AVENGING GUARDIANS

I watched this movie very early today, Sunday, March 24th, 2024, in bed 🛏️ via my cellphone's TUBI Streaming App. 

 

Notice how this Director and Cast

page has a different title from

the movie poster above it

and the page just

below it. 👇

And this page also has a different

title AND it also has a different

release year which is the

same year as this 1:

Since I mentioned the Blue Beetle

in my previous post, I present

this older movie so that

you can decide who

has the sole claim

to the Copyright

or Intellectual

Property Right to the

superhero Scarab/

Beetle issue.

FYI:  The AVENGING FORCE: THE SCARAB is its original title when it was released back in 2010. It predates DC's BLUE BEETLE by a decade! Plus, it is in Public Domain!! Therefore, IMHO, it has 1st Rights over the BLUE BEETLE!!! And just to "stick it" to both DC & Marvel, it was re-released again last year with the title of BLACK SCARAB ( even though this superhero character was conceptualized with a Blue Scarab on his chest ) just to let the world's Comicdom know the truth❗😎❗And I'm all for Truth❗©️❗©️❗

Scene Commentaries:

It took 00:05:20 minutes just for the Beginning Credits to end scrolling. 🙄

Agent Rose looks & sounds like a high school teenager!  😏  In the words of Pres. Trump, "I'd date her."  😄 😄 😄

Black Terror, the head honcho bad guy sent to fetch Prof. Joab, used eyeliner pencil to mask his eyes? I thought that he worked for a multi-millionaire!  😀

Is that the same shirt that Prof. Joab wore on his trip to Central America? And how did he escape the bad guys when he was in Central America? 🤷‍♂️

Why weren't there CCTVs in the university hallways?

Shouldn't he have needed a crowbar to pry-up the floorboard?  😕

Cold-bloodedly killing your own goons in front of your other goons won't inspire their continued allegiance, confidence and trust in you! 😒

And why is the Sphinx wearing that kind of Eye Mask that will just make his own Nose 👃 "sweat like a pig"?  🐷  I've worn such a mask and know what it's like to have one on!  ( And, No, I'm not a superhero! I think ....  🤔 )

Why would the Ancient Egyptians write down instructions using Germanic Runes when they had their own written system ( which is different from the hieroglyphs )?  🤦‍♂️

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Agent Red sure didn't act surprised when Scarab reappeared!  🙄 I would have been scared POOPLESS ❗💩❗

That is one cheap, repurposed Batman suit! 😁 At least, it doesn't come with a stupid cape!  😆 On second thought, it NEEDS a cape ....  😬 Without a cape, he reminds me of a rooster 🐓 flaring its neck feathers. If he refuses to wear a cape, I'll start calling him Roosterman!  🤪

"Try this!" 😂

Those gunshots sure sounded so muted and so distant and ... so small calibre ....  😃

Why did Agent Red take off her gloves? She was engaging with multiple opponents and needed all of the help that she could get. I thought that she was trained in hand-to-hand combat which ... doesn't ... literally ... mean ... to ... fight ... bare ... knuckles!  🙄

The fight scenes in GATOTKACA are better than the fight scenes in this movie. Here's a tip if your fighters are not real Martial Arts masters: Just "Jason Bourne" the scenes! You know, have the actors do the moves in half-speed whenever possible and just speed them up when you edit said scenes!! Fire the new guy Fight Choreographer and the new guy Scene Editor--- And Hire Me To Do Their Jobs, instead!!! I, Cine-Man, promise to work for cheap, initially speaking 👌❗🤓❗👍

Black Terror exposed his head for any number of headshots when he had to quickly deal with the threat coming at him from the left side!  😒

When The Scarab was forced into walking the gauntlet, I'm pretty sure that some--if not most--of those bad guys were already killed-off earlier!  🤦‍♂️

The Ending Credits takes 00:09:50 minutes to scroll through and the Beginning Credits is 00:05:20 minutes long.

So, 00:05:20 + 00:09:50 = 00:15:10

And, 07:00:00: - 00:15:10 = 👉00:54:50👈

Which leaves us with less than 00:55:00 minutes of ACTUAL Movie-Watching time!  🕰️👎

Black Terror looks like The Punisher's cheap alter ego.  😒

And Double Dare looks like Two-Face and Rorschach ( WATCHMEN 2009 ) had a baby!  👶🏻

But I'm disappointed to learn that BLUE BEETLE is actually better scripted and better directed than this one! 🙁

Tidbits:

The stylized depiction of the Scarab Dung Beetle looks like the Human Skull, viewed from the top!

