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The Gray Man (2022)
Chris Evans as total psychotic.
Chris looks like he is having fun. Ryan Gosling is playing that specialty of his, the human robot, a man who is incapable of any emotions. Or is it that he is a bad actor but they keep casting him because they think he is pretty? Billy Bob Thornton instead of just playing a grumpy guy finally gets to play the old grumpy guy. I know, BBT plays more than grumpy, and when he is playing other roles he is good, but he gets cast as grumpy guy more than most actors. BBT is usually entertaining as the grumpy guy. Sometimes he gets to be funny as the grumpy guy. Still so as the old grumpy guy.
Modern Family: Yard Sale (2012)
127 Minutes
This episode should have been called 127 minutes. It would be the funniest thing in the whole episode. Referencing the James Franco movie 127 Hours via the shots that return to Phil once he tipped over Jay's motorcycle and trapped himself underneath it in a remote location. Then every time you return to Phil we would have wondered if he was going to try to cut off his leg. It also would have mocked the fact that he started making videos for his family to find after he is dead after a few minutes.
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Howard Wolowitz and his graduate education
Sheldon Cooper constantly makes fun of Howard because he does not have a doctorate. However, if you pay attention over the years all the projects that Howard was involved in could have net him at least 10 PhD's. He works at JPL and Sheldon Raj and Leonard all work at CalTech. All Howard has to do is enroll as a graduate student, write a PhD proposal for his next major project, the school would approve and grant him the degree at the end of the project. It is mostly paperwork, since he has to write proposals and reports anyway. Since JPL is NASA, he could probably get NASA to pay for it all (CalTech is private, so that means very expensive, especially with their staff loaded with Nobel Laureates). In his one upmanship with Sheldon having a dozen doctorates should win. Like many engineers, he does not see the need for additional education when he gets plenty on the job, but it would help with pay raises and promotions as well as shutting up Sheldon which is the biggest accomplishment of all.
Sneaky Pete (2015)
I like the show but I hate when they are really stupid about things
Season 2 Episode 3 they are acting like the headlight for the truck is an uncommon part, unique to the vehicle. Sorry but it is the most common headlight EVER made. It was on vehicles worldwide from the 1960's to the present day. It was on well over half of ALL vehicles made in the US from the mid 70's up to about 1990 and still a quarter of all vehicles for nearly 10 more years. We are talking about over fifty billion vehicles. That was billion with a B. Any junkyard would have hundreds of them, likely 30 or 40 on a shelf. Find a better plot device as this is STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!
Freaks and Geeks (1999)
producers, directors, set decorators obviously know NOTHING about Michigan
Show is supposed to be set in 1980 to 81. The 1979 Firebird is very old and beat up. It would not have been. They feature a lot of 60's car. These are nonexistent in Michigan because they all rusted out years before. Michigan has a harsh winter and they use a lot of salt on the roads. Car before ecoat was invented rusted out very fast. In the 70's and 80's 5 year old cars looked bad with giant rust holes and 10 year old cars were practically never seen in reality. The 20 year old cars in the show only exist in California, where it is too obviously shot.
Better Call Saul (2015)
This Was Spinal Tap
So was there a Spinal Tap reunion on set? Clifford Main and Charles McGill never share a scene, but were they nonetheless on set together?
Breaking Bad (2008)
Walter White's Greatest Crime
Mr Lambert AKA Heisenberg AKA Walter White commits his greatest crime at the very end of season 5 episode 15 when it revealed that he did not finish drinking his Dimple Pinch.
A Christmas Story (1983)
Goofs or poor memory?
Look at the shear number of goofs and errors in this film.
Now recall that it is narrated by an adult, recollecting the events of his youth.
Now I propose a theory: the goofs/errors are not done accidentally, rather they are the poor memory of an old man trying to recall events of when he was just 9 years old.
Then again, it could be low budget or just a careless nature of the film makers...
