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Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

SnoopyStyle I cannot explain how much I loved this show, and I don't know why exactly. If there is one reason, it's that everybody seems so likable even if they are tired and harried.I especially like Alex McLeod as host in the first season. Maybe it's because she's the original host. I like Paige Davis well enough. However I always found her a little too hyper, a little too outgoing, a little too happy.I do have to say after a couple of seasons, it does get tired and repetitive. Seriously how many different ways can you redo a room? At least, it was fun for awhile.

Pepper Anne Another non-TV show. Actually, it's another commercial posing as a television show, but this one is a huge ad for Home Depot. Except, how are you supposed to go to Home Depot and seek out finds for home improvement ideas when this show tells you nothing about home improvement. This is another pointless form of nauseatingly cheap entertainment in which dumb twenty and thirty somethings scrap together some ugly (on occasion, something will look nice) furniture or wall coverings or something and destroy a perfectly nice room or house all for the sake of a contest. They ought to call it, how to turn your house into that generic coffeehouse style in less than a day.Unfortunately, shows like these have replaced once-legitimate home improvement shows like the ones Christopher Lowell or Lenette Jennings once had (I think they were on the Discovery Channel), two television craft show hosts with somewhat different styles who at least took the time to show you how to build something nice once in a while. But, as modern television prefers the generic twenty and thirty year olds and obliterate the obsolescence of careful redecorating instruction by forty and fifty year old hosts, I can see why Jennings and Lowell are pretty much no longer around.What's more is we have lost appreciation for a lot of other things. Even Lowell and Jennings were once in awhile architecture enthusiasts who would host a show from historic homes or something. Trading Spaces cheapens all of that and makes it one hundred percent impersonal. They don't show you how to make anything and why not, they're supposed to throw together a bag of popsicle sticks, glue, and some god awful gawdy colored paint, and call it an 'improvement' because that's all you can do when you have ten hours or whatever the arbitrary time limit is to work. Efficiency is emphasized over being practical, creative, and most of all, producing good craftsmanship.

CampLarry2007 I watch this show everyday and I love it. Paige is awesome, the crew is wicked fun, Carpenteryland is neat, and Doug Wilson and Ty Pennington are the hottest guys ever. It is a whole lot of fun and more. I'm sure you will really enjoy it. It is on every day at 3:00pm central time.

perni The great thing about this show is that you can watch the first 10 minutes or so, grab a sandwich and surf through the rest of the channels, and come back without missing much of a beat. The best parts of any episode is when the audience first sees the two rooms that will be re-designed, the revealing of the chosen paint colors (and the subsequent reactions of the neighbors to said hues), and the finale where the couple is either delighted or horrified by the final transformation. To me, it really makes no sense when someone gives up an already tasteful, fully decorated room to the designers. It makes more sense when the room barely has anything in it except for like a stereo and neon Budweiser sign on the wall. That way you actually see some improvement (or lack thereof) by the end of the show. Some of the best designers on the show include Verne, who actually takes function into account and not just how fancy or gaudy a room can be. He usually creates very tasteful, sensible rooms that delight every couple, and I've never seen anyone dislike his style. Another good person to have in your home is Jenaveve (spelling?), who usually comes up with something neat and creative. Toss up designers include Frank, whose down home country fetish can get way out of hand, and the red-headed designer who was pregnant in many episodes, who tends to rely on geometric shapes and lines too much. And now for the worst designers on the show: DOUG, definitely, because he's made so many bad rooms that his reputation actually precedes him. Examples include the God-awful stainless steel, factory kitchen he designed, the room where he put a Beetlejuice-inspired frame around a fireplace (much to the horror of the wife, who cried and left the room), and a bar with random sheepskin rugs and sheet metal around the bar with neon lights. YUCK. And coming in second is HILDE, who is basically an idiot with expensive clothes. She comes up with the most idiotic ideas, sometimes. Like the circus tent room, or the one where the walls were blue plaid, etc. And in third is the designer who was actually a lamp maker. Her rooms were totally random, with one wall being stripes and the other being polka dots. People tended to hate her rooms, so she got kicked off pretty darn early. As for the hosts: I really liked Alex, who had dignity and didn't try to take over the show, but Paige is so giddy and annoying and in your face it makes me wince. Trading Spaces Family is pretty sad, since it barely toyed with the formula to warrant a totally new show. That host is so bland I don't even remember his name, and the new desingers (Kia and Gay Grey Haired Ponytail Guy) are also lame. I liked the carpenters, too, since they were funny without being abrasive, but Carver is just eye candy for the lady viewers. I'm starting to wonder if this show has jumped the shark, but for now it's still okay. It's always fun to watch a room go down in flames!