# 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:** 196
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3902 "2025-11-21T18:25:29Z")
I’m a history buff and have seen both. I will concede Costner’s version is more accurate, but who cares, Hollywood doesn’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars on documentaries. I’ve seen Tombstone countless times, Wyatt Earp only once. Even now I want to see Tombstone again. ---
**Author:** ![SlipperyPete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@SlipperyPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlipperyPete)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3903 "2025-11-21T20:18:50Z")
I did watch Godless and really enjoyed it. Another one I thought was great was American Primeval. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3904 "2025-11-21T21:43:26Z")
Doc Holliday has SO many great lines in _Tombstone_ we could fill a thread with basically just any line he speaks. My favorite scene is when Doc runs into the Earps on the street for the first time. That whole scene is wonderful. “Why Johnny Tyler, you madcap. Where you going with that shotgun?” When Behan shows up and Wyatt starts to introduce him to Doc: “Piss on you, Wyatt.” ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3905 "2025-11-22T02:51:02Z")
If you want to see Kevin Costner in a really good Western, try Silverado(1985). ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3906 "2025-11-22T03:17:33Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > “Why Johnny Tyler, you madcap. Where you going with that shotgun?” “Oh, Johnny, I forgot you were there. You may go now.” ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3907 "2025-11-22T03:48:53Z")
_The Conjuring: Last Rites_ Way back in the day, I believed in the paranormal, and I accepted the Warrens’ books as true. I was particularly invested in the story of the Smurls, which I read about in one of their books. Of course, now I know that the Warrens are frauds, and whatever bedeviled (heh) the Smurl family was almost certainly exaggerated for the sake of selling books, and almost certainly not paranormal. Nevertheless, the movie left out two of the more compelling scenes purportedly in the “true” story: which is to say, when Jack’s mother accused Janet of letting loose with a vile stream of obscenities, which Janet steadfastly denied; and when the family went camping only to find the demon there at their campsite. Both of these scenes were included in [the TV movie](https://youtu.be/EyUIM7p_opM?si=jLHx0CAoqo2deI-e), and I think they would have been even more compelling with modern direction and modern CGI. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3908 "2025-11-22T04:25:21Z")
_Cactus Flower_, with Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and “introducing” Goldie Hawn in her Oscar-winning role. Never saw it before, and immediately guessed the final outcome. Still, a decent film, although I was most enthralled in reading the album covers in the stereo store: Beach boys, Beatles, classics, crooners, 1969 had it all. ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3909 "2025-11-22T14:14:38Z")
**The Woman in Cabin 10** Um…not really recommended. A very well made below average movie. What? I mean from a technical level, even an acting level, everything is just fine. However, it’s just too ridiculous to take seriously as a proper thriller. More than once, I thought that this movie might have benefited from being _worse_ made. It could have been quite the comically bad movie. It’s plot twists are incredibly stupid. Another angle would have been to make this movie as a spoof of thrillers. But, no, it’s serious and it just falls flat almost completely. :giggle: Sorry, I keep laughing thinking about parts of this film. ---
**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 22, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3910 "2025-11-22T17:59:58Z")
**Chinatown** Recommended. Hear me out. The first hour or so of this movie is good, but actually a bit slow. Adequate, I’d call it. However, wow. What a final hour. And what an ending. Amazing stuff, well done. I don’t support Roman Polanski, but I figured this was a classic I had yet to see. It’s quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3911 "2025-11-22T20:06:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I don’t support Roman Polanski You don’t have to worry about supporting Polanski. It’s likely that Polanski doesn’t receive any money from _Chinatown_ anymore. This is true regardless whether you saw it in a movie theater, on a television channel, using a videotape, using a video disc, or streaming online. ---
**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 22, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3912 "2025-11-22T20:34:23Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > You don’t have to worry about supporting Polanski. It’s likely that Polanski doesn’t receive any money from _Chinatown_ anymore. This is true regardless whether you saw it in a movie theater, on a television channel, using a videotape, using a video disc, or streaming online Cool. ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3913 "2025-11-23T02:37:52Z")
**Black Friday** (2021) Not recommended. A horror comedy with Bruce Campbell. Shame it isn’t funny or amusing very much. Zombie-aliens attack a toy store. Low budget, unfunny. Bruce tries, but he has little to work with. Lame. ---
**Author:** ![sohvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sohvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sohvan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3914 "2025-11-23T05:53:17Z")
**Wicked for Good** is the first movie in years that I’ve regretted seeing in the theater. I loved the first movie, and I’d give it 4½ stars. I’d give the 2nd film 2 stars. The pacing is glacial, the songs are for the most part not as good as the first part, and the performances and story lack something compared to the first one. I never saw the stage musical. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3915 "2025-11-23T06:47:28Z")
I, too, saw **Wicked for Good** and could have written the exact same thing as @sohvan. Ariana was better in the first film, in this one her limitations as an actress were more pronounced. The songs were a bit more meh (though, to be fair, the 1st movie closed with an absolute banger), and I didn’t care for the happy-ever-after ending. I also have no familiarity with the source material (book _or_ play). ---
**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:** [November 23, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3916 "2025-11-23T06:54:12Z")
The major criticism of the Wicked stage production has always been that the second half is weaker than the first. ---
**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 23, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3917 "2025-11-23T15:09:56Z")
Hiw did they take a stage play and make a 5 hour movie? How much did they add? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3918 "2025-11-23T15:29:01Z")
I know they added songs and dance numbers that weren’t in the stage musical, but I’m guessing it’s mostly down to lengthy establishing shots and close-ups. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3919 "2025-11-23T17:15:49Z")
Did the book have more plot than the musical? That’s a possibility. ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3920 "2025-11-23T17:18:28Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Did the book have more plot than the musical? That’s a possibility I’m pretty clueless, not having seen the musical or read the book. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/3921 "2025-11-23T17:56:51Z")
Here’s the plot of the novel: > **[Wicked (Maguire novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_(Maguire_novel))** > > Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a 1995 dark fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch (September 2005), A Lion Among Men (October 2008), and Out of Oz (November 2011). > Wicked is a cynical, adult-oriented revision of the characters and setting of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, along with its sequels and 1939 f... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=195) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=197)