SAW X, R ( 1 hr & 58 min )/THE CREATOR, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 13 min )

Today, Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, I went to see these 2 movies at the Century 14, here in Vallejo, CA. The price of admission this Bargain Tuesday is $6.50 for each ticket.

Auditorium 4, B-6

The time setting is in-between the 1st & 2nd sequel of this Torture Porn franchise, a midquel, if you will.

A man dying of Brain 🧠 Cancer is desperate for a cure. He learns of a potential cure from a member of his cancer support group. He goes to the secluded Cancer Clinic in Mexico and learns something unexpected about his treatment.

Now, here are some things wrong about this movie:

The "welcoming reception" would have given a heart patient a Heart Attack--including me with my CVD & CHF❗ No wonder they only specialize in Cancer Patients. 😒  Why do they always play a Minor Key whenever a bad scene is about to happen? 🤔 Just do away with the horror music trope and surprise us!  😨 It would have been better if the body area "operated"  on was shaved  🤕, a superficial cut was made and stitches done to make the surgery more convincing and not raise anyone's suspicion. 😕  The average length of a woman's Small Intestine is ~23 feet/7 m ); I guesstimate the woman's Small Intestine to be about 40 feet/12.2 m )---That woman has a lot of Guts, to be sure! 😁  Exposing one's Bone Marrow like that would be inviting a serious case of Infection to take place! The same could be said about the DIY Trepanner working under unsanitary condition. What I'm saying is that both of them would be dead, whether they passed the test or not ❗"Broken bones heal, skin can be grafted." But where is a druggie like that gonna find the money for such surgeries? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Especially when, given the condition, Morphine would be what the druggie would need the most of! 🤦🏽‍♂️The hammer should have had a wrist loop attached to it just in case the subject is overcome by pain 😖 and loses grip on the hammer ( you know, be kind and sadistically considerate of your victim's needs 😏 ). It would have been a fair thing to do for the victim. 🙂 Why didn't the drowning torture victims just keep their mouths shut, instead?  🤷🏽‍♂️ I didn't see him remove the primer from the cartridges, just the gun powder. So, each time that the firing pin hit the bottom of a center-fire cartridge that should have ignited the primer and which should've made the cartridge produce an audible "Pop" instead of the "Click" sound--I would think! 🤨

The couple which is exposed to the corrosive gas that makes their skin blister Should Have Also Had Their Nasal Passages, Trachea & Lungs blistering from the acid exposure, too❗🙄  Damn, who would have "THUNK" that the Mexican boy was not an aspiring soccer ⚽ player but, rather, a ventriloquist---He sure as heck said, "Buenos dias," with a Big Toothy Smile On!  😁

There's a Bonus Scene after the Ending Credits which finally scratches at the surface .... 😉

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Now, on to the 2nd movie ....

In the near future, approximately 3 or 4 decades away from now, human error detonates a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, CA. And Robots & Simulants are blamed for it, which leads to a war between the USA and New Asia. 🙄 ( Are they trying to tell us something ...? )

Auditorium 3, B-6

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What are the things that are wrong about this movie? A Whole Lot, As It Turns Out ❗📝

First off, the Nomad, a giant, stylized version of a female reproductive organ, complete with "ovaries" ( i.e. mini Nuclear Bombs ),

