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| This picture didn't come out looking right. But, I like the "evaporating neon lights" effect. |
where: CENTURY ROWLAND PLAZA in Novato, CA
when: Friday, July 29th, 2011
show: 12:01 a.m.
cost: $10.75 Ticket + $5.00 Nachos + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $19.75
auditorium: 2
seat: 3rd row, Middle section, 5th seat
synopsis/overview: Butt-naked Alien Gold-diggers from Outer Space
An amnesiac stranger ( Daniel Craig ) comes to the town of Absolution where strangers are not welcome. But, when an alien force threatens the town, the townspeople turn to the one man with a secret and mysterious past--and a fancy doodad on his wrist--that could help them against this alien threat: The man with--for the time being--no name.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Scalpers; 2.) "Only two kinds of men get shot"; 3.) "Damn fool Dolarhyde kid ( Percy = Paul Dano )"; 4.) "Maybe, you don't know who I am"; 5.) "Money makes you soft"; 6.) Saloon; 7.) Jail; 8.) "Nobody calls me Colonel"; 9.) Wanted fugitive; 10.) Paddy wagon; 11.) Strange lights in the night sky"; 12.) Activated doodad; 13.) Crashed; 14.) Wounded and bleeding; 15.) "What do you want"; 16.) "It's tracks are still fresh"; 17.) Memory; 18.) Search party; 19.) Up-side down riverboat; 20.) "I lost 328 men over a cornfield"; 21.) Target practice; 22.) Close encounter; 23.) Prayer for the dead; 24.) "Take it! Be a man"; 25.) Boss; 26.) Camp; 27.) "He said, 'The whore"'; 28.) "Demons took your gold"; 29.) "You'll always be my favorite"; 30.) Chase; 31.) "Can you swim"; 32.) "You remember now, don't you"; 33.) "She's gone"; 34.) Apache camp; 35.) "I'm sorry, but I couldn't tell you"; 36.) "You shouldn't talk"; 37.) Scouts; 38.) Memory potion; 39.) Lab experiment; 40.) "I know where they are"; 41.) "There's another way in"; 42.) "You got a choice"; 43.) Interpretation; 44.) "You ready to get your son back"; 45.) Matches; 46.) "This is how they get the gold out"; 47.) "Go, get Percy! Get your son"; 48.) "Don't look at the light"; 49.) "You have to stop thinking"; 50.) "Goodbye, Jake"; 51.) Pissed-off Alien "Doctor"; 52.) The mother ship; 53.) New cheques; 54.) Bigger town; and 55.) "She's in a better place."
There's a special treat for all of you Horndogs out there with super-quick eyes: Two Wet "T-Shirt" scenes.
audience reaction: There wasn't much of a positive response from this crowd.
recommendation: The movie, itself, isn't as good as its premise. This movie is mindless fun away from the summer sun. Pass the time away by seeing this movie.
spoiler alert! I chose the above movie poster for its obvious sexual innuendo: Jake Lonergan's ( Daniel Craig ) phallic object held between Ella Swenson's ( Olivia Wilde ) legs. "Don't worry, girl. This pistol is 'unholstered' because I'm just 'shooting blanks'." Ha, ha, ha. Hey, I'm not the ( porno ) Graphic Designer who made the poster; I'm just simply pointing-out the oh-so-obvious.
Since the dog originally belonged to the scalpers, shouldn't it have barked at the stranger? That dog was such a "turncoat", willing and ready to switch allegiance at the drop of a body. The heat from his cowboy hat and this own sweat would easily have caused the photograph to deteriorate at a fast rate. Percy's hand was broken to slip-off the manacle. So, Percy could not have moved said hand normally for more than a few days and should have kept his hand steady and close to his body to minimize the pain that would inevitably result from moving an injured hand all about. Couldn't the aliens have programmed their powerful weapons not to shoot at their own spaceships? Why did the other aliens hightail it out of there as soon as one of their aircrafts got hit and crashed ? How did the up-side down riverboat end up in the middle of nowhere since the aliens showed no predilection for stranding their intended victims in such a way? If the riverboat was up-side down, why was a framed painting still hanging on the wall? Those Alien chest appendages look like something that us Earthmen use to grope Earthwomen's breasts with: Touchy-feely hands. Heh, heh, heh. At one point in the Apache camp, the chief, Black Knife ( Raoul Trujillo ) seemed to understand English well enough. Okay, so the Apaches who know the area like the back of their hand never noticed the strange structure sticking out of the ground. The aliens are supposed to have poor daytime vision and, therefore, prefer to be underground in the daytime. But the aliens sure moved fast in broad daylight and had no trouble chasing down and/or pouncing on their human enemies! And, since these aliens preferred to be underground in the daytime, how was Jake able to escape from the alien "doctor"'s lab in the first place during daylight hours? I don't think I'd be able to stop thinking if a hot and sexy girl were to deep-kiss me--I'd be thinking about what to do next while I still had the chance! Since dead beings are incapable of thought, logic says that those dozens of dead aliens in the underground tunnels had their wrist-weapons automatically come-off: In other words, Jake, Colonel Dolarhyde ( Harrison Ford ), the Apache Chief and all their men would have/should have ended-up sporting the fancy wrist doodads at the end. ( But they didn't .... ) There was no way that they could have gotten out of the tunnel safely as the alien spaceship was starting to take-off: The shooting flames would have "blow-torched" them into crispy-critters! The Aliens' hunting spacecrafts flew using alien technology propulsion but--and it's a BIG BUT--their mothership took-off into the sky propelled by what could only be "garden variety" human technology rocket fuel!!! Which stupid rocket scientist did they consult when they made this movie? They should have consulted me, Cine-Man, as they were making this movie! When the BIG alien spaceship exploded in the sky, nobody ran for cover because the only blast debris shown were gold "coins", gold flecks and gold dust. Did you see the size of that spaceship, and did you notice that they were all standing around very near the spaceship's launch site? Yet, there were no blast debris of considerable size to rain down on the on-lookers when the alien spaceship exploded!!!! How dumb is that?!?!?!
fyi: Scalping was introduced into this country by the Dutch, if I'm not mistaken. I guess the Dutch started scalping the Native Americans because the balding- and thinning-haired Europeans were envious of the natives' thick head of hair! Maybe, to the Dutch, no wig would just do, they wanted their hair substitute to be as natural as possible--'just assuming.
