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Billions (2016)
Loved Billions Until The Latest Episode
So Billions finally returns and it's nothing but a bunch of POLITICAL NONSENSE. I guess Hollywood will NEVER understand that 99% of people DONT WANT TO HEAR A BUNCH OF POLITICAL NONSENSE IN EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES.
Showtime subscription was restarted when I saw Billions was back and it was cancelled an hour and five minutes later.
Building Giants (2018)
Fantastic Series - A+ 10 out of 10 Every Episode
If you're into engineering, construction or just curious at how some of the worlds biggest construction projects are completed, then you will love this series. It's amazing what humans can do and realizing just how far we've come in engineering, research and development of tools, construction techniques and even our visions of what's possible. This show focuses on the biggest and toughest building projects from throughout the world, not just in the United States. I really enjoy being able to see what other giant projects other countries around the world are working on, looking at their technique, their tools and how they go about engineering. This show is very entertaining and I hope it continues for many more seasons. I look forward to watching it every week when a new season comes on.
Mayday (2003)
Fantastic Series - A+ 10 out of 10 Every Episode
I've never seen a series go so in depth on different air crash investigations. The re-creations of each crash is incredible. It makes you feel like you're almost in that moment with the pilots, crew and passengers. The amount of detail that they go through with what happens before, during and after the crash is excellent. This show does a great job of walking the viewer through the crash investigation and explaining exactly how investigators were able to figure out why each crash happened. The only problem is that I've binge watched every episode that they've released already so they need to hurry up and release new episodes.
How to Fix a Drug Scandal (2020)
Wild Story But Then Again Were All Human
It starts off rather wild, story wise and then turns into a demonstration of human nature. Even the most upstanding, law abiding, justice for all type of people will try and cover their own Hyde when push comes to shove. The Massachusetts Attorney General is no different.
From the Ground Up (2018)
Great Documentary
This is simply the story of American voters having enough of the status quo. Tired of the big government spending. Tired of establishment politicians and how the liberal media and Democratic Party broke down the grass roots tea party movement with lies because it was a proven threat to their power and control.
Richard Jewell (2019)
Shows The Power Of The Mainstream Media
True Journalism died a long long time ago. Since the beginning of the 24 hour news cycle, the quality and integrity of journalists has fallen off a cliff. Now the ONLY priority is to be the FIRST to run a story. They don't care about checking facts of the case. They don't care about checking their sources. They don't care about verifying their sources information with a third party. All the care about is being first to run the story. It's become nothing more then a profit business based on internet clicks and show ratings. It's no longer about the new and true journalism. This movie shows us a time period where journalists were shifting their mentalities. A look to the future where fellow citizens don't matter, where facts don't matter and where errors in reporting don't matter as they'll just drop a short "editors note" buried in the story that most people won't read. These journalists ruined a mans life and that sad thing is, he definitely hasn't been the last person who was perfectly innocent (and actually saved lives) that the mainstream media has ruined. The bad part about it, people get laughed at if they say they don't believe the news these days. If they call them fake news. They get called conspiracy theorists for not blindly following the mainstream media, when in reality, we should all be laughing at the people who do believe the mainstream media without doing their own fact checking and verifying sources. A free press is a great thing for our way of life but the press that we've been dealt over the last 30 years has been anything but great and in current times, the vast majority of them are not free. They're owned by powerful people who only hire similar minds and they use their platform to promote their own ideology and beliefs to millions of people while denigrating the thoughts, beliefs and supporters of different politics or ideology. That is one of the most powerful tools in the world. So how "Free" is our press in today's times?
This movie does a fantastic job pointing out a lot of the issues I mentioned above. Bravo to Clint Eastwood to have the marbles to make a film such as this in today's polarizing civilization
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez (2020)
Horrifying story that our country needs to hear
There are a lot of truths and realities that are told in this documentary. Our systems have failed kids for many many years. If they're not allowed to be held accountable in the court of law for negligent duties when their job is to protect children, then we're basically saying that we're ok with kids dying from child abuse. If we weren't ok with it, things wouldn't go on as status quo and those charged with protecting kids wouldn't just turn a blind eye to obvious abuse. If their freedom and criminal records were on the line, I'd bet everything I own that they wouldn't turn a blind eye. It's the underworld of secrecy, protecting their own, then turning around saying "we did our job". We did everything we could to protect that child", that has become a very big issue. If kids continue to die at the hands of adults when there has been an obvious pattern of neglect and abuse, then why do we have Child Protective Services anyway? What is their responsibilities and duties if kids are dying? Why is there a system in place that continues to allow children to die and Child Protective Services just moves on the next day like it never happened. They have their commissions and their recommendations to appease the public and then its been proven over and over again that they don't change anything. This documentary is about cases in Los Angeles, California and even after children die, they still don't fix one of the issues which is providing more funding for these programs so they can do more to make sure it doesn't happen again. Yet, California and the city of Los Angeles spend billions upon billions of dollars every single year on stuff that doesn't matter. Money spent on people who aren't even American citizens. Money that's spent on pet projects. Money that's spent on things that DEFINITELY SHOULDN'T BE worth more then a child or be more important then a child's safety. The safety of our children should be at or near the top of our priorities. The fact remains that they're not top priorities to the people who run our local cities and state governments and they haven't been for decades.
