where: BRENDEN VACAVILLE 16 in Vacaville, CA
when: Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
show: 6:35 p.m.
costs: $9.50 Ticket + $4.25 small Diet Pepsi + $13.15 meal @ Tin-Tin Chinese Buffet ( + $2.00 Tip ) = $28.90
auditorium: 12
seat: 4th row, 4th seat
synopsis/overview: Two step-sisters, Meg and Grace ( Leighton Meester and Selena Gomez ), along with the younger step-sister's best friend, Emma ( Katie Cassidy ), go to Paris for the summer. Their packaged tour doesn't quite turn out as hoped for. But, then, in a case of mistaken identity with a rich and snobby socialite, Cordelia, the trio go on to Monte Carlo for a week of fun and romance until the real one shows up.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Paris fund; 2.) "You must be the change that you want to see in the world"; 3.) "It's a Hartman"; 4.) "Kick this 'New Sister" thing into high-gear"; 5.) "It's what mom would have wanted"; 6.) "Where's the ring"; 7.) Quickie guided tour"; 8.) "Oh, Australian"; 9.) Eiffel Tower; 10.) "I'm sorry"; 11.) Hotel Grand Belle; 12.) Paparazzi; 13.) "Isn't it English we are speaking"; 14.) "Who was that head case"; 15.) "I shall take it in my room"; 16.) "Let's bond"; 17.) "It's seizing the moment"; 18.) "What didn't you do"; 19.) Welcoming party at the Hotel De Paris; 20.) "You're exactly alike"; 21.) "People do change"; 22.) Beach; 23.) "Did somebody get flowers"; 24.) Polo game; 25.) 'Phone call; 26.) Blown cover; 27.) Whistle; 28.) "There's the me that I know"; 29.) Yacht party; 30.) "There are people for that"; 31.) Fireworks; 32.) "I don't need a fancy house"; 33.) Rose; 34.) Newspaper; 35.) "Yeah, it's sort of an upgrade"; 36.) "What necklace"; 37.) Kiss; 38.) "If you have finished, you may go"; 39.) Trash can; 40.) "This feels like a game"; 41.) "We can explain"; 42.) "Just getting acquainted"; 43.) "I wouldn't miss this for the world"; 44.) "Honey, we've been getting away with this for days"; 45.) "But I already have the best"; 46.) "There's something I need to say"; 47.) "I'm helping"; 48.) Excuse me, but I'm not happy"; 49.) The farewells; 50.) Machu Picchu; 51.) Dimmer switch; and 52.) Working/volunteering.
favorite scene: I liked the Mistaken Identity Kiss scene.
audience reaction: The audience liked this movie.
recommendation: This light-hearted comedy is not my kind of movie. It is a pre-teen "Chick Flick", the movie's intended target group.
spoiler alert! Don't they usually do head counts on guided tours? When they were asleep, time-lapse photography was used on the Eiffel Tower which was shown through their hotel bedroom window; but they stayed motionless in bed throughout it all. Doesn't Cordelia's cellphone have a "Caller ID" feature? If they wanted the Italy-bound train stopped, all they had to do was fess-up to the authorities. I could have chomped through that apple easily and made a lot of noise. If I were Grace, I would sign-up with a celebrity look-alike agency who'd hire me out on publicity stunts and photo-ops.
fyi: Mahatma Gandhi was a Kriyaban Yogi, just like I am. He was initiated into Kriya Yoga by none other than Paramahansa Yogananda, the brother-disciple of my Yogi's Paramguru.
Years ago, this beautiful blonde liked me. But I had to go back to the Philippines for a very-extended, well-deserved time-out to get away from it all, i.e. family problems. It was over a year later when I saw her again. But, by then, she already had a boyfriend. Time passed and I moved to Vallejo and came across another girl who looked like her. I wanted to court this Vallejo girl because I wanted her to like me, just like how her look-alike liked me. But, I realized after much deliberation, that I was trying to start a relationship with this Vallejo girl all for the wrong reasons. So, I just let her go, but not before breaking my heart first. ( I wrote about this girl on my movie blog for ( 500 ) DAYS OF SUMMER on July 26th, 2009. Check it out. )
I still don't know how to whistle like that.
If I stop pigging-out at buffets and get back in shape again, I could sign-up with a celebrity look-alike agency which could hire me out as an Esai Morales look-alike. But ... Esai is not that big of a celebrity so, forget it. Let me pig-out in peace!
word of advice: When opportunity knocks, let it in.
tidbits: I decided to have dinner first, at Tin-Tin Chinese Buffet, before the movie. Then, I walked a few doors down to the Big! Lots discount store and bought a set of headphones, and a camera case for my new camera because the belt loop on another case that I bought the day before at the Dollar Tree Store tore-off at one end--my fault; I didn't inspect it closely enough.
