# 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:** 183
**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:** [October 18, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3642 "2025-10-18T12:19:58Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I strongly recommend. > Friday the 13th is one of the films that established the slasher genre. It is, but boy does it basically suck. Mind you, the entire series is not very good. I think when I ran this series, I only really liked part 6 and part 10(uh, X). There were a few moments here and there aside from those ones, but I found Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street to be better series from the same time/era. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3643 "2025-10-18T12:57:24Z")
I agree Halloween is much better than Friday the 13th. Halloween’s narrative is more sophisticated and has better characters. Friday the 13th is basically see teenager then slash teenager. I enjoyed it more in college compared to today. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3644 "2025-10-18T14:54:02Z")
Pet Sematary 1989 Fred Gwynne, Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby On AMC _Sometimes Dead is Better_ I always enjoy this film. Fred Gwynne is excellent in the role of Jud. Midkiff is good as the father that slowly descends into madness. I didn’t like Denise Crosby in this film. She is so wooden and unlikeable. My grandmother had a similar cat named Blue Boy. Except his eyes didn’t glow. 😆 B+ ---
**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:** [October 18, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3645 "2025-10-18T18:22:08Z")
**Roofman** Somewhat recommended. I _slightly_ dislike the movie more knowing it was based on a true story, which I have to think has a much darker truth than this one. As it is, the movie is a pretty cute one about a criminal(though a nice one!) that escapes prison and tries to hide in a Toys R Us for as long as possible…while maintaining a life with a girl he is interested in. Channing Tatum is charming and Kirsten Dunst, as always, gives a great performance. She’s the best thing in this one, as it is easy to be sympathetic to her about how he is using her. Good one, not great. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3646 "2025-10-18T22:51:59Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I _slightly_ dislike the movie more knowing it was based on a true story, which I have to think has a much darker truth than this one. It sounds like the truth isn’t that dark either. > **[‘Shattered my whole world’: the wild story behind stranger-than-fiction drama...](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/14/roofman-movie-jeffrey-manchester)** > > Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst lead the acclaimed new comedy drama about an escaped prisoner hiding in a toy store and deceiving a local woman ---
**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:** [October 18, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3647 "2025-10-18T23:19:14Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > It sounds like the truth isn’t that dark either. Good, I hope so. I kept feeling like I was watching the cleaned up version of it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3648 "2025-10-19T00:56:12Z")
Pet Sematary Two 1992 Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards, Clancy Brown Mary Lambert returned to direct the Sequel It’s ok. The sequel is more gruesome and shocking. Clancy Brown is very good as the evil sheriff. Clancy’s sheriff is the most interesting character in the film. Furlong (Terminator 2) delivers another good performance. Btw in a chin off contest. Who wins Jay Leno or Clancy Brown? 🙂 C- ---
**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:** [October 19, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3649 "2025-10-19T01:06:10Z")
I wonder if I should go back. I think I only saw the two recent Pet Sematary movies. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3650 "2025-10-19T01:09:00Z")
The Pet Sematary films are on Paramount+ I still need to watch the remakes. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3651 "2025-10-19T01:09:07Z")
**Bram Stoker’s Dracula** Recommended. I had never seen Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula movie, so my wife and I watched it tonight. There is a lot to love, especially visually and with the stylistic editing. Everyone is really good in the movie…except Keanu Reeves, who appears to be terribly miscast in this movie. To make things worse, his hair goes greyish mid-movie, but it is inconsistently colored even with in scenes. Anyway, it’s pretty good and Gary Oldman is a great Dracula. It has a good score and there is just a lot to love with this movies style and visual presentation. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3652 "2025-10-19T13:17:19Z")
Fun (to me) fact: Some scenes were filmed in my neighborhood! ---
**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:** [October 19, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3653 "2025-10-19T13:34:31Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > Fun (to me) fact: Some scenes were filmed in my neighborhood Did they refurbish an old Toys R US? It looked authentic. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3654 "2025-10-19T13:41:34Z")
I’m not sure about the Toy R Us scenes, but there IS a shutdown TRU in a nearby town. The scenes they filmed in my ‘hood were with his character running through a suburban housing development. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the filming days were a big to do here. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3655 "2025-10-19T22:04:42Z")
