# 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:** 140
**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 17, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2781 "2025-07-17T12:52:31Z")
“Singin’ In The Rain” remains my favorite film for so many reasons. [![](https://i.gifer.com/PB99.gif) ](https://i.gifer.com/PB99.gif) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2782 "2025-07-17T12:57:46Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > Not sure there are any 80mm theaters left ☹ You’re absolutely right. There are no 80mm theaters. What’s more, there never were any 80mm theaters You meant [70mm](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/70_mm_film). If you want to know where you can see films in 70mm, here’s your best resource: [in70mm.com](https://in70mm.com/now_showing/index.htm). ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2783 "2025-07-17T13:11:00Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Gene Kelly relating his origin story and saying how he used to perform for his parents society friends when he was actually tap dancing in a pool hall… Cracks me up every time. It was a really good comedy and I didn’t even know it was one. That director losing his mind trying to get the girl to speak into the microphone. It’s true when sound movies were new, they hid the microphones in the set. Elocution lessons for actors were hilarious as well. Was Gene Kelly that much of a jerk to Debbie Reynolds during production? I’ve heard he was way too hard on her. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2784 "2025-07-17T14:22:58Z")
My bad - 70 mm..there are 3 in Australia no where near us but we are going to Melbourne in a few months so might get to see either **Ben Hur** or Pink Floyd - **The Wall.** Something is wrong with the first 4k disc of Lawrence - second disc was okay - wonder what warranty is on Steelbook 4k discs.? 🤔 I have a couple of defective discs I need to sort. Certainly was not overwhelmed with Lawrence on the new 55" …bit grainy in near field but very crisp. Satisfactory further away but I am still haunted by the 70mm experience in Hamilton Ontario when the refresh came out. I’ll spend some evenings going through the 4k collection. I know there is a defective box set of **Harry Potter** tho it is confined to a small section of all of the discs and can be played through. **Avatar** original was flat out not seen by the player and its a decent Panasonic. **Way of Water** tho was fine. 🤷 ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2785 "2025-07-17T14:25:31Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > The actor is Donald O’Connor. He made 88 films. I even think that his singing and dancing in the number “Make 'Em Laugh” isn’t just the best number in the film (yes, better than Kelly in “Singin’ in the Rain”). **It’s the best song-and-dance number in any film ever.** **I’d tend to agree** …O’Connor a step up over Kelly tho both wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2786 "2025-07-17T14:33:04Z")
I have a very specific cognitive disorder where I can’t tell if it is Donald O’Conner or Danny Kaye I am seeing on the screen. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2787 "2025-07-17T14:42:08Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > “…yyand I ceyyyaaan’t steyaaand him!” > > also “Moses supposes”. Dance schmance, what I really remember from that movie was the funny and intriguing “media revolution” aspect. What happens when today’s superstar just can’t manage the requirements of tomorrow’s entertainment genres? And.. “Why, I make more money than - than - than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!” Jean Hagen was a treasure. She died way too young. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2788 "2025-07-17T14:45:19Z")
I would laugh at you, except that I used to have the same affliction concerning Michael Keaton and Kevin Costner. And Seth Rogen / Jason Segel. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2789 "2025-07-17T14:46:33Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I have a very specific cognitive disorder where I can’t tell if it is Donald O’Conner or Danny Kaye I am seeing on the screen. There are a very narrow set of circumstances where that would be considered a disability. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2790 "2025-07-17T15:12:05Z")
I have the same issue with Toby Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal. [![](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Aqu3Cxjgmca7qbbjXqKbFg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQ5OA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en-AU/homerun/y7.yahoo7/e8750fefb4c7e3b7b419884dc2a699d7) ](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Aqu3Cxjgmca7qbbjXqKbFg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQ5OA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en-AU/homerun/y7.yahoo7/e8750fefb4c7e3b7b419884dc2a699d7) I look like Danny Kaye so that one not an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2791 "2025-07-17T15:26:51Z")
Well, damn. Danny Kaye was hot stuff, if you ask me. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2792 "2025-07-17T16:52:14Z")
He was the model for **Funnyman** , Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster’s follow-up to Superman: > **[Funnyman (comics)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnyman_(comics))** > > Funnyman is a comic book character whose adventures were published in 1948 by Magazine Enterprises. > After leaving DC Comics and suing that company in a dispute over the rights to their character Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster rejoined their former DC editor Vin Sullivan — who had edited the earliest Superman adventures — at his new company, Magazine Enterprises. > Siegel and Shuster's new creation, Funnyman, starred in a series that ran six issues (cover-dated Jan.–Aug. 1948). > In the fi... ---
