Good looking, great sounding

Advantages: Great response
Disadvantages: none

...This speaker is great. I have it at the centre of a room full of 601 S2 speakers. The sound is very well balanced, particularly for vocals as you would expect from a centre speaker. It sounds great for DVDs and also for music. In a home cinema setup it benefits from the addition of a subwoofer as the bass response doesn't get down to that range. Features -------- Technology from £35000 Nautilus speakers. Great looking yellow and black finish when covers off. Twin cable terminals to allow bi-wiring or bi-amping. (bridging plates supplied for single wiring) NB: Don't let your speakers down with poor cabling!!...

BruceH 09.02.2001 (09.04.2001) · Read review
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Review of B&W CC6 S2

The B&W XT4's are amongst the most beautiful to see and hear

Advantages: Stunning looks, stunning looks, stunning looks & superb sound
Disadvantages: Difficult to find, some manufacture flaws, small base without the feet

...work in unison so if you have tone control they handle the bass well combined with the cone loaded tweeter derived from the Nautilus and the paper-kevlar mid cone the treble and mid range are well balanced. These are perfect for music and film in a style-conscious setting. They are not bi-wirable, they are heavy and there were stories about flaws in the manufacture of the cases, my versions seem to be a victim but it isn't noticeable from viewing distance....

banker1 18.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of B & W XT4

Classic work

Advantages: Stylish, inventive, entertaining
Disadvantages: Some criticize the over-descriptive parts, but I enjoy these

...This piece is often classed as Verne's masterpiece. As the father of modern science fiction, he is an excellent writer: both imaginative and scientific. The main characters here are Professor Arronax, a learned man with much in commong with Captain Nemo, his faithful servant Conseil, and the whaler Ned Land. They find themselves together on a hunt for an enormous sea-creature, much feared after wrecking several ships, but also much sought after for it's scientific and public interest. When they finally find the creature, they find themselves under attack, and Ned Land, the Professor and Conseil find themselves thrown into the sea, and take refuge on the back of the beast. It is only now that they make a fantastic discovery: the beast is in fact a machine, and the machine's crew take them inside. This vessel is the Nautilus...

xxxxdomixxxx 20.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne

Rollicking Adventure under the High Seas

Advantages: lovingly remastered and viewable in its original scale, insightful and interesting extras
Disadvantages: once more region 1 gets a better deal with more special features

...the American Civil War, several ships are sunk "by a whale with a great horn". Professor Ned Land (Paul Lukas) decides he must discover the truth about the fabled beast, and undertakes a sea voyage with his aide Conseil (Peter Lorre). Their ship is sunk, and they, along with the ship's harpoon master (Kirk Douglas), discover the whale beast is actually a metal submarine called The Nautilus and captained by the despotic egomaniac Captain Nemo Jason Mason). They are taken aboard, and shown the future nemo envisions, with advanced diving equipment and sea farming, and experience adventure and wonders whilst aboard ship. The visualisation belies the era it was filmed (1954). Even the Technicolor it was filmed in was used for best visual impact as the heroic professor's bright clothes speak volumes against the gothicly clad Nemo, setting the mood...

Shroud 15.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (DVD)

Aye aye, Captain Nemo

Advantages: Great story, great characters, great PERIOD!
Disadvantages: a bit over-descriptive

...know, this is no creature at all, but the most spectacular vehicle ever created by man. It is the Nautilus, a gigantic submarine, and the proud creation of the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Captain Nemo holds the three as his prisoner. They are instructed that they may never leave the Nautilus, yet will be treated with hospitality and respect by Nemo and his crew. The Captain keeps his word, and treats the Professor and his fellows to all the wonders of the ocean depths. Captain Nemo has made the sea his home, vowing never to return to the distasteful world on land. The Nautilus has everything you would need to live and prosper; infinite supplies of water through its seawater processing machines, and an abundance of exotic seafood dredged up from the deep. Captain Nemo himself is as mystifying and brilliant as his creations. He is one...