**Good News** Highly recommended. Korean movie, English dub available and it streams on Netflix. It’s about a 1970 plane hijacking by Japanese Communists who want to take the plane North to Pyongyang…even though they did not realize the pilots would not know how to get to Pyongyang without a lot of help…which the hijackers can not provide. It’s mainly a comedy about people in stressful situations and how bureaucracy makes things difficult. I really liked it. I laughed more than I expected I would. I recommend checking it out, but at 2 hours and 10 minutes, it was 20 minutes or so too long. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3656 "2025-10-20T00:47:17Z")
**Frankenstein (2025)** It should be titled _Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein_ (this is a good thing). Go see this on the largest screen you can find. It’s a Netflix production, so it probably isn’t going to be in theaters very long. It’s a retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (did you know that according ti Wikipedia, there have been " _423 known feature films, 204 short films, 78 TV series and 287 TV episodes_" featuring some version of Frankenstein’s monster?). It is not exactly the Shelley original, nor is it based in any way on the classic James Whale film. It is, however, truer to the Shelley original than I’ve seen in quite a while. The pairing of Del Toro’s ability to portray the grotesque sympathetically, not shy away from horrific elements, and the beauty with which he imbues the most mundane scenes in his movies, the Frankenstein tale is a perfect fit to his direction. The cinematography is exquisite and should be appreciated on the biggest screen possible. The cast, particularly the Doctor (Oscar Isaac) and the Monster (Jacob Elordi) are perfect, Mia Goth also stands out in a smaller role as the love interest. At 2 1/2 hours, it doesn’t seem that long and there are not a lot of filler or expository scenes (or at least, the expository scenes are so well done they don’t seem like filler). Based on the fact that the Nuart theater’s Sunday afternoon showing was sold out (and the significant amount of applause for credits like Editor), I’d say this is going to be prominent title during awards season. I had a sad reflection as the credits rolled. With the recent attempt to franchise Universal’s monsters, including Frankenstein, this movie highlights how formulaic and pedestrian they are (yes, eve the good ones when compared to this movie). Wouldn’t it be wonderful if these studios would turn these films over to creative, innovative directors like Del Toro and give them a free hand. The sad thought is the impossibility of this happening. Even the best directors of franchise movies are hamstrung by the constraints they have to create under. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2025, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3657 "2025-10-20T08:21:25Z")
**John Candy: I Like Me** - a sad but fascinating documentary about a sad but fascinating man. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3658 "2025-10-20T09:38:30Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Wouldn’t it be wonderful if these studios would turn these films over to creative, innovative directors like Del Toro and give them a free hand. The sad thought is the impossibility of this happening. Even the best directors of franchise movies are hamstrung by the constraints they have to create under. They already gave Del Toro two big-budget franchises: the _Hellboy_ movies, and _Pacific Rim_, and they really, really wanted him to direct _the Hobbit_. The results were mixed, both commercially and artistically. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3659 "2025-10-20T14:02:57Z")
That’s one of my favorites, along with the original Salem’s Lot and Needful Things. The remakes of Pet Sematary and Salem’s Lot are awful. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3660 "2025-10-20T14:31:37Z")
**Wolfs** (2024) (AppleTV). George Clooney and Brad Pitt play “cleaners” (make embarrassing crime scene evidence go away) who are inadvertently assigned to the same case. It then gets complicated, and there are chase scenes and shoot-outs & stuff. (I wondered if the title was a nod to Mr. Wolf, a character in Pulp Fiction in the same line of work. apparently not.) Both leads bring considerable charm, and you might think this would be a fun action romp along the lines of the Ocean’s 11 franchise. But no. The plot is really thin and our leads mostly just scowl and snipe at each other. Weak. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3661 "2025-10-20T15:04:00Z")
**The Woman in Cabin 10** (Netflix, 2025) The RT’s scores are dreadful 28/32 (apparently the book is very good so everyone felt the film let the story down I guess) but my wife and I thought it was watchable. I’d recommend it for those desperate for a new cozy date night thriller. I don’t ever need to see it again and no one _must_ see this ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=182) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=184)