BACK TO BLACK

This is the 2nd movie that I saw yesterday, May 21st, 2024, at the Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max, An All Day Bargain Tuesday. The price of admission was $5.50.

Auditorium 6, C-10

A few more people showed

up minutes later.

Scene Commentaries:

First off, I never was a fan of Amy Winehouse. The only time that I listened to her music was on the rare occasions that it would be playing on my car radio as I'd change the stations. Or whenever I was in an establishment where her music was being played in the background.

With that said, "Fly Me To The Moon," is one of my favorite songs.  🙂

I don't smoke marijuana and NEVER had even tried it. But I do know that its strong scent would linger on in a room where it was smoked. Her father didn't even have to ask if her visitor smoked some weed.

Her father suggested that she should go along with her management's suggestion about having a "Stage Presence." I didn't know that her own grandmother helped her to have the Iconic Look that she is remembered for. But it seems that her hairdresser was The One who created the caricature Bee Hive look, after all:

👉 https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/amy-winehouse-iconic-beehive-hair-hairdresser

The fateful meeting at the pub with The Shangri-Las fan. He acted like he could be Amy's "lady boy." 😀

I didn't know that she suffered from anxiety and seizures.  😕

What a toxic, drug fueled love-hate relationship she had with her husband. So tragic, so sad ....  🙁

"Dad, take me to rehab." If only she took it more seriously, though.  😐

In a way, I feel bad for the paparazzi and the news reporters. They're just simply doing their jobs even if they have to ask pointed, painful questions at times to get an exclusive scoop. But how many celebrities are considerate enough to realize and acknowledge this? Keanu Reeves is the only one that I know of who seems to play nice with the paparazzi and the news reporters.  😕

It was such a pleasant surprise for me to see Tony Bennett at the Grammys announcing Amy Winehouse's win.  😊

👉 https://youtu.be/rb8O7Qixp9E?si=ceqHm1M_cv8SRu3k

On a different topic ....

👉 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS2540348033/

It's sad to have such a talented singer pass away so soon.  RIP  🙏

To properly channel Amy, Marisa had to learn how to sing from scratch:  😲

👉 https://6abc.com/post/actress-marisa-abela-learned-to-sing-for-amy-winehouse-role-in-back-black/14827694/

This movie checks off the boxes ✅ that woke Whollyweird requires of an Oscar contender. Just like BOHEMIAN RAPHSODY ( 2018 ). We shall see next year whether or not I am right.

Tidbits:

Okay, I did say recently that a young Prince Charles looks like Amy Winehouse. Now, after looking at real pictures of her, her look more resembles that of a love child of Prince Charles & Eva Mendes. 'Just saying ....  😕 

It was a hot afternoon when the movie ended. I got in my car and slightly rolled down both front windows, and opened wide the driver's side door. I started the engine and turned on the air conditioner. Presently, a black boy on a bicycle came by and asked me for 50 cents. I gave him 56 cents.

I got on the freeway and wondered why it was taking so long for my car cabin to get colder. When I glanced down at the temperature controls, I realized that I also had the heater on! 🤦‍♂️ Holy shades of brandon, Batman!! This is starting to worry me!! I mean, seriously now❗ 🥺

On my way home, between the Discovery Kingdom/Marine World Amusement Park on Fairgrounds Drive here in Vallejo, approximately 100 yards/meters from the corner of Sereno Drive, I saw in my rearview mirror a black SUV 3 cars behind mine that tried to pass all 4 cars on a double solid yellow lines ( illegal to do so ) and almost got into a head-on collision with an approaching red car! The idiot swerved back into the lane THEN decided to make a U-Turn to chase after the car that he almost hit! But he didn't have the room to make an easy turn because Fairgrounds Drive, in this section, has only a single lane going in each direction. So, the blm idiot just managed to block both sides of the traffic. I say blm because the crazy drivers here in sanctuary city vallejo cut you off on the left side if the asshole drivers are blm and cut you off on the right side if the asshole drivers are illegal aliens! Like I said, stereotypical LOW-LIFE criminal behavior❗🙄👎

When I got home, I took a much-needed, EXTENDED afternoon nap because of my early morning appointment at the courthouse! 😴 💤 😪

I installed another Pedometer app on my Nokia cellphone. It's the same one that I installed on my emergency cellphone. It will be easier this way to compare the 2 pedometers on one 'phone instead of having to carry both 'phones with me.👌🙂👍

I logged in 8,446 steps on my Cloud Mobile C7 emergency cellphone's pedometer for 298.1 Kcal burned, in 01:15:51 time for 3.6 mi/5.8 km.

