# 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:** 379
**Author:** ![JohnnyEcks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnnyecks/32/18197_2.png) [@JohnnyEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7579 "2023-10-03T15:46:40Z")
Not quite a movie, (but almost a movie) I watched “The wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” on Netflix. I remember enjoying the story as a kid, and this is some peak Wes Anderson that really leans into the whimsy. The nested stories, the fourth wall breaking scene and costume changes, and the way the actors recite the story instead of simply acting out their parts was quite entertaining. I recommend it. Unless you dislike Wes Anderson or Roald Dahl. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7580 "2023-10-03T16:03:16Z")
**Rebecca.** I really liked it. I now have an entirely new conceptualization of the phrase “withering stare.” Mrs. Danvers is creepy as hell. Wow. I read the book as a girl and remember liking it, but I had totally forgotten the plot twists and I enjoyed every one. Shades of the novel _Jane Eyre,_ a favorite of mine. It was a Gothic romance featuring a broody hero, a “late wife” secretly shut up in an attic and the whole place burned to the ground at the end. While it has a different plot, the movie has big _Jane Eyre_ energy. Cracks me up to hear Joan Fontaine moan about how she’s not beautiful. And the response is, “There, there. There are more important things than beauty.” Poor, plain Joan Fontaine. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7581 "2023-10-03T16:05:53Z")
I saw that (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) over the weekend. It’s the first of, I think, five adaptions of Roald Dahl stories that will be available on Netflix. As you said, it’s Wes Anderson, so if you don’t get his style or hate it, you probably wouldn’t want to watch it. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7582 "2023-10-03T16:09:00Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Cracks me up to hear Joan Fontaine moan about how she’s not beautiful. And the response is, “There, there. There are more important things than beauty.” Poor, plain Joan Fontaine. From the Barbie movie: Barbie: “I’m not pretty anymore.” _freeze-frame_ Narrator: “Note to filmmakers: Margot Robbie is not the right person to cast to make this point.” ---
**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:** [October 3, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7583 "2023-10-03T16:32:18Z")
**Midnight Run** on Netflix, which I somehow missed when it came out in '88. Probably because I was living in Germany at the time. Predictable movie, but lots of fun actors like Dennis Farina and Joe Pantoliano. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7584 "2023-10-03T17:55:06Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > **Rebecca.** I really liked it. I now have an entirely new conceptualization of the phrase “withering stare.” Mrs. Danvers is creepy as hell. I recently saw **The Celluloid Closet** , documentary (on TCM) about the representation of LGBTQ characters in the pre-gay rights days of Hollywood where you couldn’t come out and say that a character was gay. They spent a lot of time on Mrs Danvers. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7585 "2023-10-03T18:05:35Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > They spent a lot of time on Mrs Danvers. It went right over my head while watching the film, but yeah, I can see it. I guess my view at the time was that Mrs. Danvers had been living vicariously through Rebecca, but it’s not a hard sell at all that Mrs. Danvers _loved_ Rebecca. It adds a great layer of complexity to her character, and explains the extended underwear sequence. That is a great documentary BTW. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7586 "2023-10-03T18:18:34Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I’m on the Hitchcock bandwagon now. It’s Movie Night Monday and **Rebecca** is what we’ve got planned. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > **Rebecca.** I really liked it. I now have an entirely new conceptualization of the phrase “withering stare.” Mrs. Danvers is creepy as hell. Wow. If I’m responsible for you or anyone else going on a Hitchcock-watching frenzy, I’ll cheerfully take credit! 😉 The man was a genius in his particular genre. I’ve got _Spellbound_, _Psycho_, and _North by Northwest_ lined up next. I’ll post comments whenever I think they might be useful, although I imagine everybody and their dog and cat has seen _Psycho_! Literally! 🤣 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_kgRFHaNo-Y/hqdefault.jpg "Cat Watching Horror Movie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kgRFHaNo-Y) ---
**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:** [October 3, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7587 "2023-10-03T19:18:51Z")
Great _Psycho_ cat video! > [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > It’s hands-down my favorite Hitchcock film. I don’t remember I.G. Farben being mentioned by name, though. > > Near the beginning of the movie, when Devlin first describes the job he wants Alicia to do in Brazil, he says “Some of the German gentry who were paying your father are working in Rio. Ever hear of the I.G. Farben Industries? Farben has men in South America planted there before the war. We’re cooperating with the Brazilian govenment to smoke them out.”