where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Sunday, November 24th, 2013
show: 8:10 p.m.
costs: $10.25 Ticket + $1.75 upgrade to a large Popcorn ( on a Cinemark movie watcher reward's free small Popcorn ) + $5.00 large Powerade Mountain Berry Blast = $17.00
auditorium: 14
seat: 3rd row ( counting from the front ), 6th column ( counting from the left )
2nd time
where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Saturday, November 30th, 2013
show: 9:35 p.m.
costs: $10.75 Ticket + $$6.50 Lite Bites ( w/ Trail Mix and Powerade Mountain Berry Blast ) =$17.25
auditorium: 14
seat: 5th row ( counting from the front ), 7th column ( counting from the left )
synopsis/overview: After winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence ) and Peeta Mellark ( Josh Hutcherson ) embark on a compulsory victory tour through all the districts just as a rebellion is brewing and President Snow ( Donald Sutherland ) plots their demise in the 75th Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, which only happens every twenty-five years.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) "It was an act"; 2.) "You do have your virtues"; 3.) The unexpected visitor; 4.) Live TV broadcast; 5.) "Maybe, we have a shot at being friends"; 6.) "Did you see that"; 7.) "Our lives aren't just measured in years"; 8.) Execution; 9.) "You're mentors now"; 10.) "Everyone at school wears it like this now, grandpa"; 11.) The proposal; 12.) "It's for when you're full"; 13.) "We need to show that she's one of us"; 14.) "You don't want to shoot her"; 15.) "Hope"; 16.) "Her entire species"; 17.) Third Quarter Quell; 18.) "Peeta lives, not me"; 19.) Tributes selection; 20.) Rivals; 21.) Secrets; 22.) Flaming promenade; 23.) Elevator; 24.) "Good news"; 25.) "How are we gonna kill these people"; 26.) "Chosen skill"; 27.) "These victors are angry. They'll try anything to stop this game"; 28.) "Like a Mocking Jay"; 29.) "If it weren't for the baby"; 30.) "Presents for the boys"; 31.) "Let's watch her get her hands dirty, first"; 32.) Assault and battery; 33.) "Good thing we're allies"; 34.) "That's music to my ears"; 35.) Force field; 36.) "Edge of the arena"; 37.) Water tap; 38.) Fog; 39.) Mandrills; 40.) Sacrifice; 41.) "Tic-Toc"; 42.) "How'd they get that sound? Jabber Jays copy"; 43.) "I have a plan"; 44.) "I don't want to be the one that shoots first"; 45.) "You have to live for them"; 46.) "It's his plan. We all agreed to it"; 47.) "Stay down"; 48.) "Remember who the real enemy is"; 49.) "Get away from that tree"; 50.) "We couldn't tell you"; and 51.) "It's all gone."
audience reaction: Both Vallejo audiences liked it. And some gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I didn't like it that much. This movie is geared for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES series.
spoiler alert! Why was there a "Victors' Village" in District 12 when the district never produced a victor for each and every Hunger Game since the game's inception 75 years ago ( and District 12 only had 3 victors--so, shouldn't it have only 3 houses set-up instead of a whole village )? Here is yet another Hollywood movie in which the first person to get killed-off is a black man! Doesn't Hollywood know that there are other ethnic minorities out there at their disposal? For instance, I'm an ethnic minority. Hollywood can use me in a movie as its first minority victim--so long as the character that I'll be playing has a speaking part with at least a hundred words to say before he gets killed-off. "Everyone at school wears it like this now, grandpa"---Am I right to assume that "everyone at school" includes the boys, too? You cannot push your torso off a table with injuries to your back muscles like the ones Gale Hawthorne ( Liam Hemsworth ) had. At the beach, the rival team was just standing there; Katniss could have easily shot at them with her arrows! If the arena was self-enclosed, how was the wind generated with enough force to sway the tree branches? The blisters that they got from the poisoned fog should not have wiped/scrubbed-off easily: Blisters are caused when an irritant agent makes the superficial skin layer rise up as the body's immune response causes fluid to accumulate in subdermal pockets at loci points of contact. When blisters are ruptured ( i.e. rubbed-off, as shown in this movie ), the exposed subdermal skin will be raw, tender and reddish in color; and pieces of skin will be evident along the edges of the ruptured blisters--BUT THE SFX DEPARTMENT FOR THIS MOVIE FORGOT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT--YET ANOTHER REASON WHY THEY SHOULD HAVE CONSULTED WITH ME FIRST, CINE-MAN, TECHNICAL ADVISER, par excellence!!! Mandrills, like other monkeys or apes, have a very powerful grip. Mandrills also have a strong pulling power. And just like monkeys and apes, Mandrills have grasping feet. In a fight with a human, a Mandrill would be expected to grab at the human's arms with its hands and feet to render the human defenseless for what follows next: Bites to the face and neck!!! ( Yet another reason why they should have consulted with me first, Cine-Man, Technical Adviser and top Anthropology student in college! ) After the encounter with the Mandrills, how was Katniss able to replenish her supply of arrows? Why was she not hit by any of the falling structural debris when she was directly within its debris field?
