# 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:** 248
**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:** [September 13, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4955 "2022-09-13T20:12:13Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Watched [Blow up](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/), allegedly, a 1966 classic. > … > Skip it. I saw it in college and liked the creepiness of it as the photographer figured out that there had been a murder, and the Swinging London scenes were quaint, but otherwise I’d agree with you. > [@carrps](#): > > Heard someone mention _Philomena_ which I’d always been meaning to watch. Nicely done. Great performances. Good casting. But I couldn’t help remember when John Roberts (CJ of SCOTUS) adopted two children from Ireland… Nitpick: CJ of [the] US. Agreed, though, it’s a very good movie. Dame Judi and Coogan both shine. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4956 "2022-09-13T20:39:34Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Philomena The only time I’ve ever left the theater wanting to kick a nun. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4957 "2022-09-13T20:40:26Z")
Not also after _The Sound of Music_? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4958 "2022-09-13T20:51:35Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The only time I’ve ever left the theater wanting to kick a nun. Clearly you have not seen The Nun. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pzD9zGcUNrw/maxresdefault.jpg "THE NUN - Official Teaser Trailer [HD]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzD9zGcUNrw) ---
**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:** [September 13, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4959 "2022-09-13T21:23:02Z")
My latest five: _Ghostbusters_ The original - still funny, clever and endlessly quotable. _Lightyear_ The new movie based on the _Toy Story_ character, presented as if it were the movie which inspired the toy in the first movie. A bit overlong, and it has some plot holes that left me wondering, but I’d say it’s worth a look for any fan - and the Space Ranger’s robotic cat adorably steals every scene it’s in. _Toy Story 2_ Also a deserved classic, with Woody, Buzz and their friends taking on a thieving toy-store owner. By turns funny and heartbreaking (you know the song I’m talking about). _Pride & Prejudice_ Keira Knightley at her spunky, luminous best, in this beautiful adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. A great cast, smart screenplay and a deft mix of romance and humor. The English countryside never looked so good, and the score more than earned its Oscar nomination. _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ I introduced a friend to this Ruritanian comedy from 2014, which is my favorite film directed by Wes Anderson (edging out _Rushmore_). It was my friend’s first time seeing it (maybe my fourth), and he liked it a lot. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4960 "2022-09-13T21:40:03Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The only time I’ve ever left the theater wanting to kick a nun. I liked _Philomena_ when I saw it in the theater, but I liked it less when I learned that Sister Hildegard had actually died 10 years before the events of the movie, and that she apparently wasn’t nearly the maniacal witch that provided the final dramatic scene. I mean, clearly she presided over massive works of evil, but it also seems like the screenwriter needed some sort of dramatic payoff at the end, so he made one up. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4961 "2022-09-15T14:27:45Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > **Elvis**. I really liked it a lot. Surprisingly the least favorite thing about it was Tom Hanks’ performance as Col. Tom Parker; but Austin Butler kills it in the title role. > > Baz Luhrman’s over-the-top style is perfect for the subject matter. I’m sure he plays fast-and-loose with history, but it doesn’t matter; just let it wash over you. > > Of all the musical biopics lately – Bohemian Rhapsody, Judy, Rocket Man, Respect – this was my favorite. I loved _Elvis_. I concur with you and the others. Austin Butler was fantastic, and I don’t get the dislike of Tom Hanks in the role of Tom Parker – I thought he was fine. It’s interesting that although the movie gets fantastic ratings on _Rotten Tomatoes_ (78% critics, 94% audience) some of the critics’ comments are perplexing – “high-excess”, “three-ring circus”, “overpowering”, etc. Silliness. It was a beautifully filmed, well-acted. big-budget extravaganza and a very enjoyable 2 hours 39 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4962 "2022-09-15T20:42:03Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > “high-excess”, “three-ring circus”, “overpowering” These aren’t inaccurate. I loved the movie, but it is Baz. ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4963 "2022-09-15T20:53:14Z")
