JEE VE SOHNEYA JEE/LAND OF BAD

I went to see this movie today, a $5.00 All Day Bargain Tuesday, February 20th, 2024, at the Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max. The price of admission was $5.00. And I bought a medium bag of Popcorn 🍿 for $4.90. I brought my own 20 oz ( 591 ml ) iced bottled Aquafina water; and a stick of Wyler's Light Island Punch Blue Ocean Breeze to flavor the water. As well, I brought a Weight Watcher's Fiber One Peanut Butter Cocoa Crumble protein bar. This was my lunch!  🤤

SYNOPSIS: A Pakistani man and a Hindu woman seem destined for each other. Which is a symbolic representation of the hope for the reunification of Pakistan and India after the August 1947 British Partition Mandate. And how this movie is set in England illustrates the divisive interaction between the peoples of the 3 nations. 

NR (?) 2 h & 20 m

Auditorium 3, B-9

WORD of ADVICE: If you do decide to go see this movie, skip the 1st 5 minutes and the last 15 minutes or so. Then, it is a perfect Romance movie❗ You've been warned! 

I'll just leave it right there ( and refrain from making scene commentaries ) so that I don't spoil it for the rest of you who still want to go see this movie.  🤐

TIDBIT: I was about to buy a movie ticket when my cellphone rang. The podiatrist wants me to come in sometime this April to get fitted for a pair of customized orthopedic shoes. Since it's covered 100% by Medi-Cal, I might as well get a pair-- or two or ....  😀

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The Next Movie Is ....

I saw this next movie about 45 minutes after the 1st one ended.  And I brought with me half a package of Water Chestnut plus 8 pieces of roasted Cashews ( that I went to fetch from my car ) to snack on as I watched this movie.

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SYNOPSIS: A Spec-Op team, on a hostage rescue mission, goes deep into the Philippine jungle but are ambushed. The rookie of the team must put his complete trust in an Air Force drone pilot when he decides that no one is to be left behind before missiles obliterate the jihadist compound! 

R, 1 h & 50 m

Auditorium 7, C-10

SCENE COMMENTARIES:

A Q&A is posed by Reaper, "How do you know if someone is a vegan? They will tell you!" I would have answered with, They FART 🤢 A Lot!! I noticed this when I switched to a high-fiber diet to help control Arterial Plaque buildup!!!  😁😁😁

Good doggie, stupid homie!  🙃

He was finally just 1.2 kilometers ( ¾ mile ) away  from the Landing Zone ( LZ ) and it was still bright and sunny. But ... as soon as he was at the LZ, It Was Already Dark! WTF? 🤦‍♂️ Did he take a nap along the way?!?!?! 🤷‍♂️

The molar tooth sure came out clean instead of cracked or broken. 😯 He must have a badly receded gumline and also suffer from major jawbone loss!  😏

Lastly, why were the native moslems speaking in Tagalog? This movie made the same language Faux Pas ( bad mistake ) as Gerard Butler's 2023 PLANE movie about the same kind of insurgents! 🧐

Why is this movie made in Australia? I thought those big trees looked suspicious because they didn't have vines on them like the native Balete Trees do! And the islamist hide-out is just glaringly out of place! Just like Gerard Butler's PLANE movie had marshlands that looked out of place because They Were Out Of Place Since It Was Filmed In Puerto Rico. Likewise, the dilapidated islamist hideout in Gerard's movie looked out of place simply by its architecture. 

Yes, those idiots need to be court martialed! 

If you know a particular scandal involving Russell Crowe, you'd have expected him to throw the phone at the senior officer, too ❗🤣🤣🤣

BUT, overall, it's a good movie to go see once the firefight begins!  🥤🙂🍿

FYI: Listen, Whollyweird, if you're going to make a movie about moslem insurgents in the Philippines, DON'T HIRE TAGALOG-SPEAKING ACTORS TO PLAY THE PARTS❗❗❗ Otherwise, you'll just be exposing your Demographics ignorance. Insurgents that speak Tagalog are communists ( i.e. Hukbalahap ) that are based in Luzon! Insurgents in the Visayan and Mindanao regions speak any of the Moros dialects or any of the Bisaya dialects!! I could have told you THAT had you consulted with me first, Cine-Man, the Bisaya Language "expert!!!" 🤓 And I have 1st cousins in Mindanao that are fluent in the Moros language, too. And a cousin who's a Hostage Negotiator.👌😎 👍

Whollyweird Should Really Hire My Services If They Need Their movies To Appeal To Those Of Us Movie-Goers With Common Sense! 

