# 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:** 500
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10000 "2024-08-24T15:35:52Z")
Fun fact: I have literally reserved a seat for my cello on an airplane. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10001 "2024-08-24T16:18:55Z")
Well that blows my next post for the: what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10002 "2024-08-24T19:22:07Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Watched **Man From Earth** (2007), a tiny-budget film adapted from a screenplay by Jerome Bixby (author of several Star Trek TOS episodes and the short story “It’s a Good Life”). > > A few college teachers throw an impromptu good-bye party for a departing colleague who (perhaps jokingly) explains that he’s 14,000 yrs old and has to move before people realize he doesn’t age. > > Grade: A-. An intelligent treatment of an inherently interesting concept. It does have a “filmed stage play” feeling, and the acting isn’t strong (possibly the director’s fault). A friend lent me his dvd of this film must have been shortly after it was released because it was ages ago. I quite liked it and found it an interesting concept. We watched a TCM move the other night to come down after watching the DNC – _People Will Talk_ with Cary Grant and Jean Crain. Weird movie. And it had incredibly (to me) high ratings on IMDB. First, it made no sense. Cary Grant is a doctor at a university, and Hume Cronyn (depicted by the script in the most stereotypically mustache-twirling villainous way – a real insult to Cronyn) is a colleague who is investigating and wants Grant ousted for never specified “methods.” Cary Grant has a constant companion who walks around like a zombie. Jean Crain is a young woman who is pregnant with her dead fiance’s baby (fiance was a reservist called up for the Korean War) and tries to shoot herself because the shame would kill her father. Grant and Crain fall in love _immediately_ and get married, like, two days later. And he tells her she wasn’t pregnant before, but it’s his baby?! Just a real muddle. And it was billed as a comedy! Nothing funny in it, although there were bits that you could tell were intended to be humorous. My sister apologized for taping it. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10003 "2024-08-24T19:27:09Z")
It was Jean Crain night on TCM, so we’d also recorded _The Matchmaker and the Model._ Jean Crain is just not a good actress, but Thelma Ritter is a treasure. I really enjoyed this one. Ritter rightly has the most screen time. The script was tight and funny. Very little cringe. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10004 "2024-08-25T12:27:59Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Watched “The Union” > I swear it is what happens if you ask chat gpt to write a script for a spy movie with Mark Whalberg and Halle Berry > Beyond predictable, zero to be said for it other than it passed a slow Sunday afternoon. I just watched this last night. Categorized as ‘action/comedy’, there was action (surprisingly not particularly over the top), but not sure where the comedy was supposed to be (I guess the rom-com banter and some fish out of water training sequences?). I did like one discussion of what to do if one runs out of bullets, eventually followed by the standard automatic weapons that never run out of bullets. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10005 "2024-08-25T14:20:43Z")
Inside Out 2. It’s a movie, more or less. Has the Pixar label on it but not really a “Pixar” film, AFAIC. I was hoping that they would avoid the scheme of the first movie. The gang finds themselves in another part of the brain, has to figure out a way back, lots of standard adventures tropes (e.g., almost going over a water fall), etc. But, nope. They went there. The “Riley” side of the story was very generic. Pretty sad at times, in terms of lack of originality. Give it 1.5 Pouchys. (If you’ve ever been forced to sit thru that animated Mickey Mouse Club crap, you’ll know exactly what they’re making fun of.) The worst Pixar film I’ve seen. It’s the kind of thing that the old Pixar would have made fun of. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10006 "2024-08-25T15:54:23Z")
**Warcraft** Actively not recommended. Terrible. Boring. I was kind of shocked because: - I like movies more than most people - I like the fantasy genre This movie was boring and was completely disengaged and uninterested. Avoid. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10007 "2024-08-25T20:44:34Z")
**Jupiter Ascending** (2015) Disappointing. A bunch of good actors (Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne) fail to save a bloated and incomprehensible script. Kunis has a miserable life scrubbing toilets, until she finds out that she’s the reincarnation of some intergalactic queen, or something. Lots of people are trying to capture her for reasons that are not entirely clear. And of course it’s up to her to thwart the Big Evil Plan that threatens the earth. It’s meant to be a fun sci-fi romp, I guess, but it’s mostly just tedious. And there’s a long and weirdly incongruous scene in some sort of space DMV (featuring a Terry Gilliam cameo) that feels like it’s out of a whole different movie. There are some promising premises and impressive special effects, but none of it adds up to anything that seems to matter. I was surprised to see that this film is nine years old. I can’t recall ever having heard of it until very recently. I guess there’s a reason for that. