where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Monday, May 2nd, 2011
show: 9:45 p.m.
costs: $9.75 Ticket + $5.00 regular Nachos + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke + $4.76 MacDonald's Double Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese after the movie = $23.51
auditorium: 11
seat: 4th row, 8th column
synopsis/overview: Some high school teens, mostly girls, look forward to their one special night: The Senior Prom. And one girl in particular, the student body president, Nova ( Aimee Teegarden ), wants it to be just that way.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) "Has he asked you, yet"; 2.) "Olympics of high school"; 3.) "That I'm consistent"; 4.) "You need to ask me"; 5.) Starry night; 6.) "There's something I need to ask"; 7.) Prom dates; 8.) Car pool; 9.) "There's nothing but garbage down there"; 10.) Webcam; 11.) Candles; 12.) Fire; 13.) The help; 14.) Helmets; 15.) "She's out there. Find her"; 16.) "I was never here. You never saw me"; 17.) Invitation to a barbecue; 18.) Shop; 19.) Punk; 20.) Scholarship interview; 21.) Girls' room; 22.) Wrong car; 23.) Chemistry class; 24.) Dude; 25.) Computer class; 26.) The overpass; 27.) Hamster; 28.) "Last night, last dance"; 29.) "Adult supervision"; 30.) The barbecue party; 31.) "You collect these things"; 32.) "We're Kranton"; 33.) "Dude, I'm sealing the deal"; 34.) The fountain; 35.) Reason for tardiness; 36.) Library; 37.) Jeep; 38.) "Maybe, we should check out how starry their night is"; 39.) "Why help me"; 40.) ""Kid's a loser"; 41.) The lie; 42.) "A lot of people are wrong about you"; 43.) "Problem solved"; 44.) "I like it better that way"; 45.) Diner; 46.) Dresses; 47.) "You're the 'One-Hit'"; 48.) The let-down in the library; 49.) Rocks; 50.) The overheard conversation; 51.) Grocery store loading dock; 52.) Change of plans; 53.) "That's not where I live"; 54.) "I know the feeling"; 55.) "It's enough"; 56.) Fight; 57.) "I had a talk with him"; 58.) "I didn't know how to tell you"; 59.) The basement; 60.) "Hippos forever"; 61.) The prom; 62.) "So romantic"; and 63.) "When it ends, it's really just the beginning."
audience reaction: N/A. I was the only one in the auditorium.
recommendation: This movie is strictly for little girls who have unrealistic Prom Night expectations and/or fantasies.
spoiler alert! This high school must be in some alternate parallel universe. I mean, where were the cussing, swearing, gangs, schoolyard fights, graffiti, illicit drugs, underage smoking, underage drinking, dirty dancing, unwanted teen pregnancies, teen moms, etc.? And I don't think I even saw one bicycle or skateboard anywhere on campus--motorcycle, yes; bicycle, no. No principal--or teacher, for that matter--can flunk or keep any student from graduating simply based on attendance and/or performance in some extra-curricular activity. Nowadays, some senior proms are held outside of the school campus. They have it at hotels where the teens can go to their hotel rooms afterwards to have sex and Lord-knows-what-else! Proms have devolved into an excuse for fornication and other licentious acts, and parents apparently condone it. What's wrong with this country? Had this movie been shown weeks ago before the actual senior proms were held across the country, teens would have probably booed and jeered it off the theatres! Did her dad apologize? Her prom dress made her butt look big and wide!
fyi: It seems that I'm not the only one who thinks that Jesse ( Thomas McDonell ) looks like a young Johnny Depp. A newspaper movie reviewer thinks the same way, too.
When I was at WheelWorks a couple of weeks ago for my Hyundai Accent's diagnostics, I watched a TV news segment about prom dresses. One dress in particular was worth about $2,000.oo or more. Can you believe that about some stupid dress that will only be worn once! This whole "prom affair" is too commercialized, and undeservedly so. You have to either be stupid--or a girl--to fall for something like that! Us guys are too smart for such nonsense, which is why we go "rental" style.
I didn't go to my senior prom. I made a lot of enemies in high school. And I simply didn't want to find myself in a roomful of people that I didn't get along with. This was shortly after the Vietnam War, a time when the people in this country, especially the white ones, were looking for someone to vent their anger, rage and frustration on. A someone who did not conform; and I was that "someone." A non-conforming "someone" from that part of the world. And it didn't help that the most beautiful girl in class, a white brunette, liked me! I just kept my distance from her. And she ended-up going to the prom with the varsity football quarterback--huh! typical .... Anyway, less than two weeks before the prom, a family friend, Fred, the policeman, struck me a deal: If I could find someone to go as my prom date, he'd pay for my rental tux. And there was this one other girl, a blonde, who I liked. I asked her about a week before the prom if she would like to go as my date. But she had to work as a babysitter on prom night. And just a week's time to go hunting for a prom dress was really no time at all, according to a female classmate of mine in whom I confided about the matter. So, that was that! Besides, I wouldn't have enjoyed the prom, post-Vietnam War, what with all those predominantly white classmates of mine all in the same room with me.
word of advice: Real life begins after high school.
Don't leave candles unattended.
tidbits: So, they finally got Osama Bin Laden. They would have gotten him sooner had they heeded my advice on my blog's tidbits for ALIENS IN THE ATTIC. See for yourself ....
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