# 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:** 249
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4964 "2026-03-10T03:14:06Z")
**Evidence** (2012) on Plex (free with ads) Found footage horror. Four friends go camping, and the framing device is one of the guys is filming a documentary about his buddy who has never gone camping before. But then strange things start happening. Are they being hunted by someone? Something? Then the WTF-ometer explodes as the entire movie goes off the rails in the best way possible. This movie is very short; under 80 minutes. But holy crap does the second half make some hard left turns. I did not see that coming. I’m not even entirely sure what I just watched. If you like found footage horror and have never heard of this, go fire up Plex right now. It’s free. Well worth watching. Fair warning that the main character douche-bro filming the documentary is pretty insufferable. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2026, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4965 "2026-03-10T03:18:52Z")
Final Destination 3 is my favorite so far. The survivors of a roller coaster derailment. The story is more interesting and less formulaic. Death seems more like a character that’s stalking the characters. It’s not just random accidents. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4966 "2026-03-10T03:24:40Z")
My favorite disaster is 2 with the log truck, which makes that my favorite of the movies. My favorite cast by far is 3, though. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Amanda Crew in a 2000s horror movie? Yes please. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4967 "2026-03-11T01:46:53Z")
Confession time. A couple weeks ago I got so frustrated with having eight different watch lists (one for each different streaming service) that I pulled out a pencil and a piece of paper and physically wrote down the most interesting titles from each. Looking now, my sheet has a total of 81 titles. So far I have watched 14 of them, so technically speaking I would say that the sheet is working. But still. The year is 2026. What the heck am I doing? There has to be a better way. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4968 "2026-03-11T02:12:18Z")
I haven’t used it (yet), but I’ve heard good things about JustWatch, created exactly for this purpose. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2026, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4969 "2026-03-11T02:16:53Z")
Letterboxd has that, as does IMDb. Both are free. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4970 "2026-03-11T05:14:19Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > > > I haven’t seen _Nuremberg_, but I have seen _Judgement at Nuremberg_. From the clips of the former I don’t think it’s a retelling of the latter. Herman Goring never came anywhere near the latter film. It was about judges who follow Nazi orders and not the big show of the prosecution of the big wigs. > > You’re right. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen _Judgement at Nurenberg_. Apparently _Nuremberg_ (the 2025 film) may have been the first film about the prosecution of the 22 accused Nazi war criminals, of which Goring was the most senior. _Judgment at Nuremberg_ was about the judges trial. In which they literally judged the (Nazi) judges for their complicity in Nazi atrocities. Anyway, I just saw _Nuremberg_ (dropped on Netflix this past weekend) and was not impressed. Overly long and uninteresting. Didn’t give a shit about the scenes with Goering, and cared even less about the minor inconveniences of his complicit wife. The only mildly interesting scenes were (1) watching a Nazi cry like a frightened child as he is dragged from his cell and hanged (and then pissing himself while slowly strangling on the gallows) and (2) the argument that, yeah, we can get Nazis in America, too. All of that was in the last 20-30 minutes (after the trial). Seriously, the whole film should have centered around those two themes, and kept hitting it over, and over, and over again: these men are, fundamentally, garbage and, like garbage, all too common. Wherever they arise, they should be publicly shamed and degraded. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4971 "2026-03-11T12:02:37Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > There has to be a better way. There is something elegant about a sheet of paper with writing on it. It’s the permanence, the physicality, that writing will not change until a human being in your home picks up the paper and puts pencil or eraser to it. Your watchlists are data buried in a server 500 miles away accessed by multiple layers of requests, logins and applications. Stick with the paper. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4972 "2026-03-11T12:58:57Z")
_Protector_ with Milla Jovovich. A poor man (or I guess woman’s) _Taken/Rambo_. Not particularly well written, directed or paced. A solid D, except I think the ending might boost it up to a C. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4973 "2026-03-11T18:39:42Z")
