# 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:** 475
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9500 "2024-06-02T03:36:01Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I didn’t even get what the reference there was until I read about it afterwards. Well I sure did. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9501 "2024-06-02T03:52:24Z")
I got the impression from previews that _Fall Guy_ was different from the tv show. I appreciate the tip to watch closely at the end. _Kiss the Girls_ 1997 Morgan Freeman Watched tonight. Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider are free on Paramount+. I thoroughly enjoyed Kiss the Girls. I’m a fan of Morgan Freeman anyhow. This movie has higher stakes because there’s so many kidnapped women. Sometimes you need to ignore negative online reviews. Kiss the Girls is a well made thriller. Maybe a bit low key. But Cross is a Psychologist and a DC detective. He is thoughtful and professional in solving the case. I would be disappointed to see him turn into a wild eyed, vengeful character. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9502 "2024-06-02T03:55:08Z")
I caught _Dune Part 2_ last night. Fantastic! Cinematography is amazing! Great performances. I can’t wait to watch it again. I’d even forgotten half of the shit fro the book and from Part 1. Recommended. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9503 "2024-06-02T06:02:43Z")
I watched _Chinatown_ last night. I’d never seen it, and it’s been on my list for ages. Very well done, although there were some subplots that were both unnecessary and distracting from the main “corrupt insider” plot. Maybe someone could explain to me why the water was being released at night (to make the drought worse?). Since it was suggested as a movie I would like after watching _Chinatown_, I re-watched _Three Days of the Condor_ tonight. I’ve always thought it was an excellent movie, and a great example of 1970’s anti-government filmmaking. It really holds up after all these years, with a great plot, acting, and beautiful, gritty cinematography. Redford’s paranoia is extremely well done. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9504 "2024-06-02T09:57:07Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Is there any connection to the _Fall Guy_ tv series? It’s about a stunt guy named Colt Sievers who has to use his stunt guy powers to take down some bad guys. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9505 "2024-06-02T11:47:23Z")
A little nostalgia never hurts. The name and profession is similar enough to get my demographic interested. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9506 "2024-06-02T11:52:21Z")
Oh, it’s a lot of fun. And not remotely to be taken seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9507 "2024-06-02T13:07:25Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > why the water was being released at night (to make the drought worse?). Yes, to exacerbate the effects of the drought, and it was at night so people wouldn’t discover that the water was being released. The endgame was to force the farmers to sell their land cheaply, because it could no longer be irrigated. > **[Chinatown (1974 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)#)** > > Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne. The film stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. It was inspired by the California water wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century, by which Los Angeles interests secured water rights in the Owens Valley. The Robert Evans production, released by Paramount Pictures, was Polanski's last film in the United States and features many ele ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9508 "2024-06-02T15:36:50Z")
**Godzilla Minus One** is now streaming on Netflix. Excellent, involving story. Fine performances. Eye-popping special effects. Recommended for all fans of the Big Scaly Guy. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9509 "2024-06-02T18:17:14Z")
_Forever Young_. Nope, not the Mel Gibson one. This [one](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15321508/). An older couple are faced with a lot of hard decisions when a longtime friend offers a fountain-of-youth elixer. Not really sci-fi-ish. Lots of stuff about decisions, the consequences of decisions, etc. Maybe all these ideas have been explored in other movies on the topic, but not put together this way. Small, good cast. Well made. Well plotted out. Better than okay but not great. Give it 4 cellos. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9510 "2024-06-03T16:31:42Z")
Another documentary: [_Jim Henson Idea Man_.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19308034/) (Note that there is some confusion about there being a colon in the title. The opening credits do not include one. This seems to be a trend in bios.) A Ron Howard film under Disney. Um, how do I put this. OMG, the editor needs to be institutionalized! Egad, etc. Long chunks of it have a cut every 1-2 seconds and sometimes faster. Keep in mind that most of the shots are of Muppets and such which are hard to visually parse. My brain could not handle such a visual overload. Some gaps here and there (esp. on the Frank Oz early days with Henson), some timeline screwups (at one point they go from the mid 1950s to 1968), etc. Hard to keep people straight. They put up text describing a Henson as a producer or some such. But they are actually a kid talking about the family and not producing. Why? So, not at all enjoyable as it could have been. Give it 1.5 ping pong (registered TM) balls. ---
**Author:** ![SlipperyPete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@SlipperyPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlipperyPete)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9511 "2024-06-03T21:11:18Z")
**Wicked Little Letters** An interesting story, but I found it quite predictable. Based on a real event, so points for that I guess, but I didn’t love the movie. The two main actresses, Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley, were very good. **Civil War** Good movie, but not at all what I expected. It was a bit frustrating watching this movie if you want to know what the war is about, who is fighting who, what are the political issues dividing the country? You can kinda figure that the president is an authoritarian figure, maybe a bit Trumpish, but the rest is a mystery. The heart of the story is the journalists covering the war on the front lines, and looking for those perfect shots that capture the moment. Kirsten Dunst plays a veteran who takes a young photographer, Jessie, under her wing as they have some crazy encounters with soldiers and other journalists. I found it a little stupid and unrealistic just how entrenched the photographers got with the soldiers, as they were literally running next to the guys at the front of the attack, breaching the barriers into D.C. and even barging into the White House before any of the attacking forces are even there. If you can suspend disbelief and go with it though, it’s a good watch, just very different than I expected. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9512 "2024-06-03T21:19:29Z")
**Atlas** was entertaining in a video game kind of way. The best parts are where the techno-phobic heroine is trying to get things to work without giving an AI all of her information. Very relatable. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9513 "2024-06-03T21:50:52Z")
**The Blues Brothers** (1980) Thirty-five minutes into it and I can’t take any more. Not one chuckle. Has John Landis done _anything_ good? ---
**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:** [June 3, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9514 "2024-06-03T21:53:34Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Thirty-five minutes into it and I can’t take any more. Not one chuckle. Has John Landis done _anything_ good? I like Three Amigos and Oscar. The rest, nope. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9515 "2024-06-03T22:08:26Z")
The best thing about blues Brothers are the performances by the actual real legendary musicians: James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles scenes are fantastic. And that’s really all there is, plus car chases. With one exception: John Belushi‘s list of excuses and alibis given to Carrie Fisher is memorable And famously quote-worthy. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9516 "2024-06-03T22:21:38Z")
_Out of Sight_ 1998 George Clooney. Jennifer Lopez I liked the sexual tension between the criminal (Clooney) and Cop figure (Lopez). I usually don’t like movies featuring anti-heroes. But Clooney is so likeable and even Lopez finds him charming. Good movie. Recommended ---
**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:** [June 3, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9517 "2024-06-03T22:26:21Z")
That has one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie — the robber who kept tripping on the stairs. Don’t judge me. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9518 "2024-06-03T22:29:50Z")
There’s a lot of comedy in Out of Sight. The robbers are sometimes so inept. Humor adds a lot to the movie. Imagine that a robbers car won’t start. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9519 "2024-06-03T23:14:15Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > **The Blues Brothers** (1980) > > Thirty-five minutes into it and I can’t take any more. Not one chuckle. Has John Landis done _anything_ good? Were you watching the directors cut? Theatrical is slow, but the directors cut slows it down quite a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=474) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=476)