CHOCOLATE ( 2009 )

I finished watching this pre-PLANdemic movie at predawn today, Saturday, August 17th, 2024, in bed 🛏️ via my cellphone's 🤳 TUBI Streaming App.

Scene Commentaries:

The prologue is about 10 minutes long before you realize that it's just a backdrop of assorted characters for later on in the rest of the movie.

I've heard of people shooting themselves in the foot. But to intentionally do it to your own foot is a whole different level of insanity. Or, maybe, he has T-2 Diabetic Neuropathy. If you get it, it's hard to feel anything in your feet. But, more so on the bottom of your feet. Although there can be times when your feet's frayed Nerves get inflamed and it becomes painful enough that it wakes you up! 😣  He'd better not get that foot infected or he'll run the risk of getting it amputated! I know this personally because I came close to having my Left Foot amputated ❗

Now that my Diabetic Neuropathy is gradually getting better, I Can Once Again Feel Anything And Everything That I Stepped On! 😖 The good news is that it lets me know when it's time for me to sandpaper my Calluses once again.

That is a whole lot of Chocolate M & M's!

Since Zen has Autism, that sugary 

treat is just going to make

things worse for her.

I wonder if they still have TV antennas

there in Thailand since this scene is 

when Zen was still a toddler.

Street punks get a taste of Zen's Chocolate M & M's fueled fighting skills! 👍

The scooter 🛵 horn is an option in this base model:

Just be thankful that it has an Automatic 

Clutch! I just don't like where it

is placed. I was going to 

suggest that he puts

it on the Handlebar. But that's where

the Helmet goes, obviously.

Something tells me that the man just pissed off the wrong girl!  😡

Zen is acting like the long lost love child of

Bruce Lee & Ong Bak!  😏

Young man, your canvas sneakers are not slip resistant. 

That's an OSHA ( Occupational  Safety

 and Health Administration )

violation❗🤨❗

It is said that if you see a very beautiful girl in Thailand, more than likely, it's just a guy.  😕

There's no mistaking that this is a 

guy. Thank God for that! 😮‍💨

Damn 🪰 flies 🪰

Now, what would they want with ...

boiled Pigs' head?  🤔

That has gotta hurt a lot!  😬

Here's more of the ...

You Can Never Mistake These 

For Girls At All❗ 😒

Here's how to stuff a giant pipe:  😂

This is a pretty good Knee to the Head:  😎

Zen tops Bruce Lee's somewhat similar scene:

Autistic Girl versus Hyperkinetic Boy:

If the 2024 Paris Olympics had a Couples Breakdance Competition ...

these two would have bagged

the Gold 🪙 Medal🥇 

Speaking of which, I couldn't force myself to watch the Australian female breakdancer! 🙈 You guys know who I'm talking about! 🤣🤣🤣

This Fight & Chase & Fight scene is very good! 👍 

When Zen was holding on to the balcony railing, the bad guy could have easily grabbed her fingers and broken as many of them as possible.  😕

This bad guy fell 3 stories but ...

his glasses never even came off!

They must be Ray BAND.

Today's Lesson: Get Health Insurance unless you're extremely good at fighting!

Be sure to watch the 👉brutal end results👈 during the Ending Credits! 😨  Another massive OSHA violation❗😬❗ Even Jackie Chan would have been alarmed by it❗😲❗They don't pay these actors and stuntmen well enough❗😟❗ Whollyweird's action stars should emulate Keanu Reeves and treat the stuntmen respectfully and be financially appreciative of their hard, dangerous work👌❗👍

This is a very good Martial Arts movie. 👌🤓 👍 I don't know why it wasn't shown here in the USA. I would have loved to have seen this movie on the Big Screen! 🍿👌🤓 👍🥤

And I hate to admit it. But Zen is better at fighting than my Karate Girl!  ☹️  At least, Karate Girl is good at distracting the bad guys simply by wearing her crime fighting Skirt❗🤪❗Now that I think about it, the reason why Zen preferred to wear pants in her fight scenes was because she had a 👉Higher Probability👈 of running into Thai She-Boys! And She-Boys don't get distracted by skirts in a fight; but are easily distracted by some pants-wearing enemy who does high kicks in a fight! 😁😁😁

On a personal matter, how will I do in a fight against a bad guy wearing a Kilt or a Tartan❓ 😬❗ Let's see what happens if they expose their ⚾🥎 to me when they kick high. I just hope that I still have the skill and timing needed to execute a simple & quick Shotokan kick! 🤞

Tidbits:

I spent over an hour and a half in my car going through the 1st 40 minutes of this movie as soon as I parked in my carport, after my trip to the post office.

