# 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:** 303
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6042 "2024-12-31T18:09:45Z")
**Movies with a New Year’s celebration** 1. The Horn Blows At Midnight 2. Four Rooms 3. The Gold Rush 4. When Harry Met Sally 5. Heatwave 6. After the Thin Man 7. Angel Heart 8. The Poseidon Adventure 9. Ocean’s 11 (1960) 10. New Years Evil pass ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6043 "2024-12-31T19:15:09Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Top Gun > > _Top Gun_ was about Navy pilots… > > _ **-“BB”-** _ How about: 1. Fail Safe Next up: **Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6044 "2024-12-31T19:22:02Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6045 "2024-12-31T19:27:36Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens Features Colonial Marines in the year 2179, on a “bug hunt.” 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6046 "2024-12-31T19:29:00Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens 4. Guadalcanal Diary ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6047 "2024-12-31T22:22:46Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens 4. Guadalcanal Diary 5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6048 "2025-01-01T15:16:31Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens 4. Guadalcanal Diary 5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 6. Pride of the Marines ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6049 "2025-01-01T18:17:02Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens 4. Guadalcanal Diary 5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 6. Pride of the Marines 7. Jarhead ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6050 "2025-01-01T18:51:06Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens 4. Guadalcanal Diary 5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 6. Pride of the Marines 7. Jarhead 8. A Few Good Men Navy lawyers defending Marines. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6051 "2025-01-02T04:15:48Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens 4. Guadalcanal Diary 5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 6. Pride of the Marines 7. Jarhead 8. A Few Good Men 9. The Cockleshell Heroes ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6052 "2025-01-02T04:31:52Z")
**Movies about Marines (any nation)** 1. Sands of Iwo Jima 2. Heartbreak Ridge 3. Aliens 4. Guadalcanal Diary 5. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 6. Pride of the Marines 7. Jarhead 8. A Few Good Men 9. The Cockleshell Heroes 10. Tribes (1970) Listed in imdb as “The Tribe” pass ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6053 "2025-01-02T05:21:02Z")
**Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6054 "2025-01-02T05:31:13Z")
**Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ 2. Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in _Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens_ Both men starred in _Inside Llewyn Davis_ ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6055 "2025-01-02T10:30:50Z")
> [@](#): > > **Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ 2. Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in _Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens_ 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh in _Delores Claiborne_ If a “Coen Brothers actor” is just anyone who has been in a Cohen bros film. Leigh was in _The Hudsucker Proxy._ ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6056 "2025-01-02T13:01:00Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > If a “Coen Brothers actor” is just anyone who has been in a Cohen bros film. Yes, that’s the intent. I was just trying to be succinct. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6057 "2025-01-02T13:38:43Z")
**Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ 2. Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in _Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens_ 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh in _Delores Claiborne_ 4. George Clooney, _Ocean’s Eleven_ ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6058 "2025-01-02T13:53:31Z")
**Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ 2. Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in _Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens_ 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh in _Delores Claiborne_ 4. George Clooney, _Ocean’s Eleven_ 5. Randall “Tex” Cobb, _Blind Fury_ ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6059 "2025-01-02T16:58:35Z")
**Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ 2. Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in _Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens_ 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh in _Delores Claiborne_ 4. George Clooney, _Ocean’s Eleven_ 5. Randall “Tex” Cobb, _Blind Fury_ 6. Jeff Bridges, _Fearless_ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6060 "2025-01-02T18:29:18Z")
**Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ 2. Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in _Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens_ 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh in _Delores Claiborne_ 4. George Clooney, _Ocean’s Eleven_ 5. Randall “Tex” Cobb, _Blind Fury_ 6. Jeff Bridges, _Fearless_ 7. Frances McDormand, _Something’s Gotta Give_ ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/6061 "2025-01-02T18:41:33Z")
**Coen Brothers actors in non-Coen movies** 1. John Goodman in _Bringing Out the Dead_ 2. Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in _Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens_ 3. Jennifer Jason Leigh in _Delores Claiborne_ 4. George Clooney, _Ocean’s Eleven_ 5. Randall “Tex” Cobb, _Blind Fury_ 6. Jeff Bridges, _Fearless_ 7. Frances McDormand, _Something’s Gotta Give_ 8. Javier Bardem, _Biutiful_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=302) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=304)