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America's Greatest Roller Coaster Thrills in 3-D, Volume 1

America's Greatest Roller Coaster Thrills in 3-D, Volume 1

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's about time!
Review: This is one of the only movies that focuses on the great roller coaster. From old fashioned woodies like Thunderbolt and Cyclone, to high tech steel thrills like Raptor and Kumba, this movie covers the entire coaster spectrum, giving stats, showing the coasters, and even a little synapse on the parks where the coasters are. Despite the faulty 3-D images and the socially uncouth hosts, a true coaster lover can look beyond that and own the best collection of coasters ever put on video. END

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good coasters, bad actors, bad writing
Review: This video brings you fourteen Roller Coasters from all over the United States. The film had its drawbacks and some good features but not many.

The good qualities: excellent car-mounted picture quality of the front row of most of the coasters, wide range of coasters shown, and interesting narrative.

The bad qualities: cheesy over-done music, irritating narrators with poor writing, no actual front-car view of Kumba, the ?3-D? features are non-existent, and no one seems to recognise the different kinds of inversions there are. A batwing is a batwing, not a cobra roll. There is a difference. I?d give the video one star, but at least they filmed these coasters, you have to give them credit for that.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just too cool!
Review: This video is just too cool! I got it from a library and I didn't care that I never saw it in 3-D. IT IS COOL! I really love watching Magnum XL-200. I don't like riding coasters, but I like watching coaster videos. Only one thing is bad about it, and that thing is, like in every coaster you hear a man say "ye hee!" I just don't get it. I do think they put to much videotaping of Viper. I've always wanted to go to Busch Gardens and I like Kumba.
It is so real, my sister said she felt sick watching it! She has a pair of 3-D glasses she snuck from KSC but she couldn't find 'em.
Anyone who watches this is going to love it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great but a little room for improvement
Review: This was a great movie but on some of the Roller Coasters it doesn't show the entire 1st person POV. That's OK.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DO NOT WAIST YOUR MONEY
Review: This was a major disappointment! They did a very poor job of capturing any thrill of a roller coaster at all. Some of the clips of the roller coasters are only partials. Many angles of the film weren't good either. For example, on a fast roller coaster, it was so fast, they needed to do more frames/sec. They really sacraficed quality by filming an 80 mile/hr coaster at what looked like 10 frames/sec. The cameras were very shakey making the video footage on many rides very poor. They didn't give full view rides, instead they would cut in and show people's faces. I don't buy a roller coaster movie on DVD to watch the people on the coaster. If you don't either, then save your money. I love roller coasters, but this movie doesn't even deserve 1 star. The narrators did a very poor job. The ONLY 3D effects were the letters on the screen. This was very poorly designed and filmed. The company ought to offer a refund for anyone who has wasted their money on it. Don't waist your time.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: what a disappointment!
Review: Well, I really was excited about getting this dvd - which is, here in germany, NOT easy! - and then... The quality of the video- and adiosignals on that dvd are definitely not worth to be mentioned at all; are they even digital??? The technology is much farer than this dvd offers, and the rides in the front cab aren't even full-length, only too often there are cuts, so that "america's greatest roller coasters" are NO thrill to look at, at least not on that dvd. By the way, is there ANYbody out there who could frankly say the 3d-effect works???
Really, I just love roller coasters, but this dvd is really nuts. sorry.


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