# 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:** 322
**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:** [September 15, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6424 "2026-09-15T20:29:39Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The President’s Man 2000 > and > The President’s Man, Line in the Sand 2002 So does that mean you’ve watched All the President’s Men? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6425 "2026-09-15T21:22:01Z")
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but yes it’s almost dreamlike in its execution. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6426 "2026-09-15T21:36:23Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Don’t know about it being Best Picture material, but that’s fine - the Academy no more has to hew to my aesthetic than I do to theirs Well that was the COVID year of films, so it was a pretty sparse bunch. Wasn’t really much memorable from that year. All the nominees that year were pretty meh. Had **Nomadland** come out any other time it likely would have quickly been forgotten. (It’s a perfectly fine film, it just wasn’t really competing with much.) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6427 "2026-09-15T21:41:03Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Well that was the COVID year of films And _Nomadland_ connected with the zeitgeist of social isolation created by COVID. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6428 "2026-09-15T22:35:27Z")
After an extended period (2 weeks!) without seeing a movie, I managed find time on Sunday for one (in theater) movie. Calculating what was going to stick around for another week or or so and what wasn’t, I chose [**Hope**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(2026_film)), a 2026 Korean sci-fi joint. I chose wisely (YMMV). If you are in the mood for a bonkers monster hunt crossed with an alien apocalypse, this is the one. It has loads of semi-chaotic action, gory deaths, and typical Korean comedic bits. It starts slow (or is it that it starts ominously?) and then goes non-stop action through to the end (with a mid-credits scene that is important). The 2:42 runtime flies by (but again, YMMV). It also firmly sets up a sequel, which I will eagerly await. Best over the top bonkers sci fi since _The Wandering Earth 2_. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6429 "2026-09-16T12:26:36Z")
Prime occasionally has some good stuff in its library but does a poor job of promotion. So it was entirely by accident last night that I stumbled upon **Mystery, Alaska,** one of my favorite sports movies ever. A stretch of a plot, to be sure, but a great cast, humorous personal relationships and an overall setting that will put some in mind of **Northern Exposure.** Russell Crowe, Burt Reynolds and Colm Meaney doing his customary solid work. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6430 "2026-09-16T12:35:06Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The wife wanted to watch **The Thursday Murder Club** on NFLX, so we did it over two nights. Ooooooooooooooh! I loved, loved, loved it! The fact that two of my favorite actors, Brosnan and Mirren, were in it certainly was a big factor. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6431 "2026-09-16T12:58:13Z")
We watched _The Alphabet Murders_ (1965) on Britbox, starring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot! I can’t think of a worse case of miscasting. I’m not a huge fan of Randall, and I’m less of one now. The film is apparently trying to capitalize on the popularity of _The Pink Panther_, and makes Poirot a semi-bumbling detective, like Clouseau. Randall’s Belgian accent is all over the place, and the story has only superficial similarities to Agatha Christie’s _The A.B.C. Murders_, on which it is nominally based. She hated it. It is so bad my wife wouldn’t let us watch more than about half of it. Apparently, the project was originally intended for Zero Mostel, also a somewhat questionable casting choice. But not only does Mostel more closely resemble Poirot physically as described in the books, he was a much better actor than Randall, and very likely could have pulled it off more successfully. He certainly would have been funnier, if that was called for, but could also have played it straight more effectively. It gets a 5.2 rating on IMDb. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6432 "2026-09-16T23:16:28Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > **Nuremburg** > > Not a film to ‘enjoy’, per se, but certainly one I appreciated. > [@@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > I liked the part where a Nazi about to get his comeuppance cried like a frightened little child. In this vein (and a lot of vein leakage), I thought **the new Elegance Bratton film _By Any Means_** well worth watching, though stressful as hell in a lot of places. In a scenario fairly loosely based on actual events, a Black FBI agent teams up with a New York Mafia hitman in mid-1960s Mississippi to, um, persuade conspirators in KKK terrorist murders of voter-registration activists to confess their involvement. The film may not be entirely sure how much it wants to be an odd-couple cop-buddy movie and how much it wants to be a searing expose of racial oppression in the crumbling white-supremacist South, but the two themes are pretty well integrated, so to speak. Anyway, if you’re looking to top up your craven-racist-monster-comeuppance schadenfreude, this’ll do you. I can’t recall whether or by whom **Mae West’s 1933 vehicle _I’m No Angel_** was recommended in this thread, but it was a fun watch, at least if you can get past the carefree insouciance of the purportedly “happy and comical” flipside of all that systemic white supremacism. Okay, the maids’ performances are funny (and I was pleasantly surprised that one of them in a court appearance was addressed with full name and honorific), but yikes, the stereotyping. Anyway, less systemically, it seemed like whoever was in charge of developing the plot was having such a good time just watching the (admittedly superb) Mae West character scenery that they kept drifting sideways and having to abruptly yank the steering wheel to get the narrative back on track. Then they forgot where they’d been going and started drifting again in a different direction. But what the hell, Mae West, amirite? Come up and see her sometime. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6433 "2026-09-17T00:25:13Z")
