What is the big deal about having a French lover in a movie these days? They eat horrid-smelling cheese, don't bathe ver
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pmiano100 — 13 years ago(September 17, 2012 05:44 AM)
I'm tired of:
Action heroes and heroines able to take on twenty opponents at once and win. In real life, they'd just the shoot the fool and be done with him/her.
James Bond, the most non-secret agent of them all. In real life, his enemies would just use a sniper and get it over with.
Films and TV shows that make American corporations the epitome of evil.
The use of albinos as villains. They deserve sympathy, not stereotypes.
American super-secret agents like Jason Bourne who never fight the bad guys because they're too busy fighting the CIA, another stock villain in Hollywood films and TV.
The glorification of Native American life and Native Americans as the first environmentalists and noble humanitarians.. They drove whole herds of buffaloes off cliffs, polluted water, and had hard, difficult lives even before the white man came. They also made war on each other, stole land from other tribes, and even had slaves before the whites arrived. They were no better and no worse than whites.
African-American male characters with hair on their chins and over their lips, but none on their heads.
Crazy American right-wing fanatic generals. In real life, they keep their politics to themselves until they retire, and those who don't are forced out.
Gay parents on TV and in movies who are so perfect, I wish they'd adopt me.
American actors playing British characters who are totally incapable of speaking with a proper British accent.
The glorification of lazy stoners and stupid slackers as superior to guys who dress decently, dedicate themselves to their schoolwork and jobs, and don't do drugs.
Worthless losers and bad boys who win the hearts of nice, beautiful girls from good families.
Movie/TV parents made out to be evil snobs because they don't want their daughters to marry these bums.
Sarcastic, comtemptuous, egotistical bitches being passed off as strong and independent women whom the sexist men can't accept.
Outer space creatures who are biological impossibilities.
Vampires and werewolves, good and bad.
Female characters (the American TV comedy "Broke Girls" is a notable exception)
who complain about their lousy, deadend jobs but live in large apartments with fantastic views and wear expensive clothes.
Movies and TV shows with a female lead who is mature, responsible, and successful, and a male lead who is a "lovable but exasperating" manchild.
Movies with Gerard Butler. He's really getting overexposed.
Movies where the only alternative the characters have to get justice is to break the law and steal.
American men being portrayed as inferior to European and Australian men.
"Inspirational" films where wise minority people show uptight white people what is good and right or teach them how to enjoy life.
Movies "based on true stories," that leave out important facts that show the hero/heroine was no saint and the so-called villain was no devil.
Private detectives who are never fooled by the femme fatales and are 10x better than the police officers who are always 10 steps behind them. -
Altho73 — 13 years ago(October 07, 2012 11:44 AM)
Just to show that all bad movies did not happen since the 1970s all of the following are from the far from classic 1946 version of The Big Sleep
There is no way that you can take seriously the idea of Humphrey Bogarts Marlowe being 38!!!!! He looked more like fifty.
It is also beyond belief to see every young woman that comes into contact with Marlowe (a short, overweight, badly dressed, grubby looking, unattractive, middle aged man) in this movie are overawed by him and fancy him. General Sternwoods two daughters, the librarian, the book shop girl, the taxi driver, the waitress etc all get gooey eyed and think he is gorgeous.Why??????????
In several scenes we see Marlowe drink ample amounts of hard liquor. How on earth does a private detective expect to remain calm and quick witted when under the influence of alcohol and how irresponsible of him to drive a car.
When Marlowe leaves Geigers bookshop he goes to the Acme bookshop across the road to gain more information the girl there gives him an exceptionally detailed description of Geiger (including his interest in antiques, his pencil moustache and glass eye, what time he arrives and leaves etc). How on earth would she have known all this????
Next is one of the worst ever movie clichs, the plain mousy looking bookshop girl removes her glasses and lets her tied back hair hang looses and suddenly she is drop dead gorgeous and Marlowes eyes nearly pop out of his head as he says Hello. OH PLEASE!!!!
When Marlowe tells her that he wants to tail Geiger when he leaves and asks the girl if he can hang around until then the girl readily agrees and she closes the shop for the rest of the afternoon while they share a bottle of whisky!!!! Didnt the thought that she could be in big trouble or could be fired if her boss found out ever cross this silly girls mind????
If anyone reading this puts a smug look on their face and says Maybe this girl was the proprietor of the shop, then ask yourself this. How many nineteen year old girls do you know that own bookshops?????
Also didnt it ever cross Marlowes mind that while he and this girl were preoccupied with giggling and drinking whisky that Mr Geiger could have suddenly slipped out of the door and gone home and evaded Marlowe. Is this guy supposed to be a detective or what???
But as you can guess the girl just happens to look out of the window at the very moment that Geiger is leaving and alerts Marlowe who dashes to the door and opens it by pushing the handle despite the fact that the girl had locked it earlier!!!!!
Whilst Marlowe (sitting outside in his car) hears gunshots coming from the inside of Geigers house he runs to the door and rushes inside. Now it is hardly very clever or sensible to rush into a house where someone is shooting but nothing happens to Marlowe.
After he discovers Geigers dead body on the floor and Carmen Sternwood high on drugs and spaced out Marlowe refrains from calling the police, removes Geigers notebook and leaves the scene of the crime taking Carmen with him. In doing this he has failed to report a murder, tampered with evidence and aided and abetted the escape of a possible murderer, crimes that would result in a heavy prison sentence. Why on earth would a private detective have done that???
After taking Carmen home and telling her sister Vivien to tell the police that she was home all last night he then returns to the scene of the crime only to find that Geigers body has now disappeared. Did he not even think that he was taking an appalling risk to return to the scene of a crime that he had failed to report
As if this wasnt enough he returns to the scene of the crime THREE more before the end of the movie
the first time he finds Carmen skulking in the bushes outside and when he enters the house mobster Eddie Mars just happens to call at that time. Isnt this a remarkable co-incidence?????
The second time he follows a gunman who has just shot Joe Brody and takes him into Geigers house and finds that Geigers body has now reappeared, so thins time he does calls the police telling them where to find the body and the killer. Does this make any sense????
The third time he arranges to meet Eddie Mars there (after Marss henchmen had knocked him out, kidnapped him and intended to have him killed). This is after the police have discovered the body, in which case the whole house should have been sealed off as a scene of crime for the forensic team to investigate but there was no indication that the house had ever been the scene of a crime.
At one point the police call Marlowe at his home at 2.00am telling him that they have found a car with a body in it in the river and they ask him if he wants to come to the crime scene with them. Why on earth would the Los Angeles police extend such an invitation to a private detective???
