# 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:** 187
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3722 "2025-10-28T14:16:15Z")
Gotta keep marriage fresh. That is also part of our evening, but since that has nothing to do with film I thought I’d leave it out. Horror and Torture do not lead directly to fun bedtime activities in my house, Thrillers do though. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3723 "2025-10-28T14:53:07Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Which also begs the question, who are all these assassins assassinating day to day to earn such a decent living. It’s why I can’t stand the films. It exists on some fantasy land where everyone (or so it seems) can hire an assassin, but that people who don’t want to _be_ assassinated don’t hire other assassins to take out the first assassins and/or the people that hired them. Or, when everyone is an assassin, who is growing the food/driving the taxis/making weapons/etc? But I have to disagree: > [@msmith537](#): > > **Bullet Train** on an airplane (which is basically John Wick on a train). _Bullet Train_ was clever and smart and convoluted, and the body count was actually pretty small, considering. ---
**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 28, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3724 "2025-10-28T15:41:12Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Ha! I came on here to say the same. I watched it yesterday afternoon. I enjoy horror, but I’m not a fan of slasher/gory movies. This was perfect. Eerie, spooky, scary. One of the best drowning scenes I’ve seen in a movie. I feel like the movie was more or less PG-13, but the drowning was traumatic. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3725 "2025-10-28T16:21:32Z")
My daughter was watching **The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe** last night. I never realized that Santa Clause was the one who handed out all the deadly weaponry to the children. Also seeing the ending in a post-GOT context after the children are crowned kings and queens of Narnia and are chasing a stag as adult monarchs dressed in their royal finery raised a bunch of questions in my mind. Like what, if any, is their succession plan? Are they tyrants now hunting the populace of Narnia for sport, given that most of the animals (including their horses) are sentient and talk? And what was the deal with Mr Tumnus? A royal coronation and best he could do was switch jaunty scarves? Like put on a shirt dude. I get that goat pants might be hard to find but he’s human from the waist up. I could see going shirtless if James McAvoy were post-Split jacked, but he’s not here. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3726 "2025-10-28T17:20:17Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Sleuth, from 1972, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. A rich man arranges to meet with his wife’s lover, with a proposal that could benefit them both. > Watching this movie was a real good time! Looking back on it, I have to say the plot was ridiculous, but who cares? The acting and the setting were sublime, and it was funny as well. If you liked **Sleuth** , I highly recommend **The Last of Sheila** (1973). It has a similar genesis – both are films about rich sadistic men playing mind games, and are said to be inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s game-filled apartment. TLoS has the advantage of being co-written by Sondheim (with Anthony Perkins – yep, Norman Bates himself). It’s a fiendishly clever film with multiple mysteries and mysteries-within-mysteries. Well worth digging up. With Raquel Welch, Richard Nenjamin, James Coburn, James Mason, and Dyan Cannon (who was also in _Deathtrap_) ---
**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:** [October 28, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3727 "2025-10-28T17:49:19Z")
We watched **Trick r’ Treat** , a so-called “cult classic” Halloween movie from 2014. This movie has a baffling number of high quality actors and is produced by Brian Singer. But it was direct-to-video originally until people started loving it and are now giving it a theater release. From the perspective of a 13-year-old, it would be a lot of fun! It’s a series of vignettes of interlapping stories on Halloween night where people are supernaturally punished for not being sufficiently in the Halloween spirit. Nothing really makes coherent sense. The stories are just the kind of stories kids would make up, unfounded rumors and urban legends. As an adult there is little to recommend it besides, inexplicably, high production values and a cast of very committed actors. (Anna Paquin? Really?) It’s silly, campy and unrealistic. Not terribly original either. The best thing about it was the opening credits, which were seriously cool. This movie is not appropriate for children which is why I imagine it must be very popular among tweens. 