I recently watched **Robots** , on DVD. It is an animated feature starring the voices of Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Halle Berry and Mel Brooks among others. It was a great movie and I enjoyed it quite a bit. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4964 "2022-09-15T21:53:31Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > “high-excess”, “three-ring circus”, “overpowering”, How inappropriate for such a staid and sober subject as ELVIS-FUCKING-PRESLEY! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4965 "2022-09-15T21:58:21Z")
We must have watched this a hundred times with our kids, it’s a fun movie. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4966 "2022-09-16T14:44:14Z")
Went to see “3,000 Years of Longing” on a whim. It wasn’t what I expected but I thought it was a good and interesting story. I was expecting time travel and exotic places and alternate dimensions, but it wasn’t really that. It was the tale of a brilliant and independent but lonely woman and a genie with a tragic story that spans thousands of years. Saw “Spiderman No Way Home” as well. I’ve been sort of burnt out on superhero movies, didn’t bother watching the last Thor or Spiderman movies. But No Way Home was a really great blend of action and comedy and special effects. I had some issues with the plot, but it didn’t detract from the fun and they got all 3 Spiderman movie actors together in a way that didn’t seem awkward or forced. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4967 "2022-09-16T17:17:30Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > We must have watched [_Robots_] a hundred times with our kids, it’s a fun movie. Agreed. One of my sons liked it so much he had the poster up in his room for years. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4968 "2022-09-16T17:24:32Z")
> [@rippingtons\_fan](#): > > A movie I’ve watched recently on DVD is **The Dogs of War** , starring Christopher Walken. > He plays a mercenary leading the takeover of an African nation (the fictional nation of Zangara) for foreign interests. Based on the thriller by Frederick Forsythe. This was his third thriller, after _Day of the Jackal_ and _The Odessa File_. All three were adapted into movies, but none of them as good as Fred Zinneman’s film DotJ. If you haven’t seen the film, or read the book, I very highly recommend both. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4969 "2022-09-16T20:36:27Z")
Watched **Juggernaut** on Amazon Prime. It’s a 1974 film directed by Richard Lester (with obligatory comic relief by Roy Kinnear). It’s about an ocean liner held to ransom by a bomber. It features quite a few famed British actors early in their careers (a very young Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins, and David Hemmings) and big names of the time, Omar Sharif and Richard Harris. Harris eats the scenery as the bombastic (no pun intended) leader of the bomb disposal team. There’s a whole lot of “blue wire or red wire” drama which is so over the top, it must be the template for the trope. As entertaining as any of those 1970s disaster films but no real surprises. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4970 "2022-09-16T22:48:17Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > **Juggernaut** I loved this movie! Best part is when the fat guy trods on the ping-pong ball! I don’t remember the details anymore, but I seem to remember there being a MASSIVE plot hole. Like, just dump them overboard or something as simple as that. I mean, they are on a rocking and rolling ship. Surely they could have been moved to the rail carefully. It’s been a long time since watching it. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4971 "2022-09-16T22:51:12Z")
We watched the Peter Ustinov _Murder in Three Acts_ (or _Three Act Murder_ I think they called it). Interesting, but didn’t really work. Mainly, because the motive was based on a British law that you couldn’t divorce your spouse if they were in an insane asylum). That obviously wouldn’t work for a 1980s American actor. The change of setting from Cornwall to Acapulco actually worked for me. But most of the acting was bad – the actor playing Hastings was especially ridiculous. Emma Samms was dreadful, as well. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > Best part is when the fat guy trods on the ping-pong ball! Just like Bunny Bixler! ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4972 "2022-09-16T23:35:01Z")
Another movie I’ve seen very recently on DVD is **DOMINO** , starring Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey, (who left a life of privilege in Beverly Hills to become L.A.'s most notorious bounty hunter.) Also starring Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo and Christopher Walken. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4973 "2022-09-17T00:53:19Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > > Best part is when the fat guy trods on the ping-pong ball! > > Just like Bunny Bixler! That’s a deep dive. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4974 "2022-09-17T14:53:02Z")
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