# 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:** 55
**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1081 "2025-01-04T10:07:01Z")
Noble Johnson had a decent career as an actor in films, even with the racial typecasting. Or maybe “under the circumstances” is a better way of putting it. He was half-black, and he could credibly play exotic looking Europeans as well as many Asian nationalities, as in Lost Horizon. I knew it was him in the final scenes without having watched the credits or knowing that he was in the film. John Ford used Johnson in a number of films, as did Cecil B. De Mille. Both directors liked to use him for Native Americans. Johnson’s life makes for fascinating reading, though I don’t think he has an “official” biography. The man was a Hollywood pioneer, and began working in films in the early silent era, during the First World War. He was a boyhood buddy of Lon Chaney, father, not son (that I know of), and he lived to nearly a hundred. 🥳 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1082 "2025-01-04T10:55:32Z")
When it comes to racial typecasting I like something Hattie McDaniel said about her roles as maids. She said it was better to play a maid at $150 a week than to actually be one at $5 a week. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1083 "2025-01-04T13:48:23Z")
The wife came into the room and said “Hey, there’s a new Wallace and Gromit movie on Netflix! Let’s watch it!” So, remembering W&G from long ago, I thought sure, why not. So we watched **Vengeance Most Fowl** last night and I’d really like that hour and 20 minutes back. It was probably fine for a six year old, but other than one or two chuckles, it was a slog for me. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1084 "2025-01-04T14:50:04Z")
After seeing _A Complete Unknown_ in the theater I dug up **Dont Look Back** (auto correct hates this title) from the TCM section of MAX. It’s the prototypical “rockumentary” of Dylan’s 1965 tour of Britain. Last time I saw it was at an art theater in the 1970s before it became the _Zero Hour!_ for _This is Spinal Tap_. It holds up better than I expected. Much of it is Dylan being a contrarian in the face of people who think they have him figured out. Some might chalk it up to rudeness, drink/drugs, or some kind of autism like Asperger’s but on this viewing I’m convinced he’s just arguing with (some highly regarded) idiots. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1085 "2025-01-04T15:18:21Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > My son and I went and saw **Nosferatu** today as well. Not only did I go with my son, but there was a father-son duo directly in front of us. Providence! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1086 "2025-01-04T15:39:47Z")
We watched _My Dinner with Andre_ over the holidays. I watch 3-4 times a year and I still don’t know how I feel about the movie, but I often think back on _My Dinner with Andre._ ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1087 "2025-01-04T17:15:31Z")
_The Fall Guy_ with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, two very talented and likable performers in a movie without much creativity. “Hey, let’s make a movie about stunt guys doing stunts!” ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1088 "2025-01-04T17:35:51Z")
Already done; see **The Stunt Man** with Peter O’Toole. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1089 "2025-01-04T17:47:10Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I watch 3-4 times a year and I still don’t know how I feel about the movie, but I often think back on _My Dinner with Andre._ Well done. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1090 "2025-01-04T21:20:36Z")
> [@john\_b\_2](#): > > Noble Johnson had a decent career as an actor in films, even with the racial typecasting. Or maybe “under the circumstances” is a better way of putting it. He was half-black, and he could credibly play exotic looking Europeans as well as many Asian nationalities, as in Lost Horizon. I knew it was him in the final scenes without having watched the credits or knowing that he was in the film. > > John Ford used Johnson in a number of films, as did Cecil B. De Mille. Both directors liked to use him for Native Americans. Johnson’s life makes for fascinating reading, though I don’t think he has an “official” biography. The man was a Hollywood pioneer, and began working in films in the early silent era, during the First World War. He was a boyhood buddy of Lon Chaney, father, not son (that I know of), and he lived to nearly a hundred He also played The Harem Guard (with an enormous curved sword) in the 1924 Douglas Fairbanks _The Thief of Bagdad_. Johnson played so many stereotyped black roles – Harem Guard, Tribal chief (in both _King Kong_ and _Son of Kong_, “the Nubian” in _The Mummy_ – that you’d think he’d get tired or frustrated. And probably he did, because he founded the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, which made “race” movies geared to black audiences, and to provide something besides those offensive roles. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of ther movies ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1091 "2025-01-04T21:24:53Z")
I’ve been raiding my DVD collection and watching old fantastic cinema while putting away the Christmas decorations **Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers Seventh Voyage of Sinbad The Mysterians** My wife was working on her laptop with her headphones on when I put the last one up. She looked up just as Moguera/Giant Robot burst out of the ground, and exclaimed “Oh, my God!” [![](https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/Moguera?file=The_Mysterians_Moguera.jpg) ](https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/Moguera?file=The_Mysterians_Moguera.jpg) > **[Moguera](https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Moguera)** > > Moguera (モゲラ,   Mogera) is a robotic monster that first appeared in the 1957 Toho film The Mysterians. A reimagining of the character, whose name is an acronym for Mobile Operations Godzilla Universal Expert Robot Aero-type (MOGUERA), debuted... She hadn’t watched The Mysterians a zillion times, as I had. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1092 "2025-01-04T22:12:50Z")
