# Late To The Party-Things you've finally seen/read/etc **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757 "2021-06-07T11:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/21 "2021-06-08T23:29:17Z")
My teenage niece who lived with my family at the time watched itrepeatedly because she had a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio. I think a lot of people may have been in my position and stuck having young relatives watching it repeatedly in their presence. And it probably soured their view on the movie. I mean the movie is fairly good but repeated viewing is just going accentuate all the flaws of it in people’s minds. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/22 "2021-06-22T14:18:53Z")
I’m late to this thread, does that count? I finally got around to watching Pacific Rim yesterday. I hadn’t bothered before because I assumed it was dumb. Which is was, but it was dumb in an unapologetically stupid way that added to the fun, plus the joy of giant monsters and robots punching one another. Good times. I also watched the first two episodes of Supernatural last night which is a show that only ever existed on my periphery in the form of Facebook memes. I can’t believe the show started in 2005 and ran until recently for as little as I was aware of it. Anyway, I liked the two episodes I watched (though the fashions and tech are amusingly dated) and will continue onward. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/23 "2021-06-22T19:29:45Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Flash Gordon, the movie from 1980. I’ve heard about this film from the beginning, since I was a big Queen fan and the single “Flash” was a big hit. When I first heard it on the radio, I thought “Wow, that’s an extravagant song”, but I liked it. But somehow I didn’t go to see the movie and never had until about a year ago. And it didn’t disappoint, it’s just as extravagant as the song. It has fucking Max von Sydow as the emperor, a scantily-clad Ornella Muti, a young Timothy Dalton, a big dumb blond footballer as the hero and most of all, Brian Blessed with wings in his underpants, so what’s not to love? Yeah, it was fantastic when I saw it in the theater at 7 years old, and it is still fantastic. You can’t watch it thinking it’s serious science-fiction, but more like science-fantasy. Plus, seeing Ornella Muti as Princess Aura in Ming’s throne room was one of those early moments when I realized I most definitely like girls. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/24 "2021-06-22T21:00:01Z")
Hawkmen! DIIIIIVE! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/25 "2021-06-22T21:19:59Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Anyway, I liked the two episodes I watched (though the fashions and tech are amusingly dated) and will continue onward. Carry on, my wayward son. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/26 "2021-06-22T21:29:32Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I’m not sure if anything in pop culture has ever faced more unjustified backlash than Titanic. When it very first came out, before anyone knew how damn BIG it was going to be, it got very very good reviews. I saw it opening weekend with friends and we were all enthralled. > > Then it made all the money, and won all the awards, and it became fashionable to look down one’s nose at it. And it’s certainly not a perfect movie, nor the best movie ever made. But it’s an incredibly effective piece of storytelling. I liked _Titanic_, except for the two main characters. I kept wanting Jack and Rose to get out of the way so I could see someone that I might give a damn about. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/27 "2021-06-22T21:37:08Z")
Yeah, I felt that Jack and Rose were a good thing in concept/theory but not so well done in practice. They ended becoming a bit of a nuisance. The parts I really enjoyed were the iceberg-collision scene, particularly the engine room’s panicked attempt to go full astern, the crew’s frantic hard-over turn to try to avert it…that was a masterpiece of tension. Even knowing full well that it would ram the iceberg, one was still holding one’s breath fervently hoping it wouldn’t hit - even at one point believing it _wouldn’t_ - that’s how good it was. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/28 "2021-06-22T21:38:43Z")
And the whole “I’ve never loved again” part irritated me. I get that it was a very memorable incident and you were fond of him, but yeeshka. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/29 "2021-06-22T21:42:58Z")
I’ve always read good reviews about it alas still haven’t seen it. I like _anticipation_ 🎵 I was late to the SATC scene, at the time I had young children and no sex life there was no FOMO, lol. 💄 🗜 Finally caught up with the Sopranos too. 🔫 💀 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/30 "2021-06-23T21:39:43Z")
I finally got around to reading _Ender’s Game_ when I was in the vicinity of 30, I believe. I thought it was a pretty good book, but I couldn’t help but think that if I had gotten around to it when I was a little closer to the age that it’s aimed at, I would have enjoyed it more. As it was, the big reveal about the true nature of the game was a twist that I had probably been exposed to more than once, and it didn’t really give me all that much of a charge. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/31 "2021-06-23T21:54:41Z")
