CONTRABAND, R ( 1 hr & 50 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Saturday, January 14th, 2012
show:  12:35 p.m.
costs:  $7.00 Ticket + $4.50 20 oz. VitaminWater XXX = $11.50
auditorium:  14
seat:  5th row, 6th column


synopsis/overview:  A former master smuggler, Chris Faraday ( Mark Wahlberg ) must get himself back in the game when his brother-in-law, Andy ( Caleb Landry Jones ), is forced to not deliver on a drug run.  And the bad guys are threatening the lives of his wife, Kate ( Kate Beckinsale ),  and their kids, as a result.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Customs raid on a ship; 2.) Hospital; 3.) "I like your outfit"; 4.) "We're playing"; 5.) "Will you just trust me, please"; 6.) "The proudest day of my life was when you turned legit"; 7.) Funny money; 8.) Interview; 9.) "It takes money to make money"; 10.) "You're still the captain's bitch-boy"; 11.) "That's the point"; 12.) Intruders; 13.) 'Phone call; 14.) Accident; 15.) "You got a lot of pussy in there"; 16.) The iodine test; 17.) "If you'd hired a real smuggler"; 18.) "Human speed bump"; 19.) Gun battle; 20.) Last container; 21.) Inspection; 22.) "I f-cking warned you": 23.) Salt; 24.) Threat; 25.) "Who f-cking told him"; 26.) "I know what you did"; 27.) Double cross; 28.) Intradiction team; 29.) Tarp; 30.) "You won't get your dope if I'm dead"; 31.) Security alarm; 32.) What are you doing in my house"; 33.) "South corner first"; 34.) Ringing cellphone; 35.) "Sea-full of money"; and 36.) "Twenty on the Black Market."

audience reaction:  The audience liked it.


recommendation:  It was just okay to me, being that I don't like the subject matter to begin with.


spoiler alert!  Why does Tim ( Giovanni Ribisi ), the drug dealer, live in a tenement building?  Even with your back turned to it, you can tell simply by the sound that it makes if a vacuum cleaner is being moved back and forth.  Why didn't she report the break-in to the cops?  The cops could have run a ballistic test on the bullet that was lodged in the wall for future reference.  I know that there are many uses for Duct Tape, but as a mask ...?  They should have used Masking Tape, instead!  Ha, ha, ha.  And I don't think that Duct Tape comes-off that easily if you wrap it around your face and head, especially if you have all that hair!  Those Duct-Taped bad guys deserved to get what they got!  That last container hoisted onto the ship should have caught someone else's attention, what with the ship running behind schedule.  Yup, that sure looked like a tarp to me.  Ha, ha, ha.  Why didn't he check for pupil dilation or used a mirror to check for breathing?  Or, better yet, he could just have put his ear to her left breast to check for--Ahem!--heartbeats; and do Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation!  LOL.  ( Hey, that was what he wanted in the first place, when you think about it. )  Why would you haul around a Wet/Dry Vac like that without emptying its liquid content first?  Sebastian's ( Ben Foster ) nose bleed coagulated and turned dark too soon--trust me, I know; I get about a dozen nose bleeds each year FROM EACH NOSTRIL!


fyi:  I know of this young woman once who fell down and hit her head on the ground one day while she was out in her own back yard.  She complained of a headache that night, yet never bothered to have herself checked by a doctor. The next day, she was dead.


word of advice:  Don't betray/abuse the trust of those whose lives depend on you.

Crime pays ...?

tidbits:  After the movie, I went to the Dollar Tree Store at the Target Shopping Center to buy two door stops for my condo's hallway doors because the painters messed around with them so that now they don't stay open.  And fresh air needs to circulate down the hallway to air-out any unpleasant and/or stale smell. And I feel more secure with the hallway doors open because it discourages or lessens any criminal activity.

Then I went to Selecta Pilipino Buffet on Springs Road here in Vallejo, CA, for dinner and to catch the football playoff game between San Francisco Forty-Niners and the New Orleans Saints.  That was a close game.  I thought that it was gonna end-up like last week's game in which the Saints won.  But the Forty-Niners won by just a few points.  Whew! that was exciting.

