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where: EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
show: 10:00 p.m.
costs: $17.50 Ticket + $3.00 medium Popcorn ( Dollar upgrade on a $2.00 Small Popcorn Tuesday with a Regal Movie Watcher Reward Card + $4.75 small 30.0 oz Zero Sprite = $25.25
auditorium: 12, with the I-Max screen
seat: 3rd row, 8ht column
2nd Time
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| This was the original poster selected for this movie before Toby Maguire and the rest of the original gang backed-out of the reboot which puts Peter Parker back in high school. Notice the date stamped on it. |
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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Thursday, July 5th, 2012
show: 4:55 p.m.
costs: $7.50 Ticket + $$1.06 bulk Chocolate Candy + $4.50 20.0 oz VitaminWater Lemonade = $13.06
auditorium: 5, with a regular screen
seat: 3rd row, 6th column
3rd time
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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
show: 8:30 p.m.
costs: $13.50 Ticket + $1.01 bulk Chocolate Candies + $4.50 20.0 oz VitaminWater XXX = $19.01
auditorium: 1, with a 3-D screen
seat: 5th row, 5ht seat
synopsis/overview: Peter Parker ( Andrew Garfield ) rummages through his missing father's old briefcase and finds a clue that may help him understand why his parents disappeared. His search leads him to the one man who may have the answer for him, Dr. Curt Connors ( Rhys Ifans ), Peter's father's former research partner.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Break-in; 2.) Hide-out; 3.) Schoolyard fight; 4.) Briefcase clue; 5.) Oscorp interns; 6.) Train car fight; 7.) "That's a fly, Peter"; 8.) Meatloaf; 9.) Super strength; 10.) Computer keys; 11.) Dr. Connor's house; 12.) Basketball; 13.) "He's got you on his computer"; 14.) Successful simulation; 15.) Apology; 16.) Robber; 17.) Sketch of crime suspect; 18.) Assorted bad guys; 19.) Wrestling ring; 20.) Cops; 21.) "Who does this to you"; 22.) "Is that what you told his son"; 23.) Human subject; 24.) Bouquet of flowers; 25.) Branzino Fish dinner; 26.) Revealed identity; 27.) Bridge; 28.) Sewer; 29.) Football field; 30.) "Why a sudden interest in the cold-blooded"; 31.) Monster mouse; 32.) "Do I look like the mayor of Tokyo"; 33.) The Lizard's secret lair"; 34.) The web; 35.) Peter's camera; 36.) "That's impractical. And fattening"; 37.) "I created him"; 38.) Toilet stall; 39.) School fight; 40.) Library; 41.) The new lizards; 42.) Emergency evacuation; 43.) Tazered; 44.) Plea; 45.) GANALI; 46.) Cranes; 47.) Liquid Nitrogen; 48.) Antidote; 49.) Launched projectile; 50.) "This city needs you"; 51.) The promise; 52.) Eggs; 53.) "Where were you"; 54.) "Cool shirt"; 55.) "Those are the best kind"; and 56.) Bonus Scene during the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: Not much of a reaction from this audience--'must've been a sleepy bunch.
2nd audience reaction: This audience liked the movie enough to give it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
3rd audience reaction: Not much of a reaction from this audience, too.
recommendation: I liked the other Spider-Man origin movie better, the one with Toby Maguire, which was released ten years ago. Go see this reboot movie if you're a Spider-Man fan.
spoiler alert! They sure picked the right candidate for this role: This Peter Parker has facial acne! Peter's and Dr. Connors' eyeglasses were obviously non-prescription glasses--even after Peter removed his contact lenses before switching to the use of a pair of eyeglasses. This movie didn't do a good job of showing Peter acquainting himself with his new-found powers. Speaking of such, he was quite adept at exploiting his new-found powers but seemed incompetent at utilizing his "Spider Sense". It was as if the director of this movie decided on his approach in this way: "Okay, they already saw the original Spider-Man movie back in '02. So, I'm just gonna skip through Peter's super-powers learning process." Since only his hands were exposed, when Peter jumped-off the bench seat and stuck himself onto the train car's ceiling, his feet shouldn't have stuck to the ceiling BECAUSE he was wearing a pair of shoes. Ditto for all the wall-crawling scenes where Spider-Man was in full costume, he would only be able to crawl up walls if he was barefooted and barehanded. And going back to the train car ceiling, such ceilings are covered in panels that I don't think can support the weight of a person who's hanging from it. He caught that fly with his left index finger and left thumb, rubbed his lower lip with his fingers, and then he ate his dinner--by hand--without washing his hands first--yuck! I mean, for all we know, that fly could have been in the toilet with Uncle Ben ( Martin Sheen ) earlier and enjoyed a quiet momentary respite on one of Uncle Ben's "Lincoln Logs". Don't tell me that Peter didn't know that there was a shut-off valve under the lavatory sink. That rude convenience store clerk who wouldn't spot Peter a mere cent was unbelievable; I have never encountered such a store clerk in my whole life! The tattoo was not on the left hand but on the inside of the left wrist. If Peter needed to take notes while in an upside-down position in a corner of his bedroom's ceiling, he should have used a pencil, instead; because gravity would make the ink flow away from it's writing tip if a pen were to be held in an upside-down position. Aunt May ( Sally Field ) asked, "Who does this to you?" because Peter looked badly beaten-up even though the car thief didn't even land a punch on him. Oopsie! When Peter yanked Gwen ( Emma Stone ) back towards him with a web line, she shouldn't have spun around more than once. Spider-Man's wristwatch-sized web-shooters have nothing about them to suggest that they have