MADAME WEB

I went to see this last night, February 20th, 2024, an All Day Bargain Tuesday, at the Century 14 Vallejo, here in Vallejo, CA. The price of admission was $6.50. I also bought a $4.90 bottle of 20 oz ( 591 ml ) DASANI Water.

Synopsis: A near death experience unleashes a paramedic's long dormant superpowers. As she confronts her past, she realizes the need for such powers to help 3 girls develop their own set of superpowers. An origin movie of the liberal kind! 

PG-13, 1 h & 56 m

Auditorium 7, C-9

This isn't auditorium 7. I guess that

they forgot to update the screen.

Auditorium 7 is way bigger

than this auditorium! 

Scene Commentaries: 

How were they able to breastfeed the baby, absent of its mother or any lactating women in the group? 🤷‍♂️

Why couldn't she hear the loud siren of an approaching ambulance? 🚑

Okay, that car was balancing precariously at the edge of the bridge. And delicately held in place by the crash victim's own bodyweight. Why wasn't it kept secure from falling over the edge as the victim was being pulled to safety? Some of the emergency responders could have pulled at the rear bumper; or, if there was already a fire 🚒 truck present, they could have tied a hose to the back of the car! 🚗

I'm not a paramedic but I think it's a bad idea to do chest compressions on a crash victim who has a SERIOUS Chest Wound! Just saying .... 😐

If you yank-off a car's license plates, you should hide the evidence in the dumpster. Instead of having them just laying around in front of, and at the back of, the stolen vehicle! 😕

These girls never saw the Smokey Bear's PSA on Forest Fires! 🔥 Because they just left a campfire unattended ❗🤦‍♂️❗

👉  https://youtu.be/Ult6-NHeYCw?si=XuhCc2Doak5zfLZJ

If a hot girl in a really SHORT Skirt were to get up on a restaurant table to dance, BELIEVE ME THAT TEENAGE GUYS WITH RAGING HORMONES WILL NOT BE ADMIRING HER DANCE MOVES❗😉❗ Why Do You Think That Strippers Perform On A Stage For❗😜❗( Don't ask me how I know .... 😏 ) And The Waitress Would Be Compelled To Dance On The Table To Compete For Tips, Too❗😁❗But I don't think that the young guys would be interested in seeing a MATRONLY woman--who might just remind them of their own moms--dancing seductively on a table for tips❗😂❗

She trekked through the jungle and was not once--not even once--offered food & water by a native! I guess that is what they do in a Peruvian jungle. 😒  Had she trekked in a Philippine jungle, not only would she have been given food & water by a native but also would have been given some ba'on ( food to-go ) before she was sent off! "It's More Hospitable In The Philippines," should be the Philippine Tourism Board's new slogan ❗🤤❗😋❗

I was the only one watching this movie in the auditorium on a Bargain Tuesday, OF ALL DAYS. That's how bad it seems to be! 👎  This #d.i.e. movie flopped at the Box Office way worse than MORBIOUS did---And I Enjoyed MORBIOUS Enough To Go See It 3 Times❗😲❗

Tidbits: After seeing 2 movies at the Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max, and after walking around the block to reach my target goal of at least 7,000 steps, I noticed that I still had plenty of time to catch another movie. I wanted to see MADAME WEB 🕸️ here at Regal. But their last show was scheduled for 7:00 p.m. So, I decided to just catch it at the Century cineplex in Vallejo on my way home.

At the 2nd intersection from the Regal cineplex, I ran a red light as I was preparing to make a right turn. There was no way that I could have stopped in time as the road was still wet from a recent rain. I would have lost control of my car had I slammed on the brakes!

On the freeway, midway between the Regal and the Century cineplexes, at approximately 10:10 p.m., I was fast approaching an accident scene on the 2nd from the left lane; I was on the lane immediately to the right of it. Although its rear lights were flashing, because it was dark and because of the light rain, I didn't have a depth perception to properly assess the situation. There were debris on the lane that I was on that I couldn't swerve to avoid even though the right lane next to my lane was wide open! I just hoped and prayed that none of my tires got damaged by it. Especially since I already paid over $200 to have a damaged tire replaced on my Saturn SC-1 last year, and because my Hyundai Accent also has a flat tire right now because some asshole left wood screws laying on the road❗🤬❗

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And now, without further ado, here are the winners of today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race. Drumroll 🥁 please ....

Singapore, Congratulations on such

a commanding lead!

🎉🎇🏆🎆🎊

🇸🇬🥇🇸🇬

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And a FIRST, a 

3-way Tie

for 2nd

place.

Congratulations to Kazakhstan,

Russia and the USA!

