# 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:** 488
**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:** [July 8, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9760 "2024-07-08T18:13:09Z")
I’m not sure a series would have enough material, not with the story in the trilogy at least, you could include things from the appendices and show what’s happening in Lorien, Gondor and other places when the Fellowship is not there, but even then you’ll have very little to work with. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9761 "2024-07-08T18:49:18Z")
A film we saw two months ago at the local _Programmkino_: > **[Gondola (2023) ⭐ 6.8 | Comedy, Drama, Romance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15289596/)** > > 1h 22m > **[Gondola | offizieller deutscher Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT5qA58RFMg%2F)** > > In den georgischen Bergen kreuzen sich zwei Gondeln. Die Blicke der Schaffnerinnen Iva und Ninotreffen sich. Ohne Worte verlieben sich die beiden ineinander.... It’s more of a fairy tale than a romantic comedy. The conductors the two gondolas of a cable line crossing a valley at a small town in Georgia [the country in the Caucasus] always meet in the middle, slowly fall in love while engaging in a competition of decorating their gondolas in ever more fantastic style. The IMDB entry says “Language: None”. That is _nearly_ correct: There is just one (1) word spoken in the whole movie, and that is an English abbreviation that has been adopted all over the world. It’s a feel-good movie. I enjoyed it so much that I even forgot that I am acrophobic. Unfortunately I found no references to the movie being distributed outside of Germany. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9762 "2024-07-08T22:14:58Z")
If you are interested, there is a cute and safe for work easter egg if you go to the website shown on the billboard in the new Beverly Hills Cop movie. [![](https://i.redd.it/gmnip0mkq7bd1.png) ](https://i.redd.it/gmnip0mkq7bd1.png) ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9763 "2024-07-09T02:43:10Z")
Zombieland 2009 Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone Rule number one for surviving Zombieland: Cardio The second rule: the Double Tap I needed ro laugh tonight. Lots of Zombies and one Bill Murray were harmed in making this movie. Best Road trip movie, ever. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9764 "2024-07-09T09:17:57Z")
My daughter is now old enough to watch **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** and so we did, nearly four decades after the last time I saw it. Firstly - this is the first time I’ve seen it at home and so I finally heard a lot of the dialogue that got shouted over in the cinema. Secondly - I’d forgotten just how many songs there are in it. They’re practically back-to-back throughout. Hell, you could set the few talky bits as recitative and it’d be an opera. Thirdly - Tim Curry remains awesome, but I’d also forgotten how often he looks straight at the camera. It’s quite striking. Fourthly - Damn but Charles Gray looks like he’s having way too much fun. Fifthly - I had to spend a _lot_ of time explaining various cultural references to my daughter. That she didn’t know the sci-fi films mentioned in opening number is to be expected, but “Who’s Meatloaf?” really **hurt**. I am old… ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9765 "2024-07-09T09:22:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > but I’d also forgotten how often he looks straight at the camera. It’s quite striking. Breaking the fourth wall is something I grew up with in a lot of British TV, and I’m sure plenty of US stuff too, so I find it surprising how now it’s considered unusual and notable. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9766 "2024-07-09T09:27:40Z")
But unlike the Narrator who is speaking directly to the audience, Frank does it when he is apparently addressing the others in the room with him. It’s very much a wink-wink move. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9767 "2024-07-09T10:56:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > My daughter is now old enough to watch **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** and so we did, nearly four decades after the last time I saw it. _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_ is a movie that defies all genres and leaves one mystified as to whether to regard it as a work of genius or a movie that’s “so bad, it’s good”. Or maybe both. Who knows! All I know is that it’s lots of fun, and the music is great. “Science Fiction Double Feature” is one of my favourite tunes in it. I haven’t seen it in years but I think it may be time for a re-watch! Consistent with the oddity of this strange film is that the same director and writer produced a sequel called _Shock Treatment_ that was really terrible (I don’t think I’ve even seen it, just heard about its terribleness). _Rocky Horror_ was one of a kind. .You can’t make a one-of-a-kind into a franchise. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9768 "2024-07-09T16:19:43Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Zombieland 2009 Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone It’s sequel is terrific, too. Both are kind of overlooked great comedies. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9769 "2024-07-09T16:26:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > My daughter is now old enough to watch **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** and so we did, nearly four decades after the last time I saw it. Watching TRHPS is a Halloween tradition in our house. As a father, I do try to … minimize some of the shoutbacks, but sometimes, you just can’t help yourself. The line “Meatloaf for dinner again?” is used year round. Oh, and one of the few remaining outdoor theaters is in my neck of the woods. Their last show of the season is usually Rocky Horror. Great thing about the outdoor - you can shout _and_ hear the lines! ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9770 "2024-07-09T20:50:10Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I needed ro laugh tonight. Lots of Zombies and one Bill Murray were harmed in making this movie. Isn’t this a pretty big spoiler? ---
**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:** [July 9, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9771 "2024-07-09T21:51:53Z")
I think it’s well known now that Bill was in the movie. I didn’t say what he does or what happens. Having Bill in a comedy makes all the cast funnier. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9772 "2024-07-10T04:48:31Z")
**Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F** (2024). As many have already noted this is a good action comedy that really plays a lot on nostalgia factor. In a sense it is a lot like Top Gun: Maverick in that it follows all the main beats of the original just updated for today’s world. Unlike Top Gun, there isn’t really an attempt to make the stars appear to be the same as they were in the original. They have clearly aged and have to deal with those issues as well. Even the villain is of the same age as the heroes. What is clear is that everyone is having a good time making this movie and I enjoyed watching it. I do not know if it is worth a re-watch, though I would not object to one. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9773 "2024-07-10T19:14:50Z")
> [@icon](#): > > What is clear is that everyone is having a good time making this movie and I enjoyed watching it. For any reboot, this is key. It’s all nostalgia anyway so make it a happy memory to go back to. I had planned on seeing this anyway, but your review pushed this to the top of the queue. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9774 "2024-07-10T19:28:16Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I think it’s well known now that Bill was in the movie. Is it? I was surprised. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9775 "2024-07-10T21:34:49Z")
I’ve just given up on **Axel F** partway through - it’s a little _too_ dependent on 1980’s nostalgia, and it’s like watching a tribute act of itself. But that’s just me. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9776 "2024-07-10T22:10:27Z")
The music in the first 30 minutes was almost ridiculously laid in there. I forget the names of the songs(not the Axel F theme, which I expect), but they dumped a couple songs from the other movies right in there and it did not feel natural. I suspect producer interference. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9777 "2024-07-10T22:13:12Z")
“The Heat Is On”, “Neutron Dance”, and “Shakedown” all feature. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9778 "2024-07-11T09:22:38Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Is it? I was surprised. Is there a time limit on spoilers on absolutely obvious things, like a famous person being sixth of the cast list on imdb? If so, I’d say 15 years was enough for that. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2024, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/9779 "2024-07-11T10:26:36Z")
I don’t know that there’s a general rule, but I agree with you on this movie, and I’m one of those people who tends to get pissy about spoilers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=487) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=489)