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Title: Frustrating
Review: The narration would have made a great magazine article. There was a pretty good amount of information in the script. As a DVD, though, it was a sorry production. Somebody with a desktop video production rig decided to try out every special effect in the software...three or four time over. The video is very distracting, hard to watch, and only rarely relevant to what is being said. The music track is unrelenting and also distracting, sometimes to the point that you miss what is being said. (I must admit that the first music track, which sounds a bit like "Riverdance"-type Irish folk music, is a musical genre that I absolutely abhor...so my opinion here is slanted by that.) Every time the narrator pauses to take a breath, the music volume swells in a most inappropriate way. The DVD is certainly not worth the price because the information is not appropriately presented for video.
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