AGNEEPATH, NR ( 3 hr & 16 min )

Quickie Review:  The 12-year old son of a village school master watches in shock and in horror as a drug dealer kills his beloved father.  Made outcasts by their fellow villagers, Vijay and his mother move away to Bombay.  There, Vijay gets in with the wrong crowd for the next 15 years as he bides his time to avenge his father's death.

The audience liked it.

I thought that it was a drawn-out melodrama because the tear-jerker scenes were really milked for the holy cash cow that they were.  If not for this, the movie would have been shorter in length and would have been a more enjoyable movie for me to watch.

Here are the things that I found wrong in this movie:  At the Lord Ganesha Festival, the bad guy had enough time to use his own gun to shoot at the knife-wielding attacker.  Vijay ( Hrithik Roshan ) back-fisted the bad guy, Kancha ( Sanjay Dutt ) in the climactic fight twice, slowly loading-up for each strike--had the bad guy been me, Vijay would not even have landed the first back-fist strike because I would have easily put his arm out of commission!  Vijay was still recovering from a gunshot wound and from being beaten with sticks and from his upper torso being repeatedly smashed against rocks; and on top of all these, he was stabbed in the kidney and in the pancreas SO THAT HE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIGHT A BIGGER AND STRONGER OPPONENT THE WAY THAT HE DID!

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THE GREY, R ( 1 hr & 57 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Saturday, January 28ht, 2012
show:  1:10 p.m.  ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $6.50 Ticket + $4.75 Pretzel Bites + $4.50 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavor ) Coke = $15.75
auditorium:  8
seat:  5th row, 8ht column


synopsis/overview:  Ottway ( Liam Neeson ) and a few survivors of a plane crash in the remote Alaskan snow-covered wilderness find themselves within a wolf pack's hunting ground  and must head south to find help, escape the bitter cold, and avoid predation by the pack of timber wolves .


noteworthy scenes:  1.) "This is where I belong"; 2.) "Live or die on this day"; 3.) Crash; 4.) "You're gonna die.  That's what's happening"; 5.) The seven survivors; 6.) The seven wolves; 7.) Werewolf; 8.) "A kill range of 30" [ miles ]; 9.) Bodies; 10.) Attack; 11.) "They weren't eating him.  They were killing him"; 12.) Wallets; 13.) Straggler; 14.) The alpha; 15.) Bang stick; 16.) "You got him"; 17.) The omega; 18.) "Say goodbye, boys"; 19.) Hallucination; 20.) "Once more into the fray.  The last good fight I'll ever know.  Live or die on this day"; 21.) "Wake up"; 22.) Tree stump; 23.) Cliff; 24.) Pep talk; 25.) Eyeglasses; 26.) "I love you, daddy"; 27.) "They're not gonna let us go, are they"; 28.) "I just had the clearest thought that last night in camp"; 29.) "Hold your breath"; 30.) "Do something"; 31.) One-on-one fight; and 32.) Bonus Scene after the Ending Credits.

audience reaction:  The audience seemed to like this Action/Adventure/Survival movie.

recommendation:  It's good enough of an entertainment for me, even with the long in-between stretches of no-action.  Go see this movie if you're into Action/Adventure/Survival-type of movies.

spoiler alert!  When they were in the plane before take-off, you could see their exhaled breath condensing in the cold air; but when the plane was torn to pieces on the ground, and they gathered around the dying man, there was no breath condensation at all visible.  There was snow everywhere the strewn bodies were at; but the day after the crash the bodies still did't exhibit rigor mortis, even in such a freezing weather!  When they held a prayer for the dead, the one who led the prayer said, "God, bless these men."  But what about the two female flight attendants who also died in the crash?  Talk about sex discrimination at its most extreme!  Ha, ha, ha.  They could have used the life vests as "snowshoes" with just a little bit of improvisation.  Why didn't they take with them sharp objects and scrap metal from the downed plane as weapons against the wolves?  How many bang-sticks did they make and how many were used?  Because I only heard one bang-stick go off!  And why didn't they take the bang-sticks--or even just the sharpened sticks--with them.  How did the wolves get to the bottom of the cliff so quickly?  Was it even the same wolf pack? They were laboriously trudging along the snow-covered river bank at a snail's pace but when the wolves were upon them they ran like they were on solid ground. If I was out in the snow and I fell in icy-cold water with my clothes on, my teeth would be chattering and my body would be shivering from the bitter cold the moment that I stepped-out of the water.  Why didn't he get out of his wet clothes?  Not that I care to see him butt-naked at all!  And I wouldn't be able to hold my breath for long in such an  icy-cold water!  Plus, my joints would ache because of my old sports injuries.  I would have wrapped something thick around my neck and my arms before engaging the wolf in a fight.  I would have secured the knife with its point pointing up instead of down to give me some added "reach".  Those wolves were wild predatory animals whose bite could kill its victim just from an infection setting-in if the prey managed an escape.

fyi:  Hector's third son, Tito, was attacked by his own Alpha male Pit-Bull named, Blue.  He fought with it for almost half an hour ( according to him ) until he was able to subdue his dog.  But he sustained many bite wounds to his arms and legs. Two weeks later, he couldn't walk anymore; and his legs were swollen from infection.  His oldest brother rushed him to the doctor for emergency treatment. And the doctor told Tito that he came very close to dying of infection from all the bite wounds that he got in the fight with his own dog.

Over twelve years ago, somebody once told me that the reason why the airlines want you to put your head between your legs in the event of a crash landing is because THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SURVIVE THE PLANE CRASH AND SUE THEM! So, all those stories you read or heard about in which no one survived a commercial plane crash was because everyone got their necks crushed since they followed orders and kept their heads between their legs.  Think about it for a moment, are you gonna survive ramming your head against the seat in front of you as your plane hits the ground at 100 mph or more?  Nope!  I don't think so.

word of advice:  Don't put your head between your legs--or between somebody else's legs, for that matter ( LOL )--if your plane is crashing down.  Do what Ottway did: Lie sideways and strap yourself securely.  And if there is somebody sitting next to you well, then, that's your problem, not mine.

tidbits:  I went to see this movie before I headed-off for work.  And I saw some customers of mine after the movie.  I had a chat with them at work.  They went to see EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE.  I told them that I blog about movies and gave them one of my cards.


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EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 9 min )

Quickie Review:  Oskar ( Thomas Horn ) loses his father on 9-11 in the World Trade Center.  While rummaging through his father's belongings, he finds a mysterious key and a cryptic note.  Believing that these were intentionally left for him by his own father, Oskar embarks on a journey of discovery as he tries to make sense of such a senseless tragedy.

The audience liked this movie.  By all means, 9-11 is a delicate subject.  But it is handled well in this movie from a "personal approach."

But I didn't like it that much, simply because of how the events of 9-11 affected me.  The memories of which I'd prefer to keep buried in my past.  I blogged about 9-11 once before for the movie, DEAR JOHN, in February of 2010.  Refer back to it, if you'd like to.

I didn't even want to see this movie in the first place.  I wanted to see JOYFUL NOISE, but I arrived 30 minutes too late.

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THE ARTIST, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 40 min )

where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Monday, January 23rd, 2012
show:  4:45 p.m.
costs:  $8.00 Ticket + $2.00 4.0 oz Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Candy ( Monday Candy Special with a Regal Cinemas movie watcher card ) + $0.00 small ( 30 oz ) Coke Zero ( earned "Freebie" on my movie watcher card ) = $10.00
auditorium:  9
seat:  4th row, 6th seat


synopsis/overview:  Before the advent of "talkies", a Hollywood Matinee idol, George Valentin ( Jean Dujardin ), meets lovely Hollywood-hopeful Peppy Miller ( Berenice Bejo ) by accident, and is quite taken by her innocent beauty and her effervescent charm.  But their publicity stunt for the cameras just adds fuel to George's already strained marriage.  As "talkies" become the norm, George's star eclipses as Peppy's star rises when she is chosen as the new "it" girl in Hollywood. The Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression just add to George's problems. Seeing no hope for redemption or for a proverbial "second chance", George drunkenly spirals into a deep funk from which there seems to be no escaping.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Movie theatre; 2.) Encore performance; 3.) "Who's that girl"; 4.) Kinograph Studios; 5.) Dance rehearsal; 6.) Scene 20; 7.) Dressing room; 8.) Moving up; 9.) "Hey, you're not Napoleon!  You're just an extra"; 10.) "Don't laugh.  Since that's the future"; 11.) Noises; 12.) Talkies; 13.) "Fresh meat'; 14.) Toys; 15.) TEARS OF LOVE; 16.) October 25th; 17.) Interview; 18.) Stock Market Crash; 19.) Movie; 20.) Standing line; 21.) Visitor; 22.) Pawn shop; 23.) "You're fired"; 24.) Auction house; 25.) Bar; 26.) GUARDIAN ANGEL; 27.) "Look what became of you"; 28.) Fire; 29.) Cop; 30.) News article; 31.) Hospital; 32.) Peppy's house; 33.) A nobody; 34.) "I work for Miss Miller now"; 35.) Personal possessions; 36.) Overwhelming sense of despair; and 37.) The Dance.


favorite scene:  I liked the Peppy and the Coat Rack scene.  This scene was simply innocent, sexy and cute.


audience reaction:  There were about five old ladies in the auditorium with me.  But they all sat in the back rows so that I couldn't hear their reaction well enough to gauge it properly.

recommendation:  I liked this sweet and charming movie, especially in how it was able to convey its message without the use of sound.  This movie should sit-in well with old-timers ( Older than myself, that is.  Way older!  Eligible-for-senior-citizen-discounted-movie-ticket-price "Old Age" old folks ).  Go see this if you're such an Old Fart who waxes nostalgic for the simpler ways of a bygone era or if you simply want to see something different for a change of pace.  ( And, by Different, I mean a movie that has no foul language, no overt sexuality, no violence, no color, and no fancy SFX whatsoever yet is one that is visually-pleasing to watch and is well-received by modern-day computer-savvy audiences. )

spoiler alert!  When George's wife, Doris ( Penelope Ann Miller ), threw the newspaper at the dog, the edit was so obviously not done well.  How come most people didn't recognize George when he was out and about in public, especially with his Jack Russell dog tagging along with him?

fyi!  I don't know if it was intentional or not, but one of the famous Hollywood actors from the Silent Film Era was Rudolph Valentino.  I cannot help but take notice of the similarity in the actors' last names.

