# 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:** 188
**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, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3742 "2025-10-31T18:39:43Z")
Right, I like both of the movies (despite the bad things happening to animal characters), but books are almost always better. ---
**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, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3743 "2025-10-31T19:13:25Z")
I only remember the original Ernie Borgnine version. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3744 "2025-11-01T00:16:03Z")
I watched _ **The Big Lebowski** _ today. I _thought_ I saw it in a theater back when it came out in 1998; I knew there was bowling, White Russians, and a rug that really tied the room together. And I know most of the quotable lines, possibly by pop-culture osmosis. But I’ll be damned if a single frame of this film triggered any memories of having seen it before. I had absolutely no idea what the plot was going to be or any of the supporting characters other than Walter and Donny. In any case, now I know for sure that I’ve seen it, and I didn’t hate it. I did think it was a bit too long, too convoluted - in the end, they had to have the characters explain what had happened with dialogue to wrap it all up - and maybe even a little _too_ quirky at times. But that’s the Coen brothers for you, I guess. Still, good fun and great performances. It’s easy to see why it’s such a cult classic. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3745 "2025-11-01T03:03:59Z")
In the spirit of Halloween we watched **Your Monster** on HBO, an Indie film that bills itself as a goofy rom-com but is in fact a lot more. A stage actress whose boyfriend abandoned her in the middle of her cancer treatment returns, bereft, to her empty childhood home, where she meets a handsome monster in her closet. It’s not a rom-com at all, actually (though it is humorous), but a deeply interior exploration of a woman’s slow return to empowerment after she’s kicked to the curb. This is an art flick using a rom-com as a framing device. I think it would give the film short shrift to say it’s about a woman getting over her ex. There’s something about this film that makes it more than what it is. Something that makes me think, “I need to keep an eye on this director.” (Who based it loosely on her own experience.) That said, it is kinda slow in parts. Some parts are really good and some are just okay. But the parts that are really good made me think, “Hey. This is something different and important.” Notably, over half the crew of the film were women, which hardly ever happens. So that was cool. I can’t grade this one. I am glad I saw it. I think people who love stage acting and musicals would find it interesting. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3746 "2025-11-01T03:39:19Z")
Rewatched Longlegs, after first seeing it when it came out in the theater. I still enjoyed it quite a bit and picked up on a few more things. That Nicolas Cage is something. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3747 "2025-11-01T12:52:15Z")
I’ve never really ‘got’ _The Big Lebowski._ It’s entertaining, of course, but the Coens’ best? Not even close for me. _Fargo_ and _No Country For Old Men_ are much better in my opinion. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3748 "2025-11-01T16:23:12Z")
_Miller’s Crossing_ is my favorite. A perfect movie. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyEcks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnnyecks/32/18197_2.png) [@JohnnyEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyEcks)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3749 "2025-11-01T18:19:14Z")
No love for Barton Fink? Minority opinion, I think Hudsucker proxy is my favorite. It’s just so beautiful to look at. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3750 "2025-11-01T18:32:23Z")
I think _Raising Arizona_ was the first Coen film I ever saw, and it remains my favorite, whether or not it’s objectively their best work. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3751 "2025-11-01T18:34:32Z")
> [@JohnnyEcks](#): > > No love for Barton Fink? I believe of what I’ve seen, that is my favorite of theirs. I’ve seen: - Blood Simple - Raising Arizona - Hudsucker Proxy - Fargo - Big Lewbowski - Barton Fink - O Brother - Ladykillers \<–hated - No Country for Old Men - True Grit Second would be Big Lebowski, though. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyEcks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnnyecks/32/18197_2.png) [@JohnnyEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyEcks)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3752 "2025-11-01T19:16:19Z")
The problem with Ladykillers isn’t that it’s a bad movie- it’s actually pretty great- it’s that the rest of the oeuvre is so good that it can’t compete. At the very least, Tom Hanks is having a ball playing against type, and I love the way that every character seems to be from a different genre. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3753 "2025-11-01T19:50:30Z")
> [@JohnnyEcks](#): > > every character seems to be from a different genre There’s a fan theory that ever character in _The Big Lebowski_ **thinks** they’re in a different genre of movie. (The Dude thinks he’s in a stoner comedy, the Stranger thinks he’s in a Western, Bunny thinks she’s in a porno…) ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3754 "2025-11-01T19:52:22Z")
Of the Coen brothers films, mostly I like the comedies, like O Brother Where Art Thou, Raising Arizona and the Hudsucker Proxy. And of course Miller’s Crossing is great. I didn’t like A Serious Man. I was _hopeful_ for Hail, Caesar! but it didn’t quite work. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3755 "2025-11-01T19:54:24Z")
> [@JohnnyEcks](#): > > No love for Barton Fink? > > Minority opinion, I think Hudsucker proxy is my favorite. It’s just so beautiful to look at _Barton Fink_ is a bit of a tough watch, about the closest the Coen Brothers have come to making a straight horror movie. _Hudsucker Proxy_ is great but my vote for the most underrated of their oeuvre [is _The Man Who Wasn’t There_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7MIRkJ9Wg). I would watch it just for Tony Shalhoub’s few scenes alone, but it is probably the best cast of character actors out of any Coen Bros movie, and it’s a perfect homage to and satire of classic _film noir_, with just enough prurience and weirdness to make it modern. I also really like their adaptation of _True Grit_ much better than the Henry Hathaway/John Wayne version. Not so much for _The Ladykillers_ but you can’t nail them all, I guess. But if there is one Coen Bros movie (other than _The Big Lebowski_) that I’ll always sit and watch if I catch it anywhere it is [_Burn After Reading_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCHSiRWjJM). J.K. Simmons and David Rasche as a kind of clueless Rosencrantz and Guildenstern [commenting on events from the outside](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHpOLiobmA) and [trying to make sense](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlA9hmrC8DU) of what these idiots are doing is priceless. “Osborne Cox?..I thought you might be worried…about the security…of your shit.” That line delivery kills me every time. Stranger ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3756 "2025-11-01T20:58:24Z")
**The Lost Bus** on NFLX. A very tense film that is based on the Camp Fire in California that killed 85 people and destroyed over 18,000 structures. The story is based on a real life bus driver who rescued 22 school children. The production is very realistic and the actions of the fire and rescue crews ring authentic. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3757 "2025-11-01T21:18:04Z")
You saw The Lost Bus on Netflix instead of Apple TV? ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3758 "2025-11-01T21:23:05Z")
> You saw The Lost Bus on Netflix instead of Apple TV? Oops, my bad. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3759 "2025-11-01T21:37:48Z")
I friggin’ love _The Ladykillers_. It’s probably my second favorite Coen brothers film … maybe third. It watches like a stage play. It sort of reminds of that old movie _Cannery Row_ (Debra Winger, Nick Nolte … I think, without actually looking it up). ---
**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:** [November 1, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3760 "2025-11-01T21:54:57Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > But if there is one Coen Bros movie (other than _The Big Lebowski_) that I’ll always sit and watch if I catch it anywhere it is _[Burn After Reading](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCHSiRWjJM)_. J.K. Simmons and David Rasche as a kind of clueless Rosencrantz and Guildenstern [commenting on events from the outside](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHpOLiobmA) and [trying to make sense](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlA9hmrC8DU) of what these idiots are doing is priceless. Oh, absolutely. This one makes me LOL every time I’ve seen (maybe four times? five?). ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3761 "2025-11-02T08:10:20Z")
I’ve never bothered to watch it because it had such a bad reception and the original Ealing film is a stone cold classic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=187) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=189)