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Scarlett (2020)
The photography was good, so was the scenery
On another site, I wrote up all the things that really bothered me with this, but that list got really long. Let's just say this girl is beyond dumb. With all the training she had, she still has no self preservation instincts and worse, she does things that should get her and her father killed so often, I lost count. Early in the movie, she complains she worked hard to get accepted to a prestigious nursing college, but what intelligence she demonstrates here would not get her into a school for the mentally challenged. Was this written by sixth graders? It is like the anti-gun people wrote this, or edited it, such that guns were permitted as long as you didn't kill anyone with a face. Masked shadow figures were ok, but no one that had a face and was human. If you watch it anywhere but on YouTube for free, or on free TV, you paid far too much. Even then, it is 1 hour and 43 minutes you will never get back.
There were several plot holes. Far too many character plot holes are in it. The plot is very unrealistic. There are continuity errors in the plot. Main character is far too old and looks it. Lots of factual errors are throughout the show.
To give another perspective, my daughter was in film school ten years ago. She worked on three different class projects (one hers, two she assisted) and those 15 minute class demo films were more polished and made more sense than this one.
S.W.A.T.: Local Heroes (2021)
The Social Justice Gets Worse With Each Episode
There has been heavy racial lecturing this season but this one is really pushing it. Hondo expects a cop to give up his career, and maybe his life, just to serve the political and racial stance Hondo has. Has Hondo never seen Serpico? When you become the undercover rat, no one trusts you and no one has your back. The reason is no one is pure. Everyone has flaws, and while some are less than others, everyone has some and a fear of it being exploited to the point of being fired. As usual in today's world, the white men are at fault. It starts with two white officers stopping Tan as he pursues a bank robber, because the Asian guy has to be the bad guy. Then the successful builder and landlord is the bad guy because he is still trying to get rent money and can't just be giving free housing to those who can't make rent or utility payments. When are they going to make entertainment again, instead of social lecturing? When is SWAT actually going to do some SWAT police work? Are all other LAPD only around to provide racist backdrop and to be shot so SWAT can be the heroes? All I can say is that this show isn't has thick with the social justice as New Amsterdam, which I have dropped as a result.
The Blacklist: Misère (2021)
It Won't Work, You Can't Make Liz a Sympathetic Character at this Point
Many have complained about Elizabeth Keen being a horrible person, horrible actor, one-dimensional, and so on. There is no need; we all know that and no one wants her back. But what seems to happen with this episode is that besides the conserving money by using half the footage from the previous episodes, the writers seem almost to set a plot that Keen is the tragic victim and is being swept unwillingly into this mess. They seem to think there is basic good in her, like not shooting Reddington in the back. It won't work, as no one is sympathetic towards Keen. She has killed too many too willingly who did not have to die. She has plotted to destroy all around her. She is using her former friends as much as Reddington uses them, but then we all know that Reddington is a horrible person. It is expected for him to do others wrong. Keen reached the point of doing so much wrong long ago, and there is no way to justify it or to make it forgivable. She is gone, and should be killed off.
Police Story: A Chance to Live (1978)
Jumping Into a New Series
While some love this for David Cassidy, others seem to think it was a sellout. Part of that is the old "high school" students, but most forget, it was common to cast high school shows with twenty-year-olds. Most of the cast of American Graffiti, that high school to going away epic, had most in their mid twenties to 30. The same with Welcome Back, Kotter.
Now David Cassidy at 28 probably couldn't pull off being in a real high school, but his character is supposed to be 25 and with the other high schoolers being in their twenties, he don't look out of place. Most shows were trying to touch the drug issues more realistic and this was getting there. There are things that are wrong, like the ending where the kids all ride in police cars past Cassidy. Since he wasn't in the arrests, he would have never been exposed like that.
The build into getting to the distributor so easily isn't that likely. Of course, this was not going to be a long drawn out show that could build that relationship over the time needed to get to the main guy.
There were goofs in the writing, but most shows have those. It depends on if the goof interrupts the enjoyability of the show or not, and these didn't.
It is well worth a look at David Cassidy post Partridge Family while he was trying to be taken as a serious actor instead of simply a teen heartthrob.
Stargate Origins (2018)
Watch and Judge for Yourself - Not as Bad as the Reviews
While there are 10 episodes, they are all shorts, so there is less than 2 hours total. You have probably wasted more than two hours in your life on lessor shows to watch. DO NOT STOP once you start, or it doesn't make sense at all.
Many complain about the theme in that they travel through the Stargate when the movie in 1994 clearly set the standard and no one had. Yet, in the TV series, it seemed that there was as in The Torment of Tantalus (1997) Daniel discovers it was used in 1945. And if you watch this series to the end, the change is explained.
The acting is over the top, as they seem like '80s high school kids instead of people who recently came out of the Depression and were on the brink of World War II. There are several items that are clearly not done well, but then, it seems very low budget, and since the group of Stargate series have run their course, it is not surprising that getting budget was hard.
There is a clear grab at Raiders of the Lost Ark, but then based on the time period and the setting (Egypt), I'm surprised it never came up in the SG-1 series.
