# 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:** 57
**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 9, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1121 "2025-01-09T06:40:23Z")
**The Fall Guy** must be the most forgettable film I’ve ever seen and I only finished watching it a half hour ago. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1122 "2025-01-09T08:51:58Z")
The Fast And The Furious (2001) As someone who somehow has never watched any of the entire series, I really enjoyed this first installment but mainly as an interesting undercover cop film. I feel the second it stops being about cops and robbers I’m just going to hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1123 "2025-01-09T14:00:29Z")
**Night of the Comet** When Earth passes through a comet’s tail and most everyone is turned to dust, two sisters Reggie and Sam (Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney) try to survive zombies, evil stockboys, government scientists, and a shopping spree at the mall. It features a great improvised line – the two are firing a MAC-10 submachine gun at a parked car and the weapon jams. Director Thom Eberhardt told the two to stay in character no matter what due to limited time and budget, so when the weapon malfunctions, Sam looks are her sister and says “See, this is the problem with these things. Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.” ---
**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:** [January 9, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1124 "2025-01-09T14:50:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I thought I’d rewatch Disney’s **Tarzan** , which has always been one of my favourites, though it has been quite a while since I watched it last time. Great songs from Phil Collins as well, who returned to Disney for Brother Bear only to realize they didn’t want him to sing all the songs for Brother Bear…so they compromised and also let him write the score. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1125 "2025-01-10T05:56:37Z")
I just watched _Otto,_ Very bittersweet and a little sniffly. Tom Hanks is - as usual- fantastic. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1126 "2025-01-10T06:05:51Z")
I ran across a Mark Ruffalo movie that I’d never heard of before - [_What Doesn’t Kill You_ (2008)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133991/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_what%2520doesn%27), costarring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Peete, who all do a fantastic job. Great performances. It’s just the movie didn’t really tell much of a story, and the story it did tell kind of dragged out forever. It’s essentially a redemption story. Small time hood turns his life around in the nick of time. Most of the first 2/3’s watches like a poor man’s _Goodfellas_, except far less intriguing and far more repetitive. Essentially Ruffalo and Hawke are two kids from the neighborhood who end being errand boys for the Irish mob, so a lot of the movie is just them doing shitty things but nothing really noteworthy - a few beatings, kidnapping a dog, a robbery here and there. Then the last 1/3 is Ruffalo trying to get his shit together and be a good father. It’s a pretty boring section of the movie, I gotta say. So, yeah, I don’t know if I’d recommend it. It’s just dull, though it really shouldn’t be, and there are some questionable editing choices that bothered me (the same scene is shown three times in the movie and you never know if it’s a flashback or a fantasy). Then again, Mark Ruffalo is one of my favorite actors so I’d watch him read the phone book if they filmed it for two hours. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1127 "2025-01-11T19:04:27Z")
I re-watched **Saturday Night Fever** for the second time in 40 years. The first time I saw it was with my mother, some fifteen years after it was released. Kind of awkward but we enjoyed it, IIRC. Watching yesterday, all alone, and it’s still awkward but in a different way. Maybe the word I’m looking for is cringeworthy. The music is still great, Travolta is a great dancer, but dayum, the acting and dialogue is so over the top it’s SNL skit style. I hadn’t remembered the repeated use of the word "cunt’ (doesn’t bother me) but maybe it wasn’t that big of a deal then. Also, the “teenagers” look every bit the twenty and thirty years old they were at the time. ---
**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 11, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1128 "2025-01-11T19:30:41Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Also, the “teenagers” look every bit the twenty and thirty years old they were at the time. Travolta was the youngest of Kotter’s high school sweathogs at the age of 25. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1129 "2025-01-11T20:35:14Z")
The author of the article that _Saturday Night Fever_ is based on admitted eventually that he knew almost nothing about the disco scene and made up much of what’s going on in the movie. > **[Saturday Night Fever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever#Development)** > > Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The story is based on "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 New York article by music writer Nik Cohn. > A major ... ---
