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Flip This House (2005)
The real difference in the cast change of 'Flip'
The glaring difference between the Trademark crew and the San Antonio crew is simple: Richard Davis is a man of conscience and ethics. You always saw Richard support his team and his community - always giving back. He has paid the college tuitions of kids from his hometown who couldn't afford to go and sponsored activities within his community. The new crew? Let's see how we can screw contractors into working for nothing, get a photographer to do his website shoot for nothing and treat everyone around him like dirt under his feet. I was SO unimpressed while I watched him go to his nice home in the burbs (resplendant with job site workers laboring on his personal property) the whole time he beats down the workers at the REAL job site for not working fast enough. This guy is a taker. He's an ego-maniac and and a bully. FLIP THIS CAST is what the public is asking for. A&E can't take the heat of it or they wouldn't have torn down the message boards for the Trademark team. Yes - we were duped into watching these clowns, but A&E needs to move fast, and get the old cast back before the demise of what WAS a fresh and original concept show.
Friendly Fire (1979)
Never a More Timely Movie than now
I only rated the movie a 7 of 10 because the real story was lost here. It became more about the author, C.D.B. Bryan than the Mullens and their quest for the truth about what happened to their son in Viet Nam. Carol Burnett gave a moving performance that demonstrated her depth as an actress and Ned Beatty's portrayal of Gene Mullen was stellar. The film had a few sappy moments in it, but overall, it was a powerful movie that is very timely, considering the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the number of friendly fire deaths under-reported in the casualty listings. I would strongly recommend that everyone take the time to read Peg Mullen's book, "Unfriendly Fire - A Mother's Memoir". It reads like Paul Harvey's 'The Rest of the Story', in which Peg Mullen receives a phone call from the man who fired the gun that killed her son and the aftermath of that call. This is a fine film and worth taking a look at.