# 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:** 356
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7103 "2022-11-11T01:03:08Z")
**Movies you think ought to have won an Oscar or two (or more), but didn’t, not even one, dammit** 1. Limitless (2011) 2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 3. Gettysburg (1993) 4. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) 5. In the Bedroom 6. The Color Purple (1985) 7. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966) Alan Arkin should have gotten the Best Actor award. (He was nominated for it; the movie was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and Best Film Editing.) He did win the Best Actor Golden Globe, and the movie won the Best Motion Picture award. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7104 "2022-11-11T02:25:09Z")
> [@](#): > > **Movies you think ought to have won an Oscar or two (or more), but didn’t, not even one, dammit** 1. Limitless (2011) 2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 3. Gettysburg (1993) 4. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) 5. In the Bedroom 6. The Color Purple (1985) 7. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966) 8. Housekeeping (1987) Ignored by the Oscars, and most awards, other than the New York Film Critics Circle, and The Tokyo International Film Festival, as well as most venues, who didn’t recognize the name of director/writer Bill Forsyth, whose previous films had all been filmed and released in Scotland (and gathered BAFTAs by the pound), nor future Oscar/Emmy laureate Christine Lahti, who played the lead. Nor original novelist Marilynne Robinson, future Pulitzer winner, and Daily Show writer. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7105 "2022-11-11T03:17:33Z")
**Movies you think ought to have won an Oscar or two (or more), but didn’t, not even one, dammit** 1. Limitless (2011) 2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 3. Gettysburg (1993) 4. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) 5. In the Bedroom 6. The Color Purple (1985) 7. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966) 8. Housekeeping (1987) 9. Five Easy Pieces (1973) Nominated for four, won none. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7106 "2022-11-11T12:21:49Z")
**Movies you think ought to have won an Oscar or two (or more), but didn’t, not even one, dammit** 1. Limitless (2011) 2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 3. Gettysburg (1993) 4. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) 5. In the Bedroom 6. The Color Purple (1985) 7. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966) 8. Housekeeping (1987) 9. Five Easy Pieces (1973) 10. Touch of Evil (1958) It wasn’t popular with contemporary American critics, but writer/director/star Orson Wells won the top two awards at the 1958 Brussels World Film Festival. Since then it has been more widely appreciated (Roger Ebert included it in his Great Movies list). 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:** [November 11, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7107 "2022-11-11T18:27:10Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7108 "2022-11-11T18:40:42Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7109 "2022-11-11T18:41:59Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7110 "2022-11-11T19:37:34Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon 4. Paths of Glory ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7111 "2022-11-11T19:38:43Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon 4. Paths of Glory 5. Kelly’s Heros ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7112 "2022-11-11T20:22:08Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon 4. Paths of Glory 5. Kelly’s Heroes 6. Full Metal Jacket ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7113 "2022-11-11T20:23:13Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon 4. Paths of Glory 5. Kelly’s Heroes 6. Full Metal Jacket 7. Flags of Our Fathers ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7114 "2022-11-11T22:33:29Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon 4. Paths of Glory 5. Kelly’s Heroes 6. Full Metal Jacket 7. Flags of Our Fathers 8. Breaker Morant A great court-martial drama set during the Boer War. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7115 "2022-11-11T23:03:46Z")
**War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon 4. Paths of Glory 5. Kelly’s Heroes 6. Full Metal Jacket 7. Flags of Our Fathers 8. Breaker Morant 9. Zulu About the Battle of Rorke’s Drift during the Anglo-Zulu war. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7116 "2022-11-12T03:35:21Z")
> [@](#): > > **War Movies** 1. How I Won The War 2. The Longest Day 3. Platoon 4. Paths of Glory 5. Kelly’s Heroes 6. Full Metal Jacket 7. Flags of Our Fathers 8. Breaker Morant 9. Zulu 10. Wings NEXT: **Movies you waited a long time to see** 1. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931) Learned of this film around 1977, but didn’t get to see it until the 21st c., when it was released on DVD. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7117 "2022-11-12T05:00:26Z")
**Movies you waited a long time to see** 1. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931) 2. Casablanca (1942) Didn’t see it until c. 1983. Now it’s my all-time favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7118 "2022-11-12T09:54:16Z")
**Movies you waited a long time to see** 1. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. Arrowsmith (1931) One of my all-time favorite books and directed by John Ford with Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes. Bought it on DVD about ten years ago and wasn’t at all impressed. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7119 "2022-11-12T13:09:23Z")
**Movies you waited a long time to see** 1. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. Arrowsmith (1931) 4. Fear and Desire (1952) Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, although at sixty-two minutes, it’s a bit slim in terms of running time for a feature. It was pretty much unavailable for many years, but I snagged a low-quality copy of a VHS someone was hawking on the internet (God bless the internet), and it has since been released on DVD, and I’m pretty sure you can stream it. Kubrick’s own opinion of the work was embarrassment at the decidedly amateur effort, and yeah, it’s really for completists only. Or for those curious about what a young, ambitious guy who really, really, really wanted to make a movie in the early fifties could accomplish if he could scrape together a few thousand dollars, mostly from his uncle, and a handful of people who would be willing to traipse around in the woods in front of a camera for a few days. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7120 "2022-11-12T17:08:57Z")
**Movies you waited a long time to see** 1. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. Arrowsmith (1931) 4. Fear and Desire (1952) 5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail People had been quoting it at me since the '70s, but I didn’t see it until '92 or '93. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7121 "2022-11-12T17:38:58Z")
**Movies you waited a long time to see** 1. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. Arrowsmith (1931) 4. Fear and Desire (1952) 5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 6. The Princess Bride (1987) Just last year I decide to finally see what the incessant quoting on the SDMB was all about and got the DVD from Netflix. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7122 "2022-11-12T17:46:51Z")
**Movies you waited a long time to see** 1. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. Arrowsmith (1931) 4. Fear and Desire (1952) 5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 6. The Princess Bride (1987) 7. The Godfather (1972) Finally saw it in 2012, forty years after its release. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=355) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=357)