THE CREATOR, PG-13

I originally posted this on October 25th, 2023, which was headlined by my post on SAW X. But I believe that this movie needs to have its own individual blog post. So, here it is again all on its own:

PG-13, 2 h & 13 m

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

-

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❗❗❗

-

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❗

👎👎👎

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.  

-

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 .... 😉

-

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

-

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❗❗❗

-

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❗

👎👎👎

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.  

-

SAFE, R ( 1 hr & 35 min )

I chose this poster because of the release date shown.

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Friday, April 27th, 2012
show:  10:00 p.m.
costs:  $10.50 Ticket + $4.75 Pretzel Bites + $4.50 20.0 oz Focus VitaminWater = $19.75
auditorium:  12
seat:  4th row, 6th column

2nd time

where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
show:  9:00 p.m.
costs:  $0.00 Ticket ( free on Regal Movie Watcher Rewards Card ) + $1.00 upgrade on free small Popcorn + $4.75 small 30.0 oz Diet Sprite = $5.75
auditorium:  15
seat:  4th row, 5th seat

synopsis/overview:  A guilt-stricken down-and-out MMA fighter, Luke Wright ( Jason Statham ),  out on-the-lam from gangsters, sees a girl, Mei ( Catherine Chan ), being chased by the same bad guys who killed his own wife after a botched rigged fight. He saves the girl and finds out that she holds in her memory a high-stakes numerical code that the Chinese Triad, the Russian Mob, and some corrupt NYC cops want to get their hands on at all costs.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) Classroom; 2.) Kidnap; 3.) One punch; 4.) Computer-like memory; 5.) "You just killed your wife"; 6.) "If you're still here tomorrow, I will kill the landlady"; 7.) Bad cop; 8.) "It's losing money"; 9.) New floor boss; 10.) "If you're asking me that, you still don't understand business"; 11.) Shoes; 12.) Sad news; 13.) Dead bum; 14.) "I've memorized it"; 15.) "Look what the cat dragged in"; 16.) Sets of numbers; 17.) Ambush; 18.) "Why would you come back"; 19.) "My father is a patient man, I am not"; 20.) The double-cross; 21.) Escape; 22.) The subway train platform; 23.) The train; 24.) "They all look the same to me"; 25.) The car-struck bad guy; 26.) Clothing store; 27.) Hotel; 28.) "I didn't save you, you saved me"; 29.) Numerical code combination; 30.) Hotel banquet hall; 31.) "Don't move"; 32.) Stampede; 33.) 'Phone call; 34.) "Very deadly ghost"; 35.) "That girl doesn't leave the city"; 36.) "You don't bring no hookers in my cab"; 37.) "I never know what to say in these moments"; 38.) SUV; 39.) Pet; 40.) I didn't know a Trachea could break; 41.) Sandwich; 42.) Thirty million dollars; 43.) Nightclub; 44.) Gambling den; 45.) The safe; 46.) "I didn't say I was putting you at the Ritz"; 47.) Disc; 48.) "You might want to close your eyes"; 49.) "'Amazing I can even walk"; 50.) Stand-off; 51.) "I saw him fight before. Bad business for you"; 52.) All accounts in China; 53.) "Our security"; and 54.) Friends.

favorite scenes:  I liked the scene in which a bad guy got hit by a car twice.

And I liked the scene in which Luke and a bad cop squared-off to fight near the end of the movie.

audience reaction:  The audience enjoyed this movie. It has some wickedly funny scenes. But it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending, though.

recommendation:  I enjoyed this movie, too. And I'm thinking of maybe seeing it again because I missed some of the subtitled funny one-liners because I was busy scribbling notes on my notepad. Go see this movie if you like Crime/Action/Comedy movies.

spoiler alert!  How'd he get in the subway without any money? In the train fight, all the bad guys had the chance to pull out their guns. When he fell out of the window at the shoot-out in a hotel's banquet hall, his forehead should have hit the pavement. "I never know what to say in these moments." Here's a suggestion: "Bang, bang, you're dead!" After that gun battle in the nightclub, both cops and reporters should have been at the scene. In real life, that bad cop would have to make a statement at the scene and he would have been given First Aid treatment on the spot; and, also, he would be required to file a detailed report at the police department in a timely manner. Since the bad cop didn't do either one ( make a statement and file a report in a timely manner since he went missing ), that should have been enough to raise someone's suspicion, especially since the gun battle was with the Chinese but a suspect in his custody was a Russian, instead. In the end, if I were him, I'd keep the money that I took--and I'd probably take even more--and wouldn't have to worry about paying it back since I'd have the upper hand.

fyi:  My Chinese friend, David, is very fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin. I've known him for 10 years, and he still speaks with a Chinese accent. Unlike the 11-year old girl in this movie who supposedly has only been in the United States for a little over a year yet speaks American English with barely a Chinese accent.

Cops wearing bullet-proof vests are scared of bad guys using .22 calibre guns and rifles because .22 calibre bullets can go through a bullet-proof vest and ricochet inside a human body if it hits a bone, according to an article on the Internet.

word of advice:  It's rude to speak in another language with someone when others around you don't speak such a language. ( So the next time you come across two Deaf-Mutes conversing with each other in Sign Language, use your hands to slap them for me! In the words of Jar-Jar Binks, "How rude!" Ha, ha, ha. )

tidbits:  I went to the men's room before the movie started. One of my co-workers, Manny, was in there. He asked me what I saw. I said that I was gonna see SAFE. And I asked him which movie he saw. He said that he just saw THE RAVEN. I told him that I was gonna see that tomorrow.

And I added that our boss better not call me at home and ask if I'd like to come in early because I wouldn't be at home to answer his call. I'd be in Fairfield to see the movie, THE RAVEN. We both laughed.

2nd tidbits:  I watched this for a second time while I waited for the midnight show of THE AVENGERS.

*