# Movies you've seen recently (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 29, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906 "2014-09-29T21:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2171 "2021-05-10T10:58:56Z")
Shaolin Soccer by the same guy (Kung Fu Husle) is also fun. ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2172 "2021-05-10T11:29:51Z")
Watched ‘Wrath of Man’ just because it had Jason Statham. A typical revenge movie. OK if you can handle a bit of violence. (JS is “cold as a reptile”; his story sorta justifies his coldness.) ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2173 "2021-05-10T12:03:32Z")
Finally got around to watching ‘Blade Runner 2049’. A worthy sequel to the original. Gosling is fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2174 "2021-05-10T12:22:57Z")
**Little Joe** (Hulu) - An _Invasion of The Body Snatchers_ retread as perhaps an analogy for the pharmaceutical industries contribution to our modern Prozac predilection. It didn’t work. The acting was a mess, the music was goofy, the bizarre screen shots weren’t unsettling but rather just seemed like a confused camera man kept falling asleep. Really, just a Black Mirror episode that runs too long. I stuck with it for some kind of twist at the end, I needn’t have bothered. I don’t think there is anyone to which I would recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2175 "2021-05-10T17:49:05Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > Finally got around to watching ‘Blade Runner 2049’. A worthy sequel to the original. Gosling is fantastic. I loved it. **Kung Fu Hustle** was entertaining, if a bit weird. I really liked the sequence with the stringed instrument and flying knives. Also watched **Nikita** a French film from the 80s. (It spawned the remake Point of No Return.) A drug-addicted woman sentenced to life is prison if given a second chance as a government assassin. Despite the obviously low budget, the character work and the acting was riveting. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2176 "2021-05-10T17:58:08Z")
I used to watch the TV-show version, La Femme Nikita. The story lost me pretty quickly, but I watched it anyway just to look at Peta Wilson’s hair. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2177 "2021-05-10T19:25:01Z")
> [@mandala](#): > > Finally got around to watching ‘Blade Runner 2049’. A worthy sequel to the original. Gosling is fantastic. Loved it. I actually think it is much better than the original. Most of the stuff people talk about in the original is just 40 minutes or so of a much longer, and honestly quite flawed, movie. The sequel is quite superior. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2178 "2021-05-10T19:40:04Z")
I think someone mentioned The Kid Detective upthread and I saw it over the weekend. It’s quite good. It reminded me a bit of Brick, in being a sort of noir film, and like that one, The Kid Detective was from a first-time director, Evan Morgan. Rian Johnson directed Brick as his first film and he went on to direct Knives Out, Looper and a Star Wars film. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2179 "2021-05-10T19:45:36Z")
**Stowaway** was god-awful. No argument. But in defense of Anna Kendrick, I think **Mr. Right** is worth seeing. Credit largely due to to Sam Rockwell, but still, AK does a good job. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2180 "2021-05-10T20:36:40Z")
Fans here may want to check out our discussion thread of the movie, if they’ve haven’t already: [Blade Runner 2049: Seen it (Open Spoilers after the first post)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-2049-seen-it-open-spoilers-after-the-first-post/798088) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2181 "2021-05-11T02:10:18Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Watched **Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against The Universe** over the weekend. I like P&F far more than a grown man should, There’s an upper limit? P&F was an awesome show. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2182 "2021-05-11T08:22:04Z")
Half a film watched: **Get The Goat** (“Cabras da Peste”), a new Brazilian comedy currently on Netflix. It starts out as a brilliant postmodern homage to 1980s cop action films (_Lethal Weapon_, etc) with some excellent jokes and a Brazilian twist, but by the end of Act 1 it devolves into a mere pastiche of 1980s cop action film tropes (some of which should have stayed in the 1980s) and becomes considerably less funny and more predictable. I may go back and watch the rest as apparently the climax of the film is noteworthy according to the reviews, but the middle is quite a slog. The main character’s name is “Brucuilis”. Pronounced “Bruce Willis”. That right there tells you all you need to know about this. ---