Better Call Saul: Hero (2015)
Better Call Breaking Bad
There are sure to be many cross references between these shows. I just noticed that in the Hero episode, Jimmy talks to a guy who wants to secede from the USA and create Sandialand or some such thing. I took it to mean his name is Sandia. In BB s3 e13 when Walt and Skyler look at the house they will buy in ABQ, it is mentioned that Walt works for Sandia Laboratories. Time sequence is not perfectly clear, other than this is 15 years before the start of BB as Skyler is pregnant with the son who is 15 at the start of BB. BCS starts an unnamed amount of time before BB (other than the opening scene of s1 e1 which is years later telling us that Saul's best case scenario worked out). So they could be the same time frame or near enough. The only question is it the same Sandia?
Life (2007)
Someone likes Gingers
Even though this show only lasts 2 seasons, they could not have gone much longer without running out of read headed actors.
What is that about?
Even brown haired people are often Auburn!
Is there some hidden message? Is that a way to show that this is not based on reality? Perhaps Charlie is just dreaming and he is still married and in uniform...
It is the unreal aspects of the show that make it entertaining.
White Collar: Identity Crisis (2012)
Writers don't know the difference between descendant and ancestor
At just over 30 minutes into this episode FBI Agent Peter Burke says ancestor of a person who lived over 200 years ago. Seeing how the person he is referring to is contemporary, the word is descendant. Ancestor is the relative who lived long ago. Descendant is the younger relative. As in he is descended from his ancestor. As we all are.
This is almost as bad as those hundreds of times on television and movies that they say downwind when they mean upwind. I don't understand how these are hard concepts. Apparently they are too stupid to even understand that they are stupid. Otherwise, they may have opened a dictionary and gotten it correct.
Guess what, I am smart yet I frequently check to make sure I have the correct word and are using it as intended.
Now I have a song to sing: I am so smart! S! M! R! T!
White Collar: Most Wanted (2012)
Once again, the writers of this show an incredible lack of knowledge
In this episode, an FBI agent goes to a foreign nation, with no extradition treaty with the US, and kidnaps 2 people. He is fine, he is awarded. Oh he also supposedly paid people a half million dollars for help. The FBI would not do any of that. The agent would go to prison for the kidnapping. The victims would sue, causing the criminal charges, if the FBI did not do so on their own (which assumes a criminal level of corruption in the agency, as well as the conspiracy to support it) and would immediately lead to the victims getting returned out of the US (or possibly getting their crimes expunged, depending upon the nature of the crimes) and monetary compensation for having been victimized by a member of the federal government who was supposed to be on the job but instead went rogue and violated many laws, including international laws and the sanctity of the foreign nation involved. He could be tried at the Hague for war crimes. Instead, everything is wrapped up neatly in 42 minutes and we the audience are supposed to be so stupid that we were not insulted by the ignorance of this show.
White Collar: Judgment Day (2012)
Dumbest thing yet on this show.
They show the envelope that Neal sent from prison. The return address is Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Wrong! It is Ossining State Prison. Sing Sing is a nickname, it would not be on anything official. They may as well have addressed it as Up The River, as Ossining is the prison that phrase comes from, as it is upriver (Hudson River) from NYC. Oh, and he was a federal inmate. That means a federal prison, like Lompoc - which was previously mentioned on the show, but the feds don't arrest and try for state crimes and thus do not house in state prisons.
It is the Sing Sing on the envelope that is super stupid. Any felon or law person in New York can tell you its Ossining. Named for the Hamlet it is in.
The Blacklist (2013)
Lazy Props Department spoils my enjoyment
Watching S2 e1 they find a key. Obviously a Toyota generic aftermarket key. Later they say a G Series van. That would mean a Chevrolet or GM. Then they use the key to open a Ford van.
Sorry but if they are this lazy with details that would incredibly EASY to get correct, I have to assume that they put up a half effort on everything and there is no longer anything credible about the show. Seeing on shows like this try to give you a sense of credibility about them, yet fail so miserably, I wonder why they bother.
Some people will be like it is fiction, they don't have to be absolutely credible. To that I ask, how would you like it if they take a block of wood and call it a rubber ball? You lose the ability to watch with full attention because that part of your brain is screaming it is a block of wood not a rubber ball! Which distracts the rest of your brain from any enjoyment you may have gotten before.