# Bakers Dozen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 1302

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26024 "2014-05-22T19:26:53Z")

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Stand-alone horror films (not a remake, not part of a series, no sequels, no prequels)

1. The Masque of the Red Death
2. Rosemary’s Baby
3. Student Bodies
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. London After Midnight
6. The Haunting (1963)
7. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
8. Christine (1983)
9. Zombieland
10. Event Horizon
11. Them!
12. The Legend of Hell House (1973)

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26025 "2014-05-22T19:28:00Z")

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Stand-alone horror films (not a remake, not part of a series, no sequels, no prequels)

1. The Masque of the Red Death
2. Rosemary’s Baby
3. Student Bodies
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. London After Midnight
6. The Haunting (1963)
7. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
8. Christine (1983)
9. Zombieland
10. Event Horizon
11. Them!
12. Drag Me To Hell

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26026 "2014-05-22T19:31:04Z")

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> [@Bullitt](#):
>
> I pulled that from IMDB’s [The 25 Best Non Disney/Pixar Animated Movies](http://www.imdb.com/list/hwd8JP3z_MU/). Its title caught my eye but I missed the fact it was a short.

You can watch it [online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpl0KRFdj1E).

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26027 "2014-05-22T19:33:49Z")

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Stand-alone horror films (not a remake, not part of a series, no sequels, no prequels)

1. The Masque of the Red Death
2. Rosemary’s Baby
3. Student Bodies
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. London After Midnight
6. The Haunting (1963)
7. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
8. Christine (1983)
9. Zombieland
10. Event Horizon
11. Them!
12. Drag Me To Hell
13. The Manitou

Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26028 "2014-05-22T19:37:02Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26029 "2014-05-22T20:20:18Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance

I puddled up for that quiet, bittersweet scene near the end where the poor farming couple serves them dinner.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26030 "2014-05-22T20:32:03Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26031 "2014-05-22T20:58:54Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music

\*Edelweiss…edelweiss…\*I was like ten years old and it gave me teh deep feelz. Still does. ☹

Five picks so far, three movies with Nazis. 😃

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26032 "2014-05-22T21:05:34Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller

You know, the scene at the end where Hitler killed the dog.

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26033 "2014-05-22T21:07:05Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller
7. My Dog Skip

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26034 "2014-05-22T21:51:31Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller
7. My Dog Skip
8. Terms of Endearment

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26035 "2014-05-22T23:02:34Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller
7. My Dog Skip
8. Terms of Endearment
9. 1776

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26036 "2014-05-22T23:10:06Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller
7. My Dog Skip
8. Terms of Endearment
9. 1776
10. Toy Story 3

Especially if you know the Owl Creek Bridge theory.

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**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26037 "2014-05-22T23:36:31Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller
7. My Dog Skip
8. Terms of Endearment
9. 1776
10. Toy Story 3
11. E.T.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26038 "2014-05-23T00:22:17Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller
7. My Dog Skip
8. Terms of Endearment
9. 1776
10. Toy Story 3
11. E.T.  
12 Psycho

(I was about 5 yrs old, why my mother let me watch it a 5 yrs old, I will never know. Running away and bawling after the shower scene is one of my earliest memories)

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26039 "2014-05-23T00:45:32Z")

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Movies that made you, personally, cry the first time you saw them

1. Up
2. Schindler’s List
3. Deliverance
4. Life Is Beautiful
5. The Sound of Music
6. Old Yeller
7. My Dog Skip
8. Terms of Endearment
9. 1776
10. Toy Story 3
11. E.T.
12. Psycho
13. The Fellowship of the Ring

_When Gandalf rounded the bend on his cart, and Frodo was sitting under the tree, and I realized the movie wasn’t going to suck, I wept real tears in the theater._

Next: **Card games, other than poker and its variants, that are played with a standard deck.**

1. Blackjack

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26040 "2014-05-23T00:48:15Z")

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**Card games, other than poker and its variants, that are played with a standard deck.**

1. Blackjack
2. Go Fish

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26041 "2014-05-23T01:30:42Z")

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**Card games, other than poker and its variants, that are played with a standard deck.**

1. Blackjack
2. Go Fish
3. Hearts

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26042 "2014-05-23T02:24:36Z")

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**Card games, other than poker and its variants, that are played with a standard deck.**

1. Blackjack
2. Go Fish
3. Hearts
4. Oh Hell

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/26043 "2014-05-23T03:22:43Z")

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Card games, other than poker and its variants, that are played with a standard deck.

1. Blackjack
2. Go Fish
3. Hearts
4. Oh Hell
5. Gin Rummy

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