**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 17, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2793 "2025-07-17T18:34:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > **Heads of State** - holy shit. A comedy-action-political thriller-buddy film starring John Cena as POTUS and Idris Elba as UK PM. WHY ARE YOU NOT WATCHING THIS ALREADY? Just saw it. Way over the top but doesn’t take itself too seriously and has lots of funny parts. Has enough stunts and exploding objects for half a dozen Bond movies. Highly recommended provided you’re willing to accept the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the UK as high-energy action heroes worthy of a Marvel movie, but the movie is such a fun ride that pretty soon you don’t care. ---
**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 17, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2794 "2025-07-17T21:45:00Z")
**Superman (2025)** Recommended. The last 40 or so minutes of this movie are terrific, top tier stuff. Just excellent. The opening 1+ hours? Well, pretty good. Not amazing, though. Just pretty good. So, uh, we are still using the Superman theme from John Williams? I guess…I mean, might be time to move on. Loved the new guy as Superman, though. Lex Luthor was also terrific, and Nathan Fillion was a fun Green Lantern character. Anyway, check it out. I hear people are seeing politics in this movie. I agree with Nathan Fillion who just said, “Come on, guy, it’s just a movie.” This was indeed just a movie. Nothing hugely political. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2795 "2025-07-17T22:04:32Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > _Was Gene Kelly that much of a jerk to Debbie Reynolds during production?_ Kelly once was quoted as saying that he was quite hard on her and that after making that movie he was surprised that she ever spoke to him again. She was just 19 years old when she made that movie. And she was not a trained dancer. Yet she held her own against Kelly and O’Connor. Can you imagine what it was like sharing the screen with two hoofers like that? It’s a wonder she didn’t have a nervous breakdown. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2796 "2025-07-17T22:52:43Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > _(O’Connor played) the hero in the virtually forgotten Wonders of Aladdin (1961. I actually saw this in the movies)._ So did I, in 1962, when it finally made its way to my neighborhood theater for the Saturday afternoon kiddie matinee. Admission 35 cents. (It was released in late 1961.) It was the first time I ever saw Donald O’Connor. I didn’t see the Francis movies until much later, when they ran on TV. I recall my 10 year-old self thought it was entertaining, but what did I know. I haven’t seen it since. Have you? Was it any good? It had an interesting cast. I’d be curious to watch it again. It doesn’t seem to be available for free anywhere, and I’m not paying Amazon Prime to watch it. I have a poster from it in my collection. It’s very colorful and looks like fun. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2797 "2025-07-17T23:21:21Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I recall my 10 year-old self thought it was entertaining, but what did I know. I haven’t seen it since. Have you? Was it any good? I don’t precisely recall. I was about ten when last I saw it, too. I have the Dell comic adaptation, though, which I re-read multiple times. There are bits and pieces of the film I recall with greeat clarity, and a big stretch I can’t recall at all. It was OK, I guess. O’Connor, at about 35, was a bit old for an Aladdin (I think he’s the oldest one I can think of). For some reason, there were a lot of Arabian Nights movies at that time – the second remake of _Thief of Bagdad_, Ray Harryhausen’s _Seventh Voyage of Sinbad_, Guy Williams’ _Captain Sinbad_, The UPA/Mister Magoo _1001 Arabian Nights_. I guess they figured they hit a rich vein, and they couldn’t all be Hercules movies. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2798 "2025-07-17T23:53:03Z")
Public domain source material is always a good choice. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2799 "2025-07-18T00:00:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > _For some reason, there were a lot of Arabian Nights movies at that time_ There was also a little movie made in 1960 called **“The Wizard of Baghdad,”** starring Dick Shawn (of all people) as the Genie, and co-starring young and very comely Diane Baker and TV actor Barry Coe. I remember nothing about it other than it was pretty silly and was released by 20th Century Fox, so there was a little major studio pedigree involved. Here’s what the _New York Times_ said about it: “For customers who will laugh at anything, including that singular unfunny man, Dick Shawn… the waste of energy, costumes and backgrounds is truly appalling.” Really? I always thought Dick Shawn was a pretty funny guy. Remember him in “The Producers?” Hilarious! He died in a most bizarre way. He had a heart attack on stage and fell over. The audience thought it was part of his act. When he didn’t get back up about five minutes later, somebody figured out this was no joke and called an ambulance. Many comedians die on stage. Dick Shawn did it for real. ---
**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 18, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/2800 "2025-07-18T00:15:58Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Really? I always thought Dick Shawn was a pretty funny guy. Remember him in “The Producers?” Hilarious! I’ve only seen him in Producers and Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and he is very entertaining in both. “I lieb ya, I lieb ya…now lieb me alone!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=139) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=141)