# 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:** 94
**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:** [February 15, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1871 "2021-02-15T12:07:46Z")
**Space Sweepers** on Netflix. [To summarize what I said in the CS thread about it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-sweepers-on-netfix/932479/10): great visuals, terrible writing, _way_ too long. A film for when you’ve been drinking and can’t be bothered to get off the couch or worry too much about a coherent plot but want to look at pretty space things. **Sorry to Bother You** - There is a rather thick line between “profound social commentary on dystopian capitalism” and “weird shit that looks weird” and this film wobbles back and forth across it like a drunken cyclist. Sometimes it’s a comedy about a lovable loser who through luck and happenstance keeps falling upwards into situations he is ill-equipped to deal with. Sometimes it’s a commentary on how terrible people are and why we should despair for the future of humanity. Sometimes it just makes you go “WTF is going on?”. Weirdly, it still all works, as long as you can adjust to the different things going on all at once. Worth a watch if you’re in the right frame of mind. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1872 "2021-02-15T21:44:22Z")
Watched the first part of Sergei Bondarchuk’s 7-hour version of **War and Peace**. It seemed appropriate, being stuck here in the house surrounded by snow (and a welcome change from my usual surrounded-by-snow movie, David Lean’s _Dr. Zhivago_) Haven’t seen it in ages. I also re-watched the James Bond movie **For Your Eyes Only** , arguably the best one since Connery, and **Sky Captain that World of Tomorrow** , which I think was horribly underappreciated… ---
**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:** [February 15, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1873 "2021-02-15T22:19:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Sky Captain that World of Tomorrow** , which I think was horribly underappreciated… I don’t, and [this excellent summary explains why](https://evadne-noel.livejournal.com/6321.html). ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1874 "2021-02-15T23:14:06Z")
Decided to check out some of the more obscure Sherlock Holmes films out there over the weekend starting with these two: **A Study In Terror (1965)** - Sherlock Holmes hunts down Jack the Ripper. Pretty good horror film. It’s not aged bad at all given it was made almost 60 years ago about a real life murder spree that took place 80 years before then. **Mr. Holmes (2015)** - Hard to say a movie made just six years ago is obscure but I’ve never heard of this one nor the modern book it was based on. Story of an elderly (93 years old to be exact) Sherlock Holmes who now only has fleeting memories to look back on as he continues to deteriorate but there is something that continues to haunt him from the past that he must reach closure. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1875 "2021-02-16T01:13:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I don’t, and [this excellent summary explains why](https://evadne-noel.livejournal.com/6321.html). **De gustibus no disputandum est.** True words. I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1876 "2021-02-16T01:16:12Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > **A Study In Terror (1965)** - Sherlock Holmes hunts down Jack the Ripper. Pretty good horror film. It’s not aged bad at all given it was made almost 60 years ago about a real life murder spree that took place 80 years before then. A pretty good film, and, as far as I know, the first time anyone put The Great Detective up against Jack the Ripper. There have been countless examples since, including _Murder by Decree_, wher the late Christopher Plummer played Holmes (and which wasn’t as good as A Study in Terror). Intriguiningly, there was a novelization by Ellery Queen and SF author/editor Paul W. Fairman, which is also pretty 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:** [February 16, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1877 "2021-02-16T01:58:40Z")
Level 16. Low budget thriller, but I thought it was good. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1878 "2021-02-16T06:50:19Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > **Mr. Holmes (2015)** - (snip) Did you like it? I’ve got the movie on DVD but never got around to watching it. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1879 "2021-02-16T08:54:18Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > **Mr. Holmes (2015)** - Hard to say a movie made just six years ago is obscure but I’ve never heard of this one nor the modern book it was based on. Story of an elderly (93 years old to be exact) Sherlock Holmes who now only has fleeting memories to look back on as he continues to deteriorate Reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb sketch “Old Holmes”. Rivals Jurassic Bark for saddest bit of TV ever. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Pp02ubGuTIU/maxresdefault.jpg "That Mitchell And Webb Look - Old Holmes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp02ubGuTIU) ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1880 "2021-02-16T10:29:50Z")
It was fine. Didn’t hold much expectations but I came out enjoying it. Worth watching just to see a different more vulnerable side of the great detective. ---
