where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, March 18th, 2011
show: 5:10 p.m.
costs: $7.50 Ticket + $4.00 small Hi-C Punch/Pink Lemonade = $11.00
auditorium: 10
seat: 4th row, 7th column
synopsis/overview: Graeme ( Simon Pegg ) and Clive ( Nick Frost ), two British comic book fans, go to the Comic-Con in San Diego, CA. Later on, they rent an RV to go on a road trip to visit sites of alleged UFO sightings. They get more than what they had hoped for when a space alien on the lam hitches a ride with them while assorted characters are in hot pursuit and closing in fast.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Farmhouse incident; 2.) Comic-Con; 3.) "Do you believe in aliens"; 4.) "Between a woman and a machine"; 5.) Chevrolet Avalanche pick-up truck; 6.) Car crash; 7.) "Put the 'phone down"; 8.) "How much can I learn from an ass"; 9.) "I was speaking English"; 10.) "People get in accidents all the time"; 11.) "Was that Klingon"; 12.) Road block; 13.) "Camouflage response"; 14.) Alien probe; 15.) Gas station; 16.) "Plausible deniability"; 17.) Bird; 18.) "11 o'clock, 12 o'clock"; 19.) 'Phone call; 20.) Campground; 21.) 1980; 22.) "Jesus shoots Darwin"; 23.) "How do you explain me"; 24.) Sketch; 25.) "Collective knowledge"; 26.) Mooning; 27.) Jealousy; 28.) "I can curse"; 29.) "Eye for an eye"; 30.) Roy's Bar; 31.) "It's probing time"; 32.) "You gentlemen seen anything unusual this evening"; 33.) "They were about to make-out"; 34.) Campfire; 35.) "He can read minds"; 36.) Disguise; 37.) "Who has space-man balls"; 38.) "Is that you on the cover"; 39.) "Pretty good"; 40.) "I've got to quit smoking"; 41.) "We're all in this together"; 42.) Radio scanners; 43.) "Your reality is all that matters"; 44.) "It's okay, he's alright"; 45.) "He'll be fine"; 46.) Fireworks; 47.) Plan B; 48.) Shotgun; 49.) "That sucks--I don't even get to eat him"; 50.) "You freed me"; 51.) Awesome; and 52.) Bonus Scene during the Ending Credits.
favorite scenes: I liked the Creation vs. Evolution argument scene.
I liked the scene wherein Paul sneaked into the house to retrieve the passport.
I liked the exploding farmhouse scene. The explosion was a real one and of the kind where you don't have idiots casually and slowly walking away from its blast radius like in some other movies!
audience reaction: The audience liked this Sci-Fi Road Trip Comedy.
recommendation: I liked it, too. If you're into comic books, science fiction and UFOs, this movie is for you.
spoiler alert! Although there have been many reported "UFO" sightings in Wyoming for many, many years, there was no reported sighting in Moorcroft, Wyoming, in July of 1947--but there was a sighting in April of 1963. The only reported sighting for July of 1947 was not in Moorcroft, Wyoming, but was the one in Roswell, New Mexico, and which was printed in the town's newspaper. People who believe in God--or gods--might be offended by this atheistic look at "The Big Picture." The solo car accident involving Paul would have been enough to break the alien's neck because his head is too big and too heavy for our terrestrial environment. Paul's disproportionately big head atop a scrawny neck would seem to suggest that his home planet has a weaker field of gravity as well as have an atmosphere that is "thick" enough to support the weight of his head. In other words, his planet would most likely be a watery world. 'Ever noticed how there are plenty of aquatic creatures out there whose heads are disproportionately big compared to the rest of their bodies? Or, to put it in another way, Paul is not anatomically structured for a suitable terrestrial life here on Earth. And his eyes are too big to be practical. The biggest land and sea creatures here on Earth have small eyes because millions of years of evolution have proven that such eyes are the most practical ones to have for their respective sizes. Big eyes are more injury prone and more vulnerable to sun damage, infections and diseases. Of course, lots of insects out there have very big eyes; but their eyes are protected by an outer lining since they don't have eyelashes and eyelids; and they see outside of the visible light spectrum with their compound eyes to avoid sun damage. Since Paul transferred his memory to his new-found friends, they would have instantly known what Paul was up to and where he was heading so that they shouldn't have had the need to ask him where he was going! And these are two other possible outcomes of the memory transfer: Paul's friends would be able to read, write and speak in his language; and they would be more smarter ( in the field of alien technology ) for it all. And speaking of thought transference, why didn't Paul just do a memory transfer--in the first place--on those top-level security interrogators and scientists who kept him as a "guest" in Area 51 for over 60 years. There was a scene where Clive stuck his finger in one of two bullet holes in a mask that he wore; but no explanation was offered as to why he was not even wounded--at the very least! Paul, a long-time cigarette and marijuana smoker, could hold his breath for quite some time but, all of a sudden, he runs out of breath? A window was broken and, more importantly, the front door was opened and enough time had elapsed for the gas to have been diluted to the point that the explosion would not have happened the way it was shown. And the bullet should have found its mark because when it was fired from the gun, the secondary explosion ( i.e. the house blowing-up ), with its shock wave, trailed the bullet's own velocity. The shotgun wound was in the area of the Heart, Ascending Aorta and Pulmonary Artery so that he would have been killed instantly ( meaning, there really was no time for that "tear-jerking" small talk ). The landing gears retracted slowly. So, by the same token, the landing gears should have extended slowly, not fast like some kind of giant flyswatter snuffing-out a bug! When the alien spaceship lifted-up and its landing gears retracted, the body was nowhere to be found.
fyi: With the advances in Science and Technology, we know that the Earth is more than 4,000 years old. The age determination is accomplished through the use of half-life dating techniques such as Radiocarbon Dating, Uranium-Thorium Dating and suchlike. The point that I'm getting at is that people who take for granted the modern advances in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine, yet still insist that the Earth is just 4,000 years old, SHOULD ALL GO LIVE IN A CAVE! Period ( and Exclamation Mark ).
My friend, Hector, has that same exact sword. One of his sons gave it to him. Its handle has a hidden knife. But, neither Hector nor I--nor anyone else for that matter--could figure out how to pull the secret knife out. Where was King Arthur when I needed him the most?
Back when my family lived in the apartment in Matina, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines, I had this crazy idea that if I cut-off my eyelashes they'd grow back longer and thicker. So, I proceeded to cut my eyelashes off. And my eyes were watery and swollen for the next three days!
word of advice: With the countless numbers of stars out there with their own solar systems, life on other planets is more than just a probability.
tidbits: If you look closely at the movie poster that I used for this blog, you'll notice the release date of Valentine's Day, 2011. It premiered on that date in some other countries and it was uploaded to movie2k.com at around that time, too. I was gonna watch it first on movie2k.com a couple of days before watching it on the big screen, but the uploads are of poor quality in the sense that the movie would keep buffering and resetting back to the start point.
It's good to finally see a "little green man" not go around butt-naked! I mean, we're talking about highly advanced beings here who can travel across galaxies faster than the speed of light. Yet, somehow, they forget to put a pair of pants on before going on an inter-galactic "road trip". How stupid is that?
Q: Why is the Starship Enterprise like a piece of toilet paper?
A: Because it goes around Uranus in search of Klingons! Ha, ha, ha--snort!
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