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where: UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA
when: Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
show: 8:00 p.m.
costs: $8.50 Ticket + $1.00 Charity Donation + $6.00 small Popcorn w/ Butter + $0.00 small 30.0 oz Barq's Root Beer ( free on Regal Movie Watcher Rewards Card ) + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $20.50
auditorium: 4
seat: 6th row, 12th column
synopsis/overview: Shiva ( Akshay Kumar ), a small-time conman, falls in love with Priya ( Sonakshi Sinha ) and promises to change his ways. But a little girl comes into his life believing that he is her father, ruining the budding relationship with his new girlfriend. But he soon learns of the little girl's story and promises to make things right for her through some uncharacteristic derring-do; and, in doing so, he gets his girlfriend back.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Grave; 2.) First victim; 3.) Dividing-up the loot; 4.) Female cop; 5.) "The whole world goes reverse while I go forward"; 6.) Cricket-playing boys; 7.) Purse snatcher; 8.) "I think I'm in love"; 9.) "Children crossed my path"; 10.) Wedding party crashers; 11.) Culture; 12.) Baby diapers; 13.) Brother; 14.) The truth; 15.) Bad guy; 16.) Rich woman; 17.) Child; 18.) Birthday cake; 19.) The picture; 20.) Playground; 21.) "He's with you"; 22.) Hospital; 23.) "I'll find you"; 24.) Broken tape player; 25.) "You deceived me"; 26.) Chase; 27.) Eye to eye; 28.) Rain; 29.) Deathbed promise; 30.) Missing wife; 31.) Train station thugs; 32.) "What happened to your wife"; 33.) The file; 34.) "Don't underestimate fear"; 35.) Acquittal; 36.) Accidental hanging; 37.) Celebration; 38.) Charade; 39.) "Uncle will fall asleep hearing mother's voice"; 40.) Appointment; 41.) Rowdy; 42.) "Don't angry ( sic ) me"; 43.) "You lost a good man"; 44.) "Where was I"; 45.) Well; 46.) "Your waistline stole my heart"; 47.) Storehouse; 48.) Police brutality; 49.) Story; 50.) Bridge; 51.) "In the mood"; and 52.) Outtakes during the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: The audience, mostly from India, really enjoyed this movie.
recommendation: I thought that this movie was all in silly juvenile fun, that it was made to be a parody of ( Bollywood style? ) Action/Comedy movies. Don't go see this movie expecting much from it in the Logic Department.
spoiler alert! Did he really have to strip those boys naked before kicking them out of his house? If you hold your cellphone against your cheek and shoulder, you'll notice it right away if someone takes it from you. I don't know how they do things in India, but this movie screams of "Assaulting a Police Officer" and also of "Police Brutality". If cool water relieves the pressure, he should have carried a bottle of water with him! Why did he take the cop's belt with him instead of returning it to its rightful owner? At the celebration, that bad guy had about half a dozen missed opportunities to use his sword! He could just have jumped in the Jeep ( ? ) and stepped on the brakes. Most of the cops in this movie are cowardly and/or easily abused. "Don't angry me"--seriously ...? He was too close to the exploding vehicle! How did Shiva ( and the other guy before him ) turn into a super crime fighter?
fyi: This movie is also playing at the CENTURY 25 UNION LANDING AND X-D in Union City, CA, just a few blocks away from where my Yogi, Sri Rudra Shivananda lives. I wonder if he went and saw this movie. And I wonder what he thinks about my going to the movies a whole lot and about my movie-blogging hobby, times that would be better spent on my yogi training. Opps! I think I just answered that question. I'm gonna have to seriously cut-down on my blogging!
word of advice: Don't abuse people.
tidbits: Since this movie theatre is just a few miles away from Hector's place in Oakland, CA, I decided to swing by his place first for a visit and to cook something for them.
So, I went to the Admiral Callaghan Lane Safeway to buy the groceries that I'd need for the dish that I had in mind to cook. And I bought a 1.75 qt container of Safeway brand Mexican-style Vanilla Ice Cream for desert--and for Root Beer Floats!
Then, I went to The Dollar Tree Store just a couple of blocks away to buy some other stuff.
When I got off the freeway in Oakland, as I waited for cross traffic to clear on Fruitvale Avenue, some black asshole idiot punk behind me on the off-ramp honked his car horn impatiently at me. And as I drove at around 34 mph in a 30 mph zone on Fruitvale Avenue, said asshole floored his gas pedal, crossed the double solid yellow lines and cut me off. What a f-cking jerk! For the record, he drives a white Chevy Malibu with license plate number: 6SYF 47. The first four are correct, but I forgot to include another number, # 2 ( ? ), which goes in-between the F and the 4, I think. So, just in case the f-cking lowlife gets into an accident and/or gets involved in a crime, I got an Incident Report right here on what happened at 1:39 p.m. on June 3rd, 2012 waiting for the cops to do an Internet search on! This f-cking idiot must be related to the f-cking idiot in my previous post.
Yeah, that's right, folks. Don't piss-off the Cine-Man when he is out on the road because he has pen and paper handy to jot down your license plate number if you do!
At Hector's place, his son, Tito, was busy doing some gardening work in the side yard. He'll plant fruits and vegetables. He wants to stock-up for 12-21-2012. ( I've got some canned foods ready and waiting. )
One of Tito's friends gave him a whole box full of really ripe Ataulfo Mangos. He was gonna slice, cube and freeze them to make Smoothies and Shakes with. And he had me help myself to some. I just couldn't refuse or resist.
Then, Hector, his wife and I sat down for some coffee and some french bread. And we engaged in idle chit-chat.
Finally, it was time for me to cook my ...
Cine-Man's World-Famous Bowl ( my own take on the KFC Famous Bowl dish )
Ingredients:
Cooking Oil or butter--I used Canola Cooking Oil ( fry each of the next 5 ingredients individually in a big frying pan and mix them all together at the end )
1.) 28.0 oz Safeway brand Potatoes O'Brien ( thaw it out first, spread it thin in the frying pan and don't stir it too much; cook until it's brown )
2.) 24.0 oz T. J. Farm Hash Browns ( thaw it out first, spread it thin in the frying pan and don't stir it too much; cook until it's brown )
3.) 9.6 oz Banquet Brown 'n' Serve Original Sausage Crumbles, 2 bags
4.) 9.0 oz John Morrell Smoked Sausages, cubed
5.) 6 eggs, scrambled
Black Pepper and Garlic Salt, to taste
+ Add-ons:
Medium Cheddar Cheese, grated
Ketchup
Hot Tabasco Sauce
Safeway brand bakery-fresh French Bread, sliced; to eat on the side
-Burrito Style optional ingredients, as suggested by Hector and his son, Tito:
Sour Cream
Mayonnaise
Pace Picante Sauce
Flour Tortilla, heated on the gas range
Corn Tortilla, heated on the gas range
It ended-up being quite a big batch. So, we ate a whole lot of it.
After dinner, I was the first one to the bathroom! 'Must have been the Burrito style .... Ha, ha, ha.
Back in Vallejo, I swung by the Walgreens 24-Hour Drugstore to buy two more Tradewinds Coin-Counting Banks for myself and for my brother.
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| 'Sorry for this blurry image. The batteries are getting too weak for my camera to capture a good shot. Or, maybe, I should have used the flash, too. |
And I also bought a 4.0 oz Mexico Premium Fruit Bars Watermelon Popsicle to eat when I got home.
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