THE BOY AND THE HERON

I went to see this yesterday, A Bargain All Day Tuesday, December 19th, 2023, at the Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max, in Fairfield, CA. The price of admission was $5.00. And I bought a tub of popcorn 🍿 at the concessions counter for $5.65! Yeah, the large popcorn price went from $5.00 to $5.05 to $5.65 in the last 3 months ❗

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Auditorium 6, C-10

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I found this movie's plot too convolutedly confusing to follow along. Unfortunately, it gave me a sense of ennui. And, apparently, I am not alone in expressing such an opinion. I dozed off on a few times throughout this movie's 2h & 4m length, I'm sorry to admit. Come for the Animation, leave with some Confusion.

This YouTuber shares his opinion about this movie:

https://youtu.be/SIwePgzJ9cI?si=T-762SGtGwqFlJqU

Another confusing thing about this movie is the fisherman character. The character looks like a man but sounds like a woman. Talk about "gender confused"!  🤦‍♂️

It's honestly not my cup of Matcha Tea! 🍵

But there were those in the audience who were Miyazaki fans who obviously enjoyed this movie and woke me at times with their laughter. As I've said it before, I'm a light sleeper.

There are 2 scenes that caught my interest. The Japanese traditional wooden Geta sandals:

Don't stand at the edge of a cliff

when you have this thing on!

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And also the assorted western canned goods that the grannies seemed to love during The War. I would think that such things would be banned at such a time, just like how the USA banned Japanese products during said time. They were smuggled into the country, perhaps .... 

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TIDBITS:

After finishing the DREAM SCENARIO movie and before watching this one, I decided to walk around the shopping mall where this Cineplex is located. The Best Buy that reopened for Thanksgiving is now a Best Buy Outlet store. All that I could see from the entrance are rows and rows of Refrigerators, Washers and Dryers! There's an interesting toy store right next to it, though:

Seeing all of these toys reminded me of the

late Verne Troyer. He bought himself a

Tesla! A toy one, that is ❗🤣

My friend Soberund has some ride-on toy vehicles to offer at

www.soberundgoodes.com

USA 🇺🇲 & Canada 🇨🇦

buyers only.

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in the Toys & Novelties collection. 

In my rush to see 3 movies, I forgot to take my mini notepad with me. I'm talking about the notepad that's made of paper and is spiral bound! Old School Cool 😎❗So, I went back to my car in-between this movie and the DREAM SCENARIO one to fetch my travel log notebook 📒 to take notes with.

I went into the Men's Room to wash my

hands after paying the cashier

with some paper money. 

And, as it turned out, I didn't even need to take notes for this one! 🤦‍♂️ Because .... 😴.

I brought my own special blend of popcorn flavor. It's quite good, actually. I think that I should market it .... 🤔  I flavored my 20 oz ( 591 ml ) Aquafina Bottled Water with a stick of Wyler's Light Island Punch Purple Berry Wave.

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I also had a bag of high Fiber and high Potassium dried Prunes, Apricots & Figs to help counter the popcorn's Sodium content. 

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WHEN EVIL LURKS, NR ( 1 hr & 40 min )/A VERY GOOD GIRL, R ( 2 hr & 5 min )

Today, October 17th, 2023, I went to Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max in Fairfield, CA, to watch 2 movies for the $5.00 Show & $5.00 Large Popcorn ( w/ Free Membership) Bargain Tuesday All Day.

 Auditorium 9, C-12

This movie is in Spanish, w/ English subtitles, from Argentina. As you can see from the above screenshot, I Owned The Auditorium 👌😎 👍. I wanted to wait 'til Halloween Night to go see this, along with the new Exorcist & the "mid-quel" Saw movies. But this week is the last week to catch this movie near where I live. ☹️

