# 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:** 312
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**Sci-Fi Comedies** 1. Mars Attacks! 2. Galaxy Quest 3. Men In Black 4. Weird Science 5. Spaceballs 6. Hot Tub Time Machine 7. Paul 8. The World’s End ---
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**Sci-Fi Comedies** 1. Mars Attacks! 2. Galaxy Quest 3. Men In Black 4. Weird Science 5. Spaceballs 6. Hot Tub Time Machine 7. Paul 8. The World’s End 9. Guardians of the Galaxy ---
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**Sci-Fi Comedies** 1. Mars Attacks! 2. Galaxy Quest 3. Men In Black 4. Weird Science 5. Spaceballs 6. Hot Tub Time Machine 7. Paul 8. The World’s End 9. Guardians of the Galaxy 10. La Soupe au choux (“Cabbage Soup”) - 1981 French screwball comedy, a personal favorite **Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) Both Kim Bassinger and Brad Pitt’s characters appear as animated and live-action versions of themselves. ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) Tom Hanks as multiple characters. ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) They weren’t the _best_ of likenesses, but one could tell who was supposed to be who of the Fab Four. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. Xanadu (1980) Includes an animated sequence, set to ELO’s song “Don’t Walk Away,” in which Kira (Olivia Netwon-John) and Sonny (Michael Beck) are depicted as their human selves, as well as birds and fish. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lr_ltJLwT9k/maxresdefault.jpg "Xanadu (1980) - Don't Walk Away Scene (5/10) | Movieclips") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr_ltJLwT9k) ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. Xanadu (1980) 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) Frank Sinatra as the Singing Sword [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GusH4aDbGLk/maxresdefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GusH4aDbGLk/maxresdefault.jpg) ---
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There’s also a sequence with Benny the Cab where Bob Hoskins is completely animated. **Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. Xanadu (1980) 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) 6. Wizards (1977) Bakshi did a lot of rotoscoping in his day. ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. Xanadu (1980) 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) 6. Wizards (1977) 7. A Christmas Carol (2009) Animated Jim Carrey. ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. Xanadu (1980) 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) 6. Wizards (1977) 7. A Christmas Carol (2009) 8. A Bug’s Life (1998) David Hyde Pierce’s character, Slim, a stick bug, looked a lot like him. ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. Xanadu (1980) 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) 6. Wizards (1977) 7. A Christmas Carol (2009) 8. A Bug’s Life (1998) 9. Fire and Ice (1983) Another Bakshi film featuring rotoscoping. ---
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**Films with animation depicting real actors’ likenesses** 1. Cool World (1992) 2. Polar Express (2004) 3. Yellow Submarine (1968) 4. Xanadu (1980) 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) 6. Wizards (1977) 7. A Christmas Carol (2009) 8. A Bug’s Life (1998) 9. Fire and Ice (1983) 10. The Incredibles (2004) Frank and Ollie _(the two older guys at the end who remark,“no school like the old school”)_ are caricatures of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Walt Disney’s “Nine Old Men” team of animators from the early days of Disney animation. > **[https://i.redd.it/1d8h8zdj5t951.png](https://i.redd.it/1d8h8zdj5t951.png)** The two men also provided the voices for the characters. I’ll pass. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film 2. _Son of Dracula_, 1974 A counter-culture version starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Star. It gave us “Daybreak”, sung by Harry. ][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=670\_qytvRPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=670_qytvRPs)[ ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film 2. _Son of Dracula_, 1974 3. _Nosferatu the Vampyre_, 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film 2. _Son of Dracula_, 1974 3. _Nosferatu the Vampyre_, 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski 4. _Love at First Bite_, 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film 2. _Son of Dracula_, 1974 3. _Nosferatu the Vampyre_, 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski 4. _Love at First Bite_, 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James 5. _Hotel Transylvania_, 2012, animated film “I do NOT go bleh-bleh-bleh!” ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film 2. _Son of Dracula_, 1974 3. _Nosferatu the Vampyre_, 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski 4. _Love at First Bite_, 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James 5. _Hotel Transylvania_, 2012, animated film 6. _Dracula: Dead and Loving It_, 1995, with Leslie Nielsen ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film 2. _Son of Dracula_, 1974 3. _Nosferatu the Vampyre_, 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski 4. _Love at First Bite_, 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James 5. _Hotel Transylvania_, 2012, animated film 6. _Dracula: Dead and Loving It_, 1995, with Leslie Nielsen 7. _Blacula_, 1972, blaxploitation horror film ---
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**Versions, pirates, pastiches, prequels, sequels, and so forth, of “Dracula”** 1. _Deafula_, 1975, ASL vampire film 2. _Son of Dracula_, 1974 3. _Nosferatu the Vampyre_, 1979, Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski 4. _Love at First Bite_, 1979, George Hamilton with Arte Johnson, Richard Benjamin, and Susan St. James 5. _Hotel Transylvania_, 2012, animated film 6. _Dracula: Dead and Loving It_, 1995, with Leslie Nielsen 7. _Blacula_, 1972, blaxploitation horror film 8. _Van Helsing_, 2004, Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale hunt Dracula [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=311) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=313)