where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Monday, April 23rd, 2012
show: 12:00 p.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs: $6.50 Ticket + $1.00 bag of Wasabi Peas ( bought at the dollar store & smuggled-in ) + $4.00 small 16.0 oz Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry flavors ) Coke + $9.73 lunch @ Golden City Chinese Buffet after the movie ( + $1.27 Tip ) = $22.50
auditorium: 13
seat: 5th row, 7th column
synopsis/overview: A group of friends is clueless about women until they start comparing notes with each other and realize that they are all being "played". When they stumble upon the "game book", they rethink their strategies to even the score.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) The guys; 2.) Rumor; 3.) "They show those marches a lot in February"; 4.) TV show; 5.) Pick-up line; 6.) Bookstore; 7.) Coffee; 8.) Teenage crush; 9.) "I'm one of the boys except I have a vagina"; 10.) "Change the game"; 11.) "Silly ass shit"; 12.) "Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffer ring"; 13.) "Think how much she'll save if I cook for her"; 14.) "You're not even white ... you're clear"; 15.) "Baby momma"; 16.) "Sexist crap"; 17.) "We got robbed"; 18.) Couch; 19.) "We control the cookie"; 20.) "Ninety-day rule"; 21.) "Okay, where's the window"; 22.) Dogs; 23.) "Lucky chair"; 24.) "Sport fish"; 25.) Limousine; 26.) Dates; 27.) Long-term goals; 28.) Track seven; 29.) "I'm a christian, too"; 30.) The son; 31.) "This bitch is crazy"; 32.) Breakfast in bed; 33.) "You don't open that god-d-mn door"; 34.) "Hey, can you put a shirt on while you're cooking"; 35.) "Honesty is over-rated"; 36.) "I was raised by a single mother"; 37.) Bed, Bath and Beyond; 38.) Game plan; 39.) "I know the baby momma"; 40.) "We can double-date"; 41.) "I thought there was just two of them"; 42.) "I got her"; 43.) "Oh, shit"; 44.) Drunk mother; 45.) Night cap; 46.) Plato's Allegory of the Cave; 47.) Toilet; 48.) The jerk player; 49.) Pipe dream; 50.) "I will if you will"; 51.) Health code violation; 52.) "We need to talk"; 53.) The familiar question; 54.) "I've got a pocket full of ones and no drawers"; 55.) The turning point; 56.) "How old is your mom"; 57.) Payback time; 58.) G-string; 59.) Special occasion; 60.) Candle-light dinner; 61.) "You kept count"; 62.) "My album went flat-none"; 63.) Backfire; 64.) Divorced man; 65.) Family reunion; 66.) "Finally opened the cookie jar"; 67.) "This can't be good"; 68.) "Was that all to get the cookie"; 69.) "Only dumb-asses get caught"; 70.) "Your work just called"; 71.) Break-up; 72.) Old bachelor stuff; 73.) "Women will hate you fast"; 74.) "Avatar" photo; 75.) Hired; 76.) Men's room; 77.) "The truth"; 78.) "Ninety-one"; 79.) "I wanted it for us"; 80.) "Back-up, bitch. You ain't buying my house"; 81.) The marriage proposal; 82.) "I want 90 more days"; 83.) "Plato's got caves, too"; 84.) Domino effect; 85.) Speech; 86.) "W. B. That's my man"; 87.) "The chef's special"; 88.) "You'll get your pork sausage, porky"; 89.) The hen-pecked husband; and 90.) Extended Bonus Scene during the Ending Credits.
audience reaction: The audience liked this movie. And some people gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending which was barely audible because the audience's laughter drowned it out a bit.
recommendation: I liked this movie, too. If you're into Comedy/Romance movies, go see this movie. There is a good reason why it is currently # 1 at the Box Office.
spoiler alert! The valet parking attendant should have been fired after driving off with the man's Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing ( an approximately $195,000 sports car ), if not hauled-off to prison. Tapping a stranger on the head is very rude, offensive and insulting! This movie shows women how to deal with men who fall into one of four distinct categories: Players, Non-committers, Momma's Boys, or Dreamers. But what if the man cannot be easily delineated, someone who's a combination of two or more of the personalities listed above? If they come out with a sequel to this movie along the lines of, ACT LIKE A MAN, THINK LIKE A LADY, don't expect me to go see it! Ha, ha, ha.
fyi: This movie has the most number of noteworthy scenes of all the movies I've blogged about. And it is because this movie has so many funny scenes and dialogues! See for yourself ....
