I went to see this on Monday, July 11th, 2016, in Richmond, CA, at the CENTURY 16 HILLTOP, for the 6:00 p.m. show in auditorium 9, 4th row from the front, 8ht column from the left. The price of admission was $11.00. And I bought a $4.85 medium Powerade Zero Orange at the concessions counter.
2nd time
I went to see this movie for a second time on Wednesday, July 13th, 2016, at the same theatre, for the 9:40 p.m. show in auditorium 9, 4th row from the front, 8ht column from the left. The price of admission was $0.00, as in, Free Movie Pass. And I bought a $4.80 medium Powerade Zero Lemon at the concessions counter.
Quickie Review: A former world-class wrestler, Sultan ( Salman Khan ), decides to come out of retirement and go into the Octagon to redeem himself and to bring glory to India.
The audience liked it. I liked it, too. Go see this Bollywood's answer (?) to Hollywood's LOVE & BASKETBALL ( 2000 ).
There was a scene approximately 27 minutes into the movie wherein the leading lady, Aarfa ( Anushka Sharma ), was carrying a trayful of Motichoor Ke Ladoos when a little brat ran up the steps to where she was at and stole some of the ladoos from her tray. A bunch of them fell on the ground and Sultan helped Aarfa put the ladoos back on the tray---Yuck! I don't care if the "5-Second Rule" applied. There ain't no way I'd eat any one of those ( well, maybe if I was starving to death and I had no other option ).
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| Motichoor Ke Ladoos. I found this on the Internet. |
I'm not sure if I have had this delicacy before. I'll be sure to look for it or ask for it the next time that I go eat at an Indian buffet restaurant.
Sultan's first MMA fight was against a Capoeira stylist who could have easily used Capoeira's deadliest kick on him. A kick that can spell instant death on its victim when properly executed. Since the Capoeira stylist didn't use such a kick on Sultan, I think the match was rigged! Ha, ha, ha.
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Monday, July 11th, didn't start-off well enough for me. I wore the wrong pair of eyeglasses to work. Luckily, I had an extra ( old ) pair on my car's dashboard. My plan was to eat first at MacDonald's Restaurant then travel to Richmond, CA, to see this movie. But because I had on the wrong pair of eyeglasses, I had to go back home to fetch my new pair of glasses.
On my way home, I swung by the Goin' Postal office first to fetch a couple of packages that arrived in the mail for me. One of said packages was the one with the meditation CDs that I wanted to try out.
I decided to have a late lunch at a buffet restaurant in Richmond.
This restaurant was once Lee's Garden Buffet Restaurant. I asked the hostess when the ownership change occurred. She said that it was back in January. Yup, I haven't been here in at least that long of a time. I paid $13.13 + $2.00 Tip for my lunch.
Yome's menu is different from that of Lee's menu. I noticed a pig knuckles stew mixed with some hard-boiled eggs. I asked the kitchen staff what it was. Motioning with his arms to indicate male virility, he said that it was for "health". Yeah, I'll drink to that. Or, should I say, I'll eat to that?
I parked near the far end of the theatre's parking lot because I wanted to jog it back to my car after the movie ended. There was a stray tabby there on the hillside just looking up at me. Another cat, a black one, showed up shortly after. I wanted them to come closer so that I could give them some of the cat food that I keep in my car for stray cats such as these two. But neither one wanted to come near me.
The auditorium was nearly packed to capacity with about 85% of the seats occupied. The movie began, with everyone having a good time. Then, 30 minutes into the movie, in the scene wherein Sultan and his friend crashed a wedding party and they were dancing, when the two seated men in the scene's foreground shot their rifles into the air, the power went out! Ha, ha, ha. Talk about perfect timing.
Everybody in the building had to leave the theatre because nobody knew when the power would come back on. We were all issued Free Movie Passes. 'Remember what I said earlier about bad things happening to me two in a row? Well, this is officially part two because a somewhat similar scenario also occurred when I went to see BFG for the first time in Vallejo, CA.
Anyway, I resolved to see this movie once again just to see it all the way through to the end. And, besides, it got a good Rotten Tomatoes movie rating.
I didn't jog it back to my car because there were just too many cars exiting the parking lot at the same time.
I went to the Richmond Wal-Mart to check out their shoes and polo shirts on sale. They didn't have the polo shirt that I wanted to buy: white polo shirt with a chest pocket. They had the type of shoes ( 3 kinds ) that I wanted to buy but I had to keep to my daily budget. Perhaps, at a later time.
I swung by the theatre on my way home to see if the power had been restored. It wasn't. I went home in bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic because three of the four lanes were blocked off for some road repair.
