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Sometimes things can't be explained in simplistic terms, but you have to go simplistic to explain like I am 5 ( ELIA 5) because of rules and preferences.
You will find me in the Contributors section on movies and TV Shows for technological and mechanical corrections, errors and other various tidbits for factual accuracy and sometimes "fun things" movies focused on Combat, Computers, Firearms and other technical aspects is where I thrive.
42, M, US
Reviews
20/20: Prisoner in Russia: The Brittney Griner Interview (2024)
This all could have been avoided......
Yeah, I can't support this title at ALL. Griner knew what she was doing, the very fact she made multiple trips to Russia over and over and over for multiple seasons of Russian Professional Basket Ball League Seasons, and just suddenly forgot to check her baggage for well known contraband is just an excuse.
She tried to be slick. This is nothing but a political play and a way for her to make money now that she had to be exposed to political controversy in the fact America chose to release the worlds most prolific arms dealer for a Basketball Star.
This whole situation could have been avoided if Griner would just stop being a slickster. She has prior made attempts to do slick things and this is just the first time she got caught, and made world headlines by being in Russia for it.
Fallout (2024)
The review bombs - assumptions and speculation by social media
As someone who played Fallout, Fallout 2-4, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 76 and Fallout Shelter - the review bombs need to be addressed. No where was it stated that Bethesda or anyone else admitted to or stated that the show would follow the Video Game titles timeline or synopsis. A whole bunch of nonsense was generated online and social media about this, and people just gulped it up under the guise - "Well its on the internet, it must be true!"
Ha! Sure.....
Anyways, I'm at the halfway point of the series and I am impressed just the way it is. It's refreshing sometimes when you get a different portrayal that a rehashed timeline you are already so used to you could recite it in your sleep.
Fallout is a wonderful transition from Video Game to physical acting concept. It kept the mainline of events of nuclear holocaust and living in a strange but familiar world devastated by the power of the Atom.
Ignore the reviews bombs.
Richard Jewell (2019)
Having been someone who was actually there......
First and foremost, I was only 15 when then this incident actually occurred. That being said, I was there that night of the bombing, only 500 some meters away, my entire immediate family and some extended family members.
We were leaving for the night in the park, just seconds before the shouting started to evacuate the area and then the bomb went off, though completely out of harms way, the sound sent my father into a protective hulk. Being a Former Vietnam Combat Marine, he swiftly scooped up myself, my brother and my mother in his arms, eventually he let us go as Police forces of all kinds descended upon the scene. Our Extended family members were nearby and he made sure they were okay and he hastily left together.
I never made much of what had happened that night until I got older and started looking back that night from the Wiki Articles and documentation available.
Then came this Biographical Drama production. I don't recall when I First watched it, but watching it again, This film gave me the necessary clarity on why Richard had been turned over into a nightmare, how he had been mistreated, his name slandered and tarnished. I actually feel bad for his family knowing he died of medical complications only to have the legacy of his name tarnished and the long drawn out legal battles he faced.
To me this is a clear reminder that even hero's can be ruined by simple statements, But I will never forget that night in my life.
RIP Richard, you are the hero we needed that night, you saved countless lives.
Troll-A-Long with a Rent-A-Cop: A Thug Life Tour Guide to the Reno City Zoo (2019)
Avoid this at all costs.
I wish I could actually rate this a zero. Anton is a serial police impersonator. This so called documentary is about him, it portrays a series of events that led to him being arrested eventually carrying a phony FBI Badge and arrested for having illegal Red and Blue lights in his vehicle.
Not only is this documentary crudely put together, it has no protagonist, no antagonist, no real story other than some footage from Carson City thrown into the mix and a myriad puzzle of trying to follow a story like plot.
This title is cringe worthy at best. It is full of misguided directions and even straight up misinformation that while he attempts to make it appear as fictitious in nature, simple research into Anton will reveal some very serious problems that align with his documentary in real life for him.
Gran Turismo (2023)
As a GT Racer myself.....
