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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Once More Unto the Breach (1998)
LOVE the episode, but....
As a few people have mentioned, the long range tachyon scanner isn't used again, and hasn't been used since the early Gamma Quadrant mission to find the Founders, except maybe when Tom Riker had the Defiant (remember he cloaked in Alpha Quadrant, breaking the Federation Treaty with Romulans and Dukat & Sisko use some variation of what the Jem'Hadar used to find him once Kira blew the power conduit out).
But other than the tachyon scanner issue.... Why didn't they just call Siski & the Federation squadron and say, "Hey dudes, bringing heat quicker than thought. Need to rally sooner than expected, like now. No mention was made of the comms being out so they actually **couldn't** call ahead, so it seems that the death of Kor here, although a way to sign off Collicos, for the character, for the series, and for his career - though it may have not seemed that way at the time - is a little contrived.
With those marks against it, I still love the episode and it was an absolute killer way to send off Kor & Collicos.
Gomorrah (2014)
SUCH a good Mafia series.
To me what REALLY sets it apart from many other series - is RIGHT away you learn how despicable everyone is, at least with the main characters.
Anyone you might begin to see in ANY sympathetic light quickly fades. Yes there are a few cases of their environments making them who we see them become (namely in the case of Genny), but even that doesn't hold water.
(Minor S01 spoilers ahead)
His parents forced him into his life, but he IS an adult. If he really didn't find the taste for the life, even after his father sent him on his first hit, he could have gotten out. He didn't - he stayed, and his soulless mother sent him to Honduras well knowing they were never sending payment for the drugs they were contracting on. In the end Genny had to hack a man to death with a machete.
Great series. I love rewatching it.
Star Trek: Voyager: Thirty Days (1998)
One of my favorite Voyager episodes.
Much like Tom Paris - I was always fascinated with exploration as a kid. Air, sea, space you name it, I loved it. Seeing the Delta Flyer turn into a submarine for this episode and the Monean's whole under sea civilization reminded me of Sea Quest (another 90s show I loved; until they jumped the shark).
This is one of my favorite episodes of Voyager that I missed during its first-run. When I found it when I watched the show for the first time since it's first run about 10 years ago - I couldn't believe it I had missed it.
If you have an interest in the oceanic exploration, Jules Verne, Robert Ballard (guy who found the Titanic), or anything of that nature (you've obviously gotta be a Trekkie too), you'll love this episode.
Tchüss!
Patriot (2015)
Dark deadpan comedy/drama - reminiscent of Fargo
I can't say enough about this show. I stumbled across it on Amazon Prime last summer (2017) and figured, "What the hell?". I love espionage shows (namely The Americans), but I saw the comedy tag with it and was a little weary. Especially since it came out in 2015 and there was only 1 season. However, less than 5 minutes into it (when John bombs the interview and has to introduce someone to a vehicular manslaughter indictment) I was concerned no more.
The comedy in this movie is delivered with deadpan delivery much like many of the things I laughed at in Fargo (the movie) that not a lot of other people found as hysterical. Maybe it's just me and my sick and twisted mind, but it strikes home. His songs he does on open mic nights at coffee shops left my sides hurting so bad from laughing.
But enough about how sick and twisted the humor is: The plot is about a horribly depressed (about his work) CIA officer that has to assume a NOC (non-official cover) role in a pipe fitting firm based out of Milwaukee, WI so he will be able to infiltrate the Iranian regime and assist in disrupting their nuclear program. He NEEDS to get the job as this is the only firm that does work in Luxembourg (where Iran stores their money). John needs to get this job so badly (despite being COMPLETELY ignorant of the work the company does) he has to resort to efforts that a normal person would find stomach churning (mentioned above).
Once he gets the job and goes to Europe his father (essentially his boss in The Agency) ends up roping his brother (a US Congressman) to assist John in his work once over in Luxembourg. As hijinks, plans, and pretty much everything conceivable go awry John ends up needing to rope another totally unfit (for the Agency work) co-worker into his plans in evading a homicide investigation once over in Luxembourg.
Can't recommend the series enough. I'm totally stoked it's going to have a season 2 here in 2018. Another good show is desperately needed to give the world a good laugh and take our collective minds off the rest of the outside world.
I try not be prone to hyperbole, but this show is absolutely fantastic. 10/10
District 9 (2009)
Absolutely terrible..... "F*ck" was said too many times
And this is coming from a person who uses it at least a hundred times in a given day.
You've by now read all the other reviews, so, by the time you hit this one: bad acting, obvious under-tones of South African 'concentration' camps.
Jesus, I would go on, but I'm in too much pain after watching that horrendous waste of money, time and film. Had I not paid $6 for a child's ticket, I would have asked for my money back.
More plot holes than... Well, I can't think of anything, this one sets a new record for the most plot holes, I'm sure. And for that matter, the most times the word 'f*ck' is used (even more than Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, and Running Scared).
Just f*cking avoid this at all costs. I really hope Peter Jackson comes out and says that he was kidnapped and threatened with the slow death of his family if he didn't push forward this horrendous pile of trash.