dartleyk

tech talk and SEAL gadgets, good camera work, i.e. the shoot 'em ups work fine; but thin plot, drawn out- same poor guys nonstop from jungle to desert to Mexico: and the stoppers: 1. the NCO: a senior chief who never says sir to an officer, and somehow briefs the missions, tells team leader officer where they go, when they go, what to do- got the word from 'the boss'; hello: captain or above in charge of several teams fighting international terror do not brief an NCO to run multiple team missions; absurd 2. the phone: on active duty, combat patrols, aircraft carrier, and you call home on your phone? love you babe, gotta go? 3. go or stay? team member jolted by screams says we gotta go; officer says have to stay here, then almost all of them get up and go 4. bad shooting SEALS? back of truck, 2 SEALS, automatic weapons, endless ammo, can't stop a pickup following no more than 50 yards behind them; maybe 75, 100 shots, pickup keeps coming; no way just too many of theses butting in, and when the plot thins out they really are stoppers

masquerading as harmless fun with SNL retreads, some comic scenes are obliterated by a final message, i.e. the worst losers can pretend to be winners if their opponents bend over backwards to arrange it; it's not everyone's a winner, it's not non-competitive summer camp with absurd games- as if kids don't know who is fast and who is slow, who can catch and who can't; and it's even beyond gump where serendipitous events conspire to arrange success; dreadful message is you can win if everyone else makes sure that they lose; geez- and the senior losers all get hot blondes in the end; right; there is no saving grace, no silver lining, and who knows why IMDb insists that any review must be ten lines long

starring a couple listed on the show's credits as producer, and who own the real estate company doing the work; except they don't work; job of the male lead is to pull up to a job site in his pimped-out porsche knowing nothing about the job status, costs, progress, and be outraged that it's not done; you will see some of vegas not often shown on TV; you won't see anything about construction; put up a trellis? 6 frames of stop motion and it's up, no permit, as usual; but you will see how to paint old cabinets and tell clients the kitchen has all been redone; not renewed for years but the old ones still running- as are only a couple of the reality redo shows that reflect some reality- neither one based on flipping; this old house if you can stand the slow pace and fussiness that would never cut it on a real job, and the endless PC-eco take on everything; holmes makes it right offers much more construction detail, and thankfully limits the homeowner reality angst to a few minutes of intro; holmes is thorough, and also covers costs, though solutions on a 400-500k house with problems often entail 250k donations plus likely 150k labor to fix