HANNA, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 51 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Friday, April 8th, 2011
show:   4:45 p.m.
costs:  $7.50 Ticket + $13.75 dinner @ Empire Buffet ( + $2.25 Tip ) = $23.50
auditorium:  1
seat:  4th row, 8ht column

synopsis/overview:  A she-DEVIL, Marissa Wiegler ( Cate Blanchett ),  WEARS PRADA  and chases after a girl, Hanna ( Saoirse Ronan ),  BORN  with a secret  IDENTITY, who's on her way to Berlin to rendezvous with her father, Erik ( Eric Bana ).
  
noteworthy scenes:  1.) "I just missed your heart"; 2.) "You're dead.  I just killed you"; 3.) Different languages; 4.) Training; 5.) "I'm ready now"; 6.) "Come and find me"; 7.) Rogue asset; 8.) The search team; 9.) Holding cell; 10.) Blood sample; 11.) Abort; 12.) Laboratory; 13.) Manhole; 14.) "She will never be yours"; 15.) The RV family; 16.) The clothes-washing women; 17.) Remote control; 18.) Safari club; 19.) "My father encourages me to be independent"; 20.) "Three bullets"; 21.) Abnormal results; 22.) "Can you lend me your pen"; 23.) Singing; 24.) Campground; 25.) The date; 26.) The kiss; 27.)  "Did you ever have children of  your own"; 28.) Friends; 29.)  "I found it, breakfast"; 30.) Subway fight; 31.) 'Phone call; 32.) Unwanted visitor; 33.)  Shipyard; 34.) Interrogation; 35.) "No magic, no music"; 36.) Grandma's home; 37.) "You didn't prepare me for this"; 38.) The chase; 39.) "Kids grow up"; 40.) Back at "Mr. Grimm's" house; 41.) "I just missed your heart"; and 42.) Voice-Over after the Ending Credits.

favorite scene:  I liked the "Three bullets" scene.

I liked the one in which the boy wanted to kiss her.

And I liked the "I found it, breakfast!" scene.


audience reaction:  The audience liked it.

recommendation:  I liked  it enough to give it a "Go see it" recommendation.

spoiler alert!  That signal beacon was kept hidden for about 15 years, under harsh weather conditions, yet it still worked when needed--yeah, right ....  This puts the Energizer Bunny Rabbit batteries to shame!   And 15 years is quite a long time--I don't think a toothbrush can last that long.  So, how did the two of them get by, personal hygiene-wise?  Don't tell me that the Humvee drivers couldn't see that big hole in the road.  Was Marissa a secret agent or a dental hygienist?  I think she was just  a dental hygienist who  only  wanted  to give Hanna a much-needed, good dental cleaning!  Ha, ha, ha.  Okay, all of  them were basically assassins.  So, why did they fight like how kids do it in a schoolyard?  Why were there no bone-breaking, joint-dislocating, eye-gouging, and/or ball-busting moves used in the fray?  If you have multiple assailants coming at you, and you're an assassin and they are assassins, you fight to kill and dispose of your enemies quickly with as few strikes as possible because in such a fight situation, time will be a luxury that you simply won't be able to afford.  The bad guys could have easily over-powered him if one of them simply tackled him down to the floor.  A bad guy shot at him twice and missed because another bad guy was in the line of fire but he wasn't able to fire a third shot when his intended target was finally left wide open ...?  Why didn't Marissa fire-off some shots when Erik was very much preoccupied with kicking her front door?  Marissa was in her car following the three other bad guys  when they  pulled the RV over so that Hanna's new friend, Sophie ( Jessica Barden ),  couldn't have possibly gotten out of  the RV to follow her because Marissa would have prevented Sophie from doing so!  That bedroom had a very dusty floor so that when Hanna slid under it to hide, she would have left a telltale sign.  That waffle iron was left on!  So, when Hanna went back to "Mr. Grimm's" house in the old amusement park, there should have been toxic fumes all over the house because of  the left-unattended waffle iron.  Hanna had her forearm held parallel to the ground when that arrow came shooting out.  How did Hanna send the arrow shooting straight and at considerable velocity with her forearm held in such a way?  I'd like to know because I may have need of that arrow-shooting technique someday!

fyi:  I hate to say this but I think that Opening Scene with the deer was for real.  I didn't  see a Humane Society monitor notice in the Ending Credits.  And the animal acted real enough.  So, yeah, I think it was filmed during Deer Hunting Season.