Although I’d watched the occasional episode of _the Sopranos_ before, my latest project was the complete nose-to-tail journey, which finished last weekend. Really, really good, as is to be expected from all the plaudits its received. If anything, it was not the right show to binge-watch. That brought out some of the repetitiveness of the events, and made it a bit hard for example to distinguish Tony’s many identical looking girlfriends. He certainly had a type. I suspect I my have enjoyed it more if I’d paced it to a few shows per week and let them mature a bit. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/32 "2021-06-24T15:42:59Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > And the whole “I’ve never loved again” part irritated me. I get that it was a very memorable incident and you were fond of him, but yeeshka. Are you talking about this? Because she’s certainly not saying she never loved again: ``` BODINE We never found anything on Jack. There's no record of him at all. OLD ROSE No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now, not to anyone. (to Lizzy) Not even your grandfather. A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you all know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me, in every way that a person can be saved. (closing her eyes) I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory. ``` ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/33 "2021-06-24T22:15:38Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I kept wanting Jack and Rose to get out of the way so I could see someone that I might give a damn about. I thought their love story was good but not great. Obviously Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio are fantastic actors, and they have (imho) great chemistry, but it’s certainly not one of the great screen romances. That said, it does have some things going for it: (1) The movie obviously would never have been made without it. Even James Cameron wasn’t going to convince studio heads to give him infinite money to make a movie about a historical event without a hook (2) It works incredibly well as a narrative hook around which to take a our of the Titanic. It’s entirely organic that we get to see the 1st class rooms and steerage, the fancy dining room and the party below decks, the boiler rooms, etc. (3) I actually think the nearly-last shot of the movie, where the camera pans across old Rose’s photos, to be incredibly powerful. When we first meet her, and she’s all “I don’t like to go anywhere without my photos”, we’re like “ahh, silly old dotty old lady who’s fussy and old and silly”. And then we see what she went through, and we see what’s in the photos, and it really gets to me, how powerful an impact he had on her life, and what a life she led, even without a happily-ever-after. Again, I’m not saying that alone makes the movie Casablanca, but there’s a lot more substance to the entire Rose-and-Jack plot than just a frothy romance. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/34 "2021-06-24T22:26:51Z")
I had never seen The Sound of Music until less than 10 years ago. I knew most of the songs, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/35 "2021-06-24T22:29:32Z")
I watched Game of Thrones this winter. I skipped the ultraviolence and protracted rape scenes. I can say I have watched it. Great costumes and CGI, and it had some shining parts but overall I felt sort of exploited. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/36 "2021-06-24T22:47:11Z")
Vacationing the beginning of this month (yay vaccines!) instead of separately reading “vacation books”, my husband and I watched the first season of The Magicians together. We now take a day in the week to curl up together on the coach to watch this acerbic, often hilarious magical soap opera-- even with the stupid hand movements. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/37 "2021-06-25T17:52:15Z")
I’m catching up on some old Russian literature including: Gogol, Chekhov, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky and Pushkin. It’s a bit overrated, if I’m honest. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/38 "2021-06-25T18:24:59Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > I had never seen The Sound of Music until less than 10 years ago. I knew most of the songs, though. I had never seen the _entire movie_ until about seven or eight years ago. But I had seen the _ending_ plenty of times. Because whenever they showed it on network TV it would run long, so I would turn on the news at 10pm and have to sit through the last 10-15 minutes as they escaped from the Nazis. My wife finally made me sit and watch the whole thing. It was… OK. Not my kind of movie, but at least now I can say I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757/39 "2021-06-26T22:11:32Z")
Not till the early 2000’s did I fully watch Godfathers I + II. 🤦‍♂️ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-to-the-party-things-youve-finally-seen-read-etc/943757.md?page=1)