WANDERLUST, R ( 1 hr & 38 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Tuesday, February 28ht, 2012
show:  12:05 p.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $6.50 Ticket + $4.75 junior Popcorn + $4.00 small 16 oz Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $15.25
auditorium:  4
seat:  3rd row, 9th column


synopsis/overview:  After George ( Paul Rudd ) and Linda ( Jennifer Aniston ) lose their home, they decide to move-in with George's brother in Atlanta.  But they happen upon a free love commune along the way.  After a little bit of soul-searching, they decide to give the commune lifestyle a try.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Micro loft; 2.) "Don't go to sleep.  We can do this"; 3.) "F-ck the penguins"; 4.) "The Benjamins"; 5.) "Very interesting company shut-down"; 6.) "It's a stupid apartment"; 7.) The nudist guy; 8.) "Verbal diarrhea"; 9.) "Where are John, Paul and Ringo"; 10.) "Menstrual cycle"; 11.) "Money buys nothing"; 12.) "I have a little bit of a Sky Mall problem"; 13.) Porta-Potty business; 14.) Argument; 15.) The welcome back; 16.) "Door ... way"; 17.) "Dingle bag"; 18.) "Primal gesticulation"; 19.) Jam session"; 20.) Assorted chores; 21.) Toilet talk; 22.) Truth circle; 23.) Flight of fancy; 24.) "Why is that grass crying"; 25.) "I believe I can fly"; 26.) 'Phone call; 27.) Pond; 28.) "We should make love sometime"; 29.) "Business cards"; 30.) "Fetish violence"; 31.) "Marking her territory"; 32.) The protest; 33.) TV news; 34.) "Topless Norma Rae"; 35.) "I just made love to your wife in the other room"; 36.) "Get it up in your vage"; 37.) "You're creeping me out"; 38.) Baby; 39.) Paul and the fly; 40.) Placenta; 41.) "It was a stupid idea"; 42.) GPS; 43.) Betrayed; 44.) Manuscript; 45.) "We'll make-out without touching"; 46.) "The tracking system in your car"; 47.) At the Gwinnette Diner; 48.) "That's a very easy mistake to make"; 49.) "I'm not punching you. I'm slapping you"; 50.) "Jesus, can a person go a day in this place without getting a dick in the face"; 51.) The witness; 52.) The founders; 53.) TV news update one year later; 54.) Outtakes during the Ending Credits; and 55.) Bonus Scene after the Ending Credits.

favorite scenes:  I liked the Business Cards scene.

I liked the Diner scene.

I liked some of the scenes with Eva and Linda in them.

audience reaction:  N/A.  I was the only one in the auditorium.

recommendation:  I actually found it funny, not laugh-out-loud funny.  But, funny, nonetheless.  Go see this if you're into Comedy movies.

spoiler alert!  How could they not have heard the horse walk to the doorway? When he caught her from falling from that height, the force should have hurt his back and torn both of his rotator cuff ligaments. I would not want to swat a fly with my bare hand, especially at the dining table since it would just be gross! Deeds of Trust are simply a matter of public record. They could easily find a copy of the deed at the local county clerk's office. Duh! What those TV news reporters said all amounted to sexual harassment over which they could have been/ should have been easily sued for million$.  Ah ... the pregnant woman forgot to remove her panties first. On TV, why was the nudist guy's butt censored but not Ray Liotta's butt? For you horndogs out there who want to see this movie for its nudity, let me give you a quick rundown on what to expect:  Male butt, fake penis, fripples, wet see-through male underwear, young female breasts, fripples, pregnant woman's crotch shots; old saggy breasts, pot bellies, stretch marks,  "turtle-neck" penis, and another male butt ( in that particular order, I think ).  I'm surprised to see that, given the commune's free love lifestyle, there were no horndogs beating a daily/nightly path to Eva's ( Malin Akerman ) doorway!

fyi:  One night back when I was a little kid of four or five years of age in Kidapawan, Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines, a neighborhood friend of mine, Ben-Ben,  told me that if I climbed up the Guyabano ( Soursop ) tree beside our house and perched myself on a branch, I would be able to float in the air. I climbed up the tree and stood there as a cool breeze swayed the tree ever so gently. I believed that I could fly. But I held on a branch, just in case.  Eventually, though, plain old common sense got the better hold on me and I climbed down that tree.

