# 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:** 197
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3934 "2022-04-05T01:13:09Z")
The Adam Project. Lightweight and enjoyable, and the kid is a pretty good actor (i.e., not annoying). ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3935 "2022-04-05T01:36:39Z")
Just watched the only western I really like: The Big Country. Burl Ives earned his Oscar. What a great cast! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3936 "2022-04-05T03:36:06Z")
Free Guy. Since I watched one Ryan Reynolds movie, why not watch another? This was charming, but maybe 20 minutes too long. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3937 "2022-04-05T12:06:57Z")
I didn’t like this one as much, though it had some cute moments. I also felt like Taika Waititi was in a different movie from everyone else. I kind of hated his parts of the movie, and I am a big fan of Waititi in general. It was pretty scattered for me. I’m honestly not hugely thrilled to hear that the same director as Free Guy and Adam Project is now doing Deadpool 3. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3938 "2022-04-05T15:50:57Z")
You Won’t Be Alone, newly released. The cinema where I work has it; my boss said it was “awful”, so I had to check it out! In 19th century rural Macedonia, a witch (who may be centuries old, and looks it) demands a mother give her her baby girl, the mother puts her off but the witch returns when the girl is 16 and takes her away. The teenager is given the power to inhabit the bodies of other people, and at various points is played by other actors including a young man. It’s confusing, and sometimes very gory. Not really a horror movie, more like a folk tale become real as well as a meditation on what being the ultimate outsider is like - and in the male dominated peasant culture, that includes every woman, not just the sorceress. Recommended only if you have a tolerance for slow-moving, nearly plotless cinema. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3939 "2022-04-05T19:03:22Z")
> **[The Big Caper (1957) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050190/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1)** > > The Big Caper: Directed by Robert Stevens. With Rory Calhoun, Mary Costa, James Gregory, Robert H. Harris. A "confidence couple" pose as husband and wife while attempting a bank heist. I had very low expectations for this, but it managed to exceed them quite a bit while remaining just another _le cinema de la loseur kriminels_ entry. Based on a novel by Lionel White (original author of _The Killing_ and _Pierrot le Fou_ ) with a script by arch-HUAC squealer Martin Berkeley, this obscure gang-falls-apart-plotting-heist film noir is decently - but not outstandingly - shot, and has a deficient plot and leads, including James Gregory (sans Neural Neutralizer) as the underwhelming gang leader. From certain angles, star Rory Calhoun looks like George Clooney. What makes the movie worth watching, imo, is that the gang features not one, but TWO _über-_ creeps (dyed-blonde nutjob Corey Allen and a fat, bald, sweaty alcoholic pyrophiliac) along with what seems like more than a requisite quotient of aberrant sexuality and sociopathy. As a connoisseur of psychos in film noir, this aspect of the flick struck me as under-known and inadequately appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3940 "2022-04-05T19:22:03Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > Watched **Alita: Battle Angel** (2019) on UK TV and was not impressed. Damn, I’ve had that on my list for a couple years. I guess I should have watched it before I read your review, because now I’m just going to be staring at her eyes the whole movie. 👀 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3941 "2022-04-05T19:34:26Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > From certain angles, star Rory Calhoun looks like George Clooney. [The first thing I thought of.](https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=ymyy-t-s&ei=UTF-8&p=simpsons+rory+calhoun+reference#id=1&vid=8bbc16dbdbf4629abf32434ee4fc6f2d&action=click) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3942 "2022-04-05T22:40:46Z")
If the genre intrigues you then **Ghost In The Shell** (2017) covers similar territory plus seems more squarely aimed at adults. But although I watched it just a few years back I had to check out the trailer on YouTube to refresh my memory because it hadn’t left much of a lasting impression. Neither film comes close (for me) to the original **Blade Runner** as a sheer classic, neither comes close to the original **The Matrix** for groundbreaking (on original release) special effects and neither is as much fun as **Big Arnie** in the original **Total Recall**. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3943 "2022-04-05T22:48:37Z")
**News Of The World.** More or less follows the storyline of the book, a novella about a Civil War vet who has become an itinerant reader of newspapers to the semi-literate inhabitants of backwater western towns, who gets strong-armed into trying to return an orphan recaptured from the Kiowa to her German-speaking relatives some hundreds of miles away. Tom Hanks is the lead, but the now-completely-Kiowa-identified young girl is a scene stealer. Not a big movie nor full of surprises but satisfying and well done. I also have been watching the best of Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) as my escape from world war three news. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3944 "2022-04-05T23:30:38Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > now I’m just going to be staring at her eyes the whole movie. To be fair, that’s what they want you to be doing. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3945 "2022-04-06T00:24:23Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > You Won’t Be Alone, newly released. The cinema where I work has it; my boss said it was “awful”, so I had to check it out! > > In 19th century rural Macedonia, a witch (who may be centuries old, and looks it) demands a mother give her her baby girl, the mother puts her off but the witch returns when the girl is 16 and takes her away. The teenager is given the power to inhabit the bodies of other people, and at various points is played by other actors including a young man. > > It’s confusing, and sometimes very gory. Not really a horror movie, more like a folk tale become real as well as a meditation on what being the ultimate outsider is like - and in the male dominated peasant culture, that includes every woman, not just the sorceress. Recommended only if you have a tolerance for slow-moving, nearly plotless cinema. Yeah, I saw this one over the weekend. Kinda had the same feel as last year’s **Lamb**. Very slow-moving, quiet, some good scenes but _dragged_. