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Originally Posted by Kajitsu
I figured it out while I was away!
"I've seen good films recently" implies that you have seen only good films recently. "I've seen some good films recently" states that you have seen other qualities as well.
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There are instances where the word "some" doesn't (really) carry any specific meaning at all, semantically speaking. Sometimes we say it just so that we can emphasize the next word, "good", to produce the ultimate meaning of "I have seen excellent/awesome/incredible movies recently".
Then again, saying that you've seen ones that are really good requires first that you have a basis for comparison and also that these really good ones exceed your standard for what is a "good movie", which obviously can't be 'all' movies, so you could make a case for "some" as having very implicit semantic meaning.
Ultimately, this sentence can mean a couple of things depending on which word is emphasized. Emphasis on "good" yields what I said already. Emphasis on "some" would mean that you've seen only a few ("There are SOME good chick flicks out there", implying that most chick flicks aren't that good in your opinion). Emphasis on "I" means you and only you, or rather "Me, but I don't know about you". Emphasis on movies can mean a few things all at once, but the first thing I would think as a listener would be that you have seen some good movies but have not read good books/heard good music/etc.
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