# 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:** 237
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4735 "2022-08-14T14:45:32Z")
I hardly ever bail on movies, but I did on _Moulin Rouge_ a few years ago - a frantic, noisy mess of a movie that wasn’t even funny when it tried to be, IMHO. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4736 "2022-08-14T14:54:01Z")
Yes, got the title wrong, as well as the streaming service, which is Peacock, not Netflix. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4737 "2022-08-14T14:57:28Z")
_[I Love My Dad.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14935966/)_ Patton Oswalt is the dad in the title. The son is the writer/director/co-star who asserts this is a “true” story. Oswalt is blocked online from his estranged son. He fakes being a young woman to befriend his son online. Things get really, really weird. At times in the beginning it’s funny. Such as some scenes with Rachel Dratch as Oswalt’s weird girlfriend. (I know casting against type.) But there is a dark side. Getting progressively darker and weirder. And it ends up in a suitable mess. Since their online interactions are done via text messaging, those get shown on the screen. But these are shown in closeup so easily seen. A rarity. Furthermore, there’s a neat method they use to cut down on so much scree-text that works well. Amy Landecker is the ex/mom. Claudia Sulewski plays the real life version of the fake online woman. Does a top notch job. Did I mention that there’s some really weird stuff in this? Give it 4 catfish. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4738 "2022-08-14T15:59:59Z")
With you on that. After they started singing the same line from Elton John’s Your Song for the 27th time I’d had enough. I mean, I love Elton, but that was just too much. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4739 "2022-08-14T18:41:23Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > _Do you ever just bail on a movie?_ I wonder about people who pay to see a movie in a theater and then say they walked out. We’ve never done that in a theater, though we’ve seen some movies that deserved it. We paid for it, so we’ll stay until the bitter end. Back when we were getting tapes or discs from Blockbuster, we were careful in making our choices, but I do recall we bailed out of an “art” movie called “Prospero’s Books.” Siskel and Ebert raved out it, but we found it unwatchable. Streaming, however, has been a game changer. We will usually give a movie about 30 minutes and if it hasn’t grabbed us by then, off it goes. Streaming has made walking out a whole lot easier. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4740 "2022-08-14T18:46:58Z")
Walked out of _Knocked Up_. Rude, unfunny people, just wasn’t worth my time or effort to sit there and watch some baby being born. When he started yelling at her gynecologist/obstetrician on the phone because she was in the unique, never-before-seen position of being hours away from childbirth, I was like ‘why am I watching these children?’, and left. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4741 "2022-08-14T18:48:10Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I wonder about people who pay to see a movie in a theater and then say they walked out. I’ve never done it, but I was under the impression that many theaters would (at least at some time in the past) refund your money if you walked out before a certain time had elapsed. ---
**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 14, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4742 "2022-08-14T19:00:50Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I’ve never done it, but I was under the impression that many theaters would (at least at some time in the past) refund your money if you walked out before a certain time had elapsed. I don’t know if there is a strict length of time, but I do think most theaters refund you. I haven’t walked out on a movie theater film in my life, though. My friends and I saw Wild, Wild, West with Will Smith back in the theater and it was so bad, we kind of talked in the theater about leaving, but we just stayed and groaned to the end. What an oddly bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4743 "2022-08-14T20:26:06Z")
I worked for a theater chain back in the ‘80s, so I saw a lot of free movies. Even without paying, I always stayed to the end - with one exception. [The Keep (1983)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085780/). I remember virtually nothing except that after nearly an hour, I still had no idea what this movie was about, and was _way_ too bored to care. ---
**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 14, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4744 "2022-08-14T21:05:38Z")
> [@rippingtons\_fan](#): > > On DVD I just watched The Battle of Algiers. Oh, that was _intense._ On edit: Decades ago we walked out on _Rollerball_ – supremely boring, but it was a double feature (which were rare even then), and the other movie is the one we came to see. So it wasn’t a big deal. ---
**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 14, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4745 "2022-08-14T21:13:52Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I always stayed to the end - with one exception. [The Keep (1983)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085780/). Huh. I liked that movie. Nazis getting killed by a supernatural force and soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. ---
**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 14, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4746 "2022-08-14T21:17:51Z")
I was going to watch Cleopatra today, until I noticed that it was _FOUR AND A HALF FREAKIN’ HOURS!!_ I decided to take a hard pass on that. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4747 "2022-08-14T22:33:12Z")
