CHERNOBYL DIARIES, R ( 1 hr & 26 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
show:  12:25 p.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $6.50 Ticket + $1.00 2.0 oz Odwalla Berries Go Mega health bar ( bought at the Dollar Tree Store before the movie and smuggled-in ) + $4.50 20.0 oz VitaminWater Lemonade + $9.20 lunch @ Empire Chinese Buffet here in Vallejo after the movie ( + $1.80 Tip ) = $23.00
auditorium:  12
seat:  4th row, 6th column


synopsis/overview:  A group of tourists goes on an "extreme tour" of Pripyat, the city where the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor once lived before the disaster of April 26th, 1986. Soon after they explore the abandoned city, they find themselves stranded and hunted down one by one.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Engagement ring; 2.) Cobblestones; 3.) Extreme tourism; 4.) "Nature has reclaimed its rightful home"; 5.) Checkpoint; 6.) "I want to show you something in water"; 7.) Dead fish; 8.) Fifty-thousand people; 9.) May Day; 10.) Silence; 11.) Dead dog; 12.) "It's contaminated"; 13.) Chernobyl reactor # 4; 14.) Ash; 15.) Bear; 16.) Damaged spark plug wires; 17.) "I work alone"; 18.) "It's a f-cking hazard having you as a brother"; 19.) Gunshots; 20.) "They got him"; 21.) "We've got to see if he's alive"; 22.) Image; 23.) Dogs; 24.) "These are exit holes"; 25.) Bus; 26.) "We've got cables for the van"; 27.) The chase; 28.) "Is that from the van"; 29.) "It's recording"; 30.) "We can't leave them. We've got to find them"; 31.) Map; 32.) Kid; 33.) Crowd; 34.) "What is this place"; 35.) Ring; 36.) Ladder; 37.) "My face is burning"; 38.) Attack; 39.) "I can't see anything"; 40.) "Please help us"; 41.) Hospital; and 42.) Locked cell.

audience reaction:  Mild, at best.

recommendation:  It was okay. You might want to wait for it to come out as a rental.

spoiler alert!  If the radiation killed the local living organisms, how were those fish able to survive such an exposure? There would be no bears and no stray dogs in that town for the same reason, since they'd be dead after just a few days of radiation exposure. If a badly-mauled guy says of another guy, "They got him," they got him--no need to check-up on him--he's dead and gone! Why was there water dripping down into that indoor pond when the water supply to that entire abandoned town should have already been turned-off many years ago? Radioactive poisoning can cause genetic mutation leading to death. So, those humanoids shouldn't have survived for so long. And, even if they did, their cells would have mutated to the point where sterility would become inevitable. And, even if a highly-irradiated couple were to produce an offspring, that offspring would not be genetically and physically normal at all. And all of those humanoids would be blind and deaf and rendered non-ambulatory by their excessive radioactive exposure! Why didn't he speak to them in Russian?

fyi:  The Chernobyl Nuclear  Disaster of April 26th, 1986 was worst than the recent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster of March 11th, 2011.

word of advice:  Heed warning signs.

tidbits:  Two bitches at two different Intersections ignored the Stop Sign and tried to cut me off when I had the right-of-way! I just stared at them as I made my way to the theatre after shopping at The Dollar Tree Store first. What's wrong with people today? Nobody else seems to want to stop at Stop Signs or at Red Lights anymore? I see a lot of that happening here in Vallejo, CA. Maybe, it's just a Vallejo "thing".

At 3:33 p.m., as I waited for the Left Turn Light to turn green at the corner of Tuolumne and Redwood streets, on my way home from the buffet, a beautiful and sexy black girl, dressed in black, crossed the intersection in the company of a white guy who was dressed in a white T-shirt and blue jeans, and ... red boxer shorts! His pants was below his buttocks as he walked across nonchalantly. He was either trying to impress the beautiful girl in his company with his wannabe "Poser Look" ( Poseur ) or he just couldn't wait to "jump her bones"! That poor whitey must've been sick with the "Jungle Fever" to go walking around like that--because he had to be sick in the head to think that he'd get "Lucky" dressed that way! Ha, ha, ha.


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