JIU JITSU, R ( 1 h 42 m )

I saw this movie today, Friday, October 27th, 2023, at home, lying down on my futon, via my TUBI streaming app. 

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This Nick Cage movie is a let-down for me, I'm sorry to say. And the "comic relief" soldier is a pointless addition to the cast of characters! It's mostly about fight dance choreographies between a "ninja predator"-type alien that comes to Earth every 6 years to get it on with 9 of our planet's best fighters who are prepared for the kill-or-be-killed battle by a dedicated lineage of monks who were originally taught to fight by the alien. 

6 & 9 reference Yin-Yang duality? 

In other words, the alien shows up periodically to kill the students of HIS Students and since only THE Best 9 are chosen every 6 years, the ones that are spared are the incompetent ones who then train the future generations of fighters! 🤦🏽‍♂️ Can you say, Law of Diminishing Returns, without actually saying it? 🤓  I don't know about you, but I think that Mr. Ninja Predator Alien  👽 guy initially stacked the Odds in his or its ( whichever pronoun is suitable and I'm not one to argue against him, her, it, they, them, whatever 🙄 ) favor .... Note: Martial Arts masters really don't teach their own students every trick up their sleeves! ( My own sensei accidentally discovered a pressure point when he sparred with someone but refused to tell me which pressure point it is! )  😕 This time around, the team is led by an Obi Wan Kenobi wannabe hippie ( according to Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 ). The reference to Jiu Jitsu, i.e. Leverage, only comes in past the 1 hour & 10 minute mark since the fights are mostly in other forms of both armed & unarmed styles. But, if I remember correctly, Leverage techniques were developed by the Judo specialists. "Ju Dotsu" for the title, perhaps? 🤷🏽‍♂️ And the fights, themselves, show "holes" in both defense and offense That Are Not Exploited ❗And Ninja Predator Alien 👽 guy sure has an unlimited amount of Shuriken Stars shooting out of his--or its--wrists. Lastly, that took more than "5 or 6 seconds." 🛎️

The opening scene showing a comet barreling down to Earth 🌍 doesn't make sense at all because the trailing vapors are just floating around everywhere instead of being concentrated into a tail formation; as if they're just floating around the stationary comet in an atmospheric space 😉  instead of out in the vacuum of space, especially considering the speeds at which a comet ☄️ travels! 🤦🏽‍♂️

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With all of that said, this movie truly bombed at the Box Office ❗

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Even if you take the COVID "pandemic" lockdown into consideration! But it might have a silver lining, after all. 🤞

https://www.looper.com/362126/the-nicolas-cage-martial-arts-flop-thats-crushing-it-on-netflix/

Nicolas Cage's recently released movies did well at the Box Office, though. I'm talking about THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, RENFIELD, THE RETIREMENT PLAN & BUTCHER'S CROSSING. I saw them all, except for the last one, on the Big Screen and enjoyed them enough to watch them 2X each! 🍿👌🙂👍🥤 But I missed seeing Butcher's Crossing on the Big Screen. ☹️ Nicolas Cage, if you're reading this, Sorry, Bro .... 😶‍🌫️

P. S. Nicolas Cage will be in next year's Spiderman movie. 🙂

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TIDBITS: The 168 Asian Grocery Store in my neighborhood just opened. 👌 Yesterday was their Grand Opening. They sure have a lot of Mexican-looking Chinese stockers working there!  😄 The store has 13 aisles, all in all. But They Left The 13th Aisle unnumbered! I guess that it's also a bad luck number for them, too!  😕 It's the aisle with a bakery, coffee bar & hot Chinese to-go food counter. Their Breakfast Aisle has Teas, Coffees & Cereals that I've never seen before. The Teas are worth trying; especially since they come in cute glass jars. Oops, they sell a # 113 coffee! 😬 How in heck did it get added to their shelf merchandise? And will it negate 168's Good Luck energy?

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The 168 Asian Grocery Store is in direct competition with Seafood City and Island Pacific since it carries a lot of stuff that are also sold at the 2 Pinoy stores. But it mostly caters to the Chinese. They have a Taiwanese sausage ( Longanisa style ) in the frozen section that I might try someday. 🤤 😋

I went to the Neighborhood Wal-Mart to see if it's affected by the new store in the same shopping area. It may just be .... There were just a few shoppers in there.

