# 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:** 469
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9362 "2025-11-19T16:13:43Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9363 "2025-11-19T16:27:15Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9364 "2025-11-19T17:18:08Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure 4. Moonstruck ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9365 "2025-11-19T17:57:43Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure 4. Moonstruck 5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9366 "2025-11-19T18:26:33Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure 4. Moonstruck 5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 6. Con Air ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9367 "2025-11-19T20:32:15Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure 4. Moonstruck 5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 6. Con Air 7. The Wicker Man Perhaps the worst of his entire career. _Perhaps_. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9368 "2025-11-19T20:56:51Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure 4. Moonstruck 5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 6. Con Air 7. The Wicker Man 8. Valley Girl ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9369 "2025-11-19T21:15:51Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure 4. Moonstruck 5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 6. Con Air 7. The Wicker Man 8. Valley Girl 9. Matchstick Men ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9370 "2025-11-19T21:25:31Z")
**Nicolas Cage movies** 1. Knowing 2. Raising Arizona 3. National Treasure 4. Moonstruck 5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High 6. Con Air 7. The Wicker Man 8. Valley Girl 9. Matchstick Men 10. Fortitude According to Wiki, his most current work, a WWII action-adventure movie now being filmed. Next up: **Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9371 "2025-11-19T21:42:22Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9372 "2025-11-19T22:32:38Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. _Lady Bird_ - Saoirse Ronan ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9373 "2025-11-19T22:33:35Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. “Jaws: The Revenge” - Michael Caine “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” Michael Caine ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9374 "2025-11-19T22:36:40Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. _Lady Bird_ - Saoirse Ronan 4. _Jaws: The Revenge_ - Michael Caine 5. _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_ - Robert De Niro Housekeeping and an addition. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9375 "2025-11-19T23:20:17Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. _Lady Bird_ - Saoirse Ronan 4. _Jaws: The Revenge_ - Michael Caine 5. _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_ - Robert De Niro 6. _Highlander II: The Quickening_ - Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9376 "2025-11-20T01:31:45Z")
> [@](#): > > **Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. _Lady Bird_ - Saoirse Ronan 4. _Jaws: The Revenge_ - Michael Caine 5. _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_ - Robert De Niro 6. _Highlander II: The Quickening_ - Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen 7. _The Taming of the Shrew_ - Mary Pickford ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9377 "2025-11-20T03:04:48Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. _Lady Bird_ - Saoirse Ronan 4. _Jaws: The Revenge_ - Michael Caine 5. _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_ - Robert De Niro 6. _Highlander II: The Quickening_ - Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen 7. _The Taming of the Shrew_ - Mary Pickford 8. _Freejack_ - Anthony Hopkins Is _Lady Bird_ really considered a bad movie? Haven’t seen it myself but it’s got a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for a number of Academy Awards (including Ronan’s performance). Of course these things are a matter of opinion but it just struck me as odd ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9378 "2025-11-20T05:17:22Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. _Lady Bird_ - Saoirse Ronan 4. _Jaws: The Revenge_ - Michael Caine 5. _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_ - Robert De Niro 6. _Highlander II: The Quickening_ - Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen 7. _The Taming of the Shrew_ - Mary Pickford 8. _Freejack_ - Anthony Hopkins 9. _My Favorite Martian_ - Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd, Wallace Shawn ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9379 "2025-11-20T05:21:16Z")
**Bad movies by good actors** 1. _The Wicker Man_ - Nicolas Cage 2. _Batman & Robin_ - George Clooney 3. _Lady Bird_ - Saoirse Ronan 4. _Jaws: The Revenge_ - Michael Caine 5. _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_ - Robert De Niro 6. _Highlander II: The Quickening_ - Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen 7. _The Taming of the Shrew_ - Mary Pickford 8. _Freejack_ - Anthony Hopkins 9. _My Favorite Martian_ - Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd, Wallace Shawn 10. _Garfield_ - Bill Murray pass ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9380 "2025-11-20T06:16:18Z")
**Centered around a workplace** 1. Glengarry Glen Ross ---
**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:** [November 20, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9381 "2025-11-20T08:56:32Z")
**Centered around a workplace** 1. Glengarry Glen Ross 2. Ghostbusters [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=468) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=470)