What Did You Watch? 2024-12-31 (Tuesday)

On Tuesday I decided to watch some Michelle Yeoh movies in my collection.  Half of them I had never seen before.  I watched:
Magnificent Warriors (blu-ray) 1987 Hong Kong action movie starring Michelle Yeoh as a Chinese secret agent (who is an awful lot like Indiana Jones) who during the 1930s battle the Japanese who are occupying a Chinese city.  This was originally a blind buy, now it is my second time watching it.  It held up very well.
The Heroic Trio (4K disc) This was a blind buy double feature with its' sequel, "Executioners."  Heroic Trio is a 1993 fantasy movie from Hong Kong, about three women who team up to do battle against an evil someone or other who is kidnapping babies, I think so he can reincarnate in one of them and become emperor of China, or something.  I don't know.  The plot was a mess.  And it really didn't help matters that the dubbed dialogue didn't match the subtitles.  The movie stars Michelle Yeoh as "Invisible Woman," Anita Mui as "Wonder Woman" and Maggie Cheung as "Thief Catcher."  At the start of the movie Yeoh is working for the villain, but by the end of the movie she sees the error of her ways and teams up with the other two women to help save the day.  I'm not entirely sure, but I think maybe this was supposed to be a comedy, except it wasn't funny at all.  It didn't help matters that the movie is very stylized and due to often being able to see the wires, it kind of looks cheap.
Executioners (4K disc) 1993 sequel to "The Heroic Trio."  I had never seen this before either.  This movie starts off with a nuclear bomb detonating in the city the first movie takes place in.  The movie was extremely vague as if just that one city got nuked or the entire planet.   I want to assume it was a worldwide nuclear war, otherwise I don't know why they all stayed in that city.  Anyway, following the city they all live in getting nuked, the three heroes from the first movie (Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung) all survived.  And they band together against an evil company that's overcharging people for clean water and some other evil guy, who was trying to overthrow the government.  This one was actually worse than the first one.  And again, I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be a comedy or not, but it definitely wasn't funny.  And who makes a sequel to a fantasy movie but changes it up to post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (4K disc) 2020 movie directed by Ang Lee and starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi.  Yun-fat and Yeoh star as two friends who after having many adventures in their youth are winding down in life.  But things get complicated when Ziyi steals a sword from Yun-fat while it was in Yeoh's care, prompting Yeoh to try to retrieve the sword.  I've really oversimplified the plot.  The movie holds up extremely well and continues to be one of my favorites.   The fight scene between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi continues to be one of the best fight scene ever committed to film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzkhVVFRIIg
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (Disney+) "Zero Friends Again" - Episode 6. This was one of the better episodes by far.  Dealing with the fallout from episode 5, the kids are now on their own on a hostile planet while Jod (Jude Law) has to talk his way out of an execution.
Abbott Elementary (Hulu) I watched the pilot episode of this "Office" style comedy set in a Philadelphia public elementary school.  First up we meet some new teachers who are in over their heads, some seasoned teachers who gave up caring long ago, and their incompetent principal who blackmailed her way into the job.  I'm surprised they admitted as much to the film crew!  I've been hearing great things about this show for years and kept meaning to sample it. There is a cross over episode with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia set to air next week, so I figured now or never.
What did you Watch?