# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/322 "2015-09-30T20:29:24Z")
[Infinitely Polar Bear](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1969062/) with Mark Ruffalo. Based on writer/director Maya Forbes’ real life story about living with her bipolar dad. Started okay, got tiresome, then finished well. What happened, in my view, was that the bulk of the movie was just a series of unrelated events showing how weird the father was. Not much holding it together. OTOH, that’s sort of the way life in that kind of environment can be. Ruffalo was quite good. Two reasonable child actors. Zoe Zaldana as the mostly absent mother. **Mrs. FtG** liked it quite a bit more than me. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/323 "2015-09-30T20:31:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes, I did like TBOE, for the reasons I wrote (and it’s **Heir** , not **Hair** ). > > Hope you like S&S, too. Oops. Excuse me. There are few things more insulting that spelling someone’s name incorrectly. I hate it when people do that to me IRL. I promise to be extra careful whenever writing “Elendil’s Heir” again. But, while I am writing to you, I want to tell you that I have always enjoyed your posts. You give the members here some excellent info and IMO, we all owe you a big THANK YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/324 "2015-09-30T20:34:59Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > _[Wanda Nevada](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080116/)_, a curious 1979 film starring Peter Fonda and Brooke Shields. Shields, obviously 14 and underage, constantly gets hit on by every man _except_ Peter Fonda, making for a very confusing movie. > > When this movie came out, my to-be wife was constantly getting stopped, saying she looked like Shields’s [character in the movie](http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/34700000/Wanda-Nevada-1979-brooke-shields-34740410-1064-577.jpg). Fonda made a few very strange movies in the 1970s. I will never forget one great big turkey called “Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry” or “Crazy Mary and Dirty Larry” or something like that. I can never remember the title and it was so bad that I can never be bothered to look it up. The worst thing about this film, IMO, is that it was rated 6.7 by IMDB. What an outrage! It should never have been rated any higher than about 3.0. It was one film that should be in the 2’s or 3’s. I can’t understand why someone would ever give it a 6.7. That is just B.S.!!! I’m sorry to say, but I think the reason he made so many bizarre and bad films was due to his drug use. Poor boy. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/325 "2015-09-30T20:35:14Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > Hello EC, > > Are you certain that you spelled the name of this movie correctly? > > I can’t find any movies named, “Seethe you in September”. But I did find one called, “See you in September”. It was from 2010. Could that be the film you intended? I haven’t posted anything about Seethe You in September" or “See You In September” that I know of. If you are talking about “Maleficent,” yep, I spelled that right. **Typo Negative** posted about Seethe You In September. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/326 "2015-09-30T21:46:13Z")
Evil Captor, OK. My mistake. Sorry. I meant to address that to “Typo Negative”. I think he/she was posting about “Divorce Corp”. So, that is another of my mistakes. I thought he/she was referring to a movie called “Seethe you in September”. I just woke up a little while ago and I’m feeling groggy. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/327 "2015-10-04T19:40:06Z")
I just watched another old movie that I messed. I stumbled across a DVD set of biblical epics, and finally got a chance to see John Huston’s **The Bible…In the Beginning** , which came out ion 1966. I remember the TV ads for it, and even had a copy of the published script once. But I never saw it until now. It’s much better than you’d think. Unlike other epics, like **The Ten Commandments** (which is mainly pageant, with special effects), or more recent films like **Noah** or **Exodus; Gods and Kings** (special effects-fests, with dark characters), this plays it straight and had limited and subtle effects. It certainly helps that award-winning playwright Christopher Fry wrote the screenplay, which is very well done. The opening section, with the creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, wasn’t hugely impressive. Beautifully photographed, but I thought they botched it when they open on flashing lights – it should have been completely dark until God says “Let there be light!” Adam and Eve look too Clean, White, Northern European to me, even for the 1960s.