# 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:** 212
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4235 "2022-06-01T17:03:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > _The 39 Steps_ > Having just seen a comic stage adaptation of the 1935 Hitchcock movie, which I first saw in college, I decided to see it again - exciting, clever, well-crafted and funny as always. There was a version I saw as a multiple part series on PBS a few years ago. As much as I love the 1935 version, I liked this one even more. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4236 "2022-06-01T23:00:14Z")
I just finished Kottentail. It’s about a mutant man bunny who kills a bunch of people. I’d done on a very very small budget. If that’s your game, it might be your slice of carrot cake. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4237 "2022-06-01T23:30:40Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Over the weekend, I read Marathon Man. (_snip_ ) The movie started off with two assholes dying in a road rage incident, Trivia: one of the assholes was played by Ben Dova, the odd stage name of acrobat [Joseph Späh,](https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026627283) who was played by Robert Clary in the 1975 movie _The Hindenburg._ Clary, a Holocaust survivor and _Hogans Heroes_ cast member, turned 96 last March. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4238 "2022-06-02T00:39:57Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Got around to watching _The Worst Person in the World_ , which is my favorite movie in quite a while (though, I don’t watch so much these days). Renate Reinsve is terrific. It was my second favorite film of 2021 (after CODA). ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4239 "2022-06-02T01:18:14Z")
Yeah, that’s a deep cut for sure. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4240 "2022-06-02T12:38:16Z")
I still haven’t seen Coda, but it’s on the list. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4241 "2022-06-02T17:34:45Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > _The 39 Steps_ > > Having just seen a comic stage adaptation of the 1935 Hitchcock movie, which I first saw in college, I decided to see it again - exciting, clever, well-crafted and funny as always. > > There was a version I saw as a multiple part series on PBS a few years ago. As much as I love the 1935 version, I liked this one even more. I saw that, too, but still prefer Hitchcock’s original. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4242 "2022-06-02T18:47:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I saw that, too, but still prefer Hitchcock’s original. I like them both, but I liked how they ended the series. I love Robert Donat. That is all. I don’t know if it’s officially a “movie,” but I just watched David Byrne’s American Utopia and _loved_ it. I was so impressed with the entire cast/band, and David Byrne himself. Dang, he’s _my_ age. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4243 "2022-06-02T23:40:44Z")
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (HBO). Saw it when it first came out, but had some time to kill and chose to watch it again and I think I enjoyed it even more this time. Just a cracking good adventure yarn and beautifully photographed. It’s a shame that this didn’t launch a franchise, since this one story just barely scratched the surface of the Patrick O’Brien novels. Perhaps there’s an alternate universe where we get a 19th century Napoleonic naval adventure movie every year, but there was only one Spider-Man movie. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4244 "2022-06-03T01:31:53Z")
**The Sadness** Taiwanese “zombie” movie. I put zombie in quotes because it isn’t really like most zombie movies. Once a person is zombified, they do horrible things to other people, not just kill them. I guess this movie is supposed to be incredibly extreme, but I didn’t find it to be as intense as Martyrs or Inside, which actually were less violent in parts, but were more horrific. Anyway, The Sadness is a pretty good movie, but nothing all that special. It’s the type of movie where in a year, I’ll see that I watched a movie called The Sadness, but I won’t remember what it was until I look it back up. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4245 "2022-06-03T19:49:22Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (HBO). Saw it when it first came out, but had some time to kill and chose to watch it again and I think I enjoyed it even more this time. Just a cracking good adventure yarn and beautifully photographed. > > It’s a shame that this didn’t launch a franchise, since this one story just barely scratched the surface of the Patrick O’Brien novels. Perhaps there’s an alternate universe where we get a 19th century Napoleonic naval adventure movie every year, but there was only one Spider-Man movie. Most definitely. These threads may also be of interest: > [@Patrick O'Brian fans: Did you like the movie "Master and Commander"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patrick-obrian-fans-did-you-like-the-movie-master-and-commander/348922): > > Why or why not? And do you think they’ll make another? (I hear the first didn’t exactly rule the box office). I enjoyed the movie very much, having read none of the books before. Since then, I’ve read “HMS Surprise” and also enjoyed it, but can’t say I’m dying to read the rest of the series. It just didn’t do that much for me. > [@Movie question: Master and Commander](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-question-master-and-commander/355834): > > I just finished watching “Master and Commander:the Far Side of the World” with Russell Crowe. I know this is a stupid question, and I know I’m missing something that will make me look foolish, but I just can’t figure out the ending of the movie. Why did Captain Aubrey turn the ship around to follow the one that had just left not long before? There was something about a sword given by the French doctor, only the doctor was said to have died. Will someone come along and explain what I am missi… > [@Master & Commander