# 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:** 213
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4255 "2022-06-05T01:46:40Z")
I really liked **Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,** but for reasons that would largely be lost on most viewers. Unlike many films that use classic Oldies as a soundtrack device (most of the time incorrectly for the time period), the music was spot-on accurate. And best of all, they combined the music with real airchecks of L.A.'s monster Top 40 station of that era, 93 KHJ. The jocks on KHJ were legends in their own time and among us radio folks, remain legends to this day. As a former radio guy, I was very impressed and it really got me into the whole L.A. vibe of the time. And the visuals of L.A. in the late 60s were astonishingly well re-created. We watched it twice, and we never do that. That said, I agree that it did drag on much too long, and several sequences could have been shortened or eliminated entirely without doing damage to the story. Nice to see Bruce Dern still working his magic at his age. Always liked him. ---
**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 5, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4256 "2022-06-05T02:15:49Z")
I’m watching The Northman again, this time with my wife. It’s really excellent and is even better upon second viewing. Definitely a “must watch” for anyone. It’s excellent and I think I underrated it my first viewing. ---
**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 5, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4257 "2022-06-05T03:17:36Z")
Watched _The Goodbye Girl_ on the strenght of “Dreyfuss won an Oscar for this. Right?” Cute movie, some good lines, (c)overt 1970s sexism which doesn’t go over like it did. The three leads played well against each other, regardless of the rather paint-by-numbers (by now, 2022) story. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4258 "2022-06-05T04:17:38Z")
I watched **Inferno** tonight. It’s a 1953 film shot in Technicolor, Stereophonic Sound, and 3D. 20th Century Fox pulled out all the stops on this one – just as the 1950s 3D fad was starting to fade. It’s actually pretty good, with Robert Ryan as a man with a broken leg left to die by his adulterous wife (Rhonda Flaming) and her geologist lover (William Lundigan, a few years before he started playing various astronauts). An aged and unrecognizable Henry Hull (werewolf of London, among a great many other flicks) shows up as a prospector. Some reviews called it arguably the best 3D film made, but I think that’s going a bit too far. I’d seen a scrap of this ages ago, but never found out how it ended, and later learned it was shot in 3D. I recently obtained an anaglyphic copy of it on DVD, which gives a pretty good 3D image. Not great cinema, but well-executed 3D, and worth a watch. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4259 "2022-06-05T10:33:03Z")
Agree about The 39 Steps. I think it is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best films. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4260 "2022-06-05T11:08:39Z")
Because _everyone_ wants and needs to watch violent Viking films? You are going to have to sell it better than that. There are plenty of people who avoid that currently-popular genre. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4261 "2022-06-05T11:42:12Z")
And I say that while watching The Last Kingdom series. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4262 "2022-06-05T11:55:16Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Because _everyone_ wants and needs to watch violent Viking films? You are going to have to sell it better than that. There are plenty of people who avoid that currently-popular genre. And $19 to _rent_!? I looked it up as a future option, but that took the wind out of my metaphorical viewing sails. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4263 "2022-06-05T13:05:42Z")
Just watched _The Lost City_, with Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe. Largely a _Romancing The Stone_ rip-off, but not as good. As these kinds of adventure comedies go, it was fine, but nothing special. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4264 "2022-06-05T16:46:49Z")
It’s streaming on Peacock for no extra charge. We watched it yesterday, the saga style took a lot of getting use to but we enjoyed it. Nothing has done Viking’s as well as the Last Kingdom for me but it was still very entertaining and had vivid imagery. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4265 "2022-06-05T18:33:18Z")
While I was recovering from gastroenteritis (and that’s my excuse), I watched the three Fantastic Beasts movies (the prequels to the Harry Potter films). The first one was pleasantly amusing, mainly because of the beasts and the endearing magizoologist Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, who reminded me of the field biologists I have known. The following two were increasingly dull. The third in particular was unbelievably dull considering how much it clearly cost to make. I never watched a fight between Good and Evil in which I cared so little about who won. Do not recommend. ---
