# Movie Marathon (Part 4)

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**Category:** Thread Games\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [February 10, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550 "2026-02-10T16:50:37Z")\
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**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:** [July 9, 2026, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1061 "2026-07-09T23:51:13Z")

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**Movies based on a book, and the author (or his/her estate/heirs) is/was salty about how it turned out.**

1. _The Fellowship of the Ring -_ Christopher Tolkien claims that Jackson “eviscerated” the book.
2. _The Shining_ - Stephen King was outspokenly dissatisfied with Kubrick’s version, so much so that he wrote and produced a mini series that would conform to his own original vision of the story.
3. _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ - Roald Dahl was unhappy with the focus (and the name of the film) having been changed away from Charlie to Wonka, and did not like the music. He disavowed the film, and refused to sell movie rights to the sequel book as a result.
4. _300_ - Alan Moore is famously pricklish about the adaptations of his work. When interviewed by EW, Moore admitted that he had no interest in seeing the adaptation saying "I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid.”
5. _Raise the Titanic!_ – Clive Cussler absolutely hated the way his book was simplified for the Jason Robards movie in 1980, and it was twenty-five years before he agreed to a movie treatment of another one of his novels (_Sahara_, in 2005).  
,_(spoiler – he didn’t like the way that one turned out either, to the point that he sued the production company for breach of contract for drastically changing the screenplay)_

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**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:** [July 10, 2026, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1062 "2026-07-10T04:27:27Z")

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**Movies based on a book, and the author (or his/her estate/heirs) is/was salty about how it turned out.**

1. _The Fellowship of the Ring -_ Christopher Tolkien claims that Jackson “eviscerated” the book.
2. _The Shining_ - Stephen King was outspokenly dissatisfied with Kubrick’s version, so much so that he wrote and produced a mini series that would conform to his own original vision of the story.
3. _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ - Roald Dahl was unhappy with the focus (and the name of the film) having been changed away from Charlie to Wonka, and did not like the music. He disavowed the film, and refused to sell movie rights to the sequel book as a result.
4. _300_ - Alan Moore is famously pricklish about the adaptations of his work. When interviewed by EW, Moore admitted that he had no interest in seeing the adaptation saying "I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid.”
5. _Raise the Titanic!_ – Clive Cussler absolutely hated the way his book was simplified for the Jason Robards movie in 1980, and it was twenty-five years before he agreed to a movie treatment of another one of his novels (_Sahara_, in 2005).  
,_(spoiler – he didn’t like the way that one turned out either, to the point that he sued the production company for breach of contract for drastically changing the screenplay)_
6. _Mommie Dearest_ - Christina Crawford , author of the memoir about the abuse suffered at the hands of her famous mother Joan Crawford, has generally denounced the movie as grotesque , not because the events in it weren’t true, but because the (unintended) campiness and “over the top” depictions and acting of Faye Dunaway took away from the seriousness of the abuse.

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**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:** [July 10, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1063 "2026-07-10T19:19:22Z")

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**Movies based on a book, and the author (or his/her estate/heirs) is/was salty about how it turned out.**

1. _The Fellowship of the Ring -_ Christopher Tolkien claims that Jackson “eviscerated” the book.
2. _The Shining_ - Stephen King was outspokenly dissatisfied with Kubrick’s version, so much so that he wrote and produced a mini series that would conform to his own original vision of the story.
3. _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ - Roald Dahl was unhappy with the focus (and the name of the film) having been changed away from Charlie to Wonka, and did not like the music. He disavowed the film, and refused to sell movie rights to the sequel book as a result.
4. _300_ - Alan Moore is famously pricklish about the adaptations of his work. When interviewed by EW, Moore admitted that he had no interest in seeing the adaptation saying "I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid.”
5. _Raise the Titanic!_ – Clive Cussler absolutely hated the way his book was simplified for the Jason Robards movie in 1980, and it was twenty-five years before he agreed to a movie treatment of another one of his novels (_Sahara_, in 2005).  
,_(spoiler – he didn’t like the way that one turned out either, to the point that he sued the production company for breach of contract for drastically changing the screenplay)_
6. _Mommie Dearest_ - Christina Crawford , author of the memoir about the abuse suffered at the hands of her famous mother Joan Crawford, has generally denounced the movie as grotesque , not because the events in it weren’t true, but because the (unintended) campiness and “over the top” depictions and acting of Faye Dunaway took away from the seriousness of the abuse.
7. _A Clockwork Orange_ - “Salty” would be overstating it, but [Anthony Burgess wasn’t overjoyed by the film and its reception.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)#Novelist's_response)