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10008 "2024-08-25T21:25:44Z")
I was so hopeful for Jupiter Ascending; I may even have paid to see it in the theaters. It was, I think, that rare thing nowadays; an original film; not a sequel, prequel, part of a franchise or based on a comic book, etc. I try to support original films when they appear. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10009 "2024-08-26T02:08:05Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > **Land of Bad** starring Russell Crow and a couple of Hemsworths. > A good first half but it eventually devolves into a formulaic 1980s style commando flick. Or as I like to call it “Extraction 3” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10010 "2024-08-26T02:22:12Z")
I watched **Jackpot** on Prime with Awkwafina and John Cena. Basically a self-aware “Most Dangerous Game” meets “The Purge” comedy where in the not to distant future, Awkwafina unwittingly wins a new version of the Lottery where ticket holders can claim the prize by killing the winner before sundown. Your milage will largely depend on how much you enjoy Cena and Awkwafina play the same characters they always play. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10011 "2024-08-26T03:01:42Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Your milage will largely depend on how much you enjoy Cena and Awkwafina play the same characters they always play. I like them both, but I found Jackpot to be totally _meh_. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10012 "2024-08-26T15:12:36Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I like them both, but I found Jackpot to be totally _meh_. I thought it was better than meh, but not by much. Cute, funny, but neither as cute or funny as it could have been. I do recommend Quiz Lady from last year, starring Awkwafina. Hilarious, laughed all the way through. Awkafina is the straight man, so to speak. Sandra Oh is the wild and out of control one. It was a great subversion of expectations and both were great. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10013 "2024-08-27T00:14:14Z")
Caught **The Limey** (1999, dir. Steven Sonderberg) on Prime. An habitual criminal/convict flys from England to LA to find if there was foul play behind the death of his estranged daughter. Good critics’ reviews on Rot-Tom — it’s got some _Point Blank/Payback_ vibes, with the protagonist entirely focussed on his mission. Terrance Stamp is the protag, who looks to be in his 60s. Peter Fonda is the daughter’s LA boyfriend and is impressively shallow. Grade A-. Short film, well done, a few puzzling decisions. (Previously reviewed here 9 years ago by [Elendil\_s\_Hei](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently/699906/124)r) ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10014 "2024-08-27T00:25:51Z")
(Double post) ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10015 "2024-08-27T00:42:40Z")
**Borderlands** (2024). A passable light comedy, in the sense that it was sufficiently funny but not more that that. I have no knowledge of the video game so I had no expectations as to what the story should follow or what the world should look like, and maybe if I did it would have hit differently. As it was, I enjoyed it but it did not leave much of an impression. `//i\\` ---
**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:** [August 27, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10016 "2024-08-27T01:11:11Z")
I’m tell you, this movie was clearly shot as an R-rated movie and was taken from the director to re-edit it down to PG-13. I’d love to see its proper director’s cut. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10017 "2024-08-27T02:02:18Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Caught **The Limey** (1999, dir. Steven Sonderberg) on Prime. An habitual criminal/convict flys from England to LA to find if there was foul play behind the death of his estranged daughter. I haven’t seen that since it came out, but I clearly recall liking it, especially Terence Stamp. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/10018 "2024-08-27T02:16:30Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > **The Limey** (1999, dir. Steven Sonderberg) One interesting thing is that there are flashback scenes of Terrence Stamp’s character in this film which were all taken from scenes of Terrence Stamps’s character in the 1967 movie _Poor Cow_. ---
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**Ghostbusters: Afterlife**. Halfway decent. Not funny, though. Wasn’t trying to be funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=499) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=501)