Do you see what I mean? 😉

makes a 👉Bloody👈 Mess Of Things with its PERIODic 🙃 straddling over helpless villages down below! Yup, there goes "Climate Change". The director forgot to put in "Nuclear Winter"! 🤣🤣🤣  "The Americans are coming" for you in a Bigly Way---'Murica! 🦅✊🇺🇸 Why are the Spec Ops soldiers without thermal imagers and night vision goggles in the near future? Didn't anyone tell them that Equatorial nighttime Is Very Dark and if you go walking around in the dark with a lighted helmet and backpack, you will look like a walking lightbulb 💡 in the dark of night? So much for stealth!  🤦🏽‍♂️ Tip for the near future US soldiers: Before You Go On Deployment, Head First To A Local Army Surplus Store! I'm sure that they can hook you up with some nice, slightly used thermal imagers and night vision goggles! 👌❗👍 Yeah, like that girl with the water buffalo doesn't see the US soldiers sneaking around in the dark from afar. 🤭  And what the heck is she doing taking her buffalo for a walk in the middle of the night?!?!?!  That robot interrogator keeps punching 🤜❗🤛 the US soldier in the face but never damages his facial bone structure. Yeah, right .... 😒 Okay, it's established in a later scene that his prosthetic arm is waterproof. So, Why Does He Not Have It On When He Is In The Swimming Pool? "Don't mind me folks, I'm just swimming in a circle to do my laps in the pool!" 🤪 Why do some of the robots have bad audio speakers? They must've been made in new china. 😏 And if the human resistance forces hate the USA so much, why are their simulants programmed to speak in American English ❓🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️❗That little girl is crying when a US soldier threatens to kill the puppy because her family is probably still raising it for future meat. ( I'm from Old Asia, so I don't have to sugar-coat it. It's bad. It's a sad reality. It traumatized me as a kid. I wished it weren't so. And that it will be stopped soon! 🤞🙏 ) In the Near Future, Security Monitor screens have bad reception! 👎 Why didn't the police cars have radar to detect the Big, Giant "female anatomy" in the sky❓ Any Man Would Not Be Able To Resist Looking Up In The Sky To Behold Such A Sight❗ 😜 Robots and Simulants are stronger and have better limb stability than humans. So, why can't they triangulate their targets precisely instead of shooting up the place like humans do? Didn't their creators, designers and programmers not see any of the ROBOCOP movies? And since Robots and Simulants are stronger and more stable, why are they not equipped with .950 JDJ Rifles since they need all of the firepower that they can get? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Why don't the Simulants have polarized vision capability to see things beneath the water's surface? And why do their boats not have Fish Finders which can easily detect any creature beneath the water? Instead of "Intruder Alert," they should just have a "Black Guy Alert" since he's the only black guy roaming around in the village! 🤣 What the heck is the Smoke Screen even for? It is a pointless thing to use in that battle since both sides are on the bridge and know exactly where the enemy is at--like, directly straight in front of them! What, no RPGs?!?!?! 🤦🏽‍♂️ And why don't the resistance have EMP weapons to deactivate their US soldier enemies' Robots? That village ( in Thailand  ) has the same kind of terrain and topography as Vietnam does. And US battle tanks weren't effective in Vietnam jungle fighting back then. So, what does the US Army do to address the problem in this movie? Yup, Make Yuge battle tanks ( From Texas, maybe. Since they make things bigger in the State of Texas )❗👍 But the villagers and resistance force cannot seem to hear 🙉 and see 🙈 the Yuge battle tank making a "sneak attack" on them from behind even though it was leveling huts and felling trees along the way! 🤦🏽‍♂️ It only takes one ( yes, 1 ) little monkey 🐒 to destroy a Yuge US Army battle tank!  🤯  The tank production was probably outsourced to some 3rd world country with little attention paid to quality control--you know the country. 🤐  In an earlier scene, the Simulants are seen naked on operating tables getting their finishing touches done. But inside of the Nomad, they're in suspension but clothed? WTF?!?!?! 😳 Don't they know that things of that sort are kept naked while still in production or waiting to be programmed? I can tell that the movie director and the sfx modelers sure didn't visit the Real Doll factory in Las Vegas; otherwise, they'd have known to hang their production models butt-naked! ( I do a lot of HARD 😉 Research So You, My Dear Readers, Don't Have To. 😎 )  Metaphorically speaking, he's a badass Sperm Cell traveling up the Vagina, to the Cervix, into the Uterus, and through the Fallopian Tube to get to the Ovaries and implant them with an "explosive 🧨 Virus." 'Talk about a planned Big Bang Orgasm!  Oh ... kay ....  😐  Idiot Alert: Don't go outside celebrating when something Yuge is Exploding in the Sky and is crashing Down To Earth! I'm talking Yuge Blast Radius and even Yuger Debris Field that is still raining down chunka objects even after the Yuge Thingy crashed❗❗❗

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In the '80s, we had a giant V(agina) in the sky. Now, 40 years later--a whole generation--we have a female anatomy in the sky! That's "progressive feminism"  for you❗😃 😁 😆 😂 🤣

I had the same snack as what I had on Monday. But with a different powdered drink mix:

Dole Tropical Punch

This Creator Movie Has Got To Be THE MOST Anti-USA Movie Ever Made ❗😠❗😡❗🤬❗

And just before Election Year, too ❗❗❗ 

What a coincidence ❗❗

NOT❗

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P. S. Speaking of ROBOCOP, they're planning a remake sequel to the original 1987 movie. I'm not talking about the 2014 remake. But one that's supposed to be in pre-production now.  