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**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:** [July 11, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1064 "2026-07-11T13:54:42Z")

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**Movies based on a book, and the author (or his/her estate/heirs) is/was salty about how it turned out.**

1. _The Fellowship of the Ring -_ Christopher Tolkien claims that Jackson “eviscerated” the book.
2. _The Shining_ - Stephen King was outspokenly dissatisfied with Kubrick’s version, so much so that he wrote and produced a mini series that would conform to his own original vision of the story.
3. _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ - Roald Dahl was unhappy with the focus (and the name of the film) having been changed away from Charlie to Wonka, and did not like the music. He disavowed the film, and refused to sell movie rights to the sequel book as a result.
4. _300_ - Alan Moore is famously pricklish about the adaptations of his work. When interviewed by EW, Moore admitted that he had no interest in seeing the adaptation saying "I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid.”
5. _Raise the Titanic!_ – Clive Cussler absolutely hated the way his book was simplified for the Jason Robards movie in 1980, and it was twenty-five years before he agreed to a movie treatment of another one of his novels (_Sahara_, in 2005).  
,_(spoiler – he didn’t like the way that one turned out either, to the point that he sued the production company for breach of contract for drastically changing the screenplay)_
6. _Mommie Dearest_ - Christina Crawford , author of the memoir about the abuse suffered at the hands of her famous mother Joan Crawford, has generally denounced the movie as grotesque , not because the events in it weren’t true, but because the (unintended) campiness and “over the top” depictions and acting of Faye Dunaway took away from the seriousness of the abuse.
7. _A Clockwork Orange_ - “Salty” would be overstating it, but [Anthony Burgess wasn’t overjoyed by the film and its reception.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)#Novelist's_response)
8. _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ - Ken Kesey refused to watch the movie because he didn’t like that it wasn’t told from Chief Bromden’s perspective. He also didn’t like Jack Nicholson’s casting.

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**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:** [July 12, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1065 "2026-07-12T14:32:07Z")

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> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
>
> **Movies based on a book, and the author (or his/her estate/heirs) is/was salty about how it turned out.**

1. _The Fellowship of the Ring -_ Christopher Tolkien claims that Jackson “eviscerated” the book.
2. _The Shining_ - Stephen King was outspokenly dissatisfied with Kubrick’s version, so much so that he wrote and produced a mini series that would conform to his own original vision of the story.
3. _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ - Roald Dahl was unhappy with the focus (and the name of the film) having been changed away from Charlie to Wonka, and did not like the music. He disavowed the film, and refused to sell movie rights to the sequel book as a result.
4. _300_ - Alan Moore is famously pricklish about the adaptations of his work. When interviewed by EW, Moore admitted that he had no interest in seeing the adaptation saying "I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid.”
5. _Raise the Titanic!_ – Clive Cussler absolutely hated the way his book was simplified for the Jason Robards movie in 1980, and it was twenty-five years before he agreed to a movie treatment of another one of his novels (_Sahara_, in 2005).  
,_(spoiler – he didn’t like the way that one turned out either, to the point that he sued the production company for breach of contract for drastically changing the screenplay)_
6. _Mommie Dearest_ - Christina Crawford , author of the memoir about the abuse suffered at the hands of her famous mother Joan Crawford, has generally denounced the movie as grotesque , not because the events in it weren’t true, but because the (unintended) campiness and “over the top” depictions and acting of Faye Dunaway took away from the seriousness of the abuse.
7. _A Clockwork Orange_ - “Salty” would be overstating it, but [Anthony Burgess wasn’t overjoyed by the film and its reception.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)#Novelist's_response)
8. _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ - Ken Kesey refused to watch the movie because he didn’t like that it wasn’t told from Chief Bromden’s perspective. He also didn’t like Jack Nicholson’s casting.
9. _Fahrenheit 451_ - OK, so Bradbury actually did like the score and some of the visuals, he was generally pissed off by interpretations of the book (and the movie isn’t alone in this) suggesting it was criticizing government censorship. It is actually about a dystopia where people have decided ON THEIR OWN to stop reading, stop thinking critically, and choose quick entertainment over thought. It’s actually a little scary when you read what he wrote back in the 1950s.