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN in I-MAX 3-D, PG ( 1 hr & 47 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
show:  4:25 p.m.
costs:  $11.00 Ticket + $4.50 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry ) Coke = $15.50
auditorium:  10
seat:  5th row, 4th seat

2nd Time:


where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Thursday, January 12th, 2012
show:  1:30 p.m.
costs:  $17.50 Ticket + $4.75 small Diet Coke + $9.45 lunch @ Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, before the show ( + $1.55 Tip ) = $33.25
auditorium:  12, with the I-Max screen
seat:  6th row, 9th column


synopsis/overview:  Tintin buys a model of a 16th century battleship, the Unicorn, at an outdoor market and soon finds himself in the midst of an intriguing plan involving a long standing family curse and a long lost sunken treasure.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) Model ship; 2.) Marlinspike Hall; 3.) Reprobate; 4.) Pickpocket; 5.) Delivery; 6.) Karaboudjan Ship; 7.) Corks; 8.) "I assumed it was lock"; 9.) "Nothing is an accident"; 10.) Eyelids; 11.) Necessities; 12.) Lifeboat; 13.) Collection; 14.) Seaplane; 15.) "Wall of Death"; 16.) Fumes; 17.) Propeller; 18.) Sea battle; 19.) Sober; 20.) Secret cargo; 21.) The curse; 22.) The Milanese Nightingale Concert; 23.) "I can smell it on you"; 24.) The chase; 25.) Bagghar; 26.) Signal; 27.) Dueling shipyard cranes; 28.) Bottles; 29.) Coordinates; 30.) Globe; and 31.) "Unquenchable!"

favorite scenes:  I liked the Sea Battle scene.

I liked the Milanese Nightingale Concert scene.

I liked the Chase scene.

I liked the Dueling Shipyard Cranes scene.


1st audience reaction:  The audience liked it.

2nd  audience reaction:  N/A.  I was all by my lonesome ....

recommendation:  I liked this movie.  The computer animation in this one is very good.  Go see this movie with your little brats but be forewarned:  A couple of scenes might be unpleasant to the little brats.  But, then again, them little brats need something unpleasant every now and then!

spoiler alert!  Tintin looked too young, like a 14-year old boy.  A drunken fool for a captain?  No wonder the crew mutinied!  That bad guy should have been blown to smithereens when the ship blew-up.  They were in the desert under the blistering heat of the midday sun yet neither one ended-up with sunburn and blisters.  Why was an officer at the Nightingale concert sporting a Mohawk haircut?  That Mohawk haircut was out-of-place for that time period.  There is no way in the real world that a human voice can shatter a bullet-proof glass--but  I could be wrong because I haven't heard William Hung give it a try, yet!

fyi:  The animation in this movie is so good that it made me wonder why they did this movie in computer animation instead of in live action.  I mean, why go through all that trouble, expense and time when they could have pretty much achieved the same effects using live actors for the better part of the film?

Am I the only one who noticed that the short bespectacled rich Moroccan man resembled Steven Spielberg?

word of advice:  Do not assume.  Because, if you assume, you'll make an ASS of--look in the mirror--U and ME!

1st tidbits:  In the hallway, right after the movie, an Asian man asked one of his kids, "Did it look blurry to you?"  I responded with, Yes, it was blurry.  And, no, I'm not one of his kids!  LOL

2nd tidbits:  I wanted to see this in I-Max at the Fairfield cineplex on Wednesday, the 21st of December.  But I was gonna eat lunch first at Tin Tin Chinese Buffet in Vacaville, CA, before the movie because I wanted to do a Name Tie-In.  I forgot that this buffet is closed on Wednesdays now.  I read the sign posted at their door last Thanksgiving and, yet, I still completely forgot about it--I guess hunger and/or a voracious craving for Chinese buffet does that to my Memory brain cells.

And I would have to wait one and a half hours more just to catch the movie on I-Max.  So, I just drove back to Vallejo, CA, to watch this movie in 3-D, instead.

Unfortunately, the projectionist never bothered to check the focal setting on the projection, making the 3-D movie somewhat blurry.  And nobody in the audience, myself included, told management about it!  Heck, I assumed that some parent in the audience did; after all, the people with little brats in tow paid more to see the movie in 3-D and had that much more reason to get their money's worth on it than I did!