When I arrived at the theatre, I decided to take a picture of my rental car and of the theatre's facade, shown at the top of this blog post.
At the box-office, I absentmindedly gave the clerk a 10-spot. The price for my age group is $10.75. When I realized what I had done, I asked him what the actual price was for me. He told me what the price of admission was for me, but he said that it was okay, that he was letting me in for the $9.50 College Student/Military discount. That was nice of him--I gave him my Yogi Darshan ( blessing ); I just hope that I'm spiritually-advanced enough to give out such a blessing.
In the main lobby of the theatre is a promotional tie-in display for the movie, LARRY CROWNE. The motor scooter on display is a Genuine Scooter Company's 150cc Buddy International St. Tropez. It's big enough that if I sit on it, I would be on the tip of my toes. And it's a beautiful scooter that would look even better to anyone in real life because none of my pictures shows it to its best advantage.
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| These are not my brats who got in the way of the photo shoot. Hey! whose brats are these? |
The scooter is displayed by a local motor scooter dealership, MotoXotica. It is a tiny dealership, on Merchant Street in Vacaville, that I missed on my first pass by the place because I probably blinked as I did. I will have to visit the dealership someday to check-out the Stella scooter.
The sound system in the auditorium was not good: It was not loud enough and it didn't have that "surround-sound" effect.
I was the only man in the theatre. The rest of the audience were single moms and their daughters. Quite a number of single moms looked at me on their way out of the auditorium. 'Checking me out, probably. But, Hey! I didn't come in with a "baggage". And I had no plans of walking out of there, caring for somebody else's "baggage". I.y.k.w.I.m. ( if you know what I mean. )
After the movie, I went to the men's room to empty my bladder. As I headed toward a stall, I heard a tiny voice behind me say, "Hola!" And it repeated itself once more, "Hola!" I turned and saw a Hispanic little boy with a pacifier in his mouth. He was too short to reach the lavatory faucet. So, he pointed at a faucet and said, "Agua." So, I turned-on the water for him. Then, he said, "Jabon." I got him some liquid squirt soap. Just because I look like that Puerto Rican-American actor, Esai Morales, the kid racially-profiled me as a Hispanic. That kid was lucky that I took a semester's worth of Spanish class in high school or he would have ended-up using his own piss to wash his hands with!
The thought just occurred to me: They have low-set urinals in the men's room for little boys to use, but they don't have low-set lavatory faucets for them to use, too. How stupid is that?
It took me a long time to blog about this movie because my computer was acting-up the last two days. I cleaned, defragged and compacted my computer but, still, it was slow as a snail for quite awhile.
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I planned on going on a road trip to Bakersfield, CA, yesterday, just to get my money's worth on my rental car. Bakersfield is a 5-hour drive away. I wanted to be out on the road by 5:00 a.m. But I awakened at 8:00 a.m. By then, it was already too late to go to Bakersfield, do what I have to do ( review two movies: MONTE CARLO and JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER ), and turn around to come back home, being that I'm scheduled to be at work at 7:00 a.m. today.
I will just have to see MONTE CARLO tonight after work in Vacaville, CA.
I originally had Sunday, Monday and Tuesday off; but my manager decided to have me work on Monday, effectively ruining my plan to overnight-stay in Bakersfield to see the movies and to drop-in on my friend, Rey, and his wife. This is the second time that this has happened. There won't be a third time, though, because I will know what I need to do by then.
I just went to Hector's place, instead, to take pictures of him and the pets, Tiger and Two-Face, to upload to my blog because one of my readers is curious to know what they all look like. Well, here goes ....
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| Hector, the Santa Claus--lol! This picture is a little blurry because I used the wrong setting and because it is a "quick sneak click" on my unsuspecting victim. To get his attention ( he and his wife were watching TV ), I called out, Hey, Santa! CLICK!!! |
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| A mug shot of Tiger, the kitten, at around 7 months of age. The only kitten that I know of which can play "Fetch!" Tiger is also the only kitten that I know of with a really bad case of halitosis! |
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| Tiger, looking all innocent and charming atop a garbage can. |
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| Tiger, enjoying the shade from under my 2010 Nissan Versa sedan rental car. |
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| Two-Face. Tiger's 8-month old female Pit-Bull puppy playmate. This picture is also a little blurry because of the wrong setting. If you look at her face closely, you will know why she was named, "Two-Face." |
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| Another picture of Two-Face. I'm holding her up against the railing to keep her from jumping on me and licking my camera and/or my face. |
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Mercedes, the mother of Two-Face. She is chewing on a bone that I gave her earlier to keep her from chewing on my arm and leg bones. |
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