I have played Gran Turismo myself since its introduction back on Play Station, up till GT6. Despite the few anachronisms, this is a pretty decent film. The biggest glaring issue is that Jann's accident that resulted in the death of a spectator at Nurburing Nordschleife was actually after his 3rd place win at the Le Mans 24 Hour Circuit De La Sarthe, occurred before the race here in the movie. A few other inaccuracies but overall the Movie was pretty decent. Seeing development of Gran Turismo included and portrayal of Polyphony's development team and the aspects that make Gran Turismo one of the top Racing Sim's in the gaming industry added the enjoyment.
I knocked a star on the CGI stuff, the inclusion of video game elements into the real life racing blurred reality just a bit too much and the out of continuity of which version of GT Jann actually played and the GT Event itself having much much newer titles than the ones originally played soured my opinion just a tad. With Polyphony and Sony backing this product, I think it would be very easily obtained to have portrayed Jann in his original environment of the much older titles with accurate hardware and the story line to match.
Overall though, its entertaining. I'll certainly be going back over this for user submissions later on.
The Rookie: Backstabbers (2022)
The Irony of this episode......
I cannot disregard the coincidence that just 3 months before this episode aired, Los Angeles actually had a string of rail road thefts going on from the exact same rail yard here in the show which was the Lincoln Heights Rail Yard had their multi-month string of freight cars being broken into and millions of dollars of merchandise and even COVID tests were stolen from rail cars. Thankfully though, the Actual LAPD Arrested over 100 people in connection to those thefts. I could almost swear a few video shots and angles looked like the same shots from a few news media sources, because the scene within the episode was an exact replica of the scenes shown on the news of those robberies.
The Rookie: Coding (2022)
Yet another "hack everything and people die"
Okay, I get it, as an IT Engineer, its thrilling to see some guy with the worlds best IT Programming, Hacking,Networking etc. Etc. Skills and some hacking scheme to save a loved one, but seriously, that is getting kind of old.
There are plenty of reasons why this would never happen and would be A LOT more plausible with a very much required hospital employee who has the needed access to the Computer Systems to actually facilitate this kind of plot.
You simply cannot just take a iPad and completely hack through critical closed loop control systems through guest and patient internet access portals. Virtual LAN's, IP Blocks and the plethora of firewalls that actually are strictly monitored and controlled 24/7 by on-call IT Technicians and Security Personnel, the attempted access to these systems would have sounded a multitude of Alarms behind the scenes and not only that, would have completely locked him out once the unauthorized access attempt was detected autonomously.
The Husband would have had to have intimate knowledge of the Networking layout plus at the bare minimum Bio-metrically controlled access to those systems and no less than 50 or more different uniquely designed passwords to access the "entire hospital" and its systems to leverage such control that he could "kill people at will by cutting off critical control systems".
That is becoming old and just boring with these "give me what i want, and ill turn off the hack" type stories.
The Nurse That Saw the Baby on the Highway (2023)
Would rate this zero if i could
I'm sorry, but this was absolutely a time waster. Shot with mediocre grade equipment. Strayed from the actual timelines of events and is it quite honestly a politically and attention seeking title. I cannot honestly give any props to this title because its based entirely on an event where someone was seeking attention and gained it via international news to make money. Not only did this incident take away real time help from other events, it was an elaborate hoax designed to get someone attention to break away from a toxic relationship, and almost led to tens of thousands of dollars in theft.
Towards the end, the disaster piece became shifted and totally misdirected.
Given the nature of the incident it depicts, this is just another attention seeking attempt to portray this lady's life choices and give her more fame and a very misguided funding.
I would absolutely rate this a ZERO given the chance.
Independence Daysaster (2013)
Whole lotta Daysaster
Probably one of the worst B-Rate movies I've laid eyes on. Stolen material from Battleship (2012) "The flying drone balls" these are a near direct copy of Battleship's Alien devices that 'chew' through their targets, with the same distinctive red glow emitting from the core.
Would vote a Zero if I could, simply on the notion of stealing copyrighted works from other movies. Way to much fake to even make it haphazard worthy of something entertainment. Just complete failure, it took them 15 days to film this? I could come up with something better in 15 days. So many miscues and misguided comments. Avoid at all costs, total waste of time.
FBI: Fortunate Son (2022)
Doing the right thing.......
This episode hit me personally, with the title "doing the right thing". The reason being, people do the right thing all the time, but sadly doing the right thing can have consequences in itself.
