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NCIS: Los Angeles (2009)
I wonder what the mid-season replacement is going to be.
Poor Chris O'Donnell, type cast into the "Batman and Robin" character again. I cannot help but to see haunting similarities to the Batman movies, an elderly matron who does all the same tasks as Alfred, a secret NCIS-cave, and the NCIS mobile (which is a souped up hot rod). Perhaps next will be the NCIS signal, which will be set up in a lighthouse to keep the naval aspect intact. This show would have been fine if they had not tried to pawn it off as a NCIS spin-off. Too bad they cannot relaunch the series under it's own name, with no correlation to NCIS or the military. It would be a decent show if it was a civilian agency using ultra sophisticated equipment, similar to Tom Clancy's Deep Black books.
World's Wildest Police Videos (1998)
Worst Reality Police Show on TV
I am training officer for police and corrections officers and have a first hand knowledge of actual police and corrections tactics and techniques, so I was hoping that this program would live up to its billing. I was also hoping that I could use some of the clips to help show officer trainees the hazards that exist in the field. Unfortunately I have never been able to sit through an entire episode of this program without changing the channel in disgust. First off, I think John Bunnell is the most arrogant person to ever show his face on TV, and his credibility comes in question with the recent revelation that many of the portions of the show are staged or recreations. (You can tell the re-creations now because they have "Police Training Video" captioned over them) Bunnell's term as Multnomah County Sheriff is also a mystery. The website for Multnomah County does not give any information on him other than a brief clip that a biography is coming soon but hasn't been updated in over 16 months. From information found in court records in cases filed against the Multnomah County Sheriff's office, reveals that Sheriff Bob Skipper retired before his term expired and John Bunnell filled in as interim sheriff for a short period of time until a Sheriff Dan Noelle took office in the summer of 1995. The second thing that really bothers me about this program is that the videos shown are not accurate depictions of what transpires in each event. The clips are edited and spliced together out of chronological order (watch the time stamps on the videos, that is what they are there for). The clips are also narrated with voice over that is intended to make viewers think that the narrator is the actual police observer in a police helicopter. It is amazing however that the voice of the "observer" is the same no matter where in the world the clip occurs. Some of the dialog that the voice over uses is unbelievable and inaccurate (in one case the narrator says that the police started chasing someone for fleeing officers, which can only be charged after a chase starts not, thus could not be the reason for a chase). Bunnell's voice overs are also a joke, most of them are over statements of the obvious or embellishments on the actual facts portrayed on the videos (even after editing to Fox's liking). The only truly accurate and possibly the only credit to this program are the comments from other Law Enforcement experts such as C.W. Jenson who gives accurate commentary on the training and concerns of police involved in pursuits.
All in all, I would say that this is the worst "reality" show on TV today, it is a blatant second-rate rip-off of COPS which has some of the same "reality" problems as this show (radio transmissions are dubbed in to fill in or cover dead air-time, listen for the closing title radio transmission, it can be heard over the radio verbatim in several episodes that are taped in different areas of the country).
Crash Dive (1996)
I think this movie was made with a "Cut & Paste" program.
This movie was by far the worst Techno-thriller type movie I have ever seen, I suffered through the entire movie to see who was the brave soul that allowed his/her name to be attached to the technical adviser's slot and who the continuity director was. Now I know that everyone is not an accuracy nut like I am, but having been in the navy, it would be nice to have the film stay in the ball park. The hardest thing about this film to believe is the fact that of the 90 minutes that it ran, 45 of it was re-hashed from other movies, and the majority of those 45 minutes were from "Crimson Tide." I guess sampling is alive and well in the movie industry as well.