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 28, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3728 "2025-10-28T18:23:19Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > My daughter was watching **The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe** last night. I never realized that Santa Clause was the one who handed out all the deadly weaponry to the children. Yep, Father Christmas literally shows up and passes out gifts. It’s odd. > [@msmith537](#): > > And what was the deal with Mr Tumnus? A royal coronation and best he could do was switch jaunty scarves? Like put on a shirt dude. I get that goat pants might be hard to find but he’s human from the waist up. I could see going shirtless if James McAvoy were post-Split jacked, but he’s not here. James McAvoy is one lucky guy. He’s in: - Narnia - His Dark Materials - Dune ← Leto II in the Scifi channel version - X-men - Sandman audio recording No Star Wars, no Matrix, no Lord of the Rings appearances ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3729 "2025-10-28T21:00:41Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Also seeing the ending in a post-GOT context after the children are crowned kings and queens of Narnia and are chasing a stag as adult monarchs dressed in their royal finery raised a bunch of questions in my mind. Like what, if any, is their succession plan? Are they tyrants now hunting the populace of Narnia for sport, given that most of the animals (including their horses) are sentient and talk? The Narnia books have this weird species hierarchy of sentient vs. non-sentient versions of what are otherwise essentially the same animals. Like, there are talking deer here and there in the stories, but the human characters also eat venison. Awkward glitches can occur, as in an episode in _The Silver Chair_: > [@](#): > > “Didn’t you hear what those giants were saying? ‘That’s a nice tender haunch of venison,’ said one of them. ‘Then that stag was a liar,’ said another. ‘Why?’ said the first one. ‘Oh,’ said the other. ‘They say that when he was caught he said, Don’t kill me, I’m tough. You won’t like me.’” For a moment Jill did not realize the full meaning of this. But she did when Scrubb’s eyes opened wide with horror and he said: > > “So we’ve been eating a _Talking_ stag.” > > This discovery didn’t have exactly the same effect on all of them. Jill, who was new to that world, was sorry for the poor stag and thought it rotten of the giants to have killed him. Scrubb, who had been in that world before and had at least one Talking beast as his dear friend, felt horrified; as you might feel about a murder. But Puddleglum, who was Narnian born, was sick and faint, and felt as you would feel if you found you had eaten a baby. > > “We’ve brought the anger of Aslan on us,” he said. “That’s what comes of not attending to the signs. We’re under a curse, I expect. If it was allowed, it would be the best thing we could do, to take these knives and drive them into our own hearts.” > > And gradually even Jill came to see it from his point of view. At any rate, none of them wanted any more lunch. None of which seems to blunt any of our heroes’ appetites for partaking of pigeon pie and ham and sausages and kidneys and bacon a few chapters further on, mind you, but presumably they assume they’ve now got a more trustworthy supply chain. As for succession planning in the original Pevensie monarchy once they’d reached adulthood, presumably they would eventually have made alliances with other royal families of the Narnian world, if they hadn’t been magicked back to their schoolchildren’s life in England. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3730 "2025-10-28T23:11:50Z")
IIRC A Horse and His Boy starts with the Pevensies as adults in Foreign Parts negotiating a marriage contract for Susan, or at least pursuing a possible romance, before deciding that these exotic swarthy types offer a fun diversion but taken all in all are not quite the thing. The most intriguing part of the books for me now is exactly this question of how the Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve actually went about the business of ruling. Like, in LWW when Edmund slips away from the group and makes his way to the witches fortress, he finds the going hard amd mutters to himself about how when he’s King he’ll build some proper roads. Yes! Improving infrastructure is a vital function of the state and can only improve prosperity. Did he do this? How did he supply the labour? Payment? Feudal service? Come to think of it, what is Narnia’s system of government. Is the whole country the monarch’s personal demesne? Are their barons? A merchant class? Tumnus was first seen not only coming back from the shops, but with wrapped presents, a detail which suggests a far more advanced consumer economy than one would expect from an apparently medieval snowbound autocracy. Where did the beavers get the oranges with which to make marmalade roll? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3731 "2025-10-28T23:46:49Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > The Narnia books have this weird species hierarchy of sentient vs. non-sentient versions of what are otherwise essentially the same animals. Like, there are talking deer here and there in the stories, but the human characters also eat venison. In my non-canonical reimagining of the _Chronicles of Narnia_, there are also human primates with no language ability who are also fair game for all involved. “Long Pig…the other _other_ white meat.” Stranger ---
**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 29, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3732 "2025-10-29T00:24:12Z")
It’s must be ridiculously easy to hide a murder in Narnia. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3733 "2025-10-29T01:06:05Z")