And I bet that my niece, Jackie,  in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is better than Hanna at hunting deer!

word of advice:  In a kill-or-be-killed situation, there are no rules--fight "dirty" if  you want  to survive!

tidbits:  Wheelworks finally finished the work on my Hyundai Accent today, a Friday.  They couldn't finish it yesterday because they didn't get the Knock Sensor delivered on time.

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SUPER, NR ( 1 hr & 36 min )

where:  CALIFORNIA THEATRE in Berkeley, CA
when:  Thursday, April 7th, 2011
show:  7:15 p.m.
costs:  $10.00 Ticket + $0.00 medium Popcorn w/ Butter ( free reward on my Landmark Theatres' movie watcher card ) + $4.50 medium Diet Coke + $3.50 Bart Train Ticket + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $23.00
auditorium:  1, on the 1st floor
seat:   9th row, center section, 5th column

synopsis/overview:   After helplessly watching the  local drug dealer, Jacques ( Kevin Bacon ), take his wife, Sarah ( Liv Tyler ),  away from him, "Average Joe" Frank ( Rainn Wilson ) assumes the persona of a pseudo-superhero, Crimson Bolt, to fight crime and to get his wife back.  Without any kind of superpower at all, he relies on his trusty pipe wrench and his foul-mouthed over-eager sidekick, Boltie, a.k.a Libby ( Ellen Page ),  to get the job done.



noteworthy scenes:  1.) "Life of  humiliation ..."; 2.) Perfect moments; 3.) "I was weak"; 4.)  "People look stupid when they cry"; 5.) "I don't think she wants to see you anymore"; 6.) Burned burgers; 7.) Pet shop; 8.) "I hate you, God"; 9.) Prayer;10.) The Finger-of-God Vision; 11.) Comic books store; 12.) Journal; 13.) Library; 14.) Euclid Street; 15.) "Superheroes without powers"; 16.) "That will do"; 17.) Pipe wrench;  18.) Flashback; 19.) TV news; 20.) Waiting in line at the theatre; 21.) Front page news; 22.) "Somebody became a real one"; 23.) Images; 24.) The nosy detective; 25.) Ditching the image; 26.) "Give me a sign"; 27.) "Lust Dust"; 28.) The bad guy's mansion; 29.) Libby's house-warming party; 30.) "That's not him"; 31.) "I want to show you something"; 32.) "I want to show you something"; 33.) Boltie; 34.) "This is what you do"; 35.) The car vandal; 36.) "I'm pretty sure it was him"; 37.) The gas station; 38.) "It's called internal bleeding, and then you f--king die"; 39.) "In-between the panels"; 40.) The gun store; 41.) Shooting range; 42.) "Friend or foe"; 43.) Pipe bombs; 44.) Seduction; 45.) Toilet bowl; 46.) Female Wolverine; 47.) "Nobody can blame me for this"; 48.) Diversion; 49.) "Shut up! crime"; 50.) "I can't know that for sure unless I try"; 51.) "I saved Sarah"; 52.) The children; 53.) "Something much more"; and 54.) Voice-Over after the Ending Credits.

favorite scenes:   I liked the scene where Libby was "auditioning" for the part of  the sidekick.

And I like the scene where Libby was showing-off her new superheroine outfit.

audience reaction:  The audience really enjoyed this movie.

recommendation:  I enjoyed this movie, too.  This movie is this year's adult-oriented answer to last year's KICK-ASS.  This movie is very funny and very bloody violent, which is why it carries an NR rating.  Go see this movie if you're into "superhero" movies with more than a touch of  down-to-earth mortality.