The "Beauty Mark" was the norm way back then.

I have a "Beauty Mark", too--since it doesn't sound "manly", should I even call it as such?--on my left cheek that I'm trying to get rid off since it only draws attention to itself instead of balancing-out the rest of  my facial features.

When "talkies" became the Hollywood standard, a lot of silent film actors actually lost their jobs because they spoke with "un-American" accents.  ( Speaking of which, pay close attention to the closing scene when this point was driven across clear-as-a-bell: "Widhz playshur." )

Which must be why Hollywood turned to making musicals shortly after "talkies" replaced the silent movies.  'Nice transition, if I may say so myself.

It's simply amazing how back in the day, people actually dressed formally just to go and see a movie!  Hey, I should try this some time.  Who knows, I just might end-up restarting a movie-going fashion trend.

word of advice:  Never forget those who helped you rise to the top.

tidbits:  I could only eat half of my Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Candies because I pigged-out at Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, earlier today.  So, I just took the rest home with me to snack on.

After the movie, a theatre employee asked me how I liked the movie.  I told him that I really liked it.  And I also told him the bit about how some famous actors of silent movies lost their jobs when the studios switched to talkies.

I had planned on seeing this movie at the UA Emery Bay 10 in Emeryville, CA, on Thursday, the 19th, of last week because I was gonna pay Hector and his family a visit first; then catch this movie on my way home to Vallejo.  But I scrapped that plan because sometime between late Tuesday, the 17th, and early Wednesday, the 18th, somebody unsuccessfully tried to steal my Geo Metro and just ended-up vandalizing it and stealing a bunch of my stuff from it!  Here's a list of the vandalism and theft:

1. They--I believe that it was the work of at least two lowlifes--smashed the driver's side window when they couldn't open the driver's side door.  The door lock was damaged in the process.
2. They cut the steering wheel to remove the security bar lock that I used to hook the steering wheel to the clutch pedal.
3. They cut a hole next to the ignition key to try to "hotwire" my car.  But that failed because I had the steering mechanism locked.
4. So, they just took the security bar lock.
5. They took the sun shield.
6. They took the am/fm cassette radio.
7. They took the speakers.
8. They ripped the headliner.
9. They stole the rearview mirror.
10. They stole the ashtray.
11. They stole the pop-out cigarette lighter.
12. They ripped-up the center console housing the stick shift.
13. They ripped-out the air-vent grills.
14. They stole my box cutter.
15. They stole my tire pressure gauge.
16. They stole my "Free Chevron Car Wash Coupon."
17. They stole my pens.
18. They stole my mini box wrench set.
19. They ripped-out a bunch of wires.
20. They stole my floor mats.
21. They stole my owner's handbook and service log.
22. They took my registration form from the left visor--Yup! now they know my name and where I live.
23. They stole the mirror from my car's right visor.
24. They stole my lottery slips--So, if somebody wins the lottery big along with me and that lowlife lives near where I live, you know whose winning numbers they actually were.
25. They stole the $10.00 that I kept inside the lottery slip holder.
26. They stole my blue windshield squeegee. 
27. They stole my black coach's jacket, embroidered with my first initial, middle initial, last name and nickname. 
28. They stole my work apron.
29. They stole my baseball cap.
30. They stole both of my umbrellas.
31. They stole my folding knife.
32. They stole my flashlight.
33. They stole my spare gas cap.
34. They stole my spare eyeglasses.
35. They stole my emergency roadside kit.
36. They stole my emergency tire inflator.
37. They stole my emergency 1 1/2 gallon gas can.
38. They ripped-up the floor upholstery on the driver's side.
39. They ripped-up the bench seat.
40. They stole a 4-pack of toilet tissues.
41. They stole a 50-count of paper plates.
42. They stole a bag of cat-food that I bought for Hector's cat, Tiger.
43. They stole my "Jesus in Tears" mug and my A&W mug.
44. They stole my spare wiper blades.
45. They stole my yellow I-Max 3-D glasses.  Well, I kinda "stole" this pair of 3-D glasses from Edwards Fairfield Stadium 16 & I-Max so I guess that it doesn't count.
46. They stole my brand-new, never-used plastic popcorn tub that I bought at a dollar store.
47. They stole a bottle of Chevron 10w-30 motor oil.
48. They stole my CSAA road maps.
49. They cut a battery cable to steal my car's battery.
50. They stole my late mother's yellow-colored rosary.
51. They stole two of my three Bibles.  They didn't take the third one because it only measures 1 3/4 inch x 1 1/2 inch x 3/4 inch.

( But why they would steal my rosary and a couple of my Bibles is beyond me!  They should burn in Hell for what they did, the lowlife scums that they are! )  

I was on my way to work in my Hyundai Accent at around 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18th, when I noticed the vandalism, first, and the subsequent theft.  I had to call my workplace to tell management that I'd be coming in late because I had to assess the damage and the theft, and because I had to call my insurance and because I had to notify the Vallejo Police Department.  Here are pictures of my poor Geo Metro a day or so after it was victimized:

( The time and date shown in each of the eight photos are wrong.  I had just put in a fresh set of AAA batteries in my digital camera and forgot to reset the time and date.  These pictures were taken on Thursday, January 19th, 2012, between 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. )

This is the hatch area at the back of my Metro.  On the left side was were I kept a box with my popcorn tub, 3-D glasses, spare wiper blades, a "Jesus in Tears" mug, the toilet tissues, the paper plates, and the cat food in it.  On the right was were I kept a box with the 1 1/2 gallon gas can, the emergency tire inflator, the A&W mug, and the Chevron motor oil in it. They didn't bother to steal my cheap 25-foot long garden hose  or the cheap sprayer attached to it.  I used this to hose down my car every now and then.

This is the bench seat in the back, ripped-up from its base. On the bench seat was where I had my baseball cap.

This is the smashed driver's side window.

They ripped-away a section of the headliner just so they could steal the rear-view mirror and the rosary that I kept on it.

You can see where they cut a hole next to the ignition, where they ripped-out the air-vents, where the car radio once was, where the ashtray used to be, where the pop-out cigarette lighter once was, and how the center console for the stick shift was ripped-off and twisted to the left.  Just below the cup-holders was where I had my box cutter, a pen, a tire gauge, and my free car-wash coupon.  Just below the cut steering wheel is the driver's side door compartment where I kept  an umbrella and some road maps.

This is the glove compartment where I used to have a flashlight, my owner's handbook and service log, my lottery slips, my folding knife, a bible, a pair of spare eyeglasses, and a spare gas cap.

You can see where one battery cable is cut so that they could steal my Russian car battery which I bought at Wal-Marts a few years ago.

This picture shows the driver's side seat cover that they decided not to steal after all.  They also didn't take the passenger's side seat cover.  I had my work apron on the passenger's side seat and my black coach's jacket at the foot of this seat.  Beneath the driver's side seat was where I had my blue squeegee.  Beneath the passenger seat was where I had my emergency roadside kit, an umbrella, and a bible.

The next two photos of my Geo Metro being moved to the back of the tow truck have the right date and time shown.  My Metro was parked in Parking Space # 0, to the left of Carport Space # 1.  The tow truck driver had to push my car in the photos below since its battery was stolen.  I asked him if he needed my help to push it up to the tow truck.  He said, No, since it was light enough for just him to take care of.

The Physical Damage Appraiser that my car insurance company, AAA, sent over, Miss A. S., declared my car a total loss.  And , to think, I spent over $3,000.00 on it in the last year or so to have the transmission rebuilt, to replace the struts, to fix the hit-and-run damage caused by Hector's Chinese bitch neighbor, to have a new set of tires put on, to have the driver's side door lock replaced and to have the CV boot replaced.  Miss A. S. told me that since my car was well-cared for, she'll give me a higher pay-out rate for my loss.  And she wanted to know if I'd exercise my option to buy it from my insurance on a Salvage Title.  I told her that I would if I could but I'm not mechanically-inclined, that it would cost me as much to have it fix as it would to put a good down payment on a new car, and that the f--king lowlifes know where I live and which one is my car!

