Movie Marathon (Part 4)

Thread Games
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Science!

  1. Weird Science
  2. Back to the Future
  3. The Fly (1986)
  4. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
  5. Real Geniius
  6. Jurassic Park
  7. The Andromeda Strain
  8. Things To Come
  9. Flatliners
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Science!

  1. Weird Science
  2. Back to the Future
  3. The Fly (1986)
  4. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
  5. Real Geniius
  6. Jurassic Park
  7. The Andromeda Strain
  8. Things To Come
  9. Flatliners
  10. Young Einstein

A very silly film, reimagining Albert Einstein as an Australian scientist/brewer/rock musician, and Marie Curie as a hot young Frenchwoman.

Next:

1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
  4. Ghostbusters
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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
  4. Ghostbusters
  5. Airplane!
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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
  4. Ghostbusters
  5. Airplane!
  6. The Blues Brothers
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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
  4. Ghostbusters
  5. Airplane!
  6. The Blues Brothers
  7. Private Benjamin
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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
  4. Ghostbusters
  5. Airplane!
  6. The Blues Brothers
  7. Private Benjamin
  8. Major League

-“BB”-

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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
  4. Ghostbusters
  5. Airplane!
  6. The Blues Brothers
  7. Private Benjamin
  8. Major League
  9. Trading Places

My all-time-favorite Eddie Murphy movie (although Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis are all very good in it, too).

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1980s Comedies

  1. Real Genius
  2. This Is Spinal Tap
  3. Space Balls
  4. Ghostbusters
  5. Airplane!
  6. The Blues Brothers
  7. Private Benjamin
  8. Major League
  9. Trading Places
  10. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad

Next:

Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann

Granted, she jumps on top of the train and on boxcars.

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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
  4. Bullet Train
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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
  4. Bullet Train
  5. The Lady Vanishes
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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
  4. Bullet Train
  5. The Lady Vanishes
  6. The Narrow Margin

Film noir about a police detective protecting a gangster’s widow on a train between Chicago and Los Angeles. Shown somewhat regularly on TCM.

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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
  4. Bullet Train
  5. The Lady Vanishes
  6. The Narrow Margin
  7. Source Code
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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
  4. Bullet Train
  5. The Lady Vanishes
  6. The Narrow Margin
  7. Knight and Day

We first meet precocious neurodivergent genius Simon on the train, and have a fight scene against an assassin sent to kill him.

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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
  4. Bullet Train
  5. The Lady Vanishes
  6. The Narrow Margin
  7. Knight and Day
  8. The Music Man

The movie opens with a group of traveling salesman on a train; after the first musical number (“MainTitle/Rock Island”), Professor Harold Hill disembarks from the train at River City, Iowa.

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Movies involving a train journey

  1. Silver Streak
  2. The Journey of Natty Gann
  3. Snowpiercer
  4. Bullet Train
  5. The Lady Vanishes
  6. The Narrow Margin
  7. Knight and Day
  8. The Music Man
  9. Strangers on a Train