🇰🇿🇷🇺🇺🇸

🥈🥈🥈

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Thanks to all of the countries that participated in this race to the Finish Line! 🏁 🛣️ 🏎️

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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 26 min )

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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Sunday, November 24th, 2013
show: 8:10 p.m.
costs: $10.25 Ticket + $1.75 upgrade to a large Popcorn ( on a Cinemark movie watcher reward's free small Popcorn ) + $5.00 large Powerade Mountain Berry Blast = $17.00
auditorium: 14
seat: 3rd row ( counting from the front ), 6th column ( counting from the left )

2nd time

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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Saturday, November 30th, 2013
show: 9:35 p.m.
costs: $10.75 Ticket + $$6.50 Lite Bites ( w/ Trail Mix and Powerade Mountain Berry Blast ) =$17.25
auditorium: 14
seat: 5th row ( counting from the front ), 7th column ( counting from the left )

synopsis/overview: After winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen ( Jennifer Lawrence ) and Peeta Mellark ( Josh Hutcherson ) embark on a compulsory victory tour through all the districts just as a rebellion is brewing and President Snow ( Donald Sutherland ) plots their demise in the 75th Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, which only happens every twenty-five years.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) "It was an act"; 2.) "You do have your virtues"; 3.) The unexpected visitor; 4.) Live TV broadcast; 5.) "Maybe, we have a shot at being friends"; 6.) "Did you see that"; 7.) "Our lives aren't just measured in years"; 8.) Execution; 9.) "You're mentors now"; 10.) "Everyone at school wears it like this now, grandpa"; 11.) The proposal; 12.) "It's for when you're full"; 13.) "We need to show that she's one of us"; 14.) "You don't want to shoot her"; 15.) "Hope"; 16.) "Her entire species"; 17.) Third Quarter Quell; 18.) "Peeta lives, not me"; 19.) Tributes selection; 20.) Rivals; 21.) Secrets; 22.) Flaming promenade; 23.) Elevator; 24.) "Good news"; 25.) "How are we gonna kill these people"; 26.) "Chosen skill"; 27.) "These victors are angry. They'll try anything to stop this game"; 28.) "Like a Mocking Jay"; 29.) "If it weren't for the baby"; 30.) "Presents for the boys"; 31.) "Let's watch her get her hands dirty, first"; 32.) Assault and battery; 33.) "Good thing we're allies"; 34.) "That's music to my ears"; 35.) Force field; 36.) "Edge of the arena"; 37.) Water tap; 38.) Fog; 39.) Mandrills; 40.) Sacrifice; 41.) "Tic-Toc"; 42.) "How'd they get that sound? Jabber Jays copy"; 43.) "I have a plan"; 44.) "I don't want to be the one that shoots first"; 45.) "You have to live for them"; 46.) "It's his plan. We all agreed to it"; 47.) "Stay down"; 48.) "Remember who the real enemy is"; 49.) "Get away from that tree"; 50.) "We couldn't tell you"; and 51.) "It's all gone."

audience reaction: Both Vallejo audiences liked it. And some gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation: I didn't like it that much. This movie is geared for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES series.

spoiler alert! Why was there a "Victors' Village" in District 12 when the district never produced a victor for each and every Hunger Game since the game's inception 75 years ago ( and District 12 only had 3 victors--so, shouldn't it have only 3 houses set-up instead of a whole village )? Here is yet another Hollywood movie in which the first person to get killed-off is a black man! Doesn't Hollywood know that there are other ethnic minorities out there at their disposal? For instance, I'm an ethnic minority. Hollywood can use me in a movie as its first minority victim--so long as the character that I'll be playing has a speaking part with at least a hundred words to say before he gets killed-off. "Everyone at school wears it like this now, grandpa"---Am I right to assume that "everyone at school" includes the boys, too? You cannot push your torso off a table with injuries to your back muscles like the ones Gale Hawthorne ( Liam Hemsworth ) had. At the beach, the rival team was just standing there; Katniss could have easily shot at them with her arrows! If the arena was self-enclosed, how was the wind generated with enough force to sway the tree branches? The blisters that they got from the poisoned fog should not have wiped/scrubbed-off easily: Blisters are caused when an irritant agent makes the superficial skin layer rise up as the body's immune response causes fluid to accumulate in subdermal pockets at loci points of contact. When blisters are ruptured ( i.e. rubbed-off, as shown in this movie ), the exposed subdermal skin will be raw, tender and reddish in color; and pieces of skin will be evident along the edges of the ruptured blisters--BUT THE SFX DEPARTMENT FOR THIS MOVIE FORGOT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT--YET ANOTHER REASON WHY THEY SHOULD HAVE CONSULTED WITH ME FIRST, CINE-MAN, TECHNICAL ADVISER, par excellence!!! Mandrills, like other monkeys or apes, have a very powerful grip. Mandrills also have a strong pulling power. And just like monkeys and apes, Mandrills have grasping feet. In a fight with a human, a Mandrill would be expected to grab at the human's arms with its hands and feet to render the human defenseless for what follows next: Bites to the face and neck!!! ( Yet another reason why they should have consulted with me first, Cine-Man, Technical Adviser and top Anthropology student in college! ) After the encounter with the Mandrills, how was Katniss able to replenish her supply of arrows? Why was she not hit by any of the falling structural debris when she was directly within its debris field?

fyi: Was Primrose Everdeen's ( Willow Shields ) cat, Garfield, the World's Fattest Cat?

