SECRET MOVIE SERIES--JULY 2024

I went to see this Secret Movie today, Monday, July 1st, 2024, here in Vallejo, at the Century 14. The price of admission was $5.00. I brought a packet of Margaritaville Strawberry Daiquiri to flavor my 20 fl oz ( 591 ml ) bottle of iced Dasani Water. I also brought 4 oz ( 113 g ) bag of Blue Diamond Bold Wasabi & Soy Sauce Flavored Almonds ( I ate about ⅔ of it ) and a Lenny & Larry's The Boss! Caramel Macchiato Immunity Bar for my late lunch.

Auditorium 10, B-7

Scene Commentaries:

"We need a new broom."  🧹 

The black 🐈‍⬛ cat!

Station Wagon.  😄  I do like station wagons, though. But, I'm curious. Why is it called "Station" and "Wagon" because it is neither!  🤨

The Baby 👶🏻 Bump.  👌

"THE president!"  😲

'"Ever been to Florida?" 

"You're on fire." 🔥 

19 38 E9 is the license plate number. In case one of you wants to dig deeper into it.

"That's my badge!"  😁

"I'll try to keep from killing you for saying that."  😀

"Nope, storage closet ...."  😃

16 million parts for Apollo 11❗🤯❗

"It's not me. I'm not that handsome."  😄

"I flew 52 missions in Korea. How's that?"  😆

"Pickles on a burger." Incidentally, there's a new kind of burger 🍔 that people are craving for: The Pickle 🥒 Burger 🍔! 🤤  Instead of putting everything between 2 slices of bread 🥪, they're put in-between 2 big slices of pickles!

This should be a hit with the 

preggo 🤰demographic.

Product placements. I remember back when they were marketing Tang as the astronaut's preferred orange juice drink. Of course, I wanted to always drink it as an impressionable little brat!

The Apollo 11 astronauts' nicknames: Snap, Crackle and Pop!  😅

The 3 Corvettes!  😲

"Not everybody likes to advertise."  😕

"They want to see the news in the making." A reference to the Vietnam War which was the first to be televised as it was happening.   😯

The best pilot that never went to space.  🙁

"She's teared-up. That's scary!"  😂

"Killer Lunar Laser Eliminator."  🤔

The Sea of Crisis before The Sea of Tranquility was chosen.  😏

"We need to be prepared to have an alternate version of the Moon Landing."  😐

The Artemis Project.  🤐

"It's just a big rock."  🪨 

"I think we should have gotten Kubrick." 

"What went wrong with Apollo 1?"  😢

"Actually, leave them up! Let them think about what they did."  😁

The Jenny Flight.  🛩️

Dinner with the Senator and his wife.

"Thank You To The Moon And Back" party.  🥳 

"So, what are you gonna be today?"  🤨

"It's you get a new life!"  😶‍🌫️

"The People Of Apollo" sketch book.  ✍️ 

Contingency plan.  😶

"When this is over, I don't ever want to see your face!"  😳

The police 🚓 escort.  😀

"It's about America beats Russia on TV!" 🤓

The Scams.  😕

"Pigeon's 🐦 in the coop."

Lunar 🌙 Cat 🐈‍⬛!  🤣 🤣 🤣

"Yes, those are our guys!"  👌😊👍

"The real moon 🌝? Jesus, it looks so fake!"  😂 😂 😂

"They 👽 walk among us."  😨

"Too bad it's all fake."  😕

"Is that fake?"  👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

This movie is a joint venture between Georgia, USA and British Columbia, Canada.

She should have made a deal to have Pres. Nixon pardon her mother.  😕  I would have❗

There is a good chemistry between the two main characters. It's a good movie to go see!  👍

But is this movie an Operation Information, Operation Disinformation or just plain ol' Damage Control❓🧐❓ 

As if it isn't so obvious already,  😏  the Secret Movie for today is ....