This was the last time that I saw my Metro.  It served me faithfully for exactly 17 years and 4 months!  It was a highly dependable, easily-maintained and extremely economical ride with a good engine and a forgiving manual transmission.  I would easily get 60 miles on the freeway using  just 3 quarts and 29 ounces of regular unleaded gas if I didn't go faster than 63 mph!  It was easy to park, owing to its diminutive size; and it was fun to drive.  It never failed a Smog Check or a Smog Test--never ever!  And it was my first-ever brand-new car.  If Suzuki were to bring the Swift/Metro back on the US Market, I'd buy one right away!  I called my brother after my Metro was towed away to tell him the bad news.  There was a light rain going on, the first of the season.  Just like in a romantic movie where the lovers have to go their separate ways and the cliched rain comes pouring down.  But it's a fitting sad goodbye in this case.  I called my sister in Michigan the day before.  Now, I'm down to one car: My Hyundai Accent, which isn't as good a car as my Geo Metro was.  Maybe, after I get the insurance money for my Metro, I'll use the money and my Accent to get a new car.  I don't know.  Let's wait and see.  I'm thinking, Lexus--Yeah, if I win the lottery.  Heck! I'd move out of this f--king lowlife neighborhood first and foremost if and when I do win the lottery big-time. 

So, why did this happen to my 1994 Geo Metro?  Is it because I put a curse on Hector's Chinese Bitch neighbor for doing a hit-and-run on my car and then denying it to my face?  No, highly unlikely.  Because the way a Karmic Backlash works is measure-for-measure alike; otherwise, if it's more or less, it would be unjustifiable either way.  You know, just like what it says in the Bible, "Eye for an eye.  Tooth for a tooth."

More than likely, it is because I absorbed some of Hector's son's bad karma.  His third son was my favorite one, the one I felt a "connection" to.  I say, Was, because after I got myself initiated into Kriya Yoga, I slowly began to understand the True Dynamics of Karma.  And I've been avoiding this particular son of his as much as possible ever since--you will notice from reading a previous blog that the last time I was at Hector's place was over two months ago.  ( He had to move back home over a year ago because he's on permanent disability due to work-related injuries. ) I thought that this was enough time to dissipate his third son's bad karma's ( and everybody else's bad karmas in that family [ Misery loves company ] ) hold on me.  But I was wrong!  My Yogi warned me not to needlessly absorb other people's bad karma and stressed to me the importance of letting-go of My Past if I want to control My Future.  After my Metro became the victim of the hit-and-run in May of last year, this particular son of Hector said, "The same exact thing happened to my car in that spot!"  And he spent over three thousand dollars on his car only to have it broken into, have a bunch of his stuff stolen from his car and eventually just had it  towed away--just like what happened to my car!  This son of Hector has had a neck pain for years, I have had a neck pain for many months now.  And this son of Hector had his own male Pit-Bull turn on him and almost killed him--my next dog will be an old half-blind, three-legged toothless Chihuahua!

I've said it before, about my Geo Metro being the last connection that I have to my late mother and to my favorite cat, Winky.  But the connection is not one of good memories.  When my mother died, I was filled with the emotions of Anger and Frustration.  She didn't have to die had she just kept on following my advice. And when I was forced to have my cat, Winky, put to sleep, I was overcome with the emotions of Grief and Depression.  And 9-11 just added more Depression to the equation.  These were the Bad Karmic emotions which permeated my Metro and which gradually increased in bad influence over me for almost 15 years.  But at the moment when I saw what had happened to my Metro, I was not filled with rage or anger, even though I loved my car very much.  Instead, I experienced a feeling of calm within me as if a sense of burden was removed from my psyche ( a Blessing in Disguise ).  I guess that this is "The Letting-Go Of My Past" process that my Yogi talked about and that which I didn't pay a close enough attention to. Duh ....

Whoever they were who did what they did to my Geo Metro had Bad Karmic Energies and subsequently absorbed the Bad Karmic Emotions which permeated my car.  "Like attracts Like", this is one of the Laws of Karmic Attraction; and which is why the lowlifes picked my car to victimize instead of some other fancier, newer and more expensive car in the parking lot.  The Bad Karmic Burden, i.e. Curse,  is now upon them.  I should thank them for it.  'You think? Nah ....  I'm not that nice of a Yogi, yet.  And it will be a long while before I become a nice Yogi because I'm happy just taking my sweet time doing it.

When you Meditate and do Mantras, you're doing so to clean-out your Bad Karma and accelerate your Spiritual Evolution.  But unless you "live in a cave", you'll just keep on absorbing Bad Karma from the people, places and things all around you! You'll be like an empty glass that keeps on getting unwanted free refills.  Of course, bear in mind, when you accelerate your Spiritual Evolution in your Present Lifetime, you're actually letting your Karma potentially deal you a Mega-Whammy of Bad Karmas in this lifetime ( The reason why bad things happen to good people! ) instead of evenly and thinly spacing them out over the course of Many Lifetimes--which is usually how Spiritual Evolution is attained by the Ordinary Masses.  Why do you think Yogis go hide in a cave for?  And why do you think Jesus Christ disappeared for 18 years?  Now, before you self-righteous christians out there turn sanctimonious on me over this perceived sacrilegious slight to your inculcated beliefs, consider this:  God said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased," ( Matthew 3:17 ) not when Jesus was born in a manger but approximately 30 years later when he was baptized!  Think about it ... if you've always wanted to have a son and your wife finally delivers a baby boy, won't you say, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well-pleased," right away at the moment that he is born into this world and not 30 long years later ...?  Plain and simple Biblical fact:  Jesus was a man, Christ is the Savior God; the God that saves you from Sin.  And Sin is just one meaning of  Bad Karma. Jesus was the first to be in-dwelt by Christ, the Savior God, and became free of Sin and made Holy (please review the Old Testament of the Bible to find out the ways by which things became Holy ) unto the Lord God.  In effect, Jesus became the First-Born Son of Christ, the Savior God, at the Baptismal In-Dwelling, and only then!  Before Jesus Christ came along, there was only one other kind of spiritual in-dwelling that occurred in His area of Ministry: The Demonic Possession kind of in-dwelling.  Here's a point to consider:  Jesus Christ healed people by telling them that their sins--i.e. Bad Karma--were forgiven ( paid in full ).  From that point on, such people became free of the Cycle of Karmic Reincarnation and had earned the right to join God in Heaven in The House with many rooms ( John 14:2 ).  ( Ever wonder why many dead "believers in Christ" still walk on Earth as ghosts instead of go to Heaven right away?  Their Karmic Debts have not yet been paid in full and they will eventually just get reborn into this world when their  Karmic Time is right for them to repeat their Karmic Cycle until everything's paid-up. ) Because without Bad Karma, they no longer had the need to reincarnate into this world. They had become Immortals, in effect!  The prefix "Im-" means, "Not"; and as it is applied to the word, Immortal, in this context it means not mortal any longer because the person's Karmic Debts have been satisfactorily paid in full!  You have to Meditate and do Mantras and do Good Deeds, as well, to "clean your slate" ( Forget what some wishful-thinking idiots with Slave Mentality say about "Salvation through faith, not through works" because YOU REALLY HAVE TO WORK AT BEING GOOD especially since you were born into Sin! ) to the point that bad karma is deflected away from you and you, instead, shower others with the blessing of Good Karma either visually/audibly through Darshan or through physical touch ( Luke 8:40-48 ).

So, my dear readers, pray for me so that I will win the lottery Big-Time! which will enable me to live the life of a reclusive hermit--like I've always wanted to ( a childhood dream of mine )--until My Karma becomes "squeaky clean".  Don't worry, I will still be able to do my movie reviews by way of movie2k.com--even though I'll be avoiding people like The Plague!  Back-off--keep away from me! Ha, ha, ha.

