where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Monday, April 8ht, 2013
show: 4:15 p.m. 3-D ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs: $10.00 Ticket + $1.08 MacDonald's Cookies ( smuggled-in 'cause I was too full to eat them earlier ) + $4.50 1-litre Dasani Water + $3.25 Daily Double and Large Sweet Tea meal @ MacDonald's Restaurant after the movie = $18.83
auditorium: 1, with a 3-D screen
seat: 4th row ( counting from the front ), 6th column ( counting from the left )
synopsis/overview: A mathematician, Ian Malcom ( Jeff Goldlum ), and paleontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler ( Sam Neill and Laura Dern ) are chosen by billionaire entrepreneur John Hammond ( Richard Attenborough ) for a pre-opening tour of his island theme park populated by Jurassic Period dinosaurs genetically-engineered back into existence. Yet, even with the billionaire's assurance that the tour is fail-safe, the inevitable happens. And carnivorous predatory dinosaurs go on the hunt for a new kind of tasty treat: Cigarette smoke-flavored, preservative-laden, hormone-injected and/or artificially-enhanced Human Flesh--and the dinosaurs cannot stop at just one! Hmm, um, um---Yummy-licious ....
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Gate keeper; 2.) Amber; 3.) Badlands fossil site; 4.) "Outside opinion"; 5.) "You shouldn't use my name"; 6.) "In 48 hours, I'll be accepting your apology"; 7.) "Welcome to Jurassic Park"; 8.) "DNA blueprint"; 9.) "Can they do that"; 10.) "All female"; 11.) Cow; 12.) "Nature selected them for extinction"; 13.) Target audience; 14.) "Financial debate"; 15.) "I really hate that man"; 16.) Unlocked vehicles; 17.) Dino doo-doo; 18.) Security shutdown; 19.) Embryos; 20.) Unarmed; 21.) "When you gotta go, you gotta go"; 22.) "Boy, I hate being right all the time"; 23.) Hand-held spotlight; 24.) Toilet; 25.) "Two million lines of code"; 26.) Dilophosaurus; 27.) Barbasol; 28.) "Well, we're back in the car again"; 29.) Dino chase; 30.) Blind dinosaur jokes; 31.) Illusion; 32.) "God bless you"; 33.) "The dinosaurs are breeding"; 34.) Lysine Contingency; 35.) "They're flocking this way"; 36.) Sexism; 37.) "We are being hunted"; 38.) Power switches; 39.) "I think we're back in business"; 40.) "Clever girl"; 41.) Kitchen; 42.) Door lock; 43.) Ceiling; 44.) Hotel lobby; and 45.) "Alan, after careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park!"
audience reaction: The audience liked this but didn't give it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I liked this movie, too. Whether or not you saw this movie when it first came out 20 years ago, you have to see this again in I-Max 3-D and/or regular 3-D--and sit close to the screen for that "bigger than life" feel.
spoiler alert! Don't tell me that Alan Grant never used a seatbelt before! It would take a considerable amount of time to collect raindrops in a water bottle. If a T-Rex were around looking for prey, I wouldn't even think about touching a hand-held spotlight! Why did the lawyer just hide in the toilet? How did the Dilophosaurus get inside the Jeep from the other side? When the Ford Explorer started coming down the tree, why didn't they just climb around to the other side, away from potential harm? During the chase, the T-Rex broke the fallen tree trunk way too easily! The ice creams would have kept well inside the freezer when the power was out overnight since the freezer more than likely had other frozen stuff in it to keep the ice creams relatively frozen throughout the night within its well-insulated walls. Speaking of ice creams, there were not enough of them to keep handy for the anticipated tourists once the park opened, had things gone well. And those ice cream buckets looked like they contained the cheap kind of ice cream. Usually, scoopable ice creams found in restaurants, delis and cafeterias come in a much bigger container ( 5 gallons, I think ) and are of the recognizable name brands, not some no-name cheap brand like the kind shown in this movie! ( So much for the "I spared no expense" B.S. line. ) In the time that he said, "Clever girl," he could have fired-off a shot. Why didn't one Velociraptor join-in after the other one pounced on their prey? I seriously don't think that a Velociraptor can curl its upper lip! If it was for real, the Velociraptor would have jumped-up to grab Lex's ( Ariana Richards ) leg! The T-Rex trudged thunderously but it somehow entered the hotel unnoticed--yeah, right .... And how, exactly, did the T-Rex manage to squeeze itself through a hotel's doorway? Alan Grant should have said, "John, after careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park!"
fyi: Seeing this movie again made me realize just how much I DON'T remember about it! Either senility is starting to kick-in or I didn't pay this movie that much attention 20 years ago!
About 30 years ago, at a time when I used to have many out-of-body-experiences, I felt one coming on late one particular night. And I thought that it would be an opportune time for me to astral travel back in time to see Jesus Christ, Himself. I willed myself to travel to His time and place. But, my astral self ended-up standing on a branch of a tall tree on a foggy early morning. All of a sudden, I saw a big head move from left to right in front of my astral self. It was the head of a Brachiosaurus! It was grazing on the leaves of the tree that I found my astral self on. To this day, I don't know why I astral-traveled to that wrong place and time.
