where: UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA
when: Friday, October 15th, 2010
show: 9:45 p.m.
costs: $10.75 Ticket + $5.75 Zap Pack + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $21.50
auditorium: 7
seat: 4th row, 12th column
synopsis: Geezer Force on a road trip.
Four r.e.d. ( retired, extremely dangerous ) agents find themselves back in action because of an old covert operation in Guatemala. But, this time around, they are the targets for execution to cover-up a dirty conspiracy.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Christmas lawn decorations; 2.) Romance novel; 3.) Intruders; 4.) Finally meeting each other; 5.) Hanged man; 6.) "That's just perfect"; 7.) Fingers; 8.) Pieced together check; 9.) "They can still shoot you"; 10.) Active 911 call; 11.) "I am high"; 12.) Cop car crash; 13.) "I was hoping you'd have hair"; 14.) Retirement home hit man; 15.) Victim's mom; 16.) "You speak Chinese"; 17.) "I didn't know this place existed"; 18.) Retired, extremely dangerous; 19.) Eliminator; 20.) "All we need is a banjo"; 21.) Decoy; 22.) The list; 23.) "I'm getting the pig"; 24.) The frightened female stranger; 25.) "Open the pig"; 26.) "Old man, my ass"; 27.) "You really know how to show a girl a good time"; 28.) Inside the Russian Embassy; 29.) Elevator; 30.) Guatemala file; 31.) "Change of plans"; 32.) Ambulance; 33.) "You just got your ass handed to you by a retiree"; 34.) "I take the old contract on the side"; 35.) Old gang back together; 36.) "If you break his heart, I will kill you"; 37.) Non-sanctioned relationship; 38.) "You can't touch me"; 39.) Surrounded; 40.) Bullet scars; 41.) The raid; 42.) The file; 43.) "He's gonna eat you for lunch"; 44.) "Plug me into their detail"; 45.) Storage unit; 46.) "Blink of an eye"; 47.) "I smell gas"; 48.) Fooled; 49.) "I could be of assistance"; 50.) Suicide bomber; 51.) "Pull over"; 52.) "I'm one of the men you ordered killed"; 53.) "Surprised to see me"; 54.) "Wanna get pancakes"; 55.) "Little favor"; and 56.) "Moldova sucks!"
favorite scene: I liked how Frank Moses ( Bruce Willis ) stepped out of a spinning patrol car with his gun at the ready.
audience reaction: The audience enjoyed this movie.
recommendation: I enjoyed this movie, too. Go see it if you're into Action/Comedy films.
spoiler alert! All of that automatic weapons fire and explosions yet none of the neighbors called 911? Okay, so out in broad daylight, a man drove a car--not a taxicab--with his lone passenger seated in the backseat and with her mouth duct-taped, and nobody notices ...? That hanged man will show missing hair around his wrists as well as adhesive residue, so forensics will know that it was a case of foul play, not suicide. The killer didn't plant the hairs in a sterile way to keep it from being contaminated with his own body's sloughed-off cells--he should have covered himself from head to toe. What retirement home in these days of HD television broadcasts still uses an indoor TV antenna from the 60s or 70s? How were they able to get their weapons past the airport security? Why didn't any air traffic controller in the control tower notice anything suspicious about the helicopter hovering in place above the tarmac? William Cooper's ( Karl Urban ) wife, Michelle ( Michelle Nolden ), didn't look too terrified even though their house was being raided by cops with guns drawn--I, on the other hand, would have cr-pped in my pants or fainted or gotten a heart attack or stroke or all of the above ... you know what I mean. In the parking garage scene, none of the dozens ( hundreds? ) of bullets fired, ricocheted. The Ending Scene seems to suggest that there won't be a Part Two since it puts a "The End" stamp to the end.
fyi: My late mother was a casual friend of Ernest Borgnine's first cousin's wife.
Once again, here's another movie wherein only the black guy gets killed off! Enough already. Come on!
A couple of newspaper movie reviewers got their facts wrong. Not all of the field agent retirees were from the CIA: One of them was from the MI6 and another one was from the KGB. Victoria ( Helen Mirren ) didn't mow "... down a garage-full of government goons," she just pinned them down. It was not "a pink stuffed bunny" but a pig--you'd think that it would be no problem at all for anyone to tell the difference between a bunny and a pig; after all, even Bugs Bunny doesn't look anything like Porky Pig!
word of advice: "Silence is golden but duct tape is silver." Title of a song by Against All Authority ( It's on YouTube )
tidbits: I went to Oakland earlier in the day to drop-off the juicing book at Hector's place. It will be interesting to see how much of his pot-belly he'll lose on his juice fast. I told him, If you want to be skinny, eat at Chinese buffets everyday just like those Chinese waiters and waitresses who are all skinny.
Hector made spaghetti for lunch. And I cooked a cheeseburger pasta dinner. Pasta and margarine-slathered bread .... What a way to start his diet! Just call me, Mr. Sabotage--Shh ... don't tell him.
Well, according to today's Oakland Tribune newspaper's front page news, Hector lives in a very high crime rate area in Oakland were they have the most concentration of gangs. My family used to live in the same neighborhood years ago, less than a mile away from his place. But it has changed considerably and dramatically since then. I wouldn't feel safe walking around my former street at night, nowadays.
The other reason why I went to Hector's place was because my computer has been acting-up ever since I installed the latest Norton Anti-Virus software: If I'd leave my computer on and unattended for a few hours, I wouldn't be able to go to any website other than the one that I'd be presently on when I'd get back to use it, unless I'd reboot it first. I didn't want to take a chance and risk deleting my entry again. So, I used Hector's computer to finish my blog for LIFE AS WE KNOW IT and to write my blog for JACKASS 3-D. Of course, I had to wait 'til I got home to download the Jackass movie poster onto my post.
On my way to Oakland, California, a red Honda bike passed me by on the diamond lane in the Berkeley/Emeryville area of the I-80 freeway. The center lane that I was on was slow-and-go traffic. I very much wanted to catch-up with the Honda because I wasn't sure if it was a scooter ( Helix, Reflex or Silver Wing ) or a motorcycle. And I wanted a closer look. I never caught up with it, though.
Now, imagine my pleasant surprise at finding the same red Honda bike in the parking lot of UA Emery Bay Stadium 10! Holy Serendipity, indeed! It was a motorcycle after all with full body fairing: The Honda PC800 Pacific Coast, an 800 cc bike in production from 1989 through 1998 which was aimed at the "white collar professional" buyers. I like how it looks. 'Too bad that they don't make it anymore. Maybe, someday, I'll find one for sale after I learn how to operate a motorcycle. Who knows, the Chinese might be offering a cheap knock-off by then, too!