**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 5, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4266 "2022-06-05T22:33:14Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Unlike many films that use classic Oldies as a soundtrack device (most of the time incorrectly for the time period), the music was spot-on accurate. And best of all, they combined the music with real airchecks of L.A.'s monster Top 40 station of that era, 93 KHJ. The jocks on KHJ were legends in their own time and among us radio folks, remain legends to this day. As a former radio guy, I was very impressed and it really got me into the whole L.A. vibe of the time. And the visuals of L.A. in the late 60s were astonishingly well re-created. We watched it twice, and we never do that. Yes! I’d forgotten about this. It was wonderful to hear period music played the way it was at the time. As for DJs whenever I hear about this Machine Gun Kelly guy, I think of that DJ on 93 KHJ. > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > 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. Well, I loved it. Saw it in a theater in El Segundo IIRC in a double feature with _Marat/Sade_ – very weird double feature. Genevieve Bujold was so pretty in _King of Hearts_. I liked _The Lost City_ better than _Romancing the Stone_ but that’s mostly because I find Michael Douglas repulsive. I just watched _Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel_ which was funny and charming. And they filmed in The Winchester! ---
**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 6, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4267 "2022-06-06T00:27:05Z")
I just finished Interceptor on Netflix starring a very jacked Elsa Pataky (not surprising when you’re married to Thor). It’s not a good movie, but it was entertaining. Her sadly topical backstory wherein a superior had her exiled to a remote missile interception platform as a result of blowing the whistle on his creepy advances and the ensuing online abuse wasn’t really needed IMHO and felt like a lazy way to make her seem like a real kick-butt military hero, but seeing her punch and kick various people was quite fun. (The backstory isn’t plot-relevant, I’m just a spoiler fanatic). ---
**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 6, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4268 "2022-06-06T01:45:09Z")
We watched the 3rd Newt Scamander movie. I had such low expectations that it proved only mediocre, not terrible. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2022, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4269 "2022-06-06T09:38:55Z")
Add me to the list of people who have seen **The Judge**. > [@FrillyNettles](#): > > I recently saw The Judge with Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Duvall. I thought it was excellent. Highly recommended. > [@astorian](#): > > Saturday night, I saw _ **The Judge.** _ . A little too long and a little too slow, but I mostly enjoyed it anyway. > [@Skammer](#): > > _The Judge_ - another excellent performance by Robert Duvall and a _fairly_ restrained Robert Downey Jr. make this an excellent Father/Son drama with a bit of courtroom suspense thrown in. > [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I just saw The Judge with Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr. and Billy Bob Thorton. > > I very much enjoy all three of these actors. Put them all together in one movie and you might expect something excellent. This movie was superb. I loved it more than any other I’ve seen in a very long time. > [@ftg](#): > > The MotW this week is a thread favorite, _The Judge_ . > > Been putting it off. Just watched it because of the cast: Billy Bob, Duvall, Farmiga. RDJ is a negative in my book. And he did indeed drag it down a bit. > > This was plot filler overkill and then some. I imagine the writers discussing what to put it: > > Writer 1: We could add in A or B or C or … Z? Which do you think we should throw in? > > Writer 2: All of 'em! > > Writer 1: But that would make the movie 2 hours and 20 plus minutes long. > > Writer 2: Yeah, 2:20, 2:21. Whatever it takes. > > Just waaaay too much pointless filler. And yet almost none of it any good Billy Bob back story. > > If you haven’t seen it, don’t waste your time, it’s not really worth it. Count me in the “fair to middling” camp. It was generally well-acted - Robert Duvall is his usual irascible self, and Billy Bob Thornton was surprisingly good given his relatively small amount of screen time. RDJ babbled on as he does; I note that while he doesn’t play a huge range of characters in his films, he does tend to slot into films where his usual persona fits well. His character even gets mocked for his “verbal diarrhea”. The film did take a number of twists and turns as the multiple plot lines rolled along, and I agree that they do appear to have thrown in the kitchen sink with a murder charge, terminal illness, old family squabbles and traumas being dredged up, pending divorce with child in the middle, old girlfriend with child of undetermined parentage, brother with intellectual challenges and an obsession with film, city slicker picking fights with the small-town locals, etc, etc, etc. It’s a lot. On the whole, however, I think it worked reasonably well, avoids some of the more obvious clichés, and ties up all the plot stuff as well as it could. Not a “must see” but certainly worth watching if you happen to have the time. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4270 "2022-06-06T15:27:53Z")
