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| As much as I like Hrithik Roshan, I prefer this movie poster. ;-) |
where: CENTURY 16 HILLTOP in Richmond, CA
when: Friday, August 12th, 2016
show: 11:30 a.m. First Show Matinee ( $1.00--Off Discount )
costs: $7.50 Ticket + $4.85 meduim Powerade Zero Strawberry + $0.00 small Buttered Popcorn ( free offer on my movie-watcher e-mail reward coupon ) = $12.35
auditorium: 10
seat: 3rd row from the front, 8ht column from the left
SARMAN CAN!
( 'get it? )
synopsis/overview: A young farmer, Sarman ( Hrithik Roshan ), yields to his irresistible urge to travel to Mohenjo Daro. He falls in love with the high priest's daughter, Chaani ( Pooja Hegde ). And soon learns of secrets hidden from him his whole life.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Crocodile; 2.) Dream; 3.) Traders; 4.) New Order; 5.) Banishment; 6.) Festival; 8.) Copper seal; 9.) Runaway horses; 10.) Temple shrine; 11.) Criminals; 12.) Deja Vu; 13.) Tax protest; 14.) "She is smiling"; 15.) Moon Bath Ritual; 16.) Prophecy; 17.) Fight; 18.) Sentence; 19.) New dam proposal; 20.) Fight arena; 21.) Foiled assasination attempt; 22.) The truth; 23.) Rebellion; 24.) Flood; 25.) "This is my priviledge"; and 26.) Ganga.
audience reaction: The audience of about a dozen or so liked it.
recommendation: I liked it enough. But I was somewhat disappointed by the fact that this is more of a love story than it is an action movie. Go see this movie if you like love stories.
spoiler alert! A full beard would have been in fashion back then. That trident would never have been able to go through the reptile's body like that. The iron trident looked out of place since the Iron Age started about a 1,000 years after the period setting for this movie. I don't think that farmers back then had the luxury of living in a baked-brick house. Wheeled carts were already in use back then but ... farmers living in areas that were subjected to monsoon rains would have been better off using sled carts instead of wheeled carts. How was Sarman able to know the songs and dances of Mohenjo Daro? Fine colored fabrics may not have been in common use back then. Why was there a pineapple shown in a feast scene? In a life-or-death fight, take away your enemy's ability to fight as soon as possible; Sarman missed many opportunities to deal crippling blows to his enemies.
fyi: I liked how this movie started off with the caption, "2016 B.C."
And I liked the Water Clock.
So, a New World Order is not exactly new, after all, according to this movie.
I was interested in seeing this movie primarily because I took a college semester course in Archaeology and my textbook made scant mention of Moenjodaro ( Mohenjo Daro ) in particular and of the Indus Valley Civilization in general.
But I had to suppress my laughter when I saw that pineapple on the food table. In Archaeology, one of the things you are taught is where common foods originally came from. Pineapples originated in South America before Columbus was even born---Heck, even before Columbus' European ancestors were even born! Ha, ha, ha. ( So, yeah, instead of consulting with the Archaeologist mentioned in this movie's Ending Credits, they should have consulted with me first! Bollywood, keep that in mind for when you need the services of someone who knows a thing or two about Archaeology. )
On a more grave note ...
One of the investment e-mail newsletters that I subscribe to says that World War III won't be started by China, North Korea or the Middle East but by India. Why? Because India dammed the Ganges River so that some of its neighbors are denied equal/ready access to such a precious resource. If nothing is changed, World War III is very likely to start in that region of the world, and the use of thermonuclear weapons is a worrisome possibility.
word of advice: An all-consuming greed can be just that: All-Consuming.
tidbits: I was gonna go to the Bank of America branch at the Hilltop Mall, just a half mile away from this theatre before the start of the movie, to make a deposit into my savings account. But I got up late because I stayed up late last night to catch the last advanced screening for the movie, SAUSAGE PARTY.
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| This movie should have been rated NC-17. |
I saw this movie at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA, for its 10:30 p.m. Advanced Screening in auditorium 10, 4th row from the front, 9th column from the right. The price of admission was $11.50. And I bought a $0.00 small Buttered Popcorn ( free offer on my movie-watche e-mail reward coupon ) and a $4.85 medium Powerade Mountain Berry Blast at the concessions counter.
Quickie Review: Food items at a grocery store only have one wish: Get picked by the "gods" who will take care of them forever, unaware that they should be more careful of what they wish for.
The audience liked this movie, especially the reference to, "Crackers."
I didn't like SAUSAGE PARTY, if you must know. But that is just my prudish opinion.
Here are some things wrong about this movie: It shows a decapitated human head, a food fight ( literally ) and an "anything goes" food sex orgy ( if you can imagine that ). And whoever made this movie does not really know what goes on inside of a big grocery store after it closes for the evening.
Anyway ... back to MOHENJO DARO.
I parked my car far away from the theatre so that I could jog to the box office. After the movie, I jogged it back to my car. ( I also parked my car far enough away from the theatre last night so that I could jog back to it after the movie ended. )
After watching MOHENJO DARO, I went to Yome Garden Chinese Buffet Restaurant to have a mid-afternoon lunch. I paid $13.13 for the lunch buffet, plus $2.00 tip. I liked their Mongolian Beef---Most Chinese buffet restaurants nowadays substitute Pork for this particular dish.
But try eating your buffet lunch with this thing staring you in the face:
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| This guy must be a plumber. I just made him famous the world over and he doesn't even know it. Ha, ha, ha. |
You'd have to be a well-seasoned buffet eater to be able to eat through this! Luckily for me, I'm such an expert buffet eater! It takes more than this to make me wanna "toss my salad."
I went back to the theatre to see ...
I went to see the 4:30 p.m. show in auditorium 6, 4th row from the front, 10th column from the right. The price of admission was $8.00. And I bought a 33.8 oz ( 1 litre ) bottle of Dasani Water for $4.70 at the concessions counter. I paid $5.00 for bridge toll at the Carquinez Bridge Toll Booth on my way home to Vallejo.
Quickie Review: Pete ( Oakes Fegley ), a lost, orphaned boy, is raised by a dragon.
The audience liked this movie and gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending. They especially liked the scene wherein Elliot, the dragon, sneezed at the bad guy and the scene wherein an ambulance patient fell off the gurney.
I liked this movie, too. Go see this movie with your brats.
( And I like Bryce Dallas Howard---And let me not forget about Pooja Hegde! )
But there are some things that didn't make sense to me at all: Since hair grows at a rate of 6 inches per year, Pete's hair should have been anywhere from 30 to 36 inches in length. When Elliot did a mid-air barrel roll, that would have been enough to make Pete lose his grip and fall. It is illegal to have tranquilizer darts in one's possession if said person is neither a veterenarian nor a personnel whose job calls for the use of such a controlled drug---So what the bad guys did was against the law and the cops should have thrown them all in jail. The flame's intensity and proximity to the truck would have made the truck catch on fire. The ending would have made better sense had the grandfather been in it.
This movie was filmed in New Zealand which must be why two boys stuck their tongues out at each other in greeting (?).
I was too full to jog either way in the parking lot.
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As of yesterday, August 11th, I have been doing the Shamanic meditation twice a day for a whole month. I haven't noticed anything supernatural yet. I'll give it two more months to produce the expected result. If it doesn't work by then, I will have to try another form of brainwave entrainment CD sound meditation.
'You know what is strange? My movie blogsite didn't get any hits from Russia this past week. How strange is that? Is something going on that I don't know about?
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