# Movies you've seen recently (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 27, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288 "2024-08-27T05:10:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 122
**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 9, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2421 "2025-06-09T01:13:54Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > As a fan of Jane Austen Have you seen this series? It’s about Jane Austen’s sisters after Jane’s death, based on a novel. > **[Miss Austen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Austen)** > > Miss Austen is a four-part historical television series. It stars Keeley Hawes and Jessica Hynes. It is an adaptation by Andrea Gibb of the novel Miss Austen by Gill Hornby. Aisling Walsh directed the series, while Stella Merz produced for Bonnie Productions and Masterpiece. > In year 1830, Cassandra Austen, the sister of late Jane Austen, visits the family Fowle, when Reverend Fowle is dying, and promises him to help his daughter Isabella find a new home. Additionally, she looks for the letter... ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2422 "2025-06-09T03:42:44Z")
I enjoy Chris Evans and Ana De Armas is luscious but this one just too treacle loaded. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jCGTRg-T5vE/maxresdefault.jpg "Skydance | Ghosted | Full Trailer (2023)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGTRg-T5vE) ---
**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:** [June 9, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2423 "2025-06-09T03:58:11Z")
This looks like a movie that it was more fun to act in than it will be to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2424 "2025-06-09T06:16:29Z")
Yeah, I saw **Life of Chuck** on Friday and also really enjoyed it! I had totally forgotten that I read the short story back in 2020. ---
**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 9, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2425 "2025-06-09T09:34:19Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > **Rust** Surprisingly, a competent chase western, with good performances and **really well shot**. The villains a suitably evil and the good guys a suitably ambiguous, It’s not going to change the fact the **the Western is dead** , but if you are an aficionado of westerns, it a good watch. (bolding mine) I know it’s not intentional but given the events surrounding the making of this film, the phrasing of this could be better… ---
**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 9, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2426 "2025-06-09T14:18:11Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Yeah, I saw **Life of Chuck** on Friday and also really enjoyed it! I had totally forgotten that I read the short story back in 2020. I’m pretty excited. I love the director and am I right this is non-horror? ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2427 "2025-06-09T14:20:10Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Have you seen this series? It’s about Jane Austen’s sisters after Jane’s death, based on a novel. Thanks. I tend to be a fan of an artist’s work, but don’t have the same level of interest in their life. In the case of Jane Austen, it is compounded by the wholesale destruction of Jane’s letters and other writings by her sister (who seems to be the protagonist of the linked series) which makes any deep insight into Jane Austen the person nearly impossible. Her sister’s destruction of her letters makes Richard Burton’s widow look like a piker. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2428 "2025-06-09T14:53:58Z")
Yes, it’s one of Stephen King’s sentimental non-horror short stories. Definitely had some of Flanagan’s stylistic touches, like slow push-ins on long speeches. ---
**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 9, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2429 "2025-06-09T20:42:35Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > it is compounded by the wholesale destruction of Jane’s letters and other writings by her sister (who seems to be the protagonist of the linked series) That’s exactly what the story is about. It attempts a fictional reason why she did it. Anyway, this is not the forum for TV, so carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2430 "2025-06-10T02:53:00Z")
Movie night: _The Color Out of Space_ (2019) featuring Nicholas Cage being Nicholas Cage. Um. Well, I honestly have no idea how to apply a rating to what I just watched. It ranks up there as one of the more disturbing/scary horror movies I’ve seen, and there’s plenty of fuckery afoot. Shades of _The Thing_ (_The Thing_ being, obviously, a vastly superior movie.) The Color itself is pretty, a nice fuscia purple. Ultimately it seemed like a lot of weirdness without a coherent narrative center, so while it scared the bejeesus out of me while I was watching it, I am not left with a lasting impression. It didn’t _mean_ anything. Also there were several references and allusions that were just dropped with no follow-up, and the movie seemed to have half a dozen climaxes so I wasn’t sure when it was going to end. Nicholas Cage was fine. I actually think the familiarity of Crazy Nick detracted from the sense of alienation that was supposed to be felt by the viewer. In a sense it was like, “Yes, we’ve seen this silly man lose his mind before.” I can only imagine what it’s like to watch that movie high. It was entertaining, but I can’t honestly say I liked it. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2431 "2025-06-10T02:58:32Z")
We watched Fountain of Youth. Couldn’t decide if it was ripping off Indiana Jones, The Mummy or National Treasure. We decided that it was ripping off all 3 PLUS The Da Vinci Code. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2432 "2025-06-10T08:48:32Z")
Yes - good list …over the top derivative only lofted by star power. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2433 "2025-06-10T12:20:29Z")
Did not have it sorted til the last 10 minutes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/s4Pg5xhcYy4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Glass Dome | Official Trailer | Netflix") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Pg5xhcYy4) ••••••• Quite the start :o [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/c69c1P-EURg/maxresdefault.jpg "The Survivors | Official Trailer | Netflix") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c69c1P-EURg) ---
