The Best Friend Lunch #6

I am usually a giant suck-up when it comes to music, and I try to find the absolute best in any song, even though some people might find it dull, too loud, unexciting, or whiny. However, movies are somewhat different. I have previously written about the fact that I haven’t seen many movies, so my standards are very low, but Lilian and I saw a movie today that was honestly very disappointing.

Before I talk about Serena though (I would agree with most of the reviews on IMDB), let’s talk about lunch!

The Place

We went to Dragon Boy again, which we went to in TBF(F)L #3. We just had a quick lunch since I had arrived at work a tad late, and was planning on going to the gym as well – I ended up not going, but that’s alright. I had a meeting at 4pm, so I wasn’t able to stick around long. It was a bit of a spontaneous lunch for me as I hadn’t brought food and was planning to just scrounge the office kitchen for food, but after having some Vegemite and crackers I headed down.

Bukkake udon
Bukkake udon

We each got roughly the same thing as last time. Lilian got a happy spam onigiri again, with a beef bowl. I ordered udon and edamame. I got the usual seaweed on top of my udon too. I love seaweed far too much.

The Chat

Lil said she had just bumped into an old high school friend, at which point I realised I forgot about half the people in my year group. Oops. (At least I haven’t forgotten Lilian! Woot.) We mostly talked about the gym and other random things we had been up to. She had a bad day at work last Friday, whereas I had a pretty productive last week, but have been a bit slow this week. We talked about Christmas and other miscellaneous things. Also, our train ride home that evening was mostly ranting about that movie…

At some point I realised that jpcs (my colleague James) and Willix were in the restaurant too, so I said hi. Lil thought I was talking about a different James… too many Jameses on this earth.

We chatted on the phone a bit once I returned to work for the afternoon. I had won tickets to the movie Serena and gave the voucher to Lilian so she could grab tickets. Unfortunately they are not valid on Tuesdays because tickets are half price. This made zero sense to us because we would be saving less money and leaving them with more if we were seeing the movie on a Tuesday. Since we had already planned to see the movie, we bought tickets anyway. We spent a bit of time on the phone ranting and laughing about how annoying the situation was.

Edit: I still have my free ticket coupon, I am not keen on seeing that movie again, it would be good to get rid of the voucher ASAP… :p

The Selfie

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We took this after the movie! Oh man, the movie was so bad. I know I said I have low standards, but I didn’t think this movie was very good. I no longer regret ordering a Venti-sized Starbucks Christmas Cookie Latte and needing to use the bathroom halfway during the movie. I don’t really want to talk about the movie, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It was really janky and there was not much character development at all. The first half of the movie was slow. It seemed like a romantic drama but the romance was very dry, very tame, and began a bit cliched. The “I think we should be married” pickup line was used.

The movie had some strangely funny bits in it where the acting was just poor. There were a lot of unnecessary characters that never got a proper place or introduction in the film. Lead actress Jennifer Lawrence barely got any lines, to be honest. The overshadowing/foreshadowing/whatever was awful. Apparently the movie is based on a book. I won’t be reading that book, I don’t think…

There was a lot of blood. Unnecessary blood, killing, and betrayal. It was very, very unsettling. Made me a bit sick to the stomach. Lilian and I were frightened, our reactions during the movie were practically comical. The guy next to us said he really wanted to offer us tissues at one point! I think we were just shocked by some of the scenes because they were too bloody and gory for us to handle.

Here are a couple of photos with a figure of Baymax from Big Hero 6.

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Comments on this post

Hey man, I saw a lot of that Baymax guy while I was around Nara! Although mainly as some dude’s wallpaper of him standing next to a kid on a skyscraper. I knew it was a Disney movie but that was about it. Also he seemed a fair bit pinker over there, rolf.

That Serana movie sounds awful. I dislike movies with unnecessary amounts of blood in them. It seems a bit overdone these days, I dunno. Just to give a benchmark, I didn’t think the amount of blood in the Raid movies was excessive; it was an action movie with the amount of gore suitable to the tone and quantity of its violent content. For another benchmark I think the Saw franchise is the stupidest thing since Michael Bay’s three Transformers sequels.
Speaking of movies, the 100 Foot Journey is pretty great except the ending, which is a bit cliche and sort of drawn out. You sit there thinking things like ‘oh I bet he plans to…’ and ‘now I bet Meryl Streep goes and…’ sarcastically, AND THEY ALL HAPPEN. Jeez.

Big Hero 6 is based on a comic book, which would be cool if Disney hadn’t whitewashed a majority of the characters. A lot of people have said it’s really good but I’m not planning to watch it /ho

I heard about Serena but had no plans to watch it either, and now I’m just really over Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper starring in movies together. They’re both very talented, but I think people keep trying to ramp up their chemistry and stuff together and are just running off of that. It’s getting a bit old, to be honest.

If it makes you feel better, I don’t remember a lot of people from my school either. :P however, I would like you to tell me more about this Christmas Cookie Latte you had from Starbucks, because it’s not a seasonal drink available here in the USA! /huh

I think it looks entertaining; I actually had no idea it was based on a comic book. Knowing me and movies, I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to see it unless someone dragged me there for a social event or convinced me it was that good.

I hear about the Pumpkin Spice Latte over there and it’s surprising we don’t have it in Australia! The Christmas Cookie Latte tastes a bit like caramel, it’s topped with cream and has cookie crumble on top. Actually, here is a description I found on the Australian Starbucks website: “It’s a buttery, creamy latte handcrafted with a smooth shortbread cookie flavoured sauce, our bold espresso and freshly steamed milk. We then finish it off with a crown of whipped cream, shortbread cookie drizzle and butter cookie crumbles.” :D

Pumpkin Spice Latte is quite literally the only reason I even like fall. I order it basically every single time I’m in a Starbucks during the season! I can’t believe it’s not available in Australia–you are all missing out, you poor lambs. /um here in the USA they hold little contests to see what city will get it first, hahaha. It’s brutal.

That latte you got sounds really good! I quite like shortbread ;) we just got a new holiday drink here in the USA, the Chestnut Praline Latte. Is it available there as well? It’s pretty good. A little too sweet, if you ask me, but it’s yummy. They just released a Candy Cane Frappuccino too–but why?! It’s so cold! XD

I’ve never heard of Serena. I thought it would be normal since [at first] I thought it was some kind of indie movie that was nothing big but when I found out that THE J-Law was the lead actress, I realised that I’m living under a rock because as I said, I’ve never heard of it. Whyyyy.

When we were looking for places to see the movie, we were surprised to find that it wasn’t showing in many cinemas. I think it’s just less popular, a lot of people I talked to hadn’t heard of it. It was apparently filmed quite a while ago (2012). I honestly wouldn’t recommend it. :P