Someday, I will hunt down that "piece of sh-t" friend and punch him out for almost talking me into killing myself!

Does anybody out there remember a few years back when Placenta was added to some brands of Shampoo? Yuck!  What was that all about ...?

word of advice:  Nothing in Life is free.

tidbits:  At the concessions area, I saw a co-worker of mine.  Brian was there to see ACT OF VALOR. I told him that I had just finished blogging about it this morning.  And I gave him one of my Cine-Man cards so that he could read what I have to say about it.  He said that he will check it out and see whether or not he will agree with what I have to say about the movie.  I told him that he will, since I'm dead-on in my review.  I will get his feedback on it the next time that I see him at work.


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ACT OF VALOR, R ( 1 hr & 51 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Saturday, February 25th, 2012
show:  12:10 p.m.  ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $6.50 Ticket + $4.75 Pretzel Bites + $4.00 small 16 oz Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry flavors ) Coke + $4.28 Beefy Crunch Combo lunch @ Taco Bell after the movie = $19.53
auditorium:  1
seat:  4th row, 4th column


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Ethos; 2.) Schoolyard; 3.) Expectant father; 4.) Kidnapped; 5.) "All our focus is on the mission"; 6.) Intelligence report; 7.) Torture; 8.) "Target secure"; 9.) Chase; 10.) "Hot extract"; 11.) Discreet; 12.) "Always disappointing"; 13.) "Big trouble in little China"; 14.) "Sixteen Pilipinos"; 15.) Yacht; 16.) "Crisco"; 17.) "Sh-t filters fall"; 18.) "Sixteen Jihadists"; 19.) Mexican coastal village; 20.) "Mission not complete"; 21.) Tunnel network; 22.) US/Mexico Border; 23.) "Milk factory"; 24.) Suicide bomber; 25.) Grenade; 26.) Old flag; 27.) "Tecumseh's poem"; 28.) Pictures during the Ending Credits; and 29.) "In Memory Of" dedication.

audience reaction:  The audience enjoyed it.

recommendation:  It was good enough for me.  Go see this if you're into Action Movies.

spoiler alert!  Great ... now all of the Terrorists and Drug Cartels in the Whole Wide World know how the Navy Seals operate! Whoopty Doo ....  These guys are supposed to be actual, active Navy Seals personnel which is why they are mentioned/listed only on a "First Name Basis."  But, the director and/or cameraman forgot this little detail when filming one of the Navy Seals because the last name of the Seal-guy was shown on his uniform as he left his wife to go on deployment--Whoopsie! I guess that somebody forgot to tell the Navy Seals that there are plenty--and I do mean, p-l-e-n-t-y--of Crocodiles in Costa Rica which hunt at night!  Couldn't they make the mini reconnaissance drone with a bird-like silhouette, instead?  Why, because a drone shaped like a plane and flown deep in the jungle would easily raise the suspicion of those being spied upon once it is spotted.  After all, the jungle is usually not the place where one would find R/C planes being flown around ( at the neighborhood park, maybe ).  The sniper had enough time to have easily taken-out the first truck, and slowed-down the bad guys in the process. When the Navy Seals had those trucks pinned down, they should also have used RPGs on them.  The only way that that particular Navy Seal could have known that the 16 Jihadists were Pilipinos was if he looked at all the Hispanic names in the Ending Credits first!  Heads up to all of the Navy Seals out there, the native peoples in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Southern Philippines who are Muslims all look the same. So, looking through a pair of binoculars at a bunch of Far East/South East Asians kneeling and praying towards Mecca doesn't necessarily make them all to be Pilipinos.  Because they all look pretty much the same, with a few exceptions such as myself.  If you put me in a room full of Mexicans or Puerto Ricans, invariably, one of them will try to start a conversation with me by asking:


"Eres el Sr. Fred?"