Am I the only one who thinks that the Rhinoceros is the direct descendant of the Triceratops?
My favorite dinosaur is the Triceratops. I even made a "mounted head" paper model of it using file folder paper, scotch tape, stapler, water colors and paper plate back when I was about 10 years old. And I hung it proudly in the living room of the apartment that my family lived-in in Barrio Matina, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines.
word of advice: Don't play God.
Hell hath no fury than a female T-Rex spurred-on!
tidbits: I started today with a 10:00 a.m. dental cleaning appointment. My Dentist was kind of upset with me when he found out that I had my # 5 ( bicuspid ) tooth extracted at my Periodontist's clinic late last year. He said that I should have gone to him first since periodontists are not really equipped to save teeth! I told him that I tried to set-up an appointment with him first but his receptionist couldn't squeeze me in for one a.s.a.p. So, he said that the next time I experience severe toothache I should personally get a hold of him for his professional evaluation. But I hope not to get another severe toothache. I simply can't afford to lose another tooth; I already lost five.
After my dental appointment, I went to the 99-Cent Only Store on Springs Road, here in Vallejo, to buy $4.00 worth of food stuff--I was gonna mention buying a bunch of bananas, but the "Banana Police" still monitors my blogsite ( Opps! I did it again ).
Then, I went to the Selecta Pilipino Buffet next door to it to have lunch and to buy some lottery tickets, especially for the California ( 43-State ) Power Ball Lottery which debuts today. My total money spent was $19.58.
On my way back to my car, I called Hector, my friend in Oakland, CA, on my cellphone. He was at the San Ramon Regional Medical Center where his wife, Elsa, has been kept under observation since her stroke-like TIS ( Transient Ischemic Attack ) at a neighborhood park last Thursday. The doctors found a lot of things wrong with her ( i.e. early Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, etc. ) and the current prescription medications that she is on. They had her scheduled for kidney dialysis later on today in the afternoon. At one point, as I talked with Hector, he began to sob and our connection was somehow "lost". I waited a few minutes before I called him again to give him a chance to regain his composure. As if this problem is not enough for him to handle, his third son, Tito, is also scheduled for surgery soon. Poor Hector. I hope things will turn out right for him and his family. He's been under a lot of personal stress these past few years. If anyone is deserving of miracles, it is him!
I went to the MacDonald's Restaurant at 902 Admiral Callaghan Lane here in Vallejo, at the Target Shopping Center, to start this blog and to have some Sweet Tea and Cookies ( $2.17 ).
I intended to sit in the 3rd or 2nd row. But a couple of guys already beat me to it as they sat in the 3rd row, 7th and 9th columns.
So, we had just finished watching a preview for the upcoming movie, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2, when the bald, bearded guy sitting in seat 3r/9c in front of me said to his companion, "Don't encourage it. If you don't laugh, a bad movie will go away."
What the f*ck was he talking about ...? I, myself, thought that the preview was funny, especially the scene with "Tacosaurus Rex, Supreme". Ha, ha, ha.
After the movie, I sat down at the curb of the movie theatre's side lot and called my sister in Michigan. She and her family had just returned from their Spring Break Florida vacation to be with her parents-in-law for the last time since they ( the in-laws ) are getting too old to be travelling around. Her in-laws just sold their double-wide fully-furnished mobile home at a senior park for the measly sum of just $5,000!!! But before you get into some Florida mobile home buying frenzy, keep in mind that they got a "sinkhole problem" there. In fact, a 30-foot deep sinkhole just a block away from the senior park was just recently plugged-up with cement. It took six truck-loads of cement to get the job done, according to my sister.
As I talked with my sister on the 'phone, I took this picture of a couple of businesses ( Office Depot and Peir 1 Imports ) across the parking lot from the theatre:
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| This picture, by the way, is the very first picture that I uploaded from my camera onto my Acer C7 Chromebook. |
At around 7:12 p.m., a green Toyota van pulled into a parking spot across the theatre side lot from where I sat and to my left. Even before the passenger side window was rolled down, I could detect the unpleasant smell of marijuana permeating from the van! I had to end my call to my sister so that I could get away from the stench!
I went back to MacDonald's Restaurant to resume and finish this blog.
bonus entry: What you see below are pictures of the "warm-blooded" modern-day Campagna T-Rex:
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| I found this on the Internet. This is my favorite kind of T-Rex!!! If you see me driving around in this then you know that I won the new California ( 43-State ) Power-Ball Lottery big-time! |
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| All of these T-Rexes have been fitted with after-market Aero 3S add-ons. They cost around $60,000 to $70,000 each, a drop in the bucket if and when I win the California ( 43-State ) Power Ball Lottery big-time---Pray for me, please! Ha, ha, ha. |
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