\* But the film really comes into its own in the following scenes, which follow the book of Gnesis up through Abraham’s sacrifice. I’m surprised at the “name” stars who show up in this. Richard Harris is Cain. Stephen Boyd, who played Bad Guy Masala in _Ben Hur_, is Nimrod, who builds the Tower of Babel. Peter O’Toole plays three angels who appear to Lot. George C. Scott does a wonderful extended turn as the patriarch Abraham. Peter O’Toole’s part is interesting. He plays the three angels who visit Lot in Sodom. His house is then beset by his neighbors, who want the men to come out. It’s possible that you may not be familiar with this part of Lot’s story unless you’ve read Genesis on your own, or in a college course. This part tends to be glossed over in religion classes and Sunday schools. Heinlein made a point of including it in _Stranger in a Strange Land_. The people of Sodom want the angels to come out because they want to have sex with them (one reason they generally skip this). Lot offers the crowd his daughters instead. (Another reason they skip this.) I suspect at the time, it appeared that Lot was making a great sacrifice of his own “property” to save his guests, but to modern sensibilities, hi action in offering his daughters to a crowd for clearly sexual purposes seems monstrous To their credit, Fry and Huston leave this scvene in – they don’t censor the Bible. What’s even more interesting is that O’Toole’s angel smites the Sodomites with a glance. It’s all the more interesting because O’Toole’s first big role was as T.E. Lawrence in _Lawrence of Arabia_, whose character is transformed after his captivity by the Turks in Deraa. The film, from 1964, was restained in its depiction ofg the events, showing Lawrence being beaten, but the implication is clearly that he was raped. This role, with O’Toole smiting his would-be rapists with a look, feels like a necessary comeback. Hustyon can’t have been unaware of the connection. The film has no credits at the beginning, and somewhat lengthy end redits. It occurs to me that it resembles **2001: A Space Odyssey** in this, and that **Star Wars** also follows this. I’ve often said that **Star Wars** is the first film I can recall with REALLY long end credits, of the kind that have become standard these days, with lengthy recessional music and credits tat seem to thank every conceivable contributor to the film. It seems to me now that Star Wars’ contribution was to take an existing practice (no opening credits/ longer end credits) and make it really long. . \*(If you really want to see a nifty interpretation of the Creation story from Genesis, look up Will Vinton’s _The Creation_, done in clay “painting” and narrated (from a poem) by James Earl Jones in the style of a southern preacher. It was nominated for an Academy Award) ---
**Author:** ![soonerblue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soonerblue/32/3302_2.png) [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/328 "2015-10-05T10:46:06Z")
Two sci-fi flicks. My favorite: “Under The Skin” - Jonathan Glazer directs this fascinating nightmarish dreamscape. An alien takes over the body of Scarlett Johansson and prowls the streets of Glasgow every night in a special van in search of prey - seducing unsuspecting young men who fall under her spell. (Their fate took me to a disturbing place, about how we treat our fellow creatures.) Events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery. Does she start to develop human emotions? The Scottish accents may be too thick for some, but I had no trouble following the plot; besides, it’s not dialogue driven …mostly images and music, excellent cinematography. This film held me spellbound from start to finish … couldn’t shake it for days. Next: “Ex Machina” - “After winning a chance to spend a week at his boss’s Alaskan compound, tech whiz Caleb Smith finds he’s been selected to help evaluate a sentient humanoid dubbed Ava – whose feminine wiles prove more formidable than expected.” (Netflix) Another intelligent, stylish art-housey film with the theme of what it is to be human, adding the ethic of artificial intelligence. A little slow sometimes, a little long maybe, but definetly worth my while. The only way I found peace with the unsettling, chilling ending was to hope for a power surge. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/329 "2015-10-05T21:39:43Z")
