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Deadliest Catch: Season 2 (3pc)

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

favorite 5 out of 5 stars.
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great present for my dad who does not have cable (probably only person in the world) anyway being a Navy man and loving the water he enjoyed it so much. This was a great present

Great! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Being a Deadliest Catch fanatic, I love everything to do with Deadliest Catch! This is by far one of the best things I have bought!

Editorial Review:

Howling winds fierce enough to knock people off their feet, tossing waves, frigid temperatures. Swinging 700-pound crab pots for hours. Guaranteed injuries. That's the life of an Alaskan crab fisherman. He can earn enough money in a few months for a family to live on for a year or more. But it's also one of the deadliest, most backbreaking jobs there is. For these men, many second- and third-generation fishermen, working to the brink of exhaustion is more than just a job - it's a matter of pride. Crews continue to forge into the frigid Bering Sea to compete against not only Mother Nature, but also against each other as they struggle in an increasingly regulated and cut-throat world to maintain a family tradition that has lasted for generations.

Storm Chasers/Perfect Disaster

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Join the hunt for the devastating, violent twisters that rip through America's Great Plains, aka "Tornado Alley," in each exciting episode of Storm Chasers. Research meteorologist Josh Wurman and extreme filmmaker Sean Casey put their lives on the line to capture this unprecedented footage shot from inside tornadoes tearing their way across the central U.S. Shooting from a 14,000-pound tank topped with a custom-designed filming turret, you won't believe what the team encounters as they drive straight into the unknown heart of these deadly storms. This set also includes all six episodes of the program, Perfect Disasters:

They are "perfect" in the most chilling sense of the word: These are the storms bigger, more dangerous and more deadly than any before them. What would happen if a mega tornado reduced downtown Dallas to a war zone within minutes? How would the 7 million inhabitants of Hong Kong survive if the super typhoon sets its sights on the island? Scientists know it could happen, and with live action, CGI, archival footage and in-depth interviews with today's top experts, Discovery Channel shows you how.

Human Body: Pushing the Limits [Blu-ray]

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Entertaining and educational 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 33 people found this review helpful.

2 disc set. Disc 1 Sight * Strength. Disc 2 Sensation * Brain Power. Total time: 165 minutes.

Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 channel, 48kHz, 384 kbps AVC
Video:
1080i (as listed on case) - I have seen it listed as 1080p elsewhere, Widescreen 1.78:1
Subtitles:
English SDH

Interesting 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful.

The images aren't that high definition, but the explanations are interestig for people who doesn't work in this field of knowledge.

Great Movie 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.

The picture quality is fairly good and the sound is the same. The explanations of the body parts is laid out in an easy to follow process. I would recommend this movie to anybody looking to add to their blu-ray collection.

Editorial Review:

Human Body: Pushing the Limits takes you across continents and introduces you to people who have pushed their bodies to the max. This groundbreaking program uses CGI technology and hi-tech camera work to examine their physical ordeals in vivid detail both externally and internally!System Requirements:Running Time: 165 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 014381507553 Manufacturer No: DIS5075BD

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Collection 3

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Great as usual 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This DVD includes:

Russia
Los Angeles
New York
Shanghai
Hong Kong
French Polynesia
Cleveland
Brazil
Argentina
Singapore
South Carolina
Berlin
Tuscany

My question is:

Where are Saudia Arabia and Egypt?

Mythbusters - Collection 3

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great "Educational" Video 5 out of 5 stars.
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My 8 year old son loves the Mythbusters - Collection 3 collections. While entertaining, they combine a wonderful mix of science, engineering, planning, history, and safety to all of their experiments. And just for fun, there are always a few items to explode, crush, or otherwise destroy. This is a great series for kids 8-12 years old, or any person looking for fun!

Editorial Review:

A large woman becomes stuck when she's suction-sealed onto an airplane toilet seat during a flight, requiring the crew to land before they could help her off - myth or actual danger? Only two men are brave or foolish enough to find out: MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. The foremost experts on myth crushing, Jamie and Adam pit their thirty years of experience in special effects work against the most dangerous and bizarre theories and tales of all time. In this explosive collection of top-rated episodes from the first three seasons, the MythBusters go to unheard of lengths in their mission to ferret out the fallacious and the phony from the factual.

Includes these 12 favorite episodes:

Jet-Assisted Chevy, Biscuit Bazooka, Poppy Seed Drug Test, Alcatraz Escape, Chicken Gun, Breakstep Bridge, Buried in Concrete, Ancient Death Ray, Beat the Radar Detector, Boom Lift Catapult, Breaking Glass, Border Slingshot

Deadliest Catch - Season 3

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great Show! Reality to the extreme 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love this show and was so happy be able to watch this show anytime . The reality of this job is crazy, and the people that do the jobs must be crazy to do it, I say that in the best possible way. Watching this show is some what humbling, and I would tell anyone that wants to watch a show that is real to the core then get this show !

Editorial Review:

Venture into the dark waters of the Bering Sea with eight crab fishing boats and their crews through the world's two most difficult and dangerous fishing seasons. Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern returns to match his skills against his old rival, Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie, and a new challenger, rookie captain Blake Painter of the Maverick. With rough waters and fierce weather, the captains and their crews will be pushed to their limits of mental and physical endurance in their search for the elusive red king crab and opilio crab. Experience the extraordinary daring, skill and endurance required for this time-honored trade in these 11 episodes, and enjoy bonus behind-the-scenes footage capturing the difficulty of day-to-day filming on the rugged seas.

