# 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:** 498
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9942 "2026-02-05T04:41:31Z")
**Sports Movies, and the sports in them, but with no repeated sports** 1. _The Longest Yard_, American football 2. _Major League_, baseball 3. _Baseketball_, Baseketball 4. _Slap Shot_, ice hockey 5. _Cool Runnings_, bobsleighing 6. _Hoosiers_, basketball 7. _I, Tonya_, figure skating 8. _Chariots of Fire_, track and field 9. _Challengers_, tennis ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9943 "2026-02-05T05:51:37Z")
**Sports Movies, and the sports in them, but with no repeated sports** 1. _The Longest Yard_, American football 2. _Major League_, baseball 3. _Baseketball_, Baseketball 4. _Slap Shot_, ice hockey 5. _Cool Runnings_, bobsleighing 6. _Hoosiers_, basketball 7. _I, Tonya_, figure skating 8. _Chariots of Fire_, track and field 9. _Challengers_, tennis 10. _Tin Cup_, golf This was mine, so Pass. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9944 "2026-02-05T10:25:40Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** I dislike Sports movies in general, because I dislike sports in general, but the last category mentioned a few films I like, and I remembered a couple more. So I thought of this catagory. 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9945 "2026-02-05T10:40:57Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9946 "2026-02-05T10:55:21Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. The sports movies I like tend to be ones that tell some kind of quirky story against the backdrop of a sport: _Cool Runnings_, _The Bad News Bears_, _A League of Their Own_, _Hoosiers_; I picked _Miracle_, because while it does tell a story, it tells a sports story. It is just so compelling that even though you can look up the ending on Wikipedia, it’s fascinating. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9947 "2026-02-05T11:08:35Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > The sports movies I like tend to be ones that tell some kind of quirky story against the backdrop of a sport: _Cool Runnings_, _The Bad News Bears_, _A League of Their Own_, _Hoosiers_; I picked _Miracle_, because while it does tell a story, it tells a sports story. It is just so compelling that even though you can look up the ending on Wikipedia, it’s fascinating. I feel the same way. I also don’t care much for sports movies (I have _low_ interest in sports though it’s not completely absent), but like you I like some, such as “A League of Their Own”, which tell a compelling story above all. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9948 "2026-02-05T14:01:36Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9949 "2026-02-05T16:34:55Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). 4. _The Mist_ (Horror) In particular, I highly recommend watching it in its black-and-white director’s cit version; director Frank Darabont shot it in color (because the studio insisted on it), but made choices in the colors used so that it would look also good in B&W. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9950 "2026-02-05T17:37:48Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). 4. _The Mist_ (Horror) 5. _Thirteen Ghosts_ (Slasher/Splatter) I don’t like the genre, but I can stand watching if the movie is well-made (_Halloween_, for instance, but not the sequels). This movie isn’t that well-made, it’s tacky and silly and employs trick editing with lots of strobe effects, but whenever I stumble on it I have to stop and watch it to the end. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9951 "2026-02-05T20:56:47Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). 4. _The Mist_ (Horror) 5. _Thirteen Ghosts_ (Slasher/Splatter) 6. _The Quick and the Dead_ (Western) ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9952 "2026-02-06T01:14:01Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). 4. _The Mist_ (Horror) 5. _Thirteen Ghosts_ (Slasher/Splatter) 6. _The Quick and the Dead_ (Western) 7. _True Grit_, 2010 (Western) I was stuck watching this, no choice (long story) and liked it much more than I expected ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9953 "2026-02-06T02:37:41Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). 4. _The Mist_ (Horror) 5. _Thirteen Ghosts_ (Slasher/Splatter) 6. _The Quick and the Dead_ (Western) 7. _True Grit_, 2010 (Western) 8. _The Sixth Sense_ (Horror/ghost story) I really don’t like that kind of movie, but it came highly recommended, and I really enjoyed it. It had a heart and a pathos to it that have stuck with me all these years later, even though I only saw it once, when it first came out in 1999. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9954 "2026-02-06T08:05:57Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). 4. _The Mist_ (Horror) 5. _Thirteen Ghosts_ (Slasher/Splatter) 6. _The Quick and the Dead_ (Western) 7. _True Grit_, 2010 (Western) 8. _The Sixth Sense_ (Horror/ghost story) 9. _Krampus_ (Horror) As a general rule, I don’t like horror. However, I will make an exception from time to time. This film is a fun one, I would consider it a humorous take on “Poltergeist”, and I like its take on Austrian holiday traditions. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9955 "2026-02-06T14:44:38Z")
**Movies you like, genres you dislike.** 1. _Miracle_ (sports movies) US ice hockey team beats Soviet Union Originally going to post _A League of Their Own_, but that is a lot more than just a sports movie. 2. _Willow_ (Sword and Sorcery / High Fantasy). I generally don’t care for Fantasy (neither read the books nor saw the movies of the Ring Trilogy, nor of the Harry Potter series), and this movie is almost a ripoff of what I know of the Hobbit franchise; yet the story is told well and the actors are likeable. 3. _There’s Something About Mary_ (Romantic Comedies). 4. _The Mist_ (Horror) 5. _Thirteen Ghosts_ (Slasher/Splatter) 6. _The Quick and the Dead_ (Western) 7. _True Grit_, 2010 (Western) 8. _The Sixth Sense_ (Horror/ghost story) 9. _Krampus_ (Horror) 10. _Birdman_ (Black comedy) IMDB describes it as a “satirical surrealist black comedy-drama film.” That’s a mouthful that should’nt work, but somehow it made sense and entertained me. Most dark humor genre movies leave me feeling out of sorts. **B is for BOMB: movies about bombs** 1. _Speed_ Lotsa bombs in this movie. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9956 "2026-02-06T14:59:27Z")
**B is for BOMB: movies about bombs** 1. _Speed_ 2. _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ It’s right there in the title. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9957 "2026-02-06T15:56:10Z")
**B is for BOMB: movies about bombs** 1. _Speed_ 2. _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ 3. _The Nude Bomb_ ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9958 "2026-02-06T16:10:08Z")
**B is for BOMB: movies about bombs** 1. _Speed_ 2. _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ 3. _The Nude Bomb_ 4. _Fat Man and Little Boy_ ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9959 "2026-02-06T18:19:22Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > **B is for BOMB: movies about bombs** 1. _Speed_ 2. _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ 3. _The Nude Bomb_ 4. _Fat Man and Little Boy_ 5. _The Atomic Cafe_ ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9960 "2026-02-06T18:58:22Z")
**B is for BOMB: movies about bombs** 1. _Speed_ 2. _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ 3. _The Nude Bomb_ 4. _Fat Man and Little Boy_ 5. _The Atomic Cafe_ 6. _The Dam Busters_ The mostly-true story of the RAF’s 617 Squadron and their mission to destroy hydroelectric dams in the Ruhr Valley of Germany during WWII using a uniquely-designed ‘skip bomb’ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988/9961 "2026-02-06T19:54:05Z")
**B is for BOMB: movies about bombs** 1. _Speed_ 2. _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ 3. _The Nude Bomb_ 4. _Fat Man and Little Boy_ 5. _The Atomic Cafe_ 6. _The Dam Busters_ 7. _The Hurt Locker_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=497) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-3/985988.md?page=499)