> **[Another Dawn (1943)](https://letterboxd.com/film/another-dawn-1943/)** > > The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a... Labor activist on the lam Pedro Armendariz runs into former flame (Andrea Palma), now unhappily married to his old pal Ignacio. Based on a stage play and taking place over a single night, there’re some _Casablanca_-like undertones to the set-up, but the story is told mostly from the woman’s perspective. It is she who decides who goes with whom at the climax. Unfortunately, Ms. Palma’s performance was largely one-note and her decision at the end gave the film an unpleasant aftertaste for me. Despite several scenes of well-played tension, fine – and at times, exceptional - cinematography (by Gabriel Figueroa), I would not recommend this except to those interested in “Mexican noir.” ---
**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:** [September 17, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6434 "2026-09-17T02:21:20Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > It is so bad my wife wouldn’t let us watch more than about half of it. You made it about twice as far as we did. God it was awful. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6435 "2026-09-17T02:33:27Z")
[_The Founder_ (2016)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) - I saw it a few years ago; tonight I re-watched it with mom. As I said to dear mamere, I didn’t really have any sort of feelings about Ray Kroc one way or another before I saw this movie, but now … yeah, what a prick that guy was. If there is any sort of truth to the movie, he completely rogered the McDonald brothers right up the McMuffin chute. I mean, they didn’t really go out of their way to make Kroc look good, they didn’t really go out of their way to declare him a prick, either. They sort of present the whole thing as (and as my mother reminded me) … well, that’s business. Michael Keaton’s performance was top-notch. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6436 "2026-09-17T03:59:58Z")
Yes! Outstanding all around. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6437 "2026-09-17T15:15:36Z")
**The Great Flood** on Netflix (Korean with subtitles) Seoul is flooded and a mother and her young son must climb to the roof of their skyscraper apartment through many obstacles. This starts out as a standard disaster movie, then shifts into cheesy science fiction, then shifts again into still slightly cheesy but at least more interesting sci fi. It doesn’t always work and some of it doesn’t make much sense, but it was kind of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6438 "2026-09-17T23:38:04Z")
_ **Hope** _ impressed upon me that South Korea has… well, yokels. Guys who would be perfectly at home in rural Arkansas. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6439 "2026-09-18T01:48:45Z")
Everybody’s favorite stop-motion action hero Shaun the Sheep is baaaaack in _The Beast of Mossy Bottom_! Amazing what you can accomplish with Home **Mad** e Science!! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2026, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6440 "2026-09-19T04:10:08Z")
**The Core** 2003 Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci Paramount+ I liked the movie. I quoted Ebert because he can explain why much better than me. The earth’s in̈ner core isn’t rotating. Natural disasters are occurring. The mission, drill into the earth and nuke the core. How this concept got greenlighted is beyond me. It certainly helps that the film doesn’t take itself too seriously. 7 out of 10 [From Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core) > [@](#): > > In his review, [Roger Ebert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert "Roger Ebert") gave the film two and a half stars out of four and said "I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it. > > Another opinion… > Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times was a little more forgiving, saying: “If The Core finally has to be classified as a mess, it is an enjoyable one if you’re in a throwback mood. After all, a film that comes up with a rare metal called unobtainium can’t be dismissed out of hand.” ---
**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:** [September 19, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6441 "2026-09-19T21:15:14Z")
**Resident Evil** (2026) Highly recommended. In a way, this is just about a man having an incredibly bad day. Yes, it’s a video game movie. Yes, it’s a zombie movie. But it is an excellent example of both. I also appreciate how funny this movie was. Have fun seeing this; it’s terrific. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6442 "2026-09-19T22:29:28Z")
Seconding the recommendation for **Resident Evil**! I’ve seen it twice already (both IMAX and Dolby) and it’s just a _fun_, gross & scary time. It’s like a much better Evil Dead film than the actual recent Evil Dead films! It’s a very tight 90 mins, there is no fat on this story, each set piece is great. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6443 "2026-09-19T23:05:19Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Seconding the recommendation for **Resident Evil**! I’ve seen it twice already (both IMAX and Dolby) and it’s just a _fun_, gross & scary time. It’s like a much better Evil Dead film than the actual recent Evil Dead films! It’s a very tight 90 mins, there is no fat on this story, each set piece is great I would also compare it to a good Evil Dead film. I think Evil Dead Rise is its equal or even better, but this was actually better than Evil Dead Burn. I hope Sam Raimi sees Resident Evil. He’d love it, especially how far it goes in the final 10 minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=321) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=323)