# 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:** 330
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6583 "2020-08-13T17:03:28Z")
Non-documentaries where a rock star appears as him/herself 1. High Fidelity (Bruce Springsteen) 2. Zoolander (David Bowie) 3. Wayne’s World (Alice Cooper) 4. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Elvis Costello and Mos Def) 5. The Wedding Singer (Billy Idol) 6. Men In Black 2 (Michael Jackson) 7. Saving Silverman (Neil Diamond) 8. Austin Powers: Goldmember (Britney Spears) ---
**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 13, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6584 "2020-08-13T18:09:45Z")
Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6585 "2020-08-13T18:15:08Z")
Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror 4. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Terribly written, woodenly spoken; one of the most awkward attempts at on-screen romance I’ve ever seen. ---
**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 13, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6586 "2020-08-13T18:45:41Z")
Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror 4. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 5. “It’s turkey time, gobble gobble.” - Gigli ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6587 "2020-08-13T19:51:05Z")
Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror 4. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 5. “It’s turkey time, gobble gobble.” - Gigli 6. “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” - X-Men ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6588 "2020-08-13T19:52:09Z")
Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror 4. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 5. “It’s turkey time, gobble gobble.” - Gigli 6. “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” - X-Men 7. “I didn’t give it.” - Daredevil Lots of bad readings in that movie, actually. ---
**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 13, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6589 "2020-08-13T20:06:20Z")
Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror 4. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 5. “It’s turkey time, gobble gobble.” - Gigli 6. “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” - X-Men 7. “I didn’t give it.” - Daredevil 8. “I need you, Bones… badly!” - Star Trek: The Motion Picture William Shatner is actually capable of good acting. That scene doesn’t show any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6590 "2020-08-13T23:51:35Z")
Oooh…ohh…ohh, I get to do Keanu! Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror 4. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 5. “It’s turkey time, gobble gobble.” - Gigli 6. “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” - X-Men 7. “I didn’t give it.” - Daredevil 8. “I need you, Bones… badly!” - Star Trek: The Motion Picture 9. “I am an F - B - I Agent!” - Point Break ---
**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:** [August 14, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6591 "2020-08-14T03:10:24Z")
Lines delivered less than stellarly. 1. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” - Love Story 2. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I didn’t even… Ripley’s last trip out, the syn- the artificial person malfunctioned.” - Aliens 3. “I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. There are moments for wisdom and moments when I listen to my blood; my blood says, take this Tartar woman.” - The Conqueror 4. “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.” - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 5. “It’s turkey time, gobble gobble.” - Gigli 6. “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” - X-Men 7. “I didn’t give it.” - Daredevil 8. “I need you, Bones… badly!” - Star Trek: The Motion Picture 9. “I am an F - B - I Agent!” - Point Break 10. “But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!” - Star Wars Pass. ---
**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 14, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6592 "2020-08-14T03:48:07Z")
Power converters, you say?: [Power Converters (What Luke really meant) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyXNhw0YUHE) Next up: Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi ---
**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:** [August 14, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6593 "2020-08-14T03:56:04Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde ---
**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 14, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6594 "2020-08-14T03:58:48Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin ---
**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:** [August 14, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6595 "2020-08-14T04:04:18Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King ---
**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 14, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6596 "2020-08-14T04:11:54Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King 5. Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight by Eileen F. Lebow A great tale of early aviation: [Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers) ---
**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:** [August 14, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6597 "2020-08-14T04:44:56Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King 5. Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight by Eileen F. Lebow 6. Flanagan’s Run, by Tom McNab _(Miramax does own the rights, but so far, nuthin’)_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6598 "2020-08-14T09:24:17Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King 5. Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight by Eileen F. Lebow 6. Flanagan’s Run, by Tom McNab _(Miramax does own the rights, but so far, nuthin’)_ 7. Gould’s Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan ---
**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 14, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6599 "2020-08-14T13:26:46Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King 5. Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight by Eileen F. Lebow 6. Flanagan’s Run, by Tom McNab _(Miramax does own the rights, but so far, nuthin’)_ 7. Gould’s Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan 8. Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin A great vampire novel, set along the Mississippi River before the Civil War. ---
**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 14, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6600 "2020-08-14T13:52:11Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King 5. Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight by Eileen F. Lebow 6. Flanagan’s Run, by Tom McNab _(Miramax does own the rights, but so far, nuthin’)_ 7. Gould’s Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan 8. Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin 9. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger ---
**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 14, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6601 "2020-08-14T14:56:37Z")
Books you’d love to see adapted for the screen 1. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 2. Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde 3. Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin 4. The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King 5. Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight by Eileen F. Lebow 6. Flanagan’s Run, by Tom McNab _(Miramax does own the rights, but so far, nuthin’)_ 7. Gould’s Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan 8. Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin 9. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 10. Aztec by Gary Jennings It could be an _awesome_ historical epic. Pass. ---
**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 14, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/6602 "2020-08-14T15:43:31Z")
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