First off, awesome movie playlist. Secondly, have you ever seen [The Magnetic Monster - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnetic_Monster)? My guess is you have. Be that as it may, it’s a bit different for a monster movie, though every bit as tense. Very cool stock footage from UFA’s _Gold_ (1934) is well-integrated into the story, if not the visuals. Lastly, although the article you linked to does contain some interesting facts I never knew and photos/sketches I had never seen of the original Moguera, it’s primarily about the “re-imagined” Moguera (seen in the thumbnail) that appeared in _Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla_ (1994). I offer the following as an alternative reference more focused on the original: > **[Moguera](https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/Moguera)** > > Moguera (モゲラ,   Mogera?) is a Mysterian mecha created by Toho that first appeared in the 1957 film, The Mysterians. Moguera's Japanese name, Mogera (モゲラ), is derived from mogura (or モグラ, lit. dirt dragon), the Japanese word for "mole." This is... ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1093 "2025-01-04T22:17:04Z")
> [@](#): > > [Moguera | Wikizilla, the kaiju encyclopedia](https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Moguera) > Moguera (モゲラ, Mogera) is a robotic monster that first appeared in the 1957 Toho film The Mysterians. A reimagining of the character, whose name is an acronym for Mobile Operations Godzilla Universal Expert Robot Aero-type (MOGUERA), debuted… Sounds like someone really wanted to make an acronym out of MOGUERA. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1094 "2025-01-04T22:18:22Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > _The Fall Guy_ with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, two very talented and likable performers in a movie without much creativity. “Hey, let’s make a movie about stunt guys doing stunts!” Which is based on the television show of a stunt guy doing stunt guy stuff to solve murders and otherwise foil bad guys. The film was very much in the vein of the series, and neither were intended to be taken remotely seriously. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1095 "2025-01-04T22:47:33Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Already done; see **The Stunt Man** with Peter O’Toole. Hal Needham’s **Hooper** is a much better precursor for a (rather) uncreative film about stuntmen doing stunts. **Stunt Man** is a brilliant psychological satire that bears little resemblance to reality let alone the life of an actual stunt man. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1096 "2025-01-05T01:48:43Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Secondly, have you ever seen [The Magnetic Monster - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnetic_Monster)? My guess is you have. Be that as it may, it’s a bit different for a monster movie, though every bit as tense. Very cool stock footage from UFA’s _Gold_ (1934) is well-integrated into the story, if not the visuals. I’ve seen it. It’s one of three movies that Ivan Tors made in the 1950s featuring the OSI – the Office of Scientific Investigation. The other two were **Riders to the Stars** (a really odd film, written by Curt Siodmak) and **GOG** The first two were in black and white, but the third w3as not only in color, but in 3D. I showed it, in 3D, at least year’s Arisia SF convention. I saw GOG as a kid on TV, and didn’t realize it was a color movie. For years. I didn’t know it was 3D until a few years ago. After re-watching the film, I’m convinced that Michael Crichton must have seen it and lifted the setting for _The Andromeda Strain_ from it. A giant underground research lab hidden in the desert of the Southwest, built several levels, each one circular and centered on the elevator shaft, with an atomic bomb at the base. In both stories the imminent detonation of the bomb is the climactic danger. Interesting flick, but the two robots – Gog and Magog, look kinda silly today. And why the hell did they buiild flamethrowers into them? As for Moguera – you probably missed my first link, which doesn’t show up well. It’s to a picture of the 1957 Moguero,. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1097 "2025-01-05T03:37:08Z")
Finally watched Confess Fletch. Really enjoyed it and am sorry it’s not going to get a sequel. I saw the Chevy Chase films years ago but don’t remember much about them. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1098 "2025-01-05T06:27:17Z")
**From Noon to Three** (1976) This is a film I remember liking when I saw it at the $2 movie theater when I was 13, though I remembered few details. Despite incorporating a rather late example of the old “seduction through attempted rape” trope, it’s a fun and novel (if unbelievable) story. It starts as a pulp romance that eventually subverts its love story in a surprising and clever way. Charles Bronson reveals himself as a charming and capable comedic actor and his wife Jill Ireland is cast in a role that isn’t diminished by her limited range. This film receives no love in the online reviews I’ve read. Perhaps because it’s not a typical western or a typical Bronson vehicle. It’s not a masterpiece by any measure but I think it deserves better than that. ETA- Beware the infectious earworm, if you choose to watch this. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1099 "2025-01-05T06:35:44Z")
_Some have a lifetime, some just a day, love isn’t something you measure that way…_ Ack!!! ---
**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:** [January 5, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1100 "2025-01-05T06:40:40Z")
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