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RED TAILS, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 5 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Monday, January 23rd, 2012
show:  11:50 a.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $5.75 Ticket + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavor ) Coke + $1.00 3.1 oz Cupcake Bites ( bought at the Dollar Tree Store & smuggled-in ) + $9.40 lunch @ Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA ( + $1.60 Tip ) = $21.75
auditorium:  4
seat:  2nd row, 6th column


synopsis/overview:  At a critical time when whites still held the deep-seated belief that the colored races, especially the black, were all inferior to them, a group of black American pilots in an experimental pilot program at the Tuskegee Institute prove their detractors wrong as they fly in the face of Racism, itself, and prove their mettle and fighting skills for all the whole world to see.  Based on a true story.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Flying Fortress Bombers; 2.) "Another P-40 from Uncle Sam's junkyard"; 3.) Train; 4.) "You're home now"; 5.) Black Jesus"; 6.) Newspaper article; 7.) "We will not go away"; 8.) Italian For Beginners; 9.) Couch; 10.) "Experience is a cruel teacher"; 11.) "Are you afraid"; 12.) "You get us that mission, we will light-up the boards"; 13.) Operation Shingle; 14.) Beach; 15.) "Bogeys in-bound"; 16.) "First Negro to shoot down a Gerry"; 17.) "Five minutes"; 18.) German airbase; 19.) "My God.  Those pilots are Africans"; 20.) "We don't care"; 21.) "I'd rather be dead than on the ground"; 22.) Archive film of Flying Fortress Bombers under attack; 23.) Arrogant; 24.) "That's Black Jesus.  I'm telling you"; 25.) "I love you"; 26.) Officers Club; 27.) "I've come bearing gifts"; 28.) "Everything is a fight"; 29.) "Ten to one"; 30.) Distinctive; 31.) "He's colored"; 32.) "Forget the prize.  Save the lives"; 33.) "I'm gonna show him the last trick I learned"; 34.) Captured; 35.) "Your calls have been a little off lately"; 36.) Short cut; 37.) German destroyer; 38.) "You've been drinking"; 39.) Stalag; 40.) German destroyer movie reel; 41.) Deal; 42.) "Come and join us"; 43.) "Jet pursuit fighters"; 44.) Negro; 45.) "Time to think"; 46.) Woods; 47.) Berlin Offensive; 48.) "You want me to stay"; 49.) Dog tags; 50.) Self-pity; 51.) "We're going the distance"; 52.) "Yes, sir"; 53.) German jet fighter planes; 54.) "I think I did get myself killed"; 55.) Jockey Club Whiskey; 56.) Bad news; and 57.) "So, you'll no longer call me, "Junior."

audience reaction:  The audience enjoyed it.  And a number of people gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending. But since the audience was predominantly black, this movie crowd's positive reaction might be on the biased side.

recommendation:  It's a good enough movie.  And I would recommend it to those of you who are World War Two history buffs.

spoiler alert!  The opening scene has an unbelievably unnatural and unconvincing dialogue between the Flying Fortress Bomber pilot and co-pilot.  It sounded like either the script was poorly written or the two "actors" couldn't deliver their individual lines well enough, or both!  Did the German pilots actually say, "Mayday," when they were in distress?  Because it seems odd to me if they did use this phonetic rendering of the French word, "M'aidez."  In the scene wherein the Tuskegee pilots were chasing after a German pilot, the villagers down below acted oblivious to the aerial spectacle which was happening directly above them.  It only made sense to attack the train from the front.  In the fly-by after the German airbase was strafed, the pilot was close enough to be recognized that it should have been easy for any German to shoot at him with a pistol or a rifle; but nobody bothered to shoot at him.  Why?  The archive film of the Flying Fortress Bomber formation under enemy attack was filmed from the front--this would only make sense if the film shown was from a captured German fighter plane!  But there was no indication that this was the case.  In my American History class, the World War Two films that my class watched of American planes under enemy attack were filmed from below, from above or from behind.  And the few scenes showing the American planes from the side and from the front were mostly those taken from captured enemy planes.  The Berlin Offensive strategic map looks exactly like the Operation Shingle strategic map!  All those bullet holes in the plane's canopy yet no audible wind noise!

fyi:  The Bomber Flight Jackets that the American pilots used in Europe during World War Two had a European map printed on the inside so if a pilot got shot down, he could find his way back to a friendly territory.

I didn't know that the Germans were actually able to employ fighter jets in WWII. Which makes me wonder if the Germans would have been able to turn the tide of war in their favor had it dragged on for at least another year, what with their impressive advances in war weaponry and in war technology.

I know of this black World War Two veteran who saw action in Germany.  He respected the Germans' resourcefulness in converting internal combustion engine vehicles into steam engine vehicles.

Hey, maybe that's what we need these days: Steam engine vehicles!  Why not? If it works, it works!  Forget about Hybrids and Electric cars.  And, as an added side benefit, you can probably barbecue, too,  as you drive!  "Honey, I'm home! Guess what we're having for dinner tonight? I'll give you a hint: The same kind of dinner that we've been having every night ever since I bought this car."

As I mentioned in my blog on CAPTAIN AMERICA, in WWII, my father joined the US Army.  And he was assigned to the 51st Division in Milk Company "C"--I don't know if this makes any sense to any of you WWII historians out there, but I'm just writing it down the way my father told it to me.  He said that most of the American soldiers that he was with were from Texas.  There were blacks, too, but they were relegated to construction, maintenance, latrine and kitchen duties. And my dad said that whenever they would come under Japanese attack, the blacks would run for cover BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T GIVEN WEAPONS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WITH!  This was probably just an isolated case--what with the Texans "running the show", so to speak--and not at all standard WWII US Army regulation.

Because, from what I learned in my American History Class, some blacks fought bravely and even became war heroes.  But, unfortunately, when they returned to the States, they were once again subjected to Racial Prejudice to the point that some of them even became victims of Lynch Mobs.

Likewise, German-Jew World War One veterans who defended their German Motherland became victims of the Holocaust in World War Two!

It is appalling to behold to what extent countries subject their innocent citizens to!  World War II was indeed a very sad and deplorable chapter in modern human history.

word of advice:  War veterans deserve all the respect that they can get.

Don't drink and fly.

tidbits:  The box office clerk gave me a senior citizen's discount instead of just an Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee price.  Heck, I'm not that old yet!  So, even though she saved me money on the price of admission, I was not flattered at all.

I decided to go to Vacaville to eat lunch at Tin Tin Chinese Buffet just to celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon.  Gong Hay Fat Choy!

On my way to Vacaville, CA, a BMW with two license plates ( a European license plate covered-up by an American license plate ) passed me by.  I took two pictures of it for just in case.  It's the dark blue car on the left lane.

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HAYWIRE, R ( 1 hr & 32 min )

where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Friday, January 20th, 2012
show:  2:20 p.m.
costs:  $8.00 Ticket + $4.75 small Mango Smoothie + $9.80 lunch @ Inay Pilipino Fast Food Restaurant in the shopping mall's food court = $22.55
auditorium:  6
seat:  3rd row, 8ht column


synopsis/overview:  Mallory Kane ( Gina Carano ), a deadly agent for a government security contractor, finds herself double-crossed and must do everything in her power to clear her name and go after those who want her dead.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Cafe & grocery; 2.) "That's actually real"; 3.) Barcelona story; 4.) "Eye candy"; 5.) SIM card reader; 6.) "That guy just recognized me"; 7.) GPS tracker; 8.) Storage room; 9.) Hotel room fight; 10.) "Is the divorce final"; 11.) "What your 6 [ i.e. back ]"; 12.) Tracking device; 13.) Disguise; 14.) "I wouldn't go outside until I call you back"; 15.) Roadblock; 16.) "Who's L.E.O."; 17.) "Jesus Christ, you're a great driver"; 18.) Killers; 19.) "Where's the due diligence"; 20.) "I'm not gonna run anymore"; 21.)  False report; 22.) "She's here"; 23.) Photo; 24.) "Halo effect"; 25.) "He's not available"; 26.) Beach fight; 27.) Set-up plan; and 28.) Majorca.

audience reaction:  The audience was amused by certain scenes.

recommendation:  This is definitely a Chick Flick Action Movie.  What I mean is, even though it's an Action Movie, there is too much talking going on!  Not to sound sexist, but most women just love to talk Ad Nauseam!   And because of it, even at only one-and-a-half hours long, I was painfully made aware of the fact that my bladder needed emptying and the action scenes were too far and few in-between to keep me sufficiently distracted.  Thankfully, I was able to hold it in until after the movie ended.  Whew, that was a close call!  But I squirmed too much in my seat that I probably wore-out its cushion.  Go see this if you like to listen to too much talking in an action movie.

spoiler alert!  Why didn't she disable the other guy's car at the cafe & grocery?  I would have.  The man's car just got walked on yet he didn't get out to complain angrily about the incident; instead, he just drove off--what a wimp!   Couldn't they also have provided Paul ( Michael Fassbender ) with a photo of her, too? She knew what was about to happen in the hotel room yet she allowed herself to get hit from behind.  When Mallory got Paul in a headlock using her legs, why didn't Paul bite her in the crotch?  I would have!  Ha, ha, ha.  In the Beach Fight scene, there were plenty of chances for either combatant to use sand to visually-impair the other. Mallory said in an earlier scene that she doesn't "... like to leave loose ends."  Yet, this movie ended without her going after Studer ( Mathieu Kassovitz ).  Maybe she did, though, but the scene just ended-up on the cutting room floor because in it she just bored him to death  with her unnecessary exposition!   Ahh ... Mallory, that's Execution, not exposition.

And this movie had some funny dialogues.  But I don't know if they were all intentional or if some of them were just unintentionally funny!

fyi:  Gina Carano is a former MMA artist ranked 3rd in the whole world in her division.

She can tie me up to her bedposts  any time and "bitch-slap" me around a bit. But gently, of course, because I'm not into BDSM ( bondage-domination/sado-masochism )!

word of advice:  Tie loose ends.

One of the Cardinal Rules of Movie-making, especially as it applies to Action Movies is this:  Show, don't tell!

tidbits:  After watching UNDERWORLD AWAKENING and before seeing this movie, I had enough time to walk around in the shopping mall and to grab a bite to eat.

I was gonna have lunch at the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant.  But I decided to walk further down to check-out the mall's new food court.  That was where I noticed Inay ( pronounced: Eee-Nigh; Tagalog for Mother ), a Pilipino fast-food restaurant.

