# 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:** 240
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4784 "2026-02-22T05:41:44Z")
After watching and enjoying _Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!_ on HBO, we decided to watch _The History of the World, Part I_. I had seen it shortly after it had come out in 1981, and remembered it as rather gross and stupid, but after seeing excerpts from it and others of his films in the documentary, I wanted to give it another chance. I was right the first time. It is gross and stupid. Apart from a few chuckles here and there, the only decent part is the Spanish Inquisition segment. Almost all of the rest is the kind of stuff only 13-year-old boys would find funny. The Roman Empire segment is mostly just stupid, but sexism and misogyny of the French Revolution segment is particularly offensive. Much of the nominally offensive stuff in _Blazing Saddles_ is rightly excused as skewering racism, but there’s nothing funny or satirical, now or in 1981, about gang rape (the chess sequence) or groping women. The catch phrase “It’s good to be king” has unfortunate but unavoidable resonance today with “grab them by the pussy.” I watched the whole thing in the hope of finding a few gems among the dross, but it really wasn’t worth it. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4785 "2026-02-22T12:51:47Z")
I’ve mentioned this here before, but it’s one of the only two movies I’ve walked out of. (the other being Times Square) ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4786 "2026-02-22T14:54:38Z")
The sequel TV series was dumb, too. I quit watching it. The first movie is amusing 2 or 3 times. The rest is a huge misfire. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4787 "2026-02-22T16:49:43Z")
I watched The Mist, based on the Stephen King novella. I thought they did a nice job with it, sticking very close to the book, up until that final added scene. I knew about it beforehand, but jeez. Way too bleak for what had been a pretty decent monster movie. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4788 "2026-02-22T17:06:42Z")
**Blue Moon** (Netflix) A sad evening in the life of a sad little man, Lorenz Hart, and his bitter reaction to the opening night of Oklahoma! It just didn’t feel like there was enough there for a film. It would’ve made a good one-man show….”An Evening With Larry Hart”…since 90% of the movie is Hart (Ethan Hawke) monologue. There are several opportunities for the viewer to feel clever, “I know what they’re talking about/who that guy is”, with references to E.B. White’s _Stuart Little_, Stephen Sondheim, and – a stretch but it’s there – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4789 "2026-02-22T17:22:52Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > After watching and enjoying _Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!_ on HBO, we decided to watch _The History of the World, Part I_. I had seen it shortly after it had come out in 1981, and remembered it as rather gross and stupid, but after seeing excerpts from it and others of his films in the documentary, I wanted to give it another chance. > > I was right the first time. It is gross and stupid. In my view, Mel Brooks is an irreverent comedic genius. Yeah, I get that some of the scenes can be interpreted as misogyny, but it’s comedy, people! None of those things happened, none of those things are being advocated for. It’s just a comedy. Sometimes you just need to laugh at life. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4790 "2026-02-22T17:24:25Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > the only decent part is the Spanish Inquisition segment. I didn’t expect that! For Mel Brooks fans, I’d recommend the 2021 documentary The Automat. It’s not about Brooks, but he’s festured in it and its fun. And I love the idea of automats and wish I’d lived in that time. 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4791 "2026-02-22T17:45:28Z")
You might feel differently if you, your spouse, a family member, or a close friend had been raped. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4792 "2026-02-22T17:53:12Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > You might feel differently if you, your spouse, a family member, or a close friend had been raped.   I’m sure I would, and I’m sorry that your world view has been changed by that perspective. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4793 "2026-02-22T17:56:26Z")
I’m not sorry, because knowing people who have been raped and abused has made me more empathetic with people whose challenges in life are far greater than my own, and it keeps me from making light of or dismissing the terrible things that have happened to them. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4794 "2026-02-22T18:57:35Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m sorry that your world view has been changed by that perspective. I’m sorry it would take a personal encounter for you to not brush off misogyny and rape with “it’s comedy!” ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4795 "2026-02-22T20:11:22Z")
