# 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:** 325
**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:** [April 30, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6497 "2023-04-30T19:20:06Z")
**As the Gods Will** Very much recommended. I do see what accusations of plagiarism were thrown at Squid Games because of this movie, but I also believe the creator of Squid Games that it was written before this movie came out. Anyway, this is about a group of high school students forced to play a series of games(including Red Light, Green Light) in order to survive. It’s very well made, very strange, and I actually found myself rather confused how some of the games could be won legitimately. Anyway, it is very strange and if you enjoyed Squid Games(or Alice in Borderland) you will enjoy this. It is apparently a Manga series and it ends with a cliffhanger, leading to a part two that has not been made. Shame. I’d watch it. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6498 "2023-05-01T11:56:57Z")
**Empire of Light** (2022), a terrific drama with Olivia Colman, Toby Jones, Colin Firth and Micheal Ward. Colman’s character has mental issues and all of them work at a movie theater. Colman, as always, nails her role. Highly recommended. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6499 "2023-05-01T14:21:47Z")
**[Other People’s Children](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_People's_Children_(2022_film))** (2022), a simple story of a schoolteacher falling in love with a divorced father of a 4 year old, but without villains or heroes. It reminded me a lot of _One Fine Morning_, primarily because of the central performance by Virginie Efira. If you don’t mind subtitles and watching people’s lives unfold through incidents that are monumental to them and incidental to the rest of the world, this one is highly recommended. One odd thing (or maybe heartening); it wasn’t until the film was almost over that I realized the central romance is between a Jew and an Arab (which is extraordinary, because their ethnicity is not hidden in the story, it’s up front). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6500 "2023-05-01T15:30:32Z")
**Judy Blume: Forever.** Documentary. I’d give it a solid B. I’m a fan of Blume’s books; In elementary school I even wrote an essay about her battle with censorship. I’ve always thought she was a bit of a revelation as a writer of no-holds barred youth fiction, tackling every subject from anti-Semitism to masturbation, but this documentary humanizes her in some ways, talks about her failed marriages and how out of step she felt with other mothers of the era. A nice delve into the Reagan years and what that was like for her. I liked the interviews with people who wrote to her for years and years and some famous personalities who appreciated her work. In some ways she reminds me of my grandmother. She doesn’t seem to realize how old she is. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6501 "2023-05-01T15:49:13Z")
I saw [_Knock at the Cabin_ (2023)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15679400/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_2_prd) the other day. I really enjoyed it. I’ve been a bit wary of M. Night’s movies ever since _Signs_ but this one was really good. Unexplained creepiness affecting innocent bystanders whose reactions I found to be pretty spot-on to how I think I’d handle things if it were me. The only thing I would have done different than any of the characters is at the end, I would have let humanity die and chosen to walk the earth, but then, cynics never get the endings they want. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6502 "2023-05-01T16:06:23Z")
Having read a synopsis of the book that the movie is based on (_[The Cabin at the End of the World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabin_at_the_End_of_the_World)_), I wish they would have stuck closer to the book. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6503 "2023-05-01T16:35:17Z")
_Ghosted_ (2023) on Apple TV+. A comedy-action-spy movie starring Ana de Armas as a superspy and Chris Evans as a gormless civilian who gets caught up in the “don’t let the bad guys get the superweapon” plot. If you give anything in this movie one second’s worth of thought, you will realize how stupid the plot is and what a ridiculous film this is. So don’t do that. Just sit back, turn your brain off, eat popcorn, and enjoy the very attractive leads bicker-flirting and killing bad guys in creative ways. (Even with that in mind, there are still a lot of problems with the movie, but they are not really worth listing out). The movie also features some enjoyable cameos from other action movie franchises (which I will not elaborate on here so as not to spoil the fun). ---
**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:** [May 1, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6504 "2023-05-01T16:42:07Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The only thing I would have done different than any of the characters is at the end, I would have let humanity die and chosen to walk the earth, but then, cynics never get the endings they want. IIRC that’s the ending you get in the book! They’re like, if it’s real, fuck it, that world sucks anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6505 "2023-05-01T18:36:16Z")
I’m an action-romance lover/writer. I saw the preview for that and said, “Sigh. We have to watch this movie.” I don’t expect much, but I didn’t expect much from **Lost Cities** either and I freaking loved that. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6506 "2023-05-01T19:21:18Z")