Then, I had a late lunch and meditated before I went for an evening walk. 🚶‍♂️

8.02 kilometers 

7.7 km

When I was done with my evening walk, I finished watching the rest of this movie before and after I had my late supper at 1:30 a.m.

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Today, I had to go to the CSAA Vallejo, CA office to pay on my car insurance. I arrived well before they had to close for the day.

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Then, I went to the Dollar Tree Store to buy a few items.

I will have to go to the fiveBELoW and to the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market later on before I go back home.

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Just in time for the 2024 Presidential Election. To HELL with the DEMON-crats and their JIHADISTS & ILLEGALS ❗ 🤬 ❗ 

👇https://www.facebook.com/NEWSMAX/videos/1072923050929859/?mibextid=9drbnH

and this:

The DEMON-crats Don't Even Hide The Fact That They Are Cheating Anymore😈❗😠❗😡❗🤬❗👿

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When the Israelis were evicted from gaza,

THAT, in itself and by itself, created this:

Why are the Fake News Media and the QueerDos for FAKEstine very silent about these Acts of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?

The ONLY ONE Problem In & From The Arab World:

So much for the so-called 

"religion of peace" 

Why Iran is hesitating:

👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/oV-w4wvx2Cs?si=OSx0b5EzLy2cMO9E

The brandon/bj kammy ODDministration betrays Israel:

👉 https://youtu.be/ac4DQc1zBlQ?si=C_ZNI9h57XiDX6ge

Something happened at the Temple Mount on Tisha B'Av:  🤯

👉 https://youtu.be/c2hAim-6nCs?si=wmH_-mk07KWN_Wgg

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

Congratulations to Singapore for 

winning in 1st place!

🎉🎆🏆🎇🎊

🇸🇬🥇🇸🇬

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🍾

Congratulations to the USA for 

winning in 2nd place!

🇺🇲🥈🇺🇸

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Congratulations to Israel for 

winning in 3rd place!

🇮🇱🥉🇮🇱

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And congratulations to Germany for 

winning in 4th place!

🇩🇪🏅🇩🇪

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

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD / CLARITA

R, 2 h & 39 m

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I went to see the 8:40 p.m. advanced screening of this movie last night, July 25th, 2019, here in Vallejo, CA, at the Century 14 Vallejo, in auditorium 12, seat B-6. The price of admission was $9.00. And I bought a special discount Medium Drink for $4.00 and a medium Buttered Popcorn for $6.50 at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review: A former TV Western actor, Rick Dalton ( Leonardo DiCaprio ), and his best friend/stuntman, Cliff Booth ( Brad Pitt ), are having a hard time landing jobs in the late '60s Hollywood.

I, and the rest of the audience, liked this movie. My favorite scene was the Fight Scene between Cliff and Bruce Lee ( Mike Moh ).  👍

Heads Up: This movie, just like INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, is set in an alternate reality with a feel-good ending.   😉

I don't know why only female stars were shown snoring while asleep.   🤷🏽‍♂️

The actress who played the role of Pussycat ( Margaret Qually ) sure has very thick & hairy armpits!   😲

And the would-be killer in the swimming pool could have easily gone under water for protection.   😕

There's a Cigarette Ad Scene during the Ending Credits that has a funny ending.   😊

I was truly disappointed that this movie didn't have a dedication to Burt Reynolds. Burt was the one originally chosen to play the role of George Spahn ( of the Spahn Movie Ranch ), played in the movie by Bruce Dern. But Burt passed away before any of his scenes could be shot. 

Also, I thought that Philip Ng, of BIRTH OF THE DRAGON fame, was picked by Quentin Tarantino to play the part of Bruce Lee.    

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NR, 1 h & 25 m

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I went to see the 12:55 p.m. showing of this movie today, July 26th, 2019, here in Vallejo, CA, at the Century 14 Vallejo, in auditorium 10, seat B-7. The price of admission was $6.25. And I bought a special discount Medium Drink for $4.00 and a Medium Cheddar Popcorn for $8.50 at the concessions counter.

Quickie Revview: A young woman, Clarita ( Jodi Sta. Maria ), believed to be demonically possessed, is confined to an institution. A photo journalist, Emilia Henson ( Alyssa Muhlach ), records the exorcism being performed by two priests.

