where: UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA
when: Friday, September 21st, 2012
show: 9:40 p.m.
costs: $14.50 Ticket + $5.75 Zap Pack ( w/ Diet Coke, no ice ) + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $25.25
auditorium: 3
seat: 5th row, 11th column
synopsis/overview: Judge Dredd ( Karl Urban ) and a rookie sidekick judge, Cassandra ( Olivia Thirlby ), are sent to investigate a triple homicide at the Peach Trees Housing Project, a 200-story ghetto tower run by Ma-Ma ( Lena Headey ), an ex-prostitute drug lord, who puts the place on immediate lock-down and issues an order to have both judges killed after they take one of her lieutenants into custody.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Mega City One; 2.) Road chase; 3.) "Hot Shot"; 4.) "The food court will be reopened in 30 minutes"; 5.) "She's a mutant"; 6.) Triple homicide; 7.) Ma-Ma Clan; 8.) "I think a bullet would interfere with it more"; 9.) "Sir, it's him"; 10.) Control room; 11.) "He just changed his mind"; 12.) Blast shield; 13.) The message; 14.) Gas; 15.) "The sentence is death"; 16.) "There are no sides. You're already dead"; 17.) Woman's apartment; 18.) Sealed; 19.) "What are you thinking about now, huh"; 20.) Machine guns; 21.) Skateboard ramp; 22.) "'Coms are back on"; 23.) Mind read; 24.) "You're the psychic"; 25.) Stand-off; 26.) Captured; 27.) Patched terminal; 28.) "Judgment time"; 29.) Incendiary; 30.) "Call 9-1-1"; 30.) "You're prepared to testify to that"; 31.) "One million credits"; 32.) "Choke on that"; 33.) "That's funny. I was gonna ask you that"; 34.) Slo-Mo lab; 35.) "Lower your gun, rookie. I'm your back-up"; 36.) "Wait"; 37.) "I'm still entitled to dispense justice"; 38.) Rigged with explosives; 39.) "Defense noted"; and 40.) "Your assessment is now over."
favorite scenes: I liked the Hot Shot scene.
I liked the Mind Game scene.
audience reaction: The audience really enjoyed this. But I didn't hear any "Hands Clapper" during the ending credits, what with the background music dinning in my ears!
recommendation: I liked this movie, too. If you are an Action Movie fan, and you don't mind seeing blood splashed all over in slow motion, go see this movie.
spoiler alert! In the car chase, no car go hit by bullets even though the bad guy was indiscriminately spraying bullets everywhere. Being that the blast shield was heavy, there should not have been that much blood flowing underneath it because its weight would have created a near-perfect seal at the bottom. The machine gun rounds didn't ricochet at all. The machine gun rounds should have produced bigger wounds on their victims. When Dredd threw a bad guy over the railing, none of the other bad guys took the time to shoot at him. With the blast shield in place, the fire would have produced a lot of smoke which would have triggered some smoke alarms--you would think! And what about the fire sprinklers? Why did he not kill those punk kids who used live rounds on him and his partner? A bad guy who was burned by an incendiary round in an earlier scene was still standing around, and in flames, during the slow-motion scene near the end of the movie! Why didn't anybody in the Makeup Department pop the zit on the left side of Olivia Thirlby's upper lip--it was too distracting for me to have to see it on the Big Screen!
fyi: In Greek Mythology, Cassandra was a very beautiful divinely-gifted prophetess whose words eventually fell on deaf ears because her people didn't/couldn't believe anymore of what she said after she rejected the love of a god.
I remember once in my CLEP ( College Level English Preparatory ) Class during my senior year of high school how one of my female classmates told the whole class the origin and meaning of the name, Cassandra. And I quipped, I don't believe you! The teacher asked, "Why?" Nobody got the joke. Sigh ....
word of advice: What goes around comes around.
tidbits: After I clocked-out at work today in Benicia, CA, I drove all the way to my friend Hector's place in Oakland, CA, because his son, Isma, called me in the middle of the night last night to let me know that he found his old Netgear wireless router for me to use on my laptop to see if I can get on the Internet that way. I hope that it will work. Otherwise, I will have to switch ISPs--and be ( temporarily ) back on Dial-Up again ( Oh, Lord .... ).
While I was at Hector's place, I accessed his son's Wi-Fi to do some work on my laptop computer. All the while their new kitten, Sylvester, would occasionally pounce on my thumbs as he wedged himself between my legs. It was a funny sight to behold, a plump and hairy little pussy clinging to my crotch on the edge of the couch! Ha, ha, ha. Lucky for him, he didn't scratch my balls or else ....
On my way to the theatre, as I waited for the green light at the Fruitvale 580 on-ramp, some idiot made a left turn on Montana Street, a one-way street. I thought it looked odd, then I realized that he did go the wrong way on that one-way street. Either he was drunk or he was just an idiot! And we could do with fewer of either kind loose on the streets.
After the ending credits, the screen showed a green start button at the lower left corner, making a man in the audience ask, "Was that a Windows XP?" ( Yeah, I wondered why some scenes looked grainy even though the movie was in 3-D. Could it be that we watched a bootlegged copy that was first uploaded to movie2k.to? LOL )
As we all filed out of the auditorium, I overheard a lady behind me say that she "... liked the one-liners."
When I got home, I tried the Netgear wireless router. It didn't work. So, I closed my Internet service because I didn't want to take a chance with my password and other personal information.
I will have to find a different Internet Service Provider, for security and privacy concerns.
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