Marlowe hires a taxi to tail a fellow names Joe Brody who may be Geigers murderer. Naturally the taxi driver is an attractive woman who thinks that Marlowe is drop de -
alfa — 13 years ago(October 10, 2012 12:50 AM)
Running out of topics? There are so many errors and misunderstandings in this post that cross posting it to The Big Sleep board would get you run out of town. Carmen Sternwood's sister, for example, is Mrs Vivian Routledge in the film (there is no Charlotte) and Mrs Vivian Regan in the book - large chunks of her dialogue and most of her plotline are retained from the novel.
The Big Sleep has an unimpeachable writing pedigree. None better.
For someone claiming to be a panjandrum of movie cliche, par contre, you don't seem to know much about genre and nothing at all about Chandler's masterpiece. -
Squeeth2 — 13 years ago(October 10, 2012 04:13 AM)
There is no way that you can take seriously the idea of Humphrey Bogarts Marlowe being 38!!!!! He looked more like fifty.
It's a joke, reprised by Barry Humphries as Sir Les Patterson.
It is also beyond belief to see every young woman that comes into contact with Marlowe (a short, overweight, badly dressed, grubby looking, unattractive, middle aged man) in this movie are overawed by him and fancy him. General Sternwoods two daughters, the librarian, the book shop girl, the taxi driver, the waitress etc all get gooey eyed and think he is gorgeous.Why??????????
It's a joke, reprised by Warren Beatty in films like Lilith.
In several scenes we see Marlowe drink ample amounts of hard liquor. How on earth does a private detective expect to remain calm and quick witted when under the influence of alcohol and how irresponsible of him to drive a car.
It's a joke, reprised by Dean Martin in all his films.
When Marlowe leaves Geigers bookshop he goes to the Acme bookshop across the road to gain more information the girl there gives him an exceptionally detailed description of Geiger (including his interest in antiques, his pencil moustache and glass eye, what time he arrives and leaves etc). How on earth would she have known all this????
It's a joke, she's so gagging forrit, waiting to call Pablo Picasso an ace-ho.le that she stares at all the men.
Next is one of the worst ever movie clichs, the plain mousey looking bookshop girl removes her glasses and lets her tied back hair hang looses and suddenly she is drop dead gorgeous and Marlowes eyes nearly pop out of his head as he says Hello. OH PLEASE!!!!
It's a joke, anyone can see that she's a babe from the start.
When Marlowe tells her that he wants to tail Geiger when he leaves and asks the girl if he can hang around until then the girl readily agrees and she closes the shop for the rest of the afternoon while they share a bottle of whisky!!!! Didnt the thought that she could be in big trouble or could be fired if her boss found out ever cross this silly girls mind????
It's a joke, she's so gagging forrit, waiting for Pablo, that she'll shag Humphrey Bogart.
If anyone reading this puts a smug look on their face and says Maybe this girl was the proprietor of the shop, then ask yourself this. How many nineteen year old girls do you know that own bookshops?????
It's a joke, she's Daddy's Girl, not necessarily a Sternwood (Stern wood joke, geddit?).
Also didnt it ever cross Marlowes mind that while he and this girl were preoccupied with giggling and drinking whisky that Mr Geiger could have suddenly slipped out of the door and gone home and evaded Marlowe. Is this guy supposed to be a detective or what???
It's a joke, there's always tomorrow.
But as you can guess the girl just happens to look out of the window at the very moment that Geiger is leaving and alerts Marlowe who dashes to the door and opens it by pushing the handle despite the fact that the girl had locked it earlier!!!!!
It's a joke, foreshadowing and mirroring the scene at Geiger's house.
Whilst Marlowe (sitting outside in his car) hears gunshots coming from the inside of Geigers house he runs to the door and rushes inside. Now it is hardly very clever or sensible to rush into a house where someone is shooting but nothing happens to Marlowe.
It's a joke, Bogie is indestructible, especially when he's had a skinful.
After he discovers Geigers dead body on the floor and Carmen Sternwood high on drugs and spaced out Marlowe refrains from calling the police, removes Geigers notebook and leaves the scene of the crime taking Carmen with him. In doing this he has failed to report a murder, tampered with evidence and aided and abetted the escape of a possible murderer, crimes that would result in a heavy prison sentence. Why on earth would a private detective have done that???
It's a satirical joke, reminding us that America is a fascist's wet dream.
After taking Carmen home and telling her sister Vivien to tell the police that she was home all last night he then returns to the scene of the crime only to find that Geigers body has now disappeared. Did he not even think that he was taking an appalling risk to return to the scene of a crime that he had failed to report?
It's a satirical joke, as above.
As if this wasnt enough he returns to the scene of the crime THREE more before the end of the movie
the first time he finds Carmen skulking in the bushes outside and when he enters the house mobster Eddie Mars just happens to call at that time. Isnt this a remarkable co-incidence?????
It's a joke, Chandler was always using that deus ex machina.
The second time he follows a gunman who has just shot Joe Brody and takes him into Geigers house and finds that Geigers body has reappeared, so this time he does calls the police telling them where to find the body and the killer. Does this make any sense????
It's a joke, he's got a suspect who's a no-good-punk-kid-who's-all-washed-up-and-he-doesn't-even-know-it-yet who is also a -
pmiano100 — 13 years ago(November 01, 2012 02:33 AM)
Rest Assured in Movies and TV:
If a suspect has an alibi and says "Check it," the cop will respond, "I will."
Are cops so stupid as to think everyone is bluffing them?
If two new cop partners hate each other at the beginning, they will be good friends by the end.
If a man and a woman can't stand each other at the beginning, they will be lovers by the end.
If someone tells the hero "You're crazy" or "That's impossible," the hero will find someway to succeed in doing it, whatever it is.
If the hero escapes from the police to prove his innocence, he will succeed by the end usually get a new lover in the bargain.
No matter how obviously the hero is disguised, even his best friends and family will not recognize him.
If Clint Eastwood is in a gunfight with 13 crooks, he will kill them all even if he has only a total of 12 shots in his 2 revolvers and you never see him stop to reload.
If a father and his adult child are estranged at the beginning, they will be reconciled and loving at the end.
If a heroine is surrounded and threatened by four street punks twice her size, she will turn out to be a martial arts expert and kick their butts.
If the US general warns that an intergalactic alien is dangerous at the beginning, he will turn out to be wrong at the end. Just once I'd like him to turn out to be right.
If a poor or minority kid is accused of a crime, it will always turn out to be the spoiled rich white boy who really did it. (Possible repeat)
In a modern Western, the Native Americans/Indians will be kind, wise, decent, and peaceful, and the American soldiers will be cruel, stupid, mean, and warlike.
If a little kid warns adults of some great danger and the adults don't believe the kid, at the end it will turn out they should have listened.
If the kid doesn't like the new stepfather at the beginning, towards the end he will turn out to be some kind of psycho criminal and murderer.
