# 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:** 414
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8262 "2025-06-22T06:19:10Z")
**Major films marred by something small, but important** 1. _Mary Poppins_ – the kids’ mother is shown as flakey, and so consumed by a silly hobby, that she has no time for her children. Actually, she was a suffragette, and her “hobby” was “Votes for Women.” Not so silly. 2. _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ – Charlie is more than just good-hearted. He comes off as a Mary Sue. In particular, the sequence where Charlie moves Willy Wonka to reconcile with his father starts with Wonka meeting Charlie on the street and describing one’s family as an annoyance, who tell you what to do. To which Charlie humbly replies that they do that for your own good. Granted, Charlie didn’t know this, but Wonka’s father was an absolute dental fanatic, making his son wear a cage-like orthodontic aparatus and burning his trick-or-treat candy before his eyes while describing the supposedly noxious substances within. Such extreme parental behavior should not be justified. 3. _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_ - Legolas surfs down a staircase on a shield, firing arrows as he goes. Oh, come _on!_ 4. _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_ - and all applicable sequels - the scene where Harry meets the Weasleys and learns how to get to Platform 9 3/4: how is it that they are in one of the busiest train stations in the country, yet no one else sees them running into a brick column and disappearing. 5. _Kate & Leopold_ - Leopold has already returned to his time. Kate’s ex-boyfriend Stuart and brother Charlie find photographic proof that Kate was actually in the 19th century and made her way to Leopold’s party in which he was to announce his engagement at the beginning of the movie. But from her perspective, it hasn’t happened yet. So she has to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge at a specific point in the next few minutes to go through that crack in time. The problem we run into is that a cop sees her about to jump, and tried to talk her down. Stuart and Charlie protest and tell the cop it’s okay, and when the cop turns around, Kate has jumped. The cop assumes Kate has made a suicide attempt, and calls for ESU and Harbor Patrol. What happens to Stuart and Charlie? 6. _Raiders of the Lost [Ark]_: Leaving aside the colonialist cultural theft, and [wanton] destruction of important archeological sites, there is also the issue that Indiana Jones, didn’t actually do anything effective to stop the NAZIS. In fact they found the [Ark] because he led them right to it. If he had stayed home teaching his classes to doe-eyed co-eds, they still would have gotten their faces melted off. This is actually a recurring theme in his movies where Indy finds all the clues and solves all the puzzles for the bad guys leading them right to the treasure he was assigned [to] protect them from. 7. _Notorious_ - I always worried the hero and heroine might suffer radiation poisoning after the movie’s otherwise-happy ending. 8. _A Quiet Place_ - They were able to yell near the waterfall. Why not set up camp there? 9. _The Shawshank Redemption_ - Andy didn’t pass out from the methane in the sewer? And his suit stayed clean and dry in that flimsy plastic package? ---
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1. _Iron Man 2._ Rhodey, in the War Machine suit, fires what he believes to be a bunker-buster bomb at Whiplash, who’s standing only a few feet from him. Thankfully it was Hammer tech and therefore didn’t work. Yeah, it’s an action comedy, but the bunker buster bomb would have taken out Whiplash, Rhodes, Tony, the entire building, and about three city blocks had it worked. That’s not something you fire at point blank range. New category: **Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8264 "2025-06-22T11:32:03Z")
**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8265 "2025-06-22T18:56:06Z")
**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T.” ---
**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:** [June 22, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8266 "2025-06-22T22:20:06Z")
**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T." 4. _Megamind_: “Highway to Hell” ---
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**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T." 4. _Megamind_: “Highway to Hell” 5. _Deadpool 2_: “Thunderstruck” ---
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**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T." 4. _Megamind_: “Highway to Hell” 5. _Deadpool 2_: “Thunderstruck” 6. _A Knight’s Tale_: “You Shook Me All Night Long” (comes in over the last scene and plays through the credits) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T." 4. _Megamind_: “Highway to Hell” 5. _Deadpool 2_: “Thunderstruck” 6. _A Knight’s Tale_: “You Shook Me All Night Long” (comes in over the last scene and plays through the credits) 7. _School of Rock_: Highway To Hell, Back In Black, For Those About to Rock (We Salute You), and It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8270 "2025-06-23T20:30:15Z")
**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T." 4. _Megamind_: “Highway to Hell” 5. _Deadpool 2_: “Thunderstruck” 6. _A Knight’s Tale_: “You Shook Me All Night Long” (comes in over the last scene and plays through the credits) 7. _School of Rock_: Highway To Hell, Back In Black, For Those About to Rock (We Salute You), and It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) 8. _Last Action Hero_: “Big Gun” ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8271 "2025-06-23T20:40:15Z")
**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T." 4. _Megamind_: “Highway to Hell” 5. _Deadpool 2_: “Thunderstruck” 6. _A Knight’s Tale_: “You Shook Me All Night Long” (comes in over the last scene and plays through the credits) 7. _School of Rock_: Highway To Hell, Back In Black, For Those About to Rock (We Salute You), and It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) 8. _Last Action Hero_: “Big Gun” 9. _Beavis and Butthead Do America_: “Gone Shootin’” ---
**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:** [June 23, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8272 "2025-06-23T22:46:06Z")
**Movies with AC/DC songs in them** 1. _Iron Man 2_: “Shoot to Thrill” 2. _Maximum Overdrive_: The Soundtrack 3. _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_: “T.N.T." 4. _Megamind_: “Highway to Hell” 5. _Deadpool 2_: “Thunderstruck” 6. _A Knight’s Tale_: “You Shook Me All Night Long” (comes in over the last scene and plays through the credits) 7. _School of Rock_: Highway To Hell, Back In Black, For Those About to Rock (We Salute You), and It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) 8. _Last Action Hero_: “Big Gun” 9. _Beavis and Butthead Do America_: “Gone Shootin’” 10. _Deadpool & Wolverine_: “Hells Bells” Pass. (It was my category.) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8273 "2025-06-23T23:32:13Z")
**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer ---
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**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer ---
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**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer 3. A Summer Place _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer 3. A Summer Place 4. Summer of Sam ---
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**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer 3. A Summer Place 4. Summer of Sam 5. Summer of '42 ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8278 "2025-06-24T06:13:31Z")
**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer 3. A Summer Place 4. Summer of Sam 5. Summer of '42 6. I Know What You Did Last Summer ---
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**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer 3. A Summer Place 4. Summer of Sam 5. Summer of '42 6. I Know What You Did Last Summer 7. Wet Hot American Summer ---
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**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer 3. A Summer Place 4. Summer of Sam 5. Summer of '42 6. I Know What You Did Last Summer 7. Wet Hot American Summer 8. Indian Summer ---
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**Movies with “summer” in the title** 1. Suddenly Last Summer 2. 500 Days of Summer 3. A Summer Place 4. Summer of Sam 5. Summer of '42 6. I Know What You Did Last Summer 7. Wet Hot American Summer 8. Indian Summer 9. The Boys of Summer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=413) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=415)