# 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:** 483
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9660 "2024-06-20T17:26:37Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > We also got to see George Lucas being the smuggest person in history, while lying his face off about having written the whole backstory of Luke and Vader and Leia before filming Star Wars. Truly, he is a person I would pay good money to see fall in a mud puddle. I like me some good Lucas bashing, but whatever you think of Phantom Menace and it’s ugly sisters even I believe he had SOMETHING written for the characters on crumpled college ruled notebook paper stuffed in a Trapper Keeper even before filming the first Star Wars scene. A New Hope just feels like the middle of a story. I think that helped it’s popularity to be honest, it thrusts the viewers into this strange fantastic world from the start. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9661 "2024-06-20T17:38:09Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > If you like one, you should see the other. They’re both worth watching, maybe **La Jetée** after. Unfortunately while I promise I saw it for free on YouTube I cannot find the English CC version to save my life now only in Spanish. Maybe it was another service??? The spoken French version with subtitles and the English dubbed version are both streaming on the Criterion Channel, if anyone subscribes to them. But they rotate stuff in and out a little more than most services (or so it seems), so maybe don’t wait too long if you want to make sure you can watch it. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9662 "2024-06-20T18:30:08Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > he had SOMETHING written for the characters I also believe he had something written. I just think what he had written was what Obi-Wan said in the movie. Daddy Skywalker was a Jedi Knight, pilot and friend, who wanted Luke to have his lightsaber, and who was betrayed and killed by Obi-Wan’s young Jedi pupil Darth Vader. Not Daddy Skywalker was a Jedi who turned to evil, and who I cut to pieces and left to die in a lavaflow, who didn’t know you exist, didn’t know your sister existed, and BTW, here’s the lightsaber I took from his helpless fried chicken looking body. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9663 "2024-06-20T19:35:46Z")
We watched _Judex_, a French film last night. Judex means judge, and it’s an homage to a silent series from 1916. It was made in 1964, but was mostly believable as being in the older time period. Mostly, the women’s makeup and hairstyles were a little too contemporary. But it kept our interest and was a fun movie. The unmasking of who the Judex character was was a bit too easy to guess, but the actress who played the main villainess was fun to watch. She also spent about half her screentime running around in a black leoptard and tights which is very true to the early Feuillade series (serieses?). Although the body types were very different in movies from the early years. I’m a huge fan of all the Irma Vep movies going back to its original silent origins, so this was right up my alley. ---
**Author:** ![Hurrilon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@Hurrilon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hurrilon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9664 "2024-06-20T19:54:20Z")
The wife and I just watched Winter’s Tale. Slow to start, but a really nice twist ending. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9665 "2024-06-20T21:16:32Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > We also got to see George Lucas being the smuggest person in history, while lying his face off about having written the whole backstory of Luke and Vader and Leia before filming Star Wars. > [@Sitnam](#): > > I believe he had SOMETHING written for the characters There is a prologue to the Star Wars novelisation (first published in 1976) that hews pretty close to what happens in the prequels. Though it only really talks in general concepts, I can believe that there was much more laid out about the characters and storyline in his yellow ledger tablet. [![](https://external-preview.redd.it/5RcF8btUb5U56GueKDNGGEZb3O8-g4u1ray7kdC9yGw.jpg?auto=webp&s=6072faf4967935a3978889ed17ce88c5c3372f98) ](https://external-preview.redd.it/5RcF8btUb5U56GueKDNGGEZb3O8-g4u1ray7kdC9yGw.jpg?auto=webp&s=6072faf4967935a3978889ed17ce88c5c3372f98) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9666 "2024-06-21T02:48:08Z")
Tonight we watched a crime/suspenseful movie called [Wait Until Dark (1967)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Until_Dark_(film)). A really good movie. But there was one aspect of it that I couldn’t get out of my head: Hepburn’s appearance: she seemed so gaunt and malnourished. Way too skinny. Not sure what was up with that. ---
**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 21, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9667 "2024-06-21T03:01:35Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > A really good movie. But there was one aspect of it that I couldn’t get out of my head: Hepburn’s appearance: she seemed so gaunt and malnourished. Way too skinny. Not sure what was up with that. I never noticed. My main memory of that movie is that it contains one of the all time great jump scares. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9668 "2024-06-21T07:11:43Z")
A website about Hepburn’s thinness: > **[How Audrey Hepburn Maintained Her Famously Slim Figure](https://www.etonline.com/news/223903_how_audrey_hepburn_maintained_her_famously_slim_figure)** > > The actress nearly starved to death during World War II -- and her family says it probably contributed to her lifelong slim figure. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9669 "2024-06-21T15:29:40Z")
