Epinions Recent Reviews for jenmnevada

Talent wasted

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:12:58 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - This movie might have meant to be a spoof. A host of decent actors and some likely talented musicians, dancers and others absolutely waste their abilities in this pathetic film which spoofs not one movie or one genre, instead it spoofs many movies...

Great dialogue makes this worthwhile

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:57:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - New in Town is generally a predictable two star movie that we would see on television next season, but what will save it from it this fate, I think, is the fresh, truly laugh out loud funny, dialogue. Renee Zellweger stars as Lucy a sunny Florida...

Streep's finest characterization

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:00:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - This is the portrayal of Meryl Streep’s career. It is extremely difficult to imagine she won’t get the best female performance Academy Award for her efforts. It requires
exceptional
acting skill and the ability to becom...

Music very good, animation and storyline mediocre

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:38:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I remember when I first saw the Lion King. The animation in that film was truly stunning. It also had compelling characters and a touching storyline. In terms of animation the first Madagascar was no Lion King either but there was a joy in the...

Yahoo! Music Unlimited Online Service: It wasn't broken but they "fixed" it anyway.

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:49:06 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - This used to be a wonderful service with the tagline "Music That Listens to You". It cost about $35 a year but was totally worth it since subscribers could create a massive playlist of personal favorites. There was also an option to buy...

Mama's Boy: Diane Keaton finally makes a film with no redeeming aspect

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:23:54 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - Diane Keaton has only made one film I truly despised. This is it. Her character in this film is the dysfunctional but not even remotely funny Jan Mannus who was widowed 20 years before the story begins. Jan is drab and grows increasingly tedious. Ill...

Dark Comedy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:12:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - If you happen to remember "Message in a Bottle" which was marketed as a comedy but had a sad and tragic ending, this movie is a much lighter version of the same type of dishonest marketing. Except this movie doesn't even end tragically, the whole thing...

I'm too stupid for the idiot proof improvements

Sun, 11 May 2008 22:56:13 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I downloaded Microsoft Word 2007 in desperation after my computer lost everything. When I reinstalled the operating system, I couldn't locate my copy of Office 2003. I was in a hurry so I ended up downloading a trial copy of Office 2007 Home and Academic...

Julie Andrews and a cute precocious kid

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:20:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - Just about everyone has seen Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music", and one may initially wonder what this stellar actress is doing playing the supporting role of nanny to six year old Eloise in a made for TV film. The movie is not bad for made for TV...

Christmas Do Over

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:49:18 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - A made for TV Christmas movie that borrowed its primary concept from "Groundhog Day". If you are dying to see the concept of that movie recycled for Christmas, maybe you'll enjoy this film. The lackluster title itself seems to warn people that this...

2006 Single Little Perennials

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:14:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I have to admit that I’d barely heard of the Indigo Girls when I became totally captivated by their single offering “Little Perennials” which is a showcase for the singer-songwriters’ slowly developing talents over a 20 year career that formerly left...

ecampus.com: Misleading in someways, downright dishonest in others

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:11:21 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - Like many others here, I found the small savings compared with other textbook isn't worth it. Pick someplace near the same price that is rated better by consumers. There was a great sounding shipping deal that turned out to be ordinary shipping at a...

A godsend for a creative non programmer

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:02:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - If you catch onto programming languages easily this probably isn't the book for you. If on the other hand, you struggle with things like this as I do and struggled to catch on to HTML only to find yourself in the dust, then you struggled with Javascript...

Len: Real artists and one hit wonders in one album

Sat, 4 Jun 2005 19:31:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I first heard of this Canadian band when their only hit "Steal My Sunshine" seduced me with its musical equivalent of what is called a "dual focus narrative" when done in film, a presenting of the same situation from male and female perspectives. To...

Napster Online Service: Napster seems over rated, there are better less pricey options

Sun, 22 May 2005 01:46:54 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I guess it depends on what you want out of an online music service but after trying several of them, I found Napster to be overpriced, short on the music I actually wanted to hear, and with a fairly complex interface. At $9.95 per month and 99 cents...

FedEx Ground Buyers (and Sellers) Beware

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:20:13 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - It was the night before Christmas and out on our porch there was the box from an online Electronics store containing a monitor that had been dropped off the 4 foot wall onto our concrete enclosed porch. It was a shock to me that the delivery company...

Matchstick Men leaves Paper Moon lagging behind

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:35:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - You wouldn't think that Nicholas Cage and the relatively unknown Alison Lohman would in many ways surpass the classic Paper Moon but this film does that. Paper Moon relied almost entirely on chemistry between Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. Matchstick Men...

Not as biased as we've been led to believe

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:30:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - A biased film about a President and his administration, if you ask me, would be one that suggested, threatened, or pleaded that you not vote the current administration back into office. This film doesn't do that. By definition, any film, but...

Best of Lesser Known Seger Music

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 06:04:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I grew up in Northwest Ohio during the years when no one outside the Midwest seemed to know who Bob Seger was. It wasn't uncommon at all to see this artist playing smaller local venues, giving locals a chance to hear a world class musician sometimes for...

Lexmark Z 515 Grab 'N' Go Printer Printer: Outstanding Value for the Money

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:04:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - You know what I love about my LexMark 515 Printer? Everything I hated in a 10 year love hate relationship with a long series of HP printers, the last of which was replaced by the LexMark. For one thing, LexMark has managed to include an onscreen...

Columbine was just an example

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:28:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I finally saw Bowling for Columbine thanks to marketing done for Moore's Fahrenheit/911. You should see it too. The people on Fox News are all complaining bitterly about Moore in the debut week for his new film. To get a less skewed perspective on...

Yahoo! Geocities: Has improved considerably from 2003 to 2005.

Mon, 24 May 2004 20:01:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - Geocities is what you get for free when you have SBC Yahoo DSL which I've had for a while now. By the time my service contract with SBC was up I ended up keeping SBC not because they had a better website option but because they'd lowered their DSL price...

More action less story than the series

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:38:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - I expected a really good X Files episode idea lovingly salted away for the future but this was not much like the series at all. The paranormal sciences agency has been shut down and the two agents from the series are now garden variety FBI agents and...

Stamps.com: Only worth it for the first two months

Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:19:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - Since upgrading my skills has turned out to be an endless proposition for me I sell quite a few used texts online. When I got an offer to get a free scale and $25 in free postage and a rebate on one of the rewards sites I belong to I decided to give...

SBC Yahoo: Thank you for calling India

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:50:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jenmnevada - We have a router and it keeps most of the problems with DSL service at bay, but recently when our settings in Yahoo and SBC began changing themselves without asking us first, I wondered what was going on. I have had a fair number of conversations...