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Apr 15, 2020
Great value for the price
Great product. The bags are well constructed (I didn't have any splitting when I inserted the boards). Boards are sturdy but not too thick. These seem to be very comperable to the higher-priced bages I have purchased in the past.
May 25, 2016
Office Pro 2013 - Works as Promised
I purchased the Office Professional 2013 product. I installed it on Win7 Pro and it installed without a hitch (I like having a backup media DVD). I did have to use phone activation (I had to look online to find out how to do that), but it was very fast and easy to do. I have recommended this product to others... and I may even by another copy for my other computer.
Aug 11, 2009
Sayonara Jupiter -- Classic Japanese Sci-Fi
Sayonara Jupiter -- Classic Japanese Sci-Fi
This DVD is a wonderful example of the type of work TOHO was attempting to do in the 1980s: Grown up, mature, and well made. At least for its time, that is. When this movie came out in the early 1980s, the first two Star Wars movies were out and they had forever raised the bar for special effects. TOHO did their darndest to meet the challenge, and by the standards of that time, they succeeded.
Unfortunately, the effects and costumes do look very dated right now, and there are some long, verrrrrry slow shows of space ships docking. Things that we would speed up now, but back then looked kind of cool and had a "2001: A Space Odyssey" vibe.
The plot is really simple, but fairly well executed:
It's the 22nd Century and we've colonized the solar system. In order to provide more solar energy to the outer systems, they're going to turn Jupiter into a small sun. However, right before they do this, a terraforming project on Mars reveals something astonishing. While melting the polar ice caps on Mars, the water washes away a lot of dirt and debris and reveals huge carvings on the Martian surface -- that look exactly like the carvings at Nazca! These carvings indicate that aliens may have left something on Jupiter.
The movie takes off from there: Earth puts the Jupiter solarization project on hold while they investigate what seems to be an alien artifact hiding in the storm-tossed clouds of our system's largest planet. Some space hippies show up to protest and cause some damage (they don't think anyone should ever leave the earth, and if I lived with them in their little island paradise playing beach blanket bimbo, I'd be happy on earth, too). And did I mention that the leader of the solarization project used to date one of the hippie terrorists? Oh, and there's something about a black hole racing toward our sun...
You know, the usual plot stuff you need to put between the special effects shots.
Now, there are a few things you need to know before you watch this with the kids. There is nudity, a sex scene ("Sex in spaaaaace!"). There is also violence: as people are shot by lasers, blown up by space hippies, and meanwhile, on earth, a dolphin dies in a shark attack. Most disturbing of all, though, if you do let your kids watch this, you might just have to pause the movie for hours while you try to explain why our hair looked like that back in the 1980s.
This is a good Japanese sci-fi film, and I would recommend it for fans of the genre. There are plenty of space ships, laser blasts, and fun to keep things moving, but this actually is a fairly serious film and it does give you some things to think about.
Also, I would suggest you watch this in the original Japanese soundtrack with English subtitles. This is not because I'm some fanatic purist who hates dubbed movies (AIP did some great work on the Godzilla movies in the 1960s and 1970s). No, my reason for preferring the original soundtrack is because the movie is only half in Japanese. Many of the characters speak English (US and UK varieties), as well as German, French, and a smattering of other languages. There are several scenes where one character is speaking Japanese and the other responds in English. In the future, it seems that everyone is multilingual and this sort of babel is common. So, unless you totally hate subtitles, give the Japanese track a fair chance.
So, it's a good movie, I recommend it to fans of TOHO Sci-Fi.