where: McDonald's Restaurant, Columbus Parkway, Benicia, CA
when: Sunday, December 28ht, 2014
show: 4:38 p.m.
costs: $5.99 YouTube rental fee + $5.18 for 2 Cheeseburgers ( I didn't eat the buns ), Side Salad w/ Southwest Ranch Dressing and Large Diet Lemonade/Sweet Tea = $11.17
auditorium: Dining lobby
seat: Table by the door with the nearby electrical outlet
2nd time
where: CONTRA COSTA STADIUM CINEMAS in Martinez, CA
when: Sunday, December 28ht, 2014
show: 7:35 p.m.
costs: $10.25 Ticket + $6.50 medium Buttered Popcorn + $3.00 small Raspberry Tea + $5.00 Benicia Bridge Toll Plaza Fee ( on my way back home to Vallejo, CA ) = $24.75
auditorium: 2
seat: 4th row ( counting from the front ), 8ht column ( counting from the left )
synopsis/overview: Dave Skylark ( James Franco ) is the host of a celebrity tabloid show that is a favorite of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un ( Randall Park ). When he lands an exclusive interview with the dictator, he and his producer, Aaron Rapaport ( Seth Rogen ), are recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Little North Korean girl singing an anti-American song; 2.) Eminem interview; 3.) Rob Lowe interview; 4.) "You don't like that brown sugar"; 5.) An unexpected avid fan of the show; 6.) Matthew McConaughey's sex secret; 7.) Long distance 'phone call; 8.) "Damn! she was sexy"; 9.) "Ain't us"; 10.) Unexpected visitors at the door; 11.) "Take him out"; 12.) "Chub"; 13.) Lasik; 14.) "Money shot"; 15.) Sneeze; 16.) Airport tarmac; 17.) Butthole; 18.) Chewing gum; 19.) "Stripey dog"; 20.) Butt; 21.) Strip-search; 22.) One-on-one basketball game; 23.) Sexy North Korean girls; 24.) Death; 25.) Jew; 26.) "American idiot"; 27.) "Me, too"; 28.) Grocery store items; 29.) "Your nipples are so pink"; 30.) Munitions room; 31.) The interview; 32.) TV control room; 33.) Helicopter vs. battle tank; 34.) Goodbye kiss; 35.) Rescue; 36.) Book reading; and 37.) Dedication after the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: The movie, itself, is "stupid-funny". And the audience loved it! The first scene with the little North Korean girl singing an anti-American song and the scene wherein Kim Jong-un was being interviewed on TV garnered the most laughs!
recommendation: I liked this "stupid-funny" movie. Support Freedom of Speech and the Right to Peaceful Assembly by watching this movie on the Big Screen, if at all possible.
spoiler alert! If most North Koreans are starving and they eat dogs, why were there still dogs running around in the country? Why did she leave the machine gun behind? What happened to the two remaining assault vehicles? And how come there is no "Dennis Rodman" character in this movie?
fyi: What I love about being an American is that we, Americans, can laugh at our own selves; and we can also laugh with every one else when the rest of the world makes fun of us!
'Remember when North Korea released propaganda videos on YouTube about how it would totally annihilate the United States? Those videos were so poorly-done and so laughable that they inspired some of us to respond in kind--but in Hollywood-style, of course! Now, the North Koreans are pissed off because we just upstaged them in this! Oh, lighten up! Will you ...? Have some sense of humor and you, North Koreans, will get along just fine with us, Americans.
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Here's an excerpt from http://www.vox.com/2014/12/29/7460277/north-korea-sony-icc
To listen to much of the Western media and The Interview's supporters, you would think that North Korea hacked Sony Pictures out of outrage over The Interview's depiction of Kim Jong Un's assassination — or that North Korea didn't actually launch the attack at all.
Whether or not North Korea was actually behind the massive cyberattack on Sony Pictures, the country's official state media has been going to great lengths to imply that North Korean hackers took down the movie company in retaliation for The Interview.
That should tell you something, because North Korean state media doesn't just sound off like that for no reason — and North Korea's self-made image as an irrational crazyman of a country is about as real as its smartphones. They were after something. There was a reason that North Korea saw all this attention and outrage as in its interest — even if it came at the cost of unknown forces (probably the US and/or China) shutting down North Korea's internet.
So what was North Korea after? Suki Kim suggests, in Slate, a very compelling theory: North Korea wants to distract from a landmark United Nations effort to refer North Korea's leadership to the International Criminal Court, which is nearing its final stages. The North Korean leadership is earnestly panicked about this threat and either launched or at least supported the Sony hack in a desperate — and wildly successful — attempt to make sure people paid attention to the hack and not the United Nations initiative.
word of advice: Don't dish it out if you can't take it.tidbits: After watching the movie on YouTube, I started my blog but I needed a movie poster for it. So, I went on-line looking for one. That was when I found out that it was being shown locally at one particular theatre, CONTRA COSTA STADIUM CINEMAS, in Martinez, CA. It is one of only a select few theatres that are showing it after the Sony hack and after North Korea ( supposedly ) threatened to resort to drastic measures if the movie is shown in theatres here in the US. I don't know whether it was just a publicity stunt to draw attention to this low-budget movie which made 18 million dollars on-line and almost 3 million dollars in theatres, so far. But I really wanted to see this on the Big Screen to know how an audience would react to it.
So, instead of blogging about this movie right away, I drove on over to Martinez to see this movie again.
I walked into an auditorium that was 5/6th full of people! That many people showed up for this movie either because it is in a Limited Run or because they were not about to have a dictator from some 3rd world country deny them their Right to Freedom of Speech/Expression and the Right to Peaceful Assembly.
During the movie's "Kim Jong-un's" butt-naked scene, the girl seated to the right of me said, "Eeyew!" After the movie, I overheard a woman say that she couldn't wait for the sequel with Digby in it. And a man said that he laughed all throughout the movie.
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A US Seal Team on Recon Patrol took the following photo with a high-powered camera, at the DMZ, of the North Koreans scrambling their jets to circle their sovereign airspace and protect it from a joint South Korean/American invasion after their nationwide Internet connection shut down.
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| Spy photo of North Korean Air Force fighter planes flying over their sovereign airspace. I found this spy photo on the Internet. |
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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| From the Internet. |
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