And I was gonna watch this Tintin movie in I-Max last week.  But you all know how that went!  ( Down the toilet bowl.  Ha, ha, ha. )

DON 2 3-D, NR ( 2 hr & 25 min )

where:  UA EMERY BAY STADIUM 10 in Emeryville, CA
when:  Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
show:  7:50 p.m.
costs:  $8.00 Ticket + $2.00 small Popcorn ( discounted price on my movie watcher reward card ) + $4.75 small Barq's Root Beer + $0.50 Rascals Candy + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $20.25
auditorium:  4
seat:  6th row, 12th column

synopsis/overview:  An Asian underworld boss now has his sights on the European underworld.  But the European underworld bosses want him dead; and the cops want him arrested.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) A meeting of underworld bosses; 2.) Execution attempt; 3.) Birthday; 4.) "Immunity or nothing"; 5.) Escape plan; 6.) Safe deposit box; 7.) Tape; 8.) Printing plates; 9.) Charity fundraiser; 10.) Video clip; 11.) "No autographs, please"; 12.) Car chase; 13.) Hit man; 14.) "Special talent"; 15.) Double-decker bus; 16.) "Under pressure"; 17.) Plans; 18.) The double-cross; 19.) Security cameras; 20.) Bomb; 21.) Underground vault; 22.) Fingerprints; 23.) "No escape plan"; 24.) "Shocking behavior"; 25.) Package; 26.) "Temporary lapse of judgment"; 27.) "Last request"; 28.) "I want to be a free man"; 29.) "You're welcome"; 30.) "Happy reunion"; 31.) "Immunity papers; 32.) Priceless; 33.) "Don never forgets"; 34.) "Perfect crime"; 35.) "It's not difficult to catch Don"; and 36.) Bollywood song and dance.


audience reaction:  There were about 20 people in the audience with me.  And they seemed to enjoy this movie.

recommendation:  I never saw part one--'didn't even know that there was a part one--so I'm not a member of this movie's fan-base.  'That said, I found this movie to be  above average as an Action Movie.  Go see this if you're into Action Movies.  However, the plot contrivance was a little "stretched" for my taste.

spoiler alert!  What is missing from this movie?  Oh, I know.  This "Don" character is supposedly the Big Boss of the Asian underworld but ... think about it ... China and India, alone, have over a billion people in each one.  And we're not even considering the population count of the other Asian countries.  What I'm getting at is this:  Don ( Shah Rukh Khan ) is the Number One underworld boss in Asia yet ... he goes around without an "army" of sorts--HE HAD TO GO TALK SOME OTHER BAD GUYS INTO JOINING HIS RAG-TAG TEAM!!!  I mean, come on, he could not have become Asia's underworld's Top Boss if he didn't have his own formidable "army" to help him run and control things!  So, what happened to his "army"?  That mystery guy ( Hrithik Roshan ) at the charity fundraiser who danced with the female detective had a funny-looking "pinched" nose: Too narrow!  ( I think that he had a "nose job". Hmm, I wonder if he had surgery done on that finger of his, too.  )  When the car hit something, the airbags didn't deploy. When Don made his descent by way of a rope, the bad guy could have easily shot him dead because he was moving down in a straight line.  Did they really have to kill the security guards?  How did the cops know right away that it was a robbery, not a fire emergency?  When Don made the comment that the helicopter was "spoiling the mood", Roma, the female detective, should have jumped on that HINT and easily narrowed-down Don's location in the building. Okay, that fingerprint identification machine had a touch pad; meaning, you cannot put a practically weightless sheet of clear plastic on it and expect it to read the fingerprints IF NO PRESSURE IS USED TO ACTIVATE ITS RECOGNITION SOFTWARE!  Wouldn't the fingerprint identification machine recognize a security breach if its touch pad was activated WITHOUT ANY HUMAN BODY WEIGHT PRESSURE DETECTED BY ITS SENSORS?  You would think that the vault's pressure sensitive floor would be calibrated to accept only the safe-keeper's average weight!  Dang! I thought her bullet-proof vest spelled-out the word, SEX ( Because I was gonna say, Pick a number, get in line and wait for your "F" turn! LOL ),  it didn't; SEK is the German acronym for, SpezialEinsatzKommando, the German equivalent of the American SWAT.  Since Don knew how those bombs were put together, why did not the SEK force just let him deactivate all of them?  That bad guy sure had no peripheral vision for Don to be able to jump him from the side like that!  I said this more than once before: In a kill-or-be-killed fight, you fight dirty to survive and to end it as quickly as possible because, in such a situation, time will be a luxury that you won't be able to afford.  She was shot in the liver, for Chrissake!  Gunshot wounds to the Liver are almost always fatal. She needed medical attention right away to stop the profuse bleeding and to stabilize her and QUICKLY SPEED HER OFF TO THE HOSPITAL INSTEAD OF HIM CARRYING HER OUT--AT SUCH A LEISURELY PACE--TO A WAITING AMBULANCE BECAUSE, IN REALITY, SHE WOULD HAVE ALREADY BLED TO DEATH BY THAT POINT IN TIME!  Duh!  What good will his "immunity papers" do him if the other underworld bosses are still around and are still Hell-bent on killing him?  The dialogue could have used some polish since it didn't translate well into English in the subtitle.