Not a true movie, but close enough. [An Inspector Calls](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4271918/), a new BBC version of the J.B. Priestley play. Written in the early 40s, set in 1912. A police inspector calls on a well-to-do family to inquire about the circumstances leading up to a woman’s death. Most of it is a standard period single-room police piece. But near the end … things get really interesting. Wow, oh, wow. Unlike the play, and apparently like an earlier movie, they break out of the dining room and show the girl and her activities before her death. I think this helps the story a lot. The main cast member I know is Miranda Richardson. Not really used much and poorly fleshed out which I ascribe to the era in which it was written. It also has Sophie Rundle as the girl doing a fine job. Much better role than as the oddly named stalker of Matt LeBlanc on _Episodes_. Watching this makes me more interested in seeing _Peaky Blinders_ due to cast overlap. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/330 "2015-10-06T11:27:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I just watched another old movie that I messed. I stumbled across a DVD set of biblical epics, and finally got a chance to see John Huston’s **The Bible…In the Beginning** , which came out ion 1966. I remember the TV ads for it, and even had a copy of the published script once. But I never saw it until now. > > It’s much better than you’d think. Unlike other epics, like **The Ten Commandments** (which is mainly pageant, with special effects), or more recent films like **Noah** or **Exodus; Gods and Kings** (special effects-fests, with dark characters), this plays it straight and had limited and subtle effects. It certainly helps that award-winning playwright Christopher Fry wrote the screenplay, which is very well done. > The opening section, with the creation of the world and of Adam and Eve, wasn’t hugely impressive. Beautifully photographed, but I thought they botched it when they open on flashing lights – it should have been completely dark until God says “Let there be light!” Adam and Eve look too Clean, White, Northern European to me, even for the 1960s.\* > > But the film really comes into its own in the following scenes, which follow the book of Gnesis up through Abraham’s sacrifice. I’m surprised at the “name” stars who show up in this. Richard Harris is Cain. Stephen Boyd, who played Bad Guy Masala in _Ben Hur_, is Nimrod, who builds the Tower of Babel. Peter O’Toole plays three angels who appear to Lot. George C. Scott does a wonderful extended turn as the patriarch Abraham. > Peter O’Toole’s part is interesting. He plays the three angels who visit Lot in Sodom. His house is then beset by his neighbors, who want the men to come out. It’s possible that you may not be familiar with this part of Lot’s story unless you’ve read Genesis on your own, or in a college course. This part tends to be glossed over in religion classes and Sunday schools. Heinlein made a point of including it in _Stranger in a Strange Land_. The people of Sodom want the angels to come out because they want to have sex with them (one reason they generally skip this). Lot offers the crowd his daughters instead. (Another reason they skip this.) I suspect at the time, it appeared that Lot was making a great sacrifice of his own “property” to save his guests, but to modern sensibilities, hi action in offering his daughters to a crowd for clearly sexual purposes seems monstrous > > To their credit, Fry and Huston leave this scvene in – they don’t censor the Bible. What’s even more interesting is that O’Toole’s angel smites the Sodomites with a glance. It’s all the more interesting because O’Toole’s first big role was as T.E. Lawrence in _Lawrence of Arabia_, whose character is transformed after his captivity by the Turks in Deraa. The film, from 1964, was restained in its depiction ofg the events, showing Lawrence being beaten, but the implication is clearly that he was raped. This role, with O’Toole smiting his would-be rapists with a look, feels like a necessary comeback. Hustyon can’t have been unaware of the connection. > > The film has no credits at the beginning, and somewhat lengthy end redits. It occurs to me that it resembles **2001: A Space Odyssey** in this, and that **Star Wars** also follows this. I’ve often said that **Star Wars** is the first film I can recall with REALLY long end credits, of the kind that have become standard these days, with lengthy recessional music and credits tat seem to thank every conceivable contributor to the film. It seems to me now that Star Wars’ contribution was to take an existing practice (no opening credits/ longer end credits) and make it really long. > > . \*(If you really want to see a nifty interpretation of the Creation story from Genesis, look up Will Vinton’s _The Creation_, done in clay “painting” and narrated (from a poem) by James Earl Jones in the style of a southern preacher. It was nominated for an Academy Award) Wow. Those descriptions sound excellent! I will def get two of those films and watch them. Thanks very much. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/331 "2015-10-06T11:49:13Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > Wow. Those descriptions sound excellent! I will def get two of those films and watch them. Thanks very much. I was puzzled by your reference to _two_ films., then realized that you probably meant the Will Vinton Claymation **Creation**. I looked for it on YouTube, but couldn’t find it there. If you want to watch it, you can find it on **Will Vinton’s The Best of the Festival of Claymation**. To the best of my knowledge,m this was released once, 19 years ago, on VHS. You can find it on eBay as low as $10: > **[Will Vinton Best of the Festival of Claymation Treasures from the Clay Age...](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Will%20Vinton%20BEST%20OF%20THE%20FESTIVAL%20OF%20CLAYMATION%20Treasures%20From%20The%20Clay%20Age%20VHS)** > > Get the best deals for Will Vinton Best of the Festival of Claymation Treasures from the Clay Age Vhs at eBay.com. We have a great online selection at the lowest prices with Fast & Free shipping on many items! Amazon lists it for an outrageous $200: > **[Amazon.com: Will Vinton's Best of the Festival of Claymation Treasures From the...](https://www.amazon.com/Will-Vintons-Festival-Claymation-Treasures/dp/B00030EQCK)** > > VHS tape It’s “The Best of…” because they couldn’t release all of _Will Vinton’s Festival of Clayumation_ (which was released theatrically, to art movie houses) in 1987. Apparently they couldn’t get legal permission to use their commercials for The California Raisins and for Domino’s Pizza’s “The Noid”. Or, sadly, for the music video John Fogerty’s _Vantz Can’t Dance_. If you want, you can fgind most of these on Youtube now. Vantz Can’t Dance is definitely worth watching: But \*\*The Creation\*\*, very sadly, doesn't seem to be available, and it really deserves to be seen. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/332 "2015-10-20T16:20:09Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > …I want to tell you that I have always enjoyed your posts. You give the members here some excellent info and IMO, we all owe you a big THANK YOU! Glad to, and thank _you_! Recently seen: _Abraham Lincoln_ D.W. Griffith’s 1930 biopic doesn’t hold up well, alas. The acting is melodramatic and the production values almost laughable by modern standards. Walter Huston was praised for his performance in the title role at the time, but just seems oafish to me - totally lacking Lincoln’s wit and political shrewdness. The film also has the President give a short speech to the crowd at Ford’s Theatre before taking his seat, and that just didn’t happen. _Caddyshack_ Believe it or not, I’d never seen this golf comedy in its entirety before. Had some laughs, some good lines, but it wasn’t all _that_ great IMHO. _Greed_ A 1924 Erich von Stroheim adaption of the Frank Norris novel _McTeague_, about a failed dentist in 1890s San Francisco whose wife wins the lottery. She turns pathologically miserly, they quarrel, and things go from bad to worse. Interesting camera work but not an especially gripping film. _The Martian_ Outstanding sf drama, about an American astronaut who has to survive against all the odds after being accidentally left behind on Mars. A funny, absorbing tale of grit, determination and ingenuity. _Captain Phillips_ A powerful, effective movie, based on a true story, about a captain dealing with the takeover of his container ship by ragtag Somali pirates in 2009. Paul Greengrass, the director, makes you feel like you’re right there, and Tom Hanks is very good in the title role. The last scene almost made me cry - a near-perfect ending to the film. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/333 "2015-10-21T10:00:04Z")
I just sat through most of _Vice_ with Bruce Willis. It’s so bad. Bruce must have owed someone a favor. ---
**Author:** ![soonerblue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soonerblue/32/3302_2.png) [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/334 "2015-10-22T12:09:03Z")
The Man Who Wasn’t There - 2001 Coen Bros. - B&W I’m rewatching Coen Bros. films, and don’t know how I missed this very stylish film noir gem, a tale of infidelity and murder, crime and punishment. Exquisitely lit and superbly shot, it takes place in the 1940’s in a small CA town. The brilliant Billy Bob Thornton plays a brooding barber unhappy with his dull job and dreadful life. His unfaithful wife, flawlessly played by Frances McDormand, unwittingly gives him an idea for blackmail, which he thinks will change his life … until it all starts to unravel … The twisty plot mesmerized me from start to end, and get a load of the rest of the cast - Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, etc. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/335 "2015-10-22T12:20:23Z")
> [@soonerblue](#): > > The Man Who Wasn’t There - 2001 Coen Bros. - B&W Yes! The scene with him shaving his wife’s legs/smoking a cigarette was brilliant. I’ve lent out my DVD to several people, none of whom enjoyed the film on my level, though. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/336 "2015-10-22T14:20:54Z")