Last night, at 7:50 pm, as I walked up the curb by the children's playground at Dan Foley Baseball ⚾/Soccer ⚽ Sports Field, my left foot couldn't clear the curb because of my Achilles Heel pain & tight Calf Muscles! As I was falling, I quickly moved forward to avoid face-planting myself on the sidewalk! I couldn't recover my balance and fell on the grass ( better grass than concrete )!! When I got home and removed my socks, I noticed that my left Ankle & Lower Leg were swollen!!! 

This evening, on my way to my car to do some shopping, I noticed that I was back to walking in a normal way, with no Ankle pain & with very little Calf Muscles tightness ❗ ❗ ❗😊 I guess that the jarring accident readjusted my Ankle & Calf Muscles. 😎👍

I think 🤔 that in order for me to fix my hearing and vision problems, I will need to get into a fight with some asshole here at the park and allow myself to get hit in the face a few times! 😁

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THE LAKE, TV-MA ( 1 hr & 33 min )

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A little Thai girl finds a mysterious large egg 🥚 on the ground and takes it home. Soon, the village is terrorized by Thai-Zilla ( I just made this name up 😎 )❗ 

This movie came out last year and went straight to TV? video? or to streaming ...? If you have the streaming app, TUBI, on your phone's app store, download it if you don't already have it on your 'phone. 

The only reason why you should download TUBI is because they just added SAW from 1 to 7 so that you can binge watch the SAW Torture Porn franchise. 🍿👌😋👍🥤

Anyway, back to this Hollywood Thailand movie. It's worth seeing only for free. There are so many things that are wrong in this movie: Directing, Acting, Script Writing, Editing or Continuity, Logic, Conflicting Motives, and the Monsters' Origin & Gender ( I'm guessing Asexual 😕 ). I just hope that they at least broke even in its distribution.  😐  The sfx monsters are this movie's redeeming quality. 🙂

I'm waiting until next Tuesday, Halloween 🎃, to go back to the theatre so that I don't have to deal with bratty trick-or-treaters on that day! And, also, so that I can take advantage of Bargain Tuesday!  🤑

Yes, the film company's name is actually Hollywood Thailand! Whether or not it's related to Whollyweird, I don't know.  🤷🏽‍♂️

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SAW X, R ( 1 hr & 58 min )/THE CREATOR, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 13 min )

Today, Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, I went to see these 2 movies at the Century 14, here in Vallejo, CA. The price of admission this Bargain Tuesday is $6.50 for each ticket.

Auditorium 4, B-6

The time setting is in-between the 1st & 2nd sequel of this Torture Porn franchise, a midquel, if you will.

A man dying of Brain 🧠 Cancer is desperate for a cure. He learns of a potential cure from a member of his cancer support group. He goes to the secluded Cancer Clinic in Mexico and learns something unexpected about his treatment.

Now, here are some things wrong about this movie:

The "welcoming reception" would have given a heart patient a Heart Attack--including me with my CVD & CHF❗ No wonder they only specialize in Cancer Patients. 😒  Why do they always play a Minor Key whenever a bad scene is about to happen? 🤔 Just do away with the horror music trope and surprise us!  😨 It would have been better if the body area "operated"  on was shaved  🤕, a superficial cut was made and stitches done to make the surgery more convincing and not raise anyone's suspicion. 😕  The average length of a woman's Small Intestine is ~23 feet/7 m ); I guesstimate the woman's Small Intestine to be about 40 feet/12.2 m )---That woman has a lot of Guts, to be sure! 😁  Exposing one's Bone Marrow like that would be inviting a serious case of Infection to take place! The same could be said about the DIY Trepanner working under unsanitary condition. What I'm saying is that both of them would be dead, whether they passed the test or not ❗"Broken bones heal, skin can be grafted." But where is a druggie like that gonna find the money for such surgeries? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Especially when, given the condition, Morphine would be what the druggie would need the most of! 🤦🏽‍♂️The hammer should have had a wrist loop attached to it just in case the subject is overcome by pain 😖 and loses grip on the hammer ( you know, be kind and sadistically considerate of your victim's needs 😏 ). It would have been a fair thing to do for the victim. 🙂 Why didn't the drowning torture victims just keep their mouths shut, instead?  🤷🏽‍♂️ I didn't see him remove the primer from the cartridges, just the gun powder. So, each time that the firing pin hit the bottom of a center-fire cartridge that should have ignited the primer and which should've made the cartridge produce an audible "Pop" instead of the "Click" sound--I would think! 🤨

The couple which is exposed to the corrosive gas that makes their skin blister Should Have Also Had Their Nasal Passages, Trachea & Lungs blistering from the acid exposure, too❗🙄  Damn, who would have "THUNK" that the Mexican boy was not an aspiring soccer ⚽ player but, rather, a ventriloquist---He sure as heck said, "Buenos dias," with a Big Toothy Smile On!  😁

There's a Bonus Scene after the Ending Credits which finally scratches at the surface .... 😉

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Now, on to the 2nd movie ....

