The giant roaches are terrifying. They're as gruesome and sinister as anything on the screen since the first ALIEN movie. I hate, hate HATE bugs & these guys were done so well here that I could barely watch - the filmakers should be very proud.
It did turn corny towards the end, but the whole story was excellent and exactly what I expected. This may be Mira Sorvino's best work & a must-see for people interested in B-Horror movies as an artform. This isn't Shakespeare, but it's paint-by-numbers at the highest level. I'm glad it was such a success with the sequels, etc.
2500 people have reviewed this book. A significant fraction have torn it to pieces over minor details.. reading all the vicious, jabbering motormouths who've here is very strange.
Somehow there has to be a way to get beyond the he-said she-said sniping and mud-slinging and evaluate this book based on objective facts. I have no use for people who hate this book because there are typos in chapter 7, or more often, just 'it's full of lies' - all unspecified lies.
My sense is that Franken's detractors are mostly Limbaugh lemmings who will do no data or policy analysis on anything they might disagree with.
Now I believe that many subjects, like the war in Iraq, have not played… Read more
Mr. Gervasi has taken a copy of the Pentagon's annual assessment of the Soviet threat from 1986 and filled the book's margins with interesting commentary.
Basically he has ripped it to pieces, demonstrating it to be propaganda designed to mislead the public and the congress into approving the huge Reagan military buildup. It makes sense. We required a formidable adversary for the Pentagon to request & receive its huge budget for the toys in its arsenal. Looking back, the Pentagon's ploy was completely successful.
Mr. Gervasi does not hide his bias towards the left, so the reader must be very careful and keep his or her eyes open. This kind of book cannot be written without… Read more