**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 11, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1130 "2025-01-11T20:37:32Z")
Watched The Lady Vanishes last night. I was amused to learn that the two annoying cricket-fixated Englishmen became meta-characters across many movies and radio shows. [Charters and Caldicott - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charters_and_Caldicott) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1131 "2025-01-11T20:47:16Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@MagicEyes](#): > > > > I’m watching Nosferatu (2023). I’m starting to understand why the internet doesn’t want to acknowledge that this movie exists > > Huh? What do you mean? It’s really terrible. It has high production values, so the previews look good, but it’s terrible. The only noteworthy thing is that Count Orlok looks like Bram Stoker’s description of Dracula in the book, which is the first time this has been done, but that’s really not much. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1132 "2025-01-11T20:53:55Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > It’s not easy to find on the internet. When I did a Google search for Nosferatu 2023, most of the search results were about the 2024 version. Wait-- there’s a 2024 version? what? I thought you couldn’t find the 2023 version because the producers were making a big deal about it being ONLY in theaters. Like, it’s so precious, it can’t be online. Has to be on the silver screen. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1133 "2025-01-11T21:06:33Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > It’s really terrible. It has high production values, so the previews look good, but it’s terrible. The only noteworthy thing is that Count Orlok looks like Bram Stoker’s description of Dracula in the book, which is the first time this has been done, but that’s really not much. Scratch that-- I’m confused-- that is the 2024 version. And yes, I’ve seen the 2023 version, but so long ago, I barely remembered. It’s not very interesting, if you are a fan of the 1922 version, but it’s not terrible. The production values are supposed to match the 1922 version, but don’t. The 2024 one is the really awful one. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1134 "2025-01-11T21:33:41Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ve never seen the 1922 version. I did once see Werner Herzog’s version and this new one is much better than his. Wow. Have to beg to differ here: Herzog’s version is AMAZING. It’s one of the few remakes that is as good as the original. And it is beautiful; it’s ironically beautiful. The beauty of it foreshadows the end, albeit, there’s a crack in it, like many of the beautiful things in the film. I loved this film. You could make a drinking game out of the 2024 version, though-- take a slug every time somebody on screen pukes. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1135 "2025-01-11T22:49:17Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > You could make a drinking game out of the 2024 version, though-- take a slug every time somebody on screen pukes. Good to know. I was really looking forward to it but excess vomiting is a deal breaker. Unless it’s just vampires upchucking blood or Renfield upchucking bugs. ---
**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 11, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1136 "2025-01-11T22:57:38Z")
As far as I know, there’s only two scenes with vomiting. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1137 "2025-01-11T23:05:59Z")
_Escape Plan_ 2013 Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger Interesting idea. Stallone is an expert at testing Prison Security. He goes in as a prisoner and finds a way out. It’s a lucrative business for him and his partner. Things get very serious when all his safety protocols are taken away. He meets Arnold in prison and they depend on each other to survive and find a way to escape. It’s ok. Definitely not a great movie, but it’s a pleasant way to spend a couple hours. My biggest criticism is the setting is too confining. Stallone and Arnold are larger than life. You expect big things from the characters. Instead they’re in a prison getting beat up by sadistic guards and fighting other inmates. I’m more accustomed to seeing both actors in charge and making bold plans. _Action Heroes_ ---
**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:** [January 11, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1138 "2025-01-11T23:43:00Z")
Escape Plan 2: Hades Sylvester Stallone Watched 15 minutes and changed the channel. The prison is to futuristic and includes the cliche of staged inmate fights. (Gladiators) The Warden is called The Zookeeper. That’s when I reached for the tv remote. Both Escape movies are on Peacock. Stallone either makes very good movies or crap. Remember _Over the Top_, the arm wrestler movie. There’s not much middle ground. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1139 "2025-01-12T00:46:16Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Stallone either makes very good movies or crap. Remember _Over the Top_, the arm wrestler movie. There’s not much middle ground. We loved that when I was a kid, but let’s be honest, arm wrestling in a big contest seems cool to 10 year old. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1140 "2025-01-12T00:48:57Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I did once see Werner Herzog’s version and this new one is much better than his. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Wow. Have to beg to differ here: Herzog’s version is AMAZING. I’m watching the Herzog film now, I’m right at the scene with the rats departing the ship (the backstory on the rats is pretty interesting in itself). With the haunting soundtrack and the lingering set pieces, it seems almost like a continuation of Aguirre, the previous Herzog/Kinski collaboration. For those interested, it’s available for free on Kanopy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=58)