fyi: Was Primrose Everdeen's ( Willow Shields ) cat, Garfield, the World's Fattest Cat?
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| Garfield, the World's Fattest Cat. I found this on the Internet. But never mind Garfield--check-out the enormous hands on this woman!!! |
In Ancient Rome, at banquets, people would stuff themselves with food then vomit it all out so that they could stuff themselves all over again! Hey! this gives me an idea for next time that I pig-out at a Chinese buffet restaurant.
Hey! Where's the manager? Your food is lousy. I can't keep it down
no matter how hard I try. I keep throwing it all up! I'm not paying
for any of this crap! 'See you tomorrow.
You can tell by the way I do CPR, I'm an EMT--no time to talk.
You're not dead. Your body's warm. You'd been thrown around,
singed--badly burned.
But it's alright. You'll be okay.
Folks, you may look the other way--
you just try to understand
an accident's effect on man.
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!
'See that you're breathin' and your muscles are twitchin'
'cause you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!
Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive.
Well, now. We get low and we get high.
And if we can't get either, we'll really try.
'Got the wings of Heaven on our shoes.
We are blessed men. We just can't lose.
You know it's alright. It's okay.
You'll live to see another day.
You just try to understand
an accident's effect on man.
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!
'See that you're breathin' and your muscles are twitchin'
'cause you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!
Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive.
You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.
I'll get the gurney. Yeah.
You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.
I'll get the gurney. Yeah.
You can tell by the way I do CPR, I'm an EMT--no time to talk.
You're not dead. Your body's warm. You'd been thrown around,
singed--badly burned.
But it's alright. You'll be okay.
Folks, you may look the other way--
you just try to understand
an accident's effect on man.
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!
'See that you're breathin' and your muscles are twitchin'
'cause you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!
Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive.
You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.
I'll get the gurney. Yeah.
You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.
I'll get the gurney. Yeah.
YOU'RE STAYIN' ALIVE!!!
tidbits: I wasn't able to take notes the first time that I watched this movie because I was munching on a big bag of buttered popcorn. And it took me almost the entire length of the movie to eat it all up!
In the auditorium during the movie, some girl sat immediately to my left. Twice, she crossed her legs; and twice she hit my left knee when she shifted in her seat. Was she "hitting" on me? The dumb-blonde sure wasn't clear on the concept of "hitting on someone." Or, maybe, I was too stupid to take a hint. Whatever ....
2nd tidbits: I learned of Paul Walker's death when a twit on it was posted on my Cine-Man blogsite in the Twicsy's Top Twitter Pics Of The Past Hour section. I was at the MacDonald's Restaurant in Benicia, CA, at 1602 East 2nd Street, when I learned of the tragedy. How sad ....
At first, I wanted to see this for the second time at the EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA, where the theatre is showing this in I-Max. But, then, I realized that the show will be in 2-D only. And I refuse to pay extra for an I-Max 2-D show! Because whether or not the show is in I-Max 2-D or I-Max 3-D, the admission price is the same. So, I just decided to see this once again here in Vallejo.
The concessions clerk at the theatre refused to honor my $1.00-off discount on a snack pack even though the e-mail coupon sent to me said that the discount was good on any snack pack. The reason why I chose to have the Lite Bites snack pack in the first place. But the manager said that the discount was only good on the regular snack pack and the speed pack---What the "pack" is a speed pack?!?!?! They only had the regular snack pack and the Lite Bites snack pack available at the counter! What a rip-off! I'll complain about this to their corporate p.r. department.
After the movie, I went to the Super Wal-Mart in American Canyon, CA, to buy a birthday present for a co-worker because it was her birthday today. And she insisted on getting a present from me even though she didn't say anything about a birthday party. But the jewelry section was closed for the evening--it was past midnight--and wouldn't open again until 7:00 a.m. Do I have an excuse or what ...?
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