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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
show: 8:00 p.m. 3-D Advanced Screening
costs: $15.00 + $1.00 medium upgrade on a free small Buttered Popcorn ( free offer on my movie-watcher email reward coupon ) + $4.85 medium Powerade Mountain Berry Blast = $20.85
auditorium: 2
seat: 6th row from the front, 6th column from the left
2nd time
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where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Tuesday, June 28ht, 2016
show: 6:40 p.m. 2-D
costs: $6.25 ( All-Day Bargain Tuesday ) + $0.00 small Buttered Popcorn ( free offer on my movie-watcher email reward coupon ) + $4.20 =$10.45
auditorium: 11
seat: 4th row from the front, 9th column from the left
synopsis/overview: The bad aliens are back for revenge, bigger and badder this time around!
noteworthy scenes: 1.) "Be nice to Jake ( Liam Hemworth ) when you see him up there"; 2.) "I honestly didn't know it was gonna work"; 3.) "After 12 years of being catatonic"; 4.) Drill hole; 5.) Distress call; 6.) "He just walked in, didn't he"; 7.) "You're the only family I've got"; 8.) Training video; 9.) "Did we win"; 10.) Red Alert; 11.) "The same circle"; 12.) "It was a spaceship" 13.) "They're coming back"; 14.) Ominous object; 15.) Fusion Drive; 16.) Debris field; 17.) Mother ship; 18.) "What goes up must come down"; 19.) "'You peed your pants"; 20.) Emergency evac; 21.) Hospital gown; 22.) "They're celebrating"; 23.) "We have alien guns"; 24.) "Why are you afraid of this symbol"; 25.) Pants; 26.) Hive; 27.) "It's a deal"; 28.) "Collective mind"; 29.) LXR-73; 30.) Dogfight; 31.) "They have their own ecosystem"; 32.) Engine failure; 33.) System offline; 34.) "There will be no peace"; 35.) New president; 36.) Interpretation; 37.) "Hello, gorgeous"; 38.) Alarm; 39.) "They're mobilizing"; 40.) Primitive; 41.) Harvester ship; 42.) Bait; 43.) Volunteer; 44.) School bus; 45.) "This thing is way cooler than a machete; 46.) "Been holding that one for a while"; 48.) Shortwave radio message; 49.) Inbound; 50.) Dad; 51.) "I don't want to calm down"; 52.) "I'm not saving the world, I'm saving you"; 53.) "Happy 4th of July"; 54.) Breach; 55.) "Uhmm, Sir, is that suppose to happen"; 56.) "Shield is down"; 57.) Yellow line; 58.) "You talk too much"; 59.) "They got me"; 60.) Eye of the tornado; 61.) Windshield wipers; 62.) "We're alive---We're rich"; 63.) "Maybe, we should try that"; 64.) "Who are you"; and 65.) "Interstellar travel."
audience reaction: The audience liked this movie but no one gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
2nd audience reaction: Someone gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending. And another one gave it a whistle.
recommendation: I liked the first one better. Is it just me or is this film simply formulaic and pandering shamelessly/obsequiously to the Chinese movie market? Anyway, go see this movie if you're into big and loud summer blockbuster movies.
spoiler alert! Yup, blockbuster movies won't be such without product placement--Chinese "Moon Milk", in this case ( whatever that is .... ). Okay, that scene wherein the warlord planted a kiss on the lips of his dead brother's picture didn't seem appropriate. All of those destroyed defense satellites would eventually rain down debris on Earth. Here are some figures to consider: The mother ship was greater than 3,000 miles ( 4,828 km ) in diameter; the Moon is 2,159 miles ( 3,474 km ) in diameter; the Earth, at the equator, is 7,926 miles ( 12,756 km ) diameter. If the mother ship was travelling to Earth at such a speed that air friction caused its leading edge to heat-up and glow, then it was travelling faster than the speed of sound and would have caused such a loud disturbance in the air. The mother ship would have such a gravitational field that, coupled with the Moon's own gravitational field, tsunamis and earthquakes would have wreaked havoc on Earth. All the mother ship needed to do was to give Earth a slight "tap" ( since it had a force field ) and that would have been the end of the movie---Goodbye, Humanity! When the mother ship landed on Earth, Earth's rotation, revolution and tilt would have all been affected ( can you say, Wobble? ). Once landed, the mother ship's underside would have created a temperature inversion first; then, hurricane-strength winds would have been generated all around it, hampering Earth's defenders in their effort to fight back against the alien invaders. I really don't think that a patient is allowed to wear underwear while dressed in a hospital gown. When the alien ship drilled a hole into the ocean, water would have vaporized and the sea level would have lowered. And the vaporized water would have turned into rain clouds that would have rained down on Earth, too. So, this movie is missing hurricane strength winds and rainstorms! When you and your fellow pilots engage the enemy in a dogfight, you don't look at each other for more than a second---Heck, you don't look at each other at all--look at the enemy! Why couldn't the alien space ships shoot with much better accuracy if the aliens were more technologically advanced than we are? Okay, how would their own ecosystem be compatible with ours? Earth was either contaminated by the alien ecosystem or vice versa! It was simply amazing that the alien ecosystem's water was similar in pH to ours--what a coincidence! Shouldn't the soldiers have been more spread-out? Why didn't the alien ships come with safety ejection seats?