Que?


"Eres el Sr. Fred Flintstone?"


Hell, no!  Not you, too.  ( Damn, I get that anywhere I go! ) Escuchame, Yo soy el doble atractivo de la Esai Morales!  Me entiendes? ( Listen to me, I'm Esai Morales' better-looking "twin"! Do you understand me? )  Ha, ha, ha.

When you're busy working in your makeshift bomb factory in the middle of the night and a dog outside starts barking loudly and repeatedly, what should that tell you ...?  When the Navy Seals raided that coastal village, they would have made a more efficient work of it had they also used Infra-Red Imaging to "see" which shacks had people in them who were wide awake and assembling explosive devices. Whoever translated the Tagalog dialogues into English in the subtitle did a laughable  job of it!  Why didn't they hire my services as Cine-Man, the Tagalog-to-English translator? When a grenade nearby is about to explode, you should lie down flat on the floor instead of kneel against the wall! I say this because I'm pretty sure that they heard and saw the grenade land on the floor near them. There was a quick scene wherein laser dots were clearly shown on the bad guys, but the Navy Seals forgot to shoot at them. Dang, who trained this particular group of Navy Seals, anyway? After he was already dead, the Navy Seal who was laying in his own pool of blood blinked his eye! It is not a poem at all but, rather, it is words to live by.

fyi:  What follows now is the wisdom advice of Chief Tecumseh which I found on the internet ....

CHIEF TECUMSEH'S Words To Live By:

"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Trouble no one about their religion;

respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,

even a stranger, when in a lonely place.

Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools

and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled

with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep

and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

Internet Source:

Source type: Wisdom Commons Website

Chief Tecumseh ( 1768-1813 ) of the Native American Shawnee Nation

Contributor: Mriana

Copied from:  www.wisdomcommons.org

Since the Pilipino Jihadists in this movie all spoke Tagalog, it simply goes to reason that the Muslim terrorists in the Philippines are nothing more than just Tagalogs masquerading as Moros to give the Mindanawens a bad reputation--the nerve of them!    I mean, in Mindanao, where I was born, the natives speak Bisaya, Moro, Dabawenyo, Bagobo, etc.  BUT, in this movie,  THEY SPOKE IN TAGALOG.  In other words, the US Armed Forces who are fighting the Terrorists in the Philippines are doing so in the wrong Island!  They should all pack-up and head north to the Island of Luzon, where the Tagalogs live!  Ha, ha, ha.  And the US Armed Forces can racially-profile all of the Tagalogs all they want, for all I care.  LOL.  That should teach the Tagalogs right for infiltrating my Island and pretending that it belongs to them.

In case you guys are wondering why I purposely spell, Filipino, with a "P", it is because the letter "F" is not in the Philippine Alphabet.  Yes, that's right, we don't give a "F"!  Ha, ha, ha.

word of advice:  Be ready to lead.  Be ready to follow.  And never quit.

"Don't bother running, you'll only die tired!"

tidbits:  I went to see this movie before going to work to take advantage of the extra dollar off matinee special.

Next, I went to the Dollar Tree Store at the Target Shopping Center to buy a 3-litre bottle of Grape soda. Then, I went to the nearby Taco Bell for a light lunch and to spend some time doing my Zhunti Mantra before hitting the road to go to work.

And I had to stay overtime one hour and twenty minutes just so I could finish my work assignment because it was just too busy at work and there was not enough help scheduled for today--same ol' crap, so to speak.