> [@Thumper668](#): > > Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista played a pair of estranged brothers who investigate their father’s murder and kill half of Oahu along the way. First let me say that there is absolutely nothing plausible about this film - if you are a stickler for realism, skip it. But if you like shoot-em-ups and eye candy it’s an enjoyable watch. I loved the Hawai’ian setting and substory. All this. Watching the H3 Expressway action was hilarious. It gets closed down for hours occasionally for films and series. You’d think all those explosions, crashes, automatic gun fire would make the local news​😁🙄😏 There are a few telltales from the fires along the concrete shoulders and barriers. Particularly a fun time for a local. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4796 "2026-02-22T21:21:28Z")
**Warfare** : a true account of a Seal Team pinned down in the Iraq War. Very intense account and recommended. A side note: I’d never seen a Bradley unleash its firepower. Holy shit! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4797 "2026-02-22T21:35:48Z")
Moderating: > [@TroutMan](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > I’m sorry that your world view has been changed by that perspective. > > I’m sorry it would take a personal encounter for you to not brush off misogyny and rape with “it’s comedy!” This is Cafe Society. Please remember to criticize the post, not the poster. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4798 "2026-02-22T22:42:23Z")
Am I the only one who saw this… > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And I love the idea of automats and wish I’d lived in that time. 🙂 …immediately followed by this… > [@commasense](#): > > You might feel differently if you, your spouse, a family member, or a close friend had been raped. …and had to take a moment to understand what was going on? Anyway: tbh I find a lot of Brooks’ stuff not involving Gene Wilder to be at best dated and at worst painful to watch. I watched _Spaceballs_ recently and it is just clumsy hackneyed gags. Same with _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_, _Silent Movie_ and so forth. Let vaudeville die, Mel. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4799 "2026-02-22T22:51:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > …and had to take a moment to understand what was going on? As far as I know, no movies ever featured rape at the automat, though there was a tragic case of mistaken identity. [![](https://scontent-phx1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/59915283_2395913333960852_8507857251577364480_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=13d280&_nc_ohc=YwLLKus5FqQQ7kNvwHVfRiI&_nc_oc=AdmuT9SthpmXOHGU99R3e2nhlTujWJOObgiLajdoJ8OIyBFMHkNEjHD3isQDeq1iHapfFaJvjbdM_TZnm0GnvwfW&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-phx1-1.xx&_nc_gid=08wBP3-yXwK7_Vzv4BZSZA&oh=00_AfsdnGkDDQPBcxuENgrTgqFJ3J8xG5zMjMWwPCN2lXD4HQ&oe=69C2DD21) ](https://scontent-phx1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/59915283_2395913333960852_8507857251577364480_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=13d280&_nc_ohc=YwLLKus5FqQQ7kNvwHVfRiI&_nc_oc=AdmuT9SthpmXOHGU99R3e2nhlTujWJOObgiLajdoJ8OIyBFMHkNEjHD3isQDeq1iHapfFaJvjbdM_TZnm0GnvwfW&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-phx1-1.xx&_nc_gid=08wBP3-yXwK7_Vzv4BZSZA&oh=00_AfsdnGkDDQPBcxuENgrTgqFJ3J8xG5zMjMWwPCN2lXD4HQ&oe=69C2DD21) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4800 "2026-02-23T02:08:20Z")
Just home from seeing [Paul McCartney: Man on the Run](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26931594/). It will be streaming on Amazon later this week but I wanted to see it on the big screen. The film documents Paul’s career in the 70s, from the end of The Beatles to the death of John Lennon. Highly recommended if you’re a fan. The music and perspectives from band members and peers was great, but the best thing about it for me was seeing and hearing so much from Linda. While I realize in reality they had issues like any husband and wife (famous or not), I’ve always seen them as sort of a fairy tale couple who should’ve lived happily ever after. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say he’s the man he is today because of her. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4801 "2026-02-23T02:09:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Robin Hood: Men in Tights Some great lines, but overall- meh. _Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."_ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4802 "2026-02-23T14:11:22Z")
Because of the good reviews in this thread, I watched **Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri** this weekend. Great movie, great cast. Definitely worth a rewatch. That scene early in the movie when the priest comes to talk to Mildred, I was thinking “Is that Nick Searcy?” (My wife and I have been rewatching Justified recently.) I didn’t see him in the credits but imdb confirms it was him. Willoughby’s wife having a British accent kind of threw me. How does a Brit wind up in rural Missouri? I’m sure it happens but just seemed odd. And I got a weird “Throw Momma From The Train” vibe from Mrs Dixon. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4803 "2026-02-23T14:20:15Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Willoughby’s wife having a British accent kind of threw me. How does a Brit wind up in rural Missouri? I’m sure it happens but just seemed odd. Pretty sure she was Australian. EDIT: Yup, Abbie Cornish - an Australian rapper who was also in Seven Psychopaths. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=239) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=241)