where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, December 10th, 2010
show: 11:00 a.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs: $9.75 Ticket + $4.50 Pretzel Bites + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $18.25
auditorium: 8, with the 3-D screen
seat: 6th row, 9th column
synopsis/overview: Lucy ( Georgie Henley ) and Edmund ( Skandar Keynes ), along with their unsuspecting bratty cousin, Eustace ( Will Poulter ), are drawn back to Narnia and join Prince Caspian ( Ben Barnes ) on the royal vessel, The Dawn Treader, on a journey in search of the seven missing lords with magic swords.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Recruitment center; 2.) The painting; 3.) The Dawn Treader; 4.) The seven lords of Lone Islands; 5.) "I don't think he has a cute of anything"; 6.) Slave traders; 7.) One of the seven; 8.) Green mist; 9.) Rescue; 10.) Encrusted sword; 11.) Diary; 12.) Extra crew member; 13.) The invisible Dufflepuds; 14.) House of the Oppressor; 15.) Book of Incantations; 16.) Big Foot; 17.) Coriakin ( Bille Brown ), the Magician; 18.) "Wish yourself away"; 19.) Bad dreams; 20.) "I heard that"; 21.) Lake of Gold; 22.) Treasure hoard; 23.) The Dragon; 24.) "Extraordinary things happen to extraordinary people"; 25.) The Blue Star; 26.) The merfolk warning; 27.) Tow; 28.) Dining table; 29.) Liliandil ( Laura Brent ); 30.) Dark Island; 31.) Peter's sword; 32.) Sea serpent: 33.) Reepicheep's ( Simon Pegg ) pep talk; 34.) The Dragon and Aslan ( Liam Neeson ); 35.) The seven swords; 36.) The boats; 37.) Sea of white lilies; 38.) The wall of waves; 39.) "I promise to be a better king"; 40.) Tearful Goodbyes; and 41.) Back in the bedroom.
favorite scenes: I liked the scene where they were in a rowboat in a sea of lilies.
I liked the wall of waves, too.
And I liked the transformation from "soaking wet" to "completely dry" in the bedroom.
audience reaction: The audience liked this.
recommendation: I liked it, too. Go see this movie.
spoiler alert! The slave trader could have easily hit Prince Caspian with his sword as the prince swung toward him on a rope. Lucy's footsteps in "The House of the Oppressor" were loud enough to have been easily heard by the magician. The sea serpent, for its immense size, could have easily destroyed The Dawn Treader. When Edmund thrust the sword in the roof of the sea serpent's mouth, the action/reaction movement didn't look real enough. In one particular shot, Aslan's face didn't look "liony" enough. This movie is not a faithful translation of the novel that it's based on.
fyi: Many years ago, when my family still lived in Oakland, CA, I experienced a strange occurrence. It was a little after 1:00 p.m. I was taking a nap on the couch, by the front window, in the living room. On our porch was the next door neighbor's five-year old granddaughter playing with our kittens. It was the noise that she was making, and the sound of traffic on Fruitvale Avenue, which awakened me.
Through half-opened eyes, I noticed in the far corner of the ceiling in the adjoining dining room a bright spot of light. The spot of light moved down diagonally toward the doorway between the two rooms. And as it did, it grew bigger and bigger and metamorphosed into a young woman wearing a Victorian dress and with her hair up in a bun. In her right hand was a candlestick with a lit candle on it. And as she stood there, she looked from side to side at the floor as if in search of something.
I was scared of it and just laid there pretending to be fast asleep! Meanwhile, the little girl was still on our porch playing with the kittens. What was so strange about this apparition was that it bore a striking resemblance to my eldest sister. Perhaps, the facial similarity lessened my fear of it.
Then, it slowly dematerialized back into a ball of light which got smaller and smaller as it floated back up to the far corner of the ceiling which is partitioned-off from the kitchen ceiling. There, the small, bright spot of light vanished.
Feeling worried, I wrote ( this was before e-mail ) to my sister to tell her about the supernatural event and to ask her if everything was okay with her. She was fine, she said in her return letter.
Maybe if I get enough money someday, I'll buy that old house and tear-up the floor to see if anything is hidden down there.
word of advice: "Be just vhat you is, not vhat you is not. Folks vhat do zis are ze happiest lot." ( Mr. Wizard, the Lizard's, oft-repeated advice to the "deaf-eared" Tooter Turtle )
"Some have greatness thrust upon them." ( Shakespeare )
tidbits: I decided to go to Ihaw-Ihaw Filipino Buffet, on Springs Road here in Vallejo, after the show because I haven't been to that eatery in over a year.
As I was eating, someone came in talking on his cellphone. The busboy asked him if it was an I-Phone. To which the man said, "No, I would never want to have an Apple anywhere on my body." The busboy asked, "Why?" And he answered, "You don't want to know. Believe me."
He should just have come out and said it, whatever it was, because his statement just made everybody in that room all the more curious about his experience with a "rotten" Apple!
A while later, another male patron and the two busboys talked about last week's rape of a little girl in Union City, CA, inside the Dollar Tree Store, in one of the aisles during business hours! That serial rapist needs to have his penis and testicles cut-off--forget all that psychotherapy B.S.!
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