where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, March 11th, 2011
show: 6:00 p.m.
costs: $7.50 Ticket + $4.50 20 oz Revive VitaminWater = $12.00
auditorium: 2
seat: 4th row, 1st seat
synopsis/overview: Los Angeles serves as the last stand when otherworldly aliens come to take our water.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Textbook military invasion; 2.) Beach; 3.) Meteor showers; 4.) Training ground; 5.) "By the end of the day, we'll be taking orders from you, Sir"; 6.) "'not a meteor shower"; 7.) TV news; 8.) Into the fray; 9.) "We're leveling Santa Monica"; 10.) "I'd rather be in Afghanistan"; 11.) Boxed-in; 12.) Swimming pool; 13.) "I' ready for payback"; 14.) LAPD; 15.) Enemy air support; 16.) "Just make a decision"; 17.) "We're being colonized"; 18.) Transit bus; 19.) "I'm a veterinarian"; 20.) "How do you kill this thing"; 21.) "They're tracking our signals"; 22.) Gas station; 23.) Drone; 24.) "Retreat--Hell"; 25.) "'Went off the grid"; 26.) Freeway on-ramp; 27.) Explosives; 28.) Water as fuel; 29.) "That's the thing that's controlling the drones"; 30.) Alternate extraction point; 31.) "Marines don't quit"; 32.) "Like a punchline of some bad joke"; 33.) "They're going down like bowling pins"; 34.) Infiltration; 35.) Alien command and control nexus; 36.) "Paint this target"; 37.) Temporary operating base; and 38.) "We already had breakfast, Sir."
favorite scene: I liked the scene where they were dissecting the live alien.
audience reaction: The audience liked it enough to give it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I would say that this is better than last year's SKYLINE. Go see this movie if you're into Sci-Fi/Action Films.
spoiler alert! This movie starts out in August of this year. I guess, they changed their mind and decided to show this earlier in the year because it might not fare well against the anticipated summer blockbuster movies. Wouldn't it make more sense for the dumb-ass aliens to establish a foothold first by landing on tiny remote islands, where the water is less likely to be polluted and where the natives--if there are any--are less likely to put up a fierce opposition, before they take-on highly populated and technologically advanced cities? I mean, this was how Christopher Columbus "discovered" The Americas by landing on the island of Haiti; and this was how Ferdinand Magellan started the colonization of the Philippines by landing on the island of Cebu. The Marines--or the aliens, for that matter--could have used thermal sensors to locate the enemy in all that thick smoke! The aliens' vital fluid is just water, which is plain stupid. The vital fluid of any organism, whether terrestrial or extra-terrestrial, is transported through its circulatory system to deliver nutrients, immune factors and metabolic and repair necessities, et cetera to cells; and this same fluid removes toxins and catabolic waste products from the body. In other words, the vital fluid can not ever be water, even if said organism's body composition is over 50% water! ( The human body's composition is 70% water, if I remember it right. ) Why were they just sitting around for when they had an imminent deadline to keep on top of? The Humvee's 50-caliber machine gun was spitting-out crimped cartridges--spoiling the illusion that they were actually using live ammo. Okay, so they went flying in a practically defenseless helicopter in alien-dominated territory with no alien craft patrolling the night sky to assert its superiority--what, were the aliens sleeping-in for the night? A bazooka--don't they use RPGs now? And what was with that laser beam projector with a power cord attached to it which was not only bulky but probably was hefty for its size, too. I mean, couldn't they just have used a laser pointer pen, the kind that comes attached to a key chain that you can buy at a dollar store and use to amuse a playful kitten with? They were in a war, yet they still hand-loaded their magazines. Why didn't they have magazine speed-loaders and stripper-clips handy?
fyi: An ex-Marine co-worker of mine told me that shooting into a body of water can, at times, be a bad idea because the bullets can ricochet.
We all know from Basic Chemistry that water can be separated into its two component atoms to yield an explosive gas and a combustion accelerator. And someone finally figured out how to run a car on plain ol' tap water! The drawback to this is that you have to add alcohol to it if you use such a car in snow country to keep the water in your car's tank from freezing.
word of advice: "We don't plan, we improvise." US Marines
tidbits: Earlier today, at a grocery store in Benicia, CA, a tattooed woman went to checkstand one. An image of a sword hilt is tattooed on her cleavage--so, you know where the tip of that sword is at! Unbelievable but true. Some people, I swear ....
As I was about to clock-out from work, I found out that a female co-worker's son just passed away. How sad .... I already lost four co-workers in the last four or five years; and, now, this .... And we also lost a few customers within the same time period. It's starting to get too depressing to work at that place.
Later on, I swung by Selecta Filipino Buffet on Springs Road to have a light lunch and to buy some lottery tickets. The Japanese earthquake and tsunami were shown on the news. I felt sorry for those people who suffered from either or both calamities.
In the auditorium, I initially sat in the 4th seat. But, while I was sitting there doing my Zhunti Mantra, a man in a wheelchair and his female companion came over and said to me, "I want you to move so we can sit together." Can you imagine his rudeness? He didn't even say, "Please" or "Thank you." Just because he is wheelchair-bound gives him no right to be rude to able-bodied people! 'Remember what I said over a year ago about the "Vallejo Crowd" being rude, inconsiderate and disrespectful? Well, this is another instance of it. This is a free country, 'last time I checked, so I can sit anywhere I want. But I didn't want to create a scene by reminding him of his rudeness and minding his manners; besides, I'm a 1st stage Yogi doing my enlightenment mantra at that time.
So, I just got up and moved to the 1st seat on the left. But my whispered mantra recitation was already muddled by the intrusive thought of the wheelchaired man's rudeness. Angry, I said to myself, I put a curse on you for being rude. Later, the wheelchaired man had to go to the men's room three times, and missed almost half of the movie--even the ending. And three times, as I've said before, in the Occult and Supernatural circles mean "Yes". I guess it doesn't pay to be rude to a Yogi, even a 1st stage one, who's doing his enlightenment mantra.
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