When I got home, I tried the new CD, the one on Shamanic meditation. The CD is approximately 70 minutes long. I slept for a good long time after doing the CD meditation. The next day, I checked to see why it "knocked me out" for a good night's rest. Sure enough, it had Delta brainwave frequencies mixed-in with its Theta brainwave frequencies. Delta brainwave frequencies can make you fall asleep fast and long.
And I had a strange dream when I was asleep. I dreamed that I was at an eatery. I was seated in a white wrought-iron chair next to a white wrought-iron glass-topped table. A group of men came up to me and told me that I had to accompany them because they needed help killing some loose zombies! Ha, ha, ha. I followed them but kept thinking to myself that there were no such things as zombies because of what I know about human anatomy and physiology. That was when I woke up. Gosh, darn it!
I used the Shamanic Meditation CD two more times upon awakening because I wanted to accelerate my altered consciousness state. But it's rather too early to tell if this Shamanic meditation will yield a positive result. I'll meditate to it at least twice a day for the next 30 days or so before I can expect "anything" to happen. I will just keep my fingers crossed for the time being.
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Wednesday, I got off work at 5:45 p.m. It was still too early to drive to Richmond, CA, for the 9:40 p.m. show. I went to the MacDonald's Restaurant on 2nd Street in Benicia, CA, for the next hour, to have a large cup of Sweet Tea w/ Lemonade while I updated my movie blog and while I checked on my Facebook page's posts.
I decided to have everything for this movie trip to be as similar to those on my movie trip on Monday.
I went to have dinner at Yome's Garden Buffet restaurant again. I paid the same amount but I saved 3 pennies by paying with my credit card. Hey, money's money---And it adds up sooner or later! Wait a minute ... I just remembered. Credit card use comes with interest payment. Okay, it will be back to paying with cash next time around.
All of the menu items were the same as those served on Monday. I said to myself that these dishes better not be Monday's left-overs. I had a serving of their pig knuckles stew w/ hard-boiled eggs "male virility dish" ( ahem! ) once again. But, this time around, the pig knuckles were overcooked and the white part of the hard-boiled eggs was almost as tough as leather! Can someone say, "Hey, Cine-Man, splurge a little and get yourself some Viagra!" Ha, ha, ha.
Whatever ....
Anyway, I think that Lee's Garden Buffet Restaurant was better than this new one.
There wasn't enough time to check-out the polo shirts and shoes at the Richmond Wal-Mart this time as I only had about 20 minutes left before the start of the show.
I parked closer to the theatre this time around. I parked in the space adjacent to the handicap parking space.
On my way back to my car right after the movie ended, I saw the two stray cats near the far end of the parking lot. The tabby was eating something at the curb while the black one was roaming about. I'll try and make friends with them the next time that I see them.
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On Tuesday, July 12th, 2016, I went to see this movie ...
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| NR ( 1 hr & 59 min ) |
here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 10:10 p.m. show in auditorium 13, 5th row from the front, 7th column from the left. The price of admission was $6.25 ( All-Day Bargain Tuesday ). And I bought a $6.80 Lite Bites at the concessions counter.
Quickie Review: This is a story about a 30-something single woman, Chinggay ( Jodi Sta. Maria ) who becomes infatuated with Ryan ( Ian Veneracion ), whose girlfriend recently broke up with him, just when her ex-boyfriend, Frank ( Richard Yap ), walks back into her life. Who will Chinggay choose?
The audience liked it. I liked it enough. It is definitely a "Chick-Flick".
I didn't like the ending when all three had a chance meeting at an intersection. It didn't make sense on Frank's part!
This movie took advantage of Jodi Sta. Maria's successful TV pairing with Ian Veneracion in Pangako Sa 'Yo and her pairing with Richard Yap in Be Careful With My Heart. And I guess their fans "took to it like fish to bait" because it did well in its Philippine market debut, one of four top grossers for 2016.
I don't know why this movie didn't have, as its theme song, Billy Ray Cyrus's Achy Breaky Heart. I guess that they didn't want to have to pay artist royalty fee.
My family had a brown short-hair native female dog in the Philippines which was named, Chinggay, the partner of our brown short-hair native male dog, Chinggoy. WHY DIDN'T THIS MOVIE HAVE A MALE LEAD NAMED, CHINGGOY?!?!?! Ha, ha, ha.
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I was "cheated" at the concessions counter on my Lite Bites purchase. The concessions clerk put my cup in the box instead of out of the box so that I didn't get enough popcorn in it. And I also specifically told him that I only wanted 2 pieces of ice cubes in my cup. When the movie ended two hours later, I still had ice cubes in my cup! Okay, that's it. I know which one to avoid at the concessions counter the next time that I go and buy some Lite Bites.
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