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THE DESCENDANTS, R ( 1 hr & 55 min )

Quickie Review:  A man must come to grips with a life-altering reality: The inevitable death of his comatose wife.  As he wrestles with the decision to allow the doctors to remove his wife from life support, a secret adulterous affair surfaces.  All the while, he faces pressure from most of his relatives who want him to sell the family's vast Land Trust of which he is the sole trustee.  Above all of these, he tries to be a better father to his two daughters.

I was the only one in auditorium 10 for this particular show at 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012, at the UA Emery Bay Stadium 10 in Emeryville, CA.

I liked this Comedy/Drama Movie which was, for the most part, realistically portrayed.  And I do recommend it as a "Go See" movie.

I liked the scene when he was alone in the hospital room with his wife.  I liked the scene with the grandfather and the granddaughter's stupid guy friend. And I also liked the end of the scene when he went to visit the realtor.

Here are the things that I didn't like about this movie:  I don't know whether or not this movie is based on actual events. But it seems to me that their ancestor was the only one who married a native while the rest of the descendants married into white families--the ancestor had an ulterior motive, perhaps. The daughters were too foul-mouthed and too disrespectful toward their father.  Of course, I say this from the point-of-view of someone who was born in a country where such behaviors were simply not tolerated nor expected of children.  But, who knows, maybe times/things have changed now in the westernized old country through the influence of Hollywood Movies. The older daughter's guy friend was too stupid to be believable, like he was just added-on for comic relief. Did all of the relatives chip-in to pay the Property Tax in Perpetuity? Did any of them look at the possibility of selling Easements on the Land Trust? And the ashes looked more like cat litter, the cheap non-clumping kind!

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THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY, G ( 1 hr & 35 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
show:  4:30 p.m.
costs:  $7.50 Ticket + $3.75 two-scoop Ice Cream ( Strawberry Cheesecake & Cookie Dough ) + $4.50 medium 24 oz Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $15.75
auditorium:  3
seat:  4th row, 4th seat


synopsis/overview:  Shawn, a sick and frail boy, goes to his grandparents' country home to rest-up before he goes to a hospital for heart surgery.  But the home is also home to a very tiny "human" girl, Arrietty, and her parents who call themselves, The "Borrowers".  The borrowers take things from humans that will usually not be missed.  Shawn and Arrietty become friends.  But it's a friendship that puts the borrowers' lives at risk.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Bush; 2.) "My own little garden"; 3.) Kitchen; 4.) Dollhouse; 5.) Discovered; 6.) Sugar cube; 7.) Note; 8.) Crow; 9.) "We've better start looking for a new home"; 10.) Pest control; 11.) Dollhouse story; 12.) "Too many memories of wishes that never came true"; 13.) "It really would have made a lovely home"; 14.) Another borrower; 15.) Cricket leg; 16.) Kitchen remodel; 17.) Face to face; 18.) "Sometimes, you have to stand up and fight for what you believe in"; 19.) Caught; 20.) 'Phone call; 21.) Exterminators; 22.) Nest; 23.) "Not gone"; 24.) "Someone's been making tea"; 25.) The cat; 26.) Parting gifts; and 27.) Bonus Scenes during the Ending Credits.

audience reaction:  The few people in the audience were mostly families with little brats, like the one in the 5th row whose brats were talkative!  The man in the 3rd row was with his brat-daughter; and they left halfway through the movie--I don't know what that was all about.  There were people seated further back. And the general consensus of the audience was that this movie was "Enjoyable Enough" for them to watch.

recommendation:  I felt the same way, too.  This is a family movie that you might want to take your little brats to.  Just be sure to keep them quiet or else ....

spoiler alert!  That flashlight bulb would need a bigger battery. When Arrietty was standing on Shawn's shoulder, the thought that came to my mind was, Gee, I hope he doesn't have bad breath--I say this because Shawn was never shown brushing his teeth! Ha, ha, ha.  How was their house covered with rubbish, and wouldn't the house still be under that pile? They were supposed to "borrow" things that the humans wouldn't miss, but the neighbors noticed that some things went missing.

fyi:  What I'm about to tell you might come across as unbelievable, that you might be well-advised "to take it with a grain of salt"--or a lump of sugar, in this case--but I'm telling it to you just the way that it happened many years ago back in Mindanao, Philippines.