That being said, the son was trying to help his father by doing the right thing, but it cost him the second highest ultimate price, losing the only family member he had. And that's harsh. A well known urban phrase also comes to mind - "nice guys finish last". The core lesson of this episode I see it as: "No matter what you do or how you do it, every action has a reaction, be it good or bad, there has to be a reaction."
This was probably the hardest episode for me to watch, especially at the climaxing ending of the father Vince.
FBI (2018)
It's another Dick Wolf Series, how bad or good can it be?
Okay so this is going to be a bit interesting, first, its Dick Wolf. The man, the legend himself behind: Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Blood & Money (2023), Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021), Chicago P.D. (2014), Chicago Med (2015) and Chicago Fire (2012). Now he produces "FBI".
My only real gripe with FBI as a whole was a few technical inaccuracies mostly to equipment and personnel.
Lets start with Personnel - every time SWAT is called in, its the same 4-12 man crew, and my biggest gripe is with one specific man, who I cannot ID in the full casting. And here is the gripe - he is clearly over weight. SWAT and Tactical personnel are held to a very strict and tight physical fitness for the reasons that they are the brute force of responses requiring the hardest hitting force when dealing with cases and situations. A 'pot bellied' SWAT officer would NEVER make it in these high demand instances and would have been washed out or pushed into a Office/Training environment at either 26 Fed or FLETC.
Now, lets get into the gear - I lost count the number of times I watched Agents, SWAT Tactical Responses and went charging into a situation with unprepared weapons, and its very easy to spot, especially with the SWAT Guys, being every single one of them was handling a AR Platform Rifle except for the snipers.
Tactical Procedures also was lacking a few times - they talk about doing things quietly and with precision yet a good number of times, it was very obvious someone did not teach them at all, the finesse or the art of stealth.
Roaming around dark places with tactical high intensity flashlights easily giving away their positions to potential criminals and even terrorists.
^ ^ All of this though, only earned a single star knock. The show is great, can be sometimes slow on a single episode, but its Dick Wolf!.
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (2023)
Nothing but a bunch of Conspiracy nonsense and misinformation
As a person with aviation experience and a lifelong aviation enthusiast, this whole show left a very bad mental image and very poor research is blatantly obvious. Its just a bunch of conspiracy theories ripped into 3 episodes. Research is so poor that it actually has caused RL Issues with Vietnam, who did A LOT of effort to help assist with the search for MH370, they have actually filed a International Complaint against this show. Nearly >95% of the information is public about MH370, and this show managed to ignore a significant portion of it, to create its own manifesto of a "Conspiracy" genre based Documentary. The presentation is good, but honestly, not worthy of being watched unless you also believe the earth is flat and jet engine contrails are mind altering poisons ( Chemtrails ).
The fact that half the info contained within the show are easily debunked shows they have no regard for truths and are just mass producing a conspiracy theory.
Sorry, but no. Not recommended.
Skjelvet (2018)
A Semi-Quality Rehash of The Wave, still good scenes
I gotta agree with the others here, the cinematography and the action scenes are decently played out. Kristian Eikjord [nm=nm0427379] is labeled the hero of Geiranger from [tt=3616916] and nationally recognized for his efforts. Despite this, Kristian detracts into severe depression and PTSD. The story line is lacking effort like its predecessor but for a small budget film from Norway, its still got it's perks and dramatics.
Struggling to even face his own family from his PTSD and depression, he sends his daughter Julia [nm=6497646] home early after she makes an attempt to cheer him up upon discovering his depressive "Memorabilia Room".
Events unfold which send him to the Capital of Norway Oslo, where his family has moved on to, and even then struggles to understand why he is actually there until it self-reveals he was given information.
Along with sentiments from other reviews, Norway has one of the worlds best healthcare systems, I also find it hard to believe that the "Hero of Geiranger" would even be allowed to get swallowed up in such a state of sorrow and depression, though entirely plausible as it seems Kristian has taken up a very isolated life style back in Gieranger.
Continuing on, Kristian hears the news about the tunnel even and the name of his colleague passing, which he then discovers the information he had been ignoring.
Despite his status, he is ignored on predictive warnings and failure of information yet again, till its too late and a quake is unfolding directly under the city.
