# Movie Merger Madness
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 20, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030 "2004-07-20T17:51:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/1 "2004-07-20T17:51:45Z")
Over in **CandidGamera** ’s thread [Make Mine Marketable](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=267172), I misread the OP and inadvertently invented a different game. Rather than clutter up that excellent thread, I’m breaking it off into a new one.
The rules are simple. You’re given a description of a movie. The next poster guesses the title of the movie, which is derived from the titles of two other movies. Bonus points for using three or more movies.
Example: Julia Roberts plays a hooker with a heart of gold. She must choose between the millionaire, who wants to take her off the streets, and her good friend Ducky, who has supported her through good times and bad.
Answer: **Pretty Woman in Pink**
Ready? Begin:
Young mutants, stylishly dressed in dark clothing, save the world from the alien menace.
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### Author:  [@Feit\_C\_Taj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feit_C_Taj)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/2 "2004-07-20T18:06:39Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#):
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> Young mutants, stylishly dressed in dark clothing, save the world from the alien menace.
Obvious. **X-Men in Black**
Try this one: Ronald Reagan plays a soldier trying to put together an all-Deadite soldier show for World War II.
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/3 "2004-07-20T18:11:48Z")
**This is the Army of Darkness**.
Next:
A gripping drama intermingling the early years of the AIDS epidemic and its effect on the life of a young dockworker-turned-boxer.
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### Author:  [@Feit\_C\_Taj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feit_C_Taj)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/4 "2004-07-20T18:19:57Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> A gripping drama intermingling the early years of the AIDS epidemic and its effect on the life of a young dockworker-turned-boxer.
**And The Band Played On The Waterfront**
Try this:
The wacky hijinks of Vincent Price and his college fraternity as they turn unwitting partygoers into living statues.
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/5 "2004-07-20T18:25:20Z")
> [@Doktor Fluff](#):
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> The wacky hijinks of Vincent Price and his college fraternity as they turn unwitting partygoers into living statues.
**Animal House of Wax.**
Next:
Newspaper editor will do anything to keep his top reporter and ex-wife from remarrying, even sending her to investigate reports of a masked serial killer at a nearby summer camp!
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### Author:  [@Feit\_C\_Taj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feit_C_Taj)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/6 "2004-07-20T18:34:31Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Newspaper editor will do anything to keep his top reporter and ex-wife from remarrying, even sending her to investigate reports of a masked serial killer at a nearby summer camp!
**His Girl Friday the Thirteenth**
My last one for now, need to give others a chance:
A man wakes up from a forgotten World War II hibernation experiment to carry on his grandfather’s experiment’s in reanimating the dead.
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### Author:  [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/7 "2004-07-20T18:45:58Z")
That would be **Forever Young Frankenstein**.
Here’s mine: Julia Roberts escapes her abusive husband by fleeing to a remote planet where she encounters a hostile alien with whom she eventually cooperates to survive.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/8 "2004-07-20T18:47:55Z")
**Sleeping With the Enemy Mine**
Here’s a TV/Movie tie-in:
A young couple take a cruise. Little does he know that she will die of a mysterious illness by the end of the trip.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/9 "2004-07-20T20:19:07Z")
Did I kill my own thread? Here’s an alternative (and much, much easier) description:
Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw take a ride on the _Pacific Princess_.
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/10 "2004-07-20T20:32:28Z")
I get the reference, just can’t think of one of my own right now. 😉
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/11 "2004-07-20T20:41:08Z")
_Love Boat Story_
Another easy one: During the London blitz, three children learn that their bizarre host’s attic contains an old piece of furniture that can transport them to a disfunctional royal Christmas in 1183 France.
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/12 "2004-07-20T20:55:16Z")
**The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in Winter**
_A small band of British soldiers fight off wave after wave of spear-weilding zombies._
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/13 "2004-07-20T21:40:10Z")
**Zulu Dawn of the Dead**
Gigantic ape reclaims his throne amidst an epic struggle of good versus evil. Wizards, warriors, and elves unite to fight the final battle. Part three of an heroic trilogy.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/14 "2004-07-20T21:45:37Z")
**Return Of The King Kong**
A pair a slacker dope dealers use a sports car/time machine to stop production of a movie based on them.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/15 "2004-07-20T22:08:50Z")
**Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back to the Future.**
Annette Funnicello and Frankie Avalon await nuclear fallout after the rest of the world has perished.
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### Author:  [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/16 "2004-07-20T22:17:41Z")
**The Runaway Princess Bride**
Julia Roberts stars in this lighthearted comedy about a woman trying to stop the marriage of Prince Humperdink to the lovely Buttercup. Little does she realize that Westley (Cary Elwes) will stop at nothing to stop Julia from stealing his thunder.
Featuring Richard Gere as a Rodent of Unusual Size.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/17 "2004-07-20T22:59:14Z")
Er, you’re supposed to answer the previous Doper, then give a description of your own for the next Doper to guess.
That being said, I have no idea what **jsgoddess** ’s movie would be.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/18 "2004-07-20T22:59:29Z")
A group of teens must repel an invasion of maniacal, oxygen-huffing lunitics thru dance.
A real “patriotic” feel-good title to boot!
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/19 "2004-07-20T23:00:40Z")
**Runaway Princess Bride**
James Bond realises he’s stuck in a time warp after living through the same plot for the twentieth time.
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### Author:  [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/20 "2004-07-20T23:00:54Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#):
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> Er, you’re supposed to answer the previous Doper, then give a description of your own for the next Doper to guess.
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> That being said, I have no idea what **jsgoddess** ’s movie would be.
Well crap on a cracker. My mistake, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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