In the near future, approximately 3 or 4 decades away from now, human error detonates a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, CA. And Robots & Simulants are blamed for it, which leads to a war between the USA and New Asia. 🙄 ( Are they trying to tell us something ...? )

Auditorium 3, B-6

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What are the things that are wrong about this movie? A Whole Lot, As It Turns Out ❗📝

First off, the Nomad, a giant, stylized version of a female reproductive organ, complete with "ovaries" ( i.e. mini Nuclear Bombs ),

Do you see what I mean? 😉

makes a 👉Bloody👈 Mess Of Things with its PERIODic 🙃 straddling over helpless villages down below! Yup, there goes "Climate Change". The director forgot to put in "Nuclear Winter"! 🤣🤣🤣  "The Americans are coming" for you in a Bigly Way---'Murica! 🦅✊🇺🇸 Why are the Spec Ops soldiers without thermal imagers and night vision goggles in the near future? Didn't anyone tell them that Equatorial nighttime Is Very Dark and if you go walking around in the dark with a lighted helmet and backpack, you will look like a walking lightbulb 💡 in the dark of night? So much for stealth!  🤦🏽‍♂️ Tip for the near future US soldiers: Before You Go On Deployment, Head First To A Local Army Surplus Store! I'm sure that they can hook you up with some nice, slightly used thermal imagers and night vision goggles! 👌❗👍 Yeah, like that girl with the water buffalo doesn't see the US soldiers sneaking around in the dark from afar. 🤭  And what the heck is she doing taking her buffalo for a walk in the middle of the night?!?!?!  That robot interrogator keeps punching 🤜❗🤛 the US soldier in the face but never damages his facial bone structure. Yeah, right .... 😒 Okay, it's established in a later scene that his prosthetic arm is waterproof. So, Why Does He Not Have It On When He Is In The Swimming Pool? "Don't mind me folks, I'm just swimming in a circle to do my laps in the pool!" 🤪 Why do some of the robots have bad audio speakers? They must've been made in new china. 😏 And if the human resistance forces hate the USA so much, why are their simulants programmed to speak in American English ❓🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️❗That little girl is crying when a US soldier threatens to kill the puppy because her family is probably still raising it for future meat. ( I'm from Old Asia, so I don't have to sugar-coat it. It's bad. It's a sad reality. It traumatized me as a kid. I wished it weren't so. And that it will be stopped soon! 🤞🙏 ) In the Near Future, Security Monitor screens have bad reception! 👎 Why didn't the police cars have radar to detect the Big, Giant "female anatomy" in the sky❓ Any Man Would Not Be Able To Resist Looking Up In The Sky To Behold Such A Sight❗ 😜 Robots and Simulants are stronger and have better limb stability than humans. So, why can't they triangulate their targets precisely instead of shooting up the place like humans do? Didn't their creators, designers and programmers not see any of the ROBOCOP movies? And since Robots and Simulants are stronger and more stable, why are they not equipped with .950 JDJ Rifles since they need all of the firepower that they can get? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Why don't the Simulants have polarized vision capability to see things beneath the water's surface? And why do their boats not have Fish Finders which can easily detect any creature beneath the water? Instead of "Intruder Alert," they should just have a "Black Guy Alert" since he's the only black guy roaming around in the village! 🤣 What the heck is the Smoke Screen even for? It is a pointless thing to use in that battle since both sides are on the bridge and know exactly where the enemy is at--like, directly straight in front of them! What, no RPGs?!?!?! 🤦🏽‍♂️ And why don't the resistance have EMP weapons to deactivate their US soldier enemies' Robots? That village ( in Thailand  ) has the same kind of terrain and topography as Vietnam does. And US battle tanks weren't effective in Vietnam jungle fighting back then. So, what does the US Army do to address the problem in this movie? Yup, Make Yuge battle tanks ( From Texas, maybe. Since they make things bigger in the State of Texas )❗👍 But the villagers and resistance force cannot seem to hear 🙉 and see 🙈 the Yuge battle tank making a "sneak attack" on them from behind even though it was leveling huts and felling trees along the way! 🤦🏽‍♂️ It only takes one ( yes, 1 ) little monkey 🐒 to destroy a Yuge US Army battle tank!  🤯  The tank production was probably outsourced to some 3rd world country with little attention paid to quality control--you know the country. 🤐  In an earlier scene, the Simulants are seen naked on operating tables getting their finishing touches done. But inside of the Nomad, they're in suspension but clothed? WTF?!?!?! 😳 Don't they know that things of that sort are kept naked while still in production or waiting to be programmed? I can tell that the movie director and the sfx modelers sure didn't visit the Real Doll factory in Las Vegas; otherwise, they'd have known to hang their production models butt-naked! ( I do a lot of HARD 😉 Research So You, My Dear Readers, Don't Have To. 😎 )  Metaphorically speaking, he's a badass Sperm Cell traveling up the Vagina, to the Cervix, into the Uterus, and through the Fallopian Tube to get to the Ovaries and implant them with an "explosive 🧨 Virus." 'Talk about a planned Big Bang Orgasm!  Oh ... kay ....  😐  Idiot Alert: Don't go outside celebrating when something Yuge is Exploding in the Sky and is crashing Down To Earth! I'm talking Yuge Blast Radius and even Yuger Debris Field that is still raining down chunka objects even after the Yuge Thingy crashed❗❗❗