… Ah, thanks. I’d forgotten that. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > While my wife Pepper Mill was attending a meeting last night, I put on **Barry Lyndon** , a movie she loathes. It moves at a glacial pace, I know, and few of its characters are at all likeable. But it’s Kubrick at his peak, with a wonderful marriage of classical music and gorgeous imagery… Agreed. And from Wiki: _Several of the interior scenes were filmed in [Powerscourt House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerscourt_Estate), an 18th-century mansion in [County Wicklow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Wicklow), [Republic of Ireland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland). The house was destroyed in an accidental fire several months after filming (November 1974), so the film serves as a record of the lost interiors, particularly the “Saloon” which was used for more than one scene._ ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7588 "2023-10-04T06:34:24Z")
We watched Asteroid City. Visually arresting , entertaining, well acted, got anybody and everybody in it. Zero clue what it was about. No doubt something about how awesome making plays and film is or some such, but really, zero clue. Would watch it again though. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7589 "2023-10-04T14:35:43Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Zero clue what it was about. Your first mistake is assuming that it’s “about” anything. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7590 "2023-10-04T20:11:12Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Which still isn’t _that_ much money for a bunch of plotters to come up with. But the suggestion that it was still made me laugh (even though it was perhaps just bad, world-breaking, writing, rather than an accurate assessment of the relative value of money circa 1962). I’ve noticed in more recent movies/TV shows that they tend to not mention an actual dollar amount in these situations. I assumed it was for this very reason. It can make the movie seem really dated and laughable in later years. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7591 "2023-10-04T20:16:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin Actually, _The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin._ I haven’t seen any of it in decades, but when the Perrin character returns to his wife incognito, she is pretending to be having an affair. She makes up a man who is half Scottish and half Hungarian, which is pretty much what my ethnic background is (give or take a few percentage points). I think that’s partly why I remember it so well. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Shades of the novel _Jane Eyre,_ a favorite of mine. I’m currently reading a book about Val Lewton, and they mention the Orson Welles/Joan Fontaine (there she is again) version of _Jane Eyre_ being made near the time Lewton was making _I Walked with a Zombie_ and included the latter film in the “like Jane Eyre category.” I can see it. Oops, and _Rebecca_ was explicitly a Jane Eyre homage. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7592 "2023-10-04T20:55:02Z")
Tried to watch **Rose Red** , but had to give up after about 20 minutes of poor acting and uninspired writing. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7593 "2023-10-04T21:48:40Z")
**Barry Lyndon** is one of only two movies I’ve ever bawled my eyes out for. It’s the scene that switches from the dying boy to his funeral procession. That little goat drawn cart he used to play with it carrying his coffin. Ack, I’m getting teary thinking about it. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7594 "2023-10-04T22:40:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Barry Lyndon** is one of only two movies I’ve ever bawled my eyes out for. It’s the scene that switches from the dying boy to his funeral procession. That little goat drawn cart he used to play with it carrying his coffin. Ack, I’m getting teary thinking about it What is the other? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7595 "2023-10-04T23:01:03Z")
It’s **ET** Not the scene where he “dies” but when the kids show him to their mother, and she takes them all away. He reaches out his hand and makes a crying noise. He’s cold, sick, dying, and now he’s being abandoned. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7596 "2023-10-04T23:36:28Z")
I remembered the remark but had no idea it was real- its such a made up sounding name. This is by far my favorite Hitchcock. Love everyone in it, even the weirdly sexy Sebastian. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7597 "2023-10-05T01:05:14Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > **Barry Lyndon** is one of only two movies I’ve ever bawled my eyes out for. It’s the scene that switches from the dying boy to his funeral procession. That little goat drawn cart he used to play with it carrying his coffin. Ack, I’m getting teary thinking about it. If I learned one thing from Barry Lyndon and Gone with the Wind, it’s not not let little kids try fence jumping with their new ponies. ---
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> [@wolfpup](#): > > If I’m responsible for you or anyone else going on a Hitchcock-watching frenzy, I’ll cheerfully take credit! Have you spotted him in any of his cameos? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=378) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=380)