COCAINE COUGAR

I watched this TUBI movie tonight, Thursday, December 14th, 2023, on my cellphone 🤳 as I laid in bed 🛏️ while I still am recuperating from my Cold.  🤧

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Watching the trailer for this movie made me realize that it might just be better than COCAINE SHARK! At least, from the SFX perspective ....  😒

Here goes something .... 😶

The 2-minute lead-in scene with sounds of a cougar on the prowl growling, an owl hooting, crickets chirping, and a rooster crowing at night doesn't make sense. My family raised poultry at one time and I never heard our roosters crow in the middle of the night! But, maybe, our roosters were just the Kind and Considerate breed.  🤨

Just A Disclaimer Here: This "black cougar" isn't the one which developed a taste for "white meat"  in 1995 when Hugh Grant got cornered on a dark, fateful night in L. A. by one which was hooked on "Blow"! Totally unrelated "carnivore". Totally  .... 😜

Why settle for just an "air" salad when you can have a whole "air" buffet? After all, it's free. So, might as well eat as much as you want! 🤤

I don't know much about "Breatharians" except that they claim to stay alive by just absorbing the rays of the Sun at Dawn and at Dusk while looking at it in a relaxed fashion, as "Sun Eaters". One breatharian suffered from Dementia later in life. While an Indian Yogi, under controlled scientific observation, was able to produce a "pearl" object in his mouth each day who would then shallow it as his only source of nourishment.  🤷‍♂️

"What the hell was that?!" I thought that she just snored!  😯

Never go to an area known for having predators without any kind of weapon! Heck, I carry knives with me when I go walk around in the park--an urban jungle!! Don't ever put your life in the hands of a park employee or a park ranger Because They Are Never Around When You Encounter Man-Eating Predators which are opportunists and Don't Give A Damn About Your Preferred Pronouns❗❗❗

The supposed scenes shot from the cougar's POV, as shown in red tint, don't make sense because cats, both big and small, don't move in a herky-jerky fashion as they stealthily prowl for prey. Of course, I don't know how a cat strung-out on coke acts.  😏

This movie has too many drawn-out "filler scenes". I'd be interested in seeing the whole script for this movie because it's probably just 36 double-spaced pages long, at most! 

This cougar's Circadian Clock dings every 2 hours for din-din time❗ 😋 Dang, there's no appetite suppression in this one ❗❗This cougar doesn't even need to eat Chinese to be hungry again 2 hours later❗❗❗

Okay, okay .... This is better than COCAINE SHARK in the SFX department, I must admit. But it certainly is not better in the dialogue department, even-steven that they are. 🤣

TIDBITS:

While out walking in the trail section of a local park on July 20th this summer, I stumbled upon a student film project. It looked like a scene for a Sword & Sorcery genre.

The cameraman/director was holding up his

left index finger to count down the number

of seconds that I had left to take the

shot. I thanked them and

wished them luck! 

If they see this blog, I've better get a free ticket to their premier show❗  😁

NOTE:

I noticed that my COCAINE SHARK blog is generating quite an interest, for some reason.  😕

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Now, about my Cold ...

I looked up which is better for blowing my nose. Whether I should use facial tissue or toilet paper. Using toilet paper is more economical and it is designed to be disposed off into the toilet 🚽 bowl. 

And I came upon a doctor's YouTube video on the proper way of blowing the nose 👃when you have a runny nose: Do one nostril at a time to prevent back pressure that will just shoot microbes into your sterile Eustachian Tubes, Tear Ducts and Sinuses, and run you the risk of getting any or all of them infected!

No wonder why I suffer from Chronic Sinusitis!  🤦‍♂️

If you are ever in Los Angeles and you see their SoCal Cinema Studios T-Shirts 👕, buy one and tell them that I sent you.  😉

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THE AMAZING PRAYBET BENJAMIN, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 45 min )

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I went to see this last week, on Thursday, February 5th, 2015, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 1:00 p.m. show in auditorium 8, 5th row ( counting from the front ), 8ht column ( counting from the left ). The price of admission was $6.00 for the First Show Matinee ( I was given the "senior discount." Whatever .... ). I bought a small Buttered Popcorn ( $5.75 ) along with a free small Powerade Mountain Berry Blast ( free on my Cine-Mark Movie Watcher Reward e-mail coupon ) at the concessions counter.

Quickie Review: After having defeated a horde of French zombies, Pvt. Benjamin ( Vice Ganda ) becomes the Philippines' proud national hero. But his insubordination gets him in hot water soon enough with his commanding officer. To stay enlisted, he must become the personal bodyguard of his commanding officer's estranged son who knows the whereabouts of three bombs planted in the Northern Philippines by a terrorist group.

I didn't find this movie amusing at all. But I did find it a waste of my precious time and hard-earned money. This has got to be The Most stupid movie that I have ever seen in my whole life--and I've seen plenty, believe you me! But this one "eats the cake" all by its lonesome self. And it isn't even Stupid-Funny at all. That was 1 Hour & 45 Minutes of my whole life that I will never get back ever again or even make up for.

And I didn't care to know how the other Pilipinos in the sparse audience liked this movie.

This movie wouldn't even rate a passing grade as a student film project, in my honest opinion!

And, to think, I almost made it in movies back in the Philippines in 1982. I was there for a scene shooting for the movie, CROSS MY HEART, which was filmed on location in Quezon City. I mingled with the cast and crew. I met with its director, Mr. Eddie Garcia, who plays a role in this Vice Ganda movie. Anyway, another director happened by and took an interest in me. Had it not been for my sister who kept calling me to come back to the States a.s.a.p. or risk losing my visa, I would have accepted the second director's offer and would have stayed in the Philippines to make a name for myself as an actor and, eventually,  as a movie director! If I knew then what I know now .... ( "Hindsight is always 20/20." )

Speaking of the actor/director Mr. Eddie Garcia, he looks like he had shrunk in height in this movie. He was quite tall when I met him in person 33 years ago.

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