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3946 "2022-04-06T06:04:05Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > Neither film comes close (for me) to the original **Blade Runner** as a sheer classic, neither comes close to the original **The Matrix** for groundbreaking (on original release) special effects and neither is as much fun as **Big Arnie** in the original **Total Recall**. I liked all three of these as well. I have **Ghost** on my list as well. I need to pick up my movie watching pace, I’m falling way behind. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > To be fair, that’s what they want you to be doing. I have to admit it looks kind of cool in the promos I saw. I’ll still watch it eventually. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3947 "2022-04-06T12:51:23Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > **The Sparks Brothers** on Netflix > > A documentary about brothers Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, an incredibly prolific and hugely influential (not to mention very weird) band that I knew virtually nothing about before watching this. > > It’s a fascinating look into their art and music, their rejection of commercialism alongside their frustration at not finding commercial success, their ability to adapt and persevere and continuously re-invent themselves, and so much more. > > 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. So I finally got around to watching this. It is a delight - Wright’s whimsical portrayal of a whimsical band that has somehow managed to be deeply influential and yet largely invisible really captures their spirit. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3948 "2022-04-06T15:04:07Z")
Last night I watched an old movie I had seen before, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. It’s about two girl friends, one trying to charm men out of money and diamonds, the other trying to keep her friend out of trouble. Obviously, lots of sexism, but it’s mildly entertaining and of course there’s lots to look at. I was lying awake in the middle of night, and it occurred to me that no one in the movie ever says or implies that gentlemen prefer blondes. Things that make you go hmmm. 🤔 ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3949 "2022-04-06T15:25:36Z")
**Bubble** on Netflix. A film by Judd Apatow. I’m sure they didn’t know when they made this film just how tired the pandemic jokes would be by the time it was released, but the other themes of entitled and clueless actors and the recklessness of studios when it comes to crew safety were quite timely. It’s one of those movies where every character _is_ a character. The funniest scenes are the ones that switch back and forth between the green screen sets and how it will look in the finished film. I think there is a sample of that in the Netflix tease. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3950 "2022-04-06T16:33:41Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > **Bubble** on Netflix. I did not like this movie. At one point, I was over it and paused it while deciding whether or not to bail, thinking, “Do I want to watch the last 15 minutes or so?” When I saw that _it still had over an hour left,_ I ran away fast. This is the kind of movie where the whole is much less than the sum of its parts. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3951 "2022-04-06T16:38:02Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > “Do I want to watch the last 15 minutes or so?” When I saw that _it still had over an hour left_ That’s weird. I did the same thing half way through and was shocked there was an hour left, but I had nothing better to do. The second half was better than the first mostly because of a character named Mr. Best. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3952 "2022-04-06T23:05:47Z")
All the reviews I’ve seen for **Bubble** have been deeply negative, so I hadn’t even bothered. And the previews haven’t tempted me either. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3953 "2022-04-07T01:54:35Z")
> **[Hillbilly (2018) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8218940/)** > > Hillbilly: Directed by Sally Rubin, Ashley York. With Michael Apted, Ronny Cox, Sam Gleaves, Crystal Good. "hillbilly" is a documentary film that examines the iconic hillbilly image in media and culture. The film explores more than a hundred years of... They head over to the local WalMart and wow, there’s Billy Redden—the banjo playing kid in “Deliverance” except he’s fully grown now of course. > **[Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Soul:_The_Doomed_Journey_of_Richard_Stanley%27s_Island_of_Dr._Moreau)** > > Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau is a 2014 American documentary film directed by David Gregory. The film had its world premiere at the London FrightFest Film Festival on August 24, 2014, and covers Richard Stanley's experiences while he conceived and developed the project, as well as his time as director for the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau and the aftermath of his departure and the effect it had on the cast, crew, and overall film. > In Lost Soul Grego... Interesting look at how trying to make a movie can go so far wrong. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/U4F0rT0F6OQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Zappa - Official Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4F0rT0F6OQ) I don’t know much of his work. He was fantastically prolific. IIRC he had released about 80 albums while alive and after his death, his estate released 50 more. I liked his advice to future composers: get a real estate license to finance your habit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=198)