I'm about to go to bed with a bloated feeling. I've been feeling bloated since Sunday because I've been drinking milk and eating cheese daily. So, I had my last ⅓ glass of dairy this morning. We'll see how long it will take for my bloatedness to go away. Then, I'll stop drinking milk 🥛 and drastically cut back on eating cheese 🧀--even though I love eating cheese so much!

I have to write a job résumé before I go to bed 🛏️. I once was a Dental Laboratory Technician and was considered the best in my specialty in Contra Costa County. I'm interested in getting back in the profession because of the poor quality in craftsmanship that I've seen these newer batches of technicians churn out! Their works would never pass my inspection❗🔍👀❗ There might be a specific kind of dental lab here in Vallejo that could use my skillful talent. I'll call the dental office sometime today after I wake up.

I couldn't call the dental office because I was trying to get a hold of the Solano County Health Services and they put me on hold for about 30 minutes! That's "big government" for you!  😒  And I had to go someplace.  

I'll call the dental office tomorrow. Then, I'll make a copy of my résumé to drop off at the office.

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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 Israel for 

winning in 2nd place!

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Congratulations to the USA 

for winning in 3rd place!

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And congrats to China, Germany,

the United Kingdom and

Morocco for all tying

in 4th place!

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Let's all give 🇲🇦Morocco🇲🇦 a warm welcome back after being absent from my blogsite for many years! 🤗 

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

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WARCRAFT, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 3 min )

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I went to see this on Thursday, June 9th, 2016, here in  Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 7:00 p.m. 3-D Advanced Screening in auditorium 1, 4th row from the front, 7th column from the right. The price of admission was $15.00. And I bought a $0.00 small Buttered Popcorn ( free offer on my movie-watcher e-mail reward coupon ), a $4.85 medium Powerade Mountain Berry Blast and a $4.15 bag of Beef Jerky at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review: An Orc chieftain decides to form an alliance with the humans to help defeat an evil force which has consumed the Orcs' planet and is now starting to consume the Earth.

There were only about half-a-dozen people in the audience, myself included. I guess they liked this movie enough. I thought that it was just "okay". I never played the World of Warcraft video game so I am not really into this movie. But I'm sure that its die-hard fans will want to go see this movie.

The audience liked the Dungeon Guard scene.

Here are what I didn't like about this movie: The Orcs, the Dwarfs, the Elves and the Sorcerers all reminded me of similar characters in the LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT movies. And since the Orcs didn't have armor, why didn't the humans use arrows on them? And mass-produced pistols would also come into play against the Orcs. So, if there will be a part two, I expect the humans to have such weapons to give them a "reach" advantage against the Orcs.


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I used the toilet soon after I got out of bed. I flushed it then noticed that there was no water! The plumbers worked on the pipes without properly notifying the tenants, and they started at 8:00 a.m. when the usual time for such work is at 9:00 a.m. When I got downstairs, I noticed that some idiot posted small cards on the inside of the front and rear doors to notify everybody of the planned work. They should have posted the signs on the OUTSIDE of the doors the night before; and they should have used big, colored papers like they usually do! Some plumber probably ended up with a mouthful or faceful of my unwanted, unsolicited stinking "advice", 'sorry to say ( Eew! ) .

I had to go to the Vallejo Main Post Office, on Santa Clara Street, to get my mail because some lowlife once again vandalized the mail boxes at my condominium complex. On my way to my 9:30 a.m. follow-up appointment with my optometrist, I took a slight detour from Sta. Clara St. by making a left on the corner of Georgia and Sacramento Streets, instead of just driving up on Georgia Street. I turned right onto Virginia Street. On the corner of Main Street, I saw a cop ( one of two ) standing guard. I asked him, Officer, is there a movie shooting here on Virginia Street? He said that there was and pointed to a local business establishment just a couple of doors down from the Army surplus store where an indoor scene was being shot. I thanked him for the information.

A TV series is being shot here in Vallejo and at two other cities. The TV series stars Selena Gomez. The title of the series is, "Th1rteen R3asons Why." I couldn't stay to watch the shoot because of my doctor's appointment.

I arrived at the doctor's office only to find out that my appointment had been canceled because my doctor had some emergency to attend to! I thought about going back to the film shoot but I had some errands to do.

I mentioned the film shoot to some people in Benicia, CA. And a couple of them told me that the film shoot will last a few more months. Who knows, I might just get a chance at playing the role of a paparazzo so that I can post pictures of Selena Gomez on my movie blog.

Then, I went to the Benicia Library to go on Facebook to post about the film shoot. The table next to mine was occupied by an elderly tutor and a high school kid which he was helping with some math problems in Algebra and in Geometry. I couldn't help but hear their conversation. And I said to myself, "I wasn't a good student at math. But this kid is really having a hard time at it ( to say it nicely ).