After being privately discredited by the NORSAR Inspector, the event begins to unfold. Kristian's dis-creditor Johannes [nm=0024492] begins to realize, Kristian and the now deceased Konrad, were right, but its entirely too late.
The core action of the quake itself was a really good scene itself, the after effects of building damages and events unfolding was played out very nicely.
I was particularly taken by the loss of the wife, it seemed as if they wanted to reconcile their differences, just at the most horrible time, leading to her loss.
I'll be generous to this one, a 7 just for the presentation but yes, lacking the excitement of its predecessor.
I would honestly like to see yet another sequel if they make Kristian a NORSAR director or at least a chief inspector of some authoritative capacity to deal with predictive and actual event directives. At least we would get an answer if the son and the girlfriend survived.
Blackhat (2015)
A lot of hollywood inaccuracies - but a semi-decent cyber movie.
First thing - no Power Producing Reactor would be exposed and letting its steam just freely escape from the top of the reactor, it would be 100% unable to produce any power. Huge inaccuracy there, the second being, no nuclear power plant of an established nation like China would ever allow internet WAN access to critical closed loop control systems.
Movie is slow, but does have some segments. Lots of technical inaccuracies to Information Technology and technology in general. I know IPs are falsified to prevent inadvertent disclosure of an actual IP, but way too many inaccuracies concerning nuclear power plant safety and radio-logical safety. Workers in improper attire in a contaminated zone, workers within the containment building of the core, completely wrong design of the reactor for power production, etc etc.
Then there is the errors to Top Secret/Secret Compartmentalized Information access.
The US And China working together on trade secrets and TS information, just a bit too goofy for a rating higher than 5/6 and that's being generous.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Absolutely the throwback we needed for Beavis and Butthead!
I thought I was prepared for this, but even the trailer did not fully prepare me for the absolute sheer laughter I roared out for more 4/5ths of the movie repeatedly.
Oh how I have missed Beavis and Butthead, this was a much needed re-boot that brings back the teenaged memories I have of watching the TV show and the first movie. The memories of nearly passing out laughing, crying and nearly um *censored* on myself from laughing so hard and long. I was not expecting the sheer stupidity that is crude humor and downright disrespectful comedy, but that is Beavis and Butthead, always has been, always will be.
Star Trek: Discovery: Coming Home (2022)
Who's idea was it to put Stacey Abrams in this?
Seeing her, and literally just seeing her alone, ruined this entire episode and the season finale for me.
This is just a fantasy of hers to be "president" of something. Could not win Georgia Governors race, so she made up some political position to make up for it.
Just no.
All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020)
Would rate this Zero if I could.....
As a resident of Georgia and someone who holds dearly the very rights she threatened to remove or suppress in some capacity, Stacey Abrams lost her chance against Governor Kemp on 4 major policies that all but the most urban of areas disagreed with.
She has been on a warpath since then, with several false allegations and just downright dirty tactics. Whatever is in this documentary, don't believe all you hear. Do your own research and make up your own minds.
She is definitely not Second Amendment friendly, nor was she about fair play on voting rights.
She wanted to allow more ways to encourage cheating. In fact, its so interesting, that Georgia until just recently was actually SUBPAR in voting laws that other states made Georgia look shameful in integrity until last year new laws went into affect that make SURE its that much harder to commit voter fraud.
Nearly all of the other Democratic states have 10 times the voting laws and securities until last year as Georgia did, you don't see those states complaining?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Strange New Worlds (2022)
Definitely a well deserved return to the Star Trek theme we know.
With the References to Star Trek: Enterprise, Discovery and the changing of General Order 1 to the "Prime Directive" that we "Trekkie's" have known for decades now.
I'm actually quite refreshed to see the return of Christopher Pike from Discovery and to see his "incident" of his future event is finally getting more to the story.
I'm eagerly awaiting the rest of this show.
The Adam Project (2022)
Yet another Master Peice by Ryan Reynolds
What can I say, The Adam Project touched perfectly on sentimental life values, crude humor, comedy witty punch lines and some serious rifle action by Zoe Saldana.