If the hero is trapped in Nazi Germany and doesn't speak the language, he will meet a beautiful German girl who is anti-Nazi, and will risk everything to help him so she can fall in love with him. (If you believe modern films, there were more anti-Nazis in Germany fighting against Hitler than Nazis fighting for him. How did the Nazis manage to keep the war going for nearly 6 years?)
If the hero in a Western was a Confederate during the Civil War, any "Yankee" he meets will be brutal and inferior to him morally and every other way.
John Wayne will win, no matter what the odds.
Humphrey Bogart may fall in love with a woman, but he'll never be her patsy, even if she's as beautiful as Mary Astor in "The Maltese Falcon."
No matter how wimpy, weak, or whinny the hero/heroine, he/she will always rise to the occasion and win whatever needs winning.
John Travolta will smoke, no matter what the picture is about.
If there is only one survivor of a group, there's a 99% chance it will be the guy or woman whose name is first on the credits. If there are two, one will be a man and the other will be the woman who loves him. Recently, there have been exceptions to this one, and the movies haven't done well. We want the hero to survive and have a beautiful woman to survive with him.
No matter how unlikely or unsuited for each other a couple are, "true love" will triumph and they will end up together.Love conquers all! Now somebody get me a barf bag. -
Altho73 — 13 years ago(December 06, 2012 12:21 PM)
From Dagger of the Mind one of the most ridiculous episodes of the Columbo TV detective series
This episode of Columbo deviates from the normal settings of Los Angeles and shows Columbo visiting London (as a result of an exchange visit arranged between the LAPD and the Metropolitan Police) and guess what it immediately sinks into clichs by having Columbo being see in front of as many of Londons famous landmarks as possible.
This episode also gives as shallow and condescending a picture of London people as is possible, constantly displaying them as a combination of upper class twits and comical cockneys, the sort of stereotypes that would appear in a music hall show.
In most episodes Lt Columbo is shown to be an articulate and intelligent police officer with the ability to collect and gather evidence to solve a criminal case. Whilst he is often shown as being dim witted and bumbling it is an act that he puts on in order to make the criminals under-estimate his ability. So then why did this episode show him continually bumbling his way thru Heathrow airport continually getting on peoples nerves and causing havoc and appearing to be a complete idiot.
The murder victim in this episode is played by John Williams and he is killed after being hit by a jar of cold cream thrown by a woman played by Honor Blackman. Oh please!!!!! No one could be killed in this manner unless they had a serious medical condition and in any case that would not be murder but accidental death or manslaughter.
Richard Basehart (an American) plays and Englishman and his accent is so dreadful that nobody could seriously believe that he could possible be English. It seriously rivals Dick Van Dykes appalling accent in Mary Poppins.
The film makers should have known that in reality a Detective Chief Superintendent is the highest ranking detective in a British police force and is basically the Head of CID. Such people do not go around chasing after criminals and only take charge of individual cases if they very high profile.
In one part of the episode Columbo and the Detective Chief Superintendent have a conversation in close vicinity to the Big Ben clock tower and carry on talking in normal voices as the bell chimes. This would be impossible as the sound of the bell is deafening and they would barely be able to hear themselves think.
Columbo is only shown to be in London for a few days yet during that time he has a tour of London, the killing occurs, the autopsy is carried out, there is the funeral and there are a series of break-ins connected with the killing. Some of these events and their organisation etc would have taken several day and even weeks.
Why on earth would the London police let Columbo get involved in one of their cases????? Scotland Yard has a history and a reputation for dealing with and solving hundreds of real life crimes for over a hundred years so I think it is highly unlikely that Lt Columbo would be able to teach them anything!!!!!
In this episode the killers break into the house of the victim on at least two occasions after the killing, once to silence the butler who is threatening to give them away and once to recover evidence. Considering that the house is a crime scene where the police may well be still around this would be very unwise, yet this never crosses the minds of the killers.
Also the killers are shown breaking into the London Wax Museum (not Madam Tussauds as the company would have been refused permission to film there). They are not professionals yet they perform this task remarkably easily. Surely such an establishment would at least have had a burglar alarm?????
In the episode Lt Columbo refers to them as curtains but the English woman played by Honor Blackman calls them drapes. Surely in real life it would be the other way around with the American calling them drapes and the English woman curtains????
The British detectives are shown off duty going to the theatre, eating fish and chips out of newspapers and then spending time in a gentlemens club. These are not the common acts of London detectives, not even in the 1970s, but they are in Hollywood movies about London detectives.
And finally the killers are caught when they are unable to explain a piece of evidence which has been planted by Lt Columbo and they immediately confess. This not only is unethical but would result in a mis-trial being declared and would result in Columbo getting into serious trouble.
Also why on earth would the two killers just suddenly break down and confess so quickly???? If they had only remained silent then they would have got away with it and would have resulted in much embarrassment and trouble for Columbo and the London police.
From the film Witchfinder General starring Vincent Price -
This film has many depictions of witches being hung when in real life witches were traditionally burnt at the stake rather than being hung.
The real Mathew Hopkins acted as the Witchfinder General when he was in his twenties -
pmiano100 — 13 years ago(January 12, 2013 11:03 PM)
Dedicated to the dumberst non-cemedy TV spy show of them all, "The Man from UNCLE":
First off, an international organization in which an American and a Russian are teamed up during the height of the Cold War was utterly ridiculous.
UNCLE's headquarters was located in a "secret" location behind a tailor shop in New York City but was staffed by hundreds of men and women. No wonder their enemies, THRUSH, knew where they were and attacked them there many times. What small tailor shop would have so many people going in and out all day?
Why use a secret headquarters at all? The location of the CIA and MI6 are well known and out in the open. Even the location of the Russian SVR is public knowledge.
What kind of background vetting of its agents did UNCLE do? THRUSH agents infiltrated it and reached high levels of security clearance over a dozen times.
Alexander Waverly was way too old to be in charge of such a huge organization. Leo G. Carroll, who played him, was 78 when the show started.
The agents of UNCLE carried Walther P38K pistols that could switch from real bullets to sleep darts. That was technologically impossible in 1964.
Were Solo and Kuryakin the only competent agents in UNCLE? All the others failed to outfight the most common thugs, fell for the dumbest ploys, and never got the drop on criminals even when they had their guns out first.
Typical of the era, nearly every unmarried woman Solo worked with was beautiful and almost all of them fell in love with him, only to be gone and forgotten by the next week. Of course, ladies man Napoleon Solo never put the moves on married women.
How a short, needle-nosed, greasy-haired, arrogant putz like Robert Vaughn could be believable as a "chick magnet" is beyond comprehension.
A schtick early in the show was to use "ordinary" people to help UNCLE. How could they possibly trust these people to be up to the job and to keep quiet later? Also, these people were often far from "ordinary."
Solo would make wiseguy remarks when anyone was killed, even innocent bystanders. What kind of hero is that?
