# 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:** 216
**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 12, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4315 "2022-06-12T02:18:58Z")
**The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent** Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage, a fictionalized version of himself. He’s kind of the internet’s version of Nic Cage. It may seem like a one-trick movie, but the movie is actually really fun and I enjoyed it a lot. Pedro Pascal plays a super-fan that pays $1 million for Nick Cage to come spend the day with him. The whole thing is great and to be honest, I think Pedro Pascal kind of steals the movie for a good part of it. I am not a massive Nic Cage fan and I really enjoyed the movie. A fun comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4316 "2022-06-12T06:46:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It’s almost as good as Outlaw Josey Wales. I reckon… (spit) ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4317 "2022-06-12T08:19:10Z")
Played “Bill and Ted Face the Music” while I did some busy work. It was just fine; I don’t regret the time spent at all. A B+. I think it was streaming on Netflix. Films featuring time travel generally demolish their own plot integrity, since other time travelers can overwrite anything that happens in the story. But that’s not an issue with Bill and Ted since the time travel is played for laughs. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4318 "2022-06-12T16:42:54Z")
> **[Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (TV Movie 1999) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212885/)** > > Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story: Directed by David Burton Morris. With Eve Gordon, Rodney Scott, Kathy Wagner, Shawn Pyfrom. The behind the scenes story of "The Partridge Family" TV show, told from the point of view of young Danny... Free on amazon prime. It’s not a documentary…they disclaim something at the beginning about fictionalizing certain things. Pretty interesting behind-the-scenes look, however. If you liked the series,I think you’ll want to see this. I don’t know how I missed it back in '99. ---
**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 12, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4319 "2022-06-12T20:59:44Z")
They made a few of these behind-the-TV-show docudramas about 20 years ago and some of them were quite good for TV movies. The one about _TheMonkees_ was very good and even the one about _Gilligan’s Island_ from Dawn Wells’ POV was interesting. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4320 "2022-06-12T21:25:48Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The one about _TheMonkees_ was very good and even the one about _Gilligan’s Island_ from Dawn Wells’ POV was interesting. I saw the former but not the latter. I’ll have to check it out, thanks! In keeping with the theme, I also saw [My Dinner with Jimi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Jimi). > _ **My Dinner with Jimi** _ is a 2003 [comedy film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_film) written by [Howard Kaylan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaylan), dealing with events in 1966-67 which led up to the night in 1967 when [the Turtles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles) encountered [the Beatles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) and Kaylan had dinner with [Jimi Hendrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix) in [London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), [England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England). The film also depicts other 1960s rock icons like [Brian Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jones), [Frank Zappa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa), [Donovan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan), [Cass Elliott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Elliott) and [Jim Morrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison). The film was given an extremely limited theatrical release in [Toronto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto) in late September 2007. ---
**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 12, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4321 "2022-06-12T21:59:48Z")
That’s the one where John Lennon is so abusive that he makes the guitarist from a chart topping band quit music forever. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4322 "2022-06-12T22:11:59Z")
Yep. > **[\[John’s\] eyes skipped from Turtle to Turtle, checking us out for the first...](https://amoralto.tumblr.com/post/155461380352/johns-eyes-skipped-from-turtle-to-turtle)** > > Howard Kaylan, Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc. (2013) \[Note: This is a direct continuation of this quote.\] ---
**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 12, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4323 "2022-06-12T23:05:06Z")
I just re-watched _Dead Zone_ this morning. Maybe the 3rd time I’ve watched it? Could be the 4th. It mostly holds up, but somehow seems slightly low budget. It’s certainly politically relevant these days. I’d forgotten Cronenberg directed it. It explains why “Hetty” from the Avonlea series played Walken’s mother. And whatever happened to Anthony Zerbe. For a while in the 80s he seemed to be everywhere. Then, nothing. ---
**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 13, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4324 "2022-06-13T01:14:05Z")
_Return of the Chinese Boxer._ Were there any other Japanese vs. Chinese kungfu flicks? This one had lots of weird weapons, zombies, gunfights, and terrible dubbing. If that’s your deal, check it out. I should look up the first one, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4325 "2022-06-13T02:23:15Z")
Just finished _Operation Mincemeat_. Nicely done stiff upper lip and all that. There was a phrase towards the end the caught me up. “They swallowed it rod, reel, and sinker.” I’ve always heard it as hook, line, and sinker. Is that a Britishism? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4326 "2022-06-13T04:29:29Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Were there any other Japanese vs. Chinese kungfu flicks? _Ip Man (2008)._ ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4327 "2022-06-13T08:28:04Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > There was a phrase towards the end the caught me up. “They swallowed it rod, reel, and sinker.” I’ve always heard it as hook, line, and sinker. Is that a Britishism? I’ve never heard of it. I guess it could have been known around WW2, but it’s not typical. ---
**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 13, 2022, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4328 "2022-06-13T09:26:16Z")
Interesting! I somehow missed that aspect though I gained the impression the series treated him as a national hero (I’ve never seen any of them.) The film I watched had the subtitles referring to their enemies as the “Japs” by the Chinese characters which was somewhat jarring. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4329 "2022-06-13T10:18:26Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Were there any other Japanese vs. Chinese kungfu flicks? It’s practically a subtrope of its own within martial arts films. _Fist of Fury_ is perhaps the classic,and spawned a whole slew of sequels and remakes. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4330 "2022-06-13T13:40:38Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ip Man (2008). I was just going to say that. I watched the Ip Man series after learning about Donnie Yan, having seen him in _Rogue One._ Which I watched yesterday, followed by Episode IV. Actually I started watching Episode IV up to the part where, at Obi-Wan’s house, they see Princess Leia’s full recording. Then I had the urge to pause and watch Rogue One first. Then continue Episode IV. Very satisfying this way. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4331 "2022-06-13T18:50:19Z")
_The Duke_ with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. “Based on a true story.” Right … Set in 1961, a portrait of the Duke of Wellington is stolen from the National Gallery. Down-and-out Broadbent’s put up for it. But there’s a lot more to the story. Give it 3 Goyas. Mostly okay but nothing special about it. Mirren really buries herself in the part. Can’t believe that is Dame Helen. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4332 "2022-06-13T21:09:13Z")
Just adding a thumbs up to Top Gun. Wife and i saw on iMax past weekend. A bit slow at the start/kind of a recap. Strong buildup all the way to the end. We savaged a huge pipcorn box down to the kernals. Not talking Oscars, just solid entertainment. Grand and greatgrandkids saw Jurassic whatever at the same time. For them, it was four stars - dinosaurs and people being eaten. Forget the critics, plot, science. PEOPLE BEING EATEN!! Take the kids and don’t roll your eyes out of your head. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4333 "2022-06-13T22:23:48Z")
Too windy to work outside, so I had **Trog** on in the background on TCM as I avoiding doing anything productive at all. A couple observations… Doesn’t the ‘C’ in TCM stand for Classic? **Trog** is _no_ Classic. Joan Crawford? Really??? Goddamn, she must have been flat broke and hard up. Not her best moment. I have a deeper appreceation for the lame “Gorilla Mask” gag on Bob’s Burgers. The make-up in this movie was… not. Somebody just threw a guy a hairy mask and fuzzy slippers and said, “That’ll do!” Stunningly inept. A real steamer. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4334 "2022-06-13T23:43:35Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > …Somebody just threw a guy a hairy mask and fuzzy slippers and said, “That’ll do!”… From IMDB: “The ratty ape suit is a leftover monkey outfit from [Stanley Kubrick](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040)’s [2001: A Space Odyssey](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622) (1968).” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=215) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=217)