We were already living at a Matina, Davao City, apartment at that time.  It was probably around the time when I was ten or eleven years of age.  At certain times, we would make it a family trip to visit our old house in Kidapawan, Cotabato.  But this time around was going to be different because my mother planned for us to stop by a house between Bansalan and Makilala, a house that she heard was inhabited by little people.

The house, in particular, was a typical native-style nondescript house on stilts. The lady owner invited us into her house and told us some things about the little people that lived under her house.  She said to treat the little people with respect because they had magical powers that could do both harm and good to humans. And she said that the little people even had the power to assume human proportions whenever they needed to. And, as "humans", they'd even travel to Davao City to do some shopping.  The lady even showed us a porcelain jar ( the kind used for beauty creams ) that has a pair of tiny sandals ( i.e. Flip-flops ) in it. My father had to suppress his laughter when he saw the pair of sandals which were the exact same ones quite commonly used to adorn keychains with!  The sandals even had holes in them were a keychain ( like the kind used for dogtags ) would be threaded through.

Finally, it was time for us to look under the house.  This area under the house was boarded-up on all four sides with plywood.  But it had an opening under the staircase.  We gathered there at the opening as we peered into the darkness. After staring into the darkness for a few minutes, I noticed a flash of light shoot from left to right in front of my eyes.  Then, in the middle of the darkened area, I saw a pair of tiny lighted orbs moving slightly closer to us onlookers.  The orbs turned out to be the headlights of a tiny truck with a canvas-covered bed ( like the kind that you see in WWII movies )! The tiny driver got out and walked a few inches in front of the truck and got down on his knees to "scoop water" with his hands from an invisible source in front of him.  He was "drinking water", from the look of it! And I saw another tiny man using a pick, and another one digging for something with a shovel.

My eldest sister, the one who now lives in Michigan, was the only other one in the family who saw something in that darkened area under the lady's house.  But I can't recall exactly what she saw.  I will have to ask her about it someday.

To be sure, there was no Arrietty down there.  And the closest to it would have been had my other sister pinched me in disbelief and made me exclaim,  Aray, Ate! ( Ouch, older sister! )

And the subdivision that my family moved to, the G.S.I.S. Heights Subdivision in Matina, Davao City, also had some houses inhabited by tiny people.  I learned of two such houses.  One house, I was told, had friendly tiny people living in it that were bold enough to introduce themselves to the son of the owner of said house. These tiny people decide who they want to reveal themselves to and/or be friends with.  It is considered Good Luck to have such friends, so long as you are respectful to them and not abuse the friendship--Yeah, like, good luck with that!

If I could have such friends right now, I'd probably have them hunt down the lowlifes who stole from and trashed my Geo Metro last month.  And I'd have them put a curse on the pair of lowlifes and cause them acute pain and suffering!  Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha.  Oh, if I could only have such friends ....

word of advice:  Be self-sufficient.

tidbits:  I went back to Best Buy today to have the car alarm installation completed.  I arrived there at exactly 1:00 p.m.  But the two installers were backed-up in their work.  I was told to come back at 3:30 p.m. ( I just hate it when things don't go according to plan--my plan ).  But, I wanted to get this over with a.s.a.p.  So I agreed to come back later.

I swung by the Dollar Tree Store at the Target Shopping Center to pass the time away and to buy a bathtub mat and a 3-litre bottle of Root Beer.

Then, I drove to Selecta Pilipino Buffet for lunch.  And, would you believe it, I was not in the mood for pigging-out!  I only ate about half of what I usually eat--I should have loosened my belt by a notch, or two.

