# 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:** 360
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7182 "2025-04-03T02:11:26Z")
**More movies that made them a star** 1. High Sierra - Humphrey Bogart 2. The Princess Bride - Robin Wright 3. Die Hard - Bruce Willis 4. Dance, Fools, Dance - Clark Gable 5. Friday - Chris Tucker 6. Winona Ryder - Beetlejuice 7. Cimmaron - Irene Dunne 8. Bonnie & Clyde - Faye Dunaway 9. Star Wars - Harrison Ford 10. Thelma & Louise - Brad Pitt Housekeeping. Bonnie and Clyde was skipped. @Gr8Kat , you’re up. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7183 "2025-04-03T03:44:05Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride I thought the book was kinda mean-spirited. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7184 "2025-04-03T06:37:32Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws The book was an ordinary summer potboiler, the kind you take to read at the airport and leave behind. The film was a masterpiece, quite different in spirit from the book. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7185 "2025-04-03T06:56:16Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta The movie told the story, and didn’t bother with a lot of the non-essential stuff adding nothing to the story that was in the book. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7186 "2025-04-03T09:27:42Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 The book by Mario Puzo was pulpy trash in his own opinion (Did we need to hear how big Sonny’s penis was?). They were able to make two masterpieces from the original source material ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7187 "2025-04-03T10:27:17Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 5. The Wizard of Oz The book had an _enormous_ body count, in the triple digits. You know, for kids! ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7188 "2025-04-03T10:34:54Z")
> [@](#): > > **Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 5. The Wizard of Oz 6. Psycho Have to register protest for _The Wizard of Oz._ If you read Baum’s foreword to the original book, you will realize that the core of the film’s story entirely defeated Baum’s intent in writing the book. For high body counts, cf. _Grimm’s Fairy Tales._ ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7189 "2025-04-03T11:26:39Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 5. The Wizard of Oz 6. Psycho 7. Forrest Gump The book is not even close to the wonderful film. Tom Hanks’ character was only one of many fantastic portrayals. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7190 "2025-04-03T12:05:29Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 5. The Wizard of Oz 6. Psycho 7. Forrest Gump 8. Star Wars ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7191 "2025-04-03T21:21:05Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 5. The Wizard of Oz 6. Psycho 7. Forrest Gump 8. The Last Detail A much more contrived ending than the classic New Hollywood film. (I assume the intention was to highlight films where the book came first? If not, please reinstate Star Wars.) ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7192 "2025-04-03T21:24:06Z")
I don’t know why that would be assumed. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7193 "2025-04-03T21:24:40Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 5. The Wizard of Oz 6. Psycho 7. Forrest Gump 8. The Last Detail 9. Blade Runner The movie is more closely focused on hunting down the replicants, and if I remember the novel well enough, I believe the movie introduces the idea that they want their life span extended, which I think adds another layer to the story. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7194 "2025-04-04T04:21:03Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > (I assume the intention was to highlight films where the book came first? If not, please reinstate Star Wars.) To be clear, the book _Star Wars_ was a novelization of the movie screenplay, rather than a book which was adapted into a screenplay (which was the case for most of the others on the list). ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7195 "2025-04-04T08:22:08Z")
As the creator of this list, I’ll allow it. Carry on. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7196 "2025-04-04T11:09:47Z")
So now we’re waiting for **dirtball** to give us a new topic? ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7197 "2025-04-04T11:12:23Z")
I had #9. We need one more. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7198 "2025-04-04T12:14:05Z")
**Movies That Are Better Than The Book** 1. The Princess Bride 2. Jaws 3. V for Vendetta 4. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 5. The Wizard of Oz 6. Psycho 7. Forrest Gump 8. Star Wars 9. The Last Detail 10. Blade Runner Next **The films of Sally Field** 1. Lincoln ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7199 "2025-04-04T13:37:24Z")
**The films of Sally Field** 1. Lincoln 2. Norma Rae ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7200 "2025-04-04T14:32:10Z")
**The films of Sally Field** 1. Lincoln 2. Norma Rae 3. Smokey and the Bandit ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/7201 "2025-04-04T15:14:30Z")
**The films of Sally Field** 1. Lincoln 2. Norma Rae 3. Smokey and the Bandit 4. Moon Pilot Her screen debut in 1962, as “Beatnik Girl In Lineup.” I remember hearing an interview with her when _Lincoln_ came out. Spielberg wanted her to put on weight to play Mary Todd Lincoln, so she drank a _lot_ of milkshakes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=359) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=361)