I never watched the Star Gate or Star Gate Atlantis series when they were broadcasting. As there is nothing but garbage on television in 2023 with a few exceptions I ran across Stargate Atlantis on Amazon Prime and decided to give it a go. Yes the special effects are dated and there all massive plot holes but all in all it's an old school Sci-Fi action adventure ala Star Trek, which Star Gate Atlantis makes plenty of references too. Some of the acting is ridged but for the most part the roles and casting are good. There are no unfoulable characters that are simply "the greatest" without facing and over coming personal hurdles. That is to say, no Mary Sue's which is refreshing to see. It's a fun watch and plan on watching the original Star Gate series when I'm done with SG: Atlantis.
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Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
(2002 Video)
An insult to the original classic.
18 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
If you lived Slapshot then avoid this movie at all cost. It's complete garbage. Let's start with the old played out sports movie trope. Underperforming team is being sold and moved. How many times will this be done? Next is the girl boss new coach. She easily out performs professional men's hockey players on the ice. Why? Because she's a former hockey legends granddaughter. Now on to the bad guy. Of course he's a greedy conservative white male who just want to wreck hockey players dreams of playing the NHL. This movie uses hockey as a backdrop and not the centerpiece of the plot. And those poser Hanson Brothers, gimme a break....
Texas Rising
(2015)
Just bad
14 January 2022
Historical inaccurate, usless love side stories, horrible acting, horrible script. The worst thing is that that not all of Texas looks like a desert and the places that the Texas Revolution we're fought certainly do not. Production is low quality. They should be ashamed to even have made this.
Mare of Easttown
(2021)
Mare of Policedramaclichetown
22 April 2021
Not the calbre of show that HBO usually puts out. Every police drama cliche is packed in and they show tries to hard to be gritty but ends up coming off as just sad and grinding. I feel like they wanted it to have "The Killing" feel but it misses. I don't know if it's the acting or how it's shot but the show feels disingenuous and full of stereotyped characters.
The Ripper
(2020)
We get it Netflix, men are bad...
3 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The Ripper is a decent 4 part documentary that clumsely weaves in a 4 part mini series within the doc about feminism and all men are bad. Eh, okay.
My first point is that because there is a murderer killing women that walk the streets alone at night the police advised women to not walk alone on the streets at night. Seems like good advice. The police never said you must be escorted by a man nor did the government make a law forbidding women to walk the streets alone at night. What's the femisist take on this? Patriarchy! So, ironically in order to protest the good advice of to not walk alone in the streets at night the femisist organize a women's group, yes a women's group walk in the streets at night. So you're protesting the advice by following the advice. Ok, cool, you show'em sister!
My second point is the condemnation of the police that it was released that the majority of victims are labeled as prostitutes by police. The femisist scowl at this then while interviewing the last women who the killer was with said she would have been killed if not for a traffic stop conducted by the police because she was a prostitute. Even the killer admits he was targeting prostitutes. The police have to form victim profiles in order to determine investigation strategies. If the killer is targeting prostitutes then you don't deploy the majority of your surveillance teams at 9am in the banking district. It also serves to warn ladies of the night that they are being targeted.
My third point is that yes, mistakes where made in the investigations. In fact huge mistakes happened. However, I will say that when a case likes this grows to the size it did it gets uncontralbe. So much data is pouring in that it becomes very easy for information to fall through the cracks. A single homicide investigation with little to no evidence is extremely difficult, now multiply that tenfold and it becomes a miracle when the killer is finally captured. It's an odd thing when it comes to the public and police. Everyone becomes and expert and with the benifit of hindsight says they should have done this of that. It may be the only profession that this happens in. You never hear about the public opinion on how they would have designed a building different when it collapses but everyone has an opinion on police work.
My first point is that because there is a murderer killing women that walk the streets alone at night the police advised women to not walk alone on the streets at night. Seems like good advice. The police never said you must be escorted by a man nor did the government make a law forbidding women to walk the streets alone at night. What's the femisist take on this? Patriarchy! So, ironically in order to protest the good advice of to not walk alone in the streets at night the femisist organize a women's group, yes a women's group walk in the streets at night. So you're protesting the advice by following the advice. Ok, cool, you show'em sister!
My second point is the condemnation of the police that it was released that the majority of victims are labeled as prostitutes by police. The femisist scowl at this then while interviewing the last women who the killer was with said she would have been killed if not for a traffic stop conducted by the police because she was a prostitute. Even the killer admits he was targeting prostitutes. The police have to form victim profiles in order to determine investigation strategies. If the killer is targeting prostitutes then you don't deploy the majority of your surveillance teams at 9am in the banking district. It also serves to warn ladies of the night that they are being targeted.
My third point is that yes, mistakes where made in the investigations. In fact huge mistakes happened. However, I will say that when a case likes this grows to the size it did it gets uncontralbe. So much data is pouring in that it becomes very easy for information to fall through the cracks. A single homicide investigation with little to no evidence is extremely difficult, now multiply that tenfold and it becomes a miracle when the killer is finally captured. It's an odd thing when it comes to the public and police. Everyone becomes and expert and with the benifit of hindsight says they should have done this of that. It may be the only profession that this happens in. You never hear about the public opinion on how they would have designed a building different when it collapses but everyone has an opinion on police work.
Another Life
(2019–2021)
First 10 min...
31 July 2019
10 min in Sackoff had to scold a crewmember lounging on a couch to get off her iPad and pay attention. Really? This is supposed to be a highly trained crew to possibly save earth from aliens? Furthermore the crew must have had no months of years of training prior to mission as they dont even know each others names? Come on...
Wight Space
(2016– )
It's a train wreck.
23 July 2019
The acting and dialog is beyond bad. I had to research what network would even air this garbage. Turns out to be a webisode production, and it shows. The premise is interesting and I attempted to watch it but lost interest in the first 3 min.
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