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Gnosis, the Secret of Solomon's Temple Revealed

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This had to be the most painful DVD experience I've ever had. The music on tis DVD was so idiotic it drowned out everything, making it completely incomprehensible.

Equally as bad as the music the producer seemed to want video of himself walking about in almost every shot. Not to mention almost the entire dvd is made up of collages of images superimposed on top of one another, making none of them clear enough to even see correctly.

I've bought hundreds of books and dvd's from Amazon and this is the first that has motivated me to actually post a review. It is that bad.

I can't even comment on what the producer said, I couldn't hear any of it. Stay away would be my advice, a total waste of money.

Couldn't even get passed the second scene. I'm a very open minded person about this kind of stuff too, but the movie was completely overstimulating. A non-stop...(REALLY. non-stop. every scene in the movie is filmed this way).... montage of overlapping images and LOUD music that drowns out the narration.

I REALLY wanted to watch this movie as I was very curious about the information on it.

IT IS TOO HARD TO WATCH.

Philip Gardiner lacks any and all GNOSIS when it comes to film direction.

Truly. TRULY. AWFUL.

Too much annoying music (played at such a volume) that you can barely hear what the narrator is saying.

Very little real insight (or information) on Gnosis.

Not very long (that could be bad or good).

If one didn't know any better, you would have thought you were watching an MTV Music Video by a band named "Gnosis".

A pity...since a serious (in depth) video on Gnosis and the history of Gnosticism is greatly desired (and needed).

If you thought 'The DaVinci Code" was a groundbreaking work, you'll love this video!

If, on the other hand, you actually prefer to do a little research before you jump on any old bandwagon you may find this romantic MTV fluffery to be a waste of time. Let me be clear; I agree with some (but not all) of what is proposed by the author. My objection is to what he presents as 'evidence' and furthermore, what he chooses to present as significant to proving his theories. It's all hyperbolic grasping at straws spoken in an authoritative manner so as to imply 'secret truths.' It's silly.

I wish I had a nickle for every time the author uses the words "supposedly" and "therefore". I'd probably wind up with little more than a dollar, but there are constant instances of drawing conclusions and making declarations of his fervent beliefs as if they were statements of fact right on the heels of his stating that something is unknown or a mystery.

A great example is his declaration of the meaning of "Baphomet". Nobody knows what this word REALLY means. There are many theories. Just check out Wikipedia--not the best source for information on these things, but they do address a few of the various proposed etymologies of the word. He simply chooses the most dramatic version (ooooohhh backwards writing! of an abbreviation yet! Those crafty Templars/Gnostics/Rosicrusians/Illuminati/Masons/Republicans!) and presents it as a fact. Look, he may be right, but only by luck. In a court of law we could throw out his entire testimony based on all the circular reasoning and sloppy, incomplete research.

So, the information presented is faulty and incomplete in crucial ways. I don't know his books. If they're are shoddy as the material presented here I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot Caduceus Wand of the Kerux!

Now as to the production: I can't imagine what had someone make the stylistic choices that have been made here. Why all the loud Emo/Grunge/Metal intersperced with New-Agey-Enya-type-stuff? Why is the music so loud? Why all the ultra-slow-motion pans that go nowhere? Why all the multiple images layered on top of each other so that you can't clearly see anything? Why all the shots of some guy (the author??) wandering around historical sites with his mouth slack?

WHY ALL THE OBFUSCATION AND DISTRACTION?

If you have truly valuable infomation wouldn't you want to present it in a concise straightforward manner? or at least artfully? This is a mess.

...and the whole thing wraps up with a rap-metal tune. Perfect. I don't get it. Neither should you.

I agree with all the music comments it's absolutely annoying and at times you can't even hear the narrator!

Being a fan of this type of history and lore, it pains me to say that this video was almost unwatchable. I did watch it all the way through to give it a fair chance but in the end, the presentation just killed the experience.

The music was too loud when the narrator spoke, and the narrator's voice was just not distinct enough to make the information come alive (very monotone). The video looked like it had been done on a home PC prior to the "new and improved" video imaging software was available.

None of it made sense, even to me being a fan of this type of genre. I gave it 2 stars based on the information alone (only because I know it). I am not accustomed to being this critical on topics that interest me, but I cannot in good faith recommend buying this video. If your curiosity is burning to see it, then I would suggest borrowing from a friend or checking it out from the library (if they have it).

Could have been a great movie but I couldn't hear it or tolerate listening to it with all that sceamo music in the background. So I only saw about 5 to 10 minutes of it. Very disappointed. I really wanted to learn more about this information.

Painful to watch, Superimposed photos of symbols floating around throughout the movie plus the loud music in the background made it hard to hear what the speaker was saying.

When you finally could hear what he was saying it seemed that his grandiose style and arrogance made you wish the headbanger music was louder.

A total pig. Stay away from this. It's like trying to watch the Blair Witch Project while in a bumpy airplane while you have a hangover.

Amateurish production with a boring and busy monologue.

I had to stop the DVD about 15 min into it.

The information seems to be extremely interesting as I have been working on this thought process for years. I anxiously waited for the DVD to arrive to see what the author had to say about this topic. Unfortunately, the audio and visual quality of the material was too distracting from the presentation. I was expecting something like a Discovery or History Channel type production with images and historical facts to backup the presented material.

Instead, the "music" is horrible, too loud, and it's hard to undertand what the author is saying in places, and the images are a constant collage of the author walking through museums and other places overlayed with images of artifacts to the point of sheer boredoom. There seems to be no purpose of the images other than to fill the screen with something. They may mean something in the author's mind, but how about explaining them to us. After 15 min of this, I had all I could take. I plan to send this back and order the book instead.

I think the content is going to be good. But the production needs a complete rework, better yet, just make an audio CD with no music or at least dead quiet while the author is speaking! If you can get past the distractions, you might enjoy this DVD.

I THINK THE ACTIONAL DVD HAD ALOT GOOD IMFORMATION,BUT THE MUSICAL BACK DROP DEFEATED THE HOLD PURPOSE OF THE DVD,I PERSONALLY COULD NOT ENJOY IT AT ALL BECAUSE OF THE MUSIC, IT WAS TO LOUD AND THE SELECTION JUST DIDN'T BELONG TO THE DVD...