# 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:** 129
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2571 "2021-07-23T21:34:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Paycheck movies - Willy’s Wonderland, Kill Chain, Primal, Grand Isle I actually liked **Kill Chain** an awful lot. I thought it had good dialogue and and pacing. Kept my interest throughout. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2572 "2021-07-24T02:35:37Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > **Gunpowder Milkshake** - Netflix > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Intriguing, kind of a mess, and ultimately perfectly adequate is a great description. Strange movie. Finally saw this one. Had to wait for my youngest daughter as she also wanted to see it. Your review nailed it. Worth watching. Fun and exciting in places but odd in others. As if two people directed and then mashed it together. Stellar cast largely wasted. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2573 "2021-07-24T02:42:59Z")
THE ICE ROAD (2021) Holy crap Liam Neesons, do you need money this badly? ---
**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:** [July 24, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2574 "2021-07-24T03:01:55Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > Stellar cast largely wasted. Definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2575 "2021-07-24T03:20:16Z")
COSMIC SIN (2021) Holy S#!T Bruce Willis are you OK? I can send you a few dollars. Do you need a friend. A place to stay? Did Demi take that much from you? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2576 "2021-07-24T16:30:38Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > THE ICE ROAD (2021) Holy crap Liam Neesons, do you need money this badly? Watch “The Grey” and get back to me. For some reason that remains unclear to me I rewatched **Jack Reacher** , with 5’1" Cruise trying to be 6’6" badass Reacher. Funniest line in the film is when the cops ask the motel desk clerk if there is anyone in the hotel that could kill someone with one punch. “The guy in 1102. . .you’ll see.” Then there’s Rosamund Pike, who seems to make her living out of looking frightened and having heaving breasts. And Robert Duvall should have retired before having anything to do with this thing. His dialog sounded ad-libbed, and not in a good way. And then there’s the meme of every woman who sees Cruise falling into a swoon. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2577 "2021-07-24T22:39:57Z")
THE GREY was a good movie, but that was 10 years ago. Not sure of your point? ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2578 "2021-07-24T22:46:23Z")
THE MUMMY (2017) The Tom Cruise one. Never saw this before. Maybe my expectations were lowered enough by bad reviews, but I thought it wasn’t that bad. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2579 "2021-07-24T23:12:49Z")
That film was supposed to kick off a new franchise, one based on the old Universal Pictures monster movies that featured Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, and so forth. But this film’s poor performance ended those plans. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2580 "2021-07-24T23:13:03Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > THE GREY was a good movie, but that was 10 years ago. Not sure of your point? I thought it was a terrible movie, full of inaccuracies about the oil camps and the geography of Alaska, not to mention a stupid plot. Clearly we don’t agree on it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2581 "2021-07-24T23:22:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > full of inaccuracies about the oil camps and the geography of Alaska I guess my ignorance of these things clouded my thinking. I thought it was good, not great. If I saw it now I might have a different opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2582 "2021-07-24T23:24:53Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > I guess my ignorance of these things clouded my thinking. I thought it was good, not great. If I saw it now I might have a different opinion. I’m just picky about depictions of Alaska that aren’t accurate. It’s almost impossible for me to just watch a movie and disregard those sorts of things. It’s probably a decently entertaining film, but I was taken out of it early on. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2583 "2021-07-24T23:26:32Z")
What were some of the inaccuracies? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2584 "2021-07-24T23:36:10Z")
Alcohol is not allowed at the oil camps, so the bar scenes were nonsense. The landscape north of Atigun Pass is completely treeless, so the scenes of them hiking into forest just couldn’t happen. Wolves don’t behave as depicted. Yeah, I know it’s picky, but it bothers me. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2585 "2021-07-24T23:43:53Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > The Tom Cruise one. Never saw this before. Maybe my expectations were lowered enough by bad reviews, but I thought it wasn’t that bad. I also thought it was pretty good, but it fails the “is this better than 1999 Mummy” test. I did like the movie though. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2586 "2021-07-24T23:48:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@Galactus](#): > > > > I guess my ignorance of these things clouded my thinking. I thought it was good, not great. If I saw it now I might have a different opinion. > > I’m just picky about depictions of Alaska that aren’t accurate. It’s almost impossible for me to just watch a movie and disregard those sorts of things. It’s probably a decently entertaining film, but I was taken out of it early on I think it’s common when a film portrays an area we’re familiar with or a job one knows to notice all of the minor (or not so minor) stuff they get wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2587 "2021-07-25T00:10:18Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 1999 Mummy The Brendan Fraser MUMMY was a lot more fun, for sure. I did like the little easter egg nod to it in the Tom Cruise version, tho. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2588 "2021-07-25T00:11:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > kick off a new franchise, I wonder which character was to be used next? Was Tom Cruise to be in all? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2589 "2021-07-25T01:18:33Z")
You mean like here? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kFnBXwj6iUI/hqdefault.jpg "Before Jason Statham was famous.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnBXwj6iUI) ---
**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:** [July 25, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2590 "2021-07-25T01:26:05Z")
> [@Galactus](#): > > Was Tom Cruise to be in all? Kind of like Tony Stark showing up in multiple Marvel movies. He would pop up throughout and eventually, they’d all make a movie together. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=128) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=130)