# 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:** 234
**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:** [August 8, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4675 "2022-08-08T12:10:24Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Too bad it’s only on Hulu. It’s on Disney+ in the UK (as many Hulu shows are). ---
**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:** [August 8, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4676 "2022-08-08T15:42:06Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Predator vs the Egyptians > Predator vs Rome > Predator vs Sparta > Predator vs King Arthur > Predator Apocalypto > Predator vs Verdun > Predator: Stalingrad > Downton Abbey: Predator (this one is really sad, guys) > > … and on and on and on… Hey! It’d be another “versus” series, like I had in my thread. I’d like to see **Predator vs. Arthur’s Bank Account** ---
**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:** [August 9, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4677 "2022-08-09T06:13:47Z")
I was headed out the door a couple days ago just a _Get to Know Your Rabbit_ was coming on TCM. Told the DVR to save it. It starred Tommy Smothers, Orsen Welles, John Aston and Kat Ross. I figured that can’t be all bad! About a guy who quits his job to become a magician. Oh, so wrong! Stunningly Derelict. Stupid from start to finish. Not funny, not clever, not watchable. Ranks very close to Top Ten worst movies I’ve seen. Welles underacted (like he didn’t want to be there, and wasn’t there for long), Aston over-acted (as usual) and Smothers didn’t really act at all. It was just bad. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4678 "2022-08-09T13:49:51Z")
I watched The Age of Adeline on Netflix last night. Blake Lively is the lead. I really enjoyed it! ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4679 "2022-08-09T23:01:44Z")
I was a little surprised to see Turner Classic running the first two _Tarzan_ movies last night. Ostensibly, they were part of a Maureen O’Sullivan “night.” There were some cringeworthy scenes in those movies by today’s standards. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4680 "2022-08-09T23:10:21Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I watched the original _Predator_ last night, as an appetizer before watching _Prey_. It was about what I remembered (neither better nor worse), but enjoyable enough. I don’t think I knew who Stan Winston was when I originally saw it, so it was cool to see his name pop up in the VX credits. > > I also watched the first half hour or so of _Predator 2_, and it was so awful I turned it off. _Prey_ was excellent. Some predictable beats, but I’m not asking for anything fancy, and it had a hero who was fun to root for. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4681 "2022-08-09T23:16:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Predator Apocalypto You jest, but this would be _awesome!_ ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4682 "2022-08-09T23:44:49Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > I was a little surprised to see Turner Classic running the first two _Tarzan_ movies last night. Ostensibly, they were part of a Maureen O’Sullivan “night.” > > There were some cringeworthy scenes in those movies by today’s standards. I happened to tune into TCM in the first “Tarzan” movie. It was the scene where the elephant comes along after Tarzan has been mauled by the lion. The lion wrestling scene wasn’t nearly as scary as seeing Tarzan being carried by the elephant…by his HEAD ! The first cut is of the elephant carrying the body (maybe not a stuntman, but a dummy ?) with the guy’s head in the elephant’s mouth ! I was shocked. It wouldn’t take much of a jerk to just snap the guy’s neck. At some later point, the elephant has adjusted to carrying the body with its trunk. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4683 "2022-08-10T02:13:10Z")
Anyone but me remember the Tarzan vs the Nazis or somesuch? I know I saw it on Saturday AM TV when I was a kid ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4684 "2022-08-10T02:50:53Z")
> [@dummygladhands71](#): > > Anyone but me remember the Tarzan vs the Nazis or somesuch? It’s this one. > **[Tarzan Triumphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_Triumphs)** > > Tarzan Triumphs is a 1943 adventure film in which Tarzan fights the Nazis. Johnny Weissmuller had portrayed the Edgar Rice Burroughs character in six films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but this was his first with the producer Sol Lesser at RKO Pictures. Lesser had previously produced Tarzan the Fearless and Tarzan's Revenge. Weissmuller was reunited with two of his three co-stars from several of the earlier films, Johnny Sheffield and Cheeta, but Maureen O'Sullivan was unable to reprise her role as ... ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4685 "2022-08-10T03:22:30Z")
Ah!! I wonder if it’s still shown, so not politically correct ~~~~~~~~~~ ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4686 "2022-08-10T03:36:19Z")
[That’s the one where the Germans think Cheetah is Hitler](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ldyDb-fWSps) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4687 "2022-08-10T09:22:12Z")
You know it must be bad when the title itself is a spoiler. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4688 "2022-08-10T11:55:35Z")
_Road to Perdition_ 2001 with Tom Hanks I’m catching up and watching Tom Hanks movies. This is the first time I’ve seen Hanks play a very sinister character. He’s a mob hitman that is betrayed by his employer’s weak, half-crazy, POS son. The heir to the mobsters territory. Daniel Craig does a noteworthy job playing this unlikable and contemptible character. It’s a good movie. It starts very slowly and the pace of the plot really accelerates about 30 minutes into the film. The sparse dialog throughout the film does make the film a little difficult to follow. I could see tv viewers watching the first 15 mins and switching channels. That would a unfortunate mistake. I saw it on Paramount+. The lack of commercials makes a big difference. I didn’t have a reason to channel surf. My only complaint is Jennifer Jason Leigh’s forgetable role. I’m surprised she took such a small part with very little dialog. She barely says a dozen words to her husband (Hanks) or kids. This was just a few years after her starring roles in _Last Exit to Brooklyn_ and _Single White Female_. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4689 "2022-08-10T19:36:16Z")
I don’t know if this counts as a “movie,” but I just watched the HBO doc _The Chernobyl Tapes_ which is almost (completely?) exclusively made from recordings made by the Soviets when they thought fixing the disaster would show them as great heroes. Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Man, worth watching, but so sad and infuriating at the same time. I find documentaries are often more moving for me than dramatized movies/series. The Chernobyl series was good, but didn’t pack the same punch as this film. It’s like the movie _Apollo 13_ wasn’t as engrossing to me as the documentary made by PBS (was it on _Nova_?). The movie was well done, and Ed Harris is a great actor, but when the real life guy he played (totally blanking on his name – the guy who always wore a fancy vest) got to me so much more when he broke into tears when he talked about the astronauts surviving. Recommended, but be aware it’s very disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4690 "2022-08-10T20:44:15Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > The movie was well done, and Ed Harris is a great actor, but when the real life guy he played (totally blanking on his name – the guy who always wore a fancy vest) got to me so much more when he broke into tears when he talked about the astronauts surviving. Gene Kranz. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4691 "2022-08-10T21:19:06Z")
Thank you! I was way too lazy to google. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4692 "2022-08-11T00:27:30Z")
**The Mask of Zorro** Very fun, charming, and pretty comedic Zorro movie with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. Honestly, I’d forgotten how great it was. My son and I watched it and laughed, cheered, and smiled throughout. I’d forgotten how great Anthony Hopkins is in this movie. It’s fun all around. **The Legend of Zorro** Yeah, so an OK sequel, but a noticeable step down. It took seven years to get the sequel made and the absence of Anthony Hopkins(died in the first movie) really takes a lot away from this movie. Nothing is quite as good and it doesn’t have the fun spark that made the first movie a blast. It’s not terrible, but I could tell that my memory about this movie had been right. Disappointing, but still pretty fun. Shame they stopped after two of these movies. I think lessons could be learned from the sequel and there was still life in the series. My son now gets that Puss in Boots is a comedy version of Zorro. ---
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Next: **Zorro: The Gay Blade**! > **[Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083366/)** > > Zorro: The Gay Blade: Directed by Peter Medak. With George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman. Zorro, the legendary swordsman, has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his... ---
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