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Law & Order: Organized Crime: Blood Ties (2023)
Good episode about Stabler connecting with a fellow parent
Average, but good, episode that advanced the plot of OCCB's pursuit of Quan and his criminal organization. Stabler makes a connection with a father, Wen Shao, from China looking for his kidnapped son who was smuggled to NYC to be auctioned off as an indentured servant. It shows Stabler having a rare moment of true empathy with a victim, as Stabler himself knows what its like to be a father with a child in danger. There's even a funny moment when Stabler chastises Wen for loosing control when questioning a suspect about his son's whereabouts, which is a tad hypocritical since if it were Stabler's son (or anyone close to him) that was being held captive he would have torn that room to pieces and worked the suspect over good to get what he wanted, wouldn't be the first time he's done something like that. Would like to respond to the other review that accuses the series of being biases against Asian Americans by showing them as a stereotype of gangsters and smuggled immigrants. Well the simple fact is that NYC has several large Asian gangs, the Triads being one of the largest and wealthiest criminal organizations in the world and one of their main rackets besides smuggling drugs is smuggling illegal immigrants. But there have been plenty of Asian characters in the L&O franchise that are shown in a wide variety of vocations and stations. Plus both this series and the franchise have shown gangs of every race and practically every ethnicity, because there is no one race or ethnicity that has a monopoly on gangs and I think they have all been represented fairly. There's been African, African American, American, Chinese, Cuban, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean, Latino, Mexican, South American and many other ethnic gangs shown. In fact the other reviewer mentions that Irish Americans have not had similar portrayals, yet most of this season dealt with the OCCB going after an Irish gang, plus the same Italian gang from the previous season, and they included all the typical Irish and Italian stereotypes, every race and culture has them and I think L&O has always been fair about showing them all equally.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: The Tutwiler Family (2009)
These homes are often a curse not a blessing
Speaking as someone who personally knows the family in this episode, a lot of what you see in here is staged and not real. The construction on this house was rushed and done in a week, and the quality reflects that. The house had so many issues from foundation to poor wiring, to a leaky roof. Some of the beautiful looking fixtures on the walls were not actually installed, just glued or taped there long enough to film the scene. The people from the show may of had good intent, but they also mainly are doing this for their own benefit. They build normal, middle class people these huge luxurious houses without any thought as to whether they can afford the taxes and whatnot on them. And a number of the houses they build are done with a very poor quality and are falling apart in a few years. The family in this episode was treated very unfairly by the people of this town, people thought they were entitled to just walk into the house and see it whenever they want because it was on TV, and not giving any thought or care as to the fact that it is someone's private dwelling. So with people becoming angry at being politely told that they cannot just drop by whenever they want and with the house pretty much falling apart after a few years the family was forced to sell it. Which just brought even more unfair anger from the other people in town, who thought the family was being ungrateful. Well they were grateful to the people who built it...at first, but then realized all they cared about was filming their show and not actually making a good quality, practical home for the family to live in, so that realization stung a little. Plus people thinking they could just walk through the front door of someone's private home just because it was on TV and then acting like the family is being rude when they ask them to leave, I mean come on people, the father and husband is a war hero for crying out loud, show some respect. In the end this "reality" series is just as fake as everything on TV, do not always believe what you see on screen, this is not the only house from this show to be sold because of poor quality and being too lavish for a normal family to afford.
NCIS: Hawai'i: Nurture (2022)
Episode plot revolves around advertising a car and feelings
Like the previous ones in this series what parts of the episode that do actually involve investigating and solving Navy crimes are interesting, but once again that fills only a meager portion of the time. The episode's crime plot revolves around a Navy environmental officer being killed by a wild animal that escaped from a crashed smuggler's ship, this part is actually interesting, but it only fills up maybe 1/3 of the screen time. The rest is spent between being a commercial for the latest SUV from Subaru and dealing with everyone's relationship status, how they are feeling, who they like and on and on. This is supposed to be a series about investigating and solving crimes, not a soap opera, this is not what NCIS is supposed to be. Yes the original series, and the other spinoffs, deal with relationships of the characters, but they usually only did so occasionally, the didn't fill up large portions of time in each and every episode going over each and every character's feelings while everyone is super polite, nice, PC and woke and it doesn't end until everyone feels special; I want to see Gibbs smack all of them on the back of the head and tell them to grow up, man up and toughen up! Wouldn't be surprised if next season they add a "safe place" area to the squad room where the agents can go to cry after a suspect says something that hurts their feelings.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Remember Me Too (2018)
Great story though some not so great acting
My only complaint about this episode and the last is the sub-par acting of Genesis Rodriguez (Lourdes Vega), it's like she was trying too hard, she didn't seem to convey genuine emotions, everything felt forced and fake. Other than that I thought this was a great conclusion to a fantastic two-part episode story-arch. It did an excellent job of showing how a person's experience can greatly affect how they see a given situation. Lt. Benson, being a 19 year veteran of SVU and a rape survivor herself was quick to believe the rape victim and wouldn't even consider the possibility of Jorge Diaz being innocent. While on the other hand ADA Stone, coming from a family of lawyers and being a firm believer in the law and our criminal justice system, believed that it would be wrong to arrest someone for a crime without having any evidence, regardless of what anyone's personal feelings and instinct told them. This causes Benson and Stone to butt heads on the issue, with Olivia having no doubts as to the victim telling the truth about what happened to her or about Jorge's guilt. Whereas Stone, who did believe the victim's story, questioned whether she was mistaking Jorge with the man who did rape her. It's a good reminder of the things that can go wrong when people decide they know something for certain regarding a series of events that they didn't actually witness, as Stone points out it would be wrong to make accusations or arrest Jorge without having any evidence because it could mean ruining the life and reputation of a person that might be innocent, which happens all too often. While Olivia turns out to be right about Jorge, Stone was right to hold off on charging him without knowing the facts first, after all one of the principle tenants of our criminal justice system is that it is better for ten guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be imprisoned.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Decent but has some confusing plot holes
Overall I found this last installment good, but there were several plot holes and inconsistencies that have me confused. The main thing is that in Resident Evil: Apocalypse we learned the T-Virus was created by a man named Dr. Ashford to prevent his daughter Angie from becoming paralyzed by a genetic disorder, but here they say it was made by a man named Dr. James Marcus to cure his daughter Alicia of progeria. Now some people say that Dr. Issacs suddenly being in charge and giving orders to Albert Wesker doesn't make sense since Wesker was always giving him orders before, but I disagree. Here we learned that the Issacs we saw in Apocalypse and Extinction was actually a clone of the real Issacs. So it makes sense that Wesker wouldn't be taking orders from a clone. However for some reason Wesker didn't seem to have any special powers in this one like he did previously. So at least this final movie answered some questions, but left others unanswered and created all new ones.