In the first year or two of the show, it was strongly implied that some villains would return, but almost none of them did.
THRUSH was constantly rent by rivalries, competition, plots, coups, and even murders in the organization. These were the people who wanted to rule the world because they thought humanity couldn't rule itself? The Mafia had more internal discipline.
THRUSH agents and officials referred to themselves as "renegades," a very negative term. Considering their ideology, they would never call themselves that.
In one episode, it appears that THRUSH murders all its employees after they retire to keep them quiet and save on pension benefits. But soon after, Kuryakin and Soto confront a retired THRUSH agent, at least 70, who is still loyal to THRUSH. What goes on?
Another episode had Martin Landau as a mad scientist for THRUSH who acted like Bela Lugosi and wanted to use electronically controlled bats to terrorize Europe. What organization would use such an obviously demented weirdo?
In another episode, the New York Mafia tried to ruin Las Vegas for not paying them their cut by dropping a giant stink bomb on it. Not only is this totally absurd, it is killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
Mafia gangsters were usually treated as comic opera villains in the show. This is odd considering that the Italian-American Mafia was at the height of its power in the early to mid sixties.
Again typical of the era, Solo and Kuryakin were often in mythical countries in Europe, Asia, and South America that didn't exist. Why?
All those gunfights and dead bodies all over the place, and the local police never got involved? Oh come now!
What did UNCLE do with the THRUSH agents and leaders it captured alive? The show never said.
High level THRUSH leaders would often go out in the field to run their operations. This is like Al Capone going out in the streets of Chicago to personlly supervise the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. In reality, like Capone, they'd be far away.
One of the most ridiculous plots was when a minor French presidential candidate stole nuclear missiles to destroy France's vinyards, an act that would kill millions because he thought wine and champagne were evil. He demanded respect for women and would not hit one, but his plot if successful would have killed many women and children. This is over the top to say the least.
A rip-off of the James Bonds films was plots featuring multi-billionaires with their weird plots to conquer the world. One even built a phony spaceship in an attempt to make the UN believe that an invincible alien race had named him to be ruler of earth on their behalf. Oh, come now!
Finally, obscure actors like Robert Vaughn and David MacCallum should have thanked their lucky stars for their roles. Instead they were constantly complaining on talk shows and to newspapers about what garbage it was and how they were only in it for the money so they cou -
Altho73 — 13 years ago(January 19, 2013 03:08 PM)
From the 1968 movie Where Eagles Dare starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, one of the most ridiculous World War 2 movies ever made
Both Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood were in dire need of a haircut, they could never have passed off as British or American Army Officers during World War with their beatnik Sixties hairstyles and certainly NOT as Nazi officers.
Both of the female characters Mary and Heidi played by Mary Ure and Ingrid Pitt also looked completely out of place with their loose hanging, unkempt, tousled 1960s hairstyles, styles that would never have been worn and would have been considered scruffy by the fashion conscious and well groomed women of the 1940s.
Who in their right mind would even have considered sending a party of seven commandos on a mission to rescue a captured US General who was being held in an impregnable castle only accessible by means of a cable car and guarded by battalions of German soldiers in the heart of Nazi Germany.
Even worse is the fact that MI6 knew beforehand that THREE of the commandos were actually Nazi agents who would naturally be doing their utmost to ensure that the misson would fail. A party of seven commandos in which three were traitors seem to be a mugs game to me.
If this wasnt bad enough, it then gets even worse as two of the commandos are killed by the Nazi agents within the first few minutes of the film, leaving just Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood and the two girls with the three Nazi agents against them. How ridiculous can you get????
It gets even worse!!!!!! About half way thru the film we get to learn that there was no captured American General (he was in fact a US Army corporal masquerading as a General) and the whole mission to rescue him was a fake. The ACTUAL mission was to expose a number of German agents inside the British Intelligence services that they already knew about. Why on earth would anyone want to go to all that trouble when lengthy interrogations with psychological pressures could have exposed each one of them and would have been far easier.
Also in reality there is NO WAY that there would have been so many Nazi agents (the three on the mission, Colonel Turner, the lists in the notebooks etc) within the echelons of British Intelligence in 1944. Admiral Rolands statements that British Intelligence services were riddled with Nazi agents was ridiculous, Since the beginning or WW2 MI5 were totally ruthless and went to any lengths to detect, deceive and expose Nazi agents and were spectacularly successful in so doing that 90% of Nazi agents were detected and arrested within days of arriving in Britain.
Why was Mary Ures hairdresser, who was parachuted in with the rest and accompanied her from beginning to the end of the story never seen on film? (How do I know that her hairdresser was actually there? Well there had to be otherwise how on earth could Marys hair have withstood the strong winds and howling gales without ever looking windswept???
The whole operation was totally ridiculous, their capture, escape, cornering the Nazis and the spies in the interrogation room, Mary Ure getting a job in the castle, the shootouts, the booby trap bombs, the cable car fights, their escape etc, etc, etc. There is no way that all of those developments could have been planned, anticipated and successfully overcome.
When the Nazis arrest Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood as British spies they take them away in a car with a driver, an officer and only two guards and as expected their escape is childishly easy. There is no way the Nazis would have been so soft on British spies, in reality they would have handcuffed their hands behind their back, blindfolded them and thrown them into the back of a delivery truck with another truckload of armed guards following behind.
A typical machine gun fires around 500 bullets per minute and the MP40 has a magazine of 32 which would mean all the bullets would be used in approximately three seconds, yet Clint Eastwood managed to fire several bursts of up to a minute at a time without reloading.
Also the indiscriminate firing of a machine gun inside a medieval castle with thick stone walls would be very inadvisable as bullets that did not hit their target would ricochet everywhere, yet Clint Eastwood did this continuously without a single bullet ever ricocheting.
Also on several occasions Clint Eastwood stood up in the open on a stairway setting himself up as an easy target for the German soldiers, yet even though he stayed there for several minutes not one of the dozens of German soldiers managed to get anywhere near hitting him. Perhaps they had inadvertently loaded their weapons with blanks!!!!!
Also it is strange that all the grenades that the Germans used had exceptionally long fuses which enabled Burton and Eastwood to have plenty of time to move to their landing location, pick them up and throw them back at the Germans where they then exploded.
For Richard Burtons character to tell a group of -
pmiano100 — 13 years ago(February 03, 2013 10:35 AM)
From the 1978 movie Force Ten from Navarone another ridiculous WWII movie:
Continuity: When Captain Drazak arrives at the camp carrying the bodies of the bandaged men, he passes in front of the child. The child makes fun with his right hand, but in the next shot, from behind, the child uses his left hand.
Of course, everyone speaks English, even the most simple peasant.
Revealing: In one of the river flooding scenes after the dam bursts, you can see a modern day vehicle (most likely a pickup truck) for a few seconds on a highway next to the river.
