where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Sunday, February 19th, 2012
show: 12:15 p.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs: $6.50 Ticket + $4.75 Pretzel Bites + $4.50 24 oz medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $15.75
auditorium: 8
seat: 5th row, 8ht column
2nd Time
where: EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & 1-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when: Monday, February 20th, 2012
show: 6:30 p.m.
costs: $15.00 Ticket + $2.00 4.0 oz Reeses Pieces Candy ( Two Dollar Candy Monday with a movie watcher card ) + $0.00 small 30.0 oz Diet Coke + $13.72 dinner @ Hometown Buffet after the movie ( + $2.00 Tip ) = $32.72
auditorium: 9, with a 3-D screen
seat: 4th row, 7th column
synopsis/overview: Johnny Blaze ( Nicolas Cage ) hides out somewhere in Eastern Europe to get away from it all. But a secret order of priests tracks him down because they need his help in saving a boy, Danny ( Fergus Riordan ), from the clutches of the Devil.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Castle raid; 2.) Car chase; 3.) "Bare-ass 360"; 4.) Deal with the Devil; 5.) "Intervention of God"; 6.) Deal; 7.) Pickpocket; 8.) "I'm the people who are after you"; 9.) Emergency room; 10.) "I want more"; 11.) Firewall; 12.) "Boyfriend/girlfriend"; 13.) "Devil's baby momma"; 14.) "Power of the Deal"; 15.) Crash; 16.) Happy camper; 17.) "Hey, I got what you need for your 'shakes"'; 18.) Illegal arms dealer; 19.) "Enough. Let her go"; 20.) Truck stop; 21.) "Power of Decay"; 22.) "Second flame thrower"; 23.) "I hope you are finished shooting at me"; 24.) Twinkie; 25.) "Happy place"; 26.) "Spirit of Justice"; 27.) Confession; 28.) "You've been carrying this bread around for a while"; 29.) "You lied to me"; 30.) "Pretty neat, huh"; 31.) The rite; 32.) "What's the matter with your face"; 33.) "Guns and wine"; 34.) "Think of a flame thrower"; 35.) The new king; 36.) Antichrist; 37.) "That felt good"; 38.) "That's gross"; 39.) "The apple doesn't rot far from the tree"; 40.) Rescue chase; 41.) Roadkill; 42.) "You're the worst f--king deal I ever made"; 43.) "I can feel him"; and 44.) "Hell, yes!"
audience reaction: The audience liked it. But it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending. The woman seated in the 10th column of the 6th row had a particularly fun time watching this movie. And the young couple seated in the 6th row, too, to the left of me liked this movie enough that, after watching it, the girl called someone on her cellphone to tell that person how much she enjoyed watching this movie.
2nd audience reaction: This particular crowd has no good ear for quips and has no good eye for sight gags at all: The very same lines of dialogue and the very same scenes that the Vallejo crowd found funny, the Fairfield crowd didn't "get" at all--it was "lost" to them. On more than one occasion, I found myself the only one laughing at the quips and sight gags.
recommendation: I liked it, too. It was more fun to watch than the first one. What made this movie appealing is that it established itself early on as a Horror Comedy type of movie. Hell, even the son of the Devil had three funny scenes in this movie! Go see this movie if you're into Horror Comedy movies.
spoiler alert! If he wanted to get the kid out of the car, all the bad guy had to do was smash the window to open the locked door, instead of hitting the door with his rifle butt. Ghost Rider's jacket was made out of leather, so why did it bubble all over instead of just give-off smoke? Ghost Rider's body couldn't have possibly done such an extensive damage on the SUV when his skeletal body was slammed hard against it. When you're taken to the emergency room of a hospital for surgery, they usually take-off all of your clothes first. An RPG could knock him out but a Bunker Buster couldn't ...? If the bad guy had the Power of Decay, why didn't the ambulance he was driving get rusted? If anything he touches decays, how was he able to capture the boy unharmed and alive in the first place? Why didn't the rest of the posted guards hear the automatic rifle fire right away? The bad guy could have attack Johnny during the transference of Ghost Rider power. When the bad guy landed on her vehicle's hood, why didn't Nadya ( Violante Placido ) slam on the brakes? The vehicle didn't bounce hard when it ran over the body. When Ghost Rider was carrying the unconscious Danny back to his mom, his head was next to Ghost Rider's head yet his hair didn't get singed.
fyi: If you want to experience a close-approximate of what it is like to urinate a stream of flames like the Ghost Rider does, simply get yourself infected with Gonorrhea and/or Chlamydia!
