where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, May 25th, 2012
show: 11:30 a.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs: $10.00 Ticket + $1.53 bulk Chocolate Candy + $4.50 20.0 oz VitaminWater Power-C + $9.73 lunch @ Golden City Buffet here in Vallejo ( + $1.52 Tip ) = $27.28
auditorium: 7
seat: 4th row, 8ht column
synopsis/overview: Agent J ( Will Smith ) travels back to 1969 to save the life of his partner, Agent K ( Tommy Lee Jones ), and to keep Boris ( Jemaine Clement ), an alien threat, from changing the course of history.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Non-conjugal visit; 2.) "You complete me"; 3.) Moon; 4.) Cellphone; 5.) Eulogy; 6.) The device; 7.) The Chinese restaurant; 8.) "You don't know it K, but you're already dead"; 9.) "Don't lie to your kids"; 10.) "Should've killed him"; 11.) "Boglodite assassin"; 12.) "Secrets of the Universe"; 13.) 5K; 14.) "Your partner"; 15.) "He smiles like this"; 16.) "Damn it, it's not the tick"; 17.) "Temporal fracture"; 18.) Proximity warning; 19.) Always Going Out Of Business; 20.) "That's a big blip"; 21.) "No, you're gonna leave me hanging"; 22.) Empire State Building; 23.) "Wasn't the best time for your people"; 24.) Time jump; 25.) Elevator; 26.) Cops; 27.) Amusement park; 28.) "O ... K"; 29.) Eye Exam; 30.) Clue; 31.) "You have some city miles on you"; 32.) Bowling alley; 33.) The Factory; 34.) "Fifth Dimensional Being"; 35.) Diner; 36.) The game; 37.) The gift; 38.) "Texas Two-Step"; 39.) Rolaids; 40.) "Stop staring at it"; 41.) Arc-Net; 42.) Moon launch; 43.) "That's for lying to me. That's for telling the truth"; 44.) "But where there is death, there will always be death"; 45.) Jet-packs; 46.) "The truth"; 47.) MPs; 48.) "I told the truth last time"; 49.) Launch pad; 50.) "That's not possible"; 51.) "You call this in, they'll scrub the launch"; 52.) "Go ahead, arrest me"; 53.) Daddy; 54.) "How the hell do I know what I don't know"; and 55.) "This is my new favorite moment in human history."
favorite scene: I liked the Cape Canaveral scene with the little boy in it. It was such a poignant scene.
audience reaction: The audience liked it. But it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I liked it, too. Go see it if you're an MIB fan.
spoiler alert! That woman traveled for at least three days just to deliver the cake to its destination--'doesn't make sense at all! That was a very, very, very expensive trip just to deliver the cake--again, 'doesn't make sense at all--highly suspicious, if anything! That "spider" thing only tapped on the chains; and the chains broke ...? And in a much later scene, the "spider" thing had a hard time taking the box away from Griffin's ( Michael Stuhlbarg ) neck. Come on! If she feared for her life, why did the mini-skirted woman just use her left hand to hold onto Boris's arm? I'd have grabbed onto it with both hands and I'd have wrapped my legs around his head to, if I were her, especially since he had quite a skillful, long tongue! Ha, ha, ha. If the vacuum was strong enough to suck the people out of that building, then it was strong enough to suck the air out of the people's lungs; in other words, they would not have been able to scream or talk because there would be no more air passing through their vocal chords for vocal sounds to be generated. Boris landed on the bright side of the Moon; so, depending on where the Moon was, relative to its location from the Sun, Boris would have been burned to death because the bright side of the Moon can get hotter than the hottest place on Earth ( hotter than boiling water temperature ) and the moon doesn't have a thick atmosphere like our planet has to shield most of the Sun's heat away from its own surface. An iron skillet doesn't make that kind of a sound---Fire the Foley Artist! This movie gives new meaning to, "Chinese Alien"! Okay, when Agent J took a group shot of those people with his memory-erasing device, the people in the crowd who were standing at the rear only got a partial shot of the flash and some probably never even got flashed in the eyes! If you're standing at, or near, the top of the Empire State Building, a car horn's sound from the traffic down below WILL NOT SOUND THAT LOUD. Boris's bike was obviously of alien manufacture; how'd he get a hold of it? If 5th Dimensional Beings can see all future possibilities, why couldn't their own race save their planet from being totally annihilated, huh? A prototype for a unicycle motorbike was already built around 15 years, or so, ago. The jet-packs had rockets that made them go up vertically--but they didn't have rockets that could make them travel horizontally. So, how were the three of them able to travel horizontally to their destination?
fyi: Did you notice the food truck where Agent K got his pocket bread sandwich at? The meat tower to its left made it suspiciously look like a Shawarma food truck--think back to what Iron Man said near the end of the movie in MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS. More than likely, it was a Shawarma food truck, though. And that sandwich was a Shawarma sandwich. I wonder if they serve Pork Shawarma. Ha, ha, ha.