spoiler alert!  For someone who got beat-up by three bad guys, he sure didn't look worse for the experience.  Nobody got the car's description and/or license plate number down?  Why didn't the drug dealers on the street have guns?  Why did he trespass in broad daylight?  Why were there no guard dogs at the bad guy's mansion?  How could a short-order cook at some local greasy-spoon joint be able to afford thousands of dollars worth of   ammo, weapons, etc. on the kind of  money that he earns?  Don't they usually  hold the ammo and weapons  for a certain length of time while they do a background check on the potential buyer first?  And all the stuff that Frank bought  would make for some really serious "paper trail" that the  local authorities will eventually  check-up on.  Since Frank didn't grease the ends, the threads and the caps of  his pipe bombs with petroleum jelly, one of those bombs would have exploded as he was screwing on the caps, simply by way of  friction!  Heck, if  I were to make pipe bombs, I'd make them extra long.  Why didn't the bad guys go to investigate their targets?  The bad guys had plenty of time to shoot at either Crimson Bolt or Boltie while either one was lobbing the pipe bombs at them.  And why didn't the bad guys dive for cover instead of just stand there?  This movie has a very let-down scene towards the end in the shoot-out with the bad guys.  Boltie's mask should not have come-off, if you think about it.  A big gaping wound like that with no blood ...?  With the gunshot wound that he got, he shouldn't have been able to raise his arm over his head or even carry someone.  Didn't Frank leave his fingerprints, and other incriminating stuff, at  the  apartment that will most likely be searched after someone filed a "missing person" report with the authorities?

fyi:  This is the second time that I went to see a movie at this theatre.  The first time was approximately 25 years ago.

I wanted to see this movie yesterday, a Wednesday, after paying a visit to  my friend, Hector, in Oakland, CA.  But my  Geo Metro's left rear tire blew-out on the I-80 Freeway between San Pablo Dam Road and McBryde Avenue in Richmond, CA, at around 12:30 p.m.  I pulled over to the shoulder right after the overpass.  And I was very scared as I changed the tire, what with my body just less than four feet away from the edge of the road where cars were zooming by between 55 and 70 miles per hour.  The funny thing was, I said to myself that if I'm going to go on a cross-country trip in this car sometime in the next two years, I had better have the tires replaced--then the tire blew out!

And speaking of my Geo Metro's tires, they look practically brand new even though I had the set installed about eight years ago.  But the weather made the tires brittle and the potholes made the sidewalls weaker, resulting in the blow-out.  I will need to have all four of them replaced.  And the emergency spare tire was under-inflated but I couldn't pump it up because the bicycle pump that I kept in the trunk broke at the plastic handle because the summer's heat, through the years, made it brittle, too.  So, the spare tire hummed all the way to my friend's house in Oakland.  Luckily, he had a portable tire inflater  that he had me borrow just so I'd have some peace of mind on the drive back home.

If you ask me, I believe that Ellen Page is better looking than Liv Tyler.  ( My favorite scenes'  picks say it all. )  Too bad that Ellen is a lesbian.  But, at least, she's a Lipstick Lesbian, not a Bull-Dyke Lesbian!

word of advice:  Heroes are not born, they are made.

Petroleum Jelly = It ain't just for your hair, lips and/or butt anymore.

tidbits:  First thing in the morning today, I took my Hyundai Accent to Wheelworks here in Vallejo, CA, because the "Check Engine" light came on again.  I already replaced  the spark plugs and the air cleaner; and I also put in a bottle of  Fuel Injector Cleaner.  And I made sure that the gas cap was on tight.  But the light came on again.  At a loss for any other possible solutions to my problem, I had the mechanic do a diagnostic check on my Accent.  It turned out that my car had a leaky Valve Gasket, a bad Knock Sensor, and bad Oxygen Sensors.  That would be over $800.oo worth of repairs!  But I needed to have them done because I have to get my car smogged next week in order to get a new license tag for it.

The strange thing about this is that my white Geo Metro is seven years older than my blue Hyundai Accent.  But I never had this problem--knock on wood--with my Metro at all.

And while I was at  Wheelworks, I had the service adviser do a search for 12-inch tires for my Geo Metro since they are very rare and hard to come by these days because  most tire manufacturers have altogether stopped making this size.  I worried that if he doesn't find size 12 tires for my Metro, I would be forced to upgrade to size 13 tires  and  wheels ( which would translate to more money out of my own pocket than I can easily afford to part with ).  But, luckily for me,  he  eventually found a warehouse later on in the day that still has size 12 tires  in-stock.

