been with the free version of NetZero for over two years, using it only when my ISP’s server was down. It was cool to fall back on when my pay ISP was on the fritz. The pop ups were unbearable though. For the past year, I’ve been with...

Acid is better than you think

Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:48:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - Acid 3.0 is loop-based sound recording software, at least that’s what everyone likes to call it. Actually, Acid is a hard disk recorder that also has loop abilities. Let me define it another way in case some people are confused. Acid is sort of like...

Cinematic Excellence

Sun, 19 May 2002 06:06:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - Long grumbling preamble:

I hate summer family blockbusters. It’s getting to the point that I’m hesitant to see them, not because of the movies themselves, but because of the large families that flock into the theater with their cell...

The bravest review you'll ever read

Sun, 12 May 2002 07:04:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - Why brave? Because anyone who defends Jason X must have zero taste, right? Surely you’d give me a low rating if I gave this movie a thumbs up. Well when I told most of my friends that I enjoyed this movie more than some blockbusters, they felt an...

I laughed, I frowned, I was ticked off, but it was very good.

Fri, 10 May 2002 15:38:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - When you factor in that I’m usually let down when I wait so eagerly for so long, and still liked this movie, the movie must have been great.

Should I even go into who or what Spiderman is? The plot's supposedly been upgraded in from the boy...

Blade II: Twice as good as before.

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 07:05:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - My family walked out of the theater smiling. My wife wouldn't stop talking about the movie all the way home. I loved that smile on her face.

This was a great movie. It delivered plenty of non-gratuitous action, which I like, with only a few of...

Don't let its modest billing and price scare you away

Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:02:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - An entry-level scanner? This is how Hewlett Packard bills their $69 HP scanjet 2200c. Six years ago, I paid nearly $500 for a 400dpi scanner nowhere near this cool. The 2200c is a sleek little thing, boasting a 600 dpi optical resolution. On the HP...

The Mouse that Roared!

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:50:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - The Logitech M-BJ58 is an incredible value for all you guys like me, who have put off buying an optical mouse. It can’t get much cheaper than the $14.95 I paid for it at Office Max.

What’s an optical mouse? Well it’s a mouse without a ball...

A typical card that lacks a hardware-based synth

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:41:46 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - The Hercules Gamesurround Muse XL is a decent 16-bit sound card, reminiscent of the SoundBlaster 16. It has no hardware synthesizer and relies on a software synthesizer to play MIDI sounds. I’ll explain why that’s important later.

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This card would be so cool if not for the poor software

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:49:17 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - The TV Wonder VE

Want to watch Buffy while surfing? Thinking of editing video for fun and profit? This card may be a cost-effective high-quality method of doing so. It lacks software you’d want for extensive editing, but you can easily record,...

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (N09-00048) For PC: Windows XP: Rebuilt...Better, Stronger, Faster

Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:07:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - Windows XP

I’ve never purchased an operating system before. They always came with a new computer. Windows ME, with all of its crashing, bugginess and unreliability, made me run off to Office Max, plunk down $99, and change a deep-rooted family...

It can be improved upon, but man I love this thing!

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:55:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I only intended to purchase a plain old $30 CD player for my strolls in the park, but my wife knew that I wanted an MP3 player and, like all dream wives, forced me to buy the $79 Memorex MPD8505CP. I wanted a CD-based MP3 player because I didn’t want to...

Windows ME crashes. Go XP or stay with Win98

Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:41:17 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - Bill Gates was once quoted as saying that no one would ever need more than 640 Kilobytes of RAM. Now, with Windows ME, he’s selling a retail operating system that literally suggests you have at least one hundred times that memory. But rather than...

Microsoft Publisher 2000: Publisher From a Pro Designer's Perspective

Wed, 11 Apr 2001 03:45:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author darksentinel - I am a graphic designer for a business printer. This isn’t Kinkos. We print for your casinos and your hospitals, and we’re the source of some of that slick, glossy, colorful junk mail you receive. I freelanced for years and earned many, many thousands of...