# Movie Marathon (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988 "2023-06-23T10:14:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 212
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4222 "2024-06-28T12:58:37Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4223 "2024-06-28T13:21:38Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4224 "2024-06-28T13:42:14Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave 4. π ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4225 "2024-06-28T13:48:00Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave 4. π 5. Saw ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4226 "2024-06-28T13:56:48Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave 4. π 5. Saw 6. She ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4227 "2024-06-28T15:34:50Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave 4. π 5. Saw 6. She 7. Thor ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4228 "2024-06-28T15:41:11Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave 4. π 5. Saw 6. She 7. Thor 8. O ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4229 "2024-06-28T16:28:49Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave 4. π 5. Saw 6. She 7. Thor 8. O 9. M ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4230 "2024-06-28T16:42:30Z")
**The Titles are 4 Letters or Less** 1. It 2. Jaws 3. Dave 4. π 5. Saw 6. She 7. Thor 8. O 9. M 10. Cats Movies the lead actor later regretted 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4231 "2024-06-28T16:53:44Z")
Movies the lead actor later regretted 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music "It was so awful and sentimental and gooey. You had to work terribly hard to try and infuse some miniscule bit of humour into it.” ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4232 "2024-06-28T19:01:33Z")
Movies the lead actor later regretted 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4233 "2024-06-28T19:56:18Z")
Movies the lead actor later regretted 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl 4. George Clooney - Batman and Robin Clooney is no stranger to farce and putting himself out there, but he regretted stepping into the batsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4234 "2024-06-29T02:54:09Z")
**Movies the lead actor later regretted** 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl 4. George Clooney - Batman and Robin 5. Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern Off of an earlier post, Christopher Plummer regularly referred the film as “The Sound of Mucus”. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4235 "2024-06-29T04:05:24Z")
**Movies the lead actor later regretted** 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl 4. George Clooney - Batman and Robin 5. Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern 6. Jaws: The Revenge - Michael Caine When asked how he could appear in such a terrible movie, Caine supposedly said, “I have never seen the movie, but I _have_ seen the deck on my house which it paid for, and it’s very nice.” ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4236 "2024-06-29T04:12:11Z")
**Movies the lead actor later regretted** 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl 4. George Clooney - Batman and Robin 5. Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern 6. Jaws: The Revenge - Michael Caine 7. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (and the two subsequent sequels) - John Boyega He feels that Disney didn’t know what to do with the character, and only cast him because he was a Black actor. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4237 "2024-06-29T04:22:07Z")
**Movies the lead actor later regretted** 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl 4. George Clooney - Batman and Robin 5. Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern 6. Jaws: The Revenge - Michael Caine 7. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (and the two subsequent sequels) - John Boyega 8. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - Alec Guinness Although he appreciated the big money, he considered the SW movies silly, resented how they overshadowed the rest of his career, and disliked how fans pestered him for years afterwards ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4238 "2024-06-29T08:54:36Z")
**Movies the lead actor later regretted** 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl 4. George Clooney - Batman and Robin 5. Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern 6. Jaws: The Revenge - Michael Caine 7. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (and the two subsequent sequels) - John Boyega 8. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - Alec Guinness 9. Battlefield Earth - Forest Whitaker ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4239 "2024-06-29T19:41:43Z")
**Movies the lead actor later regretted** 1. Zardoz - Sean Connery 2. Christopher Plummer - The Sound of Music 3. Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl 4. George Clooney - Batman and Robin 5. Ryan Reynolds - Green Lantern 6. Jaws: The Revenge - Michael Caine 7. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (and the two subsequent sequels) - John Boyega 8. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - Alec Guinness 9. Battlefield Earth - Forest Whitaker 10. Deep Throat - Linda Lovelace She later said she did the movie under duress from her abusive husband. Next up: **Non-French movies with French character(s)** 1. Godzilla (1998) ---
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**Non-French movies with French character(s)** 1. Godzilla (1998) 2. The Pink Panther (1963) ---
**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:** [June 29, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4241 "2024-06-29T19:50:56Z")
**Non-French movies with French character(s)** 1. Godzilla (1998) 2. The Pink Panther (1963) 3. Top Secret! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=213)