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Okay so I'm sitting here with a re-edited version of this movie on DVD entitled "Catherine's Pain." It should be, "Viewer's Pain." This is a movie entirely void of any enjoyment. If not for the nudity it would be a 45-second youtube video.

My copy is autographed by Bill Zebub himself, no less. If I trash the DVD and rip out the autographed box shell liner, the box will be the only thing valuable here.

The acting reminds me of grade-school plays where the children's' acting is stiff and yet in development, and the teacher is backstage, whispering lines to the children.

If you're planning to watch this for the nudity, there are two females, and between them there is one attractive face and one attractive body-- unfortunately not on the same body.

The plot-- plot?!?! There is no real plot. It's a sexploitation flick. Bill Zebub says that it's "experimental." Experiments are required by nature to state a goal. I'm not sure what the goal is here, if any-- self-indulgent ill-talented trash? There's some excuse for a vague message here about "what goes around comes around." Heck I just accomplished that by typing those words-- and far more successfully than Bill Zebub or the 'actresses.' There is absolutely no redeeming value in this re-edited, re-hashed movie or its variant evolutions. Nothing. Watching a blank DVD would be more fulfilling, honestly.

This is History Channel?!?!? This is nothing but a modern sports-venue of skilled shooters competing in a pseudo "reality show." The show has nothing to do with History. Sure, they use some vintage weapons at times but they're only a minor trapping, and briefly mentioned. The show has no significance to the general population, other than those who would wish to watch a contemporary "reality show" (and definitely not history-oriented) using a format of shooting contests between marksmen and markswomen.

The show tries to make some intensity and suspense out of itself in its commercials. But in true reality, it's an insignificant and mediocre hype-reality attempt at a show which tries to elevate current marksmanship into a historically insignificant level.

It doesn't even properly qualify as a sports show, either, when team members get to pick who to send home, based as much on personal politics as any shooting abilities. If "real" sports events included this ridiculous and subjective feature, there would be massive outcries.

When I first started watching this show a few years ago, I thought that it was pretty interesting. Most of the tests seemed to show some empirical, scientific thought.

Unfortunately, in the past few years the trend has drifted far toward the "woo-hoo we blew it up" subjective experience while showing greatly flawed design or well-thought design in their "tests." I really can't put much weight in their conclusions or results, or invest my trust in their findings, any longer.

It would be nice to see more focus on scientific and empirical (repeatable result) experiments, but unfortunately I expect that the expense and serious thought versus the current ratings-grabbing thrills would be financially counter-productive for the current production's aspirations.

Basically, I no longer can consider this show to be serious experimentation or valid evidence of whatever conclusions are reached. I also note that the show has increasingly shown inconclusive or flawed-design results in its attempts.