# 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:** 393
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**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) ---
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**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) ---
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**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) 4. Pacific Rim Monstrous kaiju and badass robot jaegers. What’s not to love? ---
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**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) 4. Pacific Rim 5. John Carter ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7847 "2023-01-01T22:30:03Z")
**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) 4. Pacific Rim 5. John Carter 6. Monsters, Inc. ---
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**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) 4. Pacific Rim 5. John Carter 6. Monsters, Inc. 7. Godzilla (1998) ---
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**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) 4. Pacific Rim 5. John Carter 6. Monsters, Inc. 7. Godzilla (1998) 8. Watchmen Ozymandias is a tricksy, tricksy fella…. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7850 "2023-01-02T22:43:47Z")
**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) 4. Pacific Rim 5. John Carter 6. Monsters, Inc. 7. Godzilla (1998) 8. Watchmen 9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest _Release the Kraken!_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/7851 "2023-01-02T23:05:33Z")
**Big-budget movies with monsters** 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Balrog) 2. The Empire Strikes Back (wampa, and giant space slug) 3. King Kong (1933) 4. Pacific Rim 5. John Carter 6. Monsters, Inc. 7. Godzilla (1998) 8. Watchmen 9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 10. Van Helsing **Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws Even if the famous shark theme is a total ripoff of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, it’s still a phenomenal score. ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven ---
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> [@](#): > > **Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) > Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars 5. Superman (1978) Actually, pick _ **any** _ movie that had a John Williams score. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars 5. Superman (1978) 6. The Shawshank Redemption One of the prettiest scores ever heard in film and it changes with the decades. ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars 5. Superman (1978) 6. Lawrence of Arabia ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars 5. Superman (1978) 6. Lawrence of Arabia 7. The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption score was composed by multiple (Grammy) award winner Thomas Newman. The score was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1994, which was Newman’s first Oscar nomination. ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars 5. Superman (1978) 6. Lawrence of Arabia 7. The Shawshank Redemption 8. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars 5. Superman (1978) 6. Lawrence of Arabia 7. The Shawshank Redemption 8. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 9. The Taking of Pelham 123 ---
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**Movies with memorable scores** (Not soundtracks!) Movies with theme music written for it, not movies with random hit songs of the past included. 1. The Big Country 2. Jaws 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Star Wars 5. Superman (1978) 6. Lawrence of Arabia 7. The Shawshank Redemption 8. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 9. The Taking of Pelham 123 10. Dune Next, Movies with inappropriate music 1. Appointment with Death ---
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Movies with inappropriate music 1. Appointment with Death 2. Battleship - Fortunate Son An antiwar song featured in a movie that is basically all about the US Navy fighting aliens. Also, how does Appointment with Death have inappropriate music? I am not very familiar with the film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=392) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=394)