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In the '80s, we had a giant V(agina) in the sky. Now, 40 years later--a whole generation--we have a female anatomy in the sky! That's "progressive feminism"  for you❗😃 😁 😆 😂 🤣

I had the same snack as what I had on Monday. But with a different powdered drink mix:

Dole Tropical Punch

This Creator Movie Has Got To Be THE MOST Anti-USA Movie Ever Made ❗😠❗😡❗🤬❗

And just before Election Year, too ❗❗❗ 

What a coincidence ❗❗

NOT❗

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P. S. Speaking of ROBOCOP, they're planning a remake sequel to the original 1987 movie. I'm not talking about the 2014 remake. But one that's supposed to be in pre-production now.  

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THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER, R ( 2 hr 1 min )/VIDEO CITY: BE KIND, PLEASE REWIND, NR ( 1 hr 44 min )

 I went to see these 2 movies today, Monday, October 23rd, 2023, at the Century 14 here in  Vallejo, CA. The price of Senior Monday matinee admission is $7.50 each. The box office attendant told me that the matinee price is actually cheaper than the Senior Price.  👨🏽‍🦳 🧑🏽‍🦳 I'm all for bargain deals since I'm on a tight budget. 👌🤑👍

This exorcist movie isn't bad. But there are some things wrong with this movie. How in the world did the friend and the voodoo priestess get in his house in the 1st place? 🤷🏽‍♂️ The Devil Is In The Details❗ The photographer father is a reckless driver. ( When I received a call at work from the hospital back in late January, 1996, that my mother was dying, the doctor advised me to drive safely. ) I would imagine that he was advised in the same way, too, as he drove to the hospital. When his daughter was taken by an ambulance 🚑 to the hospital, she was already dressed in a hospital gown---WTF?!?!?!  🤦🏽‍♂️ I didn't know that ambulances carry hospital gowns!  😂  I hate to say this but those receptacles on the table inside the church look like Pork Bun Steamers! 😁 If the other girl was possessed in that church and the priest couldn't do a damn thing about it, I think that it's a sign that you need to switch churches or, better yet, denomination! What is it with demonic possession and the catholic church? 🤔 If you see someone's house with its rear door wide open and there are signs of violence inside, you call 911 ASAP instead of walk in to investigate it on your own! 😒 I don't think that you can just walk out of a mental institution with a patient and medical devices THAT easily--paper work and administrative approval would be needed as well as settle the legalities that would be involved! In other words, IT ... WOULD ... TAKE ... A ... LOT ... OF ... TIME ( DAYS ... MONTHS ) ... AND ... ATTRACT ... THE ... ATTENTION  ... OF ... THE ... MEDIA❗❗❗The priest knew that it was a case of deadly 😈demonic 😈 possession but he still recommended psychiatric evaluation!  🙄 Okay, it's the photographer's house so I guess that his daughter gets to sit in the cushy chair 💺 while the other girl is forced to sit in the uncomfortable chair 🪑. 😏 I don't care who you are, if you get head-butted like a version of Bruce Lee's "1-Inch Punch" that sends you flying clear into the far wall of the next room, You Ain't Gonna Be Walking Away From It Alive❗👎❗😵❗And Why Did They All Recite A Different Prayer Each, All At The Same Time? I don't think that reciting different prayers all at once can confuse a demon like that during an exorcism. 😄

