# 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:** 416
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8302 "2025-06-25T16:42:10Z")
**Movies about real-life sports figures** 1. Rise (about Giannis Antetokounmpo) 2. Pride of the Yankees (Lou Gehrig) 3. Babe (Babe Didrikson) 4. Eight Men Out (Shoeless Joe Jackson _et al_) 5. Knute Rockne, All American 6. Ali (Muhammad Ali) 7. Brian’s Song (Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers) 8. Hurricane - Ruben "Hurricane " Carter 9. Air - Michael Jordan 10. The Blind Side (Michael Oher) Next: **Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. Airplane! (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8303 "2025-06-25T17:19:40Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. Airplane! (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. Hot Shots! (Rambo) ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8304 "2025-06-25T17:21:45Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. Airplane! (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. Hot Shots! (Rambo) 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8305 "2025-06-25T17:29:51Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. Airplane! (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. Hot Shots! (Rambo) 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 4. Top Secret (Elvis, Cold War …) ---
**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 25, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8306 "2025-06-25T17:51:16Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. Airplane! (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. Hot Shots! (Rambo) 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 4. Top Secret (Elvis, Cold War …) 5. Robin Hood: Men in Tights ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8307 "2025-06-25T18:35:30Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. Airplane! (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. Hot Shots! (Top Gun) 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 4. Top Secret (Elvis, Cold War …) 5. Robin Hood: Men in Tights 6. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (horror movies) Hot Shots was a spoof of Top Gun, we didn’t get the Rambo parody until Hot Shots Part Deux ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8308 "2025-06-25T18:38:36Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Top Secret (Elvis, Cold War …) I attended a preview of _Top Secret!_, hosted by the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker trio, a few months before it was released. In a Q&A after the screening, they said that, as they were deciding what to spoof after having done _Airplane!_, their short list was “Elvis movies, spy movies, and WWII movies”…and as they couldn’t decide, they made a film which parodied all three. 😃 ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8309 "2025-06-25T20:20:30Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. _Airplane!_ (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. _Hot Shots!_ (_Top Gun_) 3. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (Bible epics) 4. _Top Secret!_ (Elvis, Cold War …) 5. _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ (Robin Hood movies) 6. _Attack of the Killer Tomatoes_ (horror movies) 7. _Hot Fuzz_ (buddy cop movies) Very funny, although I could definitely have done without the occasional body-horror incident. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8310 "2025-06-25T20:25:10Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. _Airplane!_ (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. _Hot Shots!_ (_Top Gun_) 3. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (Bible epics) 4. _Top Secret!_ (Elvis, Cold War …) 5. _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ (Robin Hood movies) 6. _Attack of the Killer Tomatoes_ (horror movies) 7. _Hot Fuzz_ (buddy cop movies) 8. _Not Another Teen Movie_ (teen comedies / rom-coms) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8311 "2025-06-25T21:04:47Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. _Airplane!_ (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. _Hot Shots!_ (_Top Gun_) 3. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (Bible epics) 4. _Top Secret!_ (Elvis, Cold War …) 5. _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ (Robin Hood movies) 6. _Attack of the Killer Tomatoes_ (horror movies) 7. _Hot Fuzz_ (buddy cop movies) 8. _Not Another Teen Movie_ (teen comedies / rom-coms) 9. _Spaceballs_ (_Star Wars_) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8312 "2025-06-25T22:19:10Z")
**Parody/Spoof Movies** 1. _Airplane!_ (disaster movies, and _Zero Hour!_ in particular) 2. _Hot Shots!_ (_Top Gun_) 3. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (Bible epics) 4. _Top Secret!_ (Elvis, Cold War …) 5. _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ (Robin Hood movies) 6. _Attack of the Killer Tomatoes_ (horror movies) 7. _Hot Fuzz_ (buddy cop movies) 8. _Not Another Teen Movie_ (teen comedies / rom-coms) 9. _Spaceballs_ (_Star Wars_) 10. _Scary Movie_ (horror movies) pass ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8313 "2025-06-26T02:55:36Z")
Movies featuring the afterlife 1. Beetlejuice ---
**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:** [June 26, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8314 "2025-06-26T03:01:09Z")
Movies featuring the afterlife 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8315 "2025-06-26T03:15:43Z")
**Movies featuring the afterlife** 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven ---
**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:** [June 26, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8316 "2025-06-26T03:20:03Z")
**Movies featuring the afterlife** 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4. What Dreams May Come ---
**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 26, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8317 "2025-06-26T11:52:16Z")
**Movies featuring the afterlife** 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4. What Dreams May Come 5. Ghost ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8318 "2025-06-26T12:52:46Z")
**Movies featuring the afterlife** 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4. What Dreams May Come 5. Ghost 6. The Sixth Sense ---
**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:** [June 26, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8319 "2025-06-26T12:58:40Z")
**Movies featuring the afterlife** 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4. What Dreams May Come 5. Ghost 6. The Sixth Sense 7. Cabin in the Sky ---
**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:** [June 26, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8320 "2025-06-26T13:35:00Z")
**Movies featuring the afterlife** 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4. What Dreams May Come 5. Ghost 6. The Sixth Sense 7. Cabin in the Sky 8. Defending Your Life ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/8321 "2025-06-26T17:53:08Z")
**Movies featuring the afterlife** 1. Beetlejuice 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven 4. What Dreams May Come 5. Ghost 6. The Sixth Sense 7. Cabin in the Sky 8. Defending Your Life 9. L’Inferno [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=415) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=417)