fyi:  If you like your girls extra hot and spicy, this movie serves-up two delectable dishes in the form of Priyanka Chopra ( as Roma ) and Lara Dutta ( as Ayesha ).

Wow, that is one nice-looking prison!  I wouldn't mind being incarcerated there. I just hope that they use liquid soap because a prison shower room floor is not where I'd want to pick-up a dropped bar of soap!  Iykwim ( If you know what I mean )!  Ha, ha, ha.

word of advice:  Bad guys make for strange bedfellows.

tidbits:  Earlier today, Tuesday, the 10th of January, 2012, I decided to have something new for breakfast.  I had a Christmas peanut butter cup the size of a hamburger patty just sitting around in the kitchen--and I had one hamburger bun left!  Hmm,  what to do ....  I put that peanut butter cup in-between the hamburger bun slices and nuked it in my microwave on High for 30 seconds.  I ended-up with one big gooey mess on my microwave's turntable!  But there was no way that I was gonna let all of that go to waste.  I just picked-up a kitchen spatula and scraped-off all that gooey goodness so that I could eat it all up.  Note to myself for next time:  I'll just heat-up the hamburger bun in my toaster before putting the giant peanut butter cup in the middle of it--it should work better this way ( I hope ).

Later on in the day, I went to Oakland, CA, to visit Hector and his family--and Tiger, the cat.  I haven't seen them in two months' time.

Tiger is slightly over a year old now.  But he doesn't look like he's full-grown.  His head is getting bigger, though.   I hope that he gets bigger because I've had cats that were practically twice his present size.  And bigger cats make for  cuddlier sleeping companions.

And speaking of Tiger, as I pulled-up to Hector's house, I saw him perched atop a neighbor's SUV.  He came into the house with me.  And he curled-up in his favorite corner in the dining room.  He slept there until after I was done making some Garlic Bread and Spaghetti for everyone.  Because as soon as I was done cooking, he walked into the kitchen and, with those half-closed eyes of his, sat there waiting for me to give him some food.  And who am I to just shoo him away?

Hector talked with his older sister on the 'phone.  She has Alzheimer's Disease now.  She thought that her own daughter was her little sister.  Then she inquired of Hector how their parents were doing these days. Hector told her that they both have been dead for quite a while now.  And she cried because she couldn't remember ever attending the funeral of either one of their parents.  It was kind of sad for me to learn about her present condition.

To break the sad mood, I told Hector and his kids that I will take them to see the movie, THREE STOOGES, when it comes out in April because it is based on him and his two brothers, "Moe" and "Larry"--Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.  Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!

During the movie's intermission, I went out to the hallway and got some Rascals Candy for 50 cents.  But would you believe that the vending machine only gave me 6 tiny pieces!  WTF?!?!?!  That's it, I'm buying all of my candy snacks at the dollar/99 cent store from now on!

After the movie, I swung by my former place of employment at the Rockridge Shopping Center in North Oakland, CA.  That huge place is half-empty now.  It lost its lease and will close for business on March 10th of this year.  Some of my former co-workers were still there.  And I wished them all a "Happy New Year"; although, in retrospect, I think that I shouldn't have done so since they will be all without jobs in this bad economy in two months' time.  I hope that they will all find employment soon after the store closes for business.