Do you remember the movies, LIFEFORCE ( 1985 ) with Mathilda May and SPECIES ( 1995 ) with Natasha Henstridge? Well, the director of this movie should have taken the hint from the directors of the two previously-mentioned movies and shown its female alien in the same way to elevate this movie above its campy B-grade quality. 'Nuf said ....
word of advice: There's good in the Bad, and there's bad in the Good.
tidbits: I bought my ticket on Wednesday night because I had to go to Novato, CA, to shop at the Big!Lots discount store after work. But the Big!Lots store is no longer there. A Dollar Tree Store now occupies its former place.
I then went to Super Buffet for dinner since I reasoned that I had boycotted this place long enough ( two-plus years )--see my blog on PUBLIC ENEMIES ( 2009 ) to remember/know what I'm talking about. That same ol' waitress was there, so I made sure to finish all of the rice on my plate; and I ended-up with no more room in my tummy for plate # 3, the Dessert Plate! In other words, I didn't get my money's worth. And that was twice in a row that I didn't get to have a Dessert Plate.
And the food wasn't even that good. The Onion Rings were hard as rubber--I'm not exaggerating here. The French Fries were really salty. The Dumplings, all four kinds, were soggy. The Fried Squid was hard and salty. The Rice was overdone. And a few other dishes were dried-up, soggy and/or salty. I shouldn't have dined-in at this place in the first place. Maybe, I should boycott this place for another two years.
I think that there's still a Fresh Choice Buffet Restaurant across the freeway from this place. I'll go there next time.
And they only had forks. They didn't have knives or spoons. Can you believe that? Well, they had spoons, sort of: Flimsy plastic soup spoons and Chinese-style soup spoons. I guess it was their way of getting back at us for not having chopsticks in our western-style restaurants for their sole use.
Or, maybe, they want us to take longer to eat and end up getting full before we can get a chance to eat too much of their food. Heck, if they want us to lose our appetite sooner than later, all they have to do is have that waitress hover around us to make sure that we eat every single speck of rice on our plates! That will make anybody lose his/her appetite right-quick.
Then, I went to Century Rowland Plaza to initially see the Harry Potter movie again just so I could get another collector's item Special Edition 3-D glasses. But they were completely out of it. I just went ahead and bought a midnight show ticket for this movie.
On the way home, south-bound 101 was gridlocked because Cal-Trans was re-paving the right-side lane. I think it will be the same situation when I go home on Friday after the midnight show is over.
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Thursday, the 28ht, I spent almost two hours trying and figuring-out how to make two copies of the same CD track on a single disc. Hector wanted to try out my Delta Brainwave Frequency Meditation CD so that he could relax better and end up with a better night's sleep. I made him a 30-minute long single track CD. But he said that, although it helped him sleep better, he wanted a "double-dose" of it to really knock him out for the night. So, I made him a "double-dose" copy.
And since I lost track of time with my CD-burning preoccupation, I forgot that one of my co-workers, Chris ( a Filipino-Mexican who wants to connect with his Filipino side ), was supposed to treat me to a buffet lunch at Selecta Filipino Buffet here in Vallejo. When I called him to tell him that I was on my way, he told me that we have to reschedule since he had to go to Concord, CA. How I could completely forget about Free Food is beyond me!
So, I went to my place of employment in Benicia, CA, to pick-up my check, to make a deposit at the local BofA, and to drive all the way to Oakland, CA, to give Hector the meditation CD copy that I made for him. ( Just as an aside, I probably have over $4,000.00 worth of meditation/spiritual CDs scattered all over my condo--and I used only about a quarter of them, at ... the ... most. )
Anyway, at Hector's place, we watched a DR. OZ episode on a 700-pound woman and National Geographic's TV programs on VAMPIRES, HUBBLE TELESCOPE and THE INDESTRUCTIBLES. All the while, I was also able to manage starting this blog and cooking Spaghetti for everybody, and playing with Tiger, the kitten, who's almost full-grown now. Opps! I forgot to give doggie treats to Tiger's Pit-Bull puppy friend, Two-Face, and her mom, Mercedes.
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The drive on South-bound 101 after the midnight show wasn't bad at all, hardly any traffic. But, once I got on Highway 37, some crappy car with a really soft suspension was bouncing around behind me for the entire length of the highway, approximately 16 miles! It was like its driver was intermittently high-beaming me all the way. God, that was so irritating. And I couldn't do anything about it since Highway 37 is mostly just one lane each way. I couldn't even pull over and let the idiot pass because there are rumble bars on either side of the lane that would just potentially damage my car's ball bearings if I did--it happened to my Geo Metro.
From Highway 37, I made a left on Sonoma Boulevard to go to Wal-Mart to buy some Charmin Toilet Tissue ( single ply ) and a replacement flush valve for my toilet tank ( Peerless Toilet Flapper, WM-F618 ).
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