# 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:** 4
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/61 "2021-03-31T14:31:18Z")
**Movie films with a religious subtext** 1. Life of Pi 2. Jesus of Montreal 3. Seraphim Falls 4. The Lord of the Rings 5. Dogma 6. Johnathan Livingston Seagull 7. Silence 8. The Brother From Another Planet At least I think it was supposed to be a religious subtext. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/62 "2021-03-31T15:05:31Z")
**Movie films with a religious subtext** 1. Life of Pi 2. Jesus of Montreal 3. Seraphim Falls 4. The Lord of the Rings 5. Dogma 6. Johnathan Livingston Seagull 7. Silence 8. The Brother From Another Planet 9. Calvary Terrific very dark comedy about an embattled small-town Irish priest. Brendan Gleeson is amazing in the lead role. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/63 "2021-03-31T15:09:56Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > At least I think it was supposed to be a religious subtext. I don’t think it was, and I saw it a bunch of times as a projectionist, then a couple of years later, studied it in a class called “The Black Film.” It was one of only two films (out of, IIRC, 12 we saw) by a white director-- the other was _The Color Purple_. But if you understood it that way, barring a personal letter from John Sayles, I’ll accept that it’s one interpretation. I’m interested in your reasoning, though; PM me? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/64 "2021-03-31T23:25:23Z")
I’m probably wrong. I saw it once, over thirty years ago. My recollection was that it involved a lead character who came from the outside (in this case he was an alien), never spoke (which meant people had to interpret what his message was), was a member of an unpopular minority (he was black in America), and had the power to heal people. Plus the confusing thumbs up/thumbs down ending. I guessed Sayles intended him as a metaphor for how Jesus would be treated in modern America. I see it’s on YouTube. Maybe I need to watch it again. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gHEhFbRZFCU/maxresdefault.jpg "Joe Morton Sci-Fi Full Movie | The Brother From Another Planet (1984) | Retrospective") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHEhFbRZFCU) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/65 "2021-04-01T08:29:14Z")
**Movie films with a religious subtext** 1. Life of Pi 2. Jesus of Montreal 3. Seraphim Falls 4. The Lord of the Rings 5. Dogma 6. Johnathan Livingston Seagull 7. Silence 8. The Brother From Another Planet 9. Calvary 10. Little Buddha A decent film ruined by the inexplicable casting of Keanu Reeves as Gautama Buddha. Next: **Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues Any film that would generally not be regarded as of notable quality, but which you enjoy watching anyway for whatever reason. For example, _Undercover Blues_ is a goofy spy comedy starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid, made all the more fun by two outstanding character actors - Stanley Tucci and Fiona Shaw - in _outrageous_ scenery-chewing caricature roles, played with ridiculous accents. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/66 "2021-04-01T09:34:23Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels Hayley Mills as the bad girl in a convent school; Rosalind Russell as mother superior. A guilty pleasure from a strange “nun” phase I went through when I was about 12-- very strange, because I’m Jewish, and I didn’t really know the first thing about nuns. I _still_ like this movie, though. Also, _The Bells of St. Mary’s._ ---
**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, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/67 "2021-04-01T11:37:55Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister There’s no real villain. The romantic triangle subplot is laughably done away with in moments without real repercussions. But I love the characters. ---
**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, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/68 "2021-04-01T14:26:55Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister 4. Repo Man Weird and cheaply done cult film that I find worth watching once a year or so. Funny, quotable dialog, weirdo visuals, goofy ending, and a soundtrack featuring an Iggy Pop theme that I think is an underrated, great rock and roll song. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/69 "2021-04-01T15:18:43Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister 4. Repo Man 5. The Hidden Fun, endlessly watchable low-budget sf thriller about an ultraviolent alien criminal on the run in L.A. I first saw it in the late Eighties and it’s stuck with me all these years later. ---
**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, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/70 "2021-04-01T16:49:11Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister 4. Repo Man 5. The Hidden 6. Strange Brew Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, doing their Bob and Doug McKenzie characters, in a story loosely adapted from _Hamlet_ (only with much more beer). It’s dumb as hell, but it always makes me laugh. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/71 "2021-04-01T18:19:35Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister 4. Repo Man 5. The Hidden 6. Strange Brew 7. Earth Girls Are Easy Easily Geena Davis’ worst acting job. And, I have a hard time with Jeff Goldblum as the “sexy one” (I think of him as The Fly or as Dr. Malcom or even from The Big Chill, and none of them are sexy). That being said, there is a lot of fun goofiness with Jim Carey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, along with being able to tease my wife with “'Cause I’m a Blond” (to which she usually replies “Don’t you wish you were me?”) ---
**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, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/72 "2021-04-01T22:56:30Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister 4. Repo Man 5. The Hidden 6. Strange Brew 7. Earth Girls Are Easy 8. Beerfest **"DER PASSVORT !!"** … drunk guy flawlessly delivers long, complicated yodel **"DOT VAS _LAST_ YEAR’S PASSVORT !!"** _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 2, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/73 "2021-04-02T01:14:02Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister 4. Repo Man 5. The Hidden 6. Strange Brew 7. Earth Girls Are Easy 8. Beerfest 9. Bubba Ho-Tep Bruce Campbell as an aged Elvis Presley existing barely in a nursing home, with Morgan Freeman as an old JFK there as well (maybe), when the nursing home is attacked by a mummy dislodged from a passing circus… ---
**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 2, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/74 "2021-04-02T02:21:40Z")
**Your “guilty pleasure” films** 1. Undercover Blues 2. The Trouble with Angels 3. Twister 4. Repo Man 5. The Hidden 6. Strange Brew 7. Earth Girls Are Easy 8. Beerfest 9. Bubba Ho-Tep 10. Student Bodies Very early slasher parody that’s gangbusters for the first 15 minutes or so, then becomes a puerile chore for the rest. If like me you grew up seeing it on cable in the early 80s, you may have some lingering affection for it. **Spoofs, parodies and send-ups** 1. Top Secret! ---
**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 2, 2021, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/75 "2021-04-02T05:22:08Z")
**Spoofs, parodies and send-ups** 1. Top Secret! 2. Murder By Death ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/76 "2021-04-02T07:25:47Z")
**Spoofs, parodies and send-ups** 1. Top Secret! 2. Murder By Death 3. Life of Brian Spoof of biblical films. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/77 "2021-04-02T08:22:14Z")
**Spoofs, parodies and send-ups** 1. Top Secret! 2. Murder By Death 3. Life of Brian 4. The Little Train Robbery 1905 send-up of the 1903 _The Great Train Robbery_, featuring an all-child cast; possibly the first film parody. ---
**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 2, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/78 "2021-04-02T08:26:43Z")
**Spoofs, parodies and send-ups** 1. Top Secret! 2. Murder By Death 3. Life of Brian 4. The Little Train Robbery 5. Terror in Tiny Town – _a spoof of both Westerns and musicals with an all-midget cast_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 2, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/79 "2021-04-02T11:19:44Z")
**Spoofs, parodies and send-ups** 1. Top Secret! 2. Murder By Death 3. Life of Brian 4. The Little Train Robbery 5. Terror in Tiny Town – _a spoof of both Westerns and musicals with an all-midget cast_ - Bugsy Malone Your basic gangster musical, with kids instead of adults and marshmallow instead of blood. ---
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**Spoofs, parodies and send-ups** 1. Top Secret! 2. Murder By Death 3. Life of Brian 4. The Little Train Robbery 5. Terror in Tiny Town – _a spoof of both Westerns and musicals with an all-midget cast_ 6. Bugsy Malone 7. Young Frankenstein [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=5)