# 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\
**Page:** 465

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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 27, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9283 "2023-04-27T16:17:31Z")

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**Vampire Comedies**

1. Love At First Bite
2. Renfeld
3. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
4. Hotel Transylvania

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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 27, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9284 "2023-04-27T16:30:54Z")

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**Vampire Comedies**

1. Love At First Bite
2. Renfeld
3. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
4. Hotel Transylvania
5. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9285 "2023-04-27T16:56:07Z")

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**Vampire Comedies**

1. Love At First Bite
2. Renfeld
3. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
4. Hotel Transylvania
5. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead
6. Near Dark

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**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:** [April 27, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9286 "2023-04-27T17:02:17Z")

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**Vampire Comedies**

1. Love At First Bite
2. Renfeld
3. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
4. Hotel Transylvania
5. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead
6. Near Dark
7. Vampire in Brooklyn

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9287 "2023-04-27T18:25:07Z")

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**Vampire Comedies**

1. Love At First Bite
2. Renfeld
3. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
4. Hotel Transylvania
5. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead
6. Near Dark
7. Vampire in Brooklyn
8. What We Do in the Shadows

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9288 "2023-04-27T18:28:08Z")

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**Vampire Comedies**

1. Love At First Bite
2. Renfeld
3. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
4. Hotel Transylvania
5. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead
6. Near Dark
7. Vampire in Brooklyn
8. What We Do in the Shadows
9. From Dusk Til Dawn

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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 27, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9289 "2023-04-27T20:04:26Z")

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**Vampire Comedies**

1. Love At First Bite
2. Renfeld
3. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
4. Hotel Transylvania
5. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Undead
6. Near Dark
7. Vampire in Brooklyn
8. What We Do in the Shadows
9. From Dusk Til Dawn
10. Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

Features Count Dracula (Bela Legosi) as a major character.

Pass.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9290 "2023-04-27T23:06:44Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)

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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 28, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9291 "2023-04-28T00:13:48Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)

Among other games, in a parody of _The Seventh Seal_

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9292 "2023-04-28T00:25:13Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji

Yes, I picked the low hanging fruit.

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**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 28, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9293 "2023-04-28T04:03:26Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Wizard Chess)

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9294 "2023-04-28T04:26:24Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Wizard Chess)
5. Zathura

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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 28, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9295 "2023-04-28T04:39:53Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Wizard Chess)
5. Zathura
6. Game Night (various)

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9296 "2023-04-28T06:19:12Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Wizard Chess)
5. Zathura
6. Game Night (various)
7. The Visit (Yahtzee)

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**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:** [April 28, 2023, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9297 "2023-04-28T11:40:53Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Wizard Chess)
5. Zathura
6. Game Night (various)
7. The Visit (Yahtzee)
8. Brats (checkers)

A Laurel and Hardy short.

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**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 28, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9298 "2023-04-28T12:32:10Z")

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There must be a movie in which the characters play Monopoly, but I can’t think of one.

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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 28, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9299 "2023-04-28T14:22:26Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Wizard Chess)
5. Zathura
6. Game Night (various)
7. The Visit (Yahtzee)
8. Brats (checkers)
9. Clue (Clue)

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9300 "2023-04-28T14:52:10Z")

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**Movies with board games as plot devices**

1. The Seventh Seal (chess)
2. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Battleship, Clue)
3. Jumanji
4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Wizard Chess)
5. Zathura
6. Game Night (various)
7. The Visit (Yahtzee)
8. Brats (checkers)
9. Clue (Clue)
10. Ouija

pass

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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 28, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9301 "2023-04-28T17:05:28Z")

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**Movies where notable actors turned down roles**

1. X-Men - Viggo Mortensen (Wolverine)

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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 28, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9302 "2023-04-28T18:09:50Z")

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**Movies where notable actors turned down roles**

1. X-Men - Viggo Mortensen (Wolverine)
2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Johnny Depp (Ferris Bueller)

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