# 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:** 227
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4522 "2024-07-25T04:16:14Z")
**Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4523 "2024-07-25T04:35:47Z")
**Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. 4. Chinatown - “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” ---
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**Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. 4. Chinatown - “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” 5. Cat Ballou – Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn were brothers. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. 4. Chinatown - “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” 5. Cat Ballou – Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn were brothers. 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) - They were on future Earth the whole time! ---
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**Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. 4. Chinatown - “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” 5. Cat Ballou – Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn were brothers. 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) - They were on future Earth the whole time! 7. Soylent Green - Soylent Green is made out of people! ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4527 "2024-07-25T13:22:30Z")
[quote=“Intergalactic\_Gladiator, post:4526, topic:985988, full:true”] **Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. 4. Chinatown - “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” 5. Cat Ballou – Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn were brothers. 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) - They were on future Earth the whole time! 7. Soylent Green - Soylent Green is made out of people! 8. Psycho - Mrs. Bates was long dead the whole time; Norman “imagined” her alive as a second persionality he took on. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4528 "2024-07-25T15:24:30Z")
**Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. 4. Chinatown - “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” 5. Cat Ballou – Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn were brothers. 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) - They were on future Earth the whole time! 7. Soylent Green - Soylent Green is made out of people! 8. Psycho - Mrs. Bates was long dead the whole time; Norman “imagined” her alive as a second persionality he took on. 9. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Spock dies. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4529 "2024-07-25T18:38:20Z")
**Movies with big spoilers** (whether you were personally spoiled or not) 1. The Sixth Sense - Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! 2. The Empire Strikes Back - “I am your father.” 3. The Crying Game - The girl ain’t a girl. 4. Chinatown - “She’s my sister! She’s my daughter!” 5. Cat Ballou – Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn were brothers. 6. Planet of the Apes (1968) - They were on future Earth the whole time! 7. Soylent Green - Soylent Green is made out of people! 8. Psycho - Mrs. Bates was long dead the whole time; Norman “imagined” her alive as a second persionality he took on. 9. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Spock dies. 10. Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince - Dumbledore is killed by Snape pass ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4530 "2024-07-25T22:13:09Z")
**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4531 "2024-07-25T22:22:08Z")
**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The perfect storm ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4532 "2024-07-25T22:39:12Z")
[quote=] **Found footage films** [/quote] 1. Hell House LLC 2. 84C MoPic 3. Cloverfield 4. The Blair Witch Project 5. Late Night with the Devil 6. Chronicle 7. Apollo 18 stupid, stupid movie ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4533 "2024-07-25T22:48:00Z")
**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4534 "2024-07-25T22:50:33Z")
**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild 4. Pompeii ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4535 "2024-07-25T23:01:10Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > **Found footage films** > > 1. Hell House LLC > 2. 84C MoPic > 3. Cloverfield > 4. The Blair Witch Project > 5. Late Night with the Devil > 6. Chronicle > 7. Apollo 18 > > stupid, stupid movie Sorry about that-- that really was showing up as the last post-- once in a while my computer does that (or, actually, my browser, I guess) ---
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**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild 4. Pompeii 5. The Searchers Many of the scenes were shot in Utah’s Monument Valley. [![](https://www.cowboysindians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-searchers-original1.jpg) ](https://www.cowboysindians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-searchers-original1.jpg) ---
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**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild 4. Pompeii 5. The Searchers 6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Middle-earth, which is gorgeous, looks a lot like New Zealand. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/4538 "2024-07-26T00:40:15Z")
**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild 4. Pompeii 5. The Searchers 6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God Per Wikipedia: “It was filmed on location in the Peruvian rainforest, Machu Picchu (the stone steps of Huayna Picchu), and on the Amazon River tributaries of the Ucayali region.” ---
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**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild 4. Pompeii 5. The Searchers 6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 8. The Man from Snowy River ---
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**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild 4. Pompeii 5. The Searchers 6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 8. The Man from Snowy River 9. The Revenant ---
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**Nature At Its Most Cinematic** 1. Twister 2. The Perfect Storm 3. Call of the Wild 4. Pompeii 5. The Searchers 6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 8. The Man from Snowy River 9. The Revenant 10. Planet of the Apes The early scenes filmed in the American desert are quite striking. Pass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=226) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=228)