Anyway, as I went to the counter to pay for my meal, I noticed that the proprietor, Ray P., was wearing a brace on his right arm.  And he was leaning to his left while on a crutch.  He suffers from Gout.  He wasn't here the last time that I was here because of his gout.  Maybe, his condition is a warning to me not to eat Pilipino food anymore!  So, what am I gonna do when I get that certain craving for a "Taste of Home"?

I told Ray P. that I know of a doctor who did something drastic when he discovered that he had gout.  This doctor went on a strict Vegetarian Diet for One Whole Year! And that was a long-enough time for him to heal himself of gout.  Now, that's a doctor who practices what he preaches.  And, if it's good enough for a doctor, it should be good enough for everyone else.

After perusing a couple of Pilipino newspapers at the buffet to pass the time away, I walked next door to the  99 Cent Only Store to buy a 20 oz bottle of Nestea Pomegranate & Passion Fruit Red Tea to water-down the food which I just ate. Whenever I eat at a Pilipino buffet, I make sure to wash my food down with a tall can of Coconut Drink because it is high in Potassium, a mineral that counter-balances the effects of Sodium.  And, one thing about Pilipino food, it can get quite salty!  I even drank half a glass of water at the buffet on top of the Coconut drink that I had.  But these weren't enough.  I had to buy the tea next door to help-out with the counter-balancing.  ( And if you noticed, I even opted to buy a medium drink--instead of a small--at the theatre concession counter for the same reason. )

At 3:20 p.m., I was back at the install bay at Best Buy.  One of the two installers, Theo, a former co-worker of mine, and I got to talking for a bit.  He told me that he races cars at the local racetrack, Infineon Raceway, as a hobby.  I asked him if he races against cops on Wednesday nights at the racetrack.  He told me, No, because he considers it a form of "Entrapment".  Heck, I feel that way about it, too.

The local police departments in the area have a race program to keep the streets safe from crazy and reckless dragsters.  They use their police cars to drag-race against modified street cars.  And the cops almost always lose the race.  I think the cops just do that on purpose so that they can gather info on "fast and furious" cars with their on-dash cameras.  Word to the wise: Avoid drag-racing against cops.

The other installer, John, showed me the right-side door actuator.  He said that it worked, but that it wasn't connected to the wiring system at all.  He asked me if I bought the car new.  I told him that I bought it used ( It had 10,500 miles on it when I bought it back in August of 2002 ).  Maybe it was disconnected back in '05 when I had the right side door fixed after some bitch broadsided my car on Tennessee Street here in Vallejo.

Anyway ... the installation was done by 4:10 p.m.  Which left me with plenty of time to go see this movie.  So, I did.

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GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 36 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Sunday, February 19th, 2012
show:  12:15 p.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $6.50 Ticket + $4.75 Pretzel Bites + $4.50 24 oz medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's Root Beer & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $15.75
auditorium:  8
seat:  5th row, 8ht column

2nd Time

where:  EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & 1-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when:  Monday, February 20th, 2012
show:  6:30 p.m.
costs:  $15.00 Ticket + $2.00 4.0 oz Reeses Pieces Candy ( Two Dollar Candy Monday with a movie watcher card ) + $0.00 small 30.0 oz Diet Coke + $13.72 dinner @ Hometown Buffet after the movie ( + $2.00 Tip ) = $32.72
auditorium:  9, with a 3-D screen
seat:  4th row, 7th column