**Solo Mio** (2026). A man about to get married plans an elaborate honeymoon in Italy. When his bride is a no-show at the wedding, the heartbroken groom tries to cancel all the arrangements, but the hotel concierge tells him it cannot be done, and suggests that he just go on the honeymoon by himself. And thus the plot begins to unfold. As I started watching this I was thinking it was a light-hearted if insubstantial romantic comedy, but it has some serious and poignant moments. Recommended unless you’re allergic to romantic comedies, and has quite high ratings on both IMDb and RT. Stars Kevin James and Nicole Grimaudo, and also features the Italian tenor and pianist Andrea Bocelli as himself. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4974 "2026-03-12T05:25:52Z")
**Payback** 1999 Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Lucy Liu, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson. This movie is one of the most disturbing and violent that I’ve watched. I don’t enjoy characters that are borderline psychopaths. I get it that he’s seeking revenge. The extreme, non-stop violence disgusted me. It’s much different than a Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris film. The karate fights are more of a choreographed stunt dance. Pounding a tied-up guys bare feet with a heavy hammer is not entertaining. 3 out of 10 ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4975 "2026-03-12T06:09:06Z")
Really? I saw it first-run in the theater as a child. I thought the violence was pretty standard for an action movie. We’re not talking **Wizard of Oz** or even **John Wick** levels of violence here. It’s **Die Hard** levels at worst. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4976 "2026-03-12T10:17:37Z")
**Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere** This is pretty much the type of documentary you’d expect - Louis talks to a lot of manosphere “influencers” getting rich out of pushing delusional hypermasculine bullshit to their followers. You get more detail on their background, and learn that they will do or say literally anything in pursuit of “content” or “clout”. And in the end we discover that it doesn’t really matter to them whether they believe their own bullshit or not; they’re so deep in it that they no longer know or care what’s true or not as long as they can wring fame and fortune out of it. If you’re not already despairing for humanity, this will get you there. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4977 "2026-03-12T13:49:04Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > If you’re not already despairing for humanity, this will get you there. Was he able to speak to Andrew Tate? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4978 "2026-03-12T13:54:20Z")
No, Tate apparently declined. But he spoke to several others. > **[In His New 'Inside The Manosphere' Netflix Doc, Louis Theroux Wields The...](https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a70713059/inside-the-manosphere-netflix-doc-louis-theroux/)** > > Facing down extreme content creators, the boomer documentarian has one final trick up his sleeve ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4979 "2026-03-12T14:36:18Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > This movie is one of the most disturbing and violent that I’ve watched. I remember this film from when it first came out, and yes, there was violence, but as @ASL_v2.0 says, I didn’t feel it was that much worse than other action films of the time. But what struck me most was that, unlike almost all other such films, it explicitly showed some characters reacting with horror and disgust to the violence. I specifically remember a reaction shot of David Paymer’s character and thinking, this is something you don’t see in movies much. I wonder if it was the reactions that made you feel it was more violent than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4980 "2026-03-12T14:43:39Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Was he able to speak to Andrew Tate? A bit off topic and not sure if it made it to the US, but Tate was arrested in Dubai (think for undeclared cash) and earned the name “Lawrence of Dry-Labia” on British social media. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4981 "2026-03-12T15:08:00Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Pounding a tied-up guys bare feet with a heavy hammer is not entertaining. When I saw _Payback_ when it was new, I came to the conclusion Mel has issues. (other issues) He’s got some form of video masochism. He loves seeing his characters tortured. Maybe he watches and enjoys it vicariously, as it were. As for _Nuremberg_, it just seems like it would be 2 1/2 hours of rehashing stuff I already know, Nazis=bad. yes yes tell me something I don’t know. I think they should do a movie about Rudolf Hess. Now that’s a fascinating nazi. Was he nuts? High ranking party member who secretly flew to England in the middle of the night. Ended up spending the rest of his life as the sole prisoner in Spandau. Maybe murdered in prison. There’s so much stuff going on. Goering? There’s probably some good stuff to mine about how much of a true believer he was, vs just an opportunist. Does the movie go there? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4982 "2026-03-12T15:43:46Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > When I saw _Payback_ when it was new, I came to the conclusion Mel has issues. (other issues) He’s got some form of video masochism. He loves seeing his characters tortured. Maybe he watches and enjoys it vicariously, as it were. I noticed that as early as _Lethal Weapon_. As a kid, I pretty much figured out that a Mel Gibson character was good for two things in any of his movies: getting tortured, and entering a state of psychotic rage. In retrospect, I should have found that concerning. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/4983 "2026-03-12T15:46:13Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I think they should do a movie about Rudolf Hess. Now that’s a fascinating nazi. Was he nuts? High ranking party member who secretly flew to England in the middle of the night. Ended up spending the rest of his life as the sole prisoner in Spandau. Maybe murdered in prison. There’s so much stuff going on. Bit of a mini fact there, Hess was a big fan of psychics and tarot card readers, and after he dropped into Scotland to try and negotiate surrender, Hitler was so mad that a few hundred psychics got taken out and shot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=250)