I don't like big butts, contrary to what the song says. I don't like Jennifer Lopez's butt; I don't like Kim Kardashian's butt, either! Such a butt is a big turn-off for me! A big butt like that should be slapped with a bumper sticker which reads: Warning, Explosive Gas In Rear! Ha, ha, ha.
word of advice: Know your enemy.
Be a good listener.
Don't brag about yourself so much and end-up just boring your listener.
tidbits: Before going to see this movie, I went to the Dollar Tree Store in the Target Shopping Center here in Vallejo, CA, to buy a 32.0 oz Fruit Punch Gatorade for the electrolytes, a 2-pack of magnets for myself, a bag of Wasabi Peas and a pair of plastic frosting mugs.
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| Imagine this in dark green and in blue and you have a pretty good idea of the mugs that I bought. |
I was just a few doors away from the theatre when some white bitch stepped-off the sidewalk in front of the Goodwill's Store without even looking because the stupid bitch was texting on her f-cking cellphone! I stopped my car and just stared in disbelief at the stupid bitch who was distractedly oblivious to cross traffic in the shopping center. There are times and places for talking/texting on one's cellphone--and traffic is not one of them!
On second thought, maybe I should just have ran her down. I would be doing the world a favor if I did so because dumb-ass bitches like that kill people while texting and driving!
THIS IS YET ANOTHER THING THAT TURNS ME OFF ABOUT WOMEN: TALKING OR TEXTING RUDELY/INCONSIDERATELY/IRRESPONSIBLY/DISRESPECTFULLY/OBLIVIOUSLY ON THEIR CELLPHONE AROUND OTHERS!!! If I will ever have the misfortune of dating such a woman, it will be the first and only date that she will ever have with me!!!
Let's have Hollywood come up with this kind of movie: ACT LIKE A KIND, CONSIDERATE, RESPONSIBLE AND RESPECTFUL LADY. I would love to see such a movie, if it's not asking too much of Hollywood ....
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In reply to @spoiler alert.
ReplyDeleteHe was fired. He talked about it while they were playing basketball. *somebody wasn't paying attention*
And he should have been put in jail for pulling that kind of a stunt. And that place would have gotten sued, too, in real life.
ReplyDeleteThank you for pointing-out my inattentiveness. As I have stated, this movie has the most Noteworthy Scenes that I have written about; and I purposely omitted some scenes because I wanted to keep the list down to a more manageable length. It was hard enough to try and scribble down so many notes in the dark--you should try it--and to also pay much attention to what was going-on on-screen. As an aside, the foreign movies with bad English subtitles are the worst ones to write notes about because a reviewer could easily go into "edit mode" and lose attention! Had I decided to watch this movie a second time, just for the pure enjoyment of it and without having to write notes ( what I refer to as "popcorning" the movie ), I would have caught it.
And watching a movie more than once is what I do sometimes, as you may have already noticed, if something in the movie is not clear enough to me or if it looks too complicated to comprehend right away the first time around. >>>That Is When I Usually Do A Correction To My Spoiler Alert.<<<
( Even the great movie critic, Mick LaSalle, who I admire a lot, make mistakes, too. When I pointed-out to him the mistake that he made on the movie, IN TIME, he readily admitted to it. We're all humans, after all. )
But I do not always have that kind of spare-time luxury to spend on this hobby of mine since, like most everyone else, I have to work. And, with each passing year, it is getting more expensive to go to the movies at least twice a week. I spend thousands of dollars a year just going to the movies. Mainly, I just write about movies just to work on my English which isn't my native language at all. Also, one might argue, too, that I am doing it for the sake of pure "Hollywood-aspiring" Vanity.
And ... you have no idea how many hours I spend writing about a particular movie--there is also research involved at most times. And lots of proofreading, too. In fact, some movies that I have posted on my blogsite took anywhere from 12 hours to 16 hours just to research and to write about, i.e. the movies 2012, G.I. JOE, THE BOOK OF ELI, LEGION, PRIEST, etc. As if I have got nothing else better to do with my free time.
Finally, I have been contemplating of late, to either stop blogging about movies altogether or to seriously cut-down my reviews to a minimum of four or less PER MONTH because it is taking too much of my free time. And because it is also a waste of my hard-earned money for the most part since a whole lot of these movies are free to watch on-line; but I have to watch movies on the Big Screen because my Audience Reaction necessitate that I do so. Yet, I am not making any revenue on it at all--not a penny!--despite the fact that I got ads plastered all over my blogsite for about a year now.
Thank you, anyway, for your comment. '"See you at the movies!"
P.S. This response took me at least 3 hours to write. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to start blogging about CHERNOBYL DIARIES.