When I saw the original Exorcist Movie way back when, and Regan did the 180° turn of her head, I was in love! 😍 True story ....  🤪 It must be why entities make house calls to me from time to time.  🤨

Auditorium 7, C-9

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Now, for this Pinoy "chick flick" movie .... 

I liked this movie even with its predictable ending. It was engaging. The middle scenes all point to the same conclusion.

An uninspired film student, who happens to be the son of a famous movie director, accidentally travels back in time to May 5, 1995 from 2023--which is 28 years! This Is Literally An LDR ( Long Distance Relationship )❗ Everyday that he travels back in time, he loses an hour. In other words, he only has 12 days total to make a difference in his life and in another person's life that Fate connected him with. JEPP is from Jupiter, I'm from Mars ( the name of the street my family lived on back in the Philippines ). I hated the hand-held camera scenes; they could have at least used stabilizers. You'd think! During the presser for his mother, they stood in front of the camera, blocking the cameraman from doing his job. 🙈 They strolled by the beach without showing the shore because its shoreline back in 1995 would have been grossly polluted But No Longer So When This Movie Was Made, thanks to Du30 ( Former Manila Mayor Isko Moreno can be credited also for his beautification projects )👌❗👍  In one scene, the English subtitle for Inspired is spelled "Insipired"; but, maybe, the script girl got Inspired confused with Insipid, which is actually its opposite in meaning. 😕 The Kissing scene outside of the ferry building during the rain would have freaked out the other passengers had they shown a POV reaction to it! Yup, the director missed out on that one! 🧐

This is yet another movie influenced by the "social distancing" movement, as shown in the movie theatre scene. One would think that such a reunion would have them unreservedly/unashamedly hugging 🫂 and kissing 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 each other❗🤦🏽‍♂️❗🤷🏽‍♂️❗

RE: "Social ...." The male protagonist attends a liberal arts college with an obvious emphasis on, "Liberal." As shown in his movie thesis proposal on socialism. The indoctrination is alive and well in the Philippines! Especially more so in the northern region ( the likely location of this movie ) and even in some parts of the central region. The southern region has its own identity issue ....

I don't know why the store, a dark, cobwebbed hull of its previous self, and a fallen victim to technology and the pandemic and which is essentially comatose, still manages to weakly tread water in a sea of debt. 

This is the song version which I learned as a child:

"One day, isang araw,

I saw, 👉NAKITA👈 ko ...." 😐

Auditorium 2, B-6

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If you're a man in search of love and marriage in another country as a "Passport Bro," avoid the cities where you'll mostly encounter WESTERNIZED women! Westernized women are worse than Western women because they emulate all of the bad stereotypes of Western women that the media floods them with!! Be like this guy in the movie who chose a girl from the province, a Probensiyana Girl!!! 👌😎👍

CAVEAT: To all of the Passport Bros out there. I'll share with you what my US History professor adviced my class: "Never Marry Poor."

It goes with what my Yogi said, "Karma is Energy. Everything has Energy."

There's a simple explanation why poor people are poor no matter how much they try to better their financial situation: They Don't Have Wealth Energy.

I'm sure you've heard of Lottery Winners who ended up more poor than before they even won all of that money. Yes, they had Poverty Energy. 💸

If you marry someone with Poverty Energy, it may just rub off on you, which cancels out an equal amount of your own Wealth Energy. 👎

Remember, "Misery Loves Company" & "Birds Of A Feather Flock Together."

Looks can be quite deceiving❗ Those with fancy cars and nice houses could just be showing off by living beyond their means to try to "keep up with the Joneses"❗

Now, look at Warren Buffett. He lives in the same house that he bought back in the '50s! And he uses coupons when he buys food at McDonald's!

And Elon Musk lives in a tiny house.