On my way home, after I had a late lunch at the Empire Chinese Buffet Restaurant on Sonoma Boulevard, I swung by the Goin' Postal Store on the corner of Tuolumne and Redwood Streets here in Vallejo, at around 4:00 p.m., to return a package which I didn't order but which some company automatically sent to me, and billed me for, as I had ordered an online course from them before. I had to pay $18.98 to ship it back. What a waste of money ....


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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 39 min )

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where:  UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA

when:  Friday, March 4th, 2011

show:  8:00 p.m.

costs:  $10.75 Ticket + $6.25 Nachos + $4.75 small Zero Sprite + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $26.75

auditorium:  3

seat:  4th row, 10th column

synopsis/overview:  A man running for Senate, David Norris ( Matt Damon ),  comes across a beautiful dancer, Elise Sellas ( Emily Blunt ),  and is instantly smitten by her.  But the agents of Fate conspire to keep them apart to set them on their  predetermined paths to success and worldwide fame.  By sheer chance, David stumbles upon the agents as they do an "adjustment" on his life-long friend, Charlie Traynor ( Michael Kelly ).  As they confide in him the work that they do, they give David a choice:  Become the successful politician that they want him to be, but without Elise; or settle for a life of mediocrity with her.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) Mug shot; 2.) College prank; 3.) Vacation; 4.) Poll results; 5.) Men's room; 6.) "Perfect amount of scuffing"; 7.) "You're bald"; 8.) "It's a belt"; 9.) Phone; 10.) Suspended animation; 11.) "Endless ripples of things"; 12.) "Why are you still thinking about running"; 13.) "I was about to spill my coffee"; 14.) "What the hell are you doing on my floor"; 15.) "I lost her number"; 16.) "You mean, lobotomize me"; 17.) Boat; 18.) "None of them are you"; 19.) "Three years later, I'm still cleaning your mess"; 20.) A kiss; 21.) "We're okay"; 22.) "I can't get a break"; 23.) Lost signal; 24.) Eatery; 25.)  Accident scene; 26.) Rehearsal; 27.) Remnants; 28.) Earlier versions; 29.) Thompson ( Terence Stamp ), The "Hammer"; 30.) Road trip to Washington, D.C.; 31.) "So, 'not really that serious"; 32.) The Daily Show; 33.) "Whatever happened to Free Will"; 34.) Elise's show; 35.) Hospital; 36.) "It's done"; 37.) Newspaper; 38.) Hats; 39.) Women's room; 40.) Intervention team; 41.) "This can't be wrong"; 42.) Roof; and 43.) Change of plan. 

audience reaction:  The audience liked this Romantic Psycho Sci-Fi movie.  And someone gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation:  I liked it, too.  But this is actually a "Chick Flick" that more than likely may appeal to those of you out there who are fans of the genre.

spoiler alert!  Didn't he say that his tie was a clip-on?  Why didn't Agent Harry Mitchell's ( Anthony Mackie ) "David playbook" show the hours when David was asleep so that Harry, himself, could  get some "shut-eye", too?  I detect a hint of racism here, implying that a black man will fall asleep on the job!  Harry knew where the bus was headed, so why didn't he use the "short-cuts" to catch up to it?  David is a famous bachelor politician courting a young woman out in broad daylight but  there is not a single National Enquirer tabloid paparazzo dogging him around.  Why do the agents read the newspaper for when they are the ones who manipulate current events and would logically know the next day's news beforehand?  I guess that one agent of Fate didn't see that left cross coming!  Damn them south-paws.  So, they're saying that a human can knock-out a spirit entity with a simple punch?  Ha, ha, ha.  Wait a minute ... I thought a person has to be physically in contact with a hatted person to walk through the portal; but Elise went through two such portals without a hand on David ( if I observed the said scenes correctly ).

fyi:  It is said that truly highly-advanced Yogis/Spiritually Enlightened Holy Men have no predetermined futures because they can change their fate at will.

word of advice:  Love and Fate go hand-in-hand.

tidbits:  After I got off work today, I headed straight for Oakland to visit Hector and his family.  And his kitten, Tiger, was there waiting to pounce on me.  I guess that he  wanted  to make a scratching post out of my left forearm, too!

Anyway, Hector told me that they've started  letting  tiger out of the house every now and then.  And one thing that Tiger did right away was to go to the backyard where his pit-bull puppy play-buddy, Two-Face, is kept.  But Two-Face's mother, Mercedes, is kept there, too.  Mercedes, a cat-hater, cornered Tiger, the kitten, and was about to bite him when Tiger gave her a bloody nose!  And Tiger isn't even three months old yet.  Like I said before, Tiger is gonna own that neighborhood once he's full-grown.  What a crazy kitten he is.