# 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:** 483
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9643 "2023-05-24T17:33:18Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9644 "2023-05-24T17:35:40Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love Bogdanovich printed newspaper ads apologizing for it. For more: [At Long Last Love - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Long_Last_Love) ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9645 "2023-05-24T17:54:29Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9646 "2023-05-24T18:04:00Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate 4. The 13th Warrior By some estimates the worst movie flop _evah_. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9647 "2023-05-24T18:16:14Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate 4. The 13th Warrior 5. The Adventures of Pluto Nash ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9648 "2023-05-24T18:29:31Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate 4. The 13th Warrior 5. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 6. Lightyear ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9649 "2023-05-24T18:51:36Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate 4. The 13th Warrior 5. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 6. Lightyear 7. Fantasia Considered a classic nowadays, though. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9650 "2023-05-24T19:25:20Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate 4. The 13th Warrior 5. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 6. Lightyear 7. Fantasia 8. West Side Story (2021) ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9651 "2023-05-24T19:40:38Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate 4. The 13th Warrior 5. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 6. Lightyear 7. Fantasia 8. West Side Story (2021) 9. Cutthroat Island Its failure at the box office helped to kill off its studio (Carolco Pictures). ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9652 "2023-05-24T22:06:54Z")
**They Bombed At The Box Office** 1. Ishtar 2. At Long Last Love 3. Heaven’s Gate 4. The 13th Warrior 5. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 6. Lightyear 7. Fantasia 8. West Side Story (2021) 9. Cutthroat Island 10. Inchon It might be interesting to note that a lot of movies that fell short at the box office have, due to other income such as video sales and sale of streaming or television broadcast rights, eventually broken even or become money-makers. **Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic Although I’ll never see it until/unless Clive Cussler, who wrote the original novel, has total and complete control of the script. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [May 24, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9653 "2023-05-24T23:52:40Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9654 "2023-05-25T12:19:51Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull The Russo Brothers have stated an interest in redoing this. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9655 "2023-05-25T16:37:16Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull 4. Logan’s Run ETA: Just googled and found out that this also appears to be [in the works](https://moviesr.net/p-sci-fi-classic-logan-s-run-remake-to-begin-filming-in-early-2024) 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9656 "2023-05-25T18:57:29Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull 4. Logan’s Run 5. The Phantom Tollbooth This time, include Alec Bings, Canby, and the Valley of Sound. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9657 "2023-05-25T19:54:06Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull 4. Logan’s Run 5. The Phantom Tollbooth 6. John Carter of Mars Sweeping epic that was just kind of flat. Not pushed very well by the studio either. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9658 "2023-05-25T21:35:16Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull 4. Logan’s Run 5. The Phantom Tollbooth 6. John Carter of Mars 7. Starship Troopers Less Fascism Lite but with powered armor, dammit! They should hire some of the Iron Man production team. It could be _awesome_. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9659 "2023-05-25T22:21:23Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull 4. Logan’s Run 5. The Phantom Tollbooth 6. John Carter of Mars 7. Starship Troopers 8. Star Wars (Ep. IV) The movie that kicked off the franchise is screaming for a reboot. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9660 "2023-05-26T02:03:57Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull 4. Logan’s Run 5. The Phantom Tollbooth 6. John Carter of Mars 7. Starship Troopers 8. Star Wars (Ep. IV) 9. Risen This movie started out terrific as a bronze age grave-robbing investigation with political intrigue and became just another Kirk Cameron type Jesus flick. Could have been epic if they left the story as it was. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9661 "2023-05-26T02:26:16Z")
**Remakes You Wouldn’t Mind Seeing** 1. Raise the Titanic 2. The Last Starfighter 3. Krull 4. Logan’s Run 5. The Phantom Tollbooth 6. John Carter of Mars 7. Starship Troopers 8. Star Wars (Ep. IV) 9. Risen 10. Disney’s Robin Hood Which, I’m told, is in the works. New category: **Comics You Want to See Made into Movies (That Haven’t Been Done Yet)** 1. The Order of the Stick ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/9662 "2023-05-26T04:46:18Z")
**Comics You Want to See Made into Movies (That Haven’t Been Done Yet)** 1. The Order of the Stick 2. Emily the Strange [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=482) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=484)