# 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:** 288
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5756 "2023-01-15T10:17:18Z")
Finally watched _Nope!_. It wasn’t as disappointing as some comments in this thread led me to believe. It’s actually a loose remake of Jaws , right? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5757 "2023-01-15T10:46:17Z")
There are a few movies a lot of people are talking about right now, but my gut instinct says not to bother watching them despite the positive reviews, as they just aren’t going to be my kind of thing. Whenever I have ignored that instinct in the past (usually after cajoling), I have just proven myself right by not enjoying, or even actively hating, a movie that I had not intended to see. I just watched **Everything, Everywhere, All At Once** , and my instincts were right again. I really did not get anything from it at all. So I think I will listen to my gut and not see: The Banshees Of Inisherin; The Menu; Amsterdam; or The Fabelmans. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5758 "2023-01-15T12:28:16Z")
Wait, there’s a movie based on the Stalker video game? Huh. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5759 "2023-01-15T12:50:47Z")
I had no idea! Though it sounds like I’ll have to give that one a miss, except maybe for completeness. We also missed the Albert Finney one as well, somehow. > **[From Kenneth Branagh to David Suchet, Every Live-Action Hercule Poirot, Ranked](https://collider.com/all-hercule-poirot-portrayals-ranked/)** > > From Kenneth Branagh to Albert Finney, which actor best inhabits the famous mustachioed Belgian detective? ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5760 "2023-01-15T13:37:28Z")
We watched _Ride The High Country_ last night, a 1962 western that starred aging stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. It was directed by Sam Peckinpah and I suppose was one of the earliest westerns to depict the bad guys as cackling, repulsive sadists. Wasn’t Peckinpah notorious later on for violent, explicit movies? The bad guys and the date of the movie make me think of the plot in _Once Upon A Time . . . In Hollywood_, where DiCaprio’s character is struggling to shift from TV westerns to movies, and only succeeds when he does a good job of portraying this new style of hideous sadistic bad guy. Anyway, we liked last night’s movie. I agree with the three and a half stars that TCM gave it. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5761 "2023-01-15T13:54:59Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I just watched **Everything, Everywhere, All At Once** , and my instincts were right again. I really did not get anything from it at all. > > So I think I will listen to my gut and not see: The Banshees Of Inisherin; The Menu; Amsterdam; or The Fabelmans. I have instincts similar to yours. I’ll probaby watch EEAAO at some point, but last time I started I quit after about ten minutes. _Fabelmans_ was also interrupted but only because everyone was tired and went to bed. I still want to give it a fair shot. _Amsterdam_ in my view has no pretensions to artsy innovation; it’s a well-grounded old-style mystery thriller in the _film noir_ genre and quite enjoyable. _Banshees_ is just strange and I’m not sure where its super-high ratings are coming from. _Fabelmans_, _Banshees_, and EEAAO are all _Variety_’s picks for Oscar Best Picture contenders. Another one in their top 10 is _Elvis_, a spectacular film that I highly recommend, and it requires either a really big-screen TV, a projection system, or a theater, and a good sound system turned way up! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5762 "2023-01-15T13:56:27Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > We also missed the Albert Finney one as well, somehow. > > [https://collider.com/all-hercule-poirot-portrayals-ranked/](https://collider.com/all-hercule-poirot-portrayals-ranked/) I think they missed one. [It has been a hell of a week, to be honest.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFzABv0xMU) ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5763 "2023-01-15T14:05:18Z")
lol hilarious because it’s all true ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5764 "2023-01-15T16:34:29Z")
Got woken up by a whining dog in the middle of the night. Flipped on the tube and caught _Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy._ I’ll admit it didn’t watch much of it, but with a title like that, how could I not check it out??? 😁 ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5765 "2023-01-15T17:39:18Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Were you able to finish this? After we exhausted David Suchet, Peter Ustinov, and Emma Thompson’s ex-husband, we gave this movie a try, but quit about half an hour in. One of the worst things we’ve tried to watch in quite a while! We fast forwarded to the end. I’m a kind of a completist. It never got better. Later, we watched _The Garden Murder Mystery_. I think TCM was running a Philo Vance marathon. I don’t know how many different actors played him on screen, but this was the third or fourth I’ve seen. _Much_ better than _The Dragon Pool Mystery_ which we watched the day before. This one had a decent story with a minimum of corn. Much better acting and some funny lines. @Gatopescado might be interested, because Vance in this film had an adorable dachshund. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5766 "2023-01-15T17:54:14Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > …an adorable dachshund… Is there any other kind??? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5767 "2023-01-15T17:58:03Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Is there any other kind??? You got me there! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5768 "2023-01-15T18:09:59Z")
