# 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:** 173
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3453 "2021-12-27T17:58:04Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > **Revenge** (2017) Woman raped and gets revenge by killing the three men who have wronged her. The desert set movie is attractively shot like a glossy perfume advert and uses literally gallons of fake blood. I found it tedious. Although seemingly set in the real world the woman endures clearly fatal injuries You would be amazed at what some have endured and survived. See [Alison](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3949952/). She was raped, then _disemboweled and nearly decapitated_. > she sustained 16 injuries in her throat alone from all the slashings. Good documentary. Hard to watch at times. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3454 "2021-12-27T18:07:56Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Saw **Being the Ricardos** last night. Enjoyed it a lot, although in a sense it’s “Being Aaron Sorkin”—it’s an ode to the craft of writing a TV show. Also enjoyed this one. I would have liked some more, including why Vance and Frawley hated each other so much. And Frawley trying to console Lucy, basically telling her “you married a player, what did you expect?” [The Seventh Day](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11263022/) Sigh. A really interesting premise, but the writer\director decided to punt on first down. Went south almost immediately. Would have been better as a mini-series. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3455 "2021-12-27T18:13:43Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I would have liked some more, including why Vance and Frawley hated each other so much. And Frawley trying to console Lucy, basically telling her “you married a player, what did you expect?” My main takeaway from the movie was that I’d like to know more about William Frawley. Or, maybe I just like J.K. Simmons. Perhaps the animosity came from the setup, as described by Vance’s character – she’s married to a man old enough to be her grandfather, and the running gag is that _she’s_ not pretty enough for _him_. Yeah, that could get old fast. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3456 "2021-12-27T19:12:51Z")
> [@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. Word around the ‘hood in Washington Heights is that Steven Spielberg will follow up “West Side Story” with “Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom”, the story of Lin Manuel Miranda’s heroic effort to bring “Tick Tick Boom” the the masses. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3457 "2021-12-28T00:59:39Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Perhaps the animosity came from the setup, as described by Vance’s character – she’s married to a man old enough to be her grandfather, and the running gag is that _she’s_ not pretty enough for _him_ . Yeah, that could get old fast. I always assumed that it was another example of older fatter guy gets chick way out of his league. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3458 "2021-12-28T01:09:11Z")
I haven’t seen this movie (Being the Ricardos) but my understanding is in real life Vivian Vance resented that she was made to appear older and frumpier than she was in real life. As I remember from the show, Ethel and Fred were in vaudeville together, so I think the characters were meant to be roughly the same age but in real life, Vivian Vance was quite a bit younger than William Frawley. (And I think his drinking was also an issue.) ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3459 "2021-12-28T01:32:53Z")
It’s also established early in the movie that their politics are diametrically opposed. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3460 "2021-12-28T13:26:20Z")
The real life **Alison** is indeed an astonishingly resilient woman with an impressive drive to survive. My view of the movie **Revenge** is unchanged. > **Summary** > > The fictional **Jen** is dropped off a cliff, which leaves her impaled on a tree which passes through her back and out her stomach. She escapes from the tree by burning it out from under her. Bleeding profusely (most reviews of the film note the huge volumes of blood spilled across the desert) she crawls off and gets into a brawl with a much bigger and fully fit man. Winning the fight of course. > > She removes the rest of the dead tree from her abdomen. She then cauterises the wound on her stomach but never bothers with the equally gaping entry wound on her back. > > She never appears to drink much to replace the fluids lost by bleeding. Indeed this is set in a desert. Even an uninjured person would require drinking much more than **Jen** does. > > If the film had suggested even a cursory supernatural explanation, some load of old toss along the lines of 500 years ago a lost tribe of Amazonian women built a sacred church here, or even gone for the hackneyed ‘all the revenge sequences were just **Jen’s** dying thoughts’ I might have been happier with the film. > > As it is I am doubling down on my original assessment. **Jen’s** injuries were obviously fatal eliminating any point in the film. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3461 "2021-12-28T15:59:59Z")
Included with Prime: > **[Here After (2020) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7401840/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > Here After: Directed by Harry Greenberger. With Andy Karl, Nora Arnezeder, Christina Ricci, Jeannie Berlin. A dark fantasy-comedy about the meaning of love in the afterlife. I liked the premise but thought 1) It needed to be trimmed by about 30 minutes, and 2) It violated some of its own rules. Too bad but I’d still give it 6/10. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3462 "2021-12-28T18:10:25Z")