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INSIDIOUS, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 42 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Monday, April 4th, 2011
show:  10:30 p.m.
costs:  $9.75 Ticket + $4.50 Pretzel Bites + $4.50 20 fl. oz. VitaminWater Focus = $18.75
auditorium:  13
seat:  5th row, 8th column

synopsis/overview:  Little "Justin Beiber" has a really "Bad Hair" day!

A desperate couple fights to keep some bad ghosts and evil spirits away from their comatose child. 
 

noteworthy scenes:  1.) "You're old now"; 2.) Books on floor; 3.) Attic door; 4.) The attic; 5.) Coma; 6.) Feeding tube; 7.) Baby monitor; 8.) "I don't like when he walks around at night"; 9.) Baby's room window; 10.)  Front door; 11.) Hand print; 12.) "I'm scared"; 13.) Dancing kid; 14.)  The comatose boy's room; 15.) "This thing from the other house has followed us here"; 16.) Dream; 17.) "I know someone who can help"; 18.) Paranormal investigators; 19.) The sketch; 20.) "It's not the house that's haunted, it's your son"; 21.)The Further; 22.) Drawings; 23.) Seance; 24.) Frame by frame; 25.) "The reason that I know her so well"; 26.) Old hag; 27.) A parasite; 28.) "Out-of-Body Experience"; 29.) "He's in"; 30.) "Haunted house"; 31.) Red door; 32.) "He needs to find us"; 33.) "They're crossing into our world"; 34.) "Words are worth a thousand words, too"; 35.) "Why"; 36.) The photo; and 37.) "I'm right here."

audience reaction:  The audience reacted well to a couple of  fright scenes.

recommendation:  Save your money and wait for this to come out as a rental.

spoiler alert!  I hope that they didn't hire professional musicians--or even amateur ones, for that  matter--to do the musical score for this movie.  Talk about really bad music!  It all sounded like it was played by a tone-deaf, sheet-music illiterate monkey orchestra.  Why didn't they show the little boy walking around at night even though it was implied that he could?  If you have a security system installed at your residence, the first thing that happens when the security is breached is that the telephone will ring because a security personnel will want to know whether or not it is just a false alarm.  And if you don't answer the 'phone within a specified time, the security personnel will alert the local police of a possible break-in at your place--something that the scriptwriter and/or the movie director forgot about.  So, Mr. Teacher Guy calls his wife and tells her that he has to stay after school and work on grading test papers each and every night--boy! I would love to have a dumb, clueless wife like that.  Where can I get one?  I'm sorry to have to say this but ... Astral Projection has its own built-in safeguards, based on my experiences, both good and bad.  A simple touch, sound, movement and/or smell is enough to return your soul to your body.  The feeling of  fear will do it, too, but your soul doesn't return to your body as fast this way.  I remember having a wonderful Astral Projection experience one night when, all of a sudden, my brother ( who slept in the same bedroom with me ) let out a loud, stinky fart in his sleep!  That was enough to send me back to my body.  I cussed and swore at him through clenched teeth for ruining my Astral Projection and for keeping me awake through all that stench.  Of course, there were also times when I had really bad encounters that I was able to get out of simply because my brother said something in his sleep ( he was a sleep-talker and a sleep-walker, too ) or simply because he farted in his sleep!  Gas masks at a seance! why, did somebody fart ...?  Shouldn't that psychic have known way back when that her earlier effort with one of the victims didn't really work?  The problem with a low-budget movie such as this is that their SFX either sucks or is non-existent at all; here's a case in point:  Based on my personal experiences with Astral Projection, a soul travels usually by either floating or flying from one place to another.  In other words, they didn't have to climb the stairs; and they didn't have to open the doors since they could easily pass through solid objects--one of the pluses of  Astral Projection.

fyi:  The town of Benicia, CA, actually has its own paranormal ( "ghostbuster" ) investigator, Lewis Nowosad of  Gryphon Paranormal.  He does it as a hobby.  And he also happens to be a musician in a band, Junkyard Academy, with some  stuff available for viewing on YouTube.  Check him/it out.

