# Five-Word Movie Review **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 4, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494 "2014-02-04T16:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 137
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2722 "2025-08-04T14:53:42Z")
It wasn’t easy, but I think I found three suitable answers. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > **Non-porn films of Shannon Tweed** (yes, there are three; there are more than three) _No Contest_ Tweed plays an action hero _Detroit Rock City_ Road trip to see KISS _Hot Dog…The Movie_ Skiing, hockey, and hot tubs Next: **Movies with Playboy bunnies** ---
**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:** [August 4, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2723 "2025-08-04T21:19:34Z")
_Lover Come Back_ Cary Grant, clients with Bunnies _Americathon_ Dorothy Stratten escorts Meat Loaf _Legally Blonde_ Reese dresses as a Bunny Next up: **Movies about puritanical lifestyles** ---
**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:** [August 4, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2724 "2025-08-04T22:04:38Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > It wasn’t easy, but I think I found three suitable answers. I was hoping you’d pick _Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death_. She plays a college professor who teaches women’s studies. But, your answer. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2725 "2025-08-06T14:55:55Z")
_The Scarlet Letter_ (1908) First, silent version of story. _The Scarlet Letter_ (1934) The one with Colleen Moore. _The Scarlet Letter_ (1995) The latest, with Demi Moore. **Movies with Martians** ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2726 "2025-08-06T18:03:44Z")
**Movies with Martians** _Mars Attacks_ Earth’s only hope? Whitman’s yodeling _Spaced Invaders_ Dopey Martians invade dopey town _My Favorite Martian_ Remake was not audience’s favorite Next: **Movies with Aliens on Earth** ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2727 "2025-08-06T18:19:22Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Next: **Movies with Aliens on Earth** _The Day the Earth Stood Still_ 1951, 2008 versions: see 1951. _War of the Worlds_ Another movie didn’t need remaking. _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ Please keep Richard Dreyfuss. Please. NEXT: **Australian movies** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2728 "2025-08-06T18:29:17Z")
NEXT: **Australian movies** _Mad Max_ Max, Goose versus the Toe-Cutter _The Man From Snowy River_ He came back for Jess _Crocodile Dundee_ Knife? Now _that’s_ a knife! Next: **Movies set in Mexico** ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2729 "2025-08-07T02:52:09Z")
_El Mariachi_ Robert Rodriguez’s eye-catching directorial debut _Born in East LA_ Mexican-American citizen renditioned to Mexico _Apocalypto_ About as accurate as Braveheart Next: **_Very_ Historically-Inaccurate Movies** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2730 "2025-08-07T06:06:28Z")
_Argo_ Not exactly how it happened _300_ Persian forces were better equipped _Inglorious Basterds_ Tarantino’s World War 2 revision Next: **Movies with people walking… a lot** ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2731 "2025-08-08T01:24:11Z")
_The Book of Eli_ It’s the Bible all along _The Road_ Man and boy post-apocalyptic trudge _A Boy and His Dog_ Not much driving after apocalypse\* Next: **Movies _Without_ a Lot of Walking (_ie_, set primarily in one location)** ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2732 "2025-08-08T03:03:00Z")
_Dave_ Zany hijinks in White House _1776_ “Hot as hell in Philadelphia!” _Downfall_ Adolf mostly stuck in bunker Next up: **Films that gave rise to memes** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2733 "2025-08-08T03:35:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Films that gave rise to memes _Race to Witch Mountain_ The Rock glancing behind him _The Matrix_ “What if I told you…” _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ “Oh please, continue your argument…” Next: **Movies with your favorite villain** ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2734 "2025-08-08T03:43:04Z")
_The Last of the Mohicans_ Wes Studi terrifying as Magua _Star Wars: Rogue One_ Vader at his scariest here _Breaker Morant_ Kitchener, perhaps unfairly, is baddie Next up: **Movies centered on antiheroes** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2735 "2025-08-08T03:49:20Z")
_High Plains Drifter_ The Man with No Name _Death Wish_ Everyone cheered for Charles Bronson _Deadpool_ Ryan Reynolds is finally cool Next: **Actors in blackface** ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2736 "2025-08-08T10:28:17Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Next: **Actors in blackface** Yike! don’t know about this topic; however, it is unfortunately possible to find three. _Birth of a Nation_ “Black” characters are white actors. _Holiday Inn_ Beloved movie, beloved actors…yikes! _Be Kind, Rewind_ This movie is from **2008**! NEXT: **Movies that help move forward careers of black people in Hollywood, either specifically, or in general.** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2737 "2025-08-08T14:59:21Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > Next: **Actors in blackface** > > Yike! don’t know about this topic; however, it is unfortunately possible to find three. I stumbled across lists of movies in this category on IMDB, Screen Rant and Mental Floss, but none mentioned _Silver Streak_, one of my favorite movies of the 1970s; in a memorable scene Gene Wilder wore dark brown shoe polish to “pass” as a Black person. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2738 "2025-08-08T20:06:22Z")
Or this, from freakin’ 1986: [Soul Man (film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Man_(film)) **Movies that help move forward careers of black people in Hollywood, either specifically, or in general.** _Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner_ Sidney Poitier as perfect boyfriend _Glory_ Black soldiers’ heroism stirringly shown _Deep Impact_ Of _course_ Morgan Freeman’s presidential Next up: **Movies with a key unnamed character** ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2739 "2025-08-12T01:44:49Z")
_Fight Club_ Edward Norton’s name isn’t Jack _A Fistful of Dollars_ Eastwood famously has no name _Zombieland_ Place names only will suffice Next: **Biblical Epics** ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2740 "2025-08-12T02:38:35Z")
_The Silver Chalice_ Paul Newman [apologized in ad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chalice_(film)#Legacy) _Ben-Hur_ Five movie versions so far! _The Ten Commandments_ DeMille’s remake, 29 years later Next: **Films that are unintentionally funny** ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494/2741 "2025-08-12T15:40:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Films that are unintentionally funny _Reefer Madness_ The Devil weed’ll get ya! _Plan 9 From Outer Space_ Not supposed to be funny… _Jaws 3-D_ By now, it’s just ridiculous Next: **Terrible movie sequels** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494.md?page=136) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-word-movie-review/680494.md?page=138)