President-X-D 31.07.2003 · Read review
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Review of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne

Get Loscht

Advantages: Imaginative cast and period setting
Disadvantages: Pretty much everything else

...mates, who band together to form the latest incarnation of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG). They are:  Allan Quatermain – a legendary adventurer skilled in combat and weaponry.  Captain Nemo – the fabled pirate who captains the legendary Nautilus submarine.  The Invisible Man - a cheeky Cockney who has discovered the secret to becoming invisible.  Mina Harker – a beautiful widow who conceals a dark secret – she’s a vampire.  Dr Jekyll – a famous scientist who has discovered a special potion that can transform him into a brutish creature known as Mr Hyde.  Dorian Gray – a pompous but virtually invulnerable man with a secret past. Soon, the fate of the world rests in the heroes’ hands – but one of them is not quite what...

LostWitness 18.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (DVD)

Joey Tribiani has a blue pair.

Advantages: Sound Great, Look Superb
Disadvantages: My rubber balls fall off.

...Chances are you may well of seen a pair of these speakers, they often appear on TV programs and in films. These curvy pods of aural delight look like cross between a conch shell and a jelly baby. The story goes that some of the guys behind the legendary Nautilus speaks from B & W (£25,000 a pair), decided to go it alone and utilise their talents to produce a more affordable consumer version. The MiniPod is the result, and at around £275 a pair a good deal cheaper too. The speakers have a kevlar main cone above which sits a tweeter. Below sits a vent to allow the bass frequencies room to develop. They stand on three short alluminum legs with tiny rubber balls on the end (my balls fall off when I move them...) At the rear are the speaker terminals, the nice sprung type that are easy to connect cables to. So we know they look...

DubaiBug 30.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Scandyna - Minipod

Cancun - Don't waste your money

Advantages: The diving was excellent
Disadvantages: It's a manmade dump with overpriced restaurants and shops

...selling trips at a better price but they all seemed to charge the same. Everything in the hotel zone is expensive. I don't really know how any of the locals manage to buy t-shirts from places like the Hard Rock Cafe, or eat in any of the restaurants as they charge more there as they do in the UK, regardless of the cost of living. Perhaps there are different prices for the locals. The one thing I did enjoy about our 2 week break was the scuba diving. We dived with a company called Nautilus Diving who were really excellent. The dives were all boat dives and they charged approximately $50 for 2 dives including equipment. They only took small numbers and the crew were really helpful. If it hadn't been for the diving I would have gone insane with boredom. It was the only thing that was value for money in Cancun. If I could've got a flight...

rustifer 02.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of Cancun (Mexico)

LEAGUE OF TWADDLE

Advantages: None.
Disadvantages: Disappointment all round.

...adventurer played by Sean Connery. Captain Nemo - He is the captain of the Nautilus submarine and played by Naseerudin Shah. Here, this was possibly the most convincing of the characters. The Invisible Man played unconvincingly by a Cockney Tony Curran Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde played by Jason Flemying and mundanely to say the least. A Vampiress called Nina Harker who has a husky voice and spends a lot of time acting in a ladylike manner and then tries to surprise people with her vampire ways. Lastly and here I would say leastly Dorian Gray played by Stuart Townsend, although I am not sure what a character of Oscar Wilde is doing in a world saving film, as his character portrayed by Oscar Wilde would certainly not lend itself convincingly to a roll like this !! THE FILM Based on comic book mentality, the film was a total...

thingywhatsit 19.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (DVD)

Not so Extraordinary

Advantages: Great idea,
Disadvantages: Poor script, and in places bad acting

...Stevenson?s novels. It concerns the way in which an individual is made up of contrary emotions and desires: some good and some evil. Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray was the only novel written by Oscar Wilde and was published in 1891. An artist paints a beautiful picture of a young man and the subject wishes that the picture age rather than he. As long as he never looks on the portrait he will never age, but as soon as he does the roles will reverse and it will be he who ages. Captain Nemo - Published in 1870 Captain Nemo appeared in the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea about his voyage onboard the submarine "Nautilus". Written by Jules Verne. Mina Harker - character from Bram Stoker?s Dracula published in 1897. Whilemina Harker is married to Jonathan Harker and when she travels to Transylvania to meet him she is...

rachelkanga 24.02.2005 · Read review
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