PG-13, 2h & 11m

 

Tidbits:

I don't think that I shall be seeing Secret Movie Series at this theatre for the foreseeable future! One of the employees here takes her husband to watch such a series and they take up any unassigned seats because they get to watch movies for free! That's not the bad part!! The bad part is that They Are So Inconsiderate of, and so Disrespectful to, others because they talk while the movie is playing. And, tonight, they occupied the unassigned seats to the right side of mine in seats B-5 & B-4❗I'll go see Secret/Mystery Movies someplace else 'til the end of the year❗😠❗

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I gave myself a much needed haircut as soon as I arrived home just minutes before midnight. I used my new Hair Clippers with the ½ inch ( 12.7 mm ) guide.  🙂  

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👉 Here is Tuesday's temperature readings. It is at its peak temperature for a really hot 🔥 day! It's 93° Fahrenheit ( 34° Celsius ) right now at 5:20 p.m. with a 29% Humidity.  🥵 I'm just staying inside the Fairfield Westfield Shopping Mall where it's air-conditioned!  😊

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I swung by the GOIN' POSTAL to pick up a credit card 💳 bill 💸 before I drove to Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max to see 2 bargain movies for today, Tuesday.

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Former hippies train themselves as astronauts to go to Far Out Groovy spaces!  🥴

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https://www.facebook.com/100001831609934/posts/pfbid02ZfqPE6q1UVxTTbqggfHmKDAVuzpXeqVrLztcwPeZm87VMQLPBKEGz8mNwYUC1f5nl/?mibextid=NOb6eG

Somebody doesn't want the world to know that we never went to the moon!

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https://www.facebook.com/100082231015512/posts/pfbid025HpvZFhSXGMc6BTCuxMwRDzKNqePtZecG6xfjaD2Ka5DH6y6XTfarj352E2eBGLBl?mibextid=9drbnH

Robin Williams on The US Flag:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/715584774120412?mibextid=9drbnH

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I have this type of NASA jacket in 5 out of 7 colors ( black, navy blue, olive green, purple, maroon--I haven't bought the grey & the white yet ):

I got these NASA jackets through

my friend Soberunde Goode.

You get more than your money's worth on this 3-Seasons jacket! The patches, combined, are worth more than the jacket, itself❗🤑❗But let's not tell the clothing company that makes it❗🤫❗

Here's a picture of my purple NASA jacket:

The patch on the right sleeve is an extra

patch that I stitched on. It's a promo 

patch for the FIRST MAN ( 2018 )

movie. I only managed to snag

2, instead of 7 or 8 of them!

They would not let me

have more!  ☹️

I did such a professional job of stitching the FIRST MAN patch on the right sleeve that, if you turned it inside-out, you would not see where the stitches are!  👌😎👍

And, NO, I'm not going to go see the Inside Out 2 "woke" dizzy-knee pick-czar movie. Even if it is for free!  😒👎

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I finally got around to using a Belt Dressing on my Saturn SC-1's Alternator Belt. It had 3.0 miles ( 4.8 kilometers ) on its Odometer since I got it back from the shop for its Scheduled Service Maintenance last week. The engine purrs like a kitten 🐈 now, as the expression goes.

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I wasn't able to walk further than Sunday's distance.

5.92 kilometers 

5.70 km

Because the freshly sandpapered Calluses on my Left Foot were still a bit tender.

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Here are today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race winners.  Drumroll 🥁 please ....

Congratulations to Hong Kong for 

winning in 1st place!

🎊🎆🏆🎇🎊

🇭🇰🥇🇭🇰

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Congratulations to the USA for

winning in 2nd place!

🇺🇸🥈🇺🇲

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And congratulations to Germany for 

winning in 3rd place!

🇩🇪🥉🇩🇪

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Thanks to the countries that participated in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish! 🏁          🛣️          🏎️ 

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TO DUST, R ( 1 h & 32 m ); APOLLO 11, documentary ( 1 h & 33 m ); WEDDING GUEST, R ( 1 h & 34 m )

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I went to see this movie on Wednesday, March 13th, 2018, at the Century Regency 6, in San Rafael, CA, for the 2:00 p.m. showing in auditorium 6, row 4, seat 8. The price of admission was $9.50. And I bought a medium drink and a medium popcorn at the concessions counter.

