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where: AMC BAY STREET 16 in Emeryville, CA
when: Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
show: 10:00 p.m.
costs: $10.00 Ticket + $5.00 Curly Fries + $4.75 20.0 oz Powerade Fruit Punch + $7.17 Texas BBQ Whopper Combo Meal @ Burger King in Emeryville sometime after the movie = $26.92
auditorium: 4
seat: 4th row, 8th column
synopsis/overview: An impetuous princess defies her people's age-old tradition because she wants to make something of herself, angering the Highland Lords in the process and setting chaos in the Kingdom. In desperation, she turns to a witch for help, one that comes at a heavy price. Now, she must muster-up real courage to undo the curse.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Will-o'-the-Wisps; 2.) Bear attack; 3.) Princess's duties and expectations; 4.) Letters; 5.) "Pretend I'm Merida"; 6.) "It's too tight"; 7.) "Presentation of the suitors"; 8.) "First born"; 9.) Runaway; 10.) Witch's lair; 11.) Peace offering; 12.) Bear; 13.) Reward; 14.) Butts; 15.) "Faith be changed ..."; 16.) Breakfast; 17.) "You changed"; 18.) Old castle ruins; 19.) Quarrel; 20.) "Legends are true"; 21.) Break tradition; 22.) Tapestry; 23.) Locked-in; 24.) "Get back! That's my mother"; 25.) Mor'du; 26.) "Second sunrise"; and 27.) Bonus Scene after the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: The audience liked it. But it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending. Although ... it did get a "Hands Clapper" when a "Steve Jobs Dedication" rolled-up during the Ending Credits.
recommendation: I liked it. But, if you decide to go see this movie, here's a "heads-up" for you: This movie shows lots of nude male butts--I'm not kidding! I'm talkin' butts of every size, shape and age. "Feast your eyes on this!" yeah, really ....
Pixar owes me, and the rest of the horndog world out there, some nude female butts and they'd better deliver soon or they're gonna have a lawsuit in their hands!!! Ha, ha, ha.
spoiler alert! That second arrow would never have enough velocity in real life for it to penetrate through the first arrow and knock-off the first arrow's arrowhead. Besides, both archers were not of the same exact height; therefore, their arrows would have hit the target at different angles so the second arrow--still--should not have totally split the first arrow in half! That guard should have noticed that something was wrong when he turned to look at the bear since it was standing closer to him than it did earlier. And the guard would have readily seen that there were two bears after all. Why didn't the three bear cubs gather around Merida when she was grieving for her mom? Why didn't Merida notice the change in size right away?
fyi: "Will-o'-the-Wisp" is nothing more than just swamp gas that ignites once it comes into contact with the air.
As I've said it before on at least two separate occasions, AMC BAY STREET 16 in Emeryville, CA, here in the good ol' USA, is The Only Place in the Whole Wide World to go see a Pixar movie at because Pixar Animation Studios is just about a mile away from this theatre!
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| I took this photo from inside my car while I stopped at the stop sign of the intersection directly in front of Pixar's entrance gate. |
word of advice: Be careful what you wish for.
Don't eat somebody else's leftovers!
tidbits: I went to CVS Drugstore at the Rockridge Shopping Center in Oakland, CA, after the movie to say, "Hi!" to some former co-workers of mine.
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| To the right of this photo is a water-filled former rock quarry. Rumor has it that some bodies of crime victims were dumped into this quarry. |
This CVS Drugstore is HUGE, the biggest one in the chain! Unfortunately, though, it lost its lease and is gradually decreasing its inventory for its eventual shut-down in December. The owner of this shopping center, Safeway, didn't renew CVS's lease two years ago but has been giving the drugstore a periodic extension. Safeway wants this spot to build their own huge supermarket on, probably with a gas station, too, since there would be plenty of room for one!
The above CVS Drugstore started out as a Payless Drugstore, of the California-based Payless Drugs, back in the '60s. In the '80s, the whole chain was bought-out by K-Mart Stores. Shortly after that, the chain was acquired by Oregon-based Payless Northwest. Then, Rite-Aid took over. And the chain was sold to Longs Drugs when Rite-Aid decided to cut-back on its westward expansion. Now, CVS Drugs owns the chain but is scaling down its westward operation, too, because of the economy; and CVS is also down-sizing the size of its stores as a side-effect of the bad economy. And the above CVS Drugstore is way too big for the CVS chain--three or four regular size stores could easily fit inside of this one. I guess, in a way, CVS Drugs will be glad to get rid of this store.
And this store's demise will bring to an end the Giant Drugstore Era. I have fond, and not so fond, memories of this store through most of its conversions.
Then, I swung by Rockridge Two Wheels to check-out their current Italian and Taiwanese motor scooter and motorcycle inventories. But, I couldn't find a convenient parking space even after I drove around the block twice. So, I just left. I'll just go back someday while I still have the urge to splurge.
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| Rockridge Two Wheels |
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