What I think about this movie: If it came out in the early '70s before THE EXORCIST was shown, it would have been a scary movie! But so many horror movies involving demonic possessions and exorcisms have come and gone since then that horror movie fans are now jaded and no longer fall for the same ol', same ol' trope.   😕

Maybe, Hollywood needs me to breathe new life into this clichéd genre.  😊

To its credit, though, it cuts to the chase early on, with some flashbacks here and there.  👍

I've mentioned this before. But horror movies based on true stories about demonic possession center around catholics. I don't think that this is just mere coincidence!


http://strangecatholic.weebly.com/blog/the-clarita-villanueva-case-possession-or-hoax


P.S. Don't buy the Cheddar Popcorn! It's $2.00 more expensive AND it doesn't taste that good. Stick with Buttered Popcorn!

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, R ( 1 hr & 33 min )

where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, November 6th, 2009
show: 12:25 pm ( Extra Dollar-off First Show )
costs: $6.25 Ticket + $4.00 junior size Kettle Corn + $3.75 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $14.00
auditorium: 11
seat: 3rd row, 9th column

synopsis: A small-time newspaper reporter in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Bob Milton ( Ewan McGregor ) serendipitously stumbles upon The Story of a Lifetime when he interviews someone who claims to be a "Psychic Soldier" trained by a secret U.S. Army unit during the Cold War era.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) General Hopgood's ( Stephen Lang ) office; 2.) Gus Lacey ( Stephen Root ) interview; 3.) Ron's ( Brad Grunberg ) massive coronary; 4.) Chance meeting with Lyn Cassady ( George Clooney ); 5.) Bill Django's ( Jeff Bridges ) Vietnam epiphany; 6.) Development of the New Earth Army; 7.) Sparkly Eyes technique; 8.) The "Predator"; 9.) Solar cooker; 10.) New Earth Army presentation; 10.) Origin of "Be all that you can be" slogan; 11.) Driving into a rock on the way to Iraq; 12.) Unwittingly captured; 13.) "Jedi" symbol; 14.) Computer crashes; 15.) The "Dance"; 16.) Larry "party pooper" Hooper ( Kevin Spacey ); 17.) Remote Viewing; 18.) Firefight at gas station; 19.) "Ask Angela Lansbury"; 20.) Dishonorable discharge; 21.) IED; 22.) Stare at goat; 23.) Dim Mak, the "death touch"; 24.) Bill with goats; 25.) "The Dark Side"; 26.) Redemption; 27.) Liberation; 28.) Barney, the Dinosaur; and 29.) The wall.

audience reaction: The audience totally enjoyed this movie!

recommendation: Go see this crazy-funny movie.

spoiler alert! I'm clearly bias towards this movie because of my life-long supernatural experiences. It's a subjective reality, i.e. if you haven't experienced it then you would have no affinity for it and consequently act prejudice towards those who have. Most of the people who go see this movie will think that there are a bunch of "normal-acting" crazy people out there. But those who have knowledge and experience in such matters will truly appreciate the humor put forth by kindred souls. In other words, there are two ways of looking at this movie.

If Lyn Cassady was the best of the best "Psychic Soldiers," he could have easily willed his cancer to disappear--but I guess they didn't teach him this!

fyi: Lyn Cassady's "Cloud Bursting" is not so far-fetch or crazy. When I was about 11 years of age in the Philippines, I accidentally found out that I had a particular ability to control an aspect of the weather. Back then, it was just a game that I would go outside the house and play on the street whenever an opportunity for privacy would arise because I thought it was a normal thing for kids to do! I cannot do it now perhaps because in adulthood I have become more self-conscious about how I am perceived by society in general. No wonder Jesus Christ told his Apostles and Disciples to treat kids with respect--Hell hath no Fury than a ( poltergeist ) kid scorned!

When Bruce Lee died unexpectedly, one of the rumors circulated was the one in which he stopped doing his workout to greet and shake the hand of a boy he thought was just a fan. As it turned out, this boy was a young assassin well-trained in Dim Mak who then proceeded to give the unsuspecting Bruce Lee the "death touch" which killed him in a few hours' time through brain hemorrhage. One of my classmates back then told me this, and that's the honest truth!

Those who are into Conspiracy Theory would know of a certain "Commander X" who claims to be one of those "Psychic Soldiers" from the Cold War era. I wonder if he's in any way related to the "Lyn Cassady" character. Hmmm ....

word of advice: Once you've experienced the supernatural, everything that you scientifically know about physical reality goes flying out the window and into the garbage bin, so to speak. Trust me on this.

tidbits: It's funny how this movie makes reference to Jedi Knights/Warriors since Ewan McGregor portrayed the role of a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the STAR WARS prequel trilogy.