a pressurized mechanism with which to shoot out webs. And, even if they did, the pressurization would need some "cycle time" in order for them to reach adequate shooting capacity and shoot out webs at a consistent rate of velocity. In other words, his web-shooters would never be able to shoot out webs in "machine gun" fashion. Since, theoretically speaking, Spider-Man's web can support tons of weight, when he webbed a vehicle to keep it from falling into the river, grabbing a hold on the baling wire-thin web would have easily cut his hands in half when the falling vehicle reached and jerked at its terminal velocity. When Spider-Man webbed the boy to keep him from falling, he did so by shooting a web line to the boy's T-shirt which should have ripped right off at its point of contact! Once he had the boy safely webbed, the web line shortened as if it was being retracted back into its web-shooter. Again, there is nothing about the web-shooters to suggest that they have a winch mechanism to do such a job. And, even if they did, the gears would have to be so tiny, like those found in a mechanical wristwatch, as to be highly impractical. Okay, so that football coach didn't notice Peter's potential talent at all ...? Peter Parker didn't notice the greenish scaly skin on Dr. Connor's neck. There was too much blood splattered around when the mouse was eaten alive by the cross-species monster mouse. Heck, my late mom's Keeshond dog and cats ate mice and there never was that much blood splattered around at any one time! Come to think of it, I never even saw blood spilled anywhere, not even a drop. That sewer was practically well-lit and looked so clean and its water looked so clear that you could probably drink from it--ha, ha, ha. Spider-Man got wounded in his sewer fight with the Lizard but his wounds didn't get infected even though it took some time for him to get some medical attention. Why was there no water gushing out from that toilet stall? That male cop attending to the needs of a student was sporting quite an earring--I didn't know that cops were allowed to wear that kind of an earring while on duty. Since his web-shooters could only store several hundred meters's worth of webbing, Spider-Man would never have been able to reach the Oscorp Building by web line because he was more than a thousand meters away, to begin with! Ha, ha, ha. The wardrobe department didn't have enough money in its budget to provide Gwen with more than one kind of shoes: Boots! I mean, how many teenage girls out there only have one kind of shoes? I'm a guy and I have at least 20 different pairs of shoes ( Dress, Boots, Casuals, Sneakers, etc. )--some of which are still practically brand-new and still in their original boxes! Wasn't there a police sniper in a helicopter available at the time when the Lizard climbed-up the Oscorp building? Because all they needed to stop the Lizard was to have a police sniper use high caliber rounds to shoot at him and the canister that he was carrying. One direct hit to the canister would have probably rendered it useless. Why did everybody have the same kind of umbrella? The slow-motion scene at the end where Spider-Man swung from his web line and was about to shoot another web line would never be possible in real life since, the moment that he would one-hand it as he tucked his legs to his chest, his body would start to turn in mid-air even before he could try to shoot a web line with his free hand.
This Spider-Man deserves to win the Nobel Prize in Science and The Man Of The Year award!!!
Since he is still in high school, shouldn't he then be called, Spider-Teen, instead ...?
fyi: Organic web shooters, like those in Toby Maguire's Spider-Man Trilogy, make more sense. After all, when was the last time you saw a spider wearing mechanical web-shooters?
Here's a creative word play on Spider-Man that I found on Digg News:
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"Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing from a web? No, he can't. He's a pig." Homer Simpson.
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word of advice: Don't break a promise made to a dying person.
tidbits: I saw John, one of my co-workers, at the theatre. He was there for the same show. He had already purchased his ticket in advance. I was gonna ask him to save me a seat. But, I didn't know his seating preference. And I was glad that I didn't ask him to save me a seat because I had the whole third row all to my own self!
2nd tidbits: As I made my way to auditorium 5, I couldn't help but notice a whole stack of KATY PERRY: PART OF ME mini movie posters on the concessions counter. I wanted to get myself a copy but decided to wait on it 'til after I have gone to watch the Katy Perry movie later on in the evening.
3rd tidbits: I was gonna watch this in the afternoon after I got off work. But I went to American Canyon, CA, to have lunch at Allspice Indian Restaurant because I had a sudden craving for some Indian food--must've been because of the BOL BACHCHAN movie which I saw two days ago. They no longer have a buffet lunch--I guess that I was driving them to the brink of bankruptcy, what with my voracious appetite! But they had a Lunch Special. And I had to wait some time before my meal was ready, all the while that my stomach was "voicing" its complaint. I spent about 15 bucks for this lunch, with tip included.
Then, I went home to take a nap. I did an Alpha Frequency Sound Meditation after I woke up; because it never is a good idea to meditate on a full stomach. Later on, I went to the theatre to watch this movie.
After the movie was over, I swung by the Admiral Callaghan Lane Safeway to buy some milk, bananas, strawberries, yogurts, and smoothie mixes so that I can drink a fruit smoothie for each of the next four days.
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