**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:** [June 10, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2434 "2025-06-10T14:07:47Z")
Watched the first…10? 15? minutes of Electric State. Turned it off whenever Jason Alexander came screaming into the room. I’m not sure if my objection is different or the same as others, especially after giving it so little time, but it smelled so much of other movies, particularly the 80s, that I just wasn’t gripped or even interested. Maybe I’ll pick it up later. (subcategory: “Movies you’ve barely seen recently (Part 2)” ---
**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 10, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2435 "2025-06-10T14:15:36Z")
**Oceans** Recommended. More beautiful footage of our oceans, including some newly seen occurrences in nature, meaning newly filmed and discovered. As always, the Attenborough team of camera people gets the best footage. It’s sad to hear Attenborough clearly giving a farewell of sorts. He knows his life is near its end and while the destruction to our planet is depressing, he offers a hopeful outlook since certain protected regions of the ocean have bounced back much more quickly than expected. It comes down to “protect the ocean and it will heal itself”. David Attenborough always makes my list of celebrities I’ll be most sad about when they die. I hope he makes 110 and is still able to go out and at least do the establishing shots for more movies. If you want to be depressed, look up the Blue Whale population on earth the past 200 years. While it is bouncing back, it’s a very minimal bounce compared to former populations. Worth checking out, not much more impressive than any other special he has done. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2436 "2025-06-10T21:19:18Z")
Saw The Phoenecian Scheme. I liked it very much, though admittedly I am predisposed to like Anderson’s movies. While it definitely checks all the Anderson boxes, I found it a little more fluid and messy than many of his other movies. And I think that while superficially it pokes jokes at religion, it actually comes down as an argument for faith in redemption, or at least absolution. And that’s actually the hardest part of the movie, since the main character is such an amoral, corrupt, insanely wealthy businessman—he even matter-of-factly admits to personally engineering famines and employing slave labor! In our times, I am not inclined to sympathize with such a person. But perhaps even such people could be redeemed? In any event, I think this would be as good a place as any—better than some—to start with Anderson’s stuff if you have ever wondered what’s up with this guy. And now is a good time to see it, when it is in theatres, since it definitely benefits from being on the big screen with a good sound system—the original score is mixed loud and proud, and peppered with classical music (including a lot of Stravinsky). The more I think about this movie, the more I like it. Will definitely see again. > **[The Phoenician Scheme movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-phoenician-scheme-film-review-2025)** > > Buoyed by a traditionally spectacular ensemble, “The Phoenician Scheme” feels unlikely to be anyone’s favorite Wes Anderson flick, but it’s so easy to like that it’s equally difficult to hate it. ---
**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 10, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2437 "2025-06-10T22:17:54Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > And that’s actually the hardest part of the movie, since the main character is such an amoral, corrupt, insanely wealthy businessman—he even matter-of-factly admits to personally engineering famines and employing slave labor! In our times, I am not inclined to sympathize with such a person. But perhaps even such people could be redeemed? I agree that redemption of an amoral monster is the main theme of it (and the scene in which the Reverend Mother, having condemned the young nun for being too attached to worldly wealth, immediately solicits (and takes without qualm) a “donation” from said monster really throws that theme into sharp relief). > [@Hoops](#): > > And now is a good time to see it, when it is in theatres, since it definitely benefits from being on the big screen with a good sound system—the original score is mixed loud and proud, and peppered with classical music (including a lot of Stravinsky). Agreed - lots of _Firebird_ (my favorite Stravinsky piece) and some smatterings of _Petrushka_, plus a key moment of Mussorgsky’s _Pictures At An Exhibition_ for dramatic effect. Also: just to note that you don’t see a lot of side-scrolling end credits these days. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2438 "2025-06-10T22:27:03Z")
Just came back from watching Ballerina, the John Wick spinoff with Ana de Armas. Not quite as good as the John Wick movies, but certainly entertaining if you enjoy that type of thing. Recommended if you enjoyed the rest of the series. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2439 "2025-06-10T22:29:56Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > And that’s actually the hardest part of the movie, since the main character is such an amoral, corrupt, insanely wealthy businessman—he even matter-of-factly admits to personally engineering famines and employing slave labor! In our times, I am not inclined to sympathize with such a person. But perhaps even such people could be redeemed? I love redemption stories where the protagonist seems beyond repair. One of the reasons I would rank this one pretty highly. ---
**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 12, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2440 "2025-06-12T23:09:49Z")
Rewatched two older films that have held up pretty well over the years. **Zulu** , which was Michael Caine’s first starring role, and **Breaker Morant**. Both movies were based on actual events. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=121) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=123)