# 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:** 418
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8360 "2024-01-10T22:26:10Z")
Murray Hamilton played Mayor Vaughn in **Jaws**. He was still the Mayor in **Jaws II**. It’s important to vote, people! 🤣 That’s a good one! ---
**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 11, 2024, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8361 "2024-01-11T11:16:09Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > > > We also watched Pain Hustlers , Emily Blunt and Chris Evans as pharma sales people pushing opioids onto doctors , also based on a true story . Worth watching, and depressing because of the true nature of the story but not depressing to watch if that makes sense . > > Sounds interesting, I’ll have to give that one a look. > > It sounds vaguely similar to **[_Dopesick_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9174558/)**, a true story about Purdue Pharma and the tragedy of Oxycontin. Technically that doesn’t belong here because it’s a miniseries and not a movie, but it’s just so damn good and such a powerful drama that I had to mention it. It’s in eight parts of close to an hour each, so effectively a very long movie, but very highly recommended and worth every minute. Definitely see it if you get the chance. Finally got around to seeing **Pain Hustlers** (2023). A solid movie that tells a good if not especially profound story, well made and well acted. It lacks the emotional punch of _Dopesick_ and is thematically closer to _Wolf of Wall Street_, complete with some over-the-top scenes once the company becomes successful that seem to have been lifted right out of WoWS. Definitely worth watching, although I could do without some of the occasionally raucous soundtrack. Recommended. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8362 "2024-01-11T15:26:11Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Did you ever read the book _Jaws_?.. Saw the movie, but never read the book. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8363 "2024-01-11T17:31:24Z")
Didn’t miss much. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8364 "2024-01-11T17:46:54Z")
The Lost Daughter Great film > **[The Lost Daughter (2021) ⭐ 6.7 | Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9100054/)** > > 2h 1m | R ---
**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 11, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8365 "2024-01-11T22:21:38Z")
Tried to watch **Joe Kidd** , the old Eastwood oater. El stinko. ---
**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 11, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8366 "2024-01-11T22:42:08Z")
[The Goonies (1985)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_goonies) came out when I was in college, so it was just never in my wheelhouse. I finally watched it the other day and … oh my god … what a shitty movie. Wasted casting - Joey Pants looks like he was really phoning it in and I’m convinced that Anne Ramsey has only ever been cast because she’s hideously ugly and no other reason. And - I’m sorry - but Corey Feldman and that kid who played Chunk are the worst over-actors I have ever seen on screen. Full disclosure, I bailed about an hour in. I didn’t figure it was going to get any better. I don’t get the love for this turd. It doesn’t even capture any of the adventurous feelings of other youthful movies or other Speilberg movies (he produced it). Cannot recommend. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8367 "2024-01-11T22:52:23Z")
It’s one of those “you had to be there” movies, it has been visited by the suck fairy, heavily. ---
**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 11, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8368 "2024-01-11T23:04:39Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I finally watched it the other day and … oh my god … what a shitty movie. It absolutely is one of those movies that, if you grew up with it, and were its target market back then, it transcends objective assessment. I am the exact age it was going for, so I adore it. But I can see why most people dislike it if they come to it at another time. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8369 "2024-01-11T23:20:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Tried to watch **Joe Kidd** , the old Eastwood oater. El stinko. I watched it last year and kinda liked it okay. But my expectations were set low because 1970’s Western. But I think in the realm of 1960’s/1970’s Westerns it is sorta, kinda okayish (a low bar to clear). I mean it’s no Little Big Man or Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, but I’d rather watch it than Barquero or Two Mules for Sister Sara. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8370 "2024-01-11T23:37:28Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I finally watched it the other day and … oh my god … what a shitty movie. Ha ha! Now I am the only person of our generation who has not seen it! ---
**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 11, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8371 "2024-01-11T23:44:48Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Now I am the only person of our generation who has not seen it! Nuh uhhhh. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8372 "2024-01-11T23:48:38Z")
Okay. Sounds like we both win. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8373 "2024-01-12T01:12:41Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > [The Goonies (1985)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_goonies) came out when I was in college, so it was just never in my wheelhouse. I finally watched it the other day and … oh my god … what a shitty movie. … > Full disclosure, I bailed about an hour in. That was before they got into the caverns with the clues and traps? You bailed before it got great. That film is a true golden classic. ---
