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Arrived 3 days after I ordered, on a sunday none-the-less! pristine condition, would definately buy again!

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I have used this product for years. It's great. Keep in mind it does melt if the room gets hot. I have found when I need to clean the shelves and the gel is removed, if it gets on the rug, which small particles have, it melts and you cannot remove it. I have tried to get it out of the rug o but to no avail, it is permanently there. So, put a drop cloth down so none of the gel gets on the carpet during the removal process.

Just a great product to secure items to shelves that could slip or be jolted out of place. Especially items up high that might be subject to house vibration and wiggle their way off of a shelf. I love this stuff. Protects valuables.

I was expecting this to be more solid, like putty. I think they make another product called museum putty which is probably what I should have gotten. This is a clear gel that is really a very slow moving liquid. You pinch out a little lump and put it on a surface, and over time it flattens itself out into a disc. It is good for sticking flat-bottomed items to completely horizontal surfaces, and it does seem to come off of surfaces cleanly. The product info does imply it might stain unfinished wood.

Museum Gel has kept my crystal figurines and other glass and non-glass objects in place on the glass shelves inside the cabinet of my grandfather clock. The gel is transparent so its hard to see you even used it, although it can puddle around the object if you use too much. Given the four times an hour chiming, and the massive vibrations from the chimes, the gel works well, with only a small amount of slippage. Removing objects only requires a light twist.

Love this stuff. Use it everytime I take out my motorhome keeps everything in place.

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This stuff doesn't hold. Use museum wax instead. I tried this stuff to secure my antique crystal glass items onto the smooth glass shelves of display cases. It just oozes out from under the item and makes a mess all over the shelf. If the item is near the edge of the shelf, it oozes out and drips down the cabinet. If your cabinet gets bumped the likelihood of the display glass falling is almost as great as if there were nothing to secure the glass at all. Don't waste your money. For opaque items, use museum putty.

I haven't used this product yet. The seller shipped it quickly and it was as predicted. I bought it to hold Christmas decorations (such as ribbons, greenery, etc.) in place around serving platters.

Quakehold! 22111 Gel for Glass and Crystal, Clear Thanks for great service. This product has saved many valuables from crashing to the floor when the cats decide to play where they are not suppose to be playing.

I'd heard about Museam Putty, but had trouble finding it, and I wanted something I could use with my cut crystal and emerald glass collection. The gel is perfect! Very little holds the item tight to the shelf and makes dusting a far less difficult task! The gel is not designed for wood shelves, but I tested it and it left no mark at all. But Quakehold makes a product for any kind of situation, so if you collect, and what you collect is breakable, check out Quakehold! Great stuff!

I use this product for endless things. I bought it at first because little girls were walking out with my antique doll house furniture. I putty attractive items down. Then I discovered it is perfect for my tea cups and saucers. Some of my most expensive cups were broken when a friend was taking them out of the cabinet, since I putty then down to the right saucers w/ right amount of putty. When I use the putty I make chubby worm shape and press into the area of the item you want secure Would not go without it.

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Product was delivered in a timely manner and was exactly as described, DVD was in GREAT condtion!

I was looking for this DVD around town. and i wasnt going to pay 19.99 for this so i decided to look on here. and wha la. i found it for a great price. i was expecting it to be a week or two before i got it. ordered on a friday late and recieved it no later then tuesday that next week, in the mail.

the tape came quickly and my grand daughter was thrilled.Thank you for an excellant experience

I purchased Finding Nemo for a friend. Her Dautghter liked the movie so much she watched it until the disk she had was scrathed.She recieved this copy of Finding Nemo on Christmas Day and enjoyed it as much as the last copy of it she had. The special effects are great and a treat for both adults and children. There are elements of the plot that adults would understand and enjoy. The darker parts of the the story,such as what happened to Nemos's mom were handled very well. I would reccomend this movie to an adult who wished to get a child a nice movie they could enjoy together.

