Before that, I must say I got a high score on the unofficial Cocaine Bear ZX Spectrum game! I got 2,600 points, beating my personal best. My friend played the mobile phone game so yes, there's more than one game made based on this film.
I arrived at the cinema before my friend. I bought two 500ml bottles of Coca-Cola for the price of 1 to share with him. I thought it was the appropriate snack to enjoy for watching this film!
I arrived early at our usual cinema and camped out in a good seat with the railing in front. I was one of the first there and I guarded my friend's spot while waiting for him. I told him to be careful when making his way here and he arrived safely. Groups of people started to come in and some of them were chatty with each other. They were grand though.
What was amazing was the fact that this was the second week since the film came out and they premiered it in the smaller screen before moving it to the biggest screen by the time I got to see it, so waiting for it paid off well in a way!
My friend arrived and we had a great time watching the movie. It is a very silly, funny and violent movie. It has an 18 certificate and everything! I was talking to someone later on who was charmed by the comedic situation of the bear but they were turned off when I told them it was so violent. I didn't mean to put them off and I made sure to tell them it was funny, but I couldn't really deny it was very violent.
I should have wrote this post sooner as I'm trying to recall as much as I can. It has some very satisfying scenes in it like the bathroom fight and the ambulance chase. The guy who does those Ikea TikTok videos Scott Seiss plays one of the ambulance staff and he's great in this! His reactions and facial expressions are really well done.
This movie was filmed here in Ireland and it was fun looking at the scenery to find out which parts were undoubtedly filmed here.
The story was fun and had many satisfying showdowns between characters who were hunting down the bear, hunting down the drug cargo, hunting down the criminals and others trying to save their kids.
I gotta say RIP to Ray Liotta as well and it was nice to see him have a good final project like this. I don't know him particularly well but he is celebrated for Goodfellas, which I only saw for the first time recently.
It was a good time and we left feeling satisfied, but now we had to get a bite to eat somewhere. We bounced a few ideas but my friend suggested that big food market at the harbour we've heard so much about. I was never there before either so I was glad to check it out.
It wasn't too long a walk, not far from the bus station. Still we had to have a nice day for it and thank goodness we did. It was a big stretch of a walk along the waterfront with no rain and no wind thankfully.
We were walking for a while and it felt like we were going nowhere in particular. A lot of the buildings here were old and abandoned and we didn't see much sign of life. The big stretch of the walk felt like something out of Streets of Rage or a Kung Fu movie.
We started to see people walking past us with food and that was a clear indication that something was ahead. Otherwise, the place seemed kind of out of the way. When we got there, there was a big car park and lots of people.
I was expecting some food trucks and no place to sit outdoors, but instead what I saw was this huge warehouse of a place with tons of food trucks and a massive food court-like area with all kinds of tables, chairs, booths, even armchairs and couches!
We spent a long time looking around to see what we wanted and at the sellers stalls as well, who were selling arts and crafts and clothes and that kind of stuff.
That worked up an appetite for us. After a lot of browsing, I decided on the business that was selling stews! What an idea! I've never seen the likes of it. All kinds of stews like beef, Irish, lamb rogan josh and even coddle! I decided to go with something safe and ordered the beef stew. I had the option of having either mashed potatoes or chips with it and I was delighted with those options. This was all served in a big street food cardboard bowl. My friend ordered some kind of chicken burger from another stand that came with lots of tater tots.
I adore beef stew. It had a stout flavour which I wasn't mad about and it had a bit too many vegetables, but it did have a satisfying amount of beef in it. I was pretty happy with it! I ate with fork, knife and a spoon to get it all eaten. My friend liked his food too and shared tater tots, which were good too.
We had some time before we could catch buses home, so we looked for a place to hang out. The pub we usually go to was full up, so we opted for McDonald's. I wanted to try out the survey offer thing where they do a Big Mac and fries for cheap. I was trying to figure out how it worked with the kiosk system. I was able to just go to the counter which was cool. It was a good idea. I was bursting after though what with all the food we were eating. It was a really fun day and I finally got to see the movie, my friend and the big food market.
There was a huge crowd of people at that market too. Full of people just hanging out and having a good time just sitting around if they wanted to! It looked like a lovely communal thing and I hope it keeps going.