THE DEVIL INSIDE, R ( 1 hr & 27 min )

where:   CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Thursday, January 5th, 2012
show:  10:15 p.m.
costs:  $10.50 Ticket + $4.75 Pretzel Bites + $4.00 small Barq's Root Beer = $19.25
auditorium:  11
seat:  2nd row, 4th column


synopsis/overview:  Twenty years after her mother's  failed exorcism in which three people were killed, a young woman, Isabella ( Fernanda Andrade ), goes to Rome to learn the truth.  There, with the help of two priests, she engages four demons who are in possession of her mother.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Crime scene; 2.) "Is it in my genes"; 3.) Exorcism class; 4.) Ogled at on the sidewalk; 5.) "You'll need to see a real one"; 6.) "Offering of forgiveness"; 7.) Centrino Mental Hospital video; 8.) "You shouldn't have killed your child"; 9.) "I've seen the Devil more than I've seen God"; 10.) Upside-down crosses; 11.) Exorcism cases; 12.) Dog; 13.) Basement; 14.) "I don't know what to say"; 15.) "What if it was your mother"; 16.) The mother's exorcism at the mental hospital"; 17.) "This is huge"; 18.) Four demonic voices; 19.) "They won't release her"; 20.) "Annoying guy with a camera"; 21.) "David ( Evan Helmuth ), what the f-ck are you doing"; 22.) Baptism; 23.) "What was it like ... when your  mother f-cked your own best friend"; 24.) "He took your gun"; 25.) "Thank you"; 26.) "Maybe there's some transference"; 27.) Hospital; 28.) Car; and 29.) therossifiles.com.



audience reaction:  The audience reacted as well as can be expected of a "scaredy-cat" audience watching a horror movie.

recommendation:  It was a scripturally-inaccurate cheap entertainment for me. This is a "documentary-style" horror movie for fans of such a genre.

spoiler alert!    When Isabella walked out of the mental hospital, she did so well ahead of her tag-along cameraman; but, as she walked down the steps, the cameraman was already on the sidewalk filming her from behind--Oopsy!  The Dog Scene is the only scary scene in this movie, and simply because of its unexpectedness.  In the Basement Scene, when the possessed young woman, Rosa ( Bonnie Morgan ) arched her back, while she was hemorrhaging, some of her blood splashed on the lens of the overhead camera--I've heard of "squirters" but this one takes the "bloody" cake!  Ha, ha, ha.  I can't believe that Isabella asked the priest, "David, what the f-ck are you doing?"  Clearly, she was already possessed by the Devil to be so disrespectful toward the priest!  LOL.  Father Ben ( Simon Quarterman ) was cussing-up a storm--'probably was already possessed, too!  Father Ben knew that Isabella was already possessed.  So, why did he not restrain her?  Why did he put her in the car?  Why did the driver not pull the car over to the curb at the first sign of a struggle in the back seat?  Why were the airbags not deployed? The Fictitious Persons and Events Disclaimer at the end of the trailing credits just proved that therossifiles.com is a bogus site!

fyi:  In the basement where a possessed young woman, Rosa,  was tied to her bed, the camera switched to an overhead shot and, from what I saw briefly, I wanted to yell out:  Camel Toe!  Ha, ha, ha--snort!

Father Ben said, "I've seen the Devil more than I've seen God."  While it might be true for Father Ben to say that he'd "seen" the Devil on a number of occasions because  the whole world is Satan's principality ( Matthew 4:8-9 ), it was wrong of him to lead us to believe that he had seen God and lived to tell about it!  As a priest, he should have known better than to say such a lie!!!

