where: BRENDEN CONCORD 14 in Concord, CA
when: Friday, January 22nd, 2010
show: 4:00 p.m.
costs: $7.25 Ticket + $4.25 small Diet Pepsi + $?.?? Buffet Lunch at J.J. North's ( + $1.00 tip ) =
auditorium: 1
seat: 7th row, 12th column
synopsis: Diner-geddon!
When Humanity loses faith in God, He sends His legion of angels to exterminate everyone here on Earth. But a few people trapped in a desert diner , Paradise Falls, fight back for survival in this arma-geddon, aided by the Archangel Michael ( Paul Bettany ).
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Psalm 34:11; 2.) December 23rd; 3.) The "front"; 4.) Diner; 5.) Old lady; 6.) Plague of flies; 7.) Firearms; 8.) Ice cream man; 9.) Evil convoy; 10.) Start talking; 11.) Start getting square; 12.) Reason for faith; 13.) Sacrificial lure; 14.) Your fault; 15.) Flame thrower; 16.) Chucky-wannabe toddler; 17.) Baby; 18.) Future's unwritten; 19.) Standstill crowd; 20.) The archangels; 21.) Out of business; 22.) Flare gun; 23.) Crash; 24.) Cliff; 25.) No mercy; and 26.) Driving off.
audience reaction: Lukewarm, at best.
recommendation: This should have been a "straight to video" movie. I know that there are those of you who would say that it is just a movie. But anyone with a knowledge of the Bible would be very disappointed by this "Operation Disinformation" put forth by Hollywood--or treat it like the comedy of errors that it is! This is strictly a rental.
spoiler alert! There is no such thing as an angel, especially an Archangel, sporting tattoos all over its body! All the servants of God, both Humans and Angels, are sealed on their forehead ( i.e., kept safe from Evil influence ) just as the followers of the Beast are sealed on their forehead ( i.e., kept away from Salvation ) and branded on their right hand ( i.e., powerless to resist Evil ). One angel can easily kill at least 185,000 heavily-armed soldiers ( 2nd Kings 19:35 ). Or God can just make them go blind ( 2nd Kings 6:18 ) so they can't fight against His Heavenly Host. Shouldn't the quoted verse instead be Psalm 34:16? Why does the Archangel Michael use a knife and an assault rifle against another immortal? ( Quick! somebody, go fetch his Flaming Sword. ) For someone who has been through the "Pearly Gates", Archangel Michael sure ain't got no "Pearly Whites"! Why do the angels have black wings and are dressed in black? Angels are beings of pure white light; anybody who has been meditating for many years and has had encounters with such entities will vouchsafe for my statement. If humans want to pick a fight with angels, they should pick on the Seraphim because they always cover their eyes and are, thus, easy targets! ( Yeah, right .... ) According to the Bible, an angel or some other spirit will appear when a person bleeds ( the reason for flagellation and human sacrifice ), so it would have been easy for the other angels to find out exactly where Michael was. I wanted to watch him finish doing the stitches on his back in that impossible-to-touch-by-one's-self area--of course, they didn't show it! Dogs would not bark at an angel. The cop driving the patrol car wasn't paying attention to the road. Demons ( the Bible calls them "lying spirits" ), not angels, willfully possess human bodies. Super-rapid head-shaking will, at the very least, make the person pass-out and, at the very most, rupture the person's brain! The blood dripping from the ceiling is not explained. Angels can easily discern a person's motives, i.e. they can read minds. Angels can move faster than a speeding bullet or freeze/reverse time itself. According to one tradition, the Archangel Gabriel is "female", jovial, and is the one seated at the left side of God. So, the wings are bullet-proof but they can be easily sliced-off with a knife--Okay .... What's up with the mace with a spinning head? If the future of humanity rests upon the shoulders of some gutter-mouthed fornicatress/trailer trash's bastard infant--born on Christmas Day, of all things-- such a future is quite dim, indeed! ( Now would be a good time to re-acquaint yourself with the movie's premise. ) If you hold an infant in your arms as the car that you're riding in is going over 100 mph then hits something that makes it flip over, first, your shoulders would possibly get dislocated and, second, that unsecured infant would turn into a nine-pound projectile that would smack everybody in the head and/or face!
fyi: God commanded the Israelites not to cut their flesh or put marks on their skin ( Leviticus 19:28 ) or shave their foreheads ( Deuteronomy 14:1 ) because these were what the pagan people all around them did to mourn their dead. The Israelites were supposed to make themselves holy unto their Lord, meaning: They were not to practice what the unbelievers practiced, which pretty much summed-up the TEN COMMANDMENTS!!! The human body is a temple of God ( 1st Corinthians 6:19-20 ); in as much as you don't vandalize and put graffiti on a holy temple ( unless you're suicidal and don't mind being beaten to death by an angry mob ) likewise, you should not vandalize ( flagellate, slash or put body piercings in ), or put graffiti ( tattoos ) on, or dump garbage ( drugs and junk food ) in the body temple dedicated as a Shekhinah of God's Glory--I'd better stop pigging-out at buffets. ( And in case you're wondering .... nope, I don't have tattoos and body piercings; and I don't smoke, drink or do drugs, either. )
The Christian Angelic Hierarchy has nine types of angels grouped together into three spheres. Here they are in descending stages:
FIRST SPHERE: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones ( closest to God )
SECOND SPHERE: Dominions, Virtues, Powers ( spread through-out God's Kingdom )
THIRD SPHERE: Principalities, Archangels, Angels ( closest to mankind )
Understand that they all possess the same level of capabilities, i.e. an angel is as powerful as a seraph, they are just assigned specific tasks by God.
In the Book of Enoch, the Seraphim are called Drakones ( the serpents ), of which Lucifer was the leader before he fell from Heaven. Not all serpent spirits are evil. They are worshipped in parts of at least five continents as bestowers of wisdom, healing, secret knowledge, immortality and magical powers ( Doesn't this sound like the Temptation in the Garden of Eden ?). They inhabit the waters. Understand, too, that "waters" is symbolic of humanity, since our bodies are mostly composed of H2O. So, the serpent is within us all. Any Hindu or Buddhist will tell you that a "cobra-like" snake called the Kundalini resides within each and every one of us, coiled-up at the base of our spine, waiting to uncoil and rise up through our spine and exit at the top of our head. One of four things can happen when this serpent uncoils and rises up: a person becomes sex-crazed, goes mad, dies, or becomes enlightened--be smart and choose enlightenment!
word of advice: Be smart and choose enlightenment!
If you haven't done so, please read one of my posts for last month, entitled: What Christmas?
tidbits: I had planned on going to the Thursday midnight show for this movie in Fairfield, CA. But I was preoccupied with the preliminary research and study that I did for this movie and consequently lost track of time. I'm glad that I didn't go to the midnight show because this movie proved to be not worth losing my sleep over!
I decided to see this movie in Concord, CA because I remembered that there is a J.J. North's Buffet Restaurant close to the theatre. And I haven't been to this particular one in many years! An elderly white foursome was seated at the table to the left of mine. And, throughout the meal, they were talking about the possible origin of the word, "Gringo," ( to the point of even asking an Hispanic waitress about its true meaning, making her nervous ) and gossiping about acquaintances and relatives who were homosexuals and lesbians or who were suspected of being such. What an interesting serendipitous lunch that turned out to be.
