Ever since I saw the preview for Four Christmases when we went to see Ghost Town, I have been telling Bill “We must see Four Christmases!!!” From that day he had said a firm “No – I’m not seeing that!”
Earlier last week he told me he wanted to go and see the new Bond flick. I had never seen a Bond movie so thought it would be perfect timing to see one. Then mid-week he told me we would now be seeing the movie ‘The Punisher’. I checked online and saw this movie was getting absolutely horrid reviews – I kept exclaiming “What about Four Christmases?!?!?!” but this was to no avail. There was even a tumblr post warning about how bad this movie was. Bill wouldn’t budge.
I think I just about groaned to everyone about having to put up with these boy movie selections. Groaned and moaned. Moaned and groaned. Then Bill said we might as well do a double feature of the Punisher and the Bond flick. Double boy movie overload. While I didn’t mind, I could think of other movies I would prefer to be watching. Like Dirty Dancing, Bring it on, Clueless, The Breakfast Club…! I realized that Four Christmases seemed like it would be one movie I’d be seeing on my own.
But being the lovely person I am I went along with the plan of lunch followed by this double feature. At lunch he proceeded to give me my prebooked ticket to The Punisher. It wasn’t that dreaded movie at all…. it was Four Chirstmases. Awwwww! And he had known all along and heard me sulk about it all week.
So to everyone I complained to about having to sit through such abhorrent movies – let me hereby declare Bill’s innocence and make this post a reason to celebrate his thoughtfulness! 😉
Although – I was not immune from boy movies forever. We walked out of Four Christmases, stepped out on to 42nd Street and then walked straight back into the cinema and booked tickets for Quantum of Solace.
For my first Bond movie, it wasn’t too bad. I fell asleep for about 5 minutes in one part, just due to the fact I was tired – it had nothing to do with the movie.
One interesting aspect was the difference in previews for the two movies.
Four Christmases has previews to upcoming movies like Marley and Me, He’s Just Not That Into You, some chick click with Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr and a Jim Carrey flick. For Quantum of Solace the previews included the Fast and the Furious and… oops a couple of others I can’t even remember. Except they had lots of car scenes and explosions and other… stuff like that.
One of the most hilarious aspects of the day (of which I forgot to take a photo of) was the size of the drinks at the cinema. We got a medium coke. I am not joking when I say I reckon it was a 1.5 litre cup. It was massive and SO HEAVY. Yes, that was medium. Just like Maccas coke where an Australian ‘medium’ is the size of a small here.
Also, another point is that cinemas here don’t tend to show the advertising we are used to in Australian cinemas. One thing they do excel in here is telling people what feels like fifteen times over to turn off their mobile phones… and it still doesn’t work.