**The Call** (Netflix, 2020, Korean - dubbed or subtitled) This horror movie is about a 28 year old woman who moves into a creepy house and gets a phone call from the past. It was pretty good. It broke new ground with a fresh twist on the the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house plot which is always something exciting for a film in the horror genre. My wife and I watched the dubbed version and thought that was well done. It was perhaps a bit slow in some places and the ending was predictable, but overall it was worth watching. **It Follows** (Netflix, 2014) What if _The Ring_ was an STD!?!? That not only sums up the plot, but I think kickstarts the question, ‘are they serious?’, which I assure you will be asking again and again. Because though most of it they ride the rails between being a legitimate horror flick and yet also lampooning classic films. It’s never for laughs, mind you, and may even be an attempt at an homage. Still, the atmosphere they build with the acting, directing and shots makes for an intense experience even with few jump scares and no special effects. A film that manages to do that deserves credit for the feeling they create which is what horror is all about. **Bob’s Burgers The Movie** (Theatre, 2022) A 1 1/2 hour Bob’s Burgers episode. You get what you’re expecting. It was ok. Mostly a rehash of several old episodes with cameos from almost the entire side character menagerie. The Musical portions were alright, but there were better songs in previous episodes. In all, it seems clear to this Bob’s Burgers fan it only got the green light because COVID allowed animators to work remotely and it was a semi bankable product. You don’t need to see it even if you like the show. If nothing else wait until it comes out on a streaming platform which I am sure is what was intended anyway. ---
**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 6, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4271 "2022-06-06T15:54:21Z")
I saw _King of Hearts_ in high school and it was a big meh for me, in part because of the anvilicious message. War is crazy? Crazy people are more sane than soldiers in modern war? Yeah, ok, I get it. > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > 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… Yes! I watched it a few weeks ago myself, having just seen a lively, funny comic stage adaption of it. One of my favorite Hitchcocks. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4272 "2022-06-06T17:40:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I saw _King of Hearts_ in high school and it was a big meh for me, in part because of the anvilicious message. War is crazy? Crazy people are more sane than soldiers in modern war? Yeah, ok, I get it. This movie played for almost five years uninterrupted at the cinema in Central Square in Cambridge MA back in the 1970s. It was a duplex, so they showed other films at the cinema, but it really was the only film they showed in one theater. I suppose if you had a huge audience of local-area college students to draw on you could do something like that in the 70s. When I eventually saw it, though, I didn’t see it there. It was interesting, but not what I’d call a great film. ---
**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 6, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4273 "2022-06-06T18:02:20Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > **It Follows** (Netflix, 2014) What if _The Ring_ was an STD!?!? That not only sums up the plot, but I think kickstarts the question, ‘are they serious?’, which I assure you will be asking again and again. Because though most of it they ride the rails between being a legitimate horror flick and yet also lampooning classic films. It’s never for laughs, mind you, and may even be an attempt at an homage. Still, the atmosphere they build with the acting, directing and shots makes for an intense experience even with few jump scares and no special effects. A film that manages to do that deserves credit for the feeling they create which is what horror is all about. The ending at the pool as really creative and great. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4274 "2022-06-06T18:19:41Z")
Watched the French movie “Delicious” on Amazon Prime. A good story about a peasant chef who has become chef to royalty and who then falls from grace and, with some help, invents. . .the restaurant! The cinematography is terrific. Many of the scenes have the lighting and appearance of Renaissance paintings. > **[Watch Delicious | Prime Video](https://www.amazon.com/Delicious-Gregory-Gadebois/dp/B09KHDPPZY)** > > France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first restaurant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=212) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=214)