# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/261 "2004-07-29T15:28:46Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > **Three Kings of Comedy**? > > I could be wrong… I’m sure you could be, but you’re not. 😉 My third entry still hasn’t been answered. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/262 "2004-07-29T15:52:53Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > I have one that hasn’t been guessed yet: > > Julia Roberts decides she must stop a young Australian woman’s sham wedding. **My Best Friend Muriel’s Wedding**? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/263 "2004-07-29T16:07:28Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > In this lackluster follow-up to _Purple Rain_, Prince plays an American frontiersman who uses his long-distance sharpshooting skills to oppose a corrupt cattle baron in the Australian outback. **Quigley Down Under the Cherry Moon**! ---
**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 29, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/264 "2004-07-29T16:09:49Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > I have one that hasn’t been guessed yet: > > Julia Roberts decides she must stop a young Australian woman’s sham wedding. So I was wrong when I guessed that this was **My Circle of Friends’ Wedding**? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/265 "2004-07-29T16:40:17Z")
A couple of new ones: While traveling, a new politician discovers that he’s not really married to Carole Lombard. A veteran uncovers a sinister plot to kill Josh Duhamel’s latest girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/266 "2004-07-29T17:02:33Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > **So I was wrong when I guessed that this was My Circle of Friends’ Wedding?** Actually, I didn’t see the post where you guessed this but, yep, you’re wrong. 😃 > [@jsgoddess](#): > > **My Best Friend Muriel’s Wedding**? This is correct. ---
**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 29, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/267 "2004-07-29T18:01:51Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > **Quigley Down Under the Cherry Moon**! Makes your head hurt just imagining it, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/268 "2004-07-29T19:08:48Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I’m sure you could be, but you’re not. 😉 > > My third entry still hasn’t been answered. Err…Fight Clube? Fight Clueb? A woman with an anatomical abnormality sexualy sevices the members (ahem) of the crew of a WWII submarine in the Pacific. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/269 "2004-07-29T19:23:27Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Err…Fight Clube? Fight Clueb? I called it _Fight Clue_, but you definitely know what I was thinking. ---
**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 29, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/270 "2004-07-29T23:02:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I called it _Fight Clue_, but you definitely know what I was thinking. maybe you could add something about a three dimensional maze full of deadly traps. Erm, anyway: A freemason impersonates a tribe’s monkey god. ---
**Author:** ![Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victoria_Silverwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/271 "2004-07-30T07:40:25Z")
jsgoddess: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith Go to Washington” and “Win a Manchurian Candidate with Tad Hamilton” betenoir: “Run Silent, Run Deep Throat” Peter Morris: “The Man Who Would Be King Kong” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/272 "2004-07-30T13:01:01Z")
> [@Victoria Silverwolf](#): > > jsgoddess: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith Go to Washington” and “Win a Manchurian Candidate with Tad Hamilton” Bing! You got them both. Now post one. ---
**Author:** ![Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victoria_Silverwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/273 "2004-07-31T10:10:31Z")
Thanks. _Faye Dunaway plays a woman with psychic powers who predicts cartoonish aliens from the red planet declaring war on Earth._ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/274 "2004-07-31T14:58:26Z")
> [@Victoria Silverwolf](#): > > Thanks. > > _Faye Dunaway plays a woman with psychic powers who predicts cartoonish aliens from the red planet declaring war on Earth._ The Eyes of Laura Mars Attacks! ---
**Author:** ![Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victoria_Silverwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/275 "2004-08-01T04:49:15Z")
Quite correct! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/276 "2004-08-01T05:18:02Z")
1. A World War II British soldier is forced by armed criminals to build a bridge across a raging river. 2. Two young Texas transvestites try to cope with the slow death of their town and the closing of the strange castle their town has Time Warped at for so many years. 3. Claire’s marriage to Doctor Zaius couldn’t be more perfect…until a dark secret from his past begins haunting them. ---
**Author:** ![Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Victoria\_Silverwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victoria_Silverwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/277 "2004-08-01T07:53:11Z")
1. Not too sure about this one, but I’ll take a stab at it. **The Bridge Over the River Hang Kwai** ( **Hang Kwai** is a Hong Kong gangster film – did you mean something else?) (If he had been forced to build it by Japanese ghosts, it would have been **The Bridge Over the River Kwaidan**.) 1. **The Last Rocky Horror Picture Show**. 2. **What Lies Beneath the Planet of the Apes**. Next: Bette Davis is a spinster who finds romance on a cruise through war-torn Vietnam. Watch for the famous scene where Marlon Brando lights both their cigarettes at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/278 "2004-08-01T08:25:12Z")
> [@Victoria Silverwolf](#): > > 1. Not too sure about this one, but I’ll take a stab at it. > > **The Bridge Over the River Hang Kwai** > > ( **Hang Kwai** is a Hong Kong gangster film – did you mean something else?) Yes, I meant something else. > [@](#): > > Bette Davis is a spinster who finds romance on a cruise through war-torn Vietnam. Watch for the famous scene where Marlon Brando lights both their cigarettes at the same time. _Apocalypse Now, Voyager_. After the polar ice caps melt, Wayne and Garth must save their cable access show from pirates. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/279 "2004-08-01T15:10:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > After the polar ice caps melt, Wayne and Garth must save their cable access show from pirates. **Wayne’s Water World** Excellent clue, **Marley** , I’m sure it would have been a much better movie that way. Party on. Campy b-movie about aliens in UFO’s re-animating the dead in a quest to have new cover sheets attached to the TPS reports and, by the way, they’re going to have to have you come in to work on Saturday. Yeah. About nine. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/280 "2004-08-01T15:31:54Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > Campy b-movie about aliens in UFO’s re-animating the dead in a quest to have new cover sheets attached to the TPS reports and, by the way, they’re going to have to have you come in to work on Saturday. Yeah. About nine. **Plan Nine from Outer Office Space** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030.md?page=13)