I was particularly caught by the Father/Son roles replaying in past present and future contexts, that is quite a feat to ascertain and replay. I honestly wish I could do this movie personally, there is so much that slapped me dead in the face involving my personal situations that this movie just reached out and bear hugged me on a level I could not physically endure. This literally is a snapshot of me at that teen-aged rioting rebellious idiot I was, looking back at that life with the life I live now, I literally cannot fathom how I was like that.
The action scenes with Zoe and her rifle, DROOL! Love me some Zoe Saldana when she is in the moment and sighted in.
Reynold's, slaps us once again with the witty antics, the crude gut punch humor and the sentiment displayed of being able to go back and semi fix some of the mistakes he made as a kid.
I absolutely loved the collaboration Easter Eggs.
Not to many errors in this one either, Hollywood is getting good on the research and immersion.
There was a few at the end, with technical stuff, but that's Hollywood it has to have SOME "WOW" factor to it.
SEAL Team (2017)
One of the best written Military Series, still has some faults.
Seasons 1-3 ( with the latter half of 3 getting a bit soapy )
best Action parts with not so much of the drama, as Jason becomes entombed in his quarrels leading into the end of season 3 and it drags on heavily into Season 4, i began to lose interest. But I WILL finish it, currently at S4E13 on Paramount+.
Pointers for me:
Very well researched on the terminology and phraseology used by Operators and Special Forces. Couple of goofs here and there on some of the technical terminology and systems, but that's a no brainier. Hollywood ALWAYS messes up technical stuff. The biggest goof was using LIDAR for Targeting, I pointed that out in a goof submission.
Weapons usage was pretty on point with a couple of lackluster tiny details. Nearly every HK416 and AR platform weapon had the ejection port cover closed even after shooting multiple rounds. Simply pulling the charging handle opens the port cover. I'm assuming those were in fact non-firing replicas because the muzzle flash was way to concentrated for suppressors and the port cover hardly ever being opened despite charging the weapon and during firing. 3 scenes I know for a fact they were shooting Airsoft guns, as you could physically see the plastic BB's going downrange ( the most recent one in season 4 ). Another nitty gritty I spotted was many scenes of suppressor equipped rifles were using non-suppressed reports for audio-over.
As a child of a Marine, and close friends with RECON Marines and a few ODA, and Rangers, I Do understand the psychological effects being operators has on their minds and families. However, it was a bit way to focused on for Seasons 3 and 4.
Monsters of Man (2020)
Not bad for a Crowd Funded Title Production
I was entertained by the movie. Upon researching it, being that it was entirely crowd funded puts a huge smile on my face that people do in fact spend their hard earned money to help create nice works of movies, rather than relying outright on Hollywood.
Sound, Sequencing, CGI, all pretty good.
The Big pluses:
1: During the End credits someone did some nice research on the Paradigm of The STO (Strategic/Tactical/Operations) Management Model and how it applies to the US DoD. Each actor listing had a quote of some kind, whether it was the STO Management Model or some kind of DoD Directive ( DoDD ) written down somewhere on the screen. Its nice seeing someone take the time to break down the fundamentals of how STO Works especially in military applications, because its actually quite critical.
2: no overly dramatic CGI, death throws, political banter, unnecessary commentary, etc etc.
The very end of the credits seeing BR-04 from the scene where it ripped BR-02's head off as a CGI Static display was pretty nifty also.
Few things that kind of ruined the experience,
1: the famous never need to reload. The Robots have firearms, and not once did one of them reload. But the humans had to in multiple instances.
Because of kids in the house, i turn on Closed Captioning, and that leads to number 2
2: whoever wrote the CC Scripts for this movie, um, yeah. Every gun shot in the movie was referred to as a "Gun Bang(s)" this is a first for me ever seeing it written that way. And even a few scenes of rock throwing were referred to as "Rock bangs" to correlate the rock hitting something. Not a big issue, but kinda threw me off at first.
3: in the end credits, one of the DoDD's listed referred to DoDD 3000.3 Ref (b) - as a DoD IT Contractor I cannot find this particular DoDD Directive and its Reference. So, im assuming whoever did the research into those quotes just slapped down a random Directive Number and its citing Reference. There actually is a Autonomous Systems Directive, but its not DoDD 3000.3. So bad points for that. Good research, bad application.
Overall, a fairly nicely written and executed script.