Movies

I am a total sucker for horrible dance and dance-related movies. I swear, there is something wrong with me.

For instance, I rented "Step Up 2 The Streets" and watched it three times, back to back. (To be fair, I fastforwarded through the "movie" parts and just watched the dancing the second and third time.) Name a dance movie filmed after 1995 and I guarantee I've seen it, from "Honey" to "How She Move."

I'm also a pushover for cheesy ice-skating movies (somehow, these are connected in my head). Which is why I watched the third "Cutting Edge" movie last night. It was cute, even though it was honestly a really bad movie. It was also almost identical, script-wise, to the first, except the hockey player and figure skater switched genders. And I'd watch it again, too. *shifty eyes* I have horrible taste in movies, I think. My roommate was not quite as entranced by the awfulness, though.

And then we watched "Marigold," which was an attempt to blend Bollywood and Hollywood, and had Nikkiessica from "Heroes" in it. It wasn't too bad, either. I have to admit I cried near the end. It was pretty cute — standard script, but pretty cute.

What we really wanted to rent was "The Forbidden Kingdom." We actually had a conversation with the rental guy about it — he wanted to know what we liked about it, because it really was a standard "white kid goes back in time to non-white place, kicks ass and takes names" kind of story. But I really loved how they managed to work the whole into the West mythology into the movie, and come on, Jackie Chan and Jet Li in one movie? The choreography was fucking amazing. Plus, Will Stronghold. ("Sky High" was awesome.) But it wasn't released until today, nor was the second season of "Ugly Betty."

I think we watch too many movies — our selections are now pulled from obscure corners of Hollywood Video because we have run out of both mainstream selections and non-mainstream stuff we've heard of. We can no longer fall back on any movie starring Dante Basco or Adam Beach — we've seen them all. (And we're caught up on all of our shows except "Ugly Betty.")

So now we're grabbing random stuff like "American Chai" off the "special interest" shelf and you know what? We've seen a lot of decent movies lately doing that.