Movie Marathon (Part 2)

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Time Travel Films

  1. The Time Machine
  2. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  3. Tenet
  4. Somewhere in Time
  5. Back to the Future Part 2
  6. Planet of the Apes
  7. Peggy Sue Got Married
  8. The Terminator
  9. Looper
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Time Travel Films

  1. The Time Machine
  2. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  3. Tenet
  4. Somewhere in Time
  5. Back to the Future Part 2
  6. Planet of the Apes
  7. Peggy Sue Got Married
  8. The Terminator
  9. Looper
  10. Star Trek: First Contact

Planet of the Apes wasn’t really a time-travel movie. Time passed at its normal pace; Taylor just eventually found himself in the distant future when his spacecraft crashed you-know-where. So I’ll suggest:

  1. Hot Tub Time Machine

Next up:

Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp

Playing on the radio when Lois pulls up to the old gas station, just before the earthquake hits

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OK, whatever. But: astronauts go into space for a couple of years, and when they get back to Earth it’s two thousand years later. Sounds like time travel to me. It doesn’t matter if it was achieved with a machine designed by H.G. Wells or a theory developed by Einstein. And when I saw the movie, eleven-year-old me hadn’t read up on relativity or time dilation. :slight_smile:

Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - Son Of A Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield
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Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - Son Of A Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
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Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - Son Of A Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
  4. The Killing Fields - “Band on the Run” by Wings

(And, as it turns out, an anachronism: the scene takes place in May, 1973, while the album was not released until several months later)

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never mind

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Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - “Son Of A Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
  4. The Killing Fields - “Band on the Run” by Wings
  5. Watchmen - “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
  6. Star Trek Beyond - “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys
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Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - “Son Of A Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
  4. The Killing Fields - “Band on the Run” by Wings
  5. Watchmen - “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
  6. Star Trek Beyond - “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys
  7. Groundhog Day - “I Got You Babe” by Sonny & Cher
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Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - “Son Of A Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
  4. The Killing Fields - “Band on the Run” by Wings
  5. Watchmen - “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
  6. Star Trek Beyond - “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys
  7. Groundhog Day - “I Got You Babe” by Sonny & Cher
  8. Back to the Future - “Mr. Sandman” by The Four Aces
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Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - “Son Of A Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
  4. The Killing Fields - “Band on the Run” by Wings
  5. Watchmen - “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
  6. Star Trek Beyond - “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys
  7. Groundhog Day - “I Got You Babe” by Sonny & Cher
  8. Back to the Future - “Mr. Sandman” by The Four Aces
  9. Silence of the Lambs - “American Girl” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
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Films in which an already-released, unrelated rock or pop song is heard in the background

  1. Superman - “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp
  2. Pulp Fiction - “Son Of A Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy - “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
  4. The Killing Fields - “Band on the Run” by Wings
  5. Watchmen - “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
  6. Star Trek Beyond - “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys
  7. Groundhog Day - “I Got You Babe” by Sonny & Cher
  8. Back to the Future - “Mr. Sandman” by The Four Aces
  9. Silence of the Lambs - “American Girl” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
  10. The Big Chill - The Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out!
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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out!
  2. Clue
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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express

Just watched the 1974 version again. As good as ever.

The first movie’s title does not include an exclamation point.

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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express
  4. The Thin Man
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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express
  4. The Thin Man
  5. Dark City
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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express
  4. The Thin Man
  5. Dark City
  6. Deathtrap
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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express
  4. The Thin Man
  5. Dark City
  6. Deathtrap
  7. Murder by Death

“Listen! Cow on wall speaks!”

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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express
  4. The Thin Man
  5. Dark City
  6. Deathtrap
  7. Murder by Death
  8. Rear Window
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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express
  4. The Thin Man
  5. Dark City
  6. Deathtrap
  7. Murder by Death
  8. Rear Window
  9. Day of the Jackal (1973) … maybe not a classic mystery, but an excellent depiction of detective work

-“BB”-

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I Love A Mystery

  1. Knives Out
  2. Clue
  3. Murder on the Orient Express
  4. The Thin Man
  5. Dark City
  6. Deathtrap
  7. Murder by Death
  8. Rear Window
  9. Day of the Jackal (1973) … maybe not a classic mystery, but an excellent depiction of detective work
  10. Dead Again

I Love a Biopic

  1. Bohemian Rhapsody - Freddie Mercury