Deadliest Catch The Complete 4th Season (8 DVD Set)

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 1.5 of 5

Love this series 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the best reality shows on tv according to my 11 year old son. He is glued to this series. My son loves the boats, captains, and scenery.

Editorial Review:

The fleet of crab-fishing boats - and their unforgettable captains and crews - returns for a fourth season of life-or-death adventures on the high seas. Follow the now legendary captains and crews of five crab-fishing vessels on the Bering Sea doing one of the deadliest - and most lucrative - jobs in the world.

Returning this year are the men of the Northwestern, led by Captain Sig Hansen; Captain Phil Harris and his crew of the Cornelia Marie, including sons Jake and Josh; Captain Johnathan Hillstrand and Captain Andy Hillstrand of the Time Bandit; and Captain Keith Colburn of the Wizard, with a crew that includes two greenhorns. New this year are the men of the North American, led by Sten Skaar, and deckhand-turned-skipper Rick Fehst of the Early Dawn.

This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Man vs. Wild

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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With little more than the clothes on his back, survival expert Bear Grylls goes toe-to-toe with some of Earth's toughest, most remote environments in each edge-of-your-seat episode of Man vs. Wild. Grylls faces sweltering desert temperatures, icy, raging rivers and hungry predators as he fights for survival using techniques he learned as a British Special Forces soldier. You'll never look at the great outdoors the same way again!

Episodes:

The Rockies: In this episode, Grylls encounters a grizzly bear, jumps off a 70-foot cliff and floats nearly 12 miles in treacherous and freezing white water, all on a diet of rattlesnake, raw fish and worms.

European Alps: Armed with just a knife, water bottle, cup and a flint to make fire, Grylls parachutes into this mountain range. From a radical new technique that could help save lives in crevasse zones, to building a snow shelter to survive alpine storms, to demonstrating how to escape from a fall into a frozen lake, Grylls puts his skills to the test.

Costa Rican Rainforest: Grylls's challenge is to make his way to civilization from within the Costa Rican rainforest with just a knife and a water bottle. His journey takes him up 100-foot trees and down pounding waterfalls, through secondary jungle and mangrove swamps to the sea. Moab Desert: On this incredible journey back to civilization, Grylls travels down a maze of narrow canyons, encounters rattlesnakes and escapes quicksand.

Sierra Nevada: This time carrying only a water bottle and cup, Grylls shows us how to survive in the Sierra's breathtaking yet deceptively dangerous three major mountainous regions.

Alaskan Mountain Range: Join Grylls in this challenge as he scales the icy peaks of the Chugach Mountains, Alaska, one of the toughest environments on the planet.

Mount Kilauea: Made up of a bleak expanse of solidified lava which stretches for 33,000 acres, this environment is one of the world's most inhospitable. One tourist a week is rescued from its lava fields. Grylls deliberately puts himself in the position of one of those lost tourists, putting his survival skills to the ultimate test.

Desert Island: Grylls eats sea urchins and fish eyes, encounters razor-sharp coral reefs, rip currents, and relentless surf and comes face to face with sharks.

African Savannah: Grylls demonstrates how to find water, build shelter, use natural medicines and prevent elephant and rhino attacks. In his journey to safety, Grylls eats the meat from a lion-kill in this thrilling episode.

Mythbusters: Big Blasts Collection

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Another arbitrary collection of episodes from the best show on TV 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I have nothing but good things to say about Mythbusters as a show. There are some people out there who pick apart Adam and Jamie's techniques or their conclusions, but to those people I say I dare you to find another show on TV that is so compelling, interesting, fun to watch, or that works so well at making you more interested and curious about the world we live in.

However, I have an issue with the way Discovery is compiling these DVD series. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. In the first two collections they brought out, the episodes included were completely arbitrary. At least this series has a "theme:" Big Blasts, but still, why can't they just bring these episodes out as a SEASON like most other TV productions? The damage is done now, so I guess from here on out we'll end up with collection after collection of Mythbusters where we'll have NO IDEA what we'll get until we open the box.

Mythbusters - Mega Movie Myths

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

School use 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I purchased the DVD for school / science class usage. I did watch a couple of episodes and felt the programs were okay - I'm just not all that into science, though I know the students will love them.

Mythbusters bust 'em again! 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This was an excellent DVD. Many popular movie stunts are debunked and demystified. It's appropriate, as Jamie and Adam have experience with F/X in the movies. I also purchased this on Feb.17, 2007 from Wal-Mart. For some reason they have it out on the shelves a month early. Must have been a mistake. Oh, well... better enjoy it. It's rare when a store makes a mistake in your favor.

Fun and science rolled into one! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

My kids LOVE Mythbusters. They are 8 & 12 year old girls who love the way the Mythbusters explain science as if it's part of the fun - which it is! They love knowing the "secrets" behind the movie magic. And the best part is that the it's "family viewing" that entertains the grown-ups, too.

Great gift for the dad geek you can't find anything for 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a filmmaker, so this seemed like the perfect gift for me to get for the un-buyable geek dad. Though, I'll admit, my dad was rarely surprised by the myths busted and figured them out before the answer was revealed (*sigh* engineers...). Despite that, he seemed to enjoy the special. I'm glad I purchased this Mythbusters for my dad.

Editorial Review:

Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 03/20/2007