# 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:** 429
**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:** [February 1, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8580 "2024-02-01T01:19:43Z")
**The Beekeeper** Not recommended. Jason Statham is fun in most movies, but he has nothing to do in this movie and this movie was boring almost all the way through. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, very much a movie that gets dumped in January because it basically sucks. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8581 "2024-02-01T01:41:02Z")
Thanks for the heads up. The premise (a badass going ballistic on telephone scammers) sounded enticing. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8582 "2024-02-01T01:46:07Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Thanks for the heads up. The premise (a badass going ballistic on telephone scammers) sounded enticing The trailer looked great and this is kind of Statham’s attempt at a John Wick movie. But no, not well made. Very generic. Nothing to see here. I just looked and saw Rotten Tomatoes has it at 69% positive. I’m kind of surprised. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8583 "2024-02-01T01:51:41Z")
A lot of people want to see telephone scammers die, and die, and die some more. Maybe the movie is a cathartic release? ---
**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:** [February 1, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8584 "2024-02-01T02:15:59Z")
Oh, rats. I was looking forward to this. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8585 "2024-02-01T22:33:21Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > My favorite Wes Anderson film is The Royal Tenenbaums. Thanks again for reminding me of this. Despite being a Wes Anderson fan, this is a classic that had somehow fallen through the cracks and I never got to see. Watched it last night and it was thoroughly enjoyable! I have to say, though, that it has not displaced _Grand Budapest Hotel_ from the #1 spot in my estimation of Anderson’s films, nor _Moonrise Kingdom_ from the #2 spot. All three of those movies tell an artfully crafted story, although the story in _Tenenbaums_ is rather wonderfully and insanely convoluted! 😃 The last time I accidentally ignored a classic gem, it was the hilarious _Office Space_ (1999) written and directed by Mike Judge. I became the subject of a certain amount of ridicule from certain posters here who I shall not name for admitting that I’d not seen or even heard of it 😉 . But it occurs to me that I probably **had** heard of it, and probably confused it with _The Office_, a TV series that had both British and American versions and earned the unique distinction – for me, at least – that I despised them both. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8586 "2024-02-02T00:48:41Z")
I haven’t been to a theater in forever, and was kind of thinking of seeing this one. Now I’m not so sure. It’s just that every so often I like a cars exploding, dire straits kind of movie. Way back that’s why I saw Die Hard at the theater. BTW, it’s NOT, NOT, NOT, a Christmas movie ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8587 "2024-02-02T01:02:29Z")
Furiosa might be a great pick for you. It’s kind of Mad Max 5, though featuring another character instead of Max. I am betting lots of great explosions and stuff. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8588 "2024-02-02T01:07:29Z")
I’m considering seeing _[Argylle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argylle)_ this weekend. It’s by Matthew Vaughn and I’ve enjoyed others of his movies. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8589 "2024-02-02T01:08:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > BTW, it’s NOT, NOT, NOT, a Christmas movie I cannot let this stand. The issue has been hashed out here in multiple threads. The director and screenwriters said it’s a Christmas movie and that’s that. Anyone who disagrees is a poopyhead; a nice poopyhead, but nonetheless, a poopyhead. 🥰 > [@Is "Die Hard" a Christmas Movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-die-hard-a-christmas-movie/675283/521): > > The other day on CNN, Jake Tapper [interviewed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3JUAW0t9Ls) author Jeremy Arnold, author of Christmas in the Movies: 30 Classics to Celebrate the Season, in which he argues that Die Hard is, in fact, a Christmas movie. That thread was started on the 10th anniversary of the first one. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8590 "2024-02-02T02:05:57Z")
**Return of the Living Dead** Highly recommended. My personal favorite zombie movie. Fun, funny, exciting. I kind of love this movie. It was made in 1985, but it feels like a more recent zombie movie. Everything about it is terrific and top notch and at 90 minutes, it’s just the right length. With so many zombie movies, many with the “living dead” type title, don’t let yourself miss this one. It’s a great comedic zombie movie. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8591 "2024-02-02T04:14:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’m considering seeing _[Argylle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argylle)_ this weekend. It’s by Matthew Vaughn and I’ve enjoyed others of his movies. I saw that one at a preview Q&A screening on Monday, it’s a lot of fun! Best to go in knowing as little as possible about the plot. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8592 "2024-02-02T15:23:42Z")
**The Good Shepherd** (2006), Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro and a whole hosts of Big Names spend 2 hours and 47 minutes on a fictionalized history of the early CIA. A meandering film which was EASILY 47 minutes too long, the most entertaining activity one can do during this film is figuring out which 47 minutes can be cut - the Angelina Jolie story? The Skull and Crossbones shit? The gay professor who turns out to be a compromised spy in WW2 London? Damon’s son and his arc? The Bay of Pigs sequence(s)? Trick question - it’s the Angelina Jolie stuff! Bonus in that it largely eliminates the Damon’s son arc as well. Directed by De Niro, it definitely had a kitchen sink quality to it as everything was thrown into this movie to try to get it to work. This wasn’t helped by the fact that it was produced by De Niro’s company (Tribeca) so there was a lot of “we really don’t want to tell the boss ‘no’” decision (non)making. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8593 "2024-02-02T16:36:41Z")
I like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but **Skyscraper** is not worth your time. Unless you enjoy tabulating how many other movies it’s ripping off. Stone waste of Neve Campbell. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8594 "2024-02-04T03:10:14Z")
**Game Night** Highly recommended. Watched this one 6 years ago, but didn’t remember it to well. Watched it with my wife tonight and it is amazing. What a great comedy with a lot of memorable quotes and big comedic moments. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8595 "2024-02-04T03:26:50Z")
Proof that IMDB (6.9) can be very wrong. Great film. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8596 "2024-02-04T03:29:52Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > I’m considering seeing _[Argylle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argylle)_ this weekend. It’s by Matthew Vaughn and I’ve enjoyed others of his movies. > > I saw that one at a preview Q&A screening on Monday, it’s a lot of fun! Best to go in knowing as little as possible about the plot. I saw Argylle today and it was fun. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8597 "2024-02-04T04:21:32Z")
I remember that too. Jesse Plemons steals it if you ask me. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8598 "2024-02-04T05:14:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I saw Argylle today and it was fun. I saw it yesterday (in IMAX no less!) and agree that it is fun if you aren’t someone who agonizes over enormous plot holes, numerous _deus ex machina_ occurrences, and impenetrable plot armor for many characters. So basically, turn off your brain, sit back and enjoy. All in all, I enjoyed it. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/8599 "2024-02-04T07:52:13Z")
I remember enjoying that film far more than I expected to as well. Genuinely funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=428) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=430)