# 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:** 191
**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:** [March 13, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3814 "2022-03-13T01:45:14Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Also The Wasp Woman. Prime Video recommendations REALLY want me to watch this, but I haven’t bit yet. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3815 "2022-03-13T01:47:11Z")
If you have someone around to help you make fun of it the movie will be improved-I watched it at a MST3K-type showing. It had been colorized but still looked off. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3816 "2022-03-13T04:47:09Z")
Bombardment. Hard to watch ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3817 "2022-03-13T06:06:58Z")
Just finished watching _The Hyperions_. It is a low-budget/low-FX superhero movie about a disfunctional adopted superhero family. It reminds me a bit of _The Umbrella Academy_, but even more, stylisticly, of what you would expect to see if Wes Anderson made a superhero movie. I really enjoyed it, so it is sad that most people won’t see it because the only way to “officially” see it is by subscribing to the right-wing propaganda site Daily Wire. (Unofficially seeing it is, of course, much easier.) > **[The Hyperions (2022) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7520568/)** > > The Hyperions: Directed by Jon McDonald. With Cary Elwes, Penelope Mitchell, Elaine Tan, Alphonso McAuley. In 1960, Professor Ruckus invented the Titan badge - a device that enables humans to have a particular superpower. Cut to 1979 when two of the... ---
**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:** [March 13, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3818 "2022-03-13T13:30:44Z")
Uh, is it a right wing movie or something? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3819 "2022-03-13T14:37:05Z")
Not at all. But a right-wing site bought it. > **[The Daily Wire Buys Indie Superhero Comedy ‘The Hyperions’ Starring Cary...](https://deadline.com/video/daily-wire-hyperions-cary-elwes-comedy-movie/)** > > EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Wire has acquired domestic rights to indie superhero comedy The Hyperions, which it will make available to its members on March 10, 2022. The conservative website bought the mo… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3820 "2022-03-13T15:38:49Z")
**Cyrano**. In a real movie theater. After seeing the trailers several months ago we looked forward to it … but then saw that it was scheduled for a release in February which usually means it’s an awful piece of garbage that the studios are dumping in the post-awards-eligibility wasteland. It’s not – it’s … fine. Peter Dinklage is very good in the title role (I’d never heard of anyone else in the cast). It’s a musical, and the songs are unmemorable. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3821 "2022-03-13T17:52:09Z")
I watched the newest Scream last night. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. It was largely a tribute to Wes Craven and by extension, the original Scream. There’s even a character named Wes. After the Wes character is killed, the kids are having a party. A large banner reads For Wes. Everyone raises their glasses in a toast. For Wes! As I understand it, many of the original Scream actors had their voices dubbed into the toast. Drew Barrymore, Henry Winkler, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard, others. I thought that was cool. The commentary on the current state of movies was energetic and pretty much spot-on, and I learned the term requel. Most of the old tropes were revisited and often subverted (it got a little annoying at one point). I loved how Sidney and Gale have changed and grown. Sidney shooting into every closed door on her way into the house and up the stairs, for instance. Dewey seemed broken, but hell, the man had been stabbed nine times over the course of his life. I guess we couldn’t expect him to have remained the same old goofy, lovable Dewey. I also liked the return of Billy Loomis. And for once, the backstory wasn’t overly convoluted. The knifings were more savage than in the previous movies, and I appreciated that. And I loved the shot revealing where the party had been taking place. Problem was that I didn’t really care for any of the new cast. The sisters were okay, I guess, but the only ones I really liked were Martha’s two kids. The others were all disposable as far as I was concerned. The show also continued the Shot? Stabbed? Rub some dirt on it and walk it off. mechanics, but I guess that’s a staple of the genre. I believe that another film is in the works, but I’m not sure I want to visit a Scream universe that doesn’t have Dewey in it. On the other hand, I liked the television series very much (the first two seasons, anyway). Overall, I enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3822 "2022-03-14T17:47:13Z")