**Red Notice** : A pretty awful film, even for this sort of smirking wankery. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3463 "2021-12-28T18:40:23Z")
**Being the Ricardos** - Very well acted. It certainly held my interest, but I think it could have been better. Nice to see Linda Lavin, if briefly. Actually, nice to see an older actress who hasn’t done a ton of cosmetic surgery, for a change. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3464 "2021-12-28T18:49:35Z")
**The Woman in the Window** (Netflix, 2021) - Meh, one and a half stars maybe. There were a couple of red herrings here and there to throw us off but for the most part my wife and I saw the conclusion a mile away. The film offers a few jump scares for people who like that and for his brief scenes Gary Oldman is awesome as always, but for the most part this movie will mostly be a waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3465 "2021-12-28T19:05:08Z")
Free on imdb (with commercials) > **[Watch Masterminds | Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Zach-Galifianakis/dp/B01MY7HWQM)** > > David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams when he goes from the night guard at an armored car company to the man behind one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Odd to see a true story of a robbery turned into a comedy. Pretty good cast (Galifianakis, some SNL, et al) but only a so-so outcome. 6/10, I’d say. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3466 "2021-12-29T13:18:25Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I saw _Don’t Look Up_ today. Pretty good, but somewhat scarily accurate in how people responded to the imminent threat. Which of course was the whole point of the metaphor. Same. Although the Trump parallels were both fun and disturbing. > [@jsc1953](#): > > **Encanto** , on Disney+. I really wanted to like it and it got excellent reviews … but … meh. > > The animation is great and the songs are good, and I’m sure it will win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. But the story is thin and weak and really makes no sense. It’s an odd story, to be sure. On consideration I wonder how much of it is specifically aimed at Latin American culture (the location isn’t named in the story IIRC, but some of the songs specifically name Colombia) and/or that market (because everything these days seems to have either a Latin American or Chinese appeal). It seems to be a Disneyfied take on the sort of magic realism you get in Gabriel Garcia Marquez books (etc), with a heartwarming message about not shackling your kids with your unrealistic expectations of them and abusing them if they don’t live up to them. It’s really about the characters; the plot is pretty much just there to hang the messaging on. But for all that, it’s a nice enough film and the songs are good. > [@Wheelz](#): > > I highly recommend this doc whether you are familiar with Sparks or not. I’m definitely going to be digging into their catalog after this. Heh. I was just listening to [Suburban Homeboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFP4aByUfxA). They’re a lot of fun, and all over the place musically. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3467 "2021-12-29T14:42:06Z")
Last night we watched [Clockwise](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090852/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), a John Cleese movie from 1986. I believe it was free from Amazon Prime. The premise is John Cleese trying to get to an important meeting on time, and it was amusing. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3468 "2021-12-29T16:07:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s an odd story, to be sure. On consideration I wonder how much of it is specifically aimed at Latin American culture (the location isn’t named in the story IIRC, but some of the songs specifically name Colombia) and/or that market (because everything these days seems to have either a Latin American or Chinese appeal). I heard one cynical take that Disney is making films that they can tie to pavilions at EPCOT. Or it could have been, “Wow, Coco did great! What else can we do with Latinx culture?” Definitely, it’s Moana + 100 Years of Solitude. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3469 "2021-12-29T16:15:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Same. Although the Trump parallels were both fun and disturbing. Just saw **Don’t Look Up** yesterday, and loved it. It’s simultaneously broad farce and frighteningly plausible. (I’m thinking of starting a GQ thread - if a comet hits the ocean in the southern hemisphere, what would the effect be in Illinois?) ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3470 "2021-12-29T16:42:14Z")
The CS thread on it is [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-look-up-netflix-film/956737), in case you’re interested. Opinions vary widely. (And my pre-emptive response is that a hypothetical comet that big might very well set off volcanoes worldwide - including the supervolcano currently under Wyoming. Illinois would not fare well.) ---
**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:** [December 29, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3471 "2021-12-29T17:40:37Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Last night we watched [Clockwise](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090852/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), a John Cleese movie from 1986. I believe it was free from Amazon Prime. The premise is John Cleese trying to get to an important meeting on time, and it was amusing. I saw this once on VHS as a kid. I believe the arm of his suit/sport jacket comes off and he tapes it on? I remember very little else, but we laughed a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3472 "2021-12-29T17:46:50Z")
Licorice Pizza, a very funny/quirky movie set in the 70s by Paul Thomas Anderson that I recommend (nobody combines funny/quirky/70s like PT). Includes the waterbed fad as a plot point (you’ll be wondering at what point everything’s going to get flooded), a hilarious turn by Tom Waits doing his manic drunk hipster routine, and a satisfyingly psycho Bradley Cooper as Jon Peters, boyfriend of Barbra Streisand, who apparently thinks that fact means he can get away with anything. Also notable because the two on-again off-again romantic leads are not especially movie star attractive, in other words they look like real people, and the recreation of a certain time and place is spot on. I suppose I could question the pairing of a 20-something woman with a 15 year old (precocious though he is) which is just a bit uncomfortable - would anyone have tried this if the genders were switched? I think you know the answer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=172) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=174)