Many years ago, before I could afford to buy a "ghetto blaster" to take to work, I would sing to myself just to pass the time away.  One time, my supervisor caught me singing to myself and he remarked that I sounded like Tiny Tim singing, Tiptoe Through The Tulips.  I finally heard this song as sung by Tiny Tim, himself, in this movie, and I don't think that my supervisor  was paying me any kind of  compliment at all!

I was about 17 years old when I first had an out-of-body experience ( o.o.b.e.), a.k.a. Astral Projection.  And I have had hundreds of them, mostly unplanned, up until just a few years ago.  But I gradually lost the ability to astral-project because I've been doing Alpha brainwave sound meditation for the last eight years.  Astral projection occurs while a person is in the Theta brainwave stage, just below the Alpha range.  I will need to train myself to get back down to Theta if I want to astral-project again.

word of advice:  Ignorance is bliss.

tidbits:  I was in my car on my lunch break today, doing my Zhunti ( a.k.a. Million or Enlightenment ) Mantra.  My car was parked in a shade less than a hundred yards away from the Benicia Fire Department.  Their dispatcher alerted them ( over their loud speaker ) of an emergency situation at the local high school where a 14-year old female fell unconscious.  As soon as I heard the emergency call, I looked at my watch to time the firemen's response.  They were on their way in one minute and two seconds flat!  Talk about quick.

A minute and a half after the emergency call, an ambulance sped by on its way to the high school, too.   I wonder if  other towns and cities have a comparable emergency response time to that of  Benicia, CA.

As I was paying for my purchase at the theatre's concession counter, the cashier remarked that the prices have gone up.  I told him that the prices always do each year around Springtime.  And I added that eventually it might even cost a hundred bucks just to see a movie.  It if ever gets to that, I'll just buy a large screen computer and watch all of the new movies on movie2k.com!

HOP, PG ( 1 hr & 30 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Friday,  April 1st, 2011
show:  4:30 p.m.
costs:  $7.50 Ticket + $4.50 Pretzel Bites + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $16.00
auditorium:  7
seat:  5th row, 10th column

synopsis/overview:  Runaway bunny, E. B. ( voiced by Russell Brand ), and slacker, O'Hare ( James Marsden ), meet by chance, form an unlikely friendship, and save Easter from the clutches of  Carlos ( voiced by Hank Azaria ), the power-hungry  chick.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Noble bunnies; 2.) The Factory; 3.) The O'Hares' lawn; 4.) Prepared statements; 5.) China; 6.) Hollywood; 7.) Rules of  Intervention; 8.) "Home to Bunnies"; 9.) The accident; 10.) "This will do"; 11.) "Why do you hate me"; 12.) Sarcasm; 13.) "You can't ignore me forever"; 14.) Pink berets; 15.) Safety suit; 16.) Bubble bath; 17.) "The Wild"; 18.) "I'm really special"; 19.) Flashback; 20.) Reconnaissance; 21.) Search party; 22.) Job interview; 23.) Recording studio; 24.) "The Hoff"; 25.) Untapped potential; 26.) "Difficult but not impossible"; 27.) The diner; 28.) Dolls; 29.) "Watermelon"; 30.) Talent show; 31.) "Sounds familiar"; 32.) Easter play; 33.) "I want candy"; 34.) "That look"; 35.) Destiny; 36.) "Special powers"; 37.) Fitness training; 38.) Coup d'etat; 39.) Dressing room; 40.) "Go to him"; 41.) "I'm wielding"; 42.) Black licorice; 43.) Drum beat; 44.) Easter bunnies; 45.) "This is amazing"; 46.) Bonus Scene during the Ending Credits; and 47.) Bonus Scene after the Ending Credits.

favorite scenes:  I liked the scenes with the dancing chick.  That chick can sure dance better than I can!

I liked the "doll" scene.


I liked the "watermelon" scene, too.
 
audience reaction:  The audience liked it, especially the little brats.

recommendation:  I liked this movie, too.  Go see it with your little brats.

spoiler alert!  If that's how them bunnies make them jelly beans, then that big ol' hopper filled to overflowing is the central processing part of their sewer system.  Yuck!  How come everybody else was oblivious to the bunny's presence inside the diner?  You would think that such a creature would find instant fame worldwide without any effort at all on its part.  Yeah, we know that this movie is by the same guys who gave us last year's DESPICABLE ME.  But do they have to rub it in by showing us a bunch of yellow "minions" yet again?  Don't get me wrong.  I like the minions in DESPICABLE ME, and these chicks are cute; but too much is too much.

fyi:  Easter eggs really have  nothing to do with Christianity.  The use of eggs to symbolize Life began as a Pagan tradition which pre-dates Christianity by hundreds of years.  I think that it was the ancient Persians who started it all.  Interestingly, the ancient Persians' State religion was Zoroastrianism, a religion which is in many ways similar to Christianity.