Given there are so many sources available that will tell you everything about a movie you would want to know before you plunk down your money (like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, just for starters), I can’t see how anyone could go see a movie and then be so offended or bored that they would walk out and expect their money back. It’s not the theater’s fault that you didn’t research what you were going to see. Why should you get a refund? However, if you have expressed your displeasure within a reasonable amount of time after the start of the movie, not halfway through, a free pass to a future movie might be a reasonable policy, just for Public Relations purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4748 "2022-08-14T23:17:58Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I can’t see how anyone could go see a movie and then be so offended or bored that they would walk out and expect their money back. Yeah, I have walked out on a few movies in my time (most recently Thor: Love and Thunder, not that I really hated it or anything, and in fact will probably pick it up again when it comes to streaming, but just couldn’t stay interested enough at that moment to make continuing to sit in the theater worthwhile). But I have never asked for a refund on my ticket. I might ask for a refund if the projector went kaput halfway through or some other technical issue, just as I might ask for a dish in a restaurant to be replaced or comped if it was seriously screwed up and inedible. But at a restaurant or at the movies, you’re not entitled to your money back just because you got what you ordered and it turns out you don’t actually like it as much as you thought you would. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4749 "2022-08-14T23:24:10Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I wonder about people who pay to see a movie in a theater and then say they walked out. We’ve never done that in a theater, though we’ve seen some movies that deserved it. We paid for it, so we’ll stay until the bitter end. A textbook example of the “[sunk cost fallacy](https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy)”. > The _Sunk Cost Fallacy_ describes our tendency to follow through on an endeavor if we have already invested time, effort, or money into it, whether or not the current costs outweigh the benefits. ---
**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 15, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4750 "2022-08-15T00:16:25Z")
> [@dummygladhands71](#): > > 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 Weird trivia: Edgar Rice Burroughs DID write a Tarzan novel in which he fights in WWII, only he fights the Japanese – **Tarzan and the Foreign Legion** > **[Tarzan and the Foreign Legion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_the_Foreign_Legion)** > > Tarzan and the Foreign Legion is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-second in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The book, written June–September 1944 while Burroughs was living in Honolulu and published in 1947, was the last new work by Burroughs to be published during his life (Llana of Gathol, the tenth book in the Barsoom series, was published in 1948, but it was a collection of four stories originally published in Amazing Stories in 194... Tarzan did fight German soldiers – in WWI – in **Tarzan the Untamed** > **[Tarzan the Untamed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_the_Untamed)** > > Tarzan the Untamed is a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. It was originally published as two separate stories serialized in different pulp magazines; "Tarzan the Untamed" (also known as "Tarzan and the Huns") in Redbook from March to August, 1919, and "Tarzan and the Valley of Luna" in All-Story Weekly from March to April 1920. The two stories were combined under the title of the first in the first book e... ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4751 "2022-08-15T00:44:00Z")
I’m not a big Foo Fighters fan but [Studio 666](https://youtu.be/UEDkqOBhPis) wasn’t bad at all. It was funnier and (a lot) gorier than I expected. There’s some nice hard rock riffing by the band in the studio and a pretty hilarious cameo by Lionel Richie. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4752 "2022-08-15T01:02:00Z")
I was so excited to see that (Studio 666), but now that Taylor Hawkins is actually dead, my excitement has waned. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4753 "2022-08-15T14:53:09Z")
Re: Going to see a movie without knowing much about it ahead of time. I believe this happens quite a lot. Example, _many_ times I’ve been behind a group of teens who stand around talking in line and wait until they get to the ticket counter _before even thinking about what movie to see._ Then they waste people’s time while they discuss the options. I don’t see how this also doesn’t apply to others of all ages and numbers, just with less obvious time wasting. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4754 "2022-08-15T17:32:56Z")
Circling back to the original topic, Movies You’ve Seen Recently… We watched the Indian epic **“RRR”** (or “Rise, Roar, Revolt”) on Netflix. This film has been a world-wide sensation. It’s a “Tollywood” movie, not “Bollywood.” There are differences, mostly involving the dialects used, but the style is much the same. There’s drama, action, adventure, romance, a little comedy here are there, and some very elaborate and enjoyable musical numbers with singing and dancing. The acting is first-rate, with two outstanding lead performances. If you can accept all that in one 3-hour movie, don’t mind reading subtitles, and can suspend all belief during some eye-popping action sequences, you will find **“RRR”** a most enjoyable and thrilling ride. And you’ll really come to hate the British (apologies to Dopers in the UK.) We watched it in two parts because of the length. There are several places at the halfway mark to make an easy intermission, if you so desire.) **“RRR.”** An epic in every sense. We dug it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=236) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=238)