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Quickie Review: A grieving widower, Hasidic cantor Shmuel ( Geza Rohrig ), and a college science professor, Albert ( Matthew Broderick ), embark on a macabre journey ( roadtrip? ) to satisfy Shmuel's curiosity in a corpse's decaying process. This dark comedy is unlike any that I have seen before. Shmuel, whose young wife died of cancer, believes that his wife's body must decay within a certain time frame for him to find consolation and an end to his grieving. For his assurance, he accosts a science teacher for help. What follows is a series of comedic scenes that challenge the mores of an orthodox Jewish community.

What I Think Of This Movie: There are some hilarious scenes like a Hasidic Jew buying a dead pig from a Chinese butcher in a back alley somewhere, two Jewish boys doing an exorcism on their father whom they thought was possessed by a dybbuk, the wife/pig soil pH test, the body farm visit, etc. I liked this movie. And the other movie viewers liked it, too.

You might want to see this movie.

I missed the first 10 minutes of this movie because I thought that I had lost my tally counter ( which I use to keep count of my Zhunti Mantra recitations ). I looked in the lobby, in the men's room and outside in the parking lot for my tally counter. But, as it turned out, it was in the cup holder of my theatre seat all along.  Whew!  😥

The actor who plays the part of Shmuel looked like Mark Ruffalo.

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I went to see this movie at the same theatre, on the same day, for the 4:30 p.m. showing in auditorium 2, center column (?), row 5, seat 6. The price of admission was $9.50.

Quickie Review:  This is a documentary of the historic 1969 Apollo Moon Mission. It has footage not seen before in other documentaries of the same subject.

What I Think Of This Movie: This is a movie that shouldn't be missed, simply for its historical value. I liked this movie. And the audience liked it, too; some even went so far as to give this movie a "Hands Clapper" ending. Go see this movie.   👍

Some of the scenes look so sharply done, as if they were filmed today, considering how grainy some movies were back in 1969.


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I went to see this at the same theatre, on the same day, for the 7:20 p.m. showing in auditorium 1 ( I forget which row & column ). The price of admission was $12.50. And I still had enough soda in my cup, from when I bought a medium drink for the first show, to last me through this movie.

Quickie Review:  Jay ( Dev Patel ) is hired to go to India to abduct the soon-to-be bride in an arranged marriage. But things spiral out of control when Jay is forced to kill a guard in self-defense. Soon, a secret is revealed while loyalty is brought into question.

What I Think Of This Movie: This movie was okay. It could have been better as a comedy, I think. With the "Wedding" in its title, I couldn't help but think along the lines of THE WEDDING SINGER and WEDDING CRASHERS. You might want to wait for this to come out as a DVD rental.   😒

This movie is not playing at my local Bollywood movie haunt, the Century 16 Hilltop in Richmond, CA. So, I just decided to see it here after all.

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This is the first time that I've driven my 2002 Saturn SC-1 on Highway 37 and on 101 South. With only 47,561 miles ( 76,542 kilometers ) on its odometer, it handled quite well as it traveled smoothly and almost quietly on the road.

Highway 37 was closed sometime last month because the levee broke from flooding. Since we had some heavy rains last month.

I had in mind to eat dinner at the McDonald's Restaurant on Nave Road, in Novato, CA, right after the APOLLO 11 movie. But I decided to go see a third movie, WEDDING GUEST, instead.

Honestly, I should have gone to see these movies the day before, on Tuesday. Since Tuesday is "bargain movie all day".  I could have saved on money, then.   👌

I haven't been to this theatre in about five years.  😶

I didn't bring a mini notepad to take notes on any of these movies. 

P.S. I'm not blogging about CAPTAIN MARVEL for the same reason that I didn't blog about BLACK PANTHER: "liberalism" ruined it for me. They already changed Kingpin's and Nick Fury's race. But they just couldn't leave it at that! They're getting carried away, all in the name of "social justice".  😏  Leave well-enough alone, haven't they heard?  I'm not watching Marvel superhero movies in their opening weeks ( a two-week moratorium ), anymore.




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