Since I had never been to one--and didn't know that there was such an one, I decided to have lunch there.  I chose the two-entree lunch with Sinigang ( pronounced: Cine-gang; Pilipino Garlic Fried Rice ) and a Dalandan ( pronounced: Da-lan-dan; Citrus Aurantium in English ) citrus soda.  For the two entrees, I had Barbecue Chicken on a stick and Bicol Express ( Pork stewed in Coconut Milk w/ Jalapeno Peppers ) since my mother was from the Bicol region of the Northern Philippines.

And I don't know if this is true or not, but a cousin's husband once told me that any Pilipino dish made with Coconut Milk and/or Cream is a Bicol dish.  Because that is the Bicolanos' culinary "signature".

The Food Court restrooms are nearby.  So, I decided to check out the men's room.  It has waterless urinals in place.  But what really struck  me as odd is the design of their lavatory sinks--highly impractical:

Do you notice how angled the bottom of each lavatory sink is?  Well, when you put your hands under the motion-activated faucet, they touch the bottom of the sink!  Whichever idiot came up with the design for this "piece of crap" seriously needs to get repeatedly slapped in the face.   And I mean it!!!

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In the Hotel Room Fight scene when Paul looked like he groped at Mallory's crotch and when she wrapped her legs around his head, some woman in the back of the auditorium  laughed-out loudly.   What's Erotic to a man is Funny to a woman, I guess---Or maybe some women are just too damn Ticklish!  Ha, ha, ha--snort!

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UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING in I-MAX 3-D, R ( 1 hr & 29 min )

where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Friday, January 20th, 2012
show:  11:30 a.m.
costs:  $17.50 Ticket + $4.75 small Diet Coke + $0.99 half-a-bag of Corn Nuts Corn Chips ( bought at the 99-Cent Only Store & smuggled-in ) = $23.24
auditorium:  12, with the I-Max screen
seat:  5th row, 5th seat


synopsis/overview:  Selene ( Kate Beckinsale ) wakes up from a 12-year cryogenic freeze only to discover that the humans are now hunting-down all of the vampires and lycans.  As she pieces together the missing events of the lost years, she discovers that there is a hybrid that the humans are looking for who has a link to her past.  But finding the hybrid and keeping it safe is compounded by the problem that most of the remaining vampires don't trust her at all, and that a deadlier new kind of lycan is out on the prowl looking for more vampires to kill.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) News; 2.) Escape; 3.) Grenade; 4.) Lab; 5.) Teeth; 6.) "Twelve years"; 7.) "The guy's shredded"; 8.) "There's no room for error"; 9.) Surveillance photo; 10.) "Now we're even"; 11.) Lycans on the hunt; 12.) Girl; 13.) Chase; 14.) Girl's origin; 15.) "It was we who betrayed her"; 16.) "Look at the eyes"; 17.) "You're a fighter"; 18.) "I know exactly what you are"; 19.) "Is that what you wish for us, extinction"; 20.) "You're as cold as one already dead"; 21.) "They're here"; 22.) The big bad "wolf"; 23.) "They accepted her as a gift from me"; 24.) "I'm not good with feelings"; 25.) "Who administers the tests"; 26.) "Entire species saved from extinction"; 27.) Subject 2's confinement room; 28.) "I had to watch her burn"; 29.) Intruder; 30.) The surprise discovery; 31.) "It's worse if you try to fight it"; 32.) "I heal instantly"; 33.) "Buy you some time"; and 34.) Rooftop.

audience reaction:  The audience liked it, it seemed.

recommendation:  If you've seen one, you've seen them all.  It's all same ol', same ol' to me.  Kate Beckinsale is pretty much the only good reason to see this movie, for you horn-dogs out there--I mean, fans of Kate Beckinsale!

spoiler alert!  Why was Selene's hair not dangling down from her head when she was kept upside-down in the  cryonic freeze booth?    After all, 12 years is more than enough time for Gravity to work its magic.  And why was she kept upside-down for in the first place?  The surgical scalpel was a single-edged kind ( a very critical point of consideration in the scene ).  So, when she slashed the Carotid Arteries of the bad guys who stood to either side of her, she could not have been able to slash the necks of the guards situated on her left side--simply by the way that she was holding the single-edged scalpel and at the fast speed that she was moving--without taking a hard tumble while trying to do so!  And did you notice the heels on the boots that she was wearing as she attacked those guards with her scalpel?  Well, then, her heels should have made a very loud and fast tapping sound while she moved down the hallway!  And if she could move that fast in those shoes, then the shoes had such good traction built into them that she shouldn't have been able to slide down the hallway like that!  Duh ....  When she was going down the building's exterior emergency staircase, the guard running up the stairs should have heard her footsteps and quickly noticed her crotch descending upon him--heck! it was at his eye level after all--and should have had enough time to aim his "phallic-like" weapon at her and shoot her ( and I don't mean with "blanks" ).  Ha, ha, ha.  If she could see what was in a person's mind by simply sucking that person's blood, why couldn't Selene figure out that a bunch of the guys that she sucked really good were all lycans in disguise? Why did these vampires use candles and flashlights?  I always thought that vampires could see in the dark!  At least one of the vampires was shooting at nothing when their hideout was under lycan attack--bad CGI edit!  If vampires can move really fast, why did Selene get herself swatted around like a bug by the slow-moving giant lycan? Can a ceiling fan actually hold an adult human's body weight?  This movie is set in the near future but it's got cars from the '70s and '80s!  ( Cheap props, if you ask me. )  Why did the elevator work when its inner doors were kept open? If it heals instantly, why didn't the lycan dig into its own belly when it still had the chance?  If vampires are ice-cold, why do they have to go around wearing jackets/coats or even clothes, for that matter?  I'm sure that you horn-dogs out there will agree with me on this:  There were "hot" frigid vampires in this movie who could have done us a good "favor" had they gone around completely butt-naked ( because cold weather doesn't affect them at all the way that it does humans )!  So, I'm thinking, the next installment of this movie franchise should be titled: UNDERWORLD: UNDRESSING, NC-17.  Ahem ....  ( Yeah, I'd be more than willing to go to the midnight show for that one! )  I can just imagine how many human males would impatiently get in line just to have themselves sucked really, really good by such "hot" frigid vampires!  Ha, ha, ha--snort!

Imagine how much sense this movie would have made had they hired my services as Cine-Man!

fyi:  Somewhere in Asia--Tibet, if I'm not mistaken--people kill a goat or a sheep by cutting into its upper abdomen and then reaching in with the hand to grab and keep the animal's heart from beating anymore.  They call this a "bloodless" slaughter.

Heck, if they really want to slaughter an animal in a bloodless sort of way, all that they need to do is drive a sharp spike into its head!  You can't get any more bloodless than that.  And it's quick so that the animal is not forced to suffer needlessly.

word of advice:  There is a strong bond between a mother and her child.

tidbits:  I was gonna wait until Saturday to see this.  But I changed my mind at the last minute.  And only because I arrived at the theatre with plenty of time to catch this movie's first matinee show.


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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 3-D, G ( 1 hr & 24 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Monday, January 16th, 2012
show:  2:00 p.m.
costs:  $9.25 Ticket + $5.75 small Popcorn + $4.50 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Cherry ) Coke + $6.86 # 3 meal @ the MacDonald's Restaurant in the Target Shopping Center after the movie = $26.36
auditorium:  7
seat:  3rd row, 9th column


synopsis/overview:  A witch puts a handsome prince who is selfish, rude and ill-tempered, along with his unfortunate servants, under a spell  that can only be broken if the prince changes his ways and finds true love before time runs out for all of them on his 21st birthday.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) The curse; 2.) Book; 3.) Vain suitor; 4.) Invention; 5.) "Lost in the woods"; 6.) "A place to stay"; 7.) "I'll have Belle for my wife"; 8.) "Where's Poppa"; 9.) "The one we've been waiting for"; 10.) "I didn't get to say, Goodbye"; 11.) Bedroom; 12.) "I'm disgraced"; 13.) "Crazy old Maurice"; 14.) "Show me the smile"; 15.) Magic mirror; 16.) "Be our guest"; 17.) "If it's not Baroque, don't fix it"; 18.) "So, that's the West Wing"; 19.) Wolves; 20.) Arguments; 21.) Evil plan; 22.) Library; 23.) Breakfast; 24.) Bold/daring; 25.) Stupid; 26.) "I release you"; 27.) "It's alright, Poppa, I'm home"; 28.) Stowaway; 29.) Asylum for loonies; 30.) Village mob; 31.) "Belle, you came back"; and 32.) "I told you."


audience reaction:  The audience liked it.  And it got a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation:  It's a formulaic Chick Flick, pretty much.  Go see it if that's your "thing".

spoiler alert!  What is a kingdom without a king and a queen, only a prince?  I never heard of such a thing.    What about the soldiers and guards?  There were none; only the prince's personal servants were in the castle.  In reality, if a person found himself alone in a dark, unoccupied building where objects take on a life of their own, that poor person would probably just die of fright!  Who can eat 5,000 eggs a day?  How did that skinny little Belle managed to put the unconscious Beast on the horse all by herself? Pigs do not wallow in the wintertime when the temperature drops down below 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  I don't think that the women back then wore brassieres.  How was Chip able to figure-out how to operate the newfangled invention?  The leading man in this movie and the one in the other Disney movie, TANGLED, both died a similar death and were revived pretty much the same way, too!

fyi:  I didn't see this movie when it first came out in 1991.

