# Movie Marathon (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 26, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801 "2021-03-26T22:06:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 203
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4043 "2022-02-07T00:50:04Z")
**Actors who have played two different characters with strange similarities** 1. Helen Hunt has sex with cripples in _The Waterdance_ and _The Sessions_ . 2. Bette Davis plays twins, one of whom dies and the other takes over her identity, in both _A Stolen Life_ and _Dead Ringer_ 3. Idris Elba voiced the evil big cat _Shere Khan_ in _The Jungle Book_ (2016), and played the big evil cat Macavity in _Cats_ (2019). 4. Chris Evans played Marvel Comics superhero The Human Torch in _The Fantastic Four_ , and Marvel Comics superhero Captain America in _Captain America: The First Avenger_ . 5. James Cromwell invents the best robots in _I, Robot_ and _Surrogates_ . 6. Jeff Bridges plays Union soldier turned western U.S. Marshal in _True Grit_ and _R.I.P.D._ 7. Humphrey Bogart played two iconic, hard-drinking private detectives, Sam Spade (_The Maltese Falcon_) and Philip Marlowe (_The Big Sleep_). ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4044 "2022-02-07T10:46:18Z")
**Actors who have played two different characters with strange similarities** 1. Helen Hunt has sex with cripples in _The Waterdance_ and _The Sessions_ . 2. Bette Davis plays twins, one of whom dies and the other takes over her identity, in both _A Stolen Life_ and _Dead Ringer_ 3. Idris Elba voiced the evil big cat _Shere Khan_ in _The Jungle Book_ (2016), and played the big evil cat Macavity in _Cats_ (2019). 4. Chris Evans played Marvel Comics superhero The Human Torch in _The Fantastic Four_ , and Marvel Comics superhero Captain America in _Captain America: The First Avenger_ . 5. James Cromwell invents the best robots in _I, Robot_ and _Surrogates_ . 6. Jeff Bridges plays Union soldier turned western U.S. Marshal in _True Grit_ and _R.I.P.D._ 7. Humphrey Bogart played two iconic, hard-drinking private detectives, Sam Spade ( _The Maltese Falcon_ ) and Philip Marlowe ( _The Big Sleep_ ). 8. Keanu Reeves has someone jack into his brain in _The Matrix_ films and _Johnny Mnemonic_. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4045 "2022-02-07T15:54:47Z")
**Actors who have played two different characters with strange similarities** 1. Helen Hunt has sex with cripples in _The Waterdance_ and _The Sessions_ . 2. Bette Davis plays twins, one of whom dies and the other takes over her identity, in both _A Stolen Life_ and _Dead Ringer_ 3. Idris Elba voiced the evil big cat _Shere Khan_ in _The Jungle Book_ (2016), and played the big evil cat Macavity in _Cats_ (2019). 4. Chris Evans played Marvel Comics superhero The Human Torch in _The Fantastic Four_ , and Marvel Comics superhero Captain America in _Captain America: The First Avenger_ . 5. James Cromwell invents the best robots in _I, Robot_ and _Surrogates_ . 6. Jeff Bridges plays Union soldier turned western U.S. Marshal in _True Grit_ and _R.I.P.D._ 7. Humphrey Bogart played two iconic, hard-drinking private detectives, Sam Spade ( _The Maltese Falcon_ ) and Philip Marlowe ( _The Big Sleep_ ). 8. Keanu Reeves has someone jack into his brain in _The Matrix_ films and _Johnny Mnemonic_ . 9. Gary Sinese played an astronaut who was tasked with helping to rescue fellow astronauts in _Apollo 11_ and _Mission to Mars_. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4046 "2022-02-07T17:52:49Z")
**Actors who have played two different characters with strange similarities** 1. Helen Hunt has sex with cripples in _The Waterdance_ and _The Sessions_ . 2. Bette Davis plays twins, one of whom dies and the other takes over her identity, in both _A Stolen Life_ and _Dead Ringer_ 3. Idris Elba voiced the evil big cat _Shere Khan_ in _The Jungle Book_ (2016), and played the big evil cat Macavity in _Cats_ (2019). 4. Chris Evans played Marvel Comics superhero The Human Torch in _The Fantastic Four_ , and Marvel Comics superhero Captain America in _Captain America: The First Avenger_ . 5. James Cromwell invents the best robots in _I, Robot_ and _Surrogates_ . 6. Jeff Bridges plays Confederate soldier turned western U.S. Marshal in _True Grit_ and _R.I.P.D._ 7. Humphrey Bogart played two iconic, hard-drinking private detectives, Sam Spade ( _The Maltese Falcon_ ) and Philip Marlowe ( _The Big Sleep_ ). 