Garfield, the World's Fattest Cat. I found this on the Internet. But never mind Garfield--check-out the enormous hands on this woman!!!

In Ancient Rome, at banquets, people would stuff themselves with food then vomit it all out so that they could stuff themselves all over again! Hey! this gives me an idea for next time that I pig-out at a Chinese buffet restaurant.

Hey! Where's the manager? Your food is lousy. I can't keep it down

no matter how hard I try. I keep throwing it all up! I'm not paying

for any of this crap! 'See you tomorrow. 

If you find yourself in a position where you have to do CPR on somebody, keep this in mind when you do the chest compressions: The rhythm of the disco beat for the BEE GEES song, Stayin' Alive. Seriously, scientific research discovered that the Stayin' Alive rhythm is the perfect one to use when administering CPR chest compressions--and it would help to sing the song while you're at it ( to encourage the recipient not to give up on life ) unless you sound like William Hung when you sing--in which case, please, don't! With that in mind, here's my version of Stayin' Alive:

You can tell by the way I do CPR, I'm an EMT--no time to talk.

You're not dead. Your body's warm. You'd been thrown around,

singed--badly burned.

But it's alright. You'll be okay.

Folks, you may look the other way--

you just try to understand

an accident's effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

'See that you're breathin' and your muscles are twitchin'

'cause you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive.

Well, now. We get low and we get high.

And if we can't get either, we'll really try.

'Got the wings of Heaven on our shoes.

We are blessed men. We just can't lose.

You know it's alright. It's okay.

You'll live to see another day.

You just try to understand

an accident's effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

'See that you're breathin' and your muscles are twitchin' 

'cause you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive.

You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.

I'll get the gurney. Yeah.

You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.

I'll get the gurney. Yeah.

You can tell by the way I do CPR, I'm an EMT--no time to talk.

You're not dead. Your body's warm. You'd been thrown around,

singed--badly burned.

But it's alright. You'll be okay.

Folks, you may look the other way--

you just try to understand

an accident's effect on man.

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

'See that you're breathin' and your muscles are twitchin'

'cause you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive!

Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha. Stayin' alive.

You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.

I'll get the gurney. Yeah.

You're goin' somewhere. 'Hospital's near here.

I'll get the gurney. Yeah.

YOU'RE STAYIN' ALIVE!!!

word of advice: Fight for a common cause.

tidbits: I wasn't able to take notes the first time that I watched this movie because I was munching on a big bag of buttered popcorn. And it took me almost the entire length of the movie to eat it all up!

In the auditorium during the movie, some girl sat immediately to my left. Twice, she crossed her legs; and twice she hit my left knee when she shifted in her seat. Was she "hitting" on me? The dumb-blonde sure wasn't clear on the concept of "hitting on someone." Or, maybe, I was too stupid to take a hint. Whatever ....

2nd tidbits: I learned of Paul Walker's death when a twit on it was posted on my Cine-Man blogsite in the Twicsy's Top Twitter Pics Of The Past Hour section. I was at the MacDonald's Restaurant in Benicia, CA, at 1602 East 2nd Street, when I learned of the tragedy. How sad ....

At first, I wanted to see this for the second time at the EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA, where the theatre is showing this in I-Max. But, then, I realized that the show will be in 2-D only. And I refuse to pay extra for an I-Max 2-D show! Because whether or not the show is in I-Max 2-D or I-Max 3-D, the admission price is the same. So, I just decided to see this once again here in Vallejo.

The concessions clerk at the theatre refused to honor my $1.00-off discount on a snack pack even though the e-mail coupon sent to me said that the discount was good on any snack pack. The reason why I chose to have the Lite Bites snack pack in the first place. But the manager said that the discount was only good on the regular snack pack and the speed pack---What the "pack" is a speed pack?!?!?! They only had the regular snack pack and the Lite Bites snack pack available at the counter! What a rip-off! I'll complain about this to their corporate p.r. department. 

After the movie, I went to the Super Wal-Mart in American Canyon, CA, to buy a birthday present for a co-worker because it was her birthday today. And she insisted on getting a present from me even though she didn't say anything about a birthday party. But the jewelry section was closed for the evening--it was past midnight--and wouldn't open again until 7:00 a.m. Do I have an excuse or what ...? 

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