# 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:** 386
**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 26, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7719 "2023-10-26T12:44:47Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > If you want the _essential_ pre-PI Bill Maher, though, you have to watch **Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death**. I thought 1991’s **Pizza Man** was the essential Bill Maher. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7720 "2023-10-26T13:18:57Z")
No love for _DC Cab_? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7721 "2023-10-26T13:23:51Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I thought 1991’s **Pizza Man** was the essential Bill Maher. I remember that movie! Actually had a thoughtful comment on why delivering pizzas is a noble occupation. And that’s exactly all that I remember about the movie, delivering pizza is noble. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7722 "2023-10-26T14:30:02Z")
**Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure** (1989, Prime) I had hopes this would entertain my 10 year old history enthusiast and it succeeded. It holds up as well. I remember the Bill’s Mom/Missy gag was lame even in 1989 when I was 11 and looking back they leaned into it so hard and it still wasn’t funny. I had harbored the notion for decades that Bill & Ted didn’t actually do the assignment and just brought a bunch of historical dudes to San Dimas High and got and A+, but as an adult now I can clearly see they did the assignment and certainly compared with their peers deserve top marks even if their persons of historical significance did much of the work. Anyway, still has one of the [BEST OPENING CREDIT TUNES](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9r7LiuGKk) ---
**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:** [October 26, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7723 "2023-10-26T20:33:09Z")
**Big Pig** : _Breakaway_. A great music video in its own right. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vllIofWpnk4/maxresdefault.jpg "𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐠 - 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 - 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟖") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vllIofWpnk4) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7724 "2023-10-26T23:33:53Z")
Thank you. I had no idea the song was a cover from R&B Chuck Jackson! ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7725 "2023-10-27T00:41:31Z")
The Bill and Teds excellent adventure soundtrack is one of the few soundtracks I own, it is excellent, and has little known bands on it, Tora Tora, Shark Island, Vital Signs and Bricklin. Only Extreme were vaguely famous (and I think they might have become after the film). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7726 "2023-10-27T21:37:50Z")
Oh yes, the opening was fantastic. Especially when I saw it for the first time in a theater, on a big screen, when it came out. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7727 "2023-10-27T22:03:13Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I had no idea the song was a cover from R&B Chuck Jackson! Huh. Neither did I! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7728 "2023-10-28T14:35:45Z")
I watched **Old Dads** on Netflix in Bill Burr’s directorial debut. It’s basically an extension of his “angry white man trying to figure out the world” comedy and actual life, having kids for the first time in his late 40s. It was ok. It seemed less about his character being a dad as it was more of a workplace / fish out of water comedy about a man with anger issues railing against overly PC Millennials until the typical Gen-X “old school” trope of never wanting the party to end where they go off on a alcohol, drugs, strippers, and brawling bender and realize it’s time to grow the fuck up and learn to live in a world where you can’t just go around calling people cunts and cocksuckers and talking about Kaitlin Jenner’s dick without people thinking you’re an asshole. ---
**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 28, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7729 "2023-10-28T15:04:54Z")
Made the mistake of watching **Alien** again. Hoo-boy, that one really didn’t age well. The weird dialog that seems ad-libbed, and literally _everything_ on that spaceship beeps, boops, clunks, grates, or otherwise makes an odd and annoying noise. Even the computer keys beep every time they’re pushed, and the info on the monitors appears with a sound like a telex machine chattering away. I remember it as being very gripping all those years ago. Today, not so much. ---
**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 28, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7730 "2023-10-28T15:09:30Z")
Some quick reviews from me from the past week: The Puppetman - skip it, boring The BogeyMan - skip it, boring Would You Rather - pretty good, though low budget kept them on one set the entire time. Not bad, though. The Strangers - rather dull, to be honest. Grim. Not worth your time. House of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie’s first movie. Kind of embarrassing and adolescent. The Devil’s Rejects - Edgelord. “Look how intense and morbid I am!” Not thrilling. Anyway, not a great week of movies for me. **Would I Rather** was the best of the bunch. Worth a stream on Hulu. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7731 "2023-10-28T15:12:13Z")
The noisy technology on Alien didn’t make any sense 40 years ago, either … so it’s not a question of aging well, it was just odd choices by Ridley Scott. ---
**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 28, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7732 "2023-10-28T16:40:10Z")
I think it just seems more annoying today than it did back then. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7733 "2023-10-28T17:43:50Z")
I watched the original 1931 **Frankenstein** yesterday. No doubt 5 stars adjusting for the period and being the granddaddy of the genre, but a lot of the fun was just spotting the bits brought forward in **Young Frankenstein**. Adjusting for age, it holds up well, with surprisingly fast pacing in many segments, but the final scene left me cold. ---
**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 28, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7734 "2023-10-28T18:16:35Z")
I actually prefer _Bride of Frankenstein_ for F-stein movies of that era. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7735 "2023-10-28T18:47:41Z")
_Alien_ is an all-time classic and a masterpiece in my opinion. Even with the hokey looking tech (these days anyway). ---
**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:** [October 28, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7736 "2023-10-28T18:55:04Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I actually prefer _Bride of Frankenstein_ for F-stein movies of that era. That’s actually a fairly common opinion, as you can see here: > **[Bride of Frankenstein | Reception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Frankenstein#Reception)** > > The film premiered on April 19 in San Francisco, California, at the Oprheum Theater.\[a\] The film went into general release on April 20. > Bride of Frankenstein was profitable for Universal, with a 1943 report showing that the film had by then earned approximately $2 million ($33.8 million in 2023 money) for the studio, a profit of about $950,000 ($16.1 million as of 2023). The film was critically praised upon its release, although some reviewers did qualify their opinions based on the film's being... ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7737 "2023-10-28T20:48:36Z")
We’re Elsa Lanchester fans, so **Bride** we will watch this weekend (already recorded from TCM). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/7738 "2023-10-28T20:57:13Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > _Alien_ is an all-time classic and a masterpiece in my opinion. Even with the hokey looking tech (these days anyway). I concur. The Nostromo is an oil rig in space for the love of og. The beeps, boops, clicks and clacks are supposed to be jarring. The audience member is not supposed to feel comfortable, they are not on a cruise. The job of the crew on this ship is uncomfortable, unpleasant and it’s about to get hella scary. Ridley Scott knows how to create atmosphere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=385) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=387)