Customer Reviews:
Not bad... but not really for adults.......2007-08-20
You'll have noticed that SG:I is a cartoon. And yes, evidently it's for kids, complete with gratuitous pseudo-educational content and conspicuous morals to the stories. It actually reminds me a little of "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", in part for the everyone-stand-around-and-laugh-good-naturedly ending to some of the episodes. Of course, that comparison does Stargate: Infinity a disservice, as it's actually pretty sensible and well-made.
If, like me, you thought "ooh, Stargate!", then you're probably going to be disappointed, as this manages to be untrue to both the film and the TV series. There are DHDs, GDOs, stargates... but not quite as you might remember them. The "ancients" have apparently been completely reinvented, and the bad guys are a bunch of brutish sauroids who inexplicably carry Jaffar staff weapons and fly Mayan variant Goa'uld mother-ships. Much of that is necessary to dumb-down the content in order to capture fleeting attention spans, and to provide an antagonist alien enough to avoid suggesting that fighting real people is good, of course.
As entertainment, it's not too bad, though of course it's fantasy of the highest order, which you have to be willing to forgive. For example, despite its willingness to explain that you get a fair amount of energy from a hydrogen-oxygen combustion reaction, and that both can be derived from water, it kind of skips over the fact that you need to put energy in to extract the individual elements, so it isn't just water-in, power-out. Well, maybe they have a cold-fusion system capable of getting energy from the matter itself, and just use the hydrogen/oxygen as batteries...
One more thing worthy of note is the theme tune, which is utterly awful.
Overall, I give it three stars: there are far worse DVDs you could sit and watch (and also far better). Probably if I could regress to childhood, I'd give it four stars.
Customer Reviews:
Roy Storey...Student Kickboxer........2008-02-04
I found both DVD's to be a great point of reference, Pat's no nonsence approach and concice instruction was great for veiwing and puting into practice in bitesized chunks.
It was great to see the defensive techniques being put into practice in the second DVD. The more you watched you could see the parts of the jigsaw fall into place piece by piece, making a much more rounded fighter.
Great stuff.. can't wait fot the third DVD.!
A great DVD to get achieve good technique.......2007-06-30
I've been learning Kickboxing for about 4 months, and i also own Pat's book "Kickboxing: a framework for success" and this DVD is a perfect compliment to the book as well as being a valuable tool on its own. It demonstrates techniques slowly then shows how they might be used in a situation using focus pads for accuracy, and opponents for more realism. The techniques demonstrated are: stance, different guards, jab, cross, hook, uppercut, shovel hook, bolo, spinning backfist, front kick, roundhouse kick, side kick, backthrust kick (aka spinning back kick) and the spinning heel kick. I'm just about to buy his next DVD... happy learning and good luck!
Clear presentation.......2006-09-28
The main strength of Pat's DVD is the fact that his presentation is so clear. That combined the simple and direct ideas that you are given to work with makes this a top quality product - I would recomend it to anyone interested in this art.
Alan Gibson
Kickboxing at its best!.......2006-08-03
I really liked this DVD having read some of Pat's books. It is well-paced and the instruction is extremely clear. It is a great intoduction to learning to kickbox - the best thing is that Mr O' Keeffe gives you an understanding of why you are doing the things you are being taught to do - Greats stuff.
DVD Review:
- Stargate SG-1: Season 6 (Vol. 30) [2003]
- Stargate SG-1: Season 7 (Vol. 32) [2003]
- Stargate SG-1: Season 7 (Vol. 34)
- Stargate SG-1: Season 7 (Vol.35)
- Stargate SG-1: Season 7 (Vol. 37)
- Stargate SG-1 :Series 8 - Vol. 41
- Stargate SG-1 :Series 8 - Vol. 42
- Stargate SG-1 :Series 8 - Vol. 43
- Stargate SG-1 - The Best of Series 1
- Starship Troopers 2: Hero Of The Federation [2004]
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