Contracted (2013)
Good premise, poor execution
This movie has an interesting premise, a viral STD that turns people in zombies. It is an interesting idea, maybe this is how things in The Walking Dead got started...;). Seriously though, while the premise was good, the plot holes and bad acting really detracted from that. There were a few times where the actors shined and conveyed genuine emotions, but most of the time people's reactions in this just felt so fake. Which is where the plot holes come in. This girl is raped by a man, and doesn't tell anyone, and even when her friends find out, they don't tell the police, or even the girl's mother. And then there is the reaction to the virus. This girl stars having large amounts of blood come out of her vagina, and she starts vomiting large amounts of blood, yet she isn't alarmed enough by this to seek medical help. It isn't until she urinates large amounts of blood and has severe stomach cramps that she goes to the doctor. And when she tells the doctor about her symptoms, and shows him the rash and dead flesh on her genitals all he does is order a blood test and send her home. Ridiculous! You see rotting vaginal tissue and think the girl just has a head cold and a minor STD?!? Oh and then later on her hair starts falling out, her skin turns this sickly pale color, her finger nails start falling out, and her teeth are rotting. Oh and both her eyes and totally filled with blood. Yet NO ONE she knows is alarmed enough by these things to either make her go to the doctor, or to call the police, who are looking for people that had contact with the man that raped her, which they all know she did! So overall I'd say that this films poor acting and plot holes ruin a lot of it. I wouldn't mind seeing someone that actually knows how to write remake this, with some people that actually know how to act.
Stake Land (2010)
Has some glaring flaws, but at the same time it has its moments as well
Yeah this movie isn't all that great, but some are calling it the worst horror film of the decade, but I wouldn't call it that, not by a long shot, that honor goes to Zombie Nation (no I don't mean the TV series) that movie is a steaming pile of crap and more then deserves its rating of 2.1/10. Anyways the thing I didn't like the most about Stake Land is that it has a lot of plot holes, like Mister who is supposed to be some expert hunter, yet he goes and leaves a sleeping, pregnant girl alone, I mean come on! And the sister wasn't having any trouble keeping up, but she just suddenly decides to commit suicide?!? She was with Mister and Martin, so wasn't able to see that the girl had fallen behind, so she wasn't doing it to help her get away. Also Mister had been obsessed with getting both himself and Martin to New Eden, but when they are finally within reach of it, he just goes off and leaves him? Would of made way more sense for Mister to make sure he at least got there, even if Mister no longer wanted to stay. Plus the dialogue just didn't feel natural a lot of the time, seemed like people said things that one wouldn't actually say. Also the tone of the film was very serious, it wasn't trying to be one of those "so stupid it's funny" movies, it was trying to be serious, yet it was very cheesy at times, like that cop saluting Mister as he rode off into the distance, I actually laughed out loud at that. I realize this movie was done on a small budget, but still the really cheap sound affects detracted from the film as well, as did the many different firearms mistakes. However considering the small budget I was impressed with the quality of the special affects. I think this movie's strongest point is the character development, that was pretty well written. I was genuinely sad when Martin had to kill the girl.
Schindler's List (1993)
Very Moving Film
Schindler's List has always stuck in my mind as a powerful film, and I knew that this was no ordinary movie when my parents let me watch it when I was only 13. They normally didn't allow me to watch R rated movies (they didn't even let me see PG-13 rated movies until I was 13). I of course was familiar with the holocaust from school, but this film really shows just how horrible the atrocities were that went on here. Mr. Schindler was a great man for what he did, and this film does an excellent job of honoring his memory. Schindler's list is about a man named Oskar Schindler who owned a factory in Germany during World War II. After seeing how Jews are treated in the concentration camps he feels deep sympathy for them and wants to do something, anything to help. So he gets the idea to convince the Germans that he needs more help in his factory to help with the war effort and that Jews would make excellent workers. So this allows him to save at least some of the Jews from the horrible fate of being in the camps.