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RIDDICK, R ( 1 hr & 59 min )

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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Thursday, September 5th, 2013
show: 10:00 p.m. Advanced Screening
costs: $10.50 Ticket + $1.77 bulk Chocolate Candies + $4.50 1-L Dasani Water = $
auditorium: 2
seat: 4th row ( counting from the front ), 5th column ( counting from the left )

synopsis/overview: Court intrigue lands Riddick ( Vin Diesel ) on an alien planet. His only means of escape is to trigger an emergency beacon at an abandoned outpost. But the beacon brings with it two problems: a group, out for justice, that wants to arrest him; and a group of bounty hunters greedy for a reward on his head.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) Left for dead; 2.) "Dogs"; 3.) Map; 4.) "Not Furya"; 5.) "I got civilized'; 6.) Venom; 7.) Pool creature encounter; 8.) "I thought we shared everything"; 9.) MRE; 10.) "'Looks like our time is up here"; 11.) "Bounty doubled"; 12.) "Cut that 60.0 kilos loose"; 13.) "I was getting attached to her"; 14.) "Here comes the neighbor"; 15.) Malfunction; 16.) Traps; 17.) "So, this was overkill, huh?"; 18.) "One night, three dead"; 19.) "I'm pretty sure we killed that one"; 20.) "Barium detected"; 21.) Sideshow; 22.) "May all your dreams come true"; 23.) "He could be anywhere"; 24.) "I don't f*ck guys, either"; 25.) "Fair trade"; 26.) "Are you scared of me"; 27.) "Incompatible ships"; 28.) '"Too late for back-up"; 29.) The father; 30.) Tranquilizer; 31.) Interrogation; 32.) "I know what's coming"; 33.) "Why don't we sit this one out"; 34.) "'Small ones are the worst"; 35.) "You said, 'No weapons'"; 36.) Morphine; 37.) Ground game; 38.) High ground; and 39.) "Sooner or later, we have to head home."

audience reaction: The audience sort of liked this movie.

recommendation: I didn't like this movie--save for two scenes ( heh, heh, heh ). You'd have to be a fan of the first installment if you really want to see this on the Big Screen. Otherwise, wait for this to come out as a rental.

spoiler alert! Why didn't that bird use its claws to try to free itself? The leg plate which he screwed to his leg bone was done unsanitarily. In that sparsely vegetated planet, Riddick should have died of malnutrition well before his "puppy" became full-grown. If they were capable of interplanetary travel, why were they not equipped with infra-red, thermal imaging and night-vision goggles to better hunt down their quarry with? When Riddick was coming down on his enemy, the bad guy had enough chance to fire-off a few shots--even the guy seated two seats to my right made the same observation when he expressed it vocally to his girlfriend.

fyi: When the Bone Marrow is introduced to an environmental contaminant, it sets the stage for some serious infection.

The last time that I was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, my sister gave me some MREs ( meals ready to eat ) that someone from the military gave to her. The packaged meals were actually quite tasty; and there were quite an assortment of entrees too. Unlike the k-rations which I had for the first time back in 1982 which were limited in selection and were just "palatable" in taste.

word of advice: If you want to finish-off someone, do a thorough job of it.

tidbits: I started my day off with an 8:45 a.m. appointment with my Chiropractor ( I had to reschedule my usual every-other Monday appointment because this Monday was Labor Day, a Holiday ).

Then, I went to my Periodontist to pay $100.oo for a cleaning. I still have $136.oo left to pay, which I'll do within the next two weeks.

And I went to the Goin' Postal Store in the Food Maxx Shopping Center here in Vallejo to pay the fee on my postal box. The fee increased from $37.oo to $43.oo! And I hardly ever use my box; I only use it for when I order a big merchandise on-line. I will have to close this account if they raise the fee next year.

I then went to Benicia, CA, to pick-up my paycheck and to shop at the Safeway Supermarket for ingredients that I would need for the Corned Beef and Cabbage that I planned on cooking later on in the day.

I made a deposit in my savings account at the Benicia BofA ( Bank of America ). Next, I drove to the nearby Chevron Gas Station to gas-up my car and to buy some lottery tickets. And I went to the Benicia Chase Bank to make a deposit in my checking account.

As I was about to back-up my car, I noticed something familiar across the parking lot from Chase Bank. There, on the sidewalk in front of Starbucks, was a vintage Piaggio Stella Scooter. It was beige-and-red in color and looked a little beat-up for its age. I went and had a chat with its owner because I'd never seen one up-close and personal. This classic vintage scooter is now popularly reiterated as the new Genuine Scooter 4-stroke Stella. It is made in India by the same company which makes engines for Vespa. It is essentially like the old Stella except that it has a glove box, has a better front brake, has an electric start, and comes with the option of a rear chrome rack and rear mirrors. The old Stella could only go 45 mph while the new Stella can go up to 65 mph. And the new Stella is claimed to go 140 miles on a gallon of gas! This is a definite must-have, if you're looking for a city-commuter type of scooter---Oh, 'less I forget, the new Stella also comes with an optional side-car. The world-famous singer, Billy Joel has a green Genuine Scooter 4-stroke Stella with a side-car. I'd like to get one in the blue/white two-tone combo.

