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where: AMC BAY STREET in Emeryville, CA
when: Sunday, September 30th, 2012
show: 10:20 p.m.
costs: $15.50 Ticket + $4.75 20.0 oz VitaminWater Essential Orange + $1.50 Parking Fee + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $26.75
auditorium: 4
seat: 5th row, 11th column
synopsis/overview: Count Dracula is a single parent of a beautiful baby girl--and an overly protective one at that! And for good reason: Humans Hate Monsters. One day, he decides to build a hotel for monsters only. And the monsters love it. They can be themselves far from the cares of the mortal world and its hateful humans. But, over a hundred years later, a young human discovers the hotel by accident. To make matters worse, the Count's daughter and the human become infatuated with each other.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Hotel; 2.) Zombie construction workers; 3.) One hundred eighteen years old; 4.) Paradise; 5.) "Dad was right"; 6.) Tourist; 7.) Costume; 8.) "Classic human paranoia"; 9.) Hotel for Monsters; 10.) "You didn't have clothes on when you were a bat--or were they bat-sized"; 11.) "Boy, that kid smelled"; 12.) Secret passages; 13.) "That's kind of racist"; 14.) Bingo; 15.) Charades; 16.) Kick scooter; 17.) Scream cheese; 18.) Swimming pool; 19.) Hypnosis; 20.) Sunrise; 21.) Sauna; 22.) Time-out; 23.) Flying tables; 24.) "That was fun"; 25.) "Why did that hurt me"; 26.) Kitchen; 27.) The Legend; 28.) Werewolf family in bed; 29.) Little touches; 30.) "Doesn't exist"; 31.) The translation; 32.) "Behold, the human"; 33.) "Don't hurt me"; 34.) "Will you erase my mind"; 35.) "Zing"; 36.) Angry guests; 37.) Shirt; 38.) Sheep in the middle of the road; 39.) Monster Festival; 40.) "This is how I'm represented? Unbelievable"; 41.) Personal message; 42.) Sunburned; 43.) "It comes with an accessory"; 44.) Kiss; 45.) Party; and 46.) Bonus images during the Ending Credits.
favorite scenes: I liked the Zombie Construction Workers scene.
I liked The Legend scene.
I liked the Werewolf Family In Bed scene.
I liked the Sheep In The Middle Of The Road scene.
audience reaction: The audience liked it. But it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I liked it. Go take your little brats to go see this movie.
spoiler alert! None of the monsters noticed that they were hugging a human whose body was considerably warmer than any of theirs. And the bat should not have been able to catch-up with the plane.
fyi: Count Dracula doesn't say, "Blah, blah, blah."
It is The Great Dingbat, the vampire dog on Saturday Morning Cartoon Shows on TV back in the '80s, who says it in his famous oft-repeated line: "I am The Great Dingbat. And I love chocolate. Blah, blah, blah."
This movie gives new meaning to the expression: "She's my old lady." Ha, ha, ha.
word of advice: Love them, nurture them, raise them well, and hope for the best.
tidbits: I went to Berkeley, CA, today because they have a parade on the last Sunday of September every year. I arrived in Downtown Berkeley at 10:45 a.m. by way of BART Train ( I left my Hyundai Accent in the parking garage at the El Cerrito Del Norte BART Station ).
At 11:00 a.m., I went to the MacDonald's Restaurant on the corner of University and Shattuck to wait for the parade. I ordered a Powerade Mountain Berry Blast drink, one medium fries ( free ) and a pumpkin pie, all for $1.63. I also did my Zhunti Mantra while I waited for the time.
Twelve o'clock came, and no parade. Twelve-thirty came and went, and still no parade! And there I was ready and waiting with my digital camera to take pictures of the crazy people, funny floats and NAKED PEOPLE!!! But no parade .... What a let-down! Don't tell me that Berkeley decided to clean-up its image and banned the Last Sunday of September Parade F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!!!!!! Aargh .... Talk about "raining on one's parade."
Well, it did rain last year so I didn't go.
And, to think, I took today off and last year's last Sunday of September off, too, both for nothing!
But I do have pictures of naked people at a Berkeley parade from a few years back. I'll have to post those on my blog someday, if only to prove to you, my readers, that I am not making it up about such a parade.
Anyway ....
While I was at the MacDonald's Restaurant, a young, fat dark-haired white teen came in and sat with an old white man across the aisle from my booth. The teen was waiting for someone. After about 30 minutes, a little old white lady pushing a walker came in and sat at the booth directly in front of mine. The teen went over to join her. And the old man followed.
"Good morning or good afternoon since it's almost noon," said the old man.
The old lady said to the old man, "I want to sit with him alone!"
The old man, obviously embarrassed and humiliated, got up and went to occupy a window seat.
And the old lady said to the teen, "You can sit with him if you want. I don't want to be crowded. Besides, he's boring." She made this comment well within hearing distance of the hapless old man. ( Geez, what a bitch this little old lady was getting to be! I say this because I think that she was too old to be having a PMS episode. )
In the course of her conversation with the teen, she mentioned her cellphone number to him so he could get a hold of her easier because she was having a hard time hearing her home 'phone ring whenever someone would call her up.
At around noontime, the little old lady had an argument with the teen, to the point where she said, "I don't want you f-cking with me." The teen got up and left the restaurant without saying anything.
At 12:12 p.m., the little old lady started to walk up to the counter to order some "Mini Meal." And, as she did, she looked at the old man seated by the window and ordered him, "You stay away from me!" ( Geez, what a bitch, twice! )
At 12:16 p.m., I could hear the little old bitch at the order counter ask the employees if they found her glasses that she left on the counter yesterday. An employee checked the Lost and Found Box but turned-up nothing.
As the little old bitch hobbled back to her booth, she said loudly, "G-ddam lazy!" ( Geez, what a bitch, thrice! )
The old man said out loud, "They looked! I know. Because I lost some stuff yesterday, too." ( What is it with old people misplacing stuff in the first place ...? )
The grumpy little old bitch said nothing.
All the while that I was at MacDonald's, a young homeless white couple with an infant was outside the door begging for money or food. I felt bad for them, especially since they had a baby with them. I was gonna buy them some combo meal when I got done waiting for the time but some patrons beat me to it. So, as I exited the restaurant, I just gave the man a dollar bill, instead.
When I got back to the El Cerrito Del Norte BART Station to fetch my car, I decided to shop at the Dollar Tree Store across the street from the train station and at the new Safeway Supermarket next door to the station.
Then, I went to Hector's place in Oakland, CA, to make use of his son Isma's Wi-Fi. And, despite the culinary disaster of last week, I decided to make the same dish again, Jambalaya with Sausage. And it came out good this time.
The service was slow at the movie theatre's concession counter because they only had one employee there to help the patrons.
And the image quality of the movie wasn't good either: It was slightly out of focus.
A little girl in the audience laughed at the Zombie Construction Workers scene because she totally understood it!
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