It doesn't disappoint! It's about a demon-possessed fat guy, rotting away, referred to aptly enough as, "Rotten." This bed-ridden fat guy is "pregnant" and is expecting to pop-out a demon anytime soon---Dang with these "woke" movies trend! 🤦🏽‍♂️ Anyway, you cannot kill it with a bullet because it will just make matters worse. It has to be disposed of by a specially trained "Cleaner." Absent of a Cleaner, the ranch owner and 2 sibling neighbors help him to dispose of the "preggo" guy. That's when things take an evil turn. From then on, the demon hops, skips and jumps from one host to another in wild abandon! There are a lot of graphic headblows in this movie--the movie poster shown below sure hints at it ( even the possessed kids have a go at it, too )! Just a tip ... Stop Eating Anything During The Scenes Wherein They Have To Move The Fat, Bed-Ridden "Preggo" Guy!  😵‍💫🤢🤮   ❗YOU'VE BEEN WARNED ❗ Also, the scenes wherein 2 dogs are enjoying a victim's entrails, a dog mauling a child to death then dragging it away and another child getting its brain 🧠 scooped out by a demon-possessed entity having a case of the "munchies" might Be Way TOO Disturbing To Some Of You❗😳❗😲❗

Do you see what I mean ...?

P.S. This movie is supposedly better than the new Exorcist movie. So, don't be surprised, at all, if whollyweird makes a US version of this movie!  

💰🤑 💵

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Now, on to the next movie .... 

Auditorium 1, C-9

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This movie is about a young woman with an old axe to grind. She plots, schemes and seduces her way into "Mother's" inner circle of trusted friends. But "Mother" knows best and already has planned some counter-offensive moves of her own. Who wins in the end when stakes are so high and neither side will stop at anything to outwit the other? This movie could have been better with more polished dialogues among the BFFs; to listen to them talk was quite a turn-off! There are also some video calls that sounded unnaturally scripted. And there are at least 4 plot holes in this movie. The 1st scene about the rare, antique goddess idol does hint at its 2nd & final scene's "worship" of; which I didn't expect to see in a Pinoy movie .... 🤷🏽‍♂️

Side note: There are 4 or 5 very beautiful young women in this movie. I would not hesitate to go out on a date with any of them---But Only For Just Once! Their character portrayals all come across as materialistic & insincere. They're the type that you should "ghost" after the first date if your intention is to find a suitable partner in a lifelong relationship.

I'm still wondering whether those pimples are real or are just sfx.  🤔 

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When I went out for my morning walk around the park, I felt a pop in the rear of my left leg's Achilles Heel at Exactly 10:10 a.m.! It hurt so much 😖 as I limped for another 1.5 miles ( 2.4 km ) just to get home to rest before driving to Fairfield to see these movies❗I used my automatic car instead of my stick shift car for the obvious reason.  And I limped until past midnight when I arrived home after watching these 2 movies along with another movie ( hint: really "woke"--no, it's not the barbie one which I refused to go see ) that I'd much rather not mention.  My Achilles Heel had been bothering me for over 3 weeks now so that I had to stop incorporating some jogging 🏃🏽‍♂️ sessions into my walking 🚶🏽‍♂️regimen.

If you believe in past lives, in a previous incarnation, I probably cut a captured enemy soldier's Achilles Heel way back then and Karma decided that it was payback time for me today! 🤷🏽‍♂️

The $5.00 Large Popcorn 🍿 is now $5.05---But still as salty 🧂 as before. 👎

I bought a Large Plastic Popcorn Tub at a Dollar Tree Store to use as a holder for my Large Popcorn 🍿 because I like to butter my popcorn ❗ AND THEIR BAGS & TUBS DO LEAK❗❗I often wondered 🤔 why my lap would always smell like stale, buttered popcorn whenever I'd get home from the movies❗❗❗ 

My Aquafina water bottle has "orange"  🍊 in it because I used one of those powdered drink mixes ( Wyler's Light Island Punch  ) to color & flavor my bottled water. Since I have to watch my Phosphorus intake because of my Kidney Disease. But I handle my Sodium intake by eating foods high in Potassium because the new, revised research findings state that a 1:2 ratio between Sodium & Potassium must be maintained for Kidney health. And movie popcorn 🍿 can be salty! 

👉👉👉I forgot to mention in my previous post regarding my friend Soberund Goode's on-line store ( www.soberundgoodes.com ) that he can only sell to buyers based in the USA. Sorry about that .... 🙁

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I didn't even feel this. I was awakened by the Alert on my 'phone, though. 😕

 

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