I wasn't much into movies back then.

Eggs are actually healthy for you.  Egg protein is the "Gold Standard" Protein by which all other kinds of protein are measured.  Although the egg yolk is high in Cholesterol, the egg white has enough Lecithin in it to counter the bad effects of Cholesterol!  It was the Grain Lobbyists who financed the Egg Study to fool the general public into thinking that eating a breakfast that is very  high in Sugar, Starch and Simple Carbohydrates is "better" for you than a breakfast that is high in Protein, Complex Carbohydrates and Fats.

word of advice:  Looks can be deceiving.  ( But I still won't marry an ugly girl! )

tidbits:  I forgot that today is a holiday, Martin Luther King's Day, to be exact. Lots of people turned-out at the cineplex!  And my usual favorite parking spaces were all taken-up so that I had to park far away, farther than I cared to park.

I ate at MacDonald's after the movie.

Then, I drove back home, took a shower, did some correspondence, and went to work.

CONTRABAND, R ( 1 hr & 50 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Saturday, January 14th, 2012
show:  12:35 p.m.
costs:  $7.00 Ticket + $4.50 20 oz. VitaminWater XXX = $11.50
auditorium:  14
seat:  5th row, 6th column


synopsis/overview:  A former master smuggler, Chris Faraday ( Mark Wahlberg ) must get himself back in the game when his brother-in-law, Andy ( Caleb Landry Jones ), is forced to not deliver on a drug run.  And the bad guys are threatening the lives of his wife, Kate ( Kate Beckinsale ),  and their kids, as a result.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Customs raid on a ship; 2.) Hospital; 3.) "I like your outfit"; 4.) "We're playing"; 5.) "Will you just trust me, please"; 6.) "The proudest day of my life was when you turned legit"; 7.) Funny money; 8.) Interview; 9.) "It takes money to make money"; 10.) "You're still the captain's bitch-boy"; 11.) "That's the point"; 12.) Intruders; 13.) 'Phone call; 14.) Accident; 15.) "You got a lot of pussy in there"; 16.) The iodine test; 17.) "If you'd hired a real smuggler"; 18.) "Human speed bump"; 19.) Gun battle; 20.) Last container; 21.) Inspection; 22.) "I f-cking warned you": 23.) Salt; 24.) Threat; 25.) "Who f-cking told him"; 26.) "I know what you did"; 27.) Double cross; 28.) Intradiction team; 29.) Tarp; 30.) "You won't get your dope if I'm dead"; 31.) Security alarm; 32.) What are you doing in my house"; 33.) "South corner first"; 34.) Ringing cellphone; 35.) "Sea-full of money"; and 36.) "Twenty on the Black Market."

audience reaction:  The audience liked it.


recommendation:  It was just okay to me, being that I don't like the subject matter to begin with.


spoiler alert!  Why does Tim ( Giovanni Ribisi ), the drug dealer, live in a tenement building?  Even with your back turned to it, you can tell simply by the sound that it makes if a vacuum cleaner is being moved back and forth.  Why didn't she report the break-in to the cops?  The cops could have run a ballistic test on the bullet that was lodged in the wall for future reference.  I know that there are many uses for Duct Tape, but as a mask ...?  They should have used Masking Tape, instead!  Ha, ha, ha.  And I don't think that Duct Tape comes-off that easily if you wrap it around your face and head, especially if you have all that hair!  Those Duct-Taped bad guys deserved to get what they got!  That last container hoisted onto the ship should have caught someone else's attention, what with the ship running behind schedule.  Yup, that sure looked like a tarp to me.  Ha, ha, ha.  Why didn't he check for pupil dilation or used a mirror to check for breathing?  Or, better yet, he could just have put his ear to her left breast to check for--Ahem!--heartbeats; and do Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation!  LOL.  ( Hey, that was what he wanted in the first place, when you think about it. )  Why would you haul around a Wet/Dry Vac like that without emptying its liquid content first?  Sebastian's ( Ben Foster ) nose bleed coagulated and turned dark too soon--trust me, I know; I get about a dozen nose bleeds each year FROM EACH NOSTRIL!


fyi:  I know of this young woman once who fell down and hit her head on the ground one day while she was out in her own back yard.  She complained of a headache that night, yet never bothered to have herself checked by a doctor. The next day, she was dead.


word of advice:  Don't betray/abuse the trust of those whose lives depend on you.

Crime pays ...?

tidbits:  After the movie, I went to the Dollar Tree Store at the Target Shopping Center to buy two door stops for my condo's hallway doors because the painters messed around with them so that now they don't stay open.  And fresh air needs to circulate down the hallway to air-out any unpleasant and/or stale smell. And I feel more secure with the hallway doors open because it discourages or lessens any criminal activity.

Then I went to Selecta Pilipino Buffet on Springs Road here in Vallejo, CA, for dinner and to catch the football playoff game between San Francisco Forty-Niners and the New Orleans Saints.  That was a close game.  I thought that it was gonna end-up like last week's game in which the Saints won.  But the Forty-Niners won by just a few points.  Whew! that was exciting.

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN in I-MAX 3-D, PG ( 1 hr & 47 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
show:  4:25 p.m.
costs:  $11.00 Ticket + $4.50 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry ) Coke = $15.50
auditorium:  10
seat:  5th row, 4th seat

2nd Time:


where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Thursday, January 12th, 2012
show:  1:30 p.m.
costs:  $17.50 Ticket + $4.75 small Diet Coke + $9.45 lunch @ Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, before the show ( + $1.55 Tip ) = $33.25
auditorium:  12, with the I-Max screen
seat:  6th row, 9th column


synopsis/overview:  Tintin buys a model of a 16th century battleship, the Unicorn, at an outdoor market and soon finds himself in the midst of an intriguing plan involving a long standing family curse and a long lost sunken treasure.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) Model ship; 2.) Marlinspike Hall; 3.) Reprobate; 4.) Pickpocket; 5.) Delivery; 6.) Karaboudjan Ship; 7.) Corks; 8.) "I assumed it was lock"; 9.) "Nothing is an accident"; 10.) Eyelids; 11.) Necessities; 12.) Lifeboat; 13.) Collection; 14.) Seaplane; 15.) "Wall of Death"; 16.) Fumes; 17.) Propeller; 18.) Sea battle; 19.) Sober; 20.) Secret cargo; 21.) The curse; 22.) The Milanese Nightingale Concert; 23.) "I can smell it on you"; 24.) The chase; 25.) Bagghar; 26.) Signal; 27.) Dueling shipyard cranes; 28.) Bottles; 29.) Coordinates; 30.) Globe; and 31.) "Unquenchable!"

favorite scenes:  I liked the Sea Battle scene.

I liked the Milanese Nightingale Concert scene.

I liked the Chase scene.

I liked the Dueling Shipyard Cranes scene.


1st audience reaction:  The audience liked it.

2nd  audience reaction:  N/A.  I was all by my lonesome ....

recommendation:  I liked this movie.  The computer animation in this one is very good.  Go see this movie with your little brats but be forewarned:  A couple of scenes might be unpleasant to the little brats.  But, then again, them little brats need something unpleasant every now and then!

spoiler alert!  Tintin looked too young, like a 14-year old boy.  A drunken fool for a captain?  No wonder the crew mutinied!  That bad guy should have been blown to smithereens when the ship blew-up.  They were in the desert under the blistering heat of the midday sun yet neither one ended-up with sunburn and blisters.  Why was an officer at the Nightingale concert sporting a Mohawk haircut?  That Mohawk haircut was out-of-place for that time period.  There is no way in the real world that a human voice can shatter a bullet-proof glass--but  I could be wrong because I haven't heard William Hung give it a try, yet!

fyi:  The animation in this movie is so good that it made me wonder why they did this movie in computer animation instead of in live action.  I mean, why go through all that trouble, expense and time when they could have pretty much achieved the same effects using live actors for the better part of the film?

Am I the only one who noticed that the short bespectacled rich Moroccan man resembled Steven Spielberg?

word of advice:  Do not assume.  Because, if you assume, you'll make an ASS of--look in the mirror--U and ME!

1st tidbits:  In the hallway, right after the movie, an Asian man asked one of his kids, "Did it look blurry to you?"  I responded with, Yes, it was blurry.  And, no, I'm not one of his kids!  LOL

2nd tidbits:  I wanted to see this in I-Max at the Fairfield cineplex on Wednesday, the 21st of December.  But I was gonna eat lunch first at Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, before the movie because I wanted to do a Name Tie-In.  I forgot that this buffet is closed on Wednesdays now.  I read the sign posted at their door last Thanksgiving and, yet, I still completely forgot about it--I guess hunger and/or a voracious craving for Chinese buffet does that to my Memory brain cells.

And I would have to wait one and a half hours more just to catch the movie on I-Max.  So, I just drove back to Vallejo, CA, to watch this movie in 3-D, instead.

Unfortunately, the projectionist never bothered to check the focal setting on the projection, making the 3-D movie somewhat blurry.  And nobody in the audience, myself included, told management about it!  Heck, I assumed that some parent in the audience did; after all, the people with little brats in tow paid more to see the movie in 3-D and had that much more reason to get their money's worth on it than I did!

