# 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:** 223
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4455 "2022-07-04T15:53:05Z")
Yes. He’s very good in a small but important role in the 1999 Mel Gibson crime movie _Payback,_ for instance. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4456 "2022-07-04T17:36:37Z")
That struck me too, but I didn’t see any similarities to The Exorcist! 😄 ---
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4457 "2022-07-04T18:26:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes. He’s very good in a small but important role in the 1999 Mel Gibson crime movie _Payback,_ for instance. Even better, he’s incredible in Maverick, another Mel Gibson movie where he comes in and holds his own for approximately 35 minutes of screentime. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4458 "2022-07-04T20:00:32Z")
I think that kind of sequence tends to happen toward the end of a movie when it is a training montage or something of the kind, at a point you already really know the main characters. In this case, it was done closer to the beginning and the character development mostly done afterwards. I am not sure how they could have made that part of the movie more engaging, though they did their best by adding some character scenes in between to help it along. Overall, I enjoyed it, but not as much as some other Pixar films I have seen. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4459 "2022-07-05T01:03:39Z")
I saw this on Hulu. It got about a 6 on imdb and that may be a bit low. I enjoyed it. > **[Silk Road (2021) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7937254/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > Silk Road: Directed by Tiller Russell. With Nick Robinson, Jennifer Yun, Jimmi Simpson, Jason Clarke. Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to... It is about how the illegal marketplace on line arose. > **[Silk Road (marketplace)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts". As part of the dark web, Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network, allowing users to buy and sell products and services between each other anonymously. All transactions were conducted with bitcoin, a cryptocurrency which aided in protecting user ident... ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4460 "2022-07-05T02:21:26Z")
Just finished this. I generally like post-apocalyptic things but I thought it was too slow. I have mixed thoughts about the ending, whether it’s reasonable or not. Spoilering… This guy has been alone but he never hears anything or sees anything about thousands of people living elsewhere? No plan from the government or anything? And the very ending, erasing her memories etc. at home? Seems farfetched. > **[I Think We're Alone Now (2018) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6169694/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)** > > I Think We're Alone Now: Directed by Reed Morano. With Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paul Giamatti. The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse -- until a second survivor arrives with the threat of... ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4461 "2022-07-05T02:39:59Z")
Coburn, that scene in the original Magnificent Seven where he got up from napping/lying by the fence, my 7th grade heart skipped a beat. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4462 "2022-07-05T17:52:20Z")
In the “Oldies but Goodies” department, I discovered what for me was one of those rare gems – an excellent older movie that somehow I had never seen before. I watched _Philadelphia_ (1993) for the first time last night. Wow – Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, directed by Jonathan Demme. It’s no _Silence of the Lambs_, which was perhaps Demme’s masterpiece, but it fully met the high expectations that it set. I’m not familiar with the precise trajectory of Hanks’ career, but I suspect this was a strong entry on his film credits.\* \* - ETA: Oh, FFS – I just looked it up and didn’t realize that Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor for that film! Well deserved, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4463 "2022-07-06T02:28:14Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > On this note, my favorite James Bond title sequence of all time [wasn’t a James Bond title sequence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2cCqA0HJI). Concur (I’m just concurring all over the place in this thread). I gotta re-watch Night Manager, that was an excellent show all around. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4464 "2022-07-06T02:46:39Z")
Just started watching this on Amazon Prime Video… > **[Mr. Jones (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/)** > > Mr. Jones: Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s. Pretty good so far (and possibly the only general release movie whose main character shares my first name 🙂 ) ---
**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:** [July 6, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4465 "2022-07-06T03:37:14Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Kimstu](#): > > > > Likewise concur. I thought the title sequence was very good, but the [Daniel Kleinman title sequences](https://www.007.com/roll-the-titles/) are my favorite part of Bond movies in general. > > On this note, my favorite James Bond title sequence of all time [wasn’t a James Bond title sequence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2cCqA0HJI). Clever! ---
**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:** [July 6, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4466 "2022-07-06T12:26:07Z")
I’m watching “The Kings Man”, which is pretty good. There is just enough actual history included to make it interesting. Ralph Fiennes, Charles Dance, Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4467 "2022-07-06T18:06:48Z")
I finally got around to watching _The Shape of Water_. I was thinking it was going to be squicky or gross, but it wasn’t. I loved it. Gorgeous set design, well-paced, and nicely performed. I could see re-watching this one. My sister asked me how the Russian accents were, and I said Stuhlbarg was pretty good, but the English guy playing his boss was just o.k. It’s things, like proper palatalization, that make all the difference between passable and very good. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4468 "2022-07-09T02:48:01Z")
Racoocoonie. 😂 That’s it. That’s the post. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4469 "2022-07-09T03:24:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Racoocoonie Racacoonie is voiced by Randy Newman, who also recorded a whole song for it as well. The song was not written by him, but was done in his style. You can listen to it here(no spoilers in the song): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/z5DRSy_L2BE/maxresdefault.jpg "Now We’re Cookin’") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5DRSy_L2BE) ---
**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:** [July 9, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4470 "2022-07-09T06:11:31Z")
Just watched **House of Gucci** on Amazon Prime. It’s either the worst drama or the best comedy of 2021. Al Pacino, Adam Driver, Salma Hayek, and Lady Gaga compete to see who can do the silliest Italian accent. But Jared Leto blows them all away with his impression of a castrated Milanese humpback whale. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4471 "2022-07-09T10:50:23Z")
That makes me want to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4472 "2022-07-09T14:28:53Z")
TCM _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ I saw it in the theater in 1978. Its by far Donald Sutherland’s best and most intense role. I had a high school crush on Brooke Adams. The movie holds up quite well. The body pods are just as horrific without unnecessary gore. Highly recommended. There are remakes but I consider this version the best. Poor Leonard Nimoy. He begins with some interesting scenes. He’s funny, very expressive and engaging to watch. Then… He’s transformed into a dull, expressionless , walking zombie. It happens to all the characters after being switched. Nimoy could never escape his typecasting. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4473 "2022-07-09T14:50:31Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > There are remakes but I consider this version the best. The one you watched was a remake. A good one, but not as good as the original which played up the paranoia a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4474 "2022-07-09T15:08:51Z")
**Everything Everywhere All At Once** (Amazon Prime)…aka, Racoocoonie. I was a bit disappointed – it didn’t quite live up to the hype. It contained a lot more martial arts than I expected, and the denouement dragged out about 10 minutes too long (and I still don’t understand what The Bagel was, other than an elaborate joke on the concept of an “everything bagel”). But it was by far the most imaginative movie of the year, and surprisingly funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=222) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=224)