# 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:** 294
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5876 "2023-01-30T04:39:16Z")
I’m not a fan of the Woody Allen _persona_, but I’d endorse **Sweet and Lowdown** , **Blue Jasmine, Bullets Over Broadway** , and **Vicky Christina Barcelona** as good movies. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5877 "2023-01-30T11:19:03Z")
Yes, you should (preferably after Paddington!) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5878 "2023-01-30T13:46:55Z")
Although _Paddington 2_ is incredibly highly rated: > **[‘Paddington 2’ Loses Top Movie of All Time Honor Due to New Bad Review](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paddington-2-rotten-tomatoes-review-1234960772/)** > > The beloved 2018 film vaulted to the top of the Rotten Tomatoes rankings after a newly discovered 'Citizen Kane' review caused the latter film to lose its decades-long perfect rating. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5879 "2023-01-30T13:54:47Z")
I am curious to know if anyone Wants to see Cocaine Bear. ---
**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 30, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5880 "2023-01-30T14:10:42Z")
**Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker** on Netflix. A fascinating story told badly. All of the interviewees save the two family members and the victim’s neighbors come off as extremely performative. Most of them work in the Reality TV business and others are cops and prosecutors with a practiced camera personae. It was like watching one of those VH1 shows where random celebrities comment on some decades old pop star scandal. Very tacky and not really enlightening about what kind of person the subject of the doc is. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5881 "2023-01-30T14:21:49Z")
I thought it was one of the most morally repugnant, exploitative documentaries I’ve seen. It was a last-gasp effort by everyone involved to squeeze one final dollar off this poor man’s soul. > [@Movies you've seen recently](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently/699906/5739): > > Ok, so a documentary dropped on Netflix called (iirc) “The Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker”. I recommend avoiding it because the entire thing felt so exploitative it shouldn’t be supported by y’all watching it. The story, the people in the story, and the documentary itself is just a series of events by craven people to generate revenue from some poor mentally ill kid who got chewed up and spit out by the American Fame Machine about a decade ago. The more I think about it, the more I’m disgusted thi… ---
**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 30, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5882 "2023-01-30T15:10:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I wonder if he is just really overrated. Woody Allen movies are kind of like having a friend who is interesting to be with for a while but only a little while. I’d recommend: “The Front” “Midnight in Paris” “Radio Days” “Vicky Christina Barcelona” “Purple Rose of Cairo” ---
**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 30, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5883 "2023-01-30T15:14:31Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I am curious to know if anyone Wants to see Cocaine Bear. Yeah, I fell for the trailer, gotta see what it’s about. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5884 "2023-01-30T15:19:48Z")
It is completely fictional. The only thing true is that the body of a bear was found and it was discovered the bear had an amazing amount of cocaine in his system. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5885 "2023-01-30T15:23:32Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > It is completely fictional. The only thing true is that the body of a bear was found and it was discovered the bear had an amazing amount of cocaine in his system > _Ransom Stoddard_: You’re not going to use the story, Mr. Scott? > _Maxwell Scott_: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5886 "2023-01-30T16:59:55Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > Woody Allen movies are kind of like having a friend who is interesting to be with for a while but only a little while. This. I’ve often loved his work but when you’ve had enough of Allen, you’ve had enough of Allen. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5887 "2023-01-30T20:33:24Z")
Yep, RRR. Nice descriptions. It’s boldly, boastfully, cheesy and over-the-top. It’s a fairy-tale really. Like something out of folklore. That’s pretty much what it is. It’s like a live-action Disney movie, but one that’s absolutely faithful to the animated version. ---
**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 31, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5888 "2023-01-31T00:38:35Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > There’s “The Purple Rose of Cairo” (one of my favorites not starring Woody himself); “Sleeper” (Woody’s hilarious take on a dystopian future); “Blue Jasmin” (a ripoff of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” but Cate Blanchett is marvelous in it); and his early comedies, like “Bananas” and “Take the Money and Run.” “Broadway Danny Rose” is a good comedy, as is “Midnight in Paris.” I liked “Match Point” quite a bit. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5889 "2023-01-31T00:41:13Z")
Of his recent films, I really liked Midnight in Paris. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5890 "2023-01-31T01:50:22Z")
I was always a _Zelig_ man, myself. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5891 "2023-01-31T02:18:27Z")
Let me speak up on behalf of _Sweet and Lowdown_. ---
**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 31, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5892 "2023-01-31T02:20:44Z")
_Love and Death_ is the one I can watch over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5893 "2023-01-31T03:01:23Z")
I remember liking Crimes and Misdemeanors, but I can’t recall much of anything about the movie anymore. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5894 "2023-01-31T15:18:58Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > _I was always a Zelig man, myself._ How could I forget that one! For those who have never seen it, “Zelig” is a black & white newsreel-style mockumentary about a man who gained celebrity in the 1920s by having the uncanny ability to take on the appearance and characteristics of anyone around him. Anyone. It’s very convincingly done and quite funny if you buy into the joke. One of my favorite “interview” answers (and I approximate): “Cole Porter was especially fascinated by him. He even wrote a song, ‘You’re the top, you’re Leonard Zelig.’ But then he couldn’t think of anything that rhymed with Zelig.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/5895 "2023-01-31T19:06:32Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Saw _ **The Fabelmans** _ this past weekend, Spielberg’s somewhat autobiographical film. As writer, director, and producer, he creates a heartfelt look at the young artists growth and struggles as he grows up. Spielberg is a master at pulling the audience along and into the emotional lives of his protagonists. I would expect it to be in the discussion as Oscar nominations approach. Michelle Williams gives a great performance as a free spirited mother torn between family and following her passion. Expect her name to be among the nominees next January. We saw it at the theater just the other week. I love hearing about the entertainment industry (as opposed to salacious tell-alls; yuck!), so seeing what made a young Steven Spielberg - oops, I mean Sammy Fableman - fall in love with making movies was great. I was surprised at how well Seth Rogen did playing a straight character (as opposed to his usual comedy characters), but the absolute outstanding role was Judd Hirsch as Uncle Boris. I don’t know if it was because it was an incredibly written role, great direction, or an outstanding job of acting, but I’m sitting in the theater just absolutely gobsmacked. I want to re-watch the movie just to see the few scenes he’s in! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=293) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=295)