And I was gonna watch this Tintin movie in I-Max last week.  But you all know how that went!  ( Down the toilet bowl.  Ha, ha, ha. )

DON 2 3-D, NR ( 2 hr & 25 min )

where:  UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA
when:  Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
show:  7:50 p.m.
costs:  $8.00 Ticket + $2.00 small Popcorn ( discounted price on my movie watcher reward card ) + $4.75 small Barq's Root Beer + $0.50 Rascals Candy + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $20.25
auditorium:  4
seat:  6th row, 12th column

synopsis/overview:  An Asian underworld boss now has his sights on the European underworld.  But the European underworld bosses want him dead; and the cops want him arrested.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) A meeting of underworld bosses; 2.) Execution attempt; 3.) Birthday; 4.) "Immunity or nothing"; 5.) Escape plan; 6.) Safe deposit box; 7.) Tape; 8.) Printing plates; 9.) Charity fundraiser; 10.) Video clip; 11.) "No autographs, please"; 12.) Car chase; 13.) Hit man; 14.) "Special talent"; 15.) Double-decker bus; 16.) "Under pressure"; 17.) Plans; 18.) The double-cross; 19.) Security cameras; 20.) Bomb; 21.) Underground vault; 22.) Fingerprints; 23.) "No escape plan"; 24.) "Shocking behavior"; 25.) Package; 26.) "Temporary lapse of judgment"; 27.) "Last request"; 28.) "I want to be a free man"; 29.) "You're welcome"; 30.) "Happy reunion"; 31.) "Immunity papers; 32.) Priceless; 33.) "Don never forgets"; 34.) "Perfect crime"; 35.) "It's not difficult to catch Don"; and 36.) Bollywood song and dance.


audience reaction:  There were about 20 people in the audience with me.  And they seemed to enjoy this movie.

recommendation:  I never saw part one--'didn't even know that there was a part one--so I'm not a member of this movie's fan-base.  'That said, I found this movie to be  above average as an Action Movie.  Go see this if you're into Action Movies.  However, the plot contrivance was a little "stretched" for my taste.

spoiler alert!  What is missing from this movie?  Oh, I know.  This "Don" character is supposedly the Big Boss of the Asian underworld but ... think about it ... China and India, alone, have over a billion people in each one.  And we're not even considering the population count of the other Asian countries.  What I'm getting at is this:  Don ( Shah Rukh Khan ) is the Number One underworld boss in Asia yet ... he goes around without an "army" of sorts--HE HAD TO GO TALK SOME OTHER BAD GUYS INTO JOINING HIS RAG-TAG TEAM!!!  I mean, come on, he could not have become Asia's underworld's Top Boss if he didn't have his own formidable "army" to help him run and control things!  So, what happened to his "army"?  That mystery guy ( Hrithik Roshan ) at the charity fundraiser who danced with the female detective had a funny-looking "pinched" nose: Too narrow!  ( I think that he had a "nose job". Hmm, I wonder if he had surgery done on that finger of his, too.  )  When the car hit something, the airbags didn't deploy. When Don made his descent by way of a rope, the bad guy could have easily shot him dead because he was moving down in a straight line.  Did they really have to kill the security guards?  How did the cops know right away that it was a robbery, not a fire emergency?  When Don made the comment that the helicopter was "spoiling the mood", Roma, the female detective, should have jumped on that HINT and easily narrowed-down Don's location in the building. Okay, that fingerprint identification machine had a touch pad; meaning, you cannot put a practically weightless sheet of clear plastic on it and expect it to read the fingerprints IF NO PRESSURE IS USED TO ACTIVATE ITS RECOGNITION SOFTWARE!  Wouldn't the fingerprint identification machine recognize a security breach if its touch pad was activated WITHOUT ANY HUMAN BODY WEIGHT PRESSURE DETECTED BY ITS SENSORS?  You would think that the vault's pressure sensitive floor would be calibrated to accept only the safe-keeper's average weight!  Dang! I thought her bullet-proof vest spelled-out the word, SEX ( Because I was gonna say, Pick a number, get in line and wait for your "F" turn! LOL ),  it didn't; SEK is the German acronym for, SpezialEinsatzKommando, the German equivalent of the American SWAT.  Since Don knew how those bombs were put together, why did not the SEK force just let him deactivate all of them?  That bad guy sure had no peripheral vision for Don to be able to jump him from the side like that!  I said this more than once before: In a kill-or-be-killed fight, you fight dirty to survive and to end it as quickly as possible because, in such a situation, time will be a luxury that you won't be able to afford.  She was shot in the liver, for Chrissake!  Gunshot wounds to the Liver are almost always fatal. She needed medical attention right away to stop the profuse bleeding and to stabilize her and QUICKLY SPEED HER OFF TO THE HOSPITAL INSTEAD OF HIM CARRYING HER OUT--AT SUCH A LEISURELY PACE--TO A WAITING AMBULANCE BECAUSE, IN REALITY, SHE WOULD HAVE ALREADY BLED TO DEATH BY THAT POINT IN TIME!  Duh!  What good will his "immunity papers" do him if the other underworld bosses are still around and are still Hell-bent on killing him?  The dialogue could have used some polish since it didn't translate well into English in the subtitle.

fyi:  If you like your girls extra hot and spicy, this movie serves-up two delectable dishes in the form of Priyanka Chopra ( as Roma ) and Lara Dutta ( as Ayesha ).

Wow, that is one nice-looking prison!  I wouldn't mind being incarcerated there. I just hope that they use liquid soap because a prison shower room floor is not where I'd want to pick-up a dropped bar of soap!  Iykwim ( If you know what I mean )!  Ha, ha, ha.

word of advice:  Bad guys make for strange bedfellows.

tidbits:  Earlier today, Tuesday, the 10th of January, 2012, I decided to have something new for breakfast.  I had a Christmas peanut butter cup the size of a hamburger patty just sitting around in the kitchen--and I had one hamburger bun left!  Hmm,  what to do ....  I put that peanut butter cup in-between the hamburger bun slices and nuked it in my microwave on High for 30 seconds.  I ended-up with one big gooey mess on my microwave's turntable!  But there was no way that I was gonna let all of that go to waste.  I just picked-up a kitchen spatula and scraped-off all that gooey goodness so that I could eat it all up.  Note to myself for next time:  I'll just heat-up the hamburger bun in my toaster before putting the giant peanut butter cup in the middle of it--it should work better this way ( I hope ).

Later on in the day, I went to Oakland, CA, to visit Hector and his family--and Tiger, the cat.  I haven't seen them in two months' time.

Tiger is slightly over a year old now.  But he doesn't look like he's full-grown.  His head is getting bigger, though.   I hope that he gets bigger because I've had cats that were practically twice his present size.  And bigger cats make for  cuddlier sleeping companions.

And speaking of Tiger, as I pulled-up to Hector's house, I saw him perched atop a neighbor's SUV.  He came into the house with me.  And he curled-up in his favorite corner in the dining room.  He slept there until after I was done making some Garlic Bread and Spaghetti for everyone.  Because as soon as I was done cooking, he walked into the kitchen and, with those half-closed eyes of his, sat there waiting for me to give him some food.  And who am I to just shoo him away?

Hector talked with his older sister on the 'phone.  She has Alzheimer's Disease now.  She thought that her own daughter was her little sister.  Then she inquired of Hector how their parents were doing these days. Hector told her that they both have been dead for quite a while now.  And she cried because she couldn't remember ever attending the funeral of either one of their parents.  It was kind of sad for me to learn about her present condition.

To break the sad mood, I told Hector and his kids that I will take them to see the movie, THREE STOOGES, when it comes out in April because it is based on him and his two brothers, "Moe" and "Larry"--Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.  Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!

During the movie's intermission, I went out to the hallway and got some Rascals Candy for 50 cents.  But would you believe that the vending machine only gave me 6 tiny pieces!  WTF?!?!?!  That's it, I'm buying all of my candy snacks at the dollar/99 cent store from now on!

After the movie, I swung by my former place of employment at the Rockridge Shopping Center in North Oakland, CA.  That huge place is half-empty now.  It lost its lease and will close for business on March 10th of this year.  Some of my former co-workers were still there.  And I wished them all a "Happy New Year"; although, in retrospect, I think that I shouldn't have done so since they will be all without jobs in this bad economy in two months' time.  I hope that they will all find employment soon after the store closes for business.