synopsis/overview:   Johnny Blaze ( Nicolas Cage ) hides out somewhere in Eastern Europe to get away from it all.  But a secret order of priests tracks him down because they need his help in saving a boy, Danny ( Fergus Riordan ), from the clutches of the Devil.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Castle raid; 2.) Car chase; 3.) "Bare-ass 360"; 4.) Deal with the Devil; 5.) "Intervention of God"; 6.) Deal; 7.) Pickpocket; 8.) "I'm the people who are after you"; 9.)  Emergency room; 10.) "I want more"; 11.) Firewall; 12.) "Boyfriend/girlfriend"; 13.) "Devil's baby momma"; 14.) "Power of the Deal"; 15.) Crash; 16.) Happy camper; 17.) "Hey, I got what you need for your 'shakes"'; 18.) Illegal arms dealer; 19.) "Enough.  Let her go"; 20.) Truck stop; 21.) "Power of Decay"; 22.) "Second flame thrower"; 23.) "I hope you are finished shooting at me"; 24.) Twinkie; 25.) "Happy place"; 26.) "Spirit of Justice"; 27.) Confession; 28.) "You've been carrying this bread around for a while"; 29.) "You lied to me"; 30.) "Pretty neat, huh"; 31.) The rite; 32.) "What's the matter with your face"; 33.) "Guns and wine"; 34.) "Think of a flame thrower"; 35.) The new king; 36.) Antichrist; 37.) "That felt good"; 38.) "That's gross"; 39.) "The apple doesn't rot far from the tree"; 40.) Rescue chase; 41.) Roadkill; 42.) "You're the worst f--king deal I ever made"; 43.) "I can feel him"; and 44.) "Hell, yes!"

audience reaction:  The audience liked it.  But it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.  The woman seated in the 10th column of the 6th row had a particularly fun time watching this movie.  And the young couple seated in the 6th row, too, to the left of me liked this movie enough that, after watching it, the girl called someone on her cellphone to tell that person how much she enjoyed watching this movie.

2nd audience reaction:  This particular crowd has no good ear for quips and has no good eye for sight gags at all: The very same lines of dialogue and the very same scenes that the Vallejo crowd found funny, the Fairfield crowd didn't "get" at all--it was "lost" to them.  On more than one occasion, I found myself the only one laughing at the quips and sight gags.

recommendation:  I liked it, too.  It was more fun to watch than the first one. What made this movie appealing is that it established itself early on as a Horror Comedy type of movie.  Hell, even the son of the Devil had three funny scenes in this movie!  Go see this movie if you're into Horror Comedy movies.

spoiler alert!  If he wanted to get the kid out of the car, all the bad guy had to do was smash the window to open the locked door, instead of hitting the door with his rifle butt.  Ghost Rider's jacket was made out of leather, so why did it bubble all over instead of just give-off smoke?  Ghost Rider's body couldn't have possibly done such an extensive damage on the SUV when his skeletal body was slammed hard against it.  When you're taken to the emergency room of a hospital for surgery, they usually take-off all of your clothes first.  An RPG could knock him out but a Bunker Buster couldn't ...?  If the bad guy had the Power of Decay, why didn't the ambulance he was driving get rusted?  If anything he touches decays, how was he able to capture the boy unharmed and alive in the first place?  Why didn't the rest of the posted guards hear the automatic rifle fire right away? The bad guy could have attack Johnny during the transference of Ghost Rider power.  When the bad guy landed on her vehicle's hood, why didn't Nadya ( Violante Placido ) slam on the brakes?  The vehicle didn't bounce hard when it ran over the body.  When Ghost Rider was carrying the unconscious Danny back to his mom, his head was next to Ghost Rider's head yet his hair didn't get singed.

fyi:  If you want to experience a close-approximate of what it is like to urinate a stream of  flames like the Ghost Rider does, simply get yourself infected with Gonorrhea and/or Chlamydia!

By the way, you can get Gonorrhea simply from performing Oral Sex on your infected partner.  And you could get your eyes infected by it, too!  So, be careful having sex; practice Safe Sex by wearing a Condom, a ( water-proof--good luck with that one ) Surgical Mask, and a pair of Swimming Goggles--you'll look stupid, funny and weird but you'll be safe, sexually-speaking!  LMAO

Oh, by the way, Gonorrhea is also called, "The Clap".