I found this on the Internet. I believe that this is a Genuine Scooter Stella, not the Piaggio Stella of the '70s.

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Then, I was on my way to Oakland, CA, to visit my friend Hector and his sons, whom I haven't seen since April when his wife was rushed to the hospital---She's still in the hospital!!! I don't know how he can afford the medical expenses since he's retired and is on a fixed income.

One of Hector's sons, Tito, is a mechanic on disability. I wanted him to show me how to replace the headlight assemblies on my 2001 Hyundai Accent.

If you remember, I went to a local dealership a few months ago to have the headlights replaced. But the dealer quoted me a price of about $250.oo for a single OEM headlight assembly--and I needed a pair.

I went to Pep Boys to see if they could just restore my headlight lenses. But the mechanic told me that the headlight restoration job was only good for a year because the headlight lightbulbs are high-intensity bulbs that "cook" the headlight lens from the inside. So, in the long run, I was better off just having the headlight assemblies replaced, especially since the bulbs were still the original 2001 pair and would soon need replacement, too.

I went on-line and came upon www.partsgeek.com. And they had After-Market replacement headlight assemblies for my car. I ordered a pair for only $86.oo ( each headlight assembly was just $43.oo ).

As I waited for Tito to come home from running errands, I spent the time cleaning my tires and wheels. I used a cheap tire-and-wheel cleaner that I bought earlier in the day at the 99-Cent Only Store in Vallejo.

Hector's youngest son, Ivan, offered to sell me his brand-new Bluetooth at a discount. But since I was on a tight budget because my workplace screwed-up my pay the last two weeks, I couldn't buy it from him. Maybe, later.

Hector's two cats, Sylvester ( the female ) and Snow White ( a.k.a. Harry Potter ) had a baby kitten. But it died after just being alive for a month. Poor kitten.

If you remember, I renamed Snow White as Harry Potter because, just like his famous namesake, he is white and has a "lightning streak" birthmark on his forehead---Well, the word should be "Had" because his birthmark is no longer visible. Maybe, somebody bleached it out. Ha, ha, ha.

When Tito finally arrived home, and after he rested-up for a short while, we went to work on replacing my headlight assemblies. I replaced the headlights on my 1978 Honda Civic and on my 1994 Geo Metro years ago. But the Hyundai Accent headlight assemblies proved tricky to work on. Tito finally figured-out that in order for each headlight assembly to be replaced, we had to unbolt the fenders at the top and move each one up an inch and out of the way! The battery had to be removed as well. But the end result was professional; and my new headlights are now 3X brighter. Tito saved me approximately $470.oo in out-of-pocket expense had I chosen to have the dealer replace my headlight assemblies, instead. I gave him $40.oo for his help. The next time that I visit him, I will buy a part for his car engine.

-These are the headlights on my 2001 Hyundai Accent before Tito and I replaced them. The time was around 5:50 p.m. when I took these photos. Notice how badly oxidized the lenses are.

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These are the new replacement headlight assemblies that Tito and I installed on my Hyundai Accent. The time was around 6:37 p.m. when I took these photos. We spent the better part of the time scrounging around for the tools that Tito's dad, Hector, somehow misplaced.

After we finished replacing my headlights, Tito asked who cleaned my tires. I said that I did, that I used a cheap tire and wheel cleaner that I bought at the 99-Cent Only Store. He told me not to use the cheap stuff because it will just dry out my tires. I said that that was exactly what my mechanic at Wheel Works said. I'm just gonna have to buy a better quality cleaner for next time.

Then, we went to pick up Tito's father, Hector, who stayed the whole day with his wife, Elsa, at a nearby hospital. We rode in the used 2000 Ford Taurus that Hector bought. Tito was angry when his dad bought the Taurus because he looked at them at the used car lot and told his dad specifically NOT TO BUY EITHER OF THE TWO USED FORD TAURUS cars on the lot. But Hector, after some "advise" from his other son, Isma ( who is not a mechanic ), went and bought one of the two Taurus cars anyway---And he's paying $300.oo a month on a car that sounds and drives like it is on its "last leg"!!! Since he was paying that much for a car, he should have gotten a new one, instead! But it is just I and Tito talking ....

Anyway, as I was cooking the Corned Beef and Cabbage, Hector said that Russia and China were sending their warships to Syria because of the planned US attack on Assad's military in response to the use of Chemical Weapons against the Syrian civilians. And I said that if we ever get into a war with China, I will personally launch an attack on all the Chinese Buffet Restaurants here in Northern California! My famous namesake once said, "An army travels on its stomach." Well, them Chinese commies won't be able to travel far if they decide to invade California because I will have already eaten their food supply by then! They will learn the hard way not to mess with Cine-Man, a.k.a. Pig-Out Man!!!


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