Hollywood really should hire my services as Cine-Man, technical adviser!
fyi: There is a scene wherein Jeff Goldblum's character says in a tongue-in-cheek way, "I like how they go for the landmarks," or such-like, to emphasize what I said earlier about pandering.
I remember reading a newspaper article in the '80s in which an experiment was done in a submarine. Plants were grown in a section of the submarine. And it was shown that this helped the sailors in a psychological way.
I saw the first INDEPENDENCE DAY movie at the AMC THEATRE here in Vallejo twenty years ago. The theatre is no longer there. It was torn down and a retirement home (?) parking lot was built in its place.
Anyway, after I saw that first movie for its last show for the evening, I decided to take the long, winding way home. From Redwood Street, I turned right onto Tuolumne Street. As I was crossing Tuolumne's intersection with Loma Vista and Fleming Avenue, I saw two cars up ahead driving side-by-side as they raced toward me. Mind you, this stretch of Tuolumne Street only has one lane for each direction. I had to pull over to the curb as quickly as I could to avoid getting into a head-on collision with the middle car! What a couple of f-cking irresponsible idiots!
The Earth's inner core has its own
inner core: http://rense.com/general30/core.htm
Speaking of the first INDEPENDENCE DAY movie, I liked the scene wherein the space aliens destroyed the White House and Austin Power's arch enemy, Dr. Evil, used that movie scene to scare the leaders of the world into submission! Ha, ha, ha. That was really funny.
word of advice: To you horndogs out there, pay close attention when Maika Monroe's character walks up to the crashed alien ship. As she readies her gun for shooting, she makes her right breast bounce three or four times! Ha, ha, ha. I think that the director put her up to it. Naughty, naughty ....
Hollywood, please stop using your "tried-and-true" formulaic movie script in your Summer Blockbuster movies. It is wearing thin on some of us viewers.
tidbits: I was at this same theatre the night before, June 22nd, to see the movie, ME BEFORE YOU, for its last show at 10:25 p.m. in auditorium 9, 2nd row from the front, 7th column from the left. The price of admission was $11.00. And I bought a $6.80 Lite Bites at the concessions counter.
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| 1 hr & 50 min. PG-13 |
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There were just about six people in the auditorium, all-in-all. The audience seemed to like it. ( Psst, I think the lead actress's sister looks better. )
I went to see this movie based on a co-worker's recommendation. It's basically a "Chick Flick date movie". I hoped for a better ending because I know of one person in a similar situation who was told by his doctors that he would never walk again. He used brainwave entrainment Chakra Meditation to enable himself to walk again. Well, I was in for a major let-down! I stepped out of that auditorium feeling sorry for the ill-fated love between the two protagonists--I don't like movies like this; I prefer "feel-good" movies!
I was in that sorry state of mind when I entered the restroom to wash my hands and rinse my mouth at the 1st lavatory sink. There are four motion-activated lavatory sinks in the men's restroom, from right to left. As I stood there washing my hands at approximately 12:39 a.m., the 2nd lavatory faucet turned-on all by itself. There was nobody else in the restroom with me. I just quietly said, Thank you for your company. It was nice to know that my new day started-off on a supernatural note which made it personally special.
Later on in the morning, I received an email informing me that my meditation CDs were just shipped-out to me. I can't wait to try them out.
2nd tidbits: A few hours before seeing this movie, I swung by the Grocery Outlet Discount Market on York and Marin Streets, here in Vallejo, to buy a Zero-Gravity Chair for $29.99 plus tax. It was the very last chair left in the store, just sitting there waiting for me to buy it and take it home with me.
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| What I bought is very similar to this in design ( but a cheaper version ) and in color. I found this image on the Internet. |
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I will put this chair in my bedroom. I need it for my meditation sessions. I am about to start doing Shamanic Meditation. And my bedroom is the ideal place for it since that is were I encountered the most number of ghosts and spirits. I will set-up the chair in such a way that my head will be pointing east. I have found, through my countless personal experiences, that the east is the ideal cardinal point for such encounters.
I went into the men's restroom to wash my hands prior to the start of this movie. Once again, I used lavatory sink # one. As I washed my hands, I thought about a poor friend of mine who married a mentally disabled woman just to supplement his meager social security income with her lifelong disability income. I said to myself that he was just keeping her alive long enough for him to die first. Once I said that, the motion-activated faucet of the 2nd lavatory sink turned-on all by itself three times in quick succession! That told me that my hunch was right since, in the occult/supernatural world, 3 means "Yes" and 2 means "No."
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