# Movie Marathon (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780 "2019-08-17T02:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 260
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5183 "2020-05-13T04:15:12Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5184 "2020-05-13T07:06:39Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player 4. Singin’ in the Rain ---
**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:** [May 13, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5185 "2020-05-13T09:34:28Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player 4. Singin’ in the Rain 5. The Blair Witch Project ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5186 "2020-05-13T09:43:17Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player 4. Singin’ in the Rain 5. The Blair Witch Project 6. Living in Obliviun ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5187 "2020-05-13T11:03:32Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player 4. Singin’ in the Rain 5. The Blair Witch Project 6. Living in Oblivion 7. Day for Night ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5188 "2020-05-13T11:43:31Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player 4. Singin’ in the Rain 5. The Blair Witch Project 6. Living in Oblivion 7. Day for Night 8. 8-1/2 I was going to use “Eight and a Half” in the previous category, too ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5189 "2020-05-13T12:06:21Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player 4. Singin’ in the Rain 5. The Blair Witch Project 6. Living in Oblivion 7. Day for Night 8. 8-1/2 9. Ed Wood ---
**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:** [May 13, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5190 "2020-05-13T13:43:26Z")
Movies about making movies 1. Hail, Caesar! 2. Nickelodeon 3. The Player 4. Singin’ in the Rain 5. The Blair Witch Project 6. Living in Oblivion 7. Day for Night 8. 8-1/2 9. Ed Wood 10. The Stunt Man Next: Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5191 "2020-05-13T14:10:46Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter Yippee-kai-ay-motherfucker! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5192 "2020-05-13T15:37:36Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CPcVgbsSg30/hqdefault.jpg "THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE - Falling Up With Ernie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPcVgbsSg30) ---
**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 13, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5193 "2020-05-13T15:48:22Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. 4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout The most amazing helicopter stunts I’ve ever seen. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5194 "2020-05-13T22:33:21Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. 4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout 5. Rumble in the Bronx - Some of the most amazing fight scenes. The gag reel at the end was worth the ticket price. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5195 "2020-05-14T03:39:10Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. 4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout 5. Rumble in the Bronx - Some of the most amazing fight scenes. The gag reel at the end was worth the ticket price 6. Police Story III (AKA Supercop) - Jackie Chan jumps from a building to the dangling rope ladder of a helicopter, with no safety line or net ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5196 "2020-05-14T04:16:50Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. 4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout 5. Rumble in the Bronx - Some of the most amazing fight scenes. The gag reel at the end was worth the ticket price 6. Police Story III (AKA Supercop) - Jackie Chan jumps from a building to the dangling rope ladder of a helicopter, with no safety line or net 7. Hooper - The “Spy Who Laughed at Danger” stunt sequence _(the ‘earthquake’ scene at the end, complete with collapsing buildings, explosions, fireballs, car wrecks, and toppling smokestacks; a total of something like 40 or more ‘gags’ in the space of about three minutes)_ culminating with a 335-foot rocket-car jump over a wrecked bridge. And this one would ALSO have fit the previous category too. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 14, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5197 "2020-05-14T04:38:38Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. 4. Mission: Impossible: Fallout - The most amazing helicopter stunts I’ve ever seen. Very cool. 5. Rumble in the Bronx - Some of the most amazing fight scenes. The gag reel at the end was worth the ticket price 6. Police Story III (AKA Supercop) - Jackie Chan jumps from a building to the dangling rope ladder of a helicopter, with no safety line or net 7. Hooper - The “Spy Who Laughed at Danger” stunt sequence (the ‘earthquake’ scene at the end, complete with collapsing buildings, explosions, fireballs, car wrecks, and toppling smokestacks; a total of something like 40 or more ‘gags’ in the space of about three minutes) culminating with a 335-foot rocket-car jump over a wrecked bridge. 8. Sharky’s Machine - The bad guy is shot and falls through a window from a VERY tall building; was an actual fall by a stuntman ---
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Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. 4. Mission: Impossible: Fallout - The most amazing helicopter stunts I’ve ever seen. Very cool. 5. Rumble in the Bronx - Some of the most amazing fight scenes. The gag reel at the end was worth the ticket price 6. Police Story III (AKA Supercop) - Jackie Chan jumps from a building to the dangling rope ladder of a helicopter, with no safety line or net 7. Hooper - The “Spy Who Laughed at Danger” stunt sequence (the ‘earthquake’ scene at the end, complete with collapsing buildings, explosions, fireballs, car wrecks, and toppling smokestacks; a total of something like 40 or more ‘gags’ in the space of about three minutes) culminating with a 335-foot rocket-car jump over a wrecked bridge. 8. Sharky’s Machine - The bad guy is shot and falls through a window from a VERY tall building; was an actual fall by a stuntman 9. The Spy Who Loved Me - James Bond’s ski jump off a mountain, when he opens a Union Jack parachute (stunt performed by Rick Sylvester) ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/5199 "2020-05-14T10:53:22Z")
Movies with spectacular stunts. 1. Blues Brothers - car chase through a mall. 2. Die Hard II - blow up a plane with a lighter 3. The Poseidon Adventure - the capsized ballroom, including a man falling from a table into the skylight. 4. Mission: Impossible: Fallout - The most amazing helicopter stunts I’ve ever seen. Very cool. 5. Rumble in the Bronx - Some of the most amazing fight scenes. The gag reel at the end was worth the ticket price 6. Police Story III (AKA Supercop) - Jackie Chan jumps from a building to the dangling rope ladder of a helicopter, with no safety line or net 7. Hooper - The “Spy Who Laughed at Danger” stunt sequence (the ‘earthquake’ scene at the end, complete with collapsing buildings, explosions, fireballs, car wrecks, and toppling smokestacks; a total of something like 40 or more ‘gags’ in the space of about three minutes) culminating with a 335-foot rocket-car jump over a wrecked bridge. 8. Sharky’s Machine - The bad guy is shot and falls through a window from a VERY tall building; was an actual fall by a stuntman 9. The Spy Who Loved Me - James Bond’s ski jump off a mountain, when he opens a Union Jack parachute (stunt performed by Rick Sylvester) 10. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Indy outrunning a boulder in an underground trap-filled passageway Actors who aren’t usually remembered as singers singing or trying to sing. 1. Little Shop of Horrors - Rick Moranis actually sings very well. ---
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Actors who aren’t usually remembered as singers singing or trying to sing. 1. Little Shop of Horrors - Rick Moranis actually sings very well. 2. Judy - Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland ---
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Actors who aren’t usually remembered as singers singing or trying to sing. 1. Little Shop of Horrors - Rick Moranis actually sings very well. 2. Judy - Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland 3. Paul Giamatti - Duets [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780.md?page=259) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780.md?page=261)