# 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:** 164
**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:** [November 28, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3271 "2021-11-28T02:52:40Z")
**Jungle Cruise** - Disney+ Watched this with my wife and son(age 11) and it was a really cute and fun family movie. Not a great movie, nothing much to recommend for adults, but we enjoyed it quite well and the interactions between the cast were pretty funny. If you need a family movie, this one is not a miserable experience for adults, but it quite nice. My son was laughing quite regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3272 "2021-11-28T03:34:15Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Thanksgivings night we watched _“That’s NOT a Bee! That’s a Bear in a Bee costume. You idiot!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3273 "2021-11-28T03:57:46Z")
[Come and See](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See). Just finished watching it. Wow. 😳 Probably the most moving portrayal of war I’ve ever seen. My eyes were glued to the screen the entire time. It wasn’t really a war movie, though. More like an “atrocity” movie. And _very_ non-Hollywood. Just an incredible production. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3274 "2021-11-28T04:00:48Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I like 1950’s Sci-fi. Though the execution is cheesy and laughable, old movies are not short of decent story ideas that ought to be tapped into for remakes more often. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3275 "2021-11-28T04:06:16Z")
My wife is one of the three people on the planet who has never seen any of the Indiana Jones films, so we watched **Raiders** this evening and she loved it. I’ve seen it so many times that I was picking out plot flaws, but it was still fun. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3276 "2021-11-28T06:20:04Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I say we let Wheelz settle it! 😆 Challenge accepted! (Not sure when I’ll get to it though. Be patient.) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3277 "2021-11-28T06:25:43Z")
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Well, it’s a Hellboy film. Lots of action, mayhem, weird creatures, callbacks to ancient literature. Fight scenes galore, the whole misunderstood mutant theme. And a love story for Abraham the amphibian and Hellboy with flaming Liz. Good fun. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3278 "2021-11-28T11:50:22Z")
I’ve seen **Runaway Train** several times and it’s among my favorites, although it’s far from perfect: 1) The sound is thin and trebley and makes it look like the film is dubbed, as I recall, although that might be the result of re-recording the dialogue, which I understand is common practice. 2) The music sounds like it was made with a single synthesizer and evokes the worst of the early 1980s. 3) It’s not Rebecca De Mornay’s best performance. Some of her reactions are downright hammy, although that might be on the director/editor for not getting/using a better take. Also, I’m not sure if it has any bearing on this, but IMDB says Kurosawa’s script had no female character on the train. I think she was doing the best she could with what she was given, but her character doesn’t fit well with the other elements, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3279 "2021-11-28T16:37:46Z")
> [@alovem](#): > > . Also, I’m not sure if it has any bearing on this, but IMDB says Kurosawa’s script had no female character on the train. And it’s completely obvious. She just ‘appears’ suddenly, then adds nothing further than an explanation about who sounded the whistle. Other problems: The Cartoonishly Sadistic Prison Warden. The utterly ridiculous prison escape (laundry cart? Really? Is that the best you could come up with??). The switchyard office people who were almost included for comedy relief. The implausability of the whole Runaway Train thing (Remember the movie is called Runaway Train?) The massive inconsistancy of the scenery/terrain. And that over-the-top hammy acting from everybody. I’m sorry. That was a stinker. Like Homebrew and cabbage-roll stinker. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3280 "2021-11-28T17:19:38Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I like 1950’s Sci-fi. I hadn’t seen this movie. It features a creature from Mars that kills the crew of the first Mars exploration. The rescue ship accidentally brings the creature back. The crew is hunted during the trip home. Alien borrows heavily from the plot. One of three science fiction films from the 1950s written by Jerome Bixby. He also wrote the story the memorable Twilight Zone episode _It’s a Good Life_ was based on, three episodes of the original _Star Trek_, and the script for the movie _Fantastic Voyage_, among a great many other thingfs. His other 1950s movies were the better-left-forgotten movie _The Curse of the Faceless Man_ (In which what is essentially one of those plaster casts of one of the Pompeii victims comes to life seeking the reincarnation of his Lost Love, a la The Mummy movies) and _The Lost Missile_. I haven’t seen that, but I think it’s worth another look. As I recall, it’s about a Runaway Missile (Hmmm – _Runaway Missile_…) launched by a un-named country (Russia, take my word for it) that goes astray, putting out huge amounts of heat and threatening massive destruction around the globe unless it’s stopped. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3281 "2021-11-29T02:34:39Z")
I watched [The Collingswood Story](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328720/) with friends on Thanksgiving. I picked it out. They are reconsidering their friendship. It is supposed to be horror. It’s just dumb. And worse, it’s boring dumb. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3282 "2021-11-29T04:00:02Z")
We watched **Pig** tonight, starring Nicholas Cage. Now, ol’ Nic has gotten himself a rather poor reputation in recent years because of his willingness to take any role offered to him, and the movies he’s been in as a result have been pretty uniformly bad. This one is an exception. His acting is understated and the supporting cast is excellent. It’s on Prime for anyone interested. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3283 "2021-11-29T12:01:12Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > It wasn’t really a war movie, though. More like an “atrocity” movie. And _very_ non-Hollywood. Just an incredible production. I think it’s a product of Soviet cinema. Filmed in Belarus where a lot of the atrocities took place. I’m not sure I’ve seen other Soviet films. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3284 "2021-11-29T14:56:02Z")
