# Movie Marathon (Part 2)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801>\
**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\
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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4763 "2022-04-01T12:40:59Z")

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**Movies Whose Titles Feature Acronyms**

1. F.I.S.T. (1978) – Federation of Interstate Truckers
2. C.H.U.D. (1984) Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
3. S.W.A.T. (2003) - Special Weapons and Tactics
4. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) - United
5. CODA - Children of Deaf Adults
6. D.O.A. (1949) - Dead on Arrival
7. The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) - Collect on Delivery
8. The FBI Story (1959)

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4764 "2022-04-01T14:12:05Z")

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**Movies Whose Titles Feature Acronyms**

1. F.I.S.T. (1978) – Federation of Interstate Truckers
2. C.H.U.D. (1984) Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
3. S.W.A.T. (2003) - Special Weapons and Tactics
4. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) - United
5. CODA - Children of Deaf Adults
6. D.O.A. (1949) - Dead on Arrival
7. The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) - Collect on Delivery
8. The FBI Story (1959)
9. The Secret of NIMH (1982) - National Institute of Mental Health

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4765 "2022-04-01T14:24:16Z")

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**Movies Whose Titles Feature Acronyms**

1. F.I.S.T. (1978) – Federation of Interstate Truckers
2. C.H.U.D. (1984) Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
3. S.W.A.T. (2003) - Special Weapons and Tactics
4. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) - United
5. CODA - Children of Deaf Adults
6. D.O.A. (1949) - Dead on Arrival
7. The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) - Collect on Delivery
8. The FBI Story (1959)
9. The Secret of NIMH (1982) - National Institute of Mental Health
10. D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) - Data-Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform

Next:

**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4766 "2022-04-01T14:26:54Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4767 "2022-04-01T14:27:36Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (2021) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4768 "2022-04-01T14:30:14Z")

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Now _that_ is a ninja!

**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4769 "2022-04-01T14:31:52Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4770 "2022-04-01T14:34:21Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_
5. Valley Girl - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4771 "2022-04-01T14:36:27Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_
5. Valley Girl - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
6. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - based on Shakespeare’s _The Taming of the Shrew_

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4772 "2022-04-01T15:25:55Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_
5. Valley Girl - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
6. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - based on Shakespeare’s _The Taming of the Shrew_
7. Forbidden Planet (1956) - Based on The Tempest

Seeing a lot of Shakespeare here. 😉

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4773 "2022-04-01T15:28:00Z")

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> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> Seeing a lot of Shakespeare here.

Well, studios don’t have to pay royalties to him. 😉

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4774 "2022-04-01T15:35:16Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_
5. Valley Girl - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
6. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - based on Shakespeare’s _The Taming of the Shrew_
7. Forbidden Planet (1956) - Based on The Tempest
8. Apocalypse Now (1979) - based on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Just to get us out of the Shakespeare rut.

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4775 "2022-04-01T15:40:59Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_
5. Valley Girl - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
6. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - based on Shakespeare’s _The Taming of the Shrew_
7. Forbidden Planet (1956) - Based on The Tempest
8. Hook (1991) – based on J.M. Barrie’s 1904 stage play, _Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up_

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4776 "2022-04-01T15:47:47Z")

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**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_
5. Valley Girl - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
6. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - based on Shakespeare’s _The Taming of the Shrew_
7. Forbidden Planet (1956) - Based on The Tempest
8. Hook (1991) – based on J.M. Barrie’s 1904 stage play, _Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up_
9. Naked Lunch (1991) - based on William Burroughs’s novel _Naked Lunch_, with material from other writings of his and biographical accounts mixed in, as director David Cronenberg deemed a straight adaptation of the novel to be unfilmable.

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4777 "2022-04-01T15:54:26Z")

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Housekeeping.

**Movies Loosely Based on Previous Works (Not Direct Adaptations)**

1. Strange Brew (1983) - based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_
2. West Side Story (1961) - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
3. A Thousand Acres (1997) - based on Shakespeare’s _King Lear_
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - based on Homer’s _The Odyssey_
5. Valley Girl - based on Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_
6. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - based on Shakespeare’s _The Taming of the Shrew_
7. Forbidden Planet (1956) - Based on The Tempest
8. Apocalypse Now (1979) - based on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
9. Hook (1991) – based on J.M. Barrie’s 1904 stage play, _Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up_
10. Naked Lunch (1991) - based on William Burroughs’s novel _Naked Lunch_ , with material from other writings of his and biographical accounts mixed in, as director David Cronenberg deemed a straight adaptation of the novel to be unfilmable.

As this was my category, I’ll pass on starting the next one.

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4778 "2022-04-01T16:05:51Z")

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**Movies with an ensemble cast**

1. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4779 "2022-04-01T16:08:32Z")

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**Movies with an ensemble cast**

1. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2. Avengers: Endgame

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4780 "2022-04-01T16:49:53Z")

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**Movies with an ensemble cast**

1. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Around the World in 80 Days (the 1956 spectacular)

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4781 "2022-04-01T16:52:25Z")

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**Movies with an ensemble cast**

1. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Around the World in 80 Days (the 1956 spectacular)
4. The Poseidon Adventure

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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:** [April 1, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/4782 "2022-04-01T16:56:55Z")

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**Movies with an ensemble cast**

1. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Around the World in 80 Days (the 1956 spectacular)
4. The Poseidon Adventure
5. Prêt-à-Porter

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