# 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:** 132
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2631 "2021-08-02T04:49:55Z")
Just watched The Marksmen. too. Agree with your summation, but still enjoyed it. Love me some Liam Neesons. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2632 "2021-08-02T09:24:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Started watching **Cats**. Gave up after 15 minutes. > > The issues with the unsettling CGI aside, **Cats** is a song and dance show, designed to showcase great singing and dancing. If you instead throw together a mixed bag of celebrities and the odd stage performer who has to hold back in order to avoid making the celebrities look bad, you end up removing everything that’s worthwhile about the show and replacing it with a lot of special effects and actually quite awful camerawork/editing to hide the performance shortcomings. > > I didn’t last long enough to see if the plot was going to get any better, but I’m guessing…not. Update: my daughter complained that we’d started watching **Cats** without her. So we said “Okay - here you go.” Ten minutes later, she said: “Yeah, okay - you can turn it off now.” ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2633 "2021-08-02T12:45:45Z")
I sat through Blade Runner: The Final Cut again. I don’t know why, it still seems like a hot mess. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2634 "2021-08-02T13:35:08Z")
I _tried_ to watch Cats. Aside from being really silly, I was distracted by trying to identify the celebrities in cat makeup and costumes. Perhaps in a Broadway performance with unknown actors, I wouldn’t have had that distraction? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2635 "2021-08-02T15:52:04Z")
**Venom** This is a better movie than it gets credit for. I liked it quite a bit the first time I saw it and seeing the trailer for the sequel made me go see it again. It’s better than Black Widow and is generally a fun movie. Andy Serkis is directing the sequel and I’m curious to see if it is any good. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2636 "2021-08-02T16:03:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > There may have been more people at the matinee showing of _The Green Knight_, even though it’s a serious, arty film based on a 14th Century Arthurian poem (and not a superhero film, which is what I thought when I first heard a film by that title was being produced). It was good, although I didn’t understand some of it but reading the [Wikipedia synopsis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight#Synopsis) of the poem cleared up some of the confusion. I saw _The Green Knight_ Saturday and really enjoyed it. I came in with decent familiarity with the poem, so that helped. The slow pacing, the lingering shots, the use of color, and the division of the story into the five virtues of knighthood I thought were all excellent. I struggled at a couple points as it becomes more and clear to me that I much have some level of face-blindness as compared to the average person. There are two moments where recognizing faces is important. One I did eventually ‘get’, and another that I totally missed. I read an interesting interview with the director where he related how his personal ‘failure to launch’ relationship with his mother took his story away from the path that the poem took. If I can find the link again, I’ll post it here. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2637 "2021-08-02T16:12:34Z")
One thing I didn’t get in _The Green Knight_ was the interlude with the lord, his wife (who I thought was supposed to be his daughter) and the old woman. I thought perhaps they were trying to tempt him into not completing his journey. And it was weird that his house was far more luxurious and nicer than Arthur’s castle at Camelot. The lord’s house looked almost like something from centuries in the future. The synopsis of the poem in Wikipedia (which I read right after I left the theater) explained better the relationship between the lord and the Green Knight and who exactly the old woman was. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2638 "2021-08-02T17:20:53Z")
I read an article about The Green Knight today which made it sound pretty good! > **[Last Christmas, I Gave You My Head: The Green Knight](https://www.tor.com/2021/07/30/the-green-knight-david-lowery-dev-patel-a24-film-review/)** > > David Lowery’s The Green Knight is so beautiful it becomes painful at times. Lush, witty, dreamlike, it retells a 14th Century tale not by updating the story, but by roughing the details up a bit, … ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2639 "2021-08-02T18:00:32Z")
I just watched _Shadow in the Cloud_. What a bat shit crazy, thoroughly enjoyable movie! Just make sure to suspend your disbelief from some Golden Gate Bridge gauge cables. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2640 "2021-08-02T23:32:47Z")