Exodus 33:20  "You cannot see My Face for no one may see Me and live."  New International Version

To Jesus Christ, His Apostles and their Disciples, Infant Baptism was an abomination before God!  None of them baptized babies!  Please allow me to repeat what I just said:  NONE OF THEM BAPTIZED BABIES!  This practice is a Roman Catholic invention.  Jesus Christ, His Apostles and their Disciples only baptized individuals who had met the  "adult age" requirements for Bar/Bat Mitzvah!  In other words, a male had to be at least 13 years of age to be baptized; and a female had to be at least 12 years of age to be baptized.  The reason for this is in 1st  Corinthians 7:14  "For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband.  Otherwise, your children would be unclean but, as it is, they are holy." New International V  ( Hence, no need for infants, toddlers and underaged children to be baptized! )  [ There is a "little technicality" attached to this provision, but this is neither the time nor place for me to engage you in such a digression. ]

Re-read my blog on THE LAST EXORCISM ( 2010 ) to learn what The Holy Scriptures have to say about these so-called modern-day "exorcisms".

Technically speaking, the Roman Catholics are not Christians at all, they are Marians, in the sense that they have supplanted the Divine Authority and Power of Jesus Christ as Our Savior with a belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus, has some kind of intercessory ability!!!  A priest interviewed outside of the Vatican in the documentary movie, RELIGULOUS  ( 2008 ) bemoaned this lamentable idolatrous fact.  She does not have such an intercessory ability at all--Period!  Yet, they ( the Marians ) persist in the false notion that since Jesus Christ, the Son of God,  is the King of kings, then Mary, His mother, must be the Queen of Heaven.  Ergo, the FAULTY  LOGIC that Mary has Divine Authority and Power.    But ... read what Jesus Christ had to say about His mother in Luke 11:27-28 and in Matthew 12:47-50.  Also, please read what is said about the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah 7:18-20 and in Jeremiah 44:17-29.  Finally, read what Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, had to say about her relationship to God, The Father, in Luke 1:46-48.  The Roman Catholic faith has the most demonically-possessed followers of all religions, it seems to me, simply because THEY ARE NOT IN GOOD GRACES with Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior!  Gee, I wonder why ....

word of advice:  Read the Bible!  Then, read it again!  That way, nobody can fool you into believing in something that has no scriptural basis to it at all!


tidbits: I had my quarterly dental cleaning today, first thing in the morning, at 9:00 a.m.  Then, I went to Benicia, CA, to pick-up my paycheck and deposit some money at BofA and at Chase Bank.  And I had to go back to the Fed-Ex Store on Admiral Callaghan Lane here in Vallejo, CA, because the Name and Address labels that they printed-up for me didn't come out to my exact specification and to my complete satisfaction.

While I was at the Fed-Ex Store, I was treated to an unexpected but pleasant surprise:  The beautiful daughter of the owner of the Chinese buffet here in town, Empire Buffet, walked in.  She had been gone for many  months, the reason why I haven't blogged about pigging-out at this buffet restaurant for so long.

Hi! Somebody told me that you went back to China, I said.

"I did.  Then, I went to New York and came back.   And I went to New York again and came back," she answered.

Lucky you, I commented.   ( I hope that she didn't go to Times Square to watch the Ball drop only to have some snot-nosed, slobbery pervert give her a cold and flu New Year's Eve kiss! )

Then we got to talking for a bit.  We formally introduced ourselves to each other--finally, and about time, too!  And I learned that she is from the Southern Province of Fujian, in China.

Hey, maybe I'm related to her by blood on my father's side--distantly, I hope, because I've got the "Hots" for her.  Most of the Chinese who settled in the Philippines, through the centuries, were mostly from Southern China.

I had to leave before her.  And as I stepped-out of the Fed-Ex Store, I said to myself that I should ask her out on a date.  Then, I saw her mother waiting for her in the passenger seat of her car.  She drives a Lexus sports coupe!  ( And I own a 1994 Geo Metro and a 2001 Hyundai Accent.  Sad but true. )   I just looked at that fancy, expensive car that just dashed my wishful, romantic hopes and said to myself, I probably paid for the monthly on that with my frequent dining at their restaurant!  Oh, I should point that out to her and get her to reciprocate by going out on a date with me.  Otherwise, her Lexus is gonna get repossessed! LOL

Then, I went to Vacaville, CA, to eat lunch,first, at Tin-Tin Chinese Buffet before going to the Fairfield, CA, cineplex to see the TIN-TIN I-Max 3-D movie because of the obvious Name Tie-In.  But I ate too much and I had to use their "facility" to relieve myself!  Because of this, by the time that I arrived at the theatre, the TIN-TIN movie had already been playing for about 10 minutes.  I will have to retry this tie-in attempt on another day next week, the determined movie blogger that I am!  ( Ahh ... I already saw this movie, by the way--but without the tie-in! So, there .... )

I just drove back home and took a nap to allow my system time to digest all of the food that I ate for lunch.

