6/10
i'm thankful that we went to see ocean's 8 yesterday, even though i was reminded of how i dislike seeing movies/trailers with jokes in them in theaters because i feel a kind of alienation and contempt when people laugh at jokes i think are not funny. i'm thankful for ocean's 8, which was a profoundly undramatic movie, no conflict or stakes, but which despite that sparkled and fizzed along on the strength of its performances and characterization. i'm thankful to have been reminded what boots riley said about superheroes being cops:
"'But I have a problem with superheroes in general, because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?' Riley answered this question with a smirk. 'Put it like this: We all love bank robbers, because we know that in the two sides of that equation, the robbers are the ones to root for, not the banks. Only in superhero movies and the news do they try to make us think we’re against the bank robbers!'
"'But I have a problem with superheroes in general, because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?' Riley answered this question with a smirk. 'Put it like this: We all love bank robbers, because we know that in the two sides of that equation, the robbers are the ones to root for, not the banks. Only in superhero movies and the news do they try to make us think we’re against the bank robbers!'
and i'm thankful to have had a chance to root for a group of bank robbers who were women. i'm thankful that we went to the movie theater on the far side of town which we don't tend to go to because it's not near anything else and is at the end of this weird dead end street, but which i was reminded we should actually always go to because the screens and seats are both better than the more popular and convenient movie theater. i'm thankful to realize that maybe i shouldn't judge other people for the things they laugh at, because i just remembered that the primary thing i laughed at during the trailers was operation finale, a very serious post-holocaust movie, because of the sudden presence of nick kroll in a serious role asking a serious question and my apparent total inability to hear his voice seriously. i'm thankful for d's purse, which we snuck mcdonald's breakfast sandwiches into. i'm thankful for matinees.
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