Overall this is a well put together documentary. The one thing that stood out for me is WHY would you not show the explanations from the juror who changed his mind on the first degree murder charge and then the death sentence. The makers of this documentary showed his original dissent from the other jurors and let his own words explain his reasoning for those thoughts (which didn't make sense to me) but then they didn't show or let the juror explain why he finally changed his mind in the end. That leaves that part of the story open ended in my mind. It doesn't provide closure for that portion of the documentary. Other then that, well done. Just from watching this documentary, I will personally never forget the name Gabriel Fernandez.
Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn? (2018)
As Former Aircrew I Can Attest To The Culture Among Flying Units
While not in the Navy, I was an aircrew member in the test world of the Air Force from 2007-2014. A lot of the things said in this documentary are 100% true. The culture of putting flight hours over safety has always been an issue. In the test world, safety is a much bigger priority then normal flying units because we're flying new or untested aircraft, weapons and equipment. But it's still an issue that raises its head occasionally.
The one major thing that I want to point out that the documentary didn't really cover and that's the state of military aviation and maintenance operations during the timeframe of 2008-2016. During that time, our military was being stripped to its bare bones of funding. Proper maintenance, training and flight hours were all sacrificed due to military funding cuts. There were times that half our fleet of aircraft were grounded because there was no money to buy the needed maintenance parts. Times where flight scheduling was cut to the point where you only flew if you had training boxes to check before you went red on your qualifications and some years the reduced flying schedule lasted for 2-3 months at a time. Squadrons, Groups, Wings and MAJCOMs we're scrambling to find money anywhere they could. When you can't do your work properly, whether flying or maintaining aircraft because of funding issues, it gets really frustrating. The other wing on base with us had a mishap on a routine training mission where the main factor was lack of training flight hours for the pilot who caused the mishap. That's a major issue in the eyes of all military aviators. But in the end, the politics win out. Those who shut up and do what their told instead of raising alarms and preventing mishaps are the ones who end up being promoted. Their the ones who go on to lead groups, wings, majcoms and then entire service branches. The ones who do speak out have their careers negatively impacted and most either voluntarily get out of the military after they've had enough or they're forced out for speaking up. It is easy to see how the same culture keeps getting recycled from generation to generation. I have no doubt in my mind that the huge military funding cuts from 2008-2016 played a direct part in Lt. Van Dorn's death and some of the blame should lie at the feet of those that were leading our country during that time. Sure, that's not where all the blame should land but a good portion of it should. General Davis was one of four that signed a plan outlining the replacement of the Kapton wiring in the fleet of MH-53's by 2019. The documentary covers the fact that during the time that plan was signed, the MH-53 program was a "bill payer" program and the money was taken from the plan to replace the Kapton wiring to fund other military needs. This reflects directly on the extreme hardships that the military was facing during the administration in office from 2008-2016. During that time, I saw and heard of numerous urgent projects that were either completely or partially stripped of their funding for the entire year. So again, the MH-53 had numerous issues from the start but when the Navy finally nailed down the issue, came up with a plan to fix it and requested the funding necessary, that funding was taken away during a time where politics on the federal level, in regards to the military and its funding, we're at the worst point it had been in several decades. It's only one small piece of the puzzle but I felt that it needed to be mentioned since it wasn't included in the documentary. I can say without a doubt that ALL military aviators were aware of the consequences the lack of funding was having on flying operations and it was without a doubt the biggest concern that we had on a DAILY basis, especially from 2010-2016.
In the end, Lt. Van Dorn is a patriot who gave his life in service to our country. As an officer he was doing the right thing by voicing his concerns about the MH-53 program, the lack of officer and senior enlisted leadership and his concerns over maintenance efforts. The military needs more service members like Lt. Van Dorn, regardless of rank or duty title. If there is something going on that puts service members at risk, a real leader is the one who speaks up. So I salute Lt. Van Dorn and I salute his family for continuing to speak out on these issues in an effort to make changes to the military aviation culture and in general, the military as a whole.
Leavenworth (2019)
One issue.
WHY WOULD YOU NOT TRANSLATE WHAT THE MULTIPLE AFGHAN INTERVIEWEES ARE SAYING INTO VOICEOVER OR AT THE VERY LEAST ADD ENGLISH SUBTITLES? long portions of worthless video interviews where your target audience of English speaking Americans, have ZERO IDEA of what they're saying. Massive mistake on an otherwise solid doc.