# 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:** 275
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5484 "2026-05-05T00:28:49Z")
Who are your favorite directors? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5485 "2026-05-05T00:43:24Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Cronenberg, Spielberg, Kubrick, Lynch and Lucas, all overrated directors as far as I’m concerned I put Cronenberg, Kubrick, and Lynch among my favorites. But I’m definitely going to go with something mid-career for all three if I’m recommending something. Cronenberg in particular. His last three are, IMO, hot messes of the highest order. But _Spider_ in particular is terribly underrated. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5486 "2026-05-05T00:48:33Z")
Carpenter, Raimi, Gilliam, Cohens, Fincher, Landis, McTiernan, Kevin Smith, Ramis, Tarantino, Beeson, Parker, Scorsese, Coppola, De Palma, Altman, Dante are all good. List goes on. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5487 "2026-05-05T00:58:57Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > Cronenberg in particular. His last three are, IMO, hot messes of the highest order. But _Spider_ in particular is terribly underrated. Looking at his list there are films in there I liked, I didn’t see **Spider** , but liked his “normal” films which he seems to actually do well at. **History of** **Violence** and **Eastern Promises** were enjoyable and rewatchable films. Even **Naked Lunch** is likeable and I hate surreal films, but regard most of that as a drug addled hallucination with moments of clarity (“I can think of at least two things wrong with that title” - Nelson). But man, he does some films I hated, and even ones which are well regarded were awful. The plot of **eXistenZ** , for instance, is bloody awful, and it’s someone writing about computer games having only ever played… erm, Myst? I like some of the overrated, but man, someone needs to tell Spielberg to cut an hour from half his recent films ( **Bridge of Spies** had a bit where he wandered about Berlin and some thugs robbed him of his coat). Lynch, nah, not for me. And Kubrick, I can’t watch his movies. Sure **Clockwork Orange** was groundbreaking and had the cache of being banned in the UK, but its a horrible film about horrible people doing horrible stuff and not being a horror. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5488 "2026-05-05T01:22:34Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Cohens (Coens) ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5489 "2026-05-05T05:29:49Z")
Have you seen _Dr Strangelove_? That is my favourite of his films. A masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5490 "2026-05-05T09:54:19Z")
That is the one Kubrick I like. And very much atypical him. Far less pretension than the rest. Looking back, he wasn’t always that bad, Spartacus was ok itself, but not something I’d stop to watch if on the TV). But I guess he got full power through success and made the movies he wanted to make: slowly making a point. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5491 "2026-05-05T13:17:18Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > That is the one Kubrick I like. And very much atypical him. What about _Full Metal Jacket_? The two films are bookends for the absurdity of modern warfare. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5492 "2026-05-05T13:55:39Z")
That’s two films, really, one about how shitty basic training is and another (probably less well executed if I remember correctly) about the horror of actual of war (specifically the vietnam war), If the purpose is to explain that war is shit, then it does do it’s job, but I don’t enjoy it particularly. It makes its point but it’s almost like Clockwork Orange’s horrible crap happening theme, which I don’t want to watch. If I wanted to watch a war movie, and I don’t usually, it would be Platoon or Apocalypse now (which I don’t regard as a great Coppola movie). It’s probably one of the more watchable of Kubricks movies 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:** [May 5, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5493 "2026-05-05T14:18:33Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Tarantino You call the giants of filmaking “pretentious” and “overrated”, but you list Tarentino as a favorite? That’s not even possible. They are in conflict! ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5494 "2026-05-05T14:27:30Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > You call the giants of filmaking “pretentious” and “overrated” And the fact you describe them as “giants” is the problem (and I’m assuming Lucas isn’t included). I regard half of their work overlong guff, overwrought points and very much in need of an editor, or others completely unwatchable (Lynch, for instance). Do you get past the point when anyone can say “lose an hour and get the fucking plot moving”? I don’t regard Tarantino as a “giant”. I don’t regard anyone I named there as giants. That’s a word you’re using. And that’s pretty much the point, isn’t it? But I’d watch anything by Tarantino, even though I didn’t like all of his stuff, over anything of Kubricks. Or probably Spielberg nowadays (first half of Saving Private Ryan perhaps the exception). Let’s just list out some of Spielbergs recent work: Ready Player One, The Post, Bridge of Spies, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Lincoln, Munich, The Terminal, War of the Worlds, probably gets a bit better further back that that though. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5495 "2026-05-05T14:36:01Z")
And I’m going to get this back on topic with a movie which I’ve seen recently: [Blood Red Sky (2021)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6402468/), recommended, a german/english production which I think is on Netflix, a plane hijacking does not go quite to plan in a movie which is best seen when going in blind. As online reviews say “really a lot better than it deserves to be”. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5496 "2026-05-05T14:43:37Z")
American Graffiti, Duel, Jaws, Raiders, Dr Strangelove, The Straight Story\*, Scanners \*\*, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, maybe CE3K, Schindler’s List, The Color Purple, ET, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies, and last but not least Star Wars. Overrated? pretentious? Pish tush. \*I needed one Lynch at least! 🙂 \*\*ditto for Cronenberg ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5497 "2026-05-05T17:15:49Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > What about _Full Metal Jacket_? The two films are bookends for the absurdity of modern warfare. I think FMJ is one of my favorites of his. Yes, the opening is amazing. But I think the entire final 30 minutes or so where they are stuck in a sniper situation is often overlooked. It’s amazing. Uh, I like but don’t love the middleish section. I get it, but parts of it make me cringe. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5498 "2026-05-05T17:20:58Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > He even showed _Repo Man_ and _Suburbia_ to his friends after watching the movies with me. That’s so funny! I was thinking that _Repo Man_ was one you should show him, and you had, and he liked it enough to pass it on. Cool kid, indeed! ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5499 "2026-05-05T19:21:11Z")
This. You should judge an artist by their best work, not their average. Someone who made 20 pieces of crap and 5 masterpieces is an artist who made 5 masterpieces, period. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5500 "2026-05-05T21:51:13Z")
**28 Years Later: The Bone Temple** on Netflix I agree with @Mahaloth’s review. I don’t know why I liked it so much, but I really did. Ralph Fiennes’ character is incredibly likeable and he does an amazing job in the role. Hopefully the movie has a second life in streaming and generates enough interest to greenlight the next. While this entry has a satisfying conclusion, they leave it at a spot that really makes you want to see the next chapter. Be warned: it is very bloody and violent, and unlike previous entries, most of the violence is human-on-human, not the infected. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2026, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5501 "2026-05-06T01:33:59Z")
DUST BUNNY on HBO Max. Basically, Leon the Professional meets some weird shit. Fun, stylish, weird, and fantastical. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5502 "2026-05-06T01:38:09Z")
I saw this for the third time a couple of nights ago, introducing it to my wife and son. The whole thing is well put together and visually delightful. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5503 "2026-05-06T04:21:35Z")
We enjoyed _Dust Bunny_, too. Sigourney Weaver as the heavy is getting a little overplayed of late, but I did like the bit about how she has to unhinge her mouth before she eats. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=274) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=276)