I’d like that hour and a half refunded, please. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6507 "2023-05-02T00:18:23Z")
**Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl** The absolute worst movie I’ve ever watched all the way through, at least that I can remember. Just terrible. When I think of the worst movies I’ve watched, Puppet Master Legacy\* almost always gets chosen by me. No, it has been replaced. Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl was atrocious. I would have walked out in the theater. It was just honestly the worst thing. I think I finished it just to finish it. I am very generous with movie ratings, but this was a ZERO STARS movie if I’ve ever seen one. \*Puppet Master Legacy was sold as real movie and entry in the series, but was a clip show movie. Total fraud. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6508 "2023-05-02T00:40:00Z")
It’s so bad, it doesn’t even have an IMDB entry. Maybe it’s called something else? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6509 "2023-05-02T01:02:31Z")
Right here: > **[Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1425928/reference/)** > > Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken (2009) Reference View ---
**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:** [May 2, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6510 "2023-05-02T01:09:08Z")
This poster reminds me of a movie I recently caught on a transcontinental flight. I’m not even going to try to categorize it, I’ll just say that if you roll with it it grows on you. > **[Kamikaze Girls (2004) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416220/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > Kamikaze Girls: Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima. With Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Sadao Abe. Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups... ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6511 "2023-05-02T01:18:17Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > **A Man Called Otto**. Tom Hanks plays a mean SOB but he gets better. Next up on the _Tom Hanks Movie of the Week_, Tom plays a clueless middle aged man preoccupied with his busy life who realizes, almost too late, what the real value of love is. Co-starring Helen Hunt, because she needs the work. Insert dialog here.\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Precocious children or alienated family are optional. Same hair cut whether it is World War II or middle American suburbian high school. Wait, how about Tom Hanks as a clueless middle aged high school teacher with an alienated teen-ager who doesn’t get along with either Tom or his ex-wife, (played by Helen Hunt because whe needs the work). Same hair cut. It is golden, it pratically writes itself. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6512 "2023-05-02T01:40:35Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > This poster reminds me of a movie I recently caught on a transcontinental flight. I’m not even going to try to categorize it, I’ll just say that if you roll with it it grows on you. I saw Tokyo Gore Police years ago and I did not like it a ton, but it was memorable and stuck with me. The Vampire Girl movie I saw was outright racist. Some of the Japanese girls do full-body Blackface, wear Afro wigs(one has a plate in her lip) and they go full “African club”. It’s terrible, just terrible. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6513 "2023-05-02T13:51:57Z")
Well, I did say it was only the poster that evoked the memory. From your description, _Kamikaze Girls_ is nothing like _Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl_. Of course, it’s nothing like anything else I’ve seen in quite a while as well… ---
**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:** [May 2, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6514 "2023-05-02T14:12:08Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Well, I did say it was only the poster that evoked the memory. From your description, _Kamikaze Girls_ is nothing like _Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl_. Of course, it’s nothing like anything else I’ve seen in quite a while as well I think I thought it would be closer to something zany, crazy, funny, and fun. It was supposed to be comedic, but was racist and no jokes hit at all. Badly made, looked worse than a straight-to-dvd movie should look(it came out in 2009). Best of the Worst has seen movies worse than this one, I think. They watched: Shark Exorcist DB Cooper vs. Bigfoot Those two, from the clips and discussion they shared, were equal to worse than Vampire Girl. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6515 "2023-05-02T14:33:26Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > This poster reminds me of a movie I recently caught on a transcontinental flight. I’m not even going to try to categorize it, I’ll just say that if you roll with it it grows on you. > > [Kamikaze Girls (2004) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416220/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) How on Earth do you watch this? It seems to be streaming nowhere. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/6516 "2023-05-02T14:48:08Z")
Take a United flight. It’s currently in their in-flight entertainment. It’s old enough that I’m surprised it’s not streaming anywhere, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=324) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=326)