**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 16, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1881 "2021-02-16T12:06:28Z")
I’m still rocking HBO/Max (I’ve been trying to get into Game of Thrones - I do watch it periodically, but I lose the thread … I digress). With the app comes access to Turner Classic Movies and I was able to watch _[My Favorite Year](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)_ (1982) the other day. Peter O’Toole is basically Errol Flynn and the estimable Mark Linn-Baker is the hapless Benjy Stone, the sap who’s charged with keeping the drunken Alan Swan on track. Great slapstick in a 1950’s New York City that looks like it’s painted on in the background. Recommend. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1882 "2021-02-16T14:05:51Z")
> [@Tusculan](#): > > Did you like it? I’ve got the movie on DVD but never got around to watching it. Although Ian McKellen is always great, I thought Holmes living long enough to witness the bombing of Hiroshima was pushing it. Also, I got the impression that author Mitch Cullin was trying too hard to be “literary”, and not be another of those Holmes fanboys. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1883 "2021-02-16T18:42:30Z")
I watched some crap called _Hereditary_. Dreck. Made little sense, featured Toni Collette (I cannot stand her), was just generally bad. I’ve been watching a whole slew of bad films lately. I really need to get out of the house more. > [@Gyrate](#): > > I don’t, and [this excellent summary explains why](https://evadne-noel.livejournal.com/6321.html). Goddamn, that was a tedious read. Whoever wrote that doesn’t have a leg to stand on to bag on the film. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1884 "2021-02-16T18:50:20Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I watched some crap called _Hereditary_ . Dreck. I never watch horror movies - I have absolutely no interest in them. I’d heard from horror fans that Hereditary was really good - one of the best horror movies of its generation. Are you a horror fan and disagree, or would you likely hate it regardless? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1885 "2021-02-16T18:56:24Z")
Well, there really wasn’t that much ‘horror’, just a long string of seemingly unrelated things that happen that may or may not make sense in the end. I just wasn’t impressed. Sure, it had some interesting camera work and visuals, but the story was pretty weak and it got tedious real quick. There is somewhat of a payoff in the end, but you really got to piece it together for yourself for anything else you just sat thru to make any sense. And some parts are just plain stupid. Eh, I’m hard to please with movies. I want Entertainment, Dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1886 "2021-02-16T22:46:44Z")
Watched _Into the Forest_ today. Highly implausable, but not a bad film if you accept the premise. Nice scenery and score. Time-line is a little sketchy. Not ‘bad’. The early scene with the Jeep? Actually very realistic. I gotta slam my hatch 4-5 times to get it to latch. So you see, it’s all the Jeeps fault! ---
**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 17, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1887 "2021-02-17T00:51:47Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I never watch horror movies - I have absolutely no interest in them. I’d heard from horror fans that Hereditary was really good - one of the best horror movies of its generation. Are you a horror fan and disagree, or would you likely hate it regardless? I am surprised to see it catch any negativity. It’s an amazing movie, though very depressing. It made my top movies of the decade list, so I clearly found it powerful. My list, if anyone cares to hear what I put on it, was this: Inception Silence Mad Max Fury Road Blade Runner 2049 Hereditary Avengers: Endgame I Saw The Devil Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Dredd The Force Awakens The Martian ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1888 "2021-02-17T05:31:01Z")
We watched [Jade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_(film)). Some of it, anyway. This was the first jump of David Caruso in movie stardom. But as an actor, he sucks. He can’t be convincing as a DA or an investigator, and we kept asking ourselves which one he was supposed to be. The action made no sense. None of characters were likeable. It was supposed to be ‘shocking’ but it was just dreck. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1889 "2021-02-17T09:17:53Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > This was the first jump of David Caruso in movie stardom. But as an actor, he sucks. He was fun in _Hudson Hawk_. Of course, his character doesn’t speak. ETA: He left _NYPD Blue_, where he won a Golden Globe, to make _Jade_, which earned him a Razzie nomination. Not the best of career moves. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/1890 "2021-02-17T11:59:09Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I watched some crap called _Hereditary_ . Dreck. Made little sense, featured Toni Collette (I cannot stand her), was just generally bad. We watched _Hereditary_ last weekend. Reading through IMDb Trivia and TVTropes pages on the film (as is my wont), I see that the biggest problem with the film is that getting it requires reading through IMDb Trivia and TVTropes pages on the film. There’s a lot going on that you have to already understand what you’re seeing to understand what you’re seeing. I didn’t enjoy it, really, and I’m not going to argue with your assessment, but I appreciate it more than I did right afterward. I will say, I’m very amused by the fan nickname for the film: _Her Head-itary_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=95)