Why did Weaver get on the plane with Force 10? For all he knew, the Rangers might throw him out over the Adriatic. Why didn't he just run away in the confusion? His chances of escape and survival would have been far better.
Factual error: The tanks used by the Germans are Russian; it's the T34.
Factual error: The Force 10 raiders finally manage to escape of the German ammunition depot by train. However, when the train leaves the tunnel and the men jump off the train the engine is a modern red and white electric locomotive. Only one problem: Electric trains did not exist in Yugoslavia until 10 years later.
The Chetniks were not one coherent group, as portrayed in the movie. There were in fact two opposing fractions: the first fought alongside the partisans, the others - founded by Kosta Pecanac (the featured group) cooperated with the Germans. Despite their public enmity, though, they still maintained good relations with each other, one of the facts which led to great confusion about the Chetniks among the Allies - probably the reason why they are portrayed here solely as 'bad guys'.
Of course the Partisans were Communists and no friends of the West, but this is never mentioned, except to call themselves "The People's Army.".
When Maritza shoots the German escort with her MP 40, there would have been an equal chance to hit the guys she was supposed to help; a weapon fired on full automatic would hardly miss any unintentional targets in a tight-knit group, no matter how good a shot you are. [If you watch closesly, you'll notice Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw are on their knees as they dig the hole, also Harrison Ford's character (Barnsby) rolls over onto his back and swing up at the guards with his shovel.
Both Mallory and Barnsby were way too old to be leading covert missions behind enemy lines.
When the Americans of Force 10 are killed in their plane, they are all sitting upright. This is totally unrealistic.
If Mallory recognized Lescovar immediately, as he should have, why didn't he kill him the first chance he got?
Lescovar had a number of chances to rat out the Partisans and Mallory. Why did he wait so long?
Why was Lescovar (Franco Nero), a German posing as a Yugoslav, speaking with an Italian accent?
Why were Mallory and his men so quick to completely trust Weaver? For all they knew he could have been a murderer. Even in the 40s, some black men were guilty criminals and not innocent victims of racism.
Maritza was killed by one 9mm Luger bullet in the back from Lescovar, but the good guys all believed she was killed by German aircraft strafing like the villain said. If that were true, she would have been riddled with heavy machine gun bullets, a much larger caliber making far bigger holes.
How predictable that of all the Americans in Force 10, only Weaver, Barnsby, and a sergeant played by an unknown character actor survived. Naturally the sergeant is quickly killed off. Neither of the Brits are touched.
Why did the American Rangers have to sneak into the Allied airfield and hijack their transport plane? It was totally unnecessary except as an excuse to get Weaver (Carl Weathers) into the movie.
Using Weaver was way too risky. Not only was he an accused criminal who might run out on them, as an African-American, he stood out way too much.
In the original, "The Guns of Navarone," Mallory spoke German fluently. In this film, he can't speak German at all. What's more, neither he nor Miller can speak Serbo-Croatian. What were they doing in the SOE?
Major Petrovich refuses to speak to Mallory alone because,"The People's army does not conduct military business in secret." Oh come now! The Communist countries and underground forces were the most security conscious of them all.
How could these brilliant commandos be so stupid as to be on the wrong side of the river when the dam was destroyed?
Miller said he couldn't destroy the bridge but he could destroy the dam and wash out the bridge. He gives no explanation why. If the bridge was so hard to blow up, wouldn't Barnsby have known that?
During the German assault, many Germans advance over the then-dry river bed. Why did they need the bridge at all? The Yugoslav Partisans must have had something that could knock out a tank's threads and block the bridge.
It doesn't seem that any Germans are killed when the dam is blown and the river bursts through. This is highly unlikely.
Barnsby can't seem to knock out Maritza, but -
Altho73 — 13 years ago(March 11, 2013 03:00 PM)
From the 2013 BBC TV miniseries Privates which follows a group of recruits undertaking military service basic training at an Army camp in Yorkshire in November 1960
The camp where the recruits are sent to is in Yorkshire during the month of November, a time when the weather would be very cold, damp and bleak yet in this series it is shown as being warm and sunny. In one episode the recruits are shown undressing and going into the sea and frolicking about, which they certainly would NOT have done.
The recruits are shown to be from a variety of different locations, Scotland, London and South Wales. There is no way that recruits from South Wales and London would ever have been sent to a basic training camp in Yorkshire, they would have been sent to one of the camps in the South.
One of the recruits is revealed to be from Northern Ireland!!! This would never have happened because for OBVIOUS reasons men from Northern Ireland were not inducted into the British Army for military service (not even during World War 2).
One of the recruits says that he is nineteen years old. In real life he could not have been because the intake of recruits selected for military service during 1960 would have composed of men born in the year 1939 and earlier.
Throughout the entire series the only officers and NCOs that the recruits encounter are a Captain who is the commanding officer of the camp, a sergeant and a corporal. This is far too few, in real life there would be a lieutenant, who would be their supervising officer, a sergeant major, another corporal and PT instructors as well.
Corporal Hobbs, the catering corporal is shown as running the entire catering function for the camp by himself!!!!! There is no way he could do this, in reality there would be a sergeant/cook in charge of the catering with a few corporals and a number of privates as well.
The recruits are shown wearing their dress uniforms continually during their first two weeks of basic training, on parade, during barracks inspection, carrying out their chores and even whilst out running and exercising etc. In reality they would wear PT kit for running and fatigues for everything else and would not have received their dress uniforms during the first two weeks.
One of the NCOs is shown as being unshaved and rather slovenly looking on more than one occasion, in real life basic training NCOs would always appear clean shaven, uniforms immaculate and shoes highly polished at all times to show an example to the recruits.
The recruits are frequently shown sitting around talking, smoking and singing in the barrack room and wandering around the camp by themselves. In reality they would not have had the time to do this and would be far too busy preparing for the frequent inspections and parades.
The series shows the development of a romance between Private Keenan and Connie a nurse in the camp. A qualified nurse would hardly be interested in a military service recruit and Keenan seems to be able to get to see her whenever he likes, frequently wandering in to the sick bay whilst she is at work and having secret dates with her in the evenings.
On parade the recruits are shown standing haphazardly and ridiculously with the tallest man standing right next to the shortest etc. In reality they would have been lined up in order of height with the tallest at the far left with the shortest on the far right.
In order to secure a quick release from military service two of the recruits put their names forward to stand as the Conservative candidate in an upcoming by-election and one of them is actually selected to to be the candidate!!!!! This is too ridiculous for words. Lists for candidates to stand in elections are drawn years in advance and there is no way that a major political party would select a 21 year old on military service who has only been a party member for a few days to be their candidate in an election.
As you would guess in the politically correct, left wing philosophy that controls much of the establishment in Britain today the heroes and good guys amongst the recruits are the pacifists and the left wingers.
