LOCKOUT, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 35 min )

I picked this movie poster because the date listed on this one is a week after its initial showing. The original movie poster actually has April 13th ( which was a Friday ) printed on it. But I guess they were too superstitious to release this movie on that date. But they changed their minds at the last minute!

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Sunday, April 15th, 2012
show:  11:50 a.m ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $6.50 Ticket + $4.75 junior Popcorn + $4.00 small 16.0 oz Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry flavors ) Coke + $5.95 A&W single Bacon/Cheeseburger combo meal @ the KFC/A&W Restaurant in the Lucky's Supermarket Shopping Center here in Vallejo after the movie = $21.20
auditorium:  3
seat:  4th row, 2nd seat


synopsis/overview:  An ex-CIA agent, Snow ( Guy Pearce ), is convicted of espionage against the United States and of murder. But he is offered his freedom if he can rescue the President's daughter, Emilie Warnock ( Maggie Grace ), from a deep-space maximum security prison that is taken-over by its violent inmates.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) "What happened in that room"; 2.) Double-cross; 3.) "I'm being beat-up by a guy named, Rupert ( ? )"; 4.) Chase; 5.) Set-up; 6.) Subway; 7.) Humanitarian mission; 8.) MS-One; 9.) "It's called, Stasis"; 10.) "Guinea pigs for Deep-Space Exploration"; 11.) Escaped prisoner; 12.) "Don't mess with your poker chips"; 13.) "You're not running the show"; 14.) Take-over; 15.) One man; 16.) "I'd rather castrate myself with blunt rocks"; 17.) Coffee cup; 18.) Telemetry Medical Transmitter; 19.) "That would be why they call it secret"; 20.) Airlock; 21.) Flirt; 22.) Wounded woman; 23.) "You said I could trust you"; 24.) Brother; 25.) Name badge; 26.) "The answer to our problem lies behind this door"; 27.) Nitrogen build-up; 28.) "I need this door opened"; 29.) Torsion gravity; 30.) "Sprung a leak"; 31.) More oxygen; 32.) Lambada; 33.) Voice sensor; 34.) "No transmission"; 35.) "You don't have to do that"; 36.) "That's just to stop the bleeding and, hopefully, the talking"; 37.) "An apple and a gun. Don't talk to strangers"; 38.) Meal ticket; 39.) North; 40.) "You look tough now, see"; 41.) Five hundred; 42.) "Careful, you're starting to sound like your old man"; 43.) "Hey, dude"; 44.) Password; 45.) Dementia; 46.) Collision; 47.) "It's easy to be a saint with nothing on the line"; 48.) Falling out of orbit; 49.) "That's not a rescue mission"; 50.) Escape pod; 51.) "Mace ( Tim Plester ) told me where the case is"; 52.) "Stop killing people"; 53.) "I just needed you to help me"; 54.) Lab experiments; 55.) "Do you know what you've done"; 56.) "You've got to get out"; 57.) "Blow us out of the sky"; 58.) Approval; 59.) "Mommy said you speak too much"; 60.) Spacesuits; 61.) 'I see you, I foresee you"; 62.) Mirror; 63.) "There's something that we need to do"; 64.) Combination; 65.) Cigarette lighter; 66.) Maid Marion; and 67.) "Equitable basis."


favorite scene:  I liked the scene wherein the woman got punched in the face because it was funny.


audience reaction:  The audience liked the funny dialogues in this movie. Yes, that's right! This movie is more about funny lines than it is about action scenes.

recommendation:  It was enjoyable enough to watch.  Go see this if you're into Comedy Movies disguised as Action Movies.

spoiler alert!  The left side of his face got repeatedly punched. But his left cheek didn't get swollen and/or bruised. A simple, yet thorough, Crime Scene Investigation, Forensic Analysis of the Calibers and Ballistics of the bullets found in the dead bodies, and detailed Autopies would easily clear him of guilt! Sixty-seven years from now and they're still pretty much using the same kinds of guns and rifles! The guys chasing after Snow were shooting at him indiscriminately, shooting into the crowd--and hitting no one else ( Amazing! ). The president that we have in office right now ran-up a Budget Deficit to the tune of  > 15 TRILLION Dollars, and counting .... There is no way that the US tax payers can, nor would want to, be made to cover this Deficit down to the very last penny! Add to this equation the fact that inflation will always be counted on to raise the price of everything, including the cost of Fuel ( Rocket Fuel, especially ). Now, do you really still think that the US tax payers of the future will be willing to foot the ( VERY EXPENSIVE ) bill to send criminals into Outer Space? Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to have an island or a floating facility built and maintained in International Waters, instead? Emilie boarded the elevator without her entourage, but they were already waiting for her when she stepped-out of the elevator. If you get ejected without a Spacesuit into the Deep Vacuum of Outer Space, you'll die in one of two ways before you even get a chance to get frozen like a popsicle: If you get ejected in the Daytime-side of Earth, the Sun's heat will burn you up to a crisp almost instantly; if you get ejected in the Nighttime-side of Earth, the absence of Atmospheric Pressure will vaporize your Bodily Fluids so your body will get very swollen and your tissues will tear and your capillaries will burst just before the Space Vacuum can suck-out your fluids and certain of your organs--not a pretty sight--then the air bubbles in your bloodstream will make you die! Knowing his volatility and unpredictability, why didn't they restrain that inmate somehow? The bad guy had enough time to shoot at him a second time with the shotgun. The eye is a very delicate organ. You cannot just stick a needle into someone's eye without proper Sterilization and without the use of an Anesthetic beforehand! When they fell down to the floor, she was far enough away that her face should not have ended-up in his crotch--and since they fell down as they were crawling along, shouldn't her face have ended-up wedged between his buttocks, instead? When the automatic doors closed, why did the bad guys used the circular saw to cut in-between the doors? Didn't those rocket ships have heat-seeking missiles to destroy the machine gun defenses with? It's kinda sad to know that in the year 2079 a.d. they still haven't found a way to effectively erase graffiti! If she was all about "equitable basis", why didn't she give him a kiss since she owed him one? I really thought that the president would pardon Snow after he risked life and limb to save the president's daughter--'just goes to show that you cannot trust a politician to keep his word!