Finding Nemo is a visual feast, the sound is exciting and fresh and both serve to draw you into the undersea world of Finding Nemo. From any other animation studio, this film would have earned an enthusiastic 5/5 stars. Compared to other Pixar films, though, the story and emotions just don't have the same impact as the Toy Stories, Ratatouille, or The Incredibles. Son Nemo and father Marlin are the only surviving members of a clownfish family, living on the edge of a beautiful coral reef. Marlin is especially protective of Nemo and when his first day of school goes disasterously wrong - Nemo is captured by a diver and placed in a salt-water fish tank - Marlin vows to find and rescue Nemo. What follows is a series of adventures that Marlin and Dorie (a friend met along the way) survive on their quest. As mentioned, the visuals are fantastic, and the animation of the various sea animals is well-visioned. It's always a tricky business to anthropomorphise non-mammalian creatures, but these fish (and turtles starfish, etc.) are both clearly the aquatic species they represent and clearly emote human feelings. The voice acting is, as expected for a Pixar film, fantastic, with perfectly envisioned characters voiced by Albert Brooks (as Marlin), Willem Dafoe (as a fellow aquarium prisoner willing to risk Nemo's life for a chance for them all to escape), and a flock of seagulls, whose only word is "Mine". My favourite scene is that depicted on the box of this 2-disc special edition - a surfer dude turtle ("Don't hurl on the shell, man, I just had it waxed!") who shows Marlin the way to Sydney Harbour, last known location of the boat into which Nemo was abducted. For a casual viewer, there is a lot of adventure and visual surprises to entertain and delight anyone of any age. However, for the average parent forced to watch repeated viewings of their obsessive child's movie-of-the-moment, it doesn't hold up as well on repeated viewings. First, the ditzy Dorrie's forgetfulness wears thin. Secondly, the structure of the film is a sequence of one set-piece action scene after another, and it gets repetative. Young viewers, of course, will not notice either of these criticisms and, if my 4.5-year-old is any indication, will want to watch the film again and again. (Curse you Pixar! If my son doesn't get enough exercise it's your fault!) This 2-disc edition has some nifty extras, although not as many as the Incredibles or Toy Story's special editions. Perhaps the most amusing is a short mocumentary where Jean-Michel Cousteau tries to explain the ecosystem of a coral reef and Dorrie and Marlin keep interrupting ("Zis would never have happened to Papa....") Other highlights are the deleted/alternate versions of scenes and the director's commentary, which is more interesting and informative than the standard commentary.

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We are thirty minutes into Fargo before we finally meet Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand), the petite but heavily pregnant police chief in small town Brainerd, Minnesota, who will become the hero we all needed. Relentlessly pleasant and attentive to other's needs, she is also observant, book smart, and people smart, knowing just the right attitude and approach to each character in the movie. She neither asks for nor needs any special consideration for her gender or her condition (although she does prowl for food almost constantly to feed her growing baby!), and is no pushover: --She breaks a stonewalling ex-con with a quick recap of his list of priors and a shrewd assessment of his need to cooperate, and obtains valuable information. --She swiftly and gently but with absolute certainty deflects the advances of a lonely high school classmate, leaving no doubt of her loving relationship with her husband Norm (how many other pregnant wives would bring their husband a bag of nightcrawlers for his upcoming icefishing trip and show them off proudly over an Arby's fast food lunch?). --She responds sharply but politely when facing an exasperated witness: "Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me, I'm just doing my job here." In my chronological tour of the Coen Brothers' catalog, they have just completed their cinematic examination of identity through classic Hollywood genres before moving on to Fargo: Blood Simple was a great noir debut about misunderstanding identity. Raising Arizona was a screwball comedy about stealing an identity. Miller's Crossing was a deep gangster movie about discovering identity ("Nobody knows anybody. Not that well") Barton Fink was a Hollywood insiders movie about understanding your own identity. The Hudsucker Proxy was a fast-talking dialogue driven 1930s comedy about keeping your identity in the face of all odds against. In Fargo, and in Marge Gunderson's character, they have gone beyond searching for identity, and tell the simple (but not true, as the opening screen title claims) story of Fargo. While we are waiting for the phone to ring to wake up Marge (and Norm) before dawn, we meet Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a hapless and hopelessly bungling car salesmen, who despite working at his father-in-laws dealership is deep in debt and trying to cover up a bank scam by concocting a cockamamie scheme to have his wife kidnapped and split the ransom with his criminal cohorts. The problem is he has chosen his team poorly: One never shuts up, the other never speaks, they bicker unevenly throughout the movie, and bungle the seemingly simple job they have set before them, resulting in the call to Marge and her methodical and nearly singlehanded resolution to the series of crimes that occur. Fargo is set in Minnesota in the winter, and the landscape, the weather, and the accents are living characters in the movie. Even at midday the light is weak and gray, and camera angles often take in the gray and fading horizon line as dirty snow fades into blow snow fades into gray skies. As one of the kidnappers (Steve Buscemi) buries the ransom loot in a snow bank along the side of a road, he looks in both directions and sees nothing but straight level road, snow bank, and snow fence to both horizons, so he marks the spot with a red windshield scraper. Later as police cars travel on that road at the end of the movie, we realize that fresh snow has piled on top of the old, climbing further up the fence line--and obscuring the marker for the hidden ransom! An action movie about a crooked car salesman who hatches a scheme to kidnap his own wife to get his rich father-in-law to pay off the kidnappers and split the money with him to cover his shady business deals--that is a plot summary of Fargo, but that's not what the movie is about at all. Its a movie about a place, a people--and a hero named Marge.