P.S. The result of the 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race will be posted in the next blog since I also went and saw a 3rd movie at another Cineplex.  🙂

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THE LOSERS, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 38 min )

where: CENTURY 25 UNION LANDING & XD in Union City, CA

when: Saturday, April 24th, 2010

show: 6:50 p.m.

costs: $11.00 Ticket + $5.25 medium Popcorn + $4.25 medium + $10.04 dinner at La Salsa Restaurant ( after the movie ) + $4.00 Bridge Toll = $34.54

auditorium: 25

seat: 5th row, 12th column

synopsis: While on a secret mission in the jungle of Bolivia, an elite commando team is double-crossed and presumed killed in action. They join forces with a mysterious femme fatale , with her own personal agenda, and go back States-side to even the score.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) Target locked; 2.) School bus; 3.) Helicopter; 4.) Cock-fight; 5.) Hotel room; 6.) Cemetery; 7.) "Hit him in the face" nod; 8.) Coffins; 9.) Snuke; 10.) Umbrella girl; 11.) "Dead can't sh-t"; 12.) Ford Pinto; 13.) Doughnut; 14.) Goliath hard drive; 15.) Bolivia situation; 16.) Apology; 17.) Elevator; 18.) "Dangerous telekinetic"; 19.) Chryon; 20.) Private trust account; 21.) Secret identity; 22.) "Who wants to be a billionaire"; 23.) Five; 24.) Infiltration; 25.) CIA cash stash; 26.) Four snukes and a Ducati motorcycle; 27.) "Payback's a bitch"; 28.) "Light the firecracker"; 29.) "Stupid Question Day"; 30.) "Yo mama's a pirate"; 31.) "Giant vibrating egg from Hell"; 32.) Duct tape; 33.) Bus; 34.) Traffic; and 35.) Bonus scene.

audience reaction: The audience enjoyed this movie.

recommendation: I liked this movie enough to give it a good recommendation. Its appeal lies in the fact that it doesn't take itself too seriously. They're just out to have fun--and kill the bad guys while they're at it!

spoiler alert! When the school bus crashed, all of the kids should have flown to the front, if not through the windshield. The fat guy could have easily pulled him off the building, too--I know I would have if someone was throwing me off the roof. If the plane's cargo hold, where I presume the coffins were kept, was not climate-controlled, the five "cadavers" would have died of hyperthermia! How did Aisha ( Zoe Saldana ) get the coffins through customs? The coffin straps got sliced-off too easily. Snuke! how cute is that for such a deadly weapon? Why did he kill the secretary? ( What a waste of beauty! ) How come the cops didn't track or follow the helicopter? Why wasn't the computer fire-walled after the hard drive theft? Jensen's ( Chris Evans ) blood would be easily identified by the FBI and/or the CIA. I'm surprised that the guard dogs didn't hear them sneaking around since German Shepherds, as a breed, have the keenest sense of hearing among all dogs--I know this based on experience with a police dog ( a story for another time, perhaps ). So, that's how super-models fire an RPG--sexy-hot but highly impractical! The leg bandage didn't have any blood on it. Clay ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) could have easily disabled the plane by throwing his empty pistol into the jet intake. Pooch ( Columbus Short ) could still run okay even with the not-yet-healed leg wound.

fyi: The first European colony in what was later to become the United States was not at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. Almost half a century prior to this event, the Spaniards settled a colony in Southern California. They brought with them quite a number of Moros ( a Philippine sea-faring tribe skilled in ship-building ) to work as laborers in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade route as well as to live and work alongside the Mexicans in building galleons for the Spanish. Although most of the galleons were built in the Philippines, more than half a dozen were built in Acapulco, Mexico. The Moros brought with them coconuts, mangoes, papayas, tamarinds, chickens, and the art of making the coconut wine called, Tuba ( Pronounced: Too-ba; Spanish for, Tube, since coconut sap is traditionally collected in makeshift bamboo tubes ). The Moros eventually took for themselves Mexican wives as they lived in the settlement over-looking present-day Moro Bay, so-named in their honor.

The Mexicans and the Filipinos have many cultural similarities because the Spaniards brought them together to inter-mingle, inter-marry, and to assimilate each other's customs and traditions. The Kastilas ( i.e. Spaniards ) in the Philippines were mostly of Mexican descent.

How do all these tie-in with the movie? Cock-fighting was introduced into the Americas by the Moros. In the Philippines, we call this sport, Sabong.

word of advice: Don't betray your own men.

tidbits: Today, I became initiated as a 1st Stage Kriyaban of Yoga. If I do things right, and if I pass all three stages, then I can rightfully call myself a full-pledge Yogi. How cool is that!

That's the good news. Now, for the bad news ....

As a Kriyaban Yoga initiate, most of my free time from now on will be centered in my spiritual cultivation. In other words, I won't have much time to do movie blogs from now on. I will only have time, at the most, for one movie blog per week. So, I will only blog about whichever one is at number one or two at the Box Office for each week, henceforth. Sorry to disappoint ... but a Yogi has got to do what a Yogi needs to do: Practice spiritual cultivation.

Ohm Shanti.