8. Keanu Reeves has someone jack into his brain in _The Matrix_ films and _Johnny Mnemonic_ . 9. Gary Sinese played an astronaut who was tasked with helping to rescue fellow astronauts in _Apollo 11_ and _Mission to Mars_. 10. Matt Damon played a stranded astronaut in both _The Martian_ and _Interstellar_ Rooster Cogburn was a former Confederate, not a Union, soldier (and even named his cat after Confederate Gen. Sterling Price): [Rooster Cogburn (character) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster_Cogburn_(character)) Next up: **Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4047 "2022-02-07T17:56:59Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. Millennium Falcon, _Star Wars_ ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4048 "2022-02-07T18:00:25Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_, _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4049 "2022-02-07T18:04:00Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. Cavorite sphere, _First Men in the Moon_ ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4050 "2022-02-07T18:06:32Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. _Avalon, Passengers_ The Cavorite sphere was not a starship. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4051 "2022-02-07T18:37:53Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. _Avalon, Passengers_ 5. _Titan,_ Titan AE ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4052 "2022-02-07T19:28:16Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. _Avalon, Passengers_ 5. _Titan,_ Titan AE 6. _Nell, Battle Beyond The Stars_ ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4053 "2022-02-07T19:55:14Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. _Avalon, Passengers_ 5. _Titan,_ _Titan AE_ 6. _Nell, Battle Beyond The Stars_ 7. _Executor, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back_ ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4054 "2022-02-07T22:26:26Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. _Avalon, Passengers_ 5. _Titan,_ _Titan AE_ 6. _Nell, Battle Beyond The Stars_ 7. _Executor, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back_ 8. _Heart of Gold_, _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4055 "2022-02-07T22:49:43Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. _Avalon, Passengers_ 5. _Titan,_ _Titan AE_ 6. _Nell, Battle Beyond The Stars_ 7. _Executor, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back_ 8. _Heart of Gold_ , _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ 9. _Rodger Young_, _Starship Troopers_ ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4056 "2022-02-08T05:31:56Z")
**Starships on the Silver Screen** 1. USCSS _Nostromo, Alien_ 2. _Millennium Falcon_ , _Star Wars_ 3. USS _Enterprise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ 4. _Avalon, Passengers_ 5. _Titan,_ _Titan AE_ 6. _Nell, Battle Beyond The Stars_ 7. _Executor, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back_ 8. _Heart of Gold_ , _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ 9. _Rodger Young_ , _Starship Troopers_ 10. _Spaceball 1_ from _Spaceballs_ Just for fun – side-by-side comparison of various starships: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPwbVqU6lc) Now in play: **Movies with a Ship’s Name in the Title** 1. Sink the _Bismarck_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4057 "2022-02-08T08:04:29Z")
**Movies with a Ship’s Name in the Title** 1. Sink the _Bismarck_ 2. PT109 ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4058 "2022-02-08T08:17:00Z")
**Movies with a Ship’s Name in the Title** 1. Sink the _Bismarck_ 2. PT109 3. Titanic ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4059 "2022-02-08T10:39:14Z")
**Movies with a Ship’s Name in the Title** 1. Sink the _Bismarck_ 2. PT109 3. Titanic 4. The African Queen ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4060 "2022-02-08T10:52:49Z")
**Movies with a Ship’s Name in the Title** 1. Sink the _Bismarck_ 2. PT109 3. Titanic 4. The African Queen 5. The Hunt for _Red October_ ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4061 "2022-02-08T11:32:48Z")
**Movies with a Ship’s Name in the Title** 1. Sink the _Bismarck_ 2. PT109 3. Titanic 4. The African Queen 5. The Hunt for _Red October_ 6. Battleship Potemkin ---
**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:** [February 8, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4062 "2022-02-08T12:40:40Z")
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