# 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:** 477
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9522 "2025-12-03T16:27:37Z")
**People you’d like to see a biopic for who don’t currently have one** 1. Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd founder 2. [Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Radcliffe) 3. Jack McNeice - Member and eventual leader of the Filthy Thirteen 4. Robin Williams 5. [Alma Mahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Mahler) 6. Walt Disney 7. [St. Olga of Kyiv](https://theconversation.com/saint-olga-of-kyiv-is-ukraines-patron-saint-of-both-defiance-and-vengeance-178019) 8. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong ---
**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:** [December 3, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9523 "2025-12-03T18:28:15Z")
**People you’d like to see a biopic for who don’t currently have one** 1. Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd founder 2. [Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Radcliffe) 3. Jack McNeice - Member and eventual leader of the Filthy Thirteen 4. Robin Williams 5. [Alma Mahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Mahler) 6. Walt Disney 7. [St. Olga of Kyiv](https://theconversation.com/saint-olga-of-kyiv-is-ukraines-patron-saint-of-both-defiance-and-vengeance-178019) 8. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong 9. George Washington There’s a movie coming out next year for the USA 250th that looks like it will focus on his service in the Virginia militia during the French and Indian War, but I’ve long thought he deserves a big-budget, full-life (or at the very least the Revolution and his Presidency), well-made biopic. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9524 "2025-12-04T09:54:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > **People you’d like to see a biopic for who don’t currently have one** 1. Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd founder 2. [Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Radcliffe) 3. Jack McNeice - Member and eventual leader of the Filthy Thirteen 4. Robin Williams 5. [Alma Mahler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Mahler) 6. Walt Disney 7. [St. Olga of Kyiv](https://theconversation.com/saint-olga-of-kyiv-is-ukraines-patron-saint-of-both-defiance-and-vengeance-178019) 8. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong 9. George Washington 10. Rosalind Franklin supposedly there’s a film in the works specifically about her contribution to the discovery of DNA, starring Natalie Portman, and there was a film called _The Double Helix,_ in which she was played by Nicole Kidman, but I want a film about her whole life. And she needs to be played by Rachel Dratch, or Mayim Bialik, not Nicole Kidman. Next topic in a few minutes OK: next is **Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 (not necessary to include the year, unless there are multiple films with the same title) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9525 "2025-12-04T10:04:10Z")
**Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. A lovable drunk as an airline pilot? I think I may take a later flight. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9526 "2025-12-04T10:11:56Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > A lovable drunk as an airline pilot? I think I may take a later flight. 😆 ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9527 "2025-12-04T13:43:46Z")
**Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9528 "2025-12-04T16:43:36Z")
**Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ 4. Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9529 "2025-12-04T19:35:34Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > [@Spoons](#): > > > > A lovable drunk as an airline pilot? I think I may take a later flight. > > 😆 I guess that makes _Flight_, with Denzel Washington, almost a remake. **Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ 4. Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ 5. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, _The Conqueror_ Horribly miscast, and [it may have cost him his life.](https://www.straightdope.com/21341555/did-john-wayne-die-of-cancer-caused-by-a-radioactive-movie-set) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9530 "2025-12-04T19:43:25Z")
**Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ 4. Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ 5. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, _The Conqueror_ 6. Johnny Depp as Tonto, _The Lone Ranger_, 2013 Only “explicable” from the standpoint that Depp was a massive, bankable star at that point; the rest of Hollywood had figured out, by 2013, that casting white people as Native Americans wasn’t cool anymore. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9531 "2025-12-05T00:28:27Z")
[quote=“kenobi\_65, post:9530, topic:985988”] **Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ 4. Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ 5. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, _The Conqueror_ 6. Johnny Depp as Tonto, _The Lone Ranger_, 2013 7. Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones, _The World is not Enough_ Yes she’s got the bond girl attractiveness, but she can’t pull off having the smarts to be a nuclear physicist. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9532 "2025-12-05T02:24:25Z")
**Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ 4. Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ 5. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, _The Conqueror_ 6. Johnny Depp as Tonto, _The Lone Ranger_, 2013 7. Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones, _The World is not Enough_ 8. Jared Leto as The Joker, _Suicide Squad_ Plenty of miscast roles in the original movie but Leto’s Joker stands out as the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9533 "2025-12-05T02:33:27Z")
**Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ 4. Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ 5. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, _The Conqueror_ 6. Johnny Depp as Tonto, _The Lone Ranger_, 2013 7. Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones, _The World is not Enough_ 8. Jared Leto as The Joker, _Suicide Squad_ 9. Alan Arkin as Inspector Clouseau, _Inspector Clouseau_, 1968 Peter Sellers he was not. ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9534 "2025-12-06T22:30:47Z")
**Inexplicable casting choices** 1. Demi Moore as Hester Prynne: _Scarlet Letter_, 1995 2. Dean Martin as an airline pilot in _Airport_, 1970. 3. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: _Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ 4. Mickey Rooney as I.Y. Yunioshi: _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ 5. John Wayne as Genghis Khan, _The Conqueror_ 6. Johnny Depp as Tonto, _The Lone Ranger_, 2013 7. Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones, _The World is not Enough_ 8. Jared Leto as The Joker, _Suicide Squad_ 9. Alan Arkin as Inspector Clouseau, _Inspector Clouseau_, 1968 10. Michael Keaton at Bruce Wayne/Batman, _Batman_, 1989 At the time, Keaton was well-known as a comedic actor (_Mr. Mom_, _Night Shift_, among others), and it was known that this _Batman_ film was not going to be a zany comedy. As someone remarked at the time, “Mr. Mom as Batman? They’re kidding, right?” Next: **Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis ---
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**Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis 2. _The Aviator_ (2004), Howard Hughes ---
**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:** [December 7, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9536 "2025-12-07T00:19:25Z")
> [@](#): > > **Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis 2. _The Aviator_ (2004), Howard Hughes 3. _Blossoms in the Dust_ (1941) Edna Gladney (very loose interpretation of facts) ---
**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:** [December 7, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9537 "2025-12-07T00:26:59Z")
**Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis 2. _The Aviator_ (2004), Howard Hughes 3. _Blossoms in the Dust_ (1941) Edna Gladney 4. _Gandhi_ (1982), Mahatma Gandhi ---
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**Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis 2. _The Aviator_ (2004), Howard Hughes 3. _Blossoms in the Dust_ (1941) Edna Gladney 4. _Gandhi_ (1982), Mahatma Gandhi 5. _Brian’s Song_ (1971/made for TV), Brian Piccolo _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9539 "2025-12-07T04:18:00Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Michael Keaton at Bruce Wayne/Batman, _Batman_, 1989 Which became the basis of Keaton’s _Birdman._ In play: **Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis 2. _The Aviator_ (2004), Howard Hughes 3. _Blossoms in the Dust_ (1941) Edna Gladney 4. _Gandhi_ (1982), Mahatma Gandhi 5. _Brian’s Song_ (1971/made for TV), Brian Piccolo 6. _Weird: The Al Yankovic Story_ (2022), “Weird” Al Yancovic ---
**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:** [December 7, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9540 "2025-12-07T04:44:42Z")
**Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis 2. _The Aviator_ (2004), Howard Hughes 3. _Blossoms in the Dust_ (1941) Edna Gladney 4. _Gandhi_ (1982), Mahatma Gandhi 5. _Brian’s Song_ (1971/made for TV), Brian Piccolo 6. _Weird: The Al Yankovic Story_ (2022), “Weird” Al Yancovic 7. _Tennessee Johnson_ (1942), Andrew Johnson ---
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**Biopics, and Who They Are About** 1. _Great Balls of Fire_ (1989), Jerry Lee Lewis 2. _The Aviator_ (2004), Howard Hughes 3. _Blossoms in the Dust_ (1941) Edna Gladney 4. _Gandhi_ (1982), Mahatma Gandhi 5. _Brian’s Song_ (1971/made for TV), Brian Piccolo 6. _Weird: The Al Yankovic Story_ (2022), “Weird” Al Yancovic 7. _Tennessee Johnson_ (1942), Andrew Johnson 8. _Coal Miner’sDaughter_ (1980), Loretta Lynn [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=476) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=478)