"If you'd been naughty and you got IT, clap your hands!
If you'd been naughty and you got IT, clap your hands!
If you'd been naughty and you got IT but you really don't want to spread IT,
If you'd been naughty and you got IT, clap your hands!"  LOL

Disclaimer:  I didn't mention this get-yourself-infected ... in my word of advice so that you can't go around blaming me for your sexually-transmitted infection, should you happen to get one.  Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha---Snort!

The scene in which the bad guy with the Power of Decay tried to eat a sandwich which just decayed in his hand, then tried to eat an apple which also decayed in his hand, and finally got to eat a Twinkie is an inside joke:  There's this belief that a Twinkie, laden as it is with too many preservatives, will last a thousand years without decaying if it is properly stored!  I'll let you know in a thousand years whether this is true or not.

Lord knows, the Twinkie will probably  be the "Manna" that we will all be eating during Jesus Christ's Millennial Reign here on Earth!  Ha, ha, ha.

But I didn't know that they have Hostess Twinkies in Eastern Europe.

word of advice:  Don't make a pact with the Devil.

tidbits:  I went to Best Buy first thing this morning to have a security car alarm installed in my Hyundai Accent. I got there at around 9:30 a.m.  And there was already another guy waiting at the install bay parking area. To while the time away, I walked around the perimeter and did my Zhunti Mantra.

The bay opened for business at 10:00 a.m.  And the installer told me that it would take him three hours to work on my car.  Well, that just ruined my plan to see this movie in 3-D at either the 11:30 a.m. or the 1:10 p.m. show at the Edwards Fairfield Stadium 16 & I-Max.

I walked across the street to the Century 14 Vallejo to check the show times for this movie.  But it was still around 10:30 a.m. when I got there and the theatre was not yet opened.

I walked back to Best Buy and saw that the installer was already at work on my car. So, I went inside the store to use the men's room and to browse around in the DVD and Software sections.  Then, I went to check on my car again.  It was still being worked on.

I walked back to the theatre and saw that this movie had a 2-D showtime for 12:15 p.m.  Well, I might as well see this movie to pass the time away while my car is being worked on, I said to myself.  But I still want to see this movie again in 3-D, just because ....

The movie let out at around 2:10 p.m.  I checked my cellphone and found out that the installer just finished with my car less than twenty minutes earlier.  That was almost four hours just for a security car alarm installation!

As I walked back to Best Buy, I spotted a Hobo hide-out behind the Pep-Boys building nearby, complete with a cardboard mat and a stick of wood for the hobo's personal security and/or safety.  The hide-out is located under the rear cement staircase.

Anyway, the installation is not completely finished, as of yet.  The installer discovered that the right side door doesn't have an actuator in it.  I will need to take it back on Tuesday, at 1:00 p.m., to have him finish the job.  But the security alarm is now operational, except for the passenger side door.

Then, I went to the post office to drop off a mail-order.

And I went to Selecta Pilipino Buffet for lunch, and to buy some lottery tickets.

Finally, before heading on home, I walked to the 99 Cent Only Store next door to buy a three litre bottle of Strawberry Kiwi Fusion soda, a trail mix, some batteries, and a few dessert cups.  Of course, Brett might argue that I could have bought most of these things--except for the soda--at Safeway.  But his manager pissed me off so much last night that I'm boycotting that particular Safeway store for the foreseeable future!

2nd tidbits:  I was the last dining patron left at Hometown Buffet.  And I wanted to have a frozen yogurt swirl to cap my dining experience before leaving the premises.  So, I went to the frozen yogurt dispensing machine to get a bowl of Vanilla & Chocolate Swirl.  When I pulled down on the center lever, the machine didn't squirt out a swirl; instead, with a loud noise, it BLASTED-OUT a clump of swirl into my cup!  Not to mention, my upper body was splattered with it, too. What a way to cap my dining experience!

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