Guess what, the villain of the piece amongst the recruits is the upper class, rich boy who always takes delight in thinking of himself as superior and frequently berates the others.
None of the Army regulars are particularly good or honourable men, the Captain is self important, selfish man who only cares for his Army career and pays little regard or interest in his wifes welfare, the sergeant is sneaky lecher who is having an affair with the captains wife behind his back and gets her pregnant, the corporal is a bullying thug who takes delight in mercilessly intimidating and hurting a member of the squad that he has taken a dislike to and the catering corporal is a lothario who in the past has got a girl pregnant and then disappeared leaving her to have a back street abortion.
In keeping with political correctness they had to bring in a character of mi -
deeveed — 13 years ago(March 12, 2013 08:48 AM)
jaysus, I didn't realize until now that I was auditing a definitely could be college course titled "Ubiquitous Cliches in Film";-)
Hey, this is what I've learned so far:
-I don't like James Bond, Never did. Never will. Don't even have one disc!
-I think I may have viewed viewed TTM when I was a real young kid..before the age of reason that is. I'm truly allergic to penicillin. I think Harry the old boy had something to do with it. I'll get to him in a moment
-The Third Man is one of the greatest films ever. I view it constantly.
-I need to buy more Graham Greene books. One of the best in exploring the netherworld of moralities.
-Alida was pretty but she can stay in pajamas
-If Quentin Tarantino asked me to volunteer to go to Vienna to take out Harry I'd do itfor nothing and I don't need a uniform or Brad with me.
Man, I don't know why I like the Thid Man so much.;-) -
pmiano100 — 13 years ago(April 02, 2013 01:03 PM)
From the ABC-TV American crime-comedy-romance, "Castle," an American show which stars two Canadians:
Why is Castle still going on cases with Kate? He's only a writer and would hardly be a consultant. The NYPD would never allow him to tag along for so long.
Castle often obtains evidence illegally for the police, explaining that the restrictions don't apply to a civilian like him. That isn't true. In the US, since he is working in cooperation with the police and acting as their agent, the evidence would be inadmissible.
Naturally, after a lot of phony sexual tension, the two are now lovers. What a surprise.
In one episode, Kate resigns and is reinstated in the next episode with no penalties. Wrong. reinstatement with the NYPD is far from easy.
The locales the two go to look nothing like the real New York City.
How come they only investigate crimes involving rich and middle class people? I'd like to see how good they'd be in inner city neighborhoods where nobody talks to the police and no one has ever heard of Castle, let alone read his books.
Castle has a pretty teenaged daughter. Where are her friends and boyfriends? When my kids were teenagers, their friends were constantly around.
Speaking of the daughter, why do we know almost nothing of her mother, or Castle's father for that matter?
If Castle's mother is still a successful working actress and acting teacher, why is she living with her son and granddaughter?
As usual, both mother and daughter treat Castle with annoying distain and disrespect and always take Kate's side. They're always biting the hand that feeds them.
Where are all the Italians, Irish, Jews, Poles, foreign-born people, and racial minorities that abound in New York City? Most of the people on this show are WASPs.
How come no one speaks with a distinctive New York City accent? Everyone speaks in accentleess English, Oh come now!
Like most police commanders on TV, Kate's commander is always making empty threats she almost never acts on.
Interesting that there are more black women detective squad commanders on TV than on the entire NYPD.
Where does Kate get the money for the expensive jewelry, makeup, and clothes we sometimes see her wearing on a police detective's salary?
Also, how can she afford to live in such a nice apartment in Manhattan? She's too young to be living in a rent controlled apartment.
Naturally Kate is drop dead gorgeous like most female police detectives on TV, but a definite minority in real life. Naturally she's single and the right age. So what does the NYPD do. Assign her to let a lecherous crime novel author known for his liaisons tag along with her for his "research."
Castle was allowed to work with Kate as a public relations ploy. But her Commander is always yelling at Castle and threatening to throw him in jail.
Where are the ADAs and defense lawyers? In real life, the first thing a rich client would do is call his or her lawyer. In this show, everyone is remarkably cooperative until Kate and Castle start getting close.
In one episode, they investigate the murder of a female IRS auditor who was moonlighting as a tax consultant to a Mafia gangster. Oh come now!
Will there ever be a murder case on this show of a married person with children under 18?
If a married woman is murdered, you can bet the husband will be the murderer. Oddly enough, this is usually the case in real life too.
How is it Kate gets DNA and other lab results so fast most of the time? There's only a delay when it's a plot device like a race against time. In real life, lenghty delays are the norm.
When you think of all the heiresses, wealthy businesswomen, woman authors, actresses, models, and other upscale beauties in New York a handsome, wealthy, famous, and smooth man like Castle would have to choose from, who can believe he'd stay for very long with a hard-bitten policewoman, no matter how beautiful she is?
In these modern times, why is the show named "Castle"? With Kate enjoying equal time and doing the shooting and arresting, shouldn't it be "Beckett & Castle"? How utterly sexist. -
Altho73 — 12 years ago(April 14, 2013 01:57 PM)
From the first series of the Danish TV thriller Forbrydelsen 2007 (known as The Killing in English, featuring Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her colourful jumpers -
The first episode starts with Sarah Lunds leaving party at the Copenhagen Police Department (she is leaving her job and moving to Sweden with her boyfriend, son and mother). So what on earth is she doing in work on Monday morning? How many people have you ever seen coming in to work for a few hours on Monday morning after having their leaving party?
She is introduced to Detective Inspector Jan Meyer, her replacement when news comes in about the abduction, rape and murder of a teenage girl. The chief of detectives persuades Lund to stay on for a few hours to nursemaid the new Inspector thru his first few hours. Why on earth would this be necessary, surely if he is good enough to be a Detective Inspector then the horrifice murder of a teenage girl should not freak him out that he requires a nursemaid!!!!
Lund was only supposed to stay on to give Inspector Meyer some guidance and advice, familiarise him with the proceedings and area yet she immediately takes charge of the case reducing Meyer to a support role much to his annoyance.
The story then gets more and more ridiculous as Lunds extra stay of a few hours becomes a day, then two days then a week and finally until the case is resolved. During this time she finds excuse after excuse to stay on the case and postpones her departure for Sweden again and again and becomes convinced that she is the only one who can solve this case.
Lund shows total contempt for her boyfriend, her son, her mother and a lot of other people by refusing to let go of this case and departing for Sweden. She causes her sons Swedish lessons to be cancelled, leaves her boyfriend to take charge of their new house alone, snubs the welcoming party that the neighbours have organised for her, fails to turn up at the house-warming party etc, etc, etc.
Finally Lund agrees to leave and join her boyfriend in Sweden and she boards a flight with her son and mother but when the aircraft is on the runway ready to take off she changes her mind, flashes her police ID at the stewardess and demands that the take- off is aborted and the aircraft returns to the terminal building. Oh please!!!!