Watched **The Power of the Dog**. Very satisfying movie - Benedict Cumberbatch is superb as ever. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3823 "2022-03-14T18:10:40Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > Watched **The Power of the Dog**. Very satisfying movie - Benedict Cumberbatch is superb as ever… Cumberbatch was fine, but it was the “kid” who I thought really sold the movie. I thought Cumberbatch was replaceable, which he is NOT in Sherlock. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3824 "2022-03-14T19:44:20Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I watched ‘something’ called _Tenet_ today… The Doper thread about the movie - definitely got mixed reviews here: [Christopher Nolan's Tenet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-nolans-tenet/919573) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3825 "2022-03-15T14:20:15Z")
**Fresh** (Hulu) - The official discription: “The horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites”. That’s rather misleading; it is straight up hostage horror. unless the thought of a dude cutting off a girl’s buttocks makes you chuckle . Full disclosure; I fell asleep 3/4 of the way through. Not because it was boring or anything; in fact the first half is compelling. Daisy Edgar Jones is well cast as a young woman who meets a seemingly great guy via a dating app. She is very appealing and pretty in a “regular person” way; not some made up starlet. Sebastian Stan is perfect as the boyfriend. I figured I might not go back and finish it so I looked up the ending. Nope, no reason to tune back in. It’s an ok movie that, although the plot isn’t particularly original it’s filmed in an interesting way and the lead actors are very watchable. If you go in knowing it has a lot of elements of horror you’ll probably enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3826 "2022-03-15T20:53:45Z")
> **[April and the Extraordinary World (2015) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3422078/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > April and the Extraordinary World: Directed by Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci. With Marion Cotillard, Marc-André Grondin, Philippe Katerine, Jean Rochefort. It's 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon... I had never heard of this, though I am familiar with some of Jacques Tardi’s work (_The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec_, various graphic novel adaptations of Léo Malet’s crime fiction, etc.) He seems to have served as the film’s designer and there is a lot of Tardi flavor in the characters and backgrounds (as well as some shots that evoke Karel Zeman’s Mystimation). While the production design shines and the story is interesting, the telling is beset by tropes which make it obvious and predictable in spots while the “comic relief” twit cop was unwelcome. Still, worth seeing, imo. I watched an English-dub which included Paul Giamatti, J.K. Simmons and Susan Sarandon (good, if one-note, in an unusual role). It might have been a different viewing experience with the original French cast (including Marion Cotillard and Jean Rochefort) and subtitles, as I suspect some nuances may have been lost in translation. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3827 "2022-03-17T13:52:44Z")
I saw that a few years ago, with the American dubbing, and was underwhelmed. Interesting premise but just not that good a movie, I thought. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3828 "2022-03-17T23:35:32Z")
**The Adam Project**. Ryan Reynolds is always fun to watch. This time travel film has an 80s vibe to it; maybe it’s the soundtrack. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2022, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3829 "2022-03-18T04:50:54Z")
I grudgingly liked **The Adam Project** because the actors were all fun, but I would be happy if I never see another time travel movie again as long as I live. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3830 "2022-03-18T12:02:33Z")
I dug this one out for a rewatch a week or so ago: [Light Years.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3) “In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved.” It’s nice animation, if that’s your deal. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3831 "2022-03-18T12:12:21Z")
Never mind. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3832 "2022-03-18T12:19:13Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I dug this one out for a rewatch a week or so ago: [Light Years.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3) “In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved.” It’s nice animation, if that’s your deal. It’s done by many of the same people who made _Fantastic Planet_, which is referred to up above. The English dub has Christopher Plummer, who’s shown up in science fiction films from the relatively good ( **Star Trek 6** ) to the abysmal ( **Starcrash** ). Also, Isaac Asimov evidently wrote the English-language version of the screenplay (although he had nothing to do with the original film) ---
**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:** [March 19, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3833 "2022-03-19T02:27:14Z")
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia, 1975). Heard about this film for a long time, and finally watched it last night. Found it to be very slow and very boring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=190) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=192)