# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/21 "2004-07-20T23:16:30Z")
> [@](#): > > James Bond realises he’s stuck in a time warp after living through the same plot for the twentieth time. **Die Another Groundhog Day** [The description is sheer genius.] Still up are: **jsgoddess** : Annette Funnicello and Frankie Avalon await nuclear fallout after the rest of the world has perished. **gatopescado** : A group of teens must repel an invasion of maniacal, oxygen-huffing lunitics thru dance. ---
**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 20, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/22 "2004-07-20T23:17:28Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#): > > That being said, I have no idea what **jsgoddess** ’s movie would be. On the Bikini Beach On the Beach Party On the Muscle Beach Party ---
**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 20, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/23 "2004-07-20T23:36:39Z")
[QUOTE=Terminus Est] **jsgoddess** : Annette Funnicello and Frankie Avalon await nuclear fallout after the rest of the world has perished. On The Beach Blanket Bingo ---
**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 20, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/24 "2004-07-20T23:38:12Z")
Oops! Two old Army buddies open a lodge in Vermont while on the way to Wally World. ---
**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 21, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/25 "2004-07-21T00:09:17Z")
**White Christmas Vacation** James Bond persues $1million assassin through Vienna sewers. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/26 "2004-07-21T00:28:21Z")
I know the Bond movie but cannot figure out the other… Two thoughts I came up with because of this thread: **Scenes From The Class Struggle in Beverly Hills 90210** **The Rain Man With Two Brains** ---
**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 21, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/27 "2004-07-21T01:09:43Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#): > > **gatopescado** : A group of teens must repel an invasion of maniacal, oxygen-huffing lunitics thru dance. **Red Dance 'Til Dawn**? ---
**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 21, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/28 "2004-07-21T01:13:16Z")
Janeane Garofalo and Uma Thurman star in a romantic comedy about mistaken identity, robbery, and cutting off policemans ears. ---
**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 21, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/29 "2004-07-21T01:41:04Z")
A tough as nails San Francisco cop tracks down a deranged hippie who uses a sniper rifle to kill innocent students in a boarding school that houses a three headed dog and a magical chess board. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/30 "2004-07-21T01:50:33Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Janeane Garofalo and Uma Thurman star in a romantic comedy about mistaken identity, robbery, and cutting off policemans ears. **The Truth About Cats & Reservoir Dogs** > [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > A tough as nails San Francisco cop tracks down a deranged hippie who uses a sniper rifle to kill innocent students in a boarding school that houses a three headed dog and a magical chess board. **Dirty Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone** A group of soldiers are sent to rescue a radio shock-jock in WWII Europe ---
**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 21, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/31 "2004-07-21T01:57:01Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > A group of soldiers are sent to rescue a radio shock-jock in WWII Europe **Saving Private Parts** A singing Englishwoman arrives to tutor the many children of a homeless man who is on a quest to find the Holy Grail in the heart of New York City – a musical! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/32 "2004-07-21T02:33:57Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > **Saving Private Parts** > > A singing Englishwoman arrives to tutor the many children of a homeless man who is on a quest to find the Holy Grail in the heart of New York City – a musical! _The Fisher King and I_ When Dawn doesn’t get the shoes she wants for Christmas she tosses the tree on Granny, moves to Manhattan and then proceeds to torture her new roommate by getting the same hairstyle, becoming creepily like her and seducing her boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/33 "2004-07-21T02:37:49Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > James Bond persues $1million assassin through Vienna sewers. _The Third Man With the Golden Gun_ ---
**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 21, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/34 "2004-07-21T03:07:11Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > **Red Dance 'Til Dawn**? I take this answer back, I don’t think it’s right. But I’m still thinking about it. ---
**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 21, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/35 "2004-07-21T06:28:04Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > A group of teens must repel an invasion of maniacal, oxygen-huffing lunitics thru dance. > > A real “patriotic” feel-good title to boot! RED DAWN, WHITE NIGHTS AND BLUE VELVET!!! YAY ME! ---
**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 21, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/36 "2004-07-21T06:30:46Z")
A Puerto Rican girl finds love & humiliation as the BDSM slave to an Anglo boy while their rival ethnic gangs battle it out to Bernstein’s music! ---
**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 21, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/37 "2004-07-21T06:33:25Z")
Pagan leader Christopher Lee might defeat pious Edward Woodward, but can he also take on autistic Dustin Hoffman and invisible Kevin Bacon? ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/38 "2004-07-21T06:55:25Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Pagan leader Christopher Lee might defeat pious Edward Woodward, but can he also take on autistic Dustin Hoffman and invisible Kevin Bacon? **The Wicker, Rain and Hollow Man** (?) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/39 "2004-07-21T11:17:55Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > A Puerto Rican girl finds love & humiliation as the BDSM slave to an Anglo boy while their rival ethnic gangs battle it out to Bernstein’s music! **West Side Story Of "O"** Richard Gere and Sean Connery are members of a renfair troupe who joust on motorcycles! (is it OK if they are both based on the same root story?) ---
**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 21, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030/40 "2004-07-21T12:13:04Z")
DataZak- Man or Men, anyway, ya got it! MrDibble- Correct and **FirstKnightriders** John Houseman presides over a law school class in which Ben Affleck woos & wins a lesbian. Uma Thurman & Janeane Garafalo vie for being chosen as the Scion as they are both descended from Jesus’s sibs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-merger-madness/256030.md?page=3)