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| PG-13, 1 hr & 52 min |
I went to see this movie on Thursday, January 21st, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 9:50 p.m. Advanced Screening in auditorium 10, 4th row ( counting from the front ), 9th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $8.00. And I bought a Lite Bites for $6.80 at the concessions counter.
Quickie Review: An unknown alien force, dubbed, the "others", has come to Earth to eradicate the human population prior to colonizing the entire planet. In the impending doom, a girl ( Chloe Grace Moretz ) goes in desperate search of her younger brother.
I don't recall how the audience reacted to this.
But I certainly didn't like it. You may want for this to come out as a DVD rental.
This movie leaves you hanging at the end. It is as if it was intentionally done so to make this movie "segue" into the much anticipated INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE, coming sometime this summer.
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| R, 1 hr & 42 min |
I went to see this on Friday, January 22nd, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 2:15 p.m. show in auditorium 11, 4th row ( counting from the front ), 8ht column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $8.50. And I bought a 1-litre bottle of Dasani Water for $4.70 at the concessions counter.
Quickie Review: A junior partner at a law firm ( Zach Efron ), who's about to wed his boss's daughter in a week, is tricked into driving his "horny old goat" grandfather ( Robert De Niro ) down to Daytona, Florida, during Spring Break.
The audience seemed to like this.
But I didn't like it. The humor in this movie appeals to the crude and vulgar. I don't recommend that you go see this movie.
What are the things wrong in this movie? Aside from the liberal use of drugs and alcohol, a naked old man is in a recliner chair, watching interracial porn on TV and masturbating to it. Another old man wants to sodomize a "lesbian-looking" young man. A drunken man, asleep on the beach, is violated by a dog. There's a pedophilia-suggesting scene. A drug dealer sells drugs to minors. There's a semen-encrusted pair of pants. A "Hugh Hefner"-like old man is horny for girls as young as his great granddaughter and even gets one pregnant. A young man wakes up to find a penis next to his face, et cetera, etc.
If I were a member of the Ratings Board, I would have given this movie an NC-17 rating!
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| PG-13, 1 hr & 37 min |
I went to see this on Friday, January 22nd, 2016, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 4:40 p.m. show in auditorium 11, 3rd row ( counting from the front ), 4th column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $8.50. And I bought a 1/2-litre bottle of Dasani Water for $3.95 at the concessions counter.
Quickie Review: An American nanny ( Lauren Cohan ) accepts a job from an old couple whose son is a life-size doll. She is hired to follow a strict set of rules in caring for the couple's son. When she breaks the rules, she begins to feel that the doll is actually alive.
The audience liked this movie. And some even gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
I liked this movie. Go see this movie.
If you pay close attention to it, this movie actually drops hints here and there which all come together near the end of the movie. But the last scene was kinda dumb.
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On my way to seeing the advanced screening of THE 5TH WAVE, I noticed that my headlights were not shining as brightly as before. I checked the high-beam, it was okay. After the movie ended, I did a visual check on my headlights and found out that the right headlight bulb was burned-out.
And that left me with two choices on how to deal with the problem: 1.) Go online and order a pair of headlight assemblies from PartsGeek.com, or 2.) Have a repair shop replace the lightbulbs. I ordered the parts before from PartsGeek.com. They were cheap because they were not OEM parts. Now, I know why they were cheap! The original headlight lightbulbs lasted over 10 years; the cheap ones that I installed along with the new headlight assemblies lasted just three years! I decided on just having the lightbulbs, themselves, replaced this time around because the headlight assemblies still look brand new.
The next day, I took my car to OCM Auto Repair on Sonoma Boulevard, here in Vallejo, to have them work on the headlights. I went to the McDonald's Restaurant next door to have a breakfast of Oatmeal and Sweet Tea as I waited for the repair work to be done.
I had an urged to use the men's room as I waited for the repair work. I went to the men's room and found out that someone was occupying the stall. I waited. I heard a plop ... and a flush. Good, he's done, I said to myself. Then, I heard another plop ... and a flush. WTF?!?!?! I was waiting for someone to get done, a someone who was in the habit of "plopping logs" then flushing them one-by-one! This idiot probably didn't realize that California is still in the middle of a drought, irregardless of the rain that we are now having!
I gave up and went to a table to preoccupy myself with some reading material while I waited for the idiot to get done with his "business".
After about twenty minutes, I went back to the men's room only to find out that there were no more toilet paper in the stall. I told a cashier about it. But I didn't see any employee doing something about it! If only I had my computer with me, I would have gone online and done a customer dissatisfaction survey.
I could see a mechanic working on my car from the comfort of the table that I occupied inside the McDonald's Restaurant. It didn't take long for the work to get done. I paid $92.63 for the whole thing ( parts, labor and tax ). And the lights are brighter than the original OEM or the aftermarket that I installed.
I went home to use the toilet--had to make room in me for the buffet lunch that was soon to follow.
Then, I went to Selecta Pilipino Buffet Restaurant on Springs Road here in Vallejo for lunch and to buy some lottery tickets. It would be super great if I win the Super Lotto, the Mega and the Powerball all in the same week. Why? Here's the reason why:
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| Last year's crop of Binibining Pilipinas contestants. Pia Wurtzbach is somewhere in the group. |
The man in the middle is my brother-in-law. He's the Driving Force behind the favorable, oftentimes stunning, placements of Filipina beauties in International Beauty Pageants these last few years ( and the Chinese are crying, Foul! sore losers that they are ). If I win the lottery major-big-time, I can literally have my pick on whom to marry--with his help, of course. Heh, heh, heh. I guess you could say that I'd be willing to give up on my monastic celibacy vows for any one of them. Ha, ha, ha.
After I watched DIRTY GRANDPA, I refilled my water bottle at the drinking fountain. A man came up to me and said, "That's good. You have the right idea."
I'm just refilling my bottle, I said.
He said, "I can't afford to buy stuff here. I bring my own snacks." He showed me the big bulge in his pullover hoodie's pocket pouch. ( Or was he just happy to see me---Just kidding! Ha, ha, ha. )
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| I found this on the Internet. |
Yup, I can't blame him for it. I'm guilty of doing the same thing, myself, on occasion. Especially in the wintertime when I can wear a jacket with Big Pockets!
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