_The Man Who Wasn’t There_ underwhelmed me. Looked noir-good but just didn’t seem to have much substance, I thought. Not the Coen Bros.'s best by a long shot, IMHO. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/337 "2015-10-22T15:51:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _The Man Who Wasn’t There_ underwhelmed me. Looked noir-good but just didn’t seem to have much substance, I thought. Not the Coen Bros.'s best by a long shot, IMHO. You take that back! Billy Bob Thornton is an acting god! We finally got around to watching _Wild_, with Reese Witherspoon. An excellent film, and I’m not really a big fan of hers. For some reason I didn’t realize that it was based on a true story until the end. She must have taken quite a beating in the filming of this thing, as many scenes were clearly not being done by a stunt double. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/338 "2015-10-22T18:34:22Z")
Billy Bob is very good indeed (see last season’s _Fargo_) - it just wasn’t his best movie. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/339 "2015-10-22T21:59:51Z")
Last weekend, [Mr. Holmes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3168230/). Ian McKellen as an elderly, long retired Sherlock Holmes trying to recall why he retired. (He’s having memory issues, but that would seem to be kinda important.) This is one of those “on the one hand - on the other hand” movies. Great acting by McKellen. Well filmed, etc. But the premise is bad and goes south. It really isn’t a Sherlock Holmes type story. It could have basically been about anyone. It has this feel of a Hollywood passed around script. Someone had an idea for the next _Lethal Weapon_ movie, someone else decided it would make a good _Die Hard_ movie. Someone else came along and said “Hey, let’s make John McClane into Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is hot now and we can get McKellen for a lot less than Willis!”, etc. The most telling script-in-a-blender part is the random add on of a Japanese sub plot that relates to nothing and goes nowhere. Like I said, good acting, especially on the part of the kid that plays the son of the housekeeper. The housekeeper, played by Laura Linney is a problem. Could hardly tell she was supposed to have a British accent. And this was set in rural England shortly after WWII. Why does her son have a stronger accent than her? Before that, we watched _Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs_. (Do I really need to provide a link for this.) We recently watched the PBS special on Walt Disney, got to talking, etc. It was the first movie **Mrs. FtG** saw in a theater. Parts are excellent. The quality of the animation at times is just amazing. Good humor with the dwarfs, etc. Downsides are the music. The “tinny” horns and poor quality make the songs a major distraction. The sexism is unfortunate, but even modern Disney does a poor job here. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/340 "2015-10-23T03:14:20Z")
I just saw Sicario (2015) [Sicario (2015) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/) It’s about an FBI agent who joins some kind of strike team and they go to Mexico to try and take down the head of a drug cartel. It was very exciting but I didn’t understand it very well. I feel the need to watch it again. The movie opens with an FBI strike team raiding a house in Phoenix and things go very bad for the FBI. They find an entrance to some compartment in a tool shed outside. It’s locked and they call for bolt cutters. Well, it turns out to be a huge booby trap designed especially for an FBI strike team and there is a huge explosion and there are several dead FBI agents - all blowed up into little pieces. You should be warned if you don’t like murder and mayhem. This movie is not for you. But if you don’t mind that kind of stuff, this movie is very exciting and it moves right along. It got an 8.1 rating on IMDB which is very high. All in all, I would recommend it. I thought it was a lot of fun. Lots of action. I just sure do wish I understood it better. At the beginning, the lead character asks someone from the Mexican team to explain to her what is going on. He tells her, “You are asking me to explain to you how a watch works. For now, just pay attention to the time.” I thought that was a great line and it kind of sums up this whole move. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/341 "2015-10-23T09:09:15Z")
**Terminator Genisys** Arnie’s back! Apart from the obvious use of a stunt double, the way they made him look so young was incredible. **Southpaw** Corny as hell but I really enjoyed it. **Jurassic World** Not convinced it was worth bring back the franchise **Last Shift** It was contrived, stupid and pretty boring **Spy** Very funny, some originality, spoof-like **Sunshine Superman** One of the better documentaries about adrenalin sports **Bessie** A good soundtrack but the plot has been done many times before **Little Boy** A gut-wrenchingly cute story with a hugely talented child as the lead actor [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=18)