where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Sunday, December 6th, 2009
show: 4:45 p.m.
costs: $9.50 Ticket + $8.65 Wendy's Baconator Double Deluxe burger w/ fries plus a Side Salad w/ Ranch Dressing ( before the show ) + $3.75 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $21.90
auditorium: 14
seat: 5th row, 8ht column
synopsis: A decorated Iraq war hero, Ty ( Columbus Short ), is having a hard time paying his mortgage and so reluctantly decides to participate in committing the "victimless perfect crime," an armored truck heist, which goes awry when a stranger witnesses the crime in progress.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Carting off the bank's money; 2.) Initiation; 3.) Swapping stories; 4.) Graffiti artist, Jimmy ( ? ); 5.) Donation fund; 6.) Hot dog stand; 7.) The plan; 8.) Child Welfare worker; 9.) The promise; 10.) The bum; 11.) The truck chase; 12.) The Sheriff's Deputy ( ? ); 13.) Hinge pin; 14.) The fetch; 15.) Dobbs and Palmer ( Skeet Ulrich and Amaury Nolasco ); 16.) Windows plastered with bills; 17.) Walkie talkie; 18.) Booby trap; 19.) The crash; and 20.) The hospital.
audience reaction: Everybody paid quiet attention to the movie.
recommendation: I liked this movie. Go see it.
spoiler alert! This is a linear film, pretty straightforward with no flashbacks or asides, that deprives the audience the chance to "get into the head" of Ty and see what makes him tick the way he eventually does. Does it have to do with his upbringing or his war experience? We simply don't know. I've never seen armored truck personnel walk around with gun in hand in real life. A forty-two million dollar transport without escorts? Come on! The call-ins to headquarters were spaced too far apart. The vendor made hot dogs too quickly. Jimmy's head was covered loosely with a money bag yet his hands were not tied-up. But I guess Jimmy was too "high" on paint fumes to have the presence of mind to pull the bag off!
fyi: Federal Reserve Notes are fiat money or "funny money." No matter what denomination it is, it costs the Federal Reserve the same amount of money to print it: three whole measly cents per bill! If you don't believe me, go to your local coin dealer and try trading your one dollar bill for one of the dealer's one dollar gold coin. He'll laugh you out of his shop if not call the cops on you first! The only one dollar bill that could be evenly exchanged for a one dollar gold coin within the last half century is the ( Gold Standard ) Kennedy dollar bill which says United States Note on it. But good luck trying to find one of these Kennedy dollars because Lyndon Johnson had them all confiscated and destroyed, supposedly. The Federal Reserve is not a governmental agency but a private corporation headquartered in New York and owned by a bank conglomerate run exclusively by the Rockefellers ( and you thought that Bill Gates was the richest American in the world ). The Federal Reserve Act was voted on and made into law in 1913 by a few lawmakers while the rest of Congress recessed for the Holidays! In other words, it was illegally passed! The Federal Reserve was designed to centralize the US banking system. Its first Federal Reserve Board's Head of Governors was Paul Warburg, whose brother, Max, was at the same time the Head of the German Central Bank! Coincidence? I think not! ( This information is mostly based on the book, THE DELICATE BALANCE by John Zajac, 1990. )
Here is an example of the extreme exchange rate disparity between One Troy Ounce of Gold and the Federal Reserve Note Dollar bill: If the current value of Gold is $900.00, you would need to exchange it with ( in one dollar denomination since it's just worth three cents each to print ) $30,000.00 in a fair and equitable transaction! If the US were to ever go back to the Gold Standard, all the fiat monies in the whole wide world would be worthless. Only Gold, Silver and Diamond Standard monies would stand with full value intact, the rest would be nothing but fancy-looking "play money"!
word of advice: Crime doesn't pay.
Those who make outward displays of their religious affiliations are usually just a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites!
If you want to be filthy, stinking rich, marry a Rockefeller--and throw me a 10% commission on your new-found liquid wealth for my invaluable advice. Heck, I might even be willing to have you talk me down to 5%!
Conspiracy Theories, at the very least, make for very interesting reading!
tidbits: I arrived at the cinema at 4:00 p.m. after eating at Wendy's Restaurant across the street first, thinking that the movie was scheduled to start at 4:10. But I was wrong; it was scheduled for 4:45 p.m. I went and bought a ticket anyway--because it was cold outside. When I stepped in, a co-worker of mine here in Benicia, Justin, was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend, waiting for the BROTHERS movie to start.