Surprisingly enough Lund does not get into any trouble for this reckless act, which would have brought chaos to an international airport, disrupted the flight patterns, cost thousands and resulted in serious complaints and even legal action from the airport officials. Lund is not even reprimanded and is allowed back on the case!!!!!
During the arrest of a former paedophile Lund is attacked and injured with a knife which makes hole in the sleeve of her jumper . When she removes her jumper you see that the knife has also made a hole in the T shirt she wears underneath and cut her skin. Yet minutes later on the hole in the T shirt has miraculously disappeared.
In their investigation Lund and Meyer visit the murdered girls high school and immediately suspect two of the girls fellow students and close in on them despite the fact that they have practically no evidence linking them to the murder.
Both the students lie to the police despite the fact that they both have got acceptable alibis. Why would they have done that?
Lund and Meyer then move their suspicions on to one of the teachers in the school, again they have no evidence except for the fact that this teacher has been known to look at pornography. When this comes to a dead end they then move on to another teacher, the girls class teacher who is an Asian.
Despite the fact that they have virtually no evidence against this teacher Lund and Meyer arrest and question him but are then forced to release him when it is found that he has an alibi. Then they arrest him again and charge him when it is discovered that he has lied about his alibi.
Then it is found that the teacher did in fact have a genuine alibi (that he had been with an Asian girl and was protecting her from her family that wanted her to be in an arranged marriage) so they are forced to release him again. Why on earth did the teacher not tell them this the first time around instead of creating a false alibi?????
After the teacher is released the girls father and his thuggish friend abduct him, take him to an abandoned warehouse and beat him to pulp because they think he has got away with murdering the girl. Despite the fact that the girls father had threatened and abducted the teacher (but release him unharmed) after he had been initially released by the police Lund and Meyer had taken any precautions to protect the teacher after his release or kept a watch on the father.
As you can guess after the teacher has been severely beaten and the girls father is about to deliver the final blow, Lund, Meyer and a detachment of police arrive at the warehouse in the nick of time and save him from being killed.
The father is arrested and c -
pmiano100 — 12 years ago(April 20, 2013 11:34 PM)
From the Oscar-winning, "Django," a film loaded with plot holes and historical inaccuracies.
The film starts off with the caption: "1858 - Two years before the Civil War," The Civil War started in 1861, THREE years later.
The handguns are accurate for the era, but not the rifles. Some characters are shown firing Henry repeating rifles, which were not introduced until the Civil War, years later.
Some of the male characters are wearing Stetson hats. These were not introduced until nearly 50 years later.
Even a free black man wouldn't be so stupid as to walk around the South with the sneer and antagonistic attitude Django openly displays to whites. Whites could legally kill blacks just for looking at them the wrong way back then.
Dr. Schultz tells Django he has not practiced dentistry in five years. Why then is he still using his dental wagon, which he casually destroys in another ridiculous scene?
They come on to "Big Daddy's" estate under a ridiculously unbelievable ploy and kill three wanted men, then tell the owner the truth. Why not tell him the truth from the start? Surely no respected plantation owner would want three wanted murderers working for him.
Later that night, after they've left his estate, "Big Daddy" leads an inept "Night Rider" party out to get Schultz and Django. No explanation is offered as to why. The KKK didn't get started until after the Civil War. If they wanted the reward for the murderers, why didn't he just have them killed on his plantation when the two heroes had their hands up and no one would have questioned him?
It was totally stupid to kill "Big Daddy." A powerful rich man like him would have had equally powerful friends and Django and Schultz would have been hunted down for murder.
When they find out that Hildy, Django's wife, is a slave of Calvin Candie, why not simply offer him 2 or 3 times what he paid for her, at most $1,000 and leave it at that? Why the ridiculous ruse of wanting to buy a champion Mandingo fighter for $12,000? The reason given, that they needed to grab his attention, was too ridiculous for words. Hildy had no great value to Calvin.
While white slaveowners did make black Mandingo fighters fight to the death, they made them do it in fighting rings, not their drawing rooms where they could wreck furniture and get blood all over the place.
The hammer the winner uses to kill the loser in the slave fight looks suspiciously like a modern, machine-made, mass produced modern hammer.
Even if he couldn't fight anymore, Candie would not have killed D'Artagnan. He'd lose money. He would simply have him beaten and sold him off to get at least some of his money back.
Naturally Schultz, a German immigrant who speaks with no German accent at all (even thought he's portrayed by Christoph Waltz, an Austrian), is the only decent white person in the South. Oh come now!
Of course all the gunfighting scenes are ridiculous. Django never misses, and his enemies, who outnumber him by 12 to 1 at one point, never hit him.
When he runs out of bullets, another revolver is conveniently within his grasp.
What's more, he takes cover while they stand their ground, totally exposed.
Schultz is tormented by the memories of the death of the slave D'Artagnan by dogs. But the poor man wouldn't have died if Schultz hadn't let Django talk him into not compensating Candie for him.
Using the language of the era, Schultz would not have said "Alexandre Dumas is black," He would have referred to him as a "mulatto", "a black", "a quadroon,,"or "a Negro." Dumas' father was white and his mother was a biracial slave.
Rather than shake hands with the evil Candie, Schultz shoots him, even though his bodyguard is standing right there with a shotgun. That was suicidal and he knew it, and it put Django and Hildy in danger, resulting in their capture.
Candie's poor lawyer is shot at least seven times but still lives. The poor SOB has more holes than a block of Swiss cheese.
Rather than just shooting or lynching Django, obviously a dangerous man, the survivors of Candie Land (You have got to be kidding about that one) decide to sell him to a mining company so he'll be worked to death. Naturally he escapes.
Why does one of the mining company escorts wear a Confederate Army kepi when there is no Confederate Army yet?
Why does he have an Australian accent? An Australian in California in 1858 I can believe, but Mississippi?
Why are the mining company escorts so stupid as to give Django a gun when they know he's killed a lot of white men, before they've even started on their journey?
They are carrying dynamite which Django takes with him. But the year is 1858 and dynamite wasn't invented until 1867 in Europe.
Django takes a horse from the mining company wagon and rides it bareback back to the plantation to free his wife. The horse has no reins so he guides it by pulling on his mane. A trained Hollywood stunt horse will let you do that, but any other horse will dump ypu on your rear.
Another ridiculous gunfight which -
Altho73 — 12 years ago(June 05, 2013 07:04 AM)
More from the first series of the Danish TV thriller Forbrydelsen 2007 (known as The Killing in English) -
Why on earth did the politician Holke kill Olaf Christianson by running him down with a car in a hit and run? Holke was not the killer of the girl and the only information that Christianson had against him was that he was using the apartment to have sex with women, hardly a reason for putting himself beyond the pale by committing murder!!!!!