At my current place of  employment here in Benicia, California, my first day of  work was April 7th ( anniversary coming up ), which was an Easter Sunday.  I was worried about it since I was "the new guy".  I worried that maybe they'd have me put on  an Easter Bunny suit!  And it was quite a warm day, too, on top of it all.  But, luckily for me,  my  worry was unfounded.

One of my teachers in high school, who spent some time in the Philippines, gave a little white girl a Balut ( duck egg with a duckling  embryo inside of it ) for Easter.  She never went to an Easter Egg Hunt after that!  I don't necessarily feel sorry for her because she's one less competition for us Balut-eaters.  Ha, ha, ha.

One of  the sons of my friend, Hector, has one of those giant eyeglass frames laying in the back of his pick-up truck.  Some optometrist out there must be missing it.  Hmm, I wonder if there's a reward for turning in the culprit.  Hey, money is tight these days, what can I say ....

word of advice:  If you get Jelly Bean candy this Easter, check it for fur!

tidbits:  A couple of little brats kind of  spoiled it for the rest of us movie-goers because they were making noises and crying for the better part of the show.  And what did I already say about the Vallejo crowd ...?  But what I didn't know was at what age that they started to become rude, inconsiderate and obnoxious!

I had planned on seeing this movie in San Francisco, California, at the Metreon because I wanted to attend the WonderCon  Convention  after the show just a block away at Moscone Center, South.  But my computer was acting up.  I spent an hour cleaning, optimizing  and de-fragging  my computer.  Then, I read some very important e-documents which  required my prompt attention ( this, alone, took about three hours ).  But when I transferred some new e-mail correspondence  to my in-box, all of them got corrupted and were subsequently erased!  I  had to  track down the e-mail addresses of  each of my new correspondents,  inform them of the problem  and ask each one of them to e-mail me again at my other e-mail address.  By the time that I was done with it all, it was already around 3:30 p.m.  So, my S. F. plans were scrapped because of  this old  trouble-prone laptop of mine.  And I had so wanted to see Ryan Reynolds promoting his  up-coming GREEN LANTERN movie.  Darn it!
 

SOURCE CODE, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 33 min )

where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Friday, April 1st, 2011
show:  12:01 a.m.
costs:  $11.00 Ticket + $6.00 small Popcorn + $4.75 small Zero Coke = $21.75
auditorium:  6
seat:  5th row, 10th column

synopsis/overview:  An army helicopter pilot, Captain Colter Stevens ( Jake Gyllenhaal ), wakes up to find himself  in the body of  another man riding on a Chicago commuter train.  Soon, he learns that he is part of a secret government program called, The Source Code, that allows an agent to enter the body of another person in the last eight minutes of that person's life.  Captain Stevens is put in the mission to find the bomb that will blow-up the train, a bomb that serves only as a distraction since the terrorist responsible for it  is  also  planning to kill millions of people in  the downtown Chicago area with a homemade nuclear bomb.  Capt. Stevens re-experiences the critical eight minutes many times, gathering new clues each time, in order to find the bomb and the terrorist behind it. 
 