I am currently watching the _RiffTrax_ version of “The Star Wars Holiday Special”. It is much better than the original…but then again, so is yodeling with a mouthful of rusty thumbtacks. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3285 "2021-11-29T15:59:28Z")
_Army of Thieves_. A very thin film, plot-wise. Nathalie Emmanuel is always good., and Matthias Schweighöfer does a workman job of acting and (presumably) directing, but there isn’t much there there. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3286 "2021-11-29T16:33:37Z")
Besides **The Green Knight** (already written about), I saw **The Eternals** over the weekend. 1. LONG movie. I went in on Saturday and came out on Sunday 2. I hadn’t read the Kirby comics, or anyone else’s run on them, so they were new to me, lie the Guardians of the Galaxy. 3. Interesting, and a LOT of work went into creating and presenting the characters and their mythology, but ultimately not as appealing. 4. The changes made to shoehorn them into the MCU from their comic book originals aren’t all that appealing. The nature of the Eternals has changed and a moral ambiguity has been introduced that are troubling. 5. Interesting timely variations – a deaf superhero and a gay one and some gender swapping of characters, none of which I complain about. Also some name-dropping and mentions of characters from the DCU for the first time (although they appear to be regarded as comic book characters, not as “real”) It occurs to me that Jack Kirby is now responsible for an awful lot of not only the MCU, but also the DCU and other comic book franchises. Much of the ideas an imagery can be directly traced back to things he himself invented. (I realize that a lot of these are co-created, and that Joe Simon and Stan Lee might deserve some credit, but the “Marvel Style” of comics creation seemed to originate with Kirby’s drawing board, with Lee filling in the dialogue later, so I’m giving Kirby the credit) **MCU** Black Panther Wakanda Him/Adam Warlock/Cocoon Thor and all of the accompanying Asgardian world and detail Loki The Hulk The Watcher Captain America Bucky Barnes Nick Fury Groot Ego Fandral Volstagg Hogun All the Eternals Agatha Harkness Hela Ronan the Accuser Red Skull Sif Baron Zemo Magneto **DCU** Darkseid Desaad Steppenwolf Mother Boxes **20th Century Fox** X-Men Magneto Prof. X Fantastic Four, supporting characters, and their setting Silver Surfer Doctor Doom Latveria Destroyer Mjolnir Skrulls Kree Kree Supremne Intelligence I’m sure there’s a lot I overlooked. A lot of things Mr. Fantastic used or came up with seems to be made by Tony Stark in the MCU, since they didn’t have the rights to the Fantastic Four stuff. Besides all this, the use of the idea of filming a superhero fantasy movie in Iran used as cover to evacuate the diplomats hiding in the Canadian embassy really was based on Jack Kirby’s sketches for an imagined amusement park complex based on Roger Zelazny’s “Amber” series. I suspect that the real-life hatchers of the scheme were seduced by Kirby’s “Oriental” domes and the like. They used, I think, some of Kirby’s sketches in the movie **Argo**. And an actor is actually portraying Jack Kirby. He’s listed in the end credits, but no one refers to him by name in the movie, that I can recall. > [@](#): > > - [Michael Parks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Parks) as [Jack Kirby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby) So the movies owe a huge debt to Kirby. Which he or his heirs don’t get paid. > **[Jack Kirby Runs Into the MCU Buzzsaw - The Bulwark](https://www.thebulwark.com/jack-kirby-runs-into-the-mcu-buzzsaw/)** > > ‘Eternals’ and the irony of watching fans trumpet their allegiance to a corporation over artists. > **[Comic Legend Jack Kirby's Influence on the MCU and Beyond](https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2023/11/comic-legend-jack-kirbys-influence-on-the-mcu-and-beyond.html)** > > Everyone knows there'd be no Marvel cinematic anything without the influence of Stan Lee. But do audiences know about Jack Kirby? > **[Argo And The Jack Kirby Connection](https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/193900-Argo-And-The-Jack-Kirby-Connection)** > > In shops August 23! Artwork that shows how the King of Comics unknowingly helped to rescue Americans trapped in 1980 Iran. See vintage long out-of-print psychedellic Kirby artwork! > **[The Deceptions of Argo](https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/2013/09/09/the-deceptions-of-argo/)** > > For the 2013 Best Picture Oscar-winner Argo, Jack Kirby’s Lord of Light artwork was omitted and his crucial role in the CIA’s rescue plot was downplayed and distorted, but that is only a part of th… ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3287 "2021-11-29T16:49:34Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Last night we watched Tick Tick Boom, Andrew Garfield is Jonathan Larson, the person who wrote the musical Rent. > It is a sort of musical itself , directed by Lin Manuel Miranda about Larson trying to get his first musical off the ground. > > Very enjoyable, Garfield can sing, bit of an all star cast, with Bradley Whitford playing Stephen Sondheim, recommended for an easy viewing night Agreed. I went into this without expectations and thought it was very enjoyable. The whole cast is charming, it’s multi-layered but not overly complex, brings the feels, and that diner scene with all the Broadway legends was incredible. ETA: On Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3288 "2021-11-29T19:28:17Z")
The Mrs. and I recently watched [unstuck in time](https://vonnegutdocumentary.com/), the new Kurt Vonnegut documentary. We both enjoyed it though we both thought the producer put waaay to much of himself in the movie. So it goes. We also watched Black Widow. Slow (for an action movie) intriguing start, then it just turned into a special effects extravaganza with pathos. We’re both looking forward to Joel Coen’s [Tragedy of Macbeth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10095582/) ---
**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:** [November 29, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3289 "2021-11-29T19:40:44Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > …We’re both looking forward to Joel Coen’s [Tragedy of Macbeth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10095582/) Wow, Denzel Washington _and_ Brendan Gleeson? Gotta see it! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3290 "2021-11-29T20:06:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I am currently watching the _RiffTrax_ version of “The Star Wars Holiday Special”. It is much better than the original…but then again, so is yodeling with a mouthful of rusty thumbtacks. **YouTube** , is case there is anyone else like me going to watch it tonight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=163) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=165)