By the way, you can get Gonorrhea simply from performing Oral Sex on your infected partner. And you could get your eyes infected by it, too! So, be careful having sex; practice Safe Sex by wearing a Condom, a ( water-proof--good luck with that one ) Surgical Mask, and a pair of Swimming Goggles--you'll look stupid, funny and weird but you'll be safe, sexually-speaking! LMAO
Oh, by the way, Gonorrhea is also called, "The Clap".
"If you'd been naughty and you got IT, clap your hands!
If you'd been naughty and you got IT, clap your hands!
If you'd been naughty and you got IT but you really don't want to spread IT,
If you'd been naughty and you got IT, clap your hands!" LOL
Disclaimer: I didn't mention this get-yourself-infected ... in my word of advice so that you can't go around blaming me for your sexually-transmitted infection, should you happen to get one. Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha---Snort!
The scene in which the bad guy with the Power of Decay tried to eat a sandwich which just decayed in his hand, then tried to eat an apple which also decayed in his hand, and finally got to eat a Twinkie is an inside joke: There's this belief that a Twinkie, laden as it is with too many preservatives, will last a thousand years without decaying if it is properly stored! I'll let you know in a thousand years whether this is true or not.
Lord knows, the Twinkie will probably be the "Manna" that we will all be eating during Jesus Christ's Millennial Reign here on Earth! Ha, ha, ha.
But I didn't know that they have Hostess Twinkies in Eastern Europe.
word of advice: Don't make a pact with the Devil.
tidbits: I went to Best Buy first thing this morning to have a security car alarm installed in my Hyundai Accent. I got there at around 9:30 a.m. And there was already another guy waiting at the install bay parking area. To while the time away, I walked around the perimeter and did my Zhunti Mantra.
The bay opened for business at 10:00 a.m. And the installer told me that it would take him three hours to work on my car. Well, that just ruined my plan to see this movie in 3-D at either the 11:30 a.m. or the 1:10 p.m. show at the Edwards Fairfield Stadium 16 & I-Max.
I walked across the street to the Century 14 Vallejo to check the show times for this movie. But it was still around 10:30 a.m. when I got there and the theatre was not yet opened.
I walked back to Best Buy and saw that the installer was already at work on my car. So, I went inside the store to use the men's room and to browse around in the DVD and Software sections. Then, I went to check on my car again. It was still being worked on.
I walked back to the theatre and saw that this movie had a 2-D showtime for 12:15 p.m. Well, I might as well see this movie to pass the time away while my car is being worked on, I said to myself. But I still want to see this movie again in 3-D, just because ....
The movie let out at around 2:10 p.m. I checked my cellphone and found out that the installer just finished with my car less than twenty minutes earlier. That was almost four hours just for a security car alarm installation!
As I walked back to Best Buy, I spotted a Hobo hide-out behind the Pep-Boys building nearby, complete with a cardboard mat and a stick of wood for the hobo's personal security and/or safety. The hide-out is located under the rear cement staircase.
Anyway, the installation is not completely finished, as of yet. The installer discovered that the right side door doesn't have an actuator in it. I will need to take it back on Tuesday, at 1:00 p.m., to have him finish the job. But the security alarm is now operational, except for the passenger side door.
Then, I went to the post office to drop off a mail-order.
And I went to Selecta Pilipino Buffet for lunch, and to buy some lottery tickets.
Finally, before heading on home, I walked to the 99 Cent Only Store next door to buy a three litre bottle of Strawberry Kiwi Fusion soda, a trail mix, some batteries, and a few dessert cups. Of course, Brett might argue that I could have bought most of these things--except for the soda--at Safeway. But his manager pissed me off so much last night that I'm boycotting that particular Safeway store for the foreseeable future!
2nd tidbits: I was the last dining patron left at Hometown Buffet. And I wanted to have a frozen yogurt swirl to cap my dining experience before leaving the premises. So, I went to the frozen yogurt dispensing machine to get a bowl of Vanilla & Chocolate Swirl. When I pulled down on the center lever, the machine didn't squirt out a swirl; instead, with a loud noise, it BLASTED-OUT a clump of swirl into my cup! Not to mention, my upper body was splattered with it, too. What a way to cap my dining experience!
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