Looking at the movie after 15 years last night, whatever novelty there was is gone. I remember Ebert raving about the unusual dialogue of the movie. There's nothing distantly remarkable about that discourse exempt for the ridiculous accents and the idea that people in Mpls actually speak that way. Sure, Macy and McDormand have quirky characters at times, but there's really little grabbing about the movie. It's notable how brief the plot is and the elements of strong violence the story hangs on. A caricature without point and a drama without heart. Suspense? not really

Gotta admire those salty Midwesterners. Not even a kidnapping plot gone awry with some unforeseen bloodletting will affect their unflappable "okey dokey" optimism. And it's this tongue-in-cheek tribute to Midwestern grit that makes the Coen Brothers' FARGO such a delight--dark humor and supreme quirkiness notwithstanding. This is a fun ride, no matter how bleak the story becomes, don't ya know. The outstanding cast features two standouts who really make this movie glide like a curling iron on the ice (gotta use that Northern metaphor, ya see). They would be William H. Macy as used car salesman Jerry Lundegaard, and Frances McDormand as Brainerd Police Chief Marge Gunderson. Both actors are topnotch as happy-go-lucky Minnesotans who maintain their demeanor no matter what the external circumstances, which become considerable. Especially McDormand playing a very pregnant officer facing unspeakable carnage; she refuses to jettison her "keep yer chin up" philosophy--which accounts for the unmistakable charm of this film. (And its humor, which often has to be taken simultaneously with serious shock value.) Funny, outrageous, dark, quirky, often downright sad, FARGO has become a timeless portrayal of Midwestern nuance at its nonsensical best. Which makes this entertaining movie the hoot that it is, eh? --D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

