jetpack_monkey | My Week in Movies: May 24

sol_se is here! She arrived on Wednesday! She lives with me now! It's very exciting!

Movies I've seen before are in italics.

Ocean's 11 (1960)
Donald Glover: Weirdo (2012)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Avengers (2012) partially w/

sol_se
Policy Story 2 (1988) partially w/

sol_se
MST3K: Gamera vs. Guiron w/

sol_se
Speed Racer (2008) w/

sol_se

I watched Ocean's 11 out of a dogged determination to watch more movies. I love a good heist movie! This is not a good heist movie. The heist itself is terrible, so the movie mostly coasts on Rat Pack swagger.

The Muppet Movie was something I watched while waiting for

sol_se's plane to get in. Such a great film with tons of awesome celebrity cameos. I followed it up with the Gilda Radner episode of The Muppet Show, which was... fine..

I love The Avengers and it still holds up. Such a pure expression of a singular mash-all-the-action-figures together idea.

Criterion Channel has a collection of Jackie Chan movies right now and I'm enjoying that. I didn't get a chance to watch through all of his movies when I made I Don't Feel Like Dancin', so this seems like a good time to revisit. Police Story 2 is full of the kind of hijinks you would expect. Chan is really a comedian who has mastered use of environment for a laugh.

Sol_se wanted to watch one of the MST3K Gamera films, so I picked the one with the terrible dubbing, forgetting that it was also the one where Gamera does a gymnastic flip. Nice!

Speed Racer is the very first movie sol_se and I watched together when we were doing our virtual dates. So, to commemorate our moving in together, we watched it again. Still a delirious, candy-colored experience that's much better than it has any right to be.