# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/61 "2024-09-04T17:08:05Z")
My questions aren’t just about _that_ aspect but you’re right, I must have missed it. Can you remind me when it was shown? Maybe I saw it and it didn’t stand out because there was so many “party scenes” that everything kind of meshed together for me. I think I was looking for something more elaborate / creative than the ultimate group date rape with the ultimate date rape drug. I am now looking forward to streaming it so I can watch more closely. Also, damn , it’s great to see Geena Davis. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/62 "2024-09-04T21:04:15Z")
Watched **The Beekeeper** (Prime) because I wanted to watch an action film. Jason Statham’s character could out fight and out plan an unlimited number of opponents (cf. John Wick, Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, Jack Reacher, etc.). He was retired, but was faced with an injustice he couldn’t ignore. Statham is taller than Tom Cruise, but has a smaller production budget. The film didn’t deliver style, originality or humor, but I finished it. The villains operated a call center so there was some joy seeing them get dead. No grade — generic action movie, it was okay. ---
**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 4, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/63 "2024-09-04T21:51:03Z")
I really disliked and was bored by Beekeeper. ---
**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 5, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/64 "2024-09-05T01:47:10Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > [@Mahaloth](#): > > > > **Blink Twice** > > > > Recommended. > > > > Wow, another great movie to go in blind to and enjoy. I was again completely pulled in and I’ve been impressed this year with thrillers, if that is the right term for this. Just a really well made, tense movie. > > > > I guess some of it was somewhat predictable, but I still enjoyed the entire movie and all the performances were great. > > > > Check this one out for sure. > > Saw this last night and had been really looking forward to it. It was fun, mostly due the cast, I think. I found it a bit incoherent and I’m thinking it’s a problem with editing, as if scenes that contain important information were cut. I feel like I was paying close attention but it wasn’t totally clear to me that the whole reason for the island soiree was to drug women to sexually abuse them and then wipe their memories with perfume. I won’t hijack the whole thread and ask my many questions; I looked it up when I got home and as I was reading I kept thinking "_when did that happen"_? and “how did I miss _that_”? > I recommend watching it when it’s streaming. I’m _really_ not sure how you could have missed that and actually seen the film. It wasn’t like one quick shot, it was extensive and violent and fairly graphic. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/65 "2024-09-05T02:11:43Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > ’m _really_ not sure how you could have missed that and actually seen the film. It wasn’t like one quick shot, it was extensive and violent and fairly graphic. Well now I’m questioning my sanity. Or my own memory 😧 I’m almost tempted to see it again but I’ll wait until it’s streaming. This is very strange and troubling. ---
**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 5, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/66 "2024-09-05T02:38:45Z")
Have you used any new perfumes lately…? 😅 ---
**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 5, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/67 "2024-09-05T15:49:44Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Well now I’m questioning my sanity. Or my own memory 😧 I’m almost tempted to see it again but I’ll wait until it’s streaming. This is very strange and troubling. I’ll PM you. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/68 "2024-09-05T16:09:54Z")
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I plead temporary insanity 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/69 "2024-09-06T03:54:03Z")
I am currently watching “Woodchipper Massacre” on Twitch. Acting _un_worthy of a camp skit, people that have no idea that microphones exist so they shout every line, and reportedly a total budget of about $400…including the cost of the camera. Even though it contains the word “Massacre” in the title, this dreck is PG, if not almost G. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/70 "2024-09-06T12:09:43Z")
I finally got around to watching _The Big Lebowski_ last night. I thought it was just OK. The acting (particularly John Goodman) was pretty good. The Coen brothers are definitely hit or miss with me. I read that they purposely wanted the movie to be a bit convoluted. They succeeded (IMO.) I don’t quite get what turned this movie into such a cult classic though. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/71 "2024-09-06T12:15:45Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > The Big Lebowski > [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I don’t quite get what turned this movie into such a cult classic though. I also finally watched it several months ago. I’m glad somebody else has the same opinion as me! It was okay, but certainly not great enough to make me want to run out and buy a t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/72 "2024-09-06T12:20:47Z")
Well… that’s like… your opinion man… ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/73 "2024-09-06T13:00:22Z")
Finally watched Oppenheimer. Was not in the mood for it before. It was all it was cracked up to be and then some. It still is in my head. I will have to force my husband, who does not watch movies, to see it, as his career was in high energy physics. Very weird that it was somehow paired with Barbie of all things, a film to be instantly forgotten. ---
**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 6, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/74 "2024-09-06T13:52:32Z")
**Hotel** (2004) Boring. Skip it. It’s streaming release was apparently a big deal because it was hard to find even a DVD. A waste of time. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/75 "2024-09-07T01:25:17Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Oppenheimer I have been telling people that I am apparently the only one who thinks the 1980 movie called _Oppenheimer_ is better than the 2003 one. That may not even be true. The IMDb score of the 2023 one is 8.3, while the score of the 1980 one is 8.2. See them both and compare. ---
**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 7, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/76 "2024-09-07T11:42:47Z")
Perhaps one has to have an affinity for the slacker lifestyle to fully appreciate Jeff Bridges’s Lebowski characterization. I’m a lazy fuck who wants to be unencumbered by most constraints so I get it. I would think there might be some crossover with the people who also think Lester Burnham’s quiet but insistent rebellion in _American Beauty_ was funny and almost inspirational. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/77 "2024-09-07T12:06:12Z")
I’m more of a Ron Livingston in _Office Space_ type. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/78 "2024-09-07T16:21:11Z")
[Till Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Death_(film)) (2021). Thriller staring Megan Fox. It was fun to watch, but most scenes were over-the-top ridiculous and unrealistic. ---
**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 7, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/79 "2024-09-07T21:18:19Z")
**Beetlejuice Beetlejuice** A kinda pointless sequel that just checks off all the gags from the first film. Maybe if there was 50% more Harry Belafonte and 100% less Richard Harris… ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/80 "2024-09-07T23:47:21Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Perhaps one has to have an affinity for the slacker lifestyle to fully appreciate Jeff Bridges’s Lebowski characterization. I’m a lazy fuck who wants to be unencumbered by most constraints so I get it. > > I would think there might be some crossover with the people who also think Lester Burnham’s quiet but insistent rebellion in _American Beauty_ was funny and almost inspirational. Not for me. But probably because I like Jeff Bridges a lot and loathe Spacey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=5)