# Movie Merger Madness **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/181 "2004-07-23T12:32:57Z")
These are still open, and I have no idea: “Bogart, in search of a Big Mac, instead discovers gold while searching for jewelry. His love entanglements with two women result in his becoming a semi-recluse, living with two other men and a donkey.” “Two Scandinavian wannabe actors, with manequin looks and plastic enhancements foil an ad-exec promoting public transportation while falling in love with a character played by the (former?) wife of the most unpleasant action actor in the world while Martha Reeves sings her signature songs backed up by De Niro, Pacino, Kilmer and Sizemore.” “A tightly-knit family from a small coal-mining town falls prey to the lure of Hollywood, drugs and ambition.” “After her husband and child are killed in a car crash, a French composer is mistaken for a hero by the naive inhabitants of a Mexican villiage.” ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/182 "2004-07-23T12:56:43Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > An ambitious but unpopular pilot in the German air force of 1918 pursues his goal of 20 kills and the coveted award that comes with that total - until he finds himself welcomed as the messiah by a tribe of lost children he must lead through the post-nuclear wasteland and protect from the denizens of Bartertown! > > **The Blue Mad Max** Um…almost. Notice the clues about children and Bartertown. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/183 "2004-07-23T12:57:03Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#): > > I don’t have a new clue, but two people have already got this one wrong: > > **Run Silent, Run Deep Throat** The ghost of Capt. Beach **will** get you for that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/184 "2004-07-23T12:57:46Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > John Singleton’s campy new movie about a female-to-male transgendered teen growing up in the LA ghetto who yearns to be an Elvis style pop-star who’s famous for shedding a single tear. > BOYS DON’T CRY BABY ? Almost. BOYZ IN THE HOOD DON’T CRY BABY ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/185 "2004-07-23T14:47:00Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > “After her husband and child are killed in a car crash, a French composer is mistaken for a hero by the naive inhabitants of a Mexican villiage.” I think this is supposed to be **Three Amigos: Blue** , (be careful with forgeign titles, they can vary). ---
**Author:** ![SilentButDeftly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SilentButDeftly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SilentButDeftly)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/186 "2004-07-23T16:16:32Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > “Bogart, in search of a Big Mac, instead discovers gold while searching for jewelry. His love entanglements with two women result in his becoming a semi-recluse, living with two other men and a donkey.” **Treasure of the High Sierra Madre**? Two fly-fishing boys growing up in Montana reunite as adults in Boston when one of their daughters is found murdered. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/187 "2004-07-23T16:17:48Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > These are still open, and I have no idea: > > “Bogart, in search of a Big Mac, instead discovers gold while searching for jewelry. His love entanglements with two women result in his becoming a semi-recluse, living with two other men and a donkey.” Okay, I jumbled up these plots to the point where only **Ilsa Lund** would figure it out, and he ain’t playing. **Treasure of The High Sierra Madre** My other one is much easier. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/188 "2004-07-23T16:19:47Z")
> [@SilentButDeftly](#): > > **Treasure of the High Sierra Madre**? > > Two fly-fishing boys growing up in Montana reunite as adults in Boston when one of their daughters is found murdered. That will teach me to be impatient. 😃 Yours: **A Mystic River Runs Through It** ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/189 "2004-07-23T17:37:30Z")
OK, the “active” clues once again seem to be stumping us, so here’s an easy one… A series of surreal sketches outline the life - from “Conception” and “Birth” through “Death” and beyond with various detours in-between, inlcuding irreverent musical numbers - of a man born on the same day as Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/190 "2004-07-23T17:42:56Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I think this is supposed to be **Three Amigos: Blue** , (be careful with forgeign titles, they can vary). Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/191 "2004-07-23T17:46:59Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > A series of surreal sketches outline the life - from “Conception” and “Birth” through “Death” and beyond with various detours in-between, inlcuding irreverent musical numbers - of a man born on the same day as Jesus. **Meaning of Life of Bryan** But I’m already out of ideas for more clues. I don’t see nearly enough movies. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/192 "2004-07-23T17:52:26Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > OK, the “active” clues once again seem to be stumping us, so here’s an easy one… > A series of surreal sketches outline the life - from “Conception” and “Birth” through “Death” and beyond with various detours in-between, inlcuding irreverent musical numbers - of a man born on the same day as Jesus. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life of Brian. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/193 "2004-07-23T18:03:58Z")
> [@Hamish](#): > > **Meaning of Life of Bryan** > > But I’m already out of ideas for more clues. I don’t see nearly enough movies. I’ll spot ya one. Nicholas Cage plays an angel who gives up his immortality in order to help the California Angels win the pennant so a little boy can have a family of his own, but soon finds himself trapped in a city with no sun where dark beings steal the souls of humans. A mysterious voice then tells him to build a baseball diamond behind his house, which he does. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/194 "2004-07-23T18:17:44Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > I’ll spot ya one. > > Nicholas Cage plays an angel who gives up his immortality in order to help the California Angels win the pennant so a little boy can have a family of his own, but soon finds himself trapped in a city with no sun where dark beings steal the souls of humans. A mysterious voice then tells him to build a baseball diamond behind his house, which he does. **Dark City of Angels in the Outfield of Dreams** … wait am I missing one? Edward James Olmos teaches calculus to students as they go on a field trip to find the body of a kid hit by a train. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/195 "2004-07-23T18:20:43Z")
Oh, wait, I missed the part about the kid and the soul sucking… ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/196 "2004-07-23T18:26:49Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Oh, wait, I missed the part about the kid and the soul sucking… Nah, you got it. Took me a while to put that description together, tough…lemme tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/197 "2004-07-23T18:40:42Z")
Oo, I got one: Three film students get lost in the woods while filming a documentary about chimpanzees that fly jets for a mysterious cigarette smoking man. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/198 "2004-07-23T19:01:46Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Oo, I got one: > > Three film students get lost in the woods while filming a documentary about chimpanzees that fly jets for a mysterious cigarette smoking man. **The Blair Witch Project X Files** Bluegrass music highlights this Coen brothers tale of three dimwitted prison escapees who trek across the Southern US in search of treasure, only to find themselves surrounded by the Mexican army in a crumbling Spanish mission building. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/199 "2004-07-23T20:34:32Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > Bluegrass music highlights this Coen brothers tale of three dimwitted prison escapees who trek across the Southern US in search of treasure, only to find themselves surrounded by the Mexican army in a crumbling Spanish mission building. Alamo, Where art thou? While on as trip to London, a typical suburban American family accidently runs over a supposedly mythical British boy wizard. Feeling guilty. they take him back home and nurse him back to health. Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/200 "2004-07-23T21:29:52Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Alamo, Where art thou? Or perhaps: **AlamO Brother, Where Art Thou?** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030.md?page=11)