where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
show: 2:30 p.m.
costs: $7.25 Ticket + $3.75 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke + $4.00 junior Popcorn = $15.00
auditorium: 2
seat: 6th row, 6th column
synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, a barren earth is the evidence of the war between man and machine fought to a Pyrrhic end: The humans succeeded in neutralizing the machines but at the cost of not only the whole of humanity but also of all living, breathing thing. As most of the machines lay rusting and losing power, a few are dispatched across the wasteland to look for the transmutata vitae ( life-energy transfer generator ) that is needed to restore power to the machine-making machine. The very same generator that a scientist infused his rag-doll robotic creations with and entrusted in the sole care of his very last creation, 9.
Soon after 9 comes to life, he is reunited with the other eight and convinces them that they cannot hide anymore but must go on the offensive and destroy the machines once and for all if they are to survive and carry on the legacy of their creator.
noteworthy scenes: It is now almost 1:00 a.m. Thursday. I shall finish the rest when I wake up later on today.
audience reaction: The audience liked this movie.
recommendation: Although this is an animation film, it may be dark and scary for little ones.
spoiler alert! None of the corpses was undergoing the process of putrefaction. Most of the rag-doll robots have metal hands and fingers and should therefore not be able to get a solid grip on any object, including their weapons of choice. The time setting for the movie is indeterminate: There are hand-cranked phonographs from the early 1900s, propeller planes, futuristic giant bi-pedal war machines, rocket-propelled poison gas bombs, a reference to 1939 ( i.e. Wizard of Oz song ), World War Two-type newsreels, and even button-type batteries. How will they be able to carry on their creator's legacy when there's no one left--no humans, no animals--in the world and they cannot procreate and they don't have alternate sources of energy and their "skin" made of fabric will become irreplaceably worn-out and their metal parts become rusted and their wiring becomes brittle--remember what I said earlier about their hands and fingers?
fyi: Thomas Edison thought of his phonograph more as a dictation machine than as a music player. Edison was a supporter of Nazism.
word of advice: "This world is ours .... It's what we make of it." 9
tidbits: Before the show, I swung by Postal Annex to drop-off some mail and to check on my box. The meditation CDs package had arrived! I can't wait to try them out and see if my hunch is correct.
A female customer walks up to a male clerk in the Health and Beauty aisle of a store and asks: "Do you have cotton balls?"
"Lady, do I look like a rag-doll?" answers the clerk.