It is no way as bogus as the Star Trek reboot was and people seem to love that. Or the Ori period.
Stargate Origins (2018)
Watch and Judge for Yourself - Not as Bad as the Reviews
While there are 10 episodes, they are all shorts, so there is less than 2 hours total. You have probably wasted more than two hours in your life on lessor shows to watch. DO NOT STOP once you start, or it doesn't make sense at all.
Many complain about the theme in that they travel through the Stargate when the movie in 1994 clearly set the standard and no one had. Yet, in the TV series, it seemed that there was as in The Torment of Tantalus (1997) Daniel discovers it was used in 1945. And if you watch this series to the end, the change is explained.
The acting is over the top, as they seem like '80s high school kids instead of people who recently came out of the Depression and were on the brink of World War II. There are several items that are clearly not done well, but then, it seems very low budget, and since the group of Stargate series have run their course, it is not surprising that getting budget was hard.
There is a clear grab at Raiders of the Lost Ark, but then based on the time period and the setting (Egypt), I'm surprised it never came up in the SG-1 series.
It is no way as bogus as the Star Trek reboot was and people seem to love that. Or the Ori period.
Family Flight (1972)
Fairly Predictable TV Movie Fare, But Some Nice Bonuses Near End
This is a typical story with isolated son comes back after tragedy that he blames himself for, can't get along with father, and they all end up on a trip together where disaster strikes, forcing them to work together and put the past behind in order to survive.
The redeeming parts are scenes of Navy F-4 Phantoms launching from the USS Ranger and several scenes of the Phantoms flying and aerial shots of Ranger at sea. Since most are more familiar with F-14s on carriers (Top Gun (1986), The Final Countdown (1980)), seeing the old McDonnell F-4 Phantoms is a treat for aircraft buffs.
Still, if you have a Saturday afternoon and are rained in, it passes the time well enough.
The Code (2019)
Did any of you complaining about sloppy military accuracy
Did any of you complaining about sloppy military accuracy bother to look up who the advisor is?
"James D. Dever is known for his work on American Sniper (2014), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)."
Of course, so many military shows are inaccurate and sloppy. Few ever bother with the right haircut. Most wear their uniforms like shop clothes. Rarely do any act like they should. It's a drama about millenials struggling with professional and personal issues using the Marines as a background. What more can you say?
Han Solo: A Smuggler's Trade (2016)
Very Good for Fan Movie, Better actors than Solo
The group with Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) should have brought Jamie Costa in as Han Solo. He is much more like Han Solo than the one in Solo. Considering the horsepower of Disney and having Ron Howard for a director, the "official" Han Solo movie really didn't hit it as well as this one. While it isn't all that long, it is a well-done story that holds your interest and the characters all fit the characters we have known through the decades.
Quantico: The Art of War (2018)
Very unrealistic writing, amateur tactics, stupid mistakes
As one other reviewer mentioned, the gun fight in the loft is very unrealistic, with assassins who can't hit anyone and FBI agents who can't hit anyone. One agent can't hit anyone even with a shotgun. There are no guards on any of the family members even though they simply put the head of the enemy in jail and they know he is capable of communicating with his troops outside from jail. In a search for people against time, they used four people instead of bringing extras to search. An FBI agent enters a room where everything is obviously shot up, yet never pulls his gun. Agents handle their guns with extreme lack of care. The lack of detail and authenticity in this story is like a 4th grader wrote it.
The writers act like the FBI is the most sorry bunch of law enforcement officers since Barney Fife.
Quantico: No Place Is Home (2018)
The Camera work, the acting, and such are good, but the writing is unbelievable
As usual with this show, the writers are so far offbase, it is like they have never watched any show about law or military personnel. In this episode, the team holes up in a mansion to defend against trained assassins coming to kill their family members and them. They have a "state of the art" security system, yet there is no infrared cameras or night vision cameras to observe the grounds from a night attack. The members of this elite team go into the dark with only their naked eyeballs to search for intruders. They seem to be only armed with their personal sidearms and nothing else. During this state of high alert due to the danger, there are no backup officers and there are loads of stupid actions. The 4 stars are for the rest of the work involved. The writing shows almost zero research in how a trained group would actually defend in such a situation.
Route 66: Three Sides (1960)
Three Sides - Description
Tod (Martin Milner) and Buz (George Maharis) arrive in Grants Pass, Oregon looking for someplace quiet after the adventures they have had in previous episodes. They walk in on a fight in a bar and break it up while stopping to eat. They help a young lady (Joey Heatherton) get her brother (Stephen Bolster), who was in the fight with the local tough guy (Johnny Seven), home and the father (E.G. Marshall), who owns a hops factory, offers Buz and Tod work as a reward for their kindness. The daughter is a flirt and the local tough guy wants her. She knows it and teases him all the more. (Unrealistic, as Joey Heatherton is 16 at this time and Johnny Seven is 34, a large difference in age.) The son is a product of no discipline and his life is a mess. He is involved in an accident in which someone dies, the workers quit the factory because of the accident, and the father needs the help of Tod and Buz to get everything right again.
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