**Author:** ![mandala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mandala/32/95_2.png) [@mandala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mandala)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2183 "2021-05-11T10:33:19Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Loved it. I actually think it is much better than the original. Most of the stuff people talk about in the original is just 40 minutes or so of a much longer, and honestly quite flawed, movie. The sequel is quite superior. I do have a few nitpicks. Some of the nudity was gratuitous. Toward the end Gosling’s character needs everything explained to him in blunt terms; the revelatory scenes could have been done more subtly. And my most subjective nitpick is that the soundtrack at the very end did not match the mood of the scene (as Gosling’s character endures his most poignant moment). The sequel is a great movie but a notch below the original, which was a work of art. IMHO, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2184 "2021-05-11T11:41:41Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I used to watch the TV-show version, La Femme Nikita. The story lost me pretty quickly, but I watched it anyway just to look at Peta Wilson’s hair. 😊 Did you ever watch the one with Maggie Q, just called Nikita? I swear Nikita is a concept that has been portrayed a lot more often on TV and movies than one would expect. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2185 "2021-05-11T12:12:22Z")
Nope, I missed that one! ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2186 "2021-05-11T19:02:39Z")
> **[War of the Fools (1964) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057894/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_12)** > > War of the Fools: Directed by Karel Zeman. With Petr Kostka, Emília Vásáryová, Miroslav Holub, Karel Effa. Karel Zeman's brilliant animation, cowritten with Jurácek: ironic, surreal, following the adventures of a plowboy and a mercenary to the... A Karel Zeman film that had eluded me for many years, it’s a typical combination of live-action with illustrated backgrounds and Monty Python-esque animation. Unlike _The Fabulous Baron Munchausen_ (1958) and _The Fabulous World of Jules Verne_ (1962), the art style is not Gustave Doré-influenced – and not as striking as a result – but there are still a number of impressive composites (which, unfortunately, get heavy reuse). The story is set during the 30 Years War and concerns the adventures of a plowboy conscripted by one side while masquerading as a nobleman, later escaping to the other side and a pre-arranged marriage. He is accompanied most of the way by an older mercenary (comic relief) and a cute farm girl pretending to be the nobleman’s jester. Overall, not as good as the aforementioned Zeman flicks, or _The Stolen Airship_ (1967), but better than _A Journey to the Beginning of Time_ (1955). A number of clips from the film are shown in this music video: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zOUSC2iApAg/maxresdefault.jpg "Blonde Redhead feat. David Sylvian - Messenger (subtitulada)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOUSC2iApAg) Re: _Nikita_ If you liked it, you will probably like _Anna_, a not dissimilar story written and directed by the same dude (Luc Besson). > **[Anna (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7456310/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4)** > > Anna: Directed by Luc Besson. With Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy. Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government... ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2187 "2021-05-11T20:10:21Z")
The Thursday (1964) 7.5/10 Within minutes, I knew this had to be Dino Risi; it was very similar to “Il Sorpasso”, not as great, but maybe a bit more tender, since the two main characters are father and son, who haven’t seen each other in five years. Light-hearted, but not corny or dumb. Even funny at times. The father played by Walter Chiari is a very good actor, especially in this comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2188 "2021-05-11T21:29:03Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Re: _Nikita_ > > If you liked it, you will probably like _Anna_ , a not dissimilar story written and directed by the same dude (Luc Besson). Really the classic offshoot of Nikita is Leon: The professional, which " Besson described **Léon** as “Now maybe Jean is playing the American cousin of Victor. This time he’s more human.”" ---
**Author:** ![BigDfromLA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@BigDfromLA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDfromLA)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2189 "2021-05-12T05:43:26Z")
The Interview, with Seth Rogan and James Franco, on HBO Max. This is one of the strangest and stupidest movies I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2190 "2021-05-12T09:21:02Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > **Sorry to Bother You** (on Hulu). I’m not sure what to say about this. Weird, fascinating, significant? (…) I can’t say I completely _enjoyed_ it, but I have to applaud him for making it. Liked all the actors and performances, too. I watched this on Hulu, and recommend that everyone give it a chance. It’s a mixture of Dave Chappelle, Phillip K. Dick — and some unique vision. The title, **Sorry To Bother You** , derives from the protagonist’s job in a call center, but the director/writer has also built a near-future world for the characters to inhabit. The male and female leads are very appealing. The world they live in is borderline dystopia, but there’s fun and comedy to be found there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=110)