Seconded. **My Favorite Year** is a wonderful movie. - [_Alan Swann has blundered into the wrong restroom_] - [Lil](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224723/?ref_=ttqu_qu): This is for ladies only! - [Alan Swann](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000564/?ref_=ttqu_qu): [_unzipping fly_] So is _this_, ma’am, but every now and then I have to run a little water through it. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9670 "2024-06-21T15:50:15Z")
**The Killing Fields** , 1984 film with Sam Waterston and Haing Ngor, about the Cambodian civil war in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9671 "2024-06-21T16:08:49Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > A website about Hepburn’s thinness: > > [How Audrey Hepburn Maintained Her Famously Slim Figure | Entertainment Tonight](https://www.etonline.com/news/223903_how_audrey_hepburn_maintained_her_famously_slim_figure) Hey, that is the story I would stick with as well if I was in that family. There exist dark alternatives: “Yes, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) can lead to low adult weight. FAS is a permanent condition that occurs when a pregnant person drinks alcohol, and it’s the most severe form of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). FAS can cause physical and mental defects, including growth deficiencies that can last into adulthood” ---
**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 21, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9672 "2024-06-21T17:16:01Z")
**The Handmaiden** - (Streams on Prime right now) Highly, highly recommended. Essential. A perfect movie that earns a full 10/10 from me. I was completely entranced and blown away from this movie from the beginning to the end and not only do I recommend it to everyone, it’s an essential movie from the past 10 years. One of the best movies made in the past 20 years and the kind of movie that confirms I could _never_ do something creatively that equals it. I’m gushing and it deserves it. I think the essential thing is to go in completely blind. I thought this movie was some kind of interpretation or adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. Nope, not at all. It is entirely original, though there was apparently a novel it was based on. Just go in blind. Put away your devices for awhile. Enjoy one of the best movies out there. I loved this. I regret not seeing it sooner. I notice this came out the same year as Silence from Martin Scorsese. Not related in any way, but what a year for movies. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9673 "2024-06-22T00:31:10Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > > > A really good movie. But there was one aspect of it that I couldn’t get out of my head: Hepburn’s appearance: she seemed so gaunt and malnourished. Way too skinny. Not sure what was up with that. > > I never noticed. My main memory of that movie is that it contains one of the all time great jump scares. I saw it in the theater. And I screamed. Wasn’t it also the first one or two of Alan Arkin’s movie roles? He was so creepy. The only thing that I didn’t like was Audrey Hepburn’s babytalk (something she was prone to). “I’m a wowld champion bwind wady.” Maybe not _quite_ that bad, but not good. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9674 "2024-06-22T00:53:08Z")
I thought her acting was O.K. in it, but Alan Arkin _really_ stole the show. What a great actor he was. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9675 "2024-06-22T00:55:13Z")
Yes. He was _the_ best part of that movie. ---
**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 22, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9676 "2024-06-22T01:05:46Z")
**Inside Out 2**. Not quite as good as the first one, but still pretty good. Made my teenaged daughter cry a bit. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9677 "2024-06-22T02:19:58Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Wasn’t it also the first one or two of Alan Arkin’s movie roles? He was so creepy. Yes; his first big role being The Russians Are Coming. It seems odd and noteworthy now that the Maguffin in this movie is a quantity of heroin that the average street corner pusher carries in his pocket. The French Connection it ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9678 "2024-06-22T02:22:15Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **Inside Out 2**. Not quite as good as the first one, but still pretty good. Saw it today, and agree. It’s only flaw is that it’s too similar to the original — follows the same template, really (“hits the same beats” as they would say in the jargon). ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9679 "2024-06-22T10:32:08Z")
**The Outwaters**. I don’t post much on here, but watch a LOT of movies, and few give me much to add. But this one, I think I got off some top horrors of 2023 list, was one to avoid. A found footage film which makes little sense and you can barely see a thing. Avoid. Spends an hour being boring, then 45 minutes making no sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=482) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=484)