# 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:** 82
**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:** [March 12, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1621 "2025-03-12T20:37:24Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > You seem to have spelled _Pulp Fiction_ incorrectly. He spelled _Inglourious_ incorrectly, too. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1622 "2025-03-13T01:48:06Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Does watching partial movies count for this thread? A day or two ago I watched the second half of _Kill Bill Vol. 1_, and I loved that almost as much. Yes, there was lots of gushing blood, but it was over the top silly and cartoonish. I didn’t know the movie was a send-up of martial arts and samurai films because the title didn’t indicate anything to me. But I liked Lucy Liu and Uma Thurman very much in their roles, and the whole thing was more comical than violent and gritty. I have Dish set to record both Vol. 1 and 2 when they are replayed in a few days. > > So I guess I’m a new Tarantino fan. I love Kill Bill, both Volumes. I love stylized violence though. I love Tarantino movies, and in some ways I aspire to be like him as a writer. To take a genre (in my case, romance) that is generally regarded as trash and elevate it into the best example of itself and yet somehow keep all the magnificent, trashy tropes in tact. I mean it’s fucking brilliant. And he does the best scene work of any director I know. The opening scene in _Inglourious Basterds_ is a masterpiece. I haven’t seen all his films, but I’ve seen _True Romance (writer, not director), Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vols I & II, Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood_ and _Inglourious Basterds._ While _Kill Bill_ is my favorite, I think _Inglourious Basterds_ is his best. If you like Tarantino, I would recommend a non-Tarantino film that is very good and has shades of Tarantino without being derivative, _Bad Times at the El Royale._ > [@jsc1953](#): > > (unfortunately, I found vol. 2 a bit of a disappointment.) It’s a very different tempo, pace, and altogether different genre. But Volume II is worth it for me for the trailer park battle with Elle Driver where Beatrix takes out her fucking eye. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1623 "2025-03-13T01:49:45Z")
Reservoir Dogs is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1624 "2025-03-13T01:50:38Z")
Now that’s one I _can’t_ watch, because I can’t deal with torture. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1625 "2025-03-13T01:55:55Z")
Nor I, but it’s brief and the camera shifts away. Michael Madsen really scares me though! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1626 "2025-03-13T02:25:11Z")
Similarly, I’ve seen Basterds 2 or 3 times but have never actually seen the scene where the Bear Jew dispatches the German with a baseball bat. Always close my eyes for a second. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1627 "2025-03-13T03:03:31Z")
_The Terminator_ 1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn It’s always a nice evening watching The Terminator. During the police interrogation, Kyle Reece says He served with the 132nd under Perry, from 2021 to 2027. We’re already in that timeline. The Model 101 is sent to kill Sarah in 2029. I’m not sure Arnold would make the same impression naked today. 😉 A lot of fans have forgotten Michael Biehn. I had to look up who played Kyle Reece. Kyle’s job is to impregnate Sarah and ensure John Connor’s future. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1628 "2025-03-13T03:26:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > A lot of fans have forgotten Michael Biehn. He was one of the best parts of Aliens. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1629 "2025-03-13T03:34:48Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > He was one of the best parts of Aliens Overshadowed by Carrie Henn in her one and only acting role. “We’d better get back, 'cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… _mostly_.” ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1630 "2025-03-13T03:40:54Z")
I’ve always thought extreme heat should be The Terminator’s vulnerability. The microprocessor is vulnerable even today to heat. Also the power source wouldn’t like extreme heat. But, roasting in the fire didn’t even make the Model 101 reboot in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1631 "2025-03-13T03:52:29Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > He was one of the best parts of Aliens. There are 2 famous iconic lines from Aliens, and he gets one of them. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1632 "2025-03-13T06:20:28Z")
Only two?! ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1633 "2025-03-13T07:52:37Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > A lot of fans have forgotten Michael Biehn. You mean the guy who played a SEAL officer in _The Abyss (1989),_ the guy who played a SEAL officer in _The Rock (1996),_ or the guy who played a SEAL officer in _Navy SEALs (1990)_? I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that typecasting might have hurt his career. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1634 "2025-03-13T08:37:52Z")
“Somebody wake up Hicks.” (I know it’s not Biehn’s line, but it’s one of my favorites.) ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1635 "2025-03-13T12:55:01Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > There are 2 famous iconic lines from Aliens, and he gets one of them. Hmmm…“It’s game over, man, game over!!!” is not him. What line does he have? ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1636 "2025-03-13T12:57:50Z")
“I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit”? repeating what Ripley’d just said, but iconic nevertheless. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1637 "2025-03-13T13:46:23Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “Somebody wake up Hicks.” > > (I know it’s not Biehn’s line, but it’s one of my favorites.) That entire opening Act is perfect. Action with rich story development from minute one. Sgt. Apone knows his men and they are salty. “Elevator to hell, going down.” ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1638 "2025-03-13T15:28:41Z")
It really is a perfect sequence, isn’t it? > [@Sitnam](#): > > “Elevator to hell, going down.” Hell, even the pilot’s countdown in that scene is cool: “Two… one… mark.” The actress had maybe 20 seconds of total screen time in the entire movie, and she nailed them. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1639 "2025-03-13T15:40:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Hell, even the pilot’s countdown in that scene is cool: I think James Cameron has a thing for women in aviator sunglasses. There’s one in Avatar, too. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/1640 "2025-03-13T15:48:25Z")
BTWI happened to watch _Aliens_ a month or so ago, for the first time in a long time, and I realized something interesting. You know how the character of Burke (Paul Reiser) is uniformly considered a “weasel”? That’s not entirely true. Burke is absolutely, irredeemably evil, but he’s also almost as brave, levelheaded and competent as Ripley. When everything starts falling apart, and much tougher guys than him start panicking, he remains calm and focused, despite theoretically being the person _least_ qualified to be there. It’s interesting, and it makes him a better villain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=81) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288.md?page=83)