And I personally met someone last month who's a multi-millionaire that shops at the local 99-Cents Only Store where I shop, too. He has so much money that he sold his condo to his accountant's son for just ¼ of its fair market value--I guess that he did that just to piss-off his former neighbors And Lower Their Houses' Property Values! 😎

And, years ago, I met someone at the local Wal-Mart who is also a multi-millionaire. So, don't judge a book by its cover because SMART Multi-millionaires and Smart Multi-billionaires DON'T SHOW OFF THEIR MATERIAL WEALTH ❗💰❗💵❗🪙❗

Hmm 🤔 .... If I use discount coupons at fast-food restaurants, and shop at the Dollar Tree Store, the 99-Cents Only Store & at Wal-Mart, then I'm destined for Immense Financial Wealth, too! 🤑

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Anyway .... 

May 5, AKA Cinco de Mayo, is also celebrated in the Philippines. Why ...? Because Pinoys & Pinays will find any excuse to have a party, festival, fiesta, whatever ....  🙂

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This is what I put in my bottled water. 

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This is what I snacked on. It's not M&M's. I put unsalted peanuts and some low-carb, high fiber chocolate morsels in the tube. 

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From Ling-Ling to Ting-Ting:  🕺🏽

https://youtube.com/shorts/GtHK_bXk7bI?si=bVKhYMax0QWebLS5

This guy is GOOD ❗❗❗

Let's see a Ting-Ting Tinikling Challenge! 😃

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To my 🇺🇲 USA 🇺🇸 readers, please check out my friend Soberund's new On-Line Store @

 www.soberundgoodes.com

Let's all be on the ground floor and cheer him on 👌❗👍  🗣️📣 

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WHEN EVIL LURKS, NR ( 1 hr & 40 min )/A VERY GOOD GIRL, R ( 2 hr & 5 min )

Today, October 17th, 2023, I went to Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max in Fairfield, CA, to watch 2 movies for the $5.00 Show & $5.00 Large Popcorn ( w/ Free Membership) Bargain Tuesday All Day.

 Auditorium 9, C-12

This movie is in Spanish, w/ English subtitles, from Argentina. As you can see from the above screenshot, I Owned The Auditorium 👌😎 👍. I wanted to wait 'til Halloween Night to go see this, along with the new Exorcist & the "mid-quel" Saw movies. But this week is the last week to catch this movie near where I live. ☹️

It doesn't disappoint! It's about a demon-possessed fat guy, rotting away, referred to aptly enough as, "Rotten." This bed-ridden fat guy is "pregnant" and is expecting to pop-out a demon anytime soon---Dang with these "woke" movies trend! 🤦🏽‍♂️ Anyway, you cannot kill it with a bullet because it will just make matters worse. It has to be disposed of by a specially trained "Cleaner." Absent of a Cleaner, the ranch owner and 2 sibling neighbors help him to dispose of the "preggo" guy. That's when things take an evil turn. From then on, the demon hops, skips and jumps from one host to another in wild abandon! There are a lot of graphic headblows in this movie--the movie poster shown below sure hints at it ( even the possessed kids have a go at it, too )! Just a tip ... Stop Eating Anything During The Scenes Wherein They Have To Move The Fat, Bed-Ridden "Preggo" Guy!  😵‍💫🤢🤮   ❗YOU'VE BEEN WARNED ❗ Also, the scenes wherein 2 dogs are enjoying a victim's entrails, a dog mauling a child to death then dragging it away and another child getting its brain 🧠 scooped out by a demon-possessed entity having a case of the "munchies" might Be Way TOO Disturbing To Some Of You❗😳❗😲❗

Do you see what I mean ...?

P.S. This movie is supposedly better than the new Exorcist movie. So, don't be surprised, at all, if whollyweird makes a US version of this movie!  

💰🤑 💵

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Now, on to the next movie .... 

Auditorium 1, C-9

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This movie is about a young woman with an old axe to grind. She plots, schemes and seduces her way into "Mother's" inner circle of trusted friends. But "Mother" knows best and already has planned some counter-offensive moves of her own. Who wins in the end when stakes are so high and neither side will stop at anything to outwit the other? This movie could have been better with more polished dialogues among the BFFs; to listen to them talk was quite a turn-off! There are also some video calls that sounded unnaturally scripted. And there are at least 4 plot holes in this movie. The 1st scene about the rare, antique goddess idol does hint at its 2nd & final scene's "worship" of; which I didn't expect to see in a Pinoy movie .... 🤷🏽‍♂️

Side note: There are 4 or 5 very beautiful young women in this movie. I would not hesitate to go out on a date with any of them---But Only For Just Once! Their character portrayals all come across as materialistic & insincere. They're the type that you should "ghost" after the first date if your intention is to find a suitable partner in a lifelong relationship.