**Gretel and Hansel** Note: there are about 25 Hansel and Gretel cheapo horror movies out there. Make sure you watch the one called Gretel and Hansel and directed by Oz Perkins. Oz Perkins is the son of Anthony Hopkins and he has become quite the movie director. Very distinct, somewhat off-putting style and if you want a movie to start with, check out Gretel and Hansel. It’s a really excellenet movie and I can’t even think of what genre to put it in other than “strange horror” or something. It will always be compared to The Witch. Both movies are about a young(ish) girl gradually realizing she may have powers. I actually kind of preferred Gretel to The Witch, though I am likely in the minority on this one. Very creepy, oddly captivating, I really liked this movie and would recommend it to anyone who likes unsettling, but engaging movies. Oz Perkins did a great job and the lead actress did as well. I’d check this one out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2641 "2021-08-02T23:45:47Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Oz Perkins is the son of Anthony Hopkins “No, the _other_ Anthony who played a psycho.” ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2642 "2021-08-02T23:49:38Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “No, the _other_ Anthony who played a psycho.” 🤣 You are of course right. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2643 "2021-08-03T00:02:27Z")
I started watching **Nocturnal Animals** on Netflix. It’s a rather disturbing film, right from the opening credits. The biggest annoyance so far: everyone whispering their dialog. I really hate this trend. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2644 "2021-08-03T03:45:32Z")
**The Girl on the Third Floor** Interesting premise, disappointing movie. Starts strong, pulled me in, ended up being somewhat pointless and boring. Nothing new here, skip it entirely. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2645 "2021-08-03T16:02:58Z")
My latest five: _Ikarie XB1_ A Czech sf movie from 1963, about an Earth starship on a long voyage to another planet. It’s said to have partly inspired Kubrick and _2001: A Space Odyssey_, and I could see some design similarities. Very different and somewhat nonsensical plot, though, and all in all not nearly as good as _2001_. _Annihilation_ A good, creepy sf movie starring Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson and Oscar Isaac, with a fine supporting cast. An armed, all-female team of scientists attempts to enter and study a disorienting, very unsettling - and growing - zone of alien influence on the Louisiana coast. There’s a strong Lovecraftian vibe and the movie will really get you thinking. _Beverly Hills Cop_ Hadn’t seen this Eddie Murphy comedy since it first came out. Wildly implausible but a lot of fun; the contrast between gritty Detroit and swanky Beverly Hills couldn’t be better done. _Long Shot_ A political satire/romcom. Charlize Theron is the beautiful young Secretary of State running for President and Seth Rogen is a childhood friend who once had a crush on her and much later becomes her speechwriter. Unlikely romantic sparks fly. Not a bad movie, but not a great one either. _Zombieland_ Rewatched this zombie action/comedy and enjoyed it again. Great cast and lots of dark, blood-flecked humor. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2646 "2021-08-03T17:01:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _karie XB1_ > A Czech sf movie from 1963, about an Earth starship on a long voyage to another planet. It’s said to have partly inspired Kubrick and _2001: A Space Odyssey_ , and I could see some design similarities. Very different and somewhat nonsensical plot, though, and all in all not nearly as good as _2001_ . I saw this at a matinee in my home town when I was a kid – only I think it was the English-dubbed version re-titled **Voyage to the End of the Universe** , with the altered ending (and hilariously altered actor’s names, making them sound more Western European). I was impressed at the time, but then the movie disappeared, and I didn’t see it for a very long time. I picked it up on DVD in the original Czech and with the original ending about two year ago. I was surprised how much of it I remembered. I hadn’t heard that it inspired Kubrick. More interesting to me is that, like another film I saw in matinee at the same theater ( **First Spaceship on Venus** ), it was inspired by the work of Stanislas Lem. So, long before I read Lem’s work and saw **Solaris** or even _heard_ of Lem . , he was influence on my life. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2647 "2021-08-03T18:36:14Z")
I haven’t read anywhere other than in the local theatre’s publicity materials that it inspired Kubrick, and I’ve read a _lot_ about _2001_, so maybe it’s just marketing jive. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2648 "2021-08-03T19:19:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I haven’t read anywhere other than in the local theatre’s publicity materials that it inspired Kubrick, and I’ve read a _lot_ about _2001_ , so maybe it’s just marketing jive. The Wikipedia page claims that there’s a lot of similarity, but I confess it’s not obvious to 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:** [August 4, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2649 "2021-08-04T02:18:13Z")
**Shadow in the Cloud** - Hulu It was nice to see Chloe Grace Moretz as an adult now. I think I’d only ever seen her as a child actor. She does a great job carrying this movie, but the movie really does not rise above “just above average”. It is not trash, but it is not a great movie. It is only 76 minutes from beginning to the credits and if you need a pretty good movie, this will do just fine. Great soundtrack/score, by the way. Very synthesizer heavy, sounded like Blade Runner almost at times. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/2650 "2021-08-04T03:09:14Z")
THE VAULT (2021) netflix. I thought it was a decent little heist film. Oceans 11 lite. Cute set-up for a sequel at the end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=131) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=133)