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1066 "2026-07-13T05:44:58Z")

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**Movies based on a book, and the author (or his/her estate/heirs) is/was salty about how it turned out.**

1. _The Fellowship of the Ring -_ Christopher Tolkien claims that Jackson “eviscerated” the book.
2. _The Shining_ - Stephen King was outspokenly dissatisfied with Kubrick’s version, so much so that he wrote and produced a mini series that would conform to his own original vision of the story.
3. _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ - Roald Dahl was unhappy with the focus (and the name of the film) having been changed away from Charlie to Wonka, and did not like the music. He disavowed the film, and refused to sell movie rights to the sequel book as a result.
4. _300_ - Alan Moore is famously pricklish about the adaptations of his work. When interviewed by EW, Moore admitted that he had no interest in seeing the adaptation saying "I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid.”
5. _Raise the Titanic!_ – Clive Cussler absolutely hated the way his book was simplified for the Jason Robards movie in 1980, and it was twenty-five years before he agreed to a movie treatment of another one of his novels (_Sahara_, in 2005).  
,_(spoiler – he didn’t like the way that one turned out either, to the point that he sued the production company for breach of contract for drastically changing the screenplay)_
6. _Mommie Dearest_ - Christina Crawford , author of the memoir about the abuse suffered at the hands of her famous mother Joan Crawford, has generally denounced the movie as grotesque , not because the events in it weren’t true, but because the (unintended) campiness and “over the top” depictions and acting of Faye Dunaway took away from the seriousness of the abuse.
7. _A Clockwork Orange_ - “Salty” would be overstating it, but [Anthony Burgess wasn’t overjoyed by the film and its reception.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)#Novelist's_response)
8. _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ - Ken Kesey refused to watch the movie because he didn’t like that it wasn’t told from Chief Bromden’s perspective. He also didn’t like Jack Nicholson’s casting.
9. _Fahrenheit 451_ - OK, so Bradbury actually did like the score and some of the visuals, he was generally pissed off by interpretations of the book (and the movie isn’t alone in this) suggesting it was criticizing government censorship. It is actually about a dystopia where people have decided ON THEIR OWN to stop reading, stop thinking critically, and choose quick entertainment over thought. It’s actually a little scary when you read what he wrote back in the 1950s.
10. _The Phantom Tollbooth_ - Norton Juster didn’t like the film based on his excellent children’s novel.

New category:

**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1067 "2026-07-13T05:49:10Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1068 "2026-07-13T06:15:22Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1069 "2026-07-13T06:18:26Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity
4. Meet Me in St. Louis

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1070 "2026-07-13T07:09:05Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Across the Universe

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1071 "2026-07-13T08:21:48Z")

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> [@themapleleaf](#):
>
> **Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Across the Universe
6. The Music Man

Originally posted _Cabaret_, then I remembered that it isn’t a traditional musical (unlike the stage show) in that with one exception, all the songs are performed in the Kit Kat Club. And the one exception is also a situation where people are actually singing-- it’s not an affect of the medium.

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**Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1072 "2026-07-13T11:25:01Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Across the Universe
6. The Music Man
7. West Side Story

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1073 "2026-07-13T11:51:15Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Across the Universe
6. The Music Man
7. West Side Story
8. Oklahoma!

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1074 "2026-07-13T13:51:00Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Across the Universe
6. The Music Man
7. West Side Story
8. Oklahoma!
9. Chicago

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1075 "2026-07-13T19:06:00Z")

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**Movie musicals**

1. Fiddler on the Roof
2. The Sound of Music
3. Sweet Charity
4. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Across the Universe
6. The Music Man
7. West Side Story
8. Oklahoma!
9. Chicago
10. Cats

Let’s keep this going…

**Movie musicals redux**

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1076 "2026-07-13T19:17:33Z")

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**Movie musicals redux**

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. My Fair Lady

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1077 "2026-07-13T19:52:13Z")

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**Movie musicals redux**

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. My Fair Lady
3. The Phantom of the Opera

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1078 "2026-07-13T19:56:13Z")

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**Movie musicals redux**

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. My Fair Lady
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Rock and Roll High School

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1079 "2026-07-13T20:16:55Z")

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**Movie musicals redux**

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. My Fair Lady
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Rock and Roll High School
5. Tommy

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**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:** [July 13, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-4/1027550/1080 "2026-07-13T21:12:29Z")

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**Movie musicals redux**

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. My Fair Lady
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Rock and Roll High School
5. Tommy
6. The Phantom of the Paradise

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