The Malkovich _ABC Murders_ is like someone saw the Branagh _Murder on the Orient Express_, found it **insufficiently** dour, grimdark, and p\*ssing on Poirot as Christie wrote him, and decided to remedy the oversight by kicking it up a few notches. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5769 "2023-01-15T21:26:21Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The **Top Gun** sequel, or most of it. Pretty predictable stuff, although I haven’t watched the end yet. Val Kilmer sure hasn’t aged well. You are too kind. It was awful, strictly 12 year old comic book stuff. However, some high paid help made this movie and they knew their audience. It’s the 6th highest grossing film ever and probably will garner the most Oscar nominations. No accounting for taste. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5770 "2023-01-15T22:29:08Z")
Yeah, I was expecting better. While I dislike Cruise on a basic human level, he’s almost always made watchable films, IMO. But this one had me yawning, and hitting pause for a break from the next predictable scene. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5771 "2023-01-16T00:52:01Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > **Puss and Boots 2 - The Last Wish** > > What a cute and well animated movie. My whole family liked it and it was quite charming. It isn’t the funniest Shrek-related product(I still think Shrek 1 and 2 are the best), but it was very well done. Highly recommended. Saw this with the grandkids after a Sunday lunch in a comfortable recliner theater. Just enough adult humor to keep me awake. My 2-1/2 yr. old grand daughter picked up on the Goldilocks and Three Bears alliance. When ever death appeared, she’d poke me and go, “big bad wolf” and howl. We were way back in a half full theater. All three GC gave two thumbs up. All under age ten. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2023, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5772 "2023-01-16T02:30:21Z")
Watched [Burn After Reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_After_Reading) last night. I am a fan of the Coen brothers, but I didn’t care for this one. Too many famous actors, and not a good story. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5773 "2023-01-16T03:08:08Z")
I’m sure someone else has mentioned this film but I recently watched _The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)_. (It’s streaming on HBO Max if you happen to have that service.) I liked it so much I’m now watching it again. It’s amazing the things you pick up on a second watching. Colin Farrell is incredible in it, as is Brendan Gleeson. It’s a dark comedy about two close friends on an island off Ireland in 1923 and one of them suddenly ends their relationship with the other. Needless to say, things don’t end well. Well worth the watch if you haven’t seen it yet. Quirky, but interesting from start to finish. > **[The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)** > > The Banshees of Inisherin: Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Pat Shortt. Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both... ---
**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:** [January 16, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5774 "2023-01-16T05:09:08Z")
**The Menu** Pretty good, but I kept thinking more was going to happen with the story than actually did. Nope, this is kind of a “what you expect is about what you get” movie, though I did find it to be well made and acted. I’m kind of surprised to see such top-level actors in a movie that really isn’t all that bold or imaginative. Still, there are some solid performances and I’m sure everyone was happy to be working. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5775 "2023-01-16T12:30:32Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > He has bolts tied to them to weigh them down; the streamers are for visibility. He throws them ahead to make sure they behave as expected in flight because in The Zone, that’s not a given. It’s a safety precaution. There’s a whole thing about random spots with very high gravity - step into one and you go squish. The bolt/streamer flags them ahead of time. Watched **Strange World** , Disney’s new, barely-promoted effort. While I’m aware that certain demographics are triggered by the existence of a gay couple in it and believe this to be the source of all the film’s woes, the reality is that the relationship barely features (and is rather pleasant) and that the film is simply rather dull and predictable, with an applied-with-a-sledgehammer theme of fathers wanting their children to follow in their footsteps vs sons wanting to forge their own path. There is a big twist near the end but it really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone as the clues were supplied with big flashing neon arrows throughout (at one point a character pokes a thing and says “I WONDER WHAT THIS DOES” - yeah, we know alveoli when we see them). In its favor it is lovely to look at and they clearly put most of their efforts into the visuals. But I don’t recommend thinking about it too hard, especially when you consider the ramifications for the entire ecosystem. I mean, where did the humans come from? Did they evolve as parasites to the main organism? Did they come from outside and if so, from where given that there isn’t any obvious other landmass on this planet? And how inbred must this population be? It just gets weirder the more you consider it. Speaking of films you shouldn’t think about much, I rewatched **RED** which is ridiculous and dumb and OTT violent but is entirely worth watching for 1) Helen Mirren firing heavy weaponry while looking stunning, and 2) John Malkovich in pretty much every scene he’s in. I’d also forgotten Karl Urban was in this, looking young and fit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=287) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=289)