Finally, it was time to get up and to go see this movie.

While I waited for my turn to buy a ticket at the box office, the woman ahead in line of me told the box office clerk that she wanted to buy two tickets for herself and for her little son for the movie, THE DEVIL OUTSIDE.  The clerk laughed and her son laughed at her, too.  She didn't know why they laughed at her so she repeated herself.  They laughed at her again.  Hell, I laughed at her, too.  Finally, her son said that "... it's THE DEVIL INSIDE, not OUTSIDE."  Then, she found out why ....

Before the movie started, a public service message was shown on-screen about not being rude and inconsiderate by talking or texting while the movie played. But, as soon as the auditorium darkened, cellphones here and there lit-up the whole damn place!  I will have a word with management the next time that I come here and make sure that they enforce their policy!  Because, frankly, I am tired of being in the same room with a bunch of rude and inconsiderate people!!! But, I guess it is just the Vallejo crowd who are just a bunch of low-lifes!

After the movie, one of the patrons said to one of his friends, in reference to therossifiles.com, "You better not go to that sh-t, you're a christian, brother!" Here's yet another example of an idiot who's ignorant of the biblical fact that a True Christian has power and authority over evil spirits and demons and is actually in command of them!  ( Again, read the Bible to learn this spiritual fact. )

As I stood in the hallway looking at my movie notes, a security guard--where was she when all of those cellphones lit-up the auditorium?--came and asked one of the patrons, "Was it a scary one?"

The young female patron answered, "No, it was stupid as f-ck!"

I second that opinion.

YOUNG ADULT, R ( 1 hr & 34 min )

Quickie Review:  A somewhat famous writer of "Young Adult" novels goes back to her hometown to try to win back her former high school sweetheart who is already happily married and also has a new baby.

The audience ( namely, the women ) liked this movie.  But I guess it was the women whose men were not stolen from them by some hot and sexy "home-wreckers" who were present and accounted for in the audience.

I didn't like it that much--which makes this movie a bona fide Chick Flick.

Here are the things that I didn't like about this movie:  So, that's what Charlize Theron looks like now, especially without makeup.   Mavis ( Charlize Theron ) had a reputation for being an "easy lay" back in high school and she drank  liquor without any reservation; so ... if I were that guy, I would have plied her with hard liquor over and over again until she got drunk ( Heh, heh, heh )---Come on, I'm just sayin' for "Realism's Sake"!  From her father's comment, her Traction Alopecia  Disorder had been going on for many  years; therefore, she should have had a big, bald spot in the back of her head by now.  When she took-off her dress and stood there with her strapless, self-adhesive silicone ( emphasis on the "sili", i.e. Silly ) bra on, I actually laughed because it looked too damn preposterous to be erotic in any way.  But, maybe, if the makers put fake nipples--Ahem!--on such silicone bras ....

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I had these two female co-workers, "B" and "C",  once.  They were both friends.  "C" was married to a doctor.  When "B" quit her job, "C's" doctor-husband hired her to be a front desk manager at his clinic.  Long story short, the doctor and "B" had an affair, "C" divorced her doctor-husband, and "B" is now happily married to the doctor.  What is my personal opinion on the matter?  I think that "C" is better-looking than "B"; so, the doctor "traded-down" in the "Looks Department", if you ask me.  ( But, of course, maybe "B" is better than "C" in another "department" .... )

As an aside, I went on a casual movie date with "C" back when she was still married.  Because "C" wanted to see one particular Art-House film, and she knew that I go to the movies a lot.  The movie that we went to see was an "R" rated one with nude scenes and sex scenes, too.  Nope, nothing happened!  I had to keep my sexual urge at bay in that darkened and mostly empty auditorium.  It was all I could do to keep from "jumping" on her and "pawing" her , at the very least.

Attention, Women:  If you are happily married, and you have female friends who are single or divorced, watch out!