where: AMC BAY STREET 16 in Emeryville, CA
when: Monday, August 23rd, 2010
show: 9:10 p.m.
costs: $11:00 Ticket + $6.00 Nachos w/ Cheese ( w/ a Dollar-off coupon ) + $4.25 small Zero Coke + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $26.25
auditorium: 3
seat: 4th row, 7th column
synopsis: At an "insemination" party for Kassie ( Jennifer Aniston ), a drunken Wally ( Jason Bateman ) does the unthinkable while in the bathroom. After seven years, memory of that fateful event comes back to him piece by piece and he must decide whether or not to tell Kassie the truth.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Weird man at the intersection; 2.) "What's wrong with my sperm"; 3.) Friend zone; 4.) Time-out; 5.) "This is how you burn fat"; 6.) Party invitation; 7.) Turkey baster; 8.) Prized hog, Roland ( Patrick Wilson ); 9.) Toast; 10.) Bathroom; 11.) Pregnant; 12.) Dinner date; 13.) 'Phone call; 14.) Restaurant; 15.) "Seed" guy; 16.) Cafe; 17.) Aquarium; 18.) Crazy people; 19.) Bus; 20.) Photo album; 21.) Viking's ingredients; 22.) Channel surfing; 23.) Precocious Sebastian's ( Thomas Robinson ) birthday party; 24.) Neebish Island, Upper Peninsula, Michigan; 25.) Curve ball; 26.) "Use my name as a verb"; 27.) Pictures; 28.) Kitchen; 29.) "Hi-jacked your pregnancy"; 30.) "Did the right thing"; 31.) "I've thought about it"; and 32.) Birthday party for a cause.
audience reaction: The audience, both men and women, enjoyed this movie.
recommendation: I liked this movie, too. This might make for a good "date" movie.
spoiler alert! What was that container of sperm doing in a place where any guy could just walk in and "contaminate" it? Was the container set on top of a potpourri/coffee mug warmer? If so, why ...? Wally should have been too much under the influence of drug and alcohol to be able to "perform".
fyi: Contrary to what a reviewer says, there are actually "insemination" parties going on. I first heard about it, many years ago, being done in San, Francisco, California, in the gay and lesbian communities: A lesbian couple would approach a gay guy friend and ask him to be the sperm donor--and, Yes! they use the "turkey baster" method. ( 'Sure makes for an interesting subject of conversation around the dinner table come Thanksgiving! ) I can just envision the "products" of such "couplings" walking around with a Tee-shirt that says, "My dad is a turkey baster." L. O. L.
Eating just plain rice with soy sauce, and nothing else, is done all the time in parts of Asia. I even know of this Chavacano ( Philippine Creole Spanish ) kid back in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines, who would eat rice with soy sauce, but he'd add brown sugar to the mix, too.
Why do people here in the United States get so worked-up over head lice for? It is just a part of everyday life in tropical Asia. Heck, I had head lice when I was a kid--everyone I know did! But I took someone's advice and washed and shampooed my hair every day and that was the end of that.
In parts of the Philippines, you'd see women and children sitting on the staircase and combing lice eggs out of each other's hair and squashing lice with their thumbnails. Yuck! It is this particular type of scene which prompted the late US President Woodrow Wilson into making the comment that Filipinos were just a bunch of monkeys. He said this when he found out that his favorite niece was in love with an handsome Filipino actor ( 'don't know who--me, perhaps, in another life ).
The word, Cootie ( meaning, head and/or body louse ), comes from the Malay word, Kudu. In the Philippines, it is known as, Kuto.
I would have blogged about this movie two days ago, but blogspot.com was not working right. So, I couldn't do any blogging, 'much as I wanted to. Now, I'm back-logged!
word of advice: Play it safe and get it from someone you know and trust--No! I don't mean, Cooties; I mean, sperm. Ha, ha, ha.
tidbits: I was at my friend's, Hector, place in Oakland, California, earlier in the day to show him some conspiracy theory videos on YouTube. And he showed me a video of a Brazilian baby boy, in diapers, doing the Samba on top of a table--that baby can dance better than I can! L.O.L.
Later on, we watched the CENTURION on movie2k.com. It will show in movie theatres as a limited release this Friday, August 27th. We used the stream2k upload to watch it, and it didn't buffer even once. It's a good "slice and dice" movie with lots of blood-red, graphic slicing and dicing going on. I will have to watch it again because I wasn't really paying much attention to it and because I didn't have a notepad with me at the time. ( Ah ... the life of an internet movie reviewer. )
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