**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 12, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8374 "2024-01-12T05:05:07Z")
**Saltburn** (2023). One hallmark of a talented creative filmmaker is the ability to make a great film that is so completely different in tone and character from a previous one. This is another triumph for Emerald Fennell, though it doesn’t achieve nearly the same heights and emotional impact of _Promising Young Woman_, a Best-Picture Oscar nominee that is admittedly a very high bar to compare anything to. The first half-hour or so is basically setting the stage, and planting clues along the way that will blossom in due course. One may well wonder where this movie is going at this point, but things start to develop quickly if somewhat inexplicably at first once the protagonist arrives at Saltburn, a massive English country estate inhabited by apparent misfits. I don’t understand what the director thought she was achieving by filming in the old 1.37:1 aspect ratio. ---
**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 12, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8375 "2024-01-12T05:08:04Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I don’t understand what the director thought she was achieving by filming in the old 1.37:1 aspect ratio. 1.33, and she likes a face to fill the whole screen apparently > **[“The Crueler My Friends Are, the Funnier I Think They Are”: Emerald Fennell...](https://filmmakermagazine.com/123745-interview-emerald-fennell-saltburn/)** > > Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. ---
**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 12, 2024, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8376 "2024-01-12T05:21:57Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > 1.33, and she likes a face to fill the whole screen apparently No, it really is 1:37:1. 1.33:1, or 4:3, is the old television aspect ratio. 1.37:1 is the so-called “academy” aspect ratio that was used in film for many decades. It’s just a little bit wider than 4:3. Interesting interview with Fennell, thanks for the article! Reading Fennel’s rationale for using the old academy aspect ratio, I have to agree with her. She talks not just about faces (which this movie has innumerable close-ups of) but about the imposing vertical structures of the estate. She’s right – not everything is better in widescreen. ---
**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 12, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8377 "2024-01-12T05:53:43Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > No, it really is 1:37:1. > > 1.33:1, or 4:3, is the old television aspect ratio. 1.37:1 is the so-called “academy” aspect ratio that was used in film for many decades. It’s just a little bit wider than 4:3. Well, this is a tangential discussion , but: No, it really is 1.33. Emerald Fennell says it’s 1.33, and there are like a dozen articles or Reddit threads talking about the 1.33. Here’s an article from American Cinematographer talking about it, and another from World of Reel. [https://theasc.com/articles/saltburn-weaving-a-web-of-obsession](https://theasc.com/articles/saltburn-weaving-a-web-of-obsession) > **[First Look: Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn,’ Shot in 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio — World...](https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/8/29/1u498uu0sl9p63q7nqbxjadb9mxxmi)** > > A trailer for “Saltburn” will be released tomorrow, but before that happens we have a Vanity Fair exclusive with our first images of Fennell’s highly anticipated film. > Having tested a number of different aspect ratios during prep, Sandgren decided that the interior compositions he and Fennell were after ultimately warranted the use of a near-square format. They therefore made the atypical decision to capture _Saltburn_ in 1.33:1. “Emerald wanted it to feel like we were looking into a dollhouse or an old-school TV and watching the characters inside,” Sandgren says. > > The rooms in the Saltburn estate are themselves square and tall, so shooting 1.33:1 facilitated fuller views inside. ---
**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 12, 2024, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8378 "2024-01-12T06:16:51Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > No, it really is 1:37:1. > > > > 1.33:1, or 4:3, is the old television aspect ratio. 1.37:1 is the so-called “academy” aspect ratio that was used in film for many decades. It’s just a little bit wider than 4:3. > > Well, this is a tangential discussion , but: No, it really is 1.33. Emerald Fennell says it’s 1.33, and there are like a dozen articles or Reddit threads talking about the 1.33. This is one of those nitpicks that’s perfect for the SDMB! 😁 The first article you linked, and others, talk about _Saltburn_ being filmed in **[the Academy aspect ratio, which is indeed 1:37:1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_ratio)** (technically, 1:375:1). We can continue to post competing contradictory links, but I have here the certified results of the Wolfpup Masking Tape Test. 😉 To wit, I placed a piece of masking tape on one edge of the _Saltburn_ video image, and then played an image from a 1:33:1 TV sitcom. The TV image was narrower – not by much, but just about enough to account for the different between 1.33 and 1.37. Of course it’s possible that some other artifact accounts for this difference, but I rather suspect that the “1:33” number is being bandied about because it’s the familiar old TV format that everyone associates with the square-ish 4:3 image. I might be more inclined to believe 1.33 as exact if the film had been shot in video, but my understanding is it was shot in conventional 35mm. ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8379 "2024-01-12T13:14:18Z")
I mean, the director and the DP have both literally described it as 1.33:1, but sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=417) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=419)