Movie Marathon (Part 3)

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Movies that changed the title of the books they were based on

  1. Charly (1968)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  4. Field of Dreams (1989)

Based on the 1982 novel ‘Shoeless Joe’ by W.P. Kinsella, which was itself an expansion of his short story ‘Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa’ (first published in 1980).

-“BB”-

2943

Movies that changed the title of the books they were based on

  1. Charly (1968)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  4. Field of Dreams (1989)
  5. Total Recall (1990)

Based on Philip K. Dick’s short story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” (1966).

2944

Movies that changed the title of the books they were based on

  1. Charly (1968)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  4. Field of Dreams (1989)
  5. Total Recall (1990)
  6. Stand By Me (1986)

Adapted from “The Body”, a novella by Stephen King.

2945

Movies that changed the title of the books they were based on

  1. Charly (1968)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  4. Field of Dreams (1989)
  5. Total Recall (1990)
  6. Stand By Me (1986)
  7. The Shawshank Redemption (1995)

Another Stephen King novella in the same anthology book as Stand By Me (The Body) called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, another horrible title.

2946

Movies that changed the title of the books they were based on

  1. Charly (1968)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  4. Field of Dreams (1989)
  5. Total Recall (1990)
  6. Stand By Me (1986)
  7. The Shawshank Redemption (1995)
  8. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

derived from Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

2947

Movies that changed the title of the books they were based on

  1. Charly (1968)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  4. Field of Dreams (1989)
  5. Total Recall (1990)
  6. Stand By Me (1986)
  7. The Shawshank Redemption (1995)
  8. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
  9. Goodfellas (1990)

Started as the book “Wiseguy” by Nicholas Pileggi, but changed because of a recent TV show with the same name as well as a film called Wise Guys.

2948

Movies that changed the title of the books they were based on

  1. Charly (1968)
  2. Blade Runner (1982)
  3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
  4. Field of Dreams (1989)
  5. Total Recall (1990)
  6. Stand By Me (1986)
  7. The Shawshank Redemption (1995)
  8. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
  9. Goodfellas (1990)
  10. Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Based on the Canadian author Margaret Laurence’s 1966 novel “A Jest of God”

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
2949

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
2950

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
2951

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. Help! (1965)
2952

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. Help! (1965)
  5. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
2953

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. Help! (1965)
  5. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
  6. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
2954

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. Help! (1965)
  5. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
  6. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
  7. Rocketman (2019)
2955

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. Help! (1965)
  5. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
  6. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
  7. Rocketman (2019)
  8. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)

-“BB”-

2956

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. Help! (1965)
  5. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
  6. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
  7. Rocketman (2019)
  8. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
  9. Yesterday (2019)
2957

Movies that were titled after a song

  1. Stand By Me (1986)
  2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  4. Help! (1965)
  5. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
  6. Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
  7. Rocketman (2019)
  8. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
  9. Yesterday (2019)
  10. Maneater (2007)

Pass.

2958

Films of Cillian Murphy and/or Robert Downey, Jr.

  1. Oppenheimer (2023, both)
2959

Films of Cillian Murphy and/or Robert Downey, Jr.

  1. Oppenheimer (2023, both)
  2. 28 Days Later (2002, Murphy)
2960

Films of Cillian Murphy and/or Robert Downey, Jr.

  1. Oppenheimer (2023, both)
  2. 28 Days Later (2002, Murphy)
  3. Chaplin (1992, Downey)
2961

Films of Cillian Murphy and/or Robert Downey, Jr.

  1. Oppenheimer (2023, both)
  2. 28 Days Later (2002, Murphy)
  3. Chaplin (1992, Downey)
  4. A Scanner Darkly (2006, Downey)