My Week in Movies: May 24 - 30
May. 31st, 2020 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
