# 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:** 127
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2521 "2025-06-23T13:02:53Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > In my collection of movie posters I have a one-sheet from the 1961 reissue and there’s no mention of any widescreen modifications so they must have put it out in the original ratio that time. Or they just used the prints from 1954 to save money. MGM was on the skids around then. According to Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > The 1954 reissue was the first time the film was shown in [widescreen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen), compromising the original [Academy ratio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_ratio) and cropping the top and bottom to an aspect ratio of 1.75:1. In doing so, several shots were optically re-framed and cut into the three-strip camera negatives, forever altering five shots in the film.[[38]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#cite_note-43) That seems to leave no doubt that it was, indeed, in “widescreen”, whether MGM was “on the skids” or not. The footnote is to this reference: [Haver, Ronald](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Haver) (1993). _David O. Selznick’s Gone with the Wind_ . New York: [Random House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House). pp. 84–85. ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2522 "2025-06-23T13:24:12Z")
On DVD, I just watched **Doctor Faustus** , starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2523 "2025-06-23T13:49:29Z")
The last five minutes are great. The rest is a long haul in steerage. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2524 "2025-06-23T14:34:52Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Oscar Polk as the butler Pork, chasing down “the last chicken in Atlanta” for Ashley’s dinner. Nitpick: you’re conflating 2 characters (and I don’t know why I know this…). Pork worked at Tara. The “last chicken in Atlanta” was chased down by Aunt Pittypat’s Uncle Peter, played by Eddie “Rochester” Anderson. One of Pork’s few lines of dialog comes right after Scarlett returns to Tara post-war. He says “Who’s going to pick that cotton? We’s house workers.” The same line in the book was “…we’s house [n-words]”. The movie is cringeworthy but it could’ve been worse. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2525 "2025-06-23T14:54:52Z")
I thought it was a movie. Perhaps because it seemed interminable. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2526 "2025-06-23T14:56:52Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I tried to watch **FUBAR** , but it was awful right from the get-go. We just took a run at that, but bailed before we finished the first episode. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2527 "2025-06-23T17:48:37Z")
Because I’d never seen it, and because I’ve been under the weather and have some time to kill, I started up **Peter Jackson’s _The Hobbit_ trilogy** on Max or HBO Max or HBO or whatever it’s called this week. OMG, what a huge steaming pile. I’ve read the book a couple of times, but it’s been decades. My god, the amount of crap he piled into this story to make it into 3 movies is just ridiculous. I’m about half way through the second one; I virtually guarantee you I won’t finish. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2528 "2025-06-23T18:15:31Z")
I’m a huge LOTR nerd and love both the books and the movies…and I’ve never seen The Hobbit trilogy and probably never will. ---
**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 23, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2529 "2025-06-23T18:20:47Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > OMG, what a huge steaming pile. I’ve read the book a couple of times, but it’s been decades. My god, the amount of crap he piled into this story to make it into 3 movies is just ridiculous. I’m about half way through the second one; I virtually guarantee you I won’t finish. We love them even though they are a step down from LotR. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2530 "2025-06-23T19:45:28Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I’m a huge LOTR nerd and love both the books and the movies…and I’ve never seen The Hobbit trilogy and probably never will. This is a wise decision. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2531 "2025-06-23T20:32:29Z")
I enjoy the first one but yes it is drawn out and you can tell he wasn’t working with anywhere near as much original material as the LOTR stuff. The second, I think was ok but I’ve not bothered to see it since it was first released, which probably says it all. And the third… don’t even bother. Poor. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2532 "2025-06-23T21:31:45Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > _OMG, what a huge steaming pile._ Re: The Hobbit trilogy We watched these again recently after many years. Quite honestly, I couldn’t stay awake through any of them. Even the dragon didn’t wake me up. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2533 "2025-06-23T23:20:53Z")
If they edited down to just the parts that were in the book it would probably be a decent movie. It’s hard to think of another project that is as bloated as that trilogy. ---
**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 23, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2534 "2025-06-23T23:31:18Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > If they edited down to just the parts that were in the book it would probably be a decent movie. There are a bunch of fan edits out there, some intended to cut it down as close to the source material as possible, others intended to just remove some bloat. I haven’t watched any of them, but I will eventually pick one & watch it. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2535 "2025-06-23T23:42:15Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > Be excellent to each other. Party on, dude. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2536 "2025-06-24T02:31:49Z")
GWTW is one of my guilty pleasure movies. I like Scarlett (I like women _like_ Scarlett), enjoy that it got the feel of Atlanta right, own the Blu-Ray box set, and have a $75 GWTW book which contains all sorts of memorabilia from the film, including memos from Selznick to everyone about his vision of the film. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2537 "2025-06-24T07:30:54Z")
I reviewed my first full viewing of _Gone With the Wind_ earlier in this thread and from what I recall, I thought Scarlett was a right twat. She was the worst person in that movie, if you ask me. Just a user and a leech and feckless emotional abuser. Rhett did the right thing. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2538 "2025-06-24T12:28:00Z")
To be honest, the Carol Burnett Show parody of GWTW was better and far shorter. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2539 "2025-06-24T13:48:06Z")
“I saw it in the window and just couldn’t resist!” ---
**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:** [June 24, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2540 "2025-06-24T13:49:44Z")
I rewatched the first episode (“Arrival”) of the classic Patrick McGoohan series **The Prisoner**. Probably because I watched it in the summer when it was first broadcast in the US (As a summer replacement. And they brought it back the next year), this feels like the right time to watch it. Wonderfully weird an d inventive, and damned near timeless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=128)