# Movie Marathon (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780>\
**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\
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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:** [July 27, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6203 "2020-07-27T14:04:28Z")

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Prehistoric/Caveman Movies

1. Quest For Fire
2. [Prehistoric Poultry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZs_XvEk54Y)
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Caveman
5. Alpha

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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:** [July 27, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6204 "2020-07-27T14:04:34Z")

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Prehistoric/Caveman Movies

1. Quest For Fire
2. Prehistoric Poultry
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Caveman
5. The Good Dinosaur

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**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6205 "2020-07-27T14:12:24Z")

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Prehistoric/Caveman Movies

1. Quest For Fire
2. Prehistoric Poultry
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Caveman
5. The Good Dinosaur
6. The Clan of the Cave Bear

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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:** [July 27, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6206 "2020-07-27T14:22:17Z")

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Prehistoric/Caveman Movies

1. Quest For Fire
2. Prehistoric Poultry
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Caveman
5. Alpha
6. The Good Dinosaur
7. The Clan of the Cave Bear

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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:** [July 27, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6207 "2020-07-27T15:27:51Z")

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Prehistoric/Caveman Movies

1. Quest For Fire
2. Prehistoric Poultry
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Caveman
5. Alpha
6. The Good Dinosaur
7. The Clan of the Cave Bear
8. Encino Man

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6208 "2020-07-27T15:28:31Z")

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_Godspell_ isn’t an allegory. It’s a straight-up telling of the gospel story, isn’t it?

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6209 "2020-07-27T17:17:36Z")

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Prehistoric/Caveman Movies

1. Quest For Fire
2. Prehistoric Poultry
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Caveman
5. Alpha
6. The Good Dinosaur
7. The Clan of the Cave Bear
8. Encino Man
9. The Croods

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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:** [July 27, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6210 "2020-07-27T18:34:20Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> _Godspell_ isn’t an allegory. It’s a straight-up telling of the gospel story, isn’t it?

Set in an Urban City junkyard and peopled by clowns. Not exactly straight-up.

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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:** [July 27, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6211 "2020-07-27T20:13:20Z")

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That was my thinking.

Prehistoric/Caveman Movies

1. Quest For Fire
2. Prehistoric Poultry
3. One Million Years B.C.
4. Caveman
5. Alpha
6. The Good Dinosaur
7. The Clan of the Cave Bear
8. Encino Man
9. The Croods
10. Brother Bear

Next up:

Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6212 "2020-07-27T20:56:10Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6213 "2020-07-27T21:07:49Z")

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Sorry. Haven’t seen it since high school, and always confuse it with _Jesus Christ, Superstar_.

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6214 "2020-07-27T21:10:08Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!

If you weren’t 10 in 1977, you can’t know how really cool those spaceships were.

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6215 "2020-07-27T22:01:04Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6216 "2020-07-27T22:06:40Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> If you weren’t 10 in 1977, you can’t know how really cool those spaceships were.

I was 12, but close enough; it clearly had a lifelong impact on me, as evidenced by my user name here. 😃

Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The Last Starfighter

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6217 "2020-07-27T22:34:11Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The Last Starfighter
6. The Day The Earth Stood Still

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6218 "2020-07-27T23:10:27Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The Last Starfighter
6. The Day The Earth Stood Still
7. Silent Running

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**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:** [July 27, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6219 "2020-07-27T23:43:17Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The Last Starfighter
6. The Day The Earth Stood Still
7. Silent Running
8. Flight of the Navigator

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6220 "2020-07-28T01:34:02Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The Last Starfighter
6. The Day The Earth Stood Still
7. Silent Running
8. Flight of the Navigator
9. Serenity

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6221 "2020-07-28T02:18:17Z")

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Movies with cool spaceships

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. District 9
3. Star Wars!
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The Last Starfighter
6. The Day The Earth Stood Still
7. Silent Running
8. Flight of the Navigator
9. Serenity
10. Plan 9 from Outer Space

When cardboard was cool

Pass

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**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:** [July 28, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6222 "2020-07-28T14:27:52Z")

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Star Wars actors in Non-Star Wars movies

1. Shampoo (1975) - Carrie Fisher

To keep this semi-challenging, only actors from the original Star Wars trilogy are eligible.

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