I'm still wondering whether those pimples are real or are just sfx.  🤔 

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When I went out for my morning walk around the park, I felt a pop in the rear of my left leg's Achilles Heel at Exactly 10:10 a.m.! It hurt so much 😖 as I limped for another 1.5 miles ( 2.4 km ) just to get home to rest before driving to Fairfield to see these movies❗I used my automatic car instead of my stick shift car for the obvious reason.  And I limped until past midnight when I arrived home after watching these 2 movies along with another movie ( hint: really "woke"--no, it's not the barbie one which I refused to go see ) that I'd much rather not mention.  My Achilles Heel had been bothering me for over 3 weeks now so that I had to stop incorporating some jogging 🏃🏽‍♂️ sessions into my walking 🚶🏽‍♂️regimen.

If you believe in past lives, in a previous incarnation, I probably cut a captured enemy soldier's Achilles Heel way back then and Karma decided that it was payback time for me today! 🤷🏽‍♂️

The $5.00 Large Popcorn 🍿 is now $5.05---But still as salty 🧂 as before. 👎

I bought a Large Plastic Popcorn Tub at a Dollar Tree Store to use as a holder for my Large Popcorn 🍿 because I like to butter my popcorn ❗ AND THEIR BAGS & TUBS DO LEAK❗❗I often wondered 🤔 why my lap would always smell like stale, buttered popcorn whenever I'd get home from the movies❗❗❗ 

My Aquafina water bottle has "orange"  🍊 in it because I used one of those powdered drink mixes ( Wyler's Light Island Punch  ) to color & flavor my bottled water. Since I have to watch my Phosphorus intake because of my Kidney Disease. But I handle my Sodium intake by eating foods high in Potassium because the new, revised research findings state that a 1:2 ratio between Sodium & Potassium must be maintained for Kidney health. And movie popcorn 🍿 can be salty! 

👉👉👉I forgot to mention in my previous post regarding my friend Soberund Goode's on-line store ( www.soberundgoodes.com ) that he can only sell to buyers based in the USA. Sorry about that .... 🙁

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I didn't even feel this. I was awakened by the Alert on my 'phone, though. 😕

 

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1521: THE QUEST FOR LOVE AND FREEDOM, NR ( 1 hr & 55 min )/KAHEL, NR ( 2 hr & 3 min )

I went to see these 2 movies on Monday, October 2nd, 2023, here at the Century 14 Vallejo: 

Auditorium 3, B-6

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I just saw the Lapu-Lapu vs Magellan movie, 1521. It was a joke! Some people in the audience actually laughed at its absurdity. 😆 A scene showed some natives with a basket 🧺 of Corn 🌽 even though Corn wasn't yet brought over by the Spaniards to the Philippines from Mexico--that happened about 50 years later! 🤦🏽‍♂️  A "Pillage & Rape" scene on the Buwaya Island showed natives who were able to comprehend what the Conquistadors were saying even though the interpreter Enrique was not present among them! Partial nudity was practiced by the natives back then. Especially during the hot & humid Dry Season when the events of 1521 took place! Yet, not one woman was topless! 👎 Yeah, what was up with that?!?!?! 🤷🏽‍♂️  And Lapu-Lapu is shown in one scene sweating "buckets," like even he is not acclimated to his own island's heat & humidity. 😰  The native warriors, for the most part, were fat and out-of-shape AND ... had tan lines---Come on, they could have easily had the tan lined guys even-out their skin tone before the film shoot even began! 🤦🏽‍♂️ Or, for realism's sake, they could just have hired as extras the local, very athletically fit, Tuba-making 🏝️ coconut 🥥 tree climbers rather than favored their movie project donors with "vanity" bit parts. 😁  Lapu-Lapu used a sword although the accepted historical account says that he used Rattan Eskrima Sticks soaked overnight in seawater ( water-soaked rattan hits like a lead pipe; and seawater-soaked rattan hits a little bit harder than that )! Lapu-Lapu isn't shown dealing the Coup de Gras to the dying Magellan.  😕 And there was only one ( yes, 1 ) rifle when, in reality, the Conquistadors more than likely used a number of rifles and probably used cannons, too, from their anchored ships.  😒  This movie is actually about a star-crossed couple whose unrequited love finds closure half a millennium later with the events of 1521 serving as a backdrop. Spoiler Alert: Nowhere is Sugbu and Maktan shown; Only Palawan serves as location scenes for this movie. And I think that I only heard 4 ( yeah, four! ) Bisayan words throughout the length of this movie.  🤷🏽‍♂️

