where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, February 8ht, 2013
show: 11:05 a.m. Extra-Dollar Off First Show Matinee
costs: $6.50 Ticket + $1.65 bulk Chocolate Candies + $4.50 1-litre Dasani Water = $12.65
auditorium: 8
seat: 5th row ( counting from the front ), 10th column ( counting from the left )
synopsis/overview: Sandy Bigelow Patterson ( Jason Bateman ) has his personal information stolen by a female con-artist, Diana ( Melissa McCarthy ), who then goes on a wild spending spree. He must track her down in Florida and convince her to go back to Denver with him and help him clear his good name.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) 'Phone call; 2.) "People like you don't have friends"; 3.) Breathalyzer test; 4.) Birthday cake; 5.) $14.02; 6.) "Cheese dick"; 7.) Bonus checks; 8.) "You like getting f*cked"; 9.) Shopping Mall; 10.) Gas station; 11.) Arrest; 12.) "Five or 10 per cent"; 13.) Warrant; 14.) "Just believe in me"; 15.) "Hobbit height"; 16.) Rearend; 17.) Diana's house; 18.) Bad guys; 19.) "What are you, a f*cking Kenyan"; 20.) Bounty hunter; 21.) Restaurant; 22.) Reception desk; 23.) "Walt likes to watch"; 24.) "You're like Dorothy from THE WIZARD OF OZ"; 25.) "Weird sexual tryst"; 26.) "Daddy, are you there"; 27.) Butt-naked; 28.) "I think he really ripped it. You gotta take a look"; 29.) Abduction; 30.) "'Car's fine"; 31.) "Traditional community"; 32.) Duct tape; 33.) Snake; 34.) Sock money; 35.) "Consider that a warning"; 36.) "One of those badgers"; 37.) "How is this helping you"; 38.) Records room; 39.) Suite; 40.) Shower head; 41.) Beauty make-over; 42.) "You've got to work on your tone"; 43.) Foster care; 44.) Elevator; 45.) "This is personal"; 46.) Escape; 47.) "Relax your legs"; 48.) "You've got food on your face"; 49.) "Nothing happened between the two of us"; 50.) Note; 51.) "How come you snuck out this morning"; 52.) Visitation; 53.) "Sweet junk"; 54.) "That's a terrible f*cking name"; 55.) Tazer; and 56.) Voice-over after the Ending Credits.
favorite scenes: I liked the Kenyan scene;
And I liked the Snake scene.
audience reaction: The audience liked this movie, but it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I liked it enough. Although, to be honest, it was pretty obvious halfway through the movie how it was gonna end. Go see this Road Trip Comedy.
spoiler alert! I don't have Sandy pegged as a man who would let his gas tank go on empty while commuting to work. When she rammed the other car, why didn't the airbags deploy? His shirt was sweat-soaked even though he just stepped out of an air-conditioned taxicab. She claimed that they were a married couple but the waitress failed to notice that she wasn't wearing a wedding ring! The "knock-out" drug that she used was not in capsule form and should have taken longer to dissolve. It seemed that the bad guys were better than the police at tracking down their interstate prey. Wait a minute .... Wasn't he an accessory to a crime?
fyi: Here's what I found on the Internet, regarding this movie:
>>> McCarthy, Bateman Can't Save Identity Thief
One critic ignites controversy by calling Melissa McCarthy a 'hippo' By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff
Posted Feb 8, 2013 11:27 AM CST
(Newser) – No matter how much you like Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, critics are urging you to decline Identity Thief, their new—sadly conventional and unfunny—buddy comedy. Here's what critics are saying, including one who got himself in hot water:
•As a fan of Bateman and McCarthy, Mick LaSalle at the San Francisco Chronicle wanted to like it. But "what seemed like a good idea—a comedy based on the phenomenon of identity theft—turned out to be comic quicksand," because having your life ruined at random isn't really funny. Bateman comes off as "a dramatic character facing personal tragedy who just happens to be stuck in a supposed comedy."
•The screenplay "tortures itself" to get its leads on a buddy-movie-esque road trip together, complains Ty Burr at the Boston Globe. "No, it doesn't make sense. Nothing in this movie makes sense. Next to Identity Thief, Inception is a marvel of sober concision." It's littered with "comedy clichés," and worse, an "obnoxious sentimentality," like the "generic equivalent of a Judd Apatow movie."
•Rex Reed at the New York Observer has drawn criticism of his own for calling McCarthy a "tractor-sized" "female hippo" who "has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success." Many have decried the review as sexist. "Have you ever read a review where a male actor was described this way?" asks Adriana Velez at The Stir, pointing out the host of plus-sized male comedians who haven't faced that kind of ridicule.
•Meanwhile Manohla Dargis at the New York Times thinks McCarthy is the best part of the movie, "the supernova who burns up this show." But ultimately this is "a lazy comedy" that isn't subversive enough to really cut her loose. "Order must be restored, the family reunited, the wild woman tamed." Everyone must learn a lesson, "and then everything will fit tidily, phonily together."
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. gravemaster217 Feb 8, 2013 3:44 PM CST .I never trust what the critics say. Most have different likes and dislikes concerning movies than what i like. I always prefer to make my own judgments on films. Just give me a synopsis of a movie so i know what it's about and i'll decide if i like it or not.
. PadrePio Feb 8, 2013 12:41 PM CST .Yeah but having the opportunity to ogle Amanda Peet is worth it. Man she is good looking!
. Mr.Vista Feb 8, 2013 12:19 PM CST ."Ty Burr at the Boston Globe. "No, it doesn't make sense. Nothing in this movie makes sense. Next to Identity Thief, Inception is a marvel of sober concision." It's littered with "comedy clichés," and worse, an "obnoxious sentimentality," like the "generic equivalent of a Judd Apatow movie."........ > Hey Ty, get over yourself you are JUST a movie critic, not writing a college thesis. <<<
"Do the crime, do the time."
tidbits: I had a Chiropractic appointment first thing in the morning. I had hoped that my Chiropractor would show me how to work and strengthen my Core Muscles. But he said that my Lumbar Area was still weak, that we would have to wait 'til later to work on strengthening and balancing my Core Muscles.
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| I must be getting famous because the theatre cordoned-off the area where I parked my car! Talk about getting the VIP treatment. Ha, ha, ha. |
I ate at the MacDonald's Restaurant in the Target Shopping Center on Admiral Callaghan Lane after the movie and before driving off to work. While having lunch, I called my Union Rep to find out whether or not I am eligible for Worker's Comp for my lower back pain. She gave me the 'phone numbers of my Union Benefits Clerk and of the Union's Worker's Comp attorney. I gotta give them both a call as soon as I get the chance.
Google Chrome changed some stuff on my browser so that I am having a hard time searching for MY OWN BLOGSITE on the Internet!!! ( The reason for the delay in getting this blog posted on my site--I thought that I was having a computer virus problem yet again! I deep-scanned my computer everyday for the last few days just as a precaution. It all came up Negative--Thank God. Whew! )
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