The concaved areas on either side

represent where the Zygomatic

Arches should be at. 

The purple dome right on top of the

Frontal Bone represents the

Nasal Bone. If this illustration was shown at

a slight rearward angle, the Maxillary

Arch would be very visible just

as it is represented in the

Scarab artifact right

above it. 🧐

The non-romanticized common name of the Scarab is the Dung Beetle. So, keep this in mind when you consider Ancient Egypt's seeming knowledge of Human Anatomy & Physiology. Otherwise, you're just full of sh!t. After all, their Medicine called for the use of DUNG!  💩

But how many flies would they have needed

to get a sizable amount of dung to use

in their medical concoctions? 

I ate lunch at Selecta Pilipino Buffet Restaurant, here in Vallejo, today. I finally got around to asking DJ ( Oops! 😬 I always called him TJ ) about his name. He told me that it's the initials of his name, Doroteo Jr. Yeah, it makes sense to me now.  🙂

A handicapped homeless man came in the restaurant and Rey, the proprietor, gave him some free food & water. He went outside to eat his free meal. About 45 minutes later, as I was writing the ending of this blog, he came in again and sat at a table and started screaming, at the top of his lungs, some nonsense about something.  😒 He was distracting me from finishing this blog as he sat less than 5 yards/meters away from me. Rey had to tell him to stop bothering and intimidating the dining patrons or to just leave. He left but kept on keeping on about whatever ....  🙄

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Here are today's winners of the 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race. Drumroll 🥁 please .... 

Congratulations to Hong Kong

for winning in 1st place!

🎉🎇🎆🎊

🇭🇰🥇🇭🇰 

❗❗

🍾

Congratulations to the USA

for winning in 2nd place!

🇺🇲🥈🇺🇸

❗❗

And congratulations to both

Germany and Israel for

tying in 3rd place!

🇩🇪🥉🇮🇱

❗❗

❗

Thanks to all of the countries that took part in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish! 🏁  🛣️  🏎️

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THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 10 min )

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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
show: 7:00 p.m. Advanced Screening
costs: $10.00 Ticket + $7.59 "all-you-can-eat" Pizza and Salad Buffet Dinner at Mountain Mike's Pizza Restaurant = $17.59
auditorium: 2
seat: 4th row ( counting from the front ), 8ht column ( counting from the left )

synopsis/overview: Clary Fray ( Lilly Collins ), a New York City teenage girl, learns that she is descended from a long line of Shadow Hunters, a half-human/half-angel race that is locked in an eternal battle with demons and vampires; and which is in an alliance with the werewolf race. She is forced to join forces with the Shadow Hunters when her mother ( Lena Headey ) goes missing. And she learns who she really is when the secrets kept from her are finally revealed to her.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) The recurring symbol; 2.) "They killed the guy that let us in the club"; 3.) Offensive; 4.) "You can thank your daughter"; 5.) Mundane; 6.) Rottweiler; 7.) Witch; 8.) Mortal Cup; 9.) "Are you the Gate-Keeper"; 10.) Interrogation; 11.) "Maybe these memories aren't real"; 12.) The Institute; 13.) Dying breed; 14.) "They don't exist"; 15.) Memories; 16.) "Easy now. Those are my clothes"; 17.) "I meant him"; 18.) "Don't drink that"; 19.) Paintings; 20.) Altar; 21.) Hotel Death; 22.) Eyeglasses; 23.) Bach; 24.) Love triangle; 25.) Cup; 26.) Text message; 27.) "Those can't come in here. This is a peaceful house"; 28.) A demon in disguise; 29.) "The runes aren't working"; 30.) Daughter; 31.) Little girl; 32.) "Good throw, by the way"; 33.) Beacon; 34.) Brother; 35.) "It's all a matter of perception; 36.) "We found your mother"; 37.) "I'm a werewolf"; 38.) "It's not in the book"; 39.) "I'm not too crazy about the basement"; 40.) Snow; 41.) "I guess I'm just an old romantic"; 42.) "I need you"; and 43.) "The world's the same. You're the one who's different."

audience reaction: The audience liked it. But no one gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation: I didn't like it that much. It reminded me of the Twilight series' three-way love connection--but with a kinky twist: "Incestuous" sibling love. If you liked reading the novels that this movie is based on then you just might find this movie to your liking.

spoiler alert! The way that they depicted the demons in this movie was laughable. In my out-of-body-experiences, I encountered three demons--two, the first time. They don't look or act like the ones depicted in this movie. How come the next door neighbors didn't call the cops to investigate the house that was broken into? If the cops came, a "crime scene" yellow tape would have been put in place.

fyi: The Archangel Raziel is the Keeper of Holy Secrets. He shares these secrets with select humans only if God gives him permission to do so.