And Danny Trejo is too old for the role of Magellan. Like, 38 years way too old ....  🙄  And I didn't know that Lapu-Lapu was way taller than Magellan!  😏  And why is Lapu-Lapu sporting a 5 o'clock shadow when natives back then had scant facial hair?  🤔 And why does Lapu-Lapu have a scarred eyebrow? After all, this is not an Aquaman movie ( but this probably explains the 5 o'clock shadow, because Lapu-Lapu moonlights as Jason Momoa's stunt double )! 😁 😁😁  Hel ... Lo .... 🤣🤣🤣

Auditorium 9, B-6

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One hour & 20 minutes later, I saw another Pinoy movie, KAHEL. It's about an immigrant couple in Canada, post pandemic, trying to get their lives back on track. This movie has THE MOST Unbelievable "married couple" relationship depicted on the Big Screen! It's a "No Touchy, No Feely" platonic type of marital relationship. They don't even kiss each other--they just hug. 🙄 I get that the pandemic forced people into "social distancing," But This Is Ridiculous ❗😕 Anyway, the wifey finds herself in quite the predicament and drags her unwitting husband into the illicit drug business, resulting in a tragic consequence. This movie is aimed at showcasing a Pinoy rapper's songs, and who also happens to be one of the principal characters in this Canadian movie. I was today years old when I learned that KAHEL is the Tagalog word for Orange which features prominently in the 2nd half of this movie.

👉Here's a background 📖 history 🧐 of Lapu-Lapu, the older brother of my ancestor, who left his little brother "holding the bag" when he high-tailed it back to Borneo after killing Magellan and the Conquistadors:

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/lapu-lapu-9850.php

👉And here's a popular, brief lesson ( 00:02:35 ) about the historical event in 1521 on U Tube:

https://youtu.be/oSFqkuMvtRM?si=uwvfrlJZXieQ1K0K

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I just have 2 ( Yes, two! ) words about the recent ( participation ) "award" win at the Sweden Film Awards September 2023 given to, 1521: THE QUEST FOR LOVE & FREEDOM .... 

➡️ PINOY BAITING❗🎣❗🎣❗🎣❗

If there's one thing that THE WHOLE 🌍 WORLD 🌎 👉knows👈 about Pinoys & Pinays, it is That Pinoys & Pinays EASILY fall for Gushy 😘 FLATTERIES❗I Noticed This Quite A Lot In Philippine Travel Vlogs Shown On YouTube--Mostly Made By Whites❗👎❗It Had Gotten So That I Stopped Watching Such Videos, Especially When A Female Vlogger Would Be Shown In A Skimpy Bikini Outfit ❗🤦🏽‍♂️❗🤷🏽‍♂️❗IF ... Pilipinos were a type of 🐠 FISH🐟, they'd have been fished into EXTINCTION by now❗😡❗🤬❗

Speaking of fish, there's a Philippine fish named Lapu-Lapu. And I bet that it's the fish that Spanish tourists request quite a lot at local Bisayan restaurants ❗😂❗

No tan lines but nice tatts! 🙂

I've decided to reopen my movie blogsite and show my OBJECTIVE 🤨 critique of the "award" given to this carelessly made movie! 👉Which is why I'm here now!👈

Awards Should Be Merit-Based, Not Quota-Based❗❗❗

This is yet another example of why they should hire my services as a movie consultant. 👌😎👍

I'm so upset right now that, if you'll excuse me, I'll head on over to Selecta Pilipino Buffet Restaurant to diffuse my dissatisfaction at this "award's" pandering to someone's sophomoric attempt at cinematic effort---Oh, and to buy some lottery tickets, too! 🤑

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Was this the awards presenter?

"Bork, bork, bork, bork, bork ...." 

( Something got lost in the translation. 😄😄😄 )

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In closing, I'd like to give a special "Shout-Out" to Soberund Goode on the opening of his new On-Line Store:

www.soberundgoodes.com

Soberund, Good Luck On Your New Venture!👌🤑👍

( He doesn't like it when I call him, Sober And. He says that his name is pronounced, Sew Bee Roond! I decided to just call him, Sew Bee. So be it! 😉 )

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