RED DAWN, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 33 min )

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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA

when: Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd, 2012

show: 11:30 a.m.

costs: $6.50 Ticket + $1.12 Bulk Chocolate-covered Peanuts and Raisins + $4.50 20.0 oz VitaminWater Focus = $12.12

auditorium: 11

seat: 5th row, 5th seat ( counting from the left )

synopsis/overview: The people of Spokane, Washington, wake up one day to find that North Korean paratroopers have landed in their city. The invaders soon find out what we, Americans, mean when we say, "It's Kick-Ass Time!"

noteworthy scenes: 1.) News footage; 2.) Blackout; 3.) "Rendezvous with Douche Company"; 4.) Morning attack; 5.) Escape; 6.) TV News; 7.) No food; 8.) "They had to have help"; 9.) Traitor; 10.) Execution; 11.) "Your parents are down there"; 12.) Our home; 13.) Crash-course training; 14.) Ambush; 15.) "Isn't this C-4"; 16.) "We never drank that sh-t"; 17.) "We create chaos"; 18.) Graffiti; 19.) Subway; 20.) "That's how you get Choi"; 21.) Russians; 22.) Bad news; 23.) "I need to know I can count on you"; 24.) "She smelled like AquaNet"; 25.) Shelling; 26.) Free America Army; 27.) "Massive Electro-Magnetic Pulse"; 28.) Closed Network Communication; 29.) Jump; 30.) "I got this"; 31.) "You f-cked with the wrong family"; 32.) "I'm proud of you"; 33.) Sneak attack; 34.) "It's not a knife wound"; 35.) "We're not doing too bad for a bunch of kids"; and 36.) More recruits.

audience reaction: I guess some people in the audience liked this movie. A man behind me said, "Is that it?" And someone on my right side gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending ( I don't really know why ).

recommendation: I found this movie rather amusing, in a stupid sort of way. Veterans and servicemen/women would have a good laugh watching this ridiculous movie. This is strictly a "rental".

spoiler alert!  North Korea is over 5,000 miles away from the State of Washington. And, right off the top of my head, I count at least seven--there should be more than that--US Bases in the Pacific Region. Therefore, in order for them to launch an attack on the United States, the North Koreans would have to deal with all of these US Bases ( and their Advance Warning Systems ) first! Squadrons of foreign cargo planes will not go undetected, even if they have a "Massive Electro-Magnetic Pulse" weapon in use because such a weapon would still have a limited radius of effectiveness. Parachute into foreign territory in broad daylight--seriously ...? To send your paratroopers into a heavily-armed territory in broad daylight is suicidal and very stupid! The Army Reserve and the National Guard's Artillery Corps could easily handle those slow and mostly-undefended enemy cargo planes. The North Koreans don't have the level of experience in Logistics Support that we, Americans, do; and, "An army travels on its stomach ( Napoleon Bonaparte )." So, where did the North Koreans get their food, water and other supplies from, Starbucks, MacDonald's and 7-Eleven? The North Koreans only rounded-up those people who were in their neighborhoods and still dressed in their pajamas but those people who were out shopping and enjoying a cup of java at Starbucks were not rounded-up ...? Ha, ha, ha. They were fleeing the enemy in a Dodge Ram and should have rammed those four paratroopers instead of dodged them! Why didn't he run down the enemy officer who stepped-out of the crashed truck? In the Ambush scene, why didn't more enemy soldiers show-up? After the surprise shelling, dogs could be heard barking; dogs that I assume were the enemy's tracking hounds. So, what happened to the dogs? How come only the Marines were represented in this movie?

fyi: The United States Armed Forces are the most powerful, most experienced and most widespread forces in the whole world! In an All-Out War, no country can top the US. We even have weapons that are still strictly classified as Top Secret!

What follows is information that may be of interest to all of you foreigners out there who are contemplating a surprise land invasion on my  beloved country:

 www.guardian.co.ukhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list. The Small Arms Survey is also useful - although it is from 2007, it collates civilian gun ownership rates for 178 countries around the world, and has 'normalised' the data to include a rate per 100,000 population.

It shows that:

With less than 5% of the world's population, the United States is home to roughly 35–50 per cent of the world's civilian-owned guns, heavily skewing the global geography of firearms and any relative comparison

So, given those caveats, we can see which countries have the highest ownership rates for firearms - and which have the highest gun murder rates.

The key facts are:

• The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it first in the world for gun ownership - and even the number two country, Yemen, has significantly fewer - 54.8 per 100 people
• But the US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people
• Puerto Rico tops the world's table for firearms murders as a percentage of all homicides - 94.8%. It's followed by Sierra Leone in Africa and Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean

Here is what I found while doing a Google Search on Spokane, WA:

Spokane

Washington

Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County, of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region. Wikipedia

Area: 58.5 sq miles (151.5 km²) Population: 210,103 (2011) -

"... 88 per 100 people" is A LOT OF CIVILIAN FIREPOWER!!! Based on this, there would be approximately 176,000 guns in Spokane, Washington, alone! If you consider that each gun, on average, would have at least twenty ( 20 ) bullets available at-the-ready, those enemy paratroopers would be looking down ( and they wouldn't have to squint for long ) at approximately 3,520,000 bullets coming-up to greet them! Those suicidal and very stupid paratroopers would just be "sitting ducks" ( or should that be, "floating ducks" ) to the armed citizenry of Spokane---Woo-Hoo, it's Open Season time, folks! And we don't need no Gosh-Darn permit!! Let's go git dem yellow varmints, y'all!!! Hee-haw. Yippee ki-yay, motherf-ckers!

As for myself, I have a rifle, a Rambo knife and two machetes. Ha, ha, ha. And I'm thinking about getting two handguns, a Glock and a Medusa, someday. And when I move out of California sometime in the future, I'll be sure to put a Calico rifle and a Calico handgun on top of my To-Buy List! And I'm gonna get a shotgun, an assault rifle, a high-velocity pellet rifle, a bow and arrow set, a crossbow and a slingshot, too. ( Where's Santa Claus when I need him? ) But I'm still thinking about whether or not I should get myself a blowgun on top of everything else. LOL

word of advice: Do your research first. Then, work on your contingency plans.

tidbits:  I was gonna get a Lite Bite at the concessions counter but they don't fill-up the whole box with popcorn! They leave room for the small cup of soda to go in it. I complained to a manager about it, that at their sister theatre in San Francisco, CA, the CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO CENTRE 9 and X-D, the clerks would fill-up the box with popcorn and hand you the cup separately. The manager said that they used to fill-up the box with popcorn but got in trouble for doing it that way---Whatever .... I told him that I was gonna go on-line and complain about it. This theatre's got some nerve trying to cheat on Cine-Man, the well-experienced movie-goer.

Since today is Thanksgiving Day, I thank God that I live in such a great country,The Greatest Country in the World--even with a usurper in place. GOD BLESS AMERICA, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!!!

These colors don't run!

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