noteworthy scenes:  1.)  Unfamiliar surroundings; 2.) Restroom; 3.) Patterns; 4.) "Find the bomb"; 5.) "It's the same train but different"; 6.) "Goodwin ( Vera Farmiga ), you didn't tell me that I should disarm it"; 7.) "There's not going to be a next time"; 8.) "Two months";  9.) "He ... is now you"; 10.) "Eight minutes and I blow-up again"; 11.) "You look strange"; 12.)  "Think of it as a game"; 13.) "It wasn't you"; 14.) Afterglow; 15.) Letter of intent; 16.) News; 17.) "You're still here"; 18.) "It's the new me"; 19.) "What would you do if you only had eight minutes left to live"; 20.) Military patch; 21.) "Can I borrow a pen"; 22.) "Your friend was killed in action"; 23.) Flashback; 24.) Irrelevant; 25.) "You cannot deviate"; 26.) "Send him back"; 27.) "We have to keep doing this until you find the bomb"; 28.) "Please don't blow me up again"; 29.) Second call; 30.) Emergency lever; 31.) Wallet; 32.) "Very patriotic"; 33.) "Stay with me"; 34.) "I have your bomber"; 35.) "I'm asking you to give me the decency to at least let me try"; 36.) Another newscast; 37.)  "Powerful weapon on the war on terrorism"; 38.) "Are you asking me for a date"; 39.) Alternate version; 40.) Fail-safe; 41.) "There will be no coming back"; 42.) "I feel really good"; 43.) Funding; 44.) 'Phone call; 45.) Text message; 46.) The bet; 47.) "Open this door"; 48.) "I'd kiss you again"; 49.) Red button; 50.) "Everything's gonna be okay"; 51.) "Do you believe in Fate"; and 52.) Texted message.

favorite scene:  I liked the one in which he jumped out of the train.

audience reaction:  N/A.  There were only three of us in the auditorium.  The majority of  the movie goers went to see the midnight show for INSIDIOUS. 

recommendation:  I didn't particularly like this as much as I had hoped that I would.  You may want to wait for this to come out as a rental.

spoiler alert!  This movie plays like a "terrorist-themed" GROUNDHOG DAY.  It is physically and medically impossible for the helicopter pilot to survive that kind of injury in the first place.  'Think about it:  For one thing, all his blood would have drained out.  And even if for some miraculous reason he was able to survive it, no medic--no matter how good--would have been able to reach him in time and patch/stabilize him so the doctors could put him on life support.  Why didn't the train conductor ask for Christina's ( Michelle Monaghan ) ticket?  Duh!  This movie confuses time travel with parallel time.  If you, as an observer, go back repeatedly in time to observe some subjects and each time noticed a slight difference in your observations or manipulated your subjects to alter your findings, then what you have experienced are parallel times; and it simply means that the future end result will  be different because the linear time script was paralleled--and we know from Plane Geometry that parallel lines neither  meet nor intersect!  No two people on Earth, even counting identical twins, are exactly the same  because no two people ( or anything for that matter ) can occupy the same time and space.  The repeated stress of the time travel experiment would have easily killed the control  subject through sensory overload.  The "Afterglow" effect that they were talking about looks good on paper only.  After all, the target subject was more than likely killed instantly--if not vaporized by the blast--and they could not have done the necessary analysis to determine compatibility with their control subject within the span of eight minutes after the blast!  Okay, so he went back in time more than  half a dozen times and in-between times he reported, questioned, argued and/or  pleaded to/his/with superiors for I don't know how long;  well, then, simple addition says that the whole experiment took more than an hour--and I don't know about you, but that seemed like a long enough time for the terrorist to drive to the heart of  downtown Chicago, plant the bomb, get the hell out of there and detonate the bomb!  Why couldn't they just have used the services of  a darn-good psychic or one of the government's own Remote Viewers/Psychic Soldiers, in the first place?  In the end, that poor guy just ended-up with acute Split Personality  Disorder.  L.O.L!

fyi:  I saw this documentary on TV once about emergency responders.  A man interviewed talked about when his emergency crew came upon a man who was hit by a train.  The man was pinned mid-section under one of the train's wheels.  The man was conscious and responsive.  There was no way for the man to get out of that situation alive because he was literally cut in half.  They broke the news to him as gently as they could.  But the man was in denial, saying that he was okay and that he'll be fine.  When they moved him, the man's guts spilled out and he died instantly.

word of advice:  If at first you don't succeed, die, die  again!

tidbits:  I guess that I don't necessarily follow my own word of advice since I went to see yet another midnight show!  Oh, when will I ever learn ....

Eeyew!  If I ever find out that I'm inside the body of another man, THERE AIN'T NO WAY IN THE WORLD THAT I'M GONNA HOLD "IT" WHEN I HAVE TO GO PEE!!!!!!!