In my opinion, the Coen Brothers are more of an imitation of sorts than real entertainment and insight. I've actually enjoyed most of their movies to date for the most part (I had much trouble getting through Blood Simple and Raising Arizona), and i've seen all but one of their work from the 90's (The Hudsucker Proxy) and O Brother, Where art Though. Their movies are the reason why I created the C grade, the kind of movie that always will entertain and certain times create moments of (well, they do make some duds), but ultimately just not enough of something else to make a work that's well worth diving into. To be fair, there's nothing quite like Fargo out there outside of the rest of the Coen Brothers works (does anybody realize that almost every plot deals with something that is botched?), as all of their movies always seen to share something in common, as yes, they do have trademarks. It's a blend of dark comedy (though it would be more funny if the Coen Brothers were actually funny, but they aren't), crime, a comedy of errors, and a homage to Minnesota through silly accents and portraits, and great cinematography. Like the other Coen Brothers movie, there is a wide variety of things What we get though, is typical Coen Brothers fare, a movie that uses stylized devices over interesting characters and quality quirkiness; instead, giving us quirky crappy characters and a largely uninteresting plot that gets more messy, with pretentious dark humor to make the whole thing seem a bit iffy. Perhaps the death knell is the fact that, like other Coen Brothers works, make movies that try to be pieces that capture a certain place, instead of making interesting plots and characters. It's not exactly a bad thing, but there's just not enough entertainment of that nature to make their movies truly good. This is also one of those movies that becomes kind of pointless when you realize that it's something that's so just ___________ easy to live out yourself. People who absolutely love the Minnesota are better off making it a ____________ priority themselves to live there. Minnesota has plenty of mountains you know. The Coen Brothers' humor often falls flat for the most part, which really kind of made Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, and O Brother Where Art Though kind of a bore (The Big Lebowski is actually funny at times though). Fargo is no exception, as it's comedy of error crap is typically done and this kind of theme can be found almost everywhere you look in real life (so take a seat and laugh at others, basically). Quirky-crappy characters such as the two questioned girls, the totally stereotypical creepy quite man, these characters really aren't memorable, and the movie suffers because of that. Fargo is a bit more memorable than other Coen Brothers fare, such as Raising Arizona with it's lame and generic Arizona stereotypes and screwball rip offs, and Blood Simple which was just plain boring interlaced with some graphic violence that's horribly dated. It's pretty fast paced for the most part, contains some gorgeous cinematography (no, I don't like Minnesota enough to live their, the movie is enough), and some of the bits are actually funny (Showalter's rant towards the parking booth guy is hilarious and something we all want to do to gatekeepers like the ________ at the recreation center I dealt with. Burn in *****, __________), and contains some cool violence, though not quite on par with the shootout in MIller's Crossing (I love the Tommy Gun anyway). However, the plot wears thin when further stretched, there's no interesting insight to anything, it's not entertaining enough to make of for insight (ie KIll Bill), and it's just another Coen Brothers film except with a different setting and different character gimmicks on top of it. Do I recommend Fargo? Absolutely? But for all of Fargo's stylistic devices, genre-blurring, and other good things, I still can't really gall myself to give this movie anything other than three stars. However, you'll probably like it more than I did, and I think that watching this movie more than once every year or so actually helps. However, I just can't get myself to own this one. I certianly won't watch this one as much as I do my other DVD's. Not a bad film, but it's an overhyped 90's movie that should probably be suited more for bargain bins rather than movie lists that rank this among the best. C+

This is the story of Jerry Lundegaard. A hapless car salesman who needs money to repay the money he stole from GMAC. Why did Jerry steal money from GMAC? NO one knows, that is never brought up in the film, and it took me 6 viewings to realize that we never knew why he needed the money; I suppose that is because it is inconsequential to the plot. Jerry hatches a scheme by which he hires two thugs to kidnap his wife. Jerry would then tell his rich father in law about the situation and get the ransom and split it with the thugs. Sounds simple, only everything goes wrong. But through all the mix ups and catastrophes, Jerry never gives up on his plan. He is eternally optimistic that it will work out for him. Through it all you have local Minnesota law enforcement looking into the case and the crime scenes left behind by the 2 thugs. Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her role as Sheriff Marge Gunderson. But by and large, fans of the film believe William H Macy was screwed. About the DVD: The DVD contains the regular DVD goodies, deleted scenes, trailers and commentary. The two big bonuses are the interview with the Cohen brothers and the documentary "Minnesota Nice". But above and beyond all that there is a trivia track that plays like pop up video through the course of the movie that is addictive. The extras make this great movie even better. If you have the choice of this version or the El Cheapo, do yourself a favor and spend the few extra bucks for the special edition, it is truly special.

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This is a 1997 program, one hour only, with review stating it is a "new 2006 release". There is nothing new. It is not furniture...lots of misc. stuff, artwork, musical instuments, rug etc. Save your money. This is not what is advertised. I am going to see if I can return it. If I could rate it a big fat ZERO...I would!

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I've enjoyed the Antiques Roadshow book and the descriptions which I will use for future reference.

If you are just getting into collecting, this is a fun book to review. Lots of overall ideas of varieties of collectibles...for more serious colletors, I would suggest books oriented to the subject matter of interest.

Nice book and provides considerable information. The author does cover alot of territory in one book. Should consider a series and provide more photos.

Most of the pages in this book are a drab black & white print, with a few (emphasis on few) pages in the middle that are glossy, full-color. I was thinking "coffee table book" when I bought it, but it's definitely not that fancy. I sent it back.

If you are into collecting this is the book for you. It has lots of interesting facts and discussions about why people collect things and how to get started if you're thinking about a collection. It doesn't talk about EVERYTHING though, so if you are really into a specific collectible you would be better off with a book that addresses that collectible.