When Holke was suspected of being the killer of Christianson and the killer of the girl Lund went to his house by herself at night and then she searched inside his garage without permission and without a search warrant. Why on earth would she have been so reckless???
As you can guess for being so stupid as to go in without back up whilst searching the garage Lund is knocked out by Holke and tied up and left on the floor of the garage.
When Holke returns he opens the trunk of his car and drags the tied up Lund towards the car with the intention of putting her in the trunk and presumably taking her somewhere to kill her and dispose of the body. Again why would he do something so stupid as the disappearance of a police detective would have drawn more attention and cast more suspicion on him.
Lund manages to escape by persuading Holke (who had taken her cell phone from her after knocking her out) that she had another cell phone in the glove box of her car and had called police HQ before entering the garage and had told them where she was. Holke falls for this ruse and whilst he goes to her car to check for another cell phone she manages to cut herself free. This is so ridiculous and unbelievable.
Even though Lund has escaped from her bonds she is still in danger as Holke returns from the car and is intent on killing but as you would guess Meyer suddenly arrives in the nick of time to save her life!!!!!
Despite the fact that Lund has been officially taken off the case, has had her badge taken away and is no longer a member of the Copenhagen police force she is so obsessed with this case that she just carries on with the investigation. She is effectively committing the crime of impersonating a police officer.
Then comes one of the most ridiculous clichs of 21st century, Sarah Lund is shown sitting in her apartment on her laptop dressed in a singlet!!!!! Why on earth do present day film makers insist on showing their female characters wearing a singlet????
Lund has compromised police confidentiality by giving her boyfriend, who just happens to be a crime psychologist (very convenient) a copy of the file on the girls murder. This again is a criminal offence.
After talking to her boyfriend Lund becomes convinced that the present case, the murder of the girl is linked to a fifteen year old unsolved disappearance of another girl out in the countryside and without permission starts looking into this crime.
Lund discovers that a bag in a safe-deposit box at a station could provide important evidence that could lead to a break in the crime so she goes there to ask for it saying that she is a police officer. However the clerk refuses to let her take it until she shows her police ID (which has been taken from her because she is no longer in the police force). Lund gets hysterical and shouts and screams at the clerk but he still wont let her take the bag, so when his back is turned she grabs the bag and runs away with it therby adding theft to the list of crimes she has committed!!!!!
Lund returns to police hq and informs Meyer that she needs to search a warehouse where there is likely to be evidence of the crime. Meyer is not keen to do so at night without back up but reluctantly agrees. Why is he so stupid as to still follow the whims of Lund who is no longer in the police force.
As you can guess Meyers stupidity results in a shooting incident with an unknown criminal who was in the warehouse removing the evidence resulting in Meyer being seriously wounded and he later dies in hospital.
Internal affairs investigate the incident and charge Lund with being responsible for Meyers death and under suspicion of killing him because his last words before he died was Sarah 84.
Lund is arrested but is later released on bail because her lawyer presented a faked psychological report stating that she was suffering from depression and obsessional behaviour. Wouldnt that be more of a reason to keep her under arrest?????
Despite the fact that Lund is out of the police force and that she is charged with a crime she carries on investigating the crime and visits Meyers widow, not to sympathise about his death but to question her about anything he may have said about the incident. Highly insensitive wouldnt you think???
Afterwards Lund encounters the murdered girls fathers closest friend and he just happens to be wearing a sweat-suit that has Sarajevo 84 on the front therby giving himself away as the killer of Detective Meyer. Why would he still be wearing that sweat-suit? You would -
pmiano100 — 12 years ago(July 12, 2013 12:55 AM)
This is devoted to "Rookie Blue," a fairly decent Canadian cop show they show in the US during the summer that still has cliches and ridiculous situations.
Where are the detectives? You never see them, and the uniforms do investigations only detectives would be allowed to do.
Naturally, like almost all contemporary cop shows, the commander is black, and like all black men playing police commanders, he has a moustache.
Why are there so many female police officers in that one precinct? I doubt any police station anywhere in the US or Canada has that many female officers.
Every one of the female officers is young and drop-dead gorgeous with a beautiful figure.
Like most cop shows, there's almost always a long foot chase, but the crooks never escape and the cops are never out of breath or even breathing hard. They tackle the crooks, but their uniforms never get torn or even dirty.
I could complain that most police patrols are dull and boring but something happens to these cops every five minutes. I won't because then the show would be dull and boring.
I have never seen a female police officers wear so much makeup on duty as the women on this show.
The male officers are all young and handsome with slim, athletic builds.
The uniforms of the men and women look tailored to perfection.
The women officers do almost all the shooting, just like the US shows. They have all the fun.
The uniforms are inconsistent. On the same day, some officers wear summer uniforms and some wear fall uniforms. That doesn't happen in a real big-city police department.
Canada is 15% Italian and their police forces have a high percentage of Italian-Canadian officers, but there are none on this show.
Of course they all live in apartments no young cop could possibly afford on their salaries.
The show is in its fourth season and they're still rookies?
They spend as much time thinking about their love lives as they do about their jobs. I know Canada may have different laws, but I'm sure fraternizing on duty isn't allowed.
Officer Cruz is the typical stereotype of a Hispanic woman: pretty, fiery, and tough with a sharp tongue.
Chloe is a total ditz. She wouldn't last 8 weeks in a real city police department, let alone 8 months. Eight minutes in the same squad car with her and her partner would shoot her.
Policewoman Andy McNally is still incredibly gullible and naive after several years on the force. When does she start wising up?
These cops are all way too politically liberal and PC, even for Canadian cops.
Apparently no one in that precinct is married. They all seem to be single and on the prowl. The station is a little Peyton Place.
In one scene, a woman cop disposes of cremated human remains in a city lake because no one will claim them. Surely, there have to be some regulations to authorize that, but she apparently did it on her own.
No matter how poor the suspect or how bad the neighborhood, everywhere they go is spotlessly clean. I know Canadian cities are much cleaner than American ones, but this is way overboard.
Are there no federal offenses in Canada? You never hear the RCMP mentioned, unlike US shows where FBI agents make frequent appearances, and are usually made to look inferior to the locals.
Does any of these cops have a boyfriend or girlfriend who isn't another cop?
Two cops are looking for an armed robber who tells his victims "Life is beautiful." They question a suspect who seems clean, but then Chloe, the most distracted and immature cop in North America, looks up and points out a billboard on the top of his building with the advertisement for an insurance company that says, "Life is beautiful." Oh come now!
McNally has been trying to arouse the romantic interest of a male cop for months without success. Then, as she gets off duty McNally sees he has a girlfriend. It's her partner, Cruz. You mean in all that time she never knew? She's almost as bad as Chloe.
I will say one good thing about this program. At least there isn't a murder every week like on most cop shows.