# 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:** 31
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/601 "2023-08-03T20:39:56Z")
**Movies About Reunions** 1. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2. Grosse Pointe Blank 3. The Four Seasons 4. The Osterman Weekend ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/602 "2023-08-03T20:54:39Z")
**Movies About Reunions** 1. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2. Grosse Pointe Blank 3. The Four Seasons 4. The Osterman Weekend 5. That Championship Season ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/603 "2023-08-03T20:59:13Z")
**Movies About Reunions** 1. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2. Grosse Pointe Blank 3. The Four Seasons 4. The Osterman Weekend 5. That Championship Season 6. The Banger Sisters ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/604 "2023-08-03T21:30:19Z")
**Movies About Reunions** 1. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2. Grosse Pointe Blank 3. The Four Seasons 4. The Osterman Weekend 5. That Championship Season 6. The Banger Sisters 7. Ocean’s 11 … _(the 1960 original with the Rat Pack)_ Members of Danny Ocean’s old WWII outfit reunite to use their wartime skills and discipline to simultaneously rip off four Las Vegas casinos. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/605 "2023-08-03T21:32:18Z")
**Movies About Reunions** 1. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2. Grosse Pointe Blank 3. The Four Seasons 4. The Osterman Weekend 5. That Championship Season 6. The Banger Sisters 7. Ocean’s 11 … _(the 1960 original with the Rat Pack)_ 8. The Big Chill ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/606 "2023-08-03T21:34:35Z")
**Movies About Reunions** 1. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2. Grosse Pointe Blank 3. The Four Seasons 4. The Osterman Weekend 5. That Championship Season 6. The Banger Sisters 7. Ocean’s 11 … _(the 1960 original with the Rat Pack)_ 8. The Big Chill 9. A Mighty Wind ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/607 "2023-08-03T22:24:38Z")
> [@](#): > > **Movies About Reunions** 1. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2. Grosse Pointe Blank 3. The Four Seasons 4. The Osterman Weekend 5. That Championship Season 6. The Banger Sisters 7. Ocean’s 11 … _(the 1960 original with the Rat Pack)_ 8. The Big Chill 9. A Mighty Wind 10. Return of the Secaucus 7. NEXT: **Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/608 "2023-08-03T22:35:25Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It Drew Barrymore directed, and plays a member of the roller derby team. But Ellen (as she was then) Page plays the lead. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/609 "2023-08-03T22:38:43Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino played the role of Jimmy, an ally of Jules and Vincent who was nevertheless very pissed at them for bringing a dead guy to his house. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/610 "2023-08-03T22:40:42Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Vertigo Or just about any Hitchcock film, for that matter. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/611 "2023-08-03T22:48:05Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Vertigo 5. Thor: Ragnarok Taika Waititi directs and plays the role of Korg in both this and _Thor: Love and Thunder._ ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/612 "2023-08-03T22:58:57Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Vertigo 5. Thor: Ragnarok 6. Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi plays Jojo’s imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/613 "2023-08-03T23:31:49Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Vertigo 5. Thor: Ragnarok 6. Jojo Rabbit 7. That Thing You Do Tom Hanks played a supportive role as a mentor to the band. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2023, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/614 "2023-08-03T23:48:08Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Vertigo 5. Thor: Ragnarok 6. Jojo Rabbit 7. That Thing You Do 8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith George Lucas has a cameo as “Baron Papanoida,” appearing in the opera house scene. [![](https://i.redd.it/g1b5304froe11.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/g1b5304froe11.jpg) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/615 "2023-08-04T03:49:23Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Vertigo 5. Thor: Ragnarok 6. Jojo Rabbit 7. That Thing You Do 8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom At about 13 minutes into the film, Dan Aykroyd appears (he’s the guy in the red circle) in a cameo as Weber, the guy who sees Indy and Willie off at the airport – but just barely visible in the background behind him and over his shoulder are Steven Spielberg, along with George Lucas, Frank Marshall _(co-founder of Amblin Entertainment)_, and Kathleen Kennedy _(Marshall’s wife and president of Lucasfilm)_. [![](https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dan-Aykroyd-in-Indiana-Jones-and-the-Temple-of-Doom.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5) ](https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dan-Aykroyd-in-Indiana-Jones-and-the-Temple-of-Doom.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/616 "2023-08-04T11:58:13Z")
**Movies in which the director plays a role, but not the lead-- anything from a cameo to the “supporting actor” role** 1. Return of the Secaucus 7. 2. Whip It 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Vertigo 5. Thor: Ragnarok 6. Jojo Rabbit 7. That Thing You Do 8. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 10. The Blues Brothers Director John Landis plays Trooper La Fong. pass ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/617 "2023-08-04T14:36:25Z")
**“Let’s go to the lobby”** (concession snacks) 1. Red Vines ---
**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:** [August 4, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/618 "2023-08-04T14:39:06Z")
**“Let’s go to the lobby”** (concession snacks) 1. Red Vines 2. Popcorn ---
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**“Let’s go to the lobby”** (concession snacks) 1. Red Vines 2. Popcorn 3. Raisnets ---
**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:** [August 4, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/620 "2023-08-04T14:45:08Z")
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