Mainly due to all the talk about it here and elsewhere, last night we watched [Weapons](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26581740/). A good, ambitious flick, though I’m not a fan of the nonlinear narrative. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > **Companion** (2025) > > Somewhat recommended. > > Go in blind, the movie has spoiler-points that are worth avoiding. Anyway, a pretty good movie, but not a great one. Four friends get together at a house and some bad things happen. Better to just seek it out yourself > > Or not, it was only OK. Worth a stream some night, though. > > Anyone else seen this one? So tonight we watched [Companion](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26584495/). The Wiki page for it calls it a “science fiction thriller film,” though I would probably classify it as a dark comedy. At any rate, it is easily the best thing I’ve watched in the last six months. It has _really_ good writing and acting, and (unlike Weapons) held my attention to the very end. Very entertaining and highly recommended. ---
**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 29, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3734 "2025-10-29T13:41:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > One of the best drowning scenes I’ve seen in a movie. I feel like the movie was more or less PG-13, but the drowning was traumatic. It was! It sure lasted a long time. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3735 "2025-10-30T13:12:58Z")
**Blood Shot** on Prime - I teased with the IMDB blurb above so I watched it. Cop obsessed with catching this vampire; vampire actually works for the CIA; Arab terrorists with a nuclear bomb; harem girls; exploding dwarves. A good bit of humor, the vampire has most of the good lines - as it should be. Not bad. The two leads, Brennan Elliott as Rip and Michael Bailey Smith as the vampire, are quite good. The Arab terrorists are a bad caricature with a mix of Islamophobia. Rip doesn’t get it for most of the movie, he’s after the vampire who is dismantling the terrorist group. Some good battles between them. Finally after Rip’s wife is kidnapped by the terrorists, Rip forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire. Lots of shooting (guns have HUGE magazines). Some additional mythical BS. A harem girl (Azita Ghanizada) befriends Rip. She’s a bit wooden but based on IMDB, is a steady worker.Then a big reveal that I will not spoil. The gals are just scenery. Rip’s police shift captain (Paula Trickery) has some actual lines. NOTE: This is not Bloodshot (one word) with Vin Diesel. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3736 "2025-10-31T03:27:41Z")
Wife and I went to see **Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere** tonight. It’s about Springsteen’s personal and professional struggles while creating and recording the album _Nebraska_ in 1982. Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen and does a terrific job. Jeremy Strong also does a great job as Jon Landau, Springsteen’s producer. I would rate it as good but not great. At 119 minutes, it should have been about 30 minutes shorter, and I thought it really dragged for about the last 45 minutes. But a decent and entertaining story. (Jeremy Allen White played Lip in **Shameless**. Of course, that’s the character that I thought of during every close-up shot of White.) ---
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3737 "2025-10-31T04:32:09Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Jeremy Allen White played Lip in **Shameless**. Of course, that’s the character that I thought of during every close-up shot of White He’s better known as the star of **The Bear**. I thought the Springsteen film was pretty damn awful honestly. _So_ boring. The only times it shows any life is the two (?) times they show a performance and when they are recording Born in the USA. Other than that, this film is just lifeless. I did not know that this was actually _just_ going to be a film about depression. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3738 "2025-10-31T13:14:42Z")
My Halloween costume this year is Willard, so last night I watched the 2003 remake to get myself in the spirit. Man, this was the role Crispin Glover was born to play! I thought the movie was really well-done, and they even used MJ’s song Ben. Of course, it’s a very sad story, but that’s horror for ya. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a tale of a young man who trains his household rats to do his bidding. Mostly. 🐀 ---
**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 31, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3739 "2025-10-31T13:44:02Z")
**The Surfer** Recommended. I am so glad that Nicolas Cage is done paying back taxes and penalties. He’s been doing a lot better since he has freer choice of his movie projects. This one was…weird. Not at all what I expected from it. A man is moving back to his hometown and wants to buy a house and go surfing with his son. A surfer-gang of sorts prevents him from doing that because he does not yet live there. And from there, it got weird. And weirder. Pretty good, not amazing. Cage is great in it. I can tell he works hard on any movie, whether it is this or one of the many cheapo movies he made. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3740 "2025-10-31T16:13:02Z")
The movie was not as good as the book. I’d read it when it was first published and heard they were making a movie. I was disappointed. If I hadn’t read the book, I might have liked it better. It was just _so_ cheesy. ---
**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 31, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3741 "2025-10-31T17:24:52Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > The movie was not as good as the book. I’d read it when it was first published and heard they were making a movie. I was disappointed. If I hadn’t read the book, I might have liked it better. It was just _so_ cheesy There are two movies, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=186) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=188)