THE DEVIL INSIDE, R ( 1 hr & 27 min )

where:   CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Thursday, January 5th, 2012
show:  10:15 p.m.
costs:  $10.50 Ticket + $4.75 Pretzel Bites + $4.00 small Barq's Root Beer = $19.25
auditorium:  11
seat:  2nd row, 4th column


synopsis/overview:  Twenty years after her mother's  failed exorcism in which three people were killed, a young woman, Isabella ( Fernanda Andrade ), goes to Rome to learn the truth.  There, with the help of two priests, she engages four demons who are in possession of her mother.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Crime scene; 2.) "Is it in my genes"; 3.) Exorcism class; 4.) Ogled at on the sidewalk; 5.) "You'll need to see a real one"; 6.) "Offering of forgiveness"; 7.) Centrino Mental Hospital video; 8.) "You shouldn't have killed your child"; 9.) "I've seen the Devil more than I've seen God"; 10.) Upside-down crosses; 11.) Exorcism cases; 12.) Dog; 13.) Basement; 14.) "I don't know what to say"; 15.) "What if it was your mother"; 16.) The mother's exorcism at the mental hospital"; 17.) "This is huge"; 18.) Four demonic voices; 19.) "They won't release her"; 20.) "Annoying guy with a camera"; 21.) "David ( Evan Helmuth ), what the f-ck are you doing"; 22.) Baptism; 23.) "What was it like ... when your  mother f-cked your own best friend"; 24.) "He took your gun"; 25.) "Thank you"; 26.) "Maybe there's some transference"; 27.) Hospital; 28.) Car; and 29.) therossifiles.com.



audience reaction:  The audience reacted as well as can be expected of a "scaredy-cat" audience watching a horror movie.

recommendation:  It was a scripturally-inaccurate cheap entertainment for me. This is a "documentary-style" horror movie for fans of such a genre.

spoiler alert!    When Isabella walked out of the mental hospital, she did so well ahead of her tag-along cameraman; but, as she walked down the steps, the cameraman was already on the sidewalk filming her from behind--Oopsy!  The Dog Scene is the only scary scene in this movie, and simply because of its unexpectedness.  In the Basement Scene, when the possessed young woman, Rosa ( Bonnie Morgan ) arched her back, while she was hemorrhaging, some of her blood splashed on the lens of the overhead camera--I've heard of "squirters" but this one takes the "bloody" cake!  Ha, ha, ha.  I can't believe that Isabella asked the priest, "David, what the f-ck are you doing?"  Clearly, she was already possessed by the Devil to be so disrespectful toward the priest!  LOL.  Father Ben ( Simon Quarterman ) was cussing-up a storm--'probably was already possessed, too!  Father Ben knew that Isabella was already possessed.  So, why did he not restrain her?  Why did he put her in the car?  Why did the driver not pull the car over to the curb at the first sign of a struggle in the back seat?  Why were the airbags not deployed? The Fictitious Persons and Events Disclaimer at the end of the trailing credits just proved that therossifiles.com is a bogus site!

fyi:  In the basement where a possessed young woman, Rosa,  was tied to her bed, the camera switched to an overhead shot and, from what I saw briefly, I wanted to yell out:  Camel Toe!  Ha, ha, ha--snort!

Father Ben said, "I've seen the Devil more than I've seen God."  While it might be true for Father Ben to say that he'd "seen" the Devil on a number of occasions because  the whole world is Satan's principality ( Matthew 4:8-9 ), it was wrong of him to lead us to believe that he had seen God and lived to tell about it!  As a priest, he should have known better than to say such a lie!!!

Exodus 33:20  "You cannot see My Face for no one may see Me and live."  New International Version

To Jesus Christ, His Apostles and their Disciples, Infant Baptism was an abomination before God!  None of them baptized babies!  Please allow me to repeat what I just said:  NONE OF THEM BAPTIZED BABIES!  This practice is a Roman Catholic invention.  Jesus Christ, His Apostles and their Disciples only baptized individuals who had met the  "adult age" requirements for Bar/Bat Mitzvah!  In other words, a male had to be at least 13 years of age to be baptized; and a female had to be at least 12 years of age to be baptized.  The reason for this is in 1st  Corinthians 7:14  "For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband.  Otherwise, your children would be unclean but, as it is, they are holy." New International V  ( Hence, no need for infants, toddlers and underaged children to be baptized! )  [ There is a "little technicality" attached to this provision, but this is neither the time nor place for me to engage you in such a digression. ]

Re-read my blog on THE LAST EXORCISM ( 2010 ) to learn what The Holy Scriptures have to say about these so-called modern-day "exorcisms".

Technically speaking, the Roman Catholics are not Christians at all, they are Marians, in the sense that they have supplanted the Divine Authority and Power of Jesus Christ as Our Savior with a belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus, has some kind of intercessory ability!!!  A priest interviewed outside of the Vatican in the documentary movie, RELIGULOUS  ( 2008 ) bemoaned this lamentable idolatrous fact.  She does not have such an intercessory ability at all--Period!  Yet, they ( the Marians ) persist in the false notion that since Jesus Christ, the Son of God,  is the King of kings, then Mary, His mother, must be the Queen of Heaven.  Ergo, the FAULTY  LOGIC that Mary has Divine Authority and Power.    But ... read what Jesus Christ had to say about His mother in Luke 11:27-28 and in Matthew 12:47-50.  Also, please read what is said about the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah 7:18-20 and in Jeremiah 44:17-29.  Finally, read what Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, had to say about her relationship to God, The Father, in Luke 1:46-48.  The Roman Catholic faith has the most demonically-possessed followers of all religions, it seems to me, simply because THEY ARE NOT IN GOOD GRACES with Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior!  Gee, I wonder why ....

word of advice:  Read the Bible!  Then, read it again!  That way, nobody can fool you into believing in something that has no scriptural basis to it at all!


tidbits: I had my quarterly dental cleaning today, first thing in the morning, at 9:00 a.m.  Then, I went to Benicia, CA, to pick-up my paycheck and deposit some money at BofA and at Chase Bank.  And I had to go back to the Fed-Ex Store on Admiral Callaghan Lane here in Vallejo, CA, because the Name and Address labels that they printed-up for me didn't come out to my exact specification and to my complete satisfaction.

While I was at the Fed-Ex Store, I was treated to an unexpected but pleasant surprise:  The beautiful daughter of the owner of the Chinese buffet here in town, Empire Buffet, walked in.  She had been gone for many  months, the reason why I haven't blogged about pigging-out at this buffet restaurant for so long.

Hi! Somebody told me that you went back to China, I said.

"I did.  Then, I went to New York and came back.   And I went to New York again and came back," she answered.

Lucky you, I commented.   ( I hope that she didn't go to Times Square to watch the Ball drop only to have some snot-nosed, slobbery pervert give her a cold and flu New Year's Eve kiss! )

Then we got to talking for a bit.  We formally introduced ourselves to each other--finally, and about time, too!  And I learned that she is from the Southern Province of Fujian, in China.

Hey, maybe I'm related to her by blood on my father's side--distantly, I hope, because I've got the "Hots" for her.  Most of the Chinese who settled in the Philippines, through the centuries, were mostly from Southern China.

I had to leave before her.  And as I stepped-out of the Fed-Ex Store, I said to myself that I should ask her out on a date.  Then, I saw her mother waiting for her in the passenger seat of her car.  She drives a Lexus sports coupe!  ( And I own a 1994 Geo Metro and a 2001 Hyundai Accent.  Sad but true. )   I just looked at that fancy, expensive car that just dashed my wishful, romantic hopes and said to myself, I probably paid for the monthly on that with my frequent dining at their restaurant!  Oh, I should point that out to her and get her to reciprocate by going out on a date with me.  Otherwise, her Lexus is gonna get repossessed! LOL

Then, I went to Vacaville, CA, to eat lunch,first, at Tin-Tin Chinese Buffet before going to the Fairfield, CA, cineplex to see the TIN-TIN I-Max 3-D movie because of the obvious Name Tie-In.  But I ate too much and I had to use their "facility" to relieve myself!  Because of this, by the time that I arrived at the theatre, the TIN-TIN movie had already been playing for about 10 minutes.  I will have to retry this tie-in attempt on another day next week, the determined movie blogger that I am!  ( Ahh ... I already saw this movie, by the way--but without the tie-in! So, there .... )

I just drove back home and took a nap to allow my system time to digest all of the food that I ate for lunch.

Finally, it was time to get up and to go see this movie.

While I waited for my turn to buy a ticket at the box office, the woman ahead in line of me told the box office clerk that she wanted to buy two tickets for herself and for her little son for the movie, THE DEVIL OUTSIDE.  The clerk laughed and her son laughed at her, too.  She didn't know why they laughed at her so she repeated herself.  They laughed at her again.  Hell, I laughed at her, too.  Finally, her son said that "... it's THE DEVIL INSIDE, not OUTSIDE."  Then, she found out why ....

Before the movie started, a public service message was shown on-screen about not being rude and inconsiderate by talking or texting while the movie played. But, as soon as the auditorium darkened, cellphones here and there lit-up the whole damn place!  I will have a word with management the next time that I come here and make sure that they enforce their policy!  Because, frankly, I am tired of being in the same room with a bunch of rude and inconsiderate people!!! But, I guess it is just the Vallejo crowd who are just a bunch of low-lifes!

After the movie, one of the patrons said to one of his friends, in reference to therossifiles.com, "You better not go to that sh-t, you're a christian, brother!" Here's yet another example of an idiot who's ignorant of the biblical fact that a True Christian has power and authority over evil spirits and demons and is actually in command of them!  ( Again, read the Bible to learn this spiritual fact. )

As I stood in the hallway looking at my movie notes, a security guard--where was she when all of those cellphones lit-up the auditorium?--came and asked one of the patrons, "Was it a scary one?"

The young female patron answered, "No, it was stupid as f-ck!"

I second that opinion.