This movie mentioned something about frequencies. Here's what I know about the subject based on my meditative practices--allow me to use a simple analogy:

Let us say that you like to watch shows on your TV set. But you could only watch shows on one channel, the same channel that you've been watching shows on all of your life. Then, one day, somebody came along and said, "Hey, did you know that if you press this button on your remote, you'll get a different channel?" And, so, you press a button on your remote which alters the frequency signal that your TV set receives and---Presto! a different channel with a different show.

The above analogy is basically what happens to you when someone teaches you how to meditate and you meditate for a long enough time: Your body's frequency becomes altered to a point where you experience another world or reality, even if for just a brief moment.

In the late '70s and early '80s, an American psychic, Ms. Francine ( Francie ) Steiger, sold a guided meditation cassette tape that makes one travel to a different time and place. I purchased a copy and meditated to it faithfully for 30 days. After that, I had an out-of-body-experience ( OOBE ) wherein my Astral Self journeyed through the "White Light" that people who have near-death experiences go through. At the end of this "White Light" is a round "portal object" that is green in color ( not the color blue depicted in this movie ) and is about the size of a one-story house. This object is not solid or liquid; it is more like an intermediate stage between liquid and gas--and, No, you don't get soaking wet traveling through this portal like in the movie. On the other side of this portal is a quiet and peaceful land. It was predawn when I was about to enter into this realm where the silhouette of rolling hills stretched across the distance. I took one step forward and was immediately taken back--in reverse--to my physical self.

The guided meditation cassette tape recording starts out with Ms. Francine Steiger saying, "You are walking towards a soft, green area of countryside. A beautiful, tranquil place. You select a lush, grassy area on which to lie down. The sound of a nearby bubbling brook adds to the beauty of this place. Small, exquisitely-colored birds whistle and sing as they go from tree to tree, from bush to bush." This is all the verbatim ( ? ) passage that I can remember. But the guided meditation goes on to say that you find a recliner out in the open field and you go sit in it. And, once relaxed, you and the recliner float up into the sky until you leave the relative comfort and safety of the Earth's atmosphere and you perceive the "White Light" and travel through it to find yourself in another world that is populated by Guardian Beings. You then join these Guardian Beings in a temple that looks like the Taj Mahal.

The Taj Mahal in India. I found this on the Internet. I picked this particular picture because it approximates what the building would have looked like early in the morning in that world.

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And you and the white-robed Guardian Beings form a circle inside the temple. There is a circular hole in the floor where one can see the planet Earth far down below. You and the Guardian Beings hold hands and pour-out Loving Energy to the Earth below.

Of course, I never got to this point nor did I see anybody around when I got to that place---They must have still been fast-asleep since it was predawn when I got there. Ha, ha, ha.

Anyway ...

My stereo radio ate-up the cassette tape after only a month's use. And I never bothered to buy a replacement guided meditation cassette tape by Ms. Steiger. And I was either too stupid ( way back when ) or too lazy--or both--to be bothered with going to the local library to ask a librarian to show me a picture of the Taj Mahal to help me visualize the place during my nightly meditations.

By the way ...

If any of you guys out there find a copy of this particular guided meditation cassette tape ( transferred onto a CD, hopefully ), do let me know. Please. Thank you ....

( Confession: The reason why I bought this guided meditation cassette tape many, many years ago in the first place was because, back then, the psychic Ms. Francine Steiger was A REAL HOTTIE!!! 'Now you know .... Hey! at least I got my priorities right. LOL )

word of advice: Don't do anything evil as a means to an end.

tidbits: I wanted to catch the 7:00 p.m. show for PLANES. But when I got to the box office, I noticed that there were a couple of Advanced Screenings for this movie. So, I decided to go see this movie, instead.

I didn't buy anything at the concessions counter because I had just eaten an "all-you-can-eat" Pizza and Salad Buffet Dinner at the Mountain Mike's Pizza Restaurant here in Vallejo at 972 Admiral Callaghan Lane in the Target Shopping Center. My buffet dinner was $7.59 ( I only had water with it, I didn't have any soda---I don't drink soda anymore, remember ...? ).

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