fyi:  Five hundred male sex partners in one day? Sure ... it's doable. Since it has been done already on a number of occasions by porn actresses with their "well-seasoned" vaginas---Ha, ha, ha, that's funny: "Well-Seasoned" vaginas! Where do I come up with these things ....

Back in 1995, an Asian porn actress who went by the Nom De Plume ( or, as it's called in the Porn Industry, Nom De Porn ), Annabel Chong, started a porno trend by starring in a 10-hour long Gang-Bang sex video with ( supposedly ) 500 male sex partners! Her record has since been shattered by a number of other porn actresses!!!

Annabel Chong = 500 ( ? ) male sex partners in one day; Houston = 620 male sex partners in one day; Mayara = 633 male sex partners in one day; Klaudia Figura = 646 male sex partners in one day, etc.

Here are two interesting bits of trivia: Annabel Chong never got the money or royalty that she was promised for her "performance"--all she got was a bunch of "tips" ( 'get it? ); and after she was finished with her 620th male sex partner, some man gave the "semen-soaked" Houston a bouquet of flowers--and a kiss! Yuck ....

Some of you were probably too young to learn of these World Record-shattering personal "achievements" as they occurred--and a few of you were probably not even born yet when they happened. So, aren't you glad that you have an Uncle Cine-Man to Enlighten you in matters not just Spiritual?

But, boy, I'd hate to be the last man in! You'd have to be stupid, crazy and/or desperate to be the last one in line. A gang-bang like that is not the place to procrastinate or to act timid! It's strictly "First come, first served"; or is it "First served, first cum"---Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha--snort!

If you have lots of time in your hands like, say, 10 hours' worth, this is one thing that you might want to seriously consider doing--'just kidding! Or, am I ....

word of advice:  Never allow your Leadership to become compromised.

In Deep Space, nobody can hear you explode. ( To paraphrase a famous movie tagline from ALIEN [ 1979 ] )
  
tidbits: Before leaving my condo to go see this movie, I called my brother to ask him if he went downstairs to the main lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Concord, CA, where he and his family stayed overnight, to make sure that I logged-out on a computer that I used the night before, Saturday, April 14th. He said that I did. That was good because I'd hate to find out that somebody accessed my blogsite and maliciously deleted my three years' worth of hard work!

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My brother, a bunch of relatives and I were at the Crowne Plaza in Concord, yesterday, for my sister's daughter's Pilipino Cotillion. I got there late at a little after 8:00 p.m. because I was busy catching-up on my CABIN IN THE WOODS blog. As I sat there watching the kids have a fun time dancing for the crowd, I remembered  that there were computers in the main lobby. And, more importantly, they were free for guests to use! So, I excused myself at around 10:00 p.m. so that I could go back to blogging about CABIN IN THE WOODS.

Sometime later, as I sat there blogging, my brother-in-law went up to the front desk and angrily demanded to know who called the Sheriff about some disturbance at a party. There was a party also going on across the hallway where some Asian guys got into a fight--and they sent the Sheriff to my niece's cotillion, instead! Look, we Asians probably look all the same to you white people, but there is a big, really big, difference between Asian guys fighting and Asian teens dancing on a dance floor illuminated by disco lights. So, get it right next time!

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When I stepped out of the theatre, the unmistakable scent of marijuana was in the air--again. Somebody was smoking a joint out in the parking lot. But I didn't see anybody smoking, so it must have been another skunk doing it!

Fast-food at the KFC/A&W Restaurant here in Vallejo at the Lucky's Supermarket Shopping Center was really "slow-food". I waited for almost 20 minutes just to get my bacon/cheeseburger combo meal!

After eating at the restaurant, I went home, took a shower, put on my work clothes, and went to work.


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