# 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\
**Page:** 368

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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:** [September 25, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7345 "2020-09-25T23:11:19Z")

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**Movies prominently featuring fish**

1. A Fish Called Wanda
2. Jaws
3. Finding Nemo
4. Orca
5. The Incredible Mr. Limpet
6. The Little Mermaid

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7346 "2020-09-26T00:47:49Z")

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**Movies prominently featuring fish**

1. A Fish Called Wanda
2. Jaws
3. Finding Nemo
4. Orca
5. The Incredible Mr. Limpet
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Always

Opening scene is two men fishing

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7347 "2020-09-26T01:10:40Z")

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**Movies prominently featuring fish**

1. A Fish Called Wanda
2. Jaws
3. Finding Nemo
4. Orca
5. The Incredible Mr. Limpet
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Always
8. Grumpy Old Men

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7348 "2020-09-26T01:19:18Z")

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**Movies prominently featuring fish**

1. A Fish Called Wanda
2. Jaws
3. Finding Nemo
4. Orca
5. The Incredible Mr. Limpet
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Always
8. Grumpy Old Men
9. Piranha

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7349 "2020-09-26T03:45:35Z")

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**Movies prominently featuring fish**

1. A Fish Called Wanda
2. Jaws
3. Finding Nemo
4. Orca
5. The Incredible Mr. Limpet
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Always
8. Grumpy Old Men
9. Piranha
10. The Old Man and the Sea

Pass

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7350 "2020-09-26T04:28:29Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7351 "2020-09-26T04:30:46Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7352 "2020-09-26T04:51:35Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can

One of my all-time favorite title sequences:

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nv2S_S9MlU)

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7353 "2020-09-26T05:54:42Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. City Slickers

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7354 "2020-09-26T11:59:21Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. City Slickers
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7355 "2020-09-26T14:08:49Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. City Slickers
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7356 "2020-09-26T16:58:31Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. City Slickers
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
7. It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

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**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7357 "2020-09-26T18:16:38Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. City Slickers
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
7. It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
8. Fight Club

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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:** [September 27, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7358 "2020-09-27T17:00:48Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. City Slickers
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
7. It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
8. Fight Club
9. Psycho

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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:** [September 27, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7359 "2020-09-27T20:37:58Z")

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Movies featuring animated opening title sequences, but are not animated movies overall

1. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
2. The Pink Panther
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. City Slickers
5. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
7. It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
8. Fight Club
9. Psycho
10. A Fistful of Dollars

Pass.

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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:** [September 28, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7360 "2020-09-28T01:56:56Z")

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Films centered on a close relationship between an adult man and a young girl.

1. Leon - The Professional

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7361 "2020-09-28T02:04:27Z")

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Films centered on a close relationship between an adult man and a young girl.

1. Leon - The Professional
2. Paper Moon

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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:** [September 28, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7362 "2020-09-28T02:07:41Z")

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Films centered on a close relationship between an adult man and a young girl.

1. Leon - The Professional
2. Paper Moon
3. Miracle on 34th Street

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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:** [September 28, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7363 "2020-09-28T02:12:44Z")

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Films centered on a close relationship between an adult man and a young girl.

1. Leon - The Professional
2. Paper Moon
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. Little Miss Marker

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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:** [September 28, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/7364 "2020-09-28T03:37:15Z")

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Films centered on a close relationship between an adult man and a young girl.

1. Leon - The Professional
2. Paper Moon
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. Little Miss Marker
5. Manhattan

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