Andy Warhol ( 1928 - 1987 ) achieved some artistic notoriety when his picture of an overly-endowed male genitalia was put on billboards in the Los Angeles area. It probably caused some traffic accidents, too! ( 'Not to mention, a lot of "Penis Envy". )
word of advice: Look out for your partner.
tidbits: My first order of business for the day was to go to the Goin' Postal shop at the Lucky's Supermarket Shopping Center on the corner of Tuolumne and Redwood streets, here in Vallejo, CA, to ask about their mail box rental rates. Because Mike, the proprietor of the Postal Annex shop at the Gateway Plaza Shopping Center on Admiral Callaghan Lane, also here in Vallejo, is going out of business on June 15th as he will be retiring; and all eight prospective buyers of his business didn't qualify for a business loan. Goin' Postal is much closer to home ( just a few blocks away ). So, I'll open an account with them on the 1st of June.
By the way, to those of you out there who are not familiar with it, "Goin' postal" is also an American slang for a vengeful killing spree. It got its origin some years ago when, for some unexplained reason, U.S. postal clerks who were fired from their jobs, or had quarrels with their fellow co-workers, got guns and shot their bosses and co-workers to death. The phrase stuck and is now used to describe a killing spree at any workplace.
As an aside, I have a co-worker who was fired from his previous job because he jokingly used the phrase, "Goin' postal." Somebody who heard him say it reported him to Management, and management called-in the Human Resources Representative. And, next thing you know, he was fired!
I can't wait to open an account with Goin' Postal so that I can excitedly tell some co-workers of mine about it within earshot of Management. And I'll do so after having a specially stressful time of it at work--my co-workers can attest to the fact that I stress-out a whole lot at work! It will probably go something like this: Hey! tell the manager that I'm "Goin' Postal"; and I don't f-cking care---Cue-in the Diabolical laughter: Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha. We'll see what happens next ....
After the movie, I went to the Chase Bank branch at the Target Shopping Center here in Vallejo to make a deposit in my checking account.
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| I took this picture because there was a woman in my side mirror bending down to get something in the back of her mini van. Too bad she wasn't wearing a short skirt. Ha, ha, ha. |
Then, I headed-on to the Golden City Chinese Buffet on the corner of Sonoma Boulevard and Mini Drive, here in Vallejo, to have lunch. One of the waiters here is very creative about his "do-it-yourself" haircuts. One time, he had a "Salad Bowl" haircut. Today, he has a "Shaved Temples" haircut. Maybe, he's trying to be "trendy" about it. So, if you see a waiter at a Chinese buffet sporting a weird or hilarious haircut, you know where it all began!
And, another thing about this Chinese buffet: Why do they have to play Madonna songs?!?!?! I, for one, CANNOT STAND TO LISTEN TO MADONNA'S VOICE!!!! It's more than bad enough that I have to be forced to listen to it at work. And I turn my car radio off as soon as a Madonna song starts to play. I'd much rather listen to a Chinese sex-kitten songstress caterwauling along to some tunes than listen to Madonna sing! Gad, is there no place here on Earth where they don't play Madonna songs at all...?
I swear, if they don't stop playing Madonna songs at Chinese buffets, the term "Goin' postal" will have to be rephrased 'cause I'll be "Goin' buffet" on them! And it won't look good because it will get messy as heck! Ha, ha, ha.
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'Sorry I took so long in posting this. I recently "friended" a first cousin of mine on FaceBook. The last time that we saw each other was in 1966. ( Yup! that long ago. ) We corresponded with each other on FaceBook and went crazy talking about Cuban Cigars! And we did it in our native language, Cebuano, which I haven't used on a regular basis since 1983. I had to use a Cebuano/English dictionary to reacquaint myself with the language, to check on my spelling and word use, and to figure out what the heck he was talking about. And it would take me up to 20 minutes just to write a single, solitary sentence with the aid of the dictionary! So, most of my free time ( i.e. blog time ) was used-up writing back and forth with my cousin.
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