question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/master-commander-question/341685): > > At the end, how did Dr. Maturin know that the French doctor had been dead for months? Are we to assume that he’d just had conversations with the members of the other boat? For a movie that paid so much attention to detail, that line always seemed to hang out there like an albatross. > [@Master & Commander? (Spoiler)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/master-commander-spoiler/251593): > > I just finished viewing M&C dvd from Netflix. I would like to rant that this was the 3rd “damaged” disc I’ve gotten out of 10 so far, I would often have to skip entire chapters of the movie due to it freezing. Netflix should do some sort of inventory quality control. Anywho, I have a question, when the French ship was defeated, the “doctor” handed over the commander’s sword. Later on, there was a conversation about how the real doctor dying month’s earlier due to fever. I am not positive, but d… > [@Aubrey/Maturin Series Appreciation Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aubrey-maturin-series-appreciation-thread/384604): > > I just finished HMS Surprise and I’m jittery with antipication for the next couple of books to arrive. The action against Linois with the Indiamen was absolutely gripping and I am happy to report that all the nautical jargon is becoming increasingly easy to digest despite my lubberly nature. Some memorable moments from HMS Surprise: -How Jack manages to finally win the sloth’s heart with grog. -The final chapter when Stephen gets rejected yet again was heartbreaking (although I know they get… ---
**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:** [June 4, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4246 "2022-06-04T17:48:15Z")
Watched **Vin Diesel** in **Bloodshot** (2020) on UK TV. A mix of **Robocop** , **Universal Soldier** and (minor spoiler) **Groundhog Day**. Vin is the Special Forces soldier who dies and is bought back to life via ‘nanite’ infused artificial blood. It’s not great. It’s based on a pre-existing comic and even before it was released the producers were talking of creating a multifilm franchise. For me that explains its failure. The watching experience left me feeling the producers weren’t interested in this film. They were already planning the next. It’s watchable but mainly for trivia: Why does Guy Pearce act in so many stinkers? In a film where the plot moves around the world why not just set the scenes filmed in South Africa in South Africa rather than claiming its London and not even bothering to fit a few UK number plates to the cars? TCMF-2L ---
**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:** [June 4, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4247 "2022-06-04T18:05:54Z")
Tried and failed to watch **Once Upon A Time In Hollywood** (2019). I watched well over an hour but while it was well crafted I hadn’t spotted much sign of a plot and with (including adverts having recorded it from the TV) still well over two hours remaining I bailed out and deleted it. I have no interest in giving it another chance. I can manage three hour films. **Godfather II** , **The Good, The Bad and The Ugly** spring to mind but other films I’ve enjoyed such as **Mad Max** , **Day of the Dead** , **The Terminator** need less than two hours. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4248 "2022-06-04T19:49:04Z")
Yeah, I lasted all the way through _Once Upon a Time in Hollywood_, and the only thing that kept me going was watching how well they’d captured the 60s look of Los Angeles. I could nearly smell it, it was so accurate. The story? Eh. Expensive wish fullfillment. And the Bruce Lee fight scene went on waaaaay too long and was completely unnecessary. I felt that way about most of the studio scenes. No matter how well acted or written, they were time wasting and felt like filler. Which a three hour movie doesn’t need. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4249 "2022-06-04T20:55:25Z")
I enjoyed it but can’t say I’ve thought about it much since then, and I doubt I’ll ever see it again. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4250 "2022-06-04T21:05:20Z")
It’s my #3 Tarantino, and it holds a special place in my heart for the reason that I was able to take my daughter to opening day release, the daughter that was _seven years_ away from being born when _Pulp Fiction_ came out in 1994. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4251 "2022-06-04T21:39:11Z")
The film is front loaded with stuntman, Manson girls, and Sharon Tate vignettes. The most brilliant part of the film is the DiCaprio character’s day on the set of _Lancer_. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4252 "2022-06-04T21:48:09Z")
I liked parts of it, and it _was_ well done, but it went on too long for my tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4253 "2022-06-05T00:47:21Z")
I found _Once Upon A Time In Hollywood_ pretty mediocre when I first saw it, but like most Tarantino movies, it bears a second viewing. I really like it. The biggest problem with it is that is basically two movies in one: 1 - a long drawn out character study on the decline in popularity with the onset of age and 2 - A Charles Manson alternate history with Brad Pitt beating the shit out of a girl with a telephone. The second part is actually pretty fun, Tarantinoly, that is ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4254 "2022-06-05T01:20:38Z")
A couple weeks ago I watched [The 39 Steps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_39_Steps_(1935_film)) (1935). Good film and good story. A few days ago I started watching the Blu-ray for [King of Hearts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Hearts_(1966_film)) (1966). I really tried, but I just couldn’t get in to it. Ejected it after 30 minutes. I am now watching [Gold Diggers of 1933](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Diggers_of_1933) (1933). I’m 20 minutes into it. Wow, what a hoot! Great acting & direction, the photography is excellent, and the characters & script have a contemporary feel. I can’t believe it was made 89 years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=213)