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where: EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when: Friday, September 10th, 2010
show: 12:01 a.m. I-Max 3-D
costs: $17.50 Ticket + $6.00 small Popcorn w/ Butter + $0.00 small Zero Coke ( free on movie watcher reward card ) = $23.50
auditorium: 12, with the I-Max screen
seat: 5th row, 5th seat
2nd time:
where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Saturday, September 11th, 2010
show: 7:45 p.m. 3-D
costs: $13.25 Ticket + $5.00 Kid's Pack = $18.25
auditorium: 7, with the 3-D screen
seat: 5th row, 9th column
synopsis: Alice ( Milla Jovovich ) and a small band of survivors go in search of Arcadia, not knowing what lays in store for them.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) The first victim; 2.) Snipers; 3.) Intruders; 4.) Turbulence; 5.) Injection; 6.) Landing field; 7.) Satellite-tracked; 8.) Rooftop landing; 9.) Resident superstar; 10.) Arcadia; 11.) Underground; 12.) Prisoner; 13.) Hobby; 14.) The axeman cometh; 15.) Reunion; 16.) At the gate; 17.) Armory; 18.) Rooftop shoot-out; 19.) The shower fight; 20.) Boat; 21.) Trap; 22.) Survivors; 23.) Blood trail; 24.) Laboratory; 25.) Purge; 26.) "I didn't want you to miss that"; 27.) Drainage tunnel; 28.) We live up to the promise; 29.) Here comes trouble; and 30.) Bonus scene and a voice-over during the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: Some people in the audience gave it an "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: Not recommended for horndogs since there's no nudity in this sequel--not even so much as T-shirt "perkies".
spoiler alert! There was no way that the first victim would have been able to spit out blood since he was bitten in either his carotid artery or his jugular vein ( at the side of the neck ), not in his trachea ( windpipe ). I am not one who's inclined to believe that a visible target out in the open can dodge bullets spitting out of many fully-automatic rifles. No one fired at the "twins" when they rolled the grenades on the floor--the bads guys should have had a clear shot at both of them. When the "twins" jumped through the window, the angle of their shots got progressively off-target! Who was the idiot who did the CGI for this particular scene? I want his job! Why didn't they shoot at the helicopter's intakes or at its missile pods? Alice reverted back to her normal human self just before the helicopter crashed into the mountain, so how was she able to survive and walk away from it? This sequel is set 18 months after the events of the last one when available, uncontaminated water was no longer a daily luxury. But, even then, Alice still managed to keep herself looking fresh and pretty. Heck, you should see me after just two days of not washing my hair; I'm talking super-greasy hair here. And where did she keep her stash of toiletries and cosmetics--and why did she have to have make-up on in the first place? After all, the undead were not out to woo her in any way. There is no way in the world that even the strongest man can hold onto a cable that's used to slow down and stop a plane. The undead could easily dig through many feet of dirt and solid concrete and cut and bend rebars out of the way but they couldn't do the same thing to the perimeter wall and gate. And where did all that dug-up dirt go? I don't know where the undead piled-up all that dirt. Why did the undead still have fresh red blood in them? When Alice jumped-off the rooftop while holding onto some cable, her trajectory should have been lessened enough so that the undead who tumbled-off the roof after her should have rained down on top of her. When Alice made a run for the entrance, the undead just stayed to either side of her path instead of crowding her in--my, how courteous of them all. With all those thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the undead massed around their potential "pieces of morsel", you would think that they'd fight each other to get at the scarce and tasty bits of fresh human flesh. Why didn't they just cannibalize each other? All that super-fast footwork should have generated a lot of squealing noise, smoke and scuff marks on the floor--kinda like burnin' rubber. But they forgot that part or thought that Cine-Man would not call them out on it. Well, I just did! Hire my services already, will you, Hollywood? So I can plug-up the logic-holes in your movies. How did Alice keep at least $12.00 worth of quarters from dropping out of the barrel of each sawed-off shotgun? The bad guy said that if he ingested her, he would gain control of his body. I don't think so. I guess he forgot that he runs a laboratory where they do transfusions, cell cloning and bio-engineering, any one of which will give him the desired effect that no amount of "ingesting" can. But maybe he was just talking about plain ol' oral sex. Hmm .... Her sawed-off shotguns sure don't have a lot of kick to them! There is no way that you can have a bunch of scalpels stick to an object simply by kicking a tray-full of them clear across the room. Okay, so you're inside a bullet-proof cylinder ... the last thing that you want to do is shoot at its concaved surface because your bullets will have to ricochet somehow. 'Know what I mean? How did they figure out which helicopter the bad guy would use for his quick get-away? Even with all that CGI going for this movie, two or three extras on the ship still managed to point in the wrong direction. I mean, come on now, there were at least two dozen helicopters approaching the ship and making all that loud noise but they still pointed in the wrong direction--maybe they don't know their left from their right, or maybe they saw a cute bird flying across the sky ( awww ... how sweet ). It could also possibly be that when the on-set photographer told everyone to "Look at the birdie," they took that in its literal sense. And as for the rest of the crowd gathered above-deck, they all just stood there casually mingling about when they should have been acting alarmed and looking in one particular direction in the sky where a fast-approaching aerial spectacle was making a bee-line for their ship.
fyi: I collect quarters, too. I have lots ( I'm not telling any of you how many I've got ) of Bi-Centennial, State Commemorative and Territorial quarters. I'm still waiting to come across the circulated "America, The Beautiful" series.
word of advice: Don't look a ( strange ) stranger in the eye.
tidbits: About thirty people stayed all the way through the end of the Ending Credits of this movie. And one girl said that she wanted to see it all over again.
After the movie, I went to the men's room to empty my bladder. An older man had preceded me and was already at a toilet stall relieving himself as I walked to one of the urinals. After I was done, I noticed that the man was still at it. It took him about a minute-and-a-half to two minutes to empty his bladder. But that's nothing compared to my record of five ( yes, 5! ) minutes to completely empty my bladder after watching the movie, BATMAN AND ROBIN, back when it came out in 1997.
In case you've all forgotten, BATMAN AND ROBIN is the movie in which the dynamic duo's suits had built-in nipples but for some mysterious reason Batgirl's suit didn't have any nipples at all--this practical joke was quite a disservice to all the horndogs out there back then!
2nd tidbits: One of the concessions clerk asked me which movie I came to see. I told him that I came to see RESIDENT EVIL, and that I already saw it in I-Max 3-D for its midnight showing. He asked me what I thought about the movie. I told him that there were many things wrong with it and that I'm seeing it again just to double-check on my findings. Then, I gave him one of my Cine-Man movie reviewer cards.
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