# movies containing maps **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107 "2012-02-17T05:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/41 "2012-02-17T19:10:39Z")
**Three Kings** had the map up the Iraqi soldier’s ass, which was a decoy for the other map visible under blue light. And **2012** had the map they got from Woddy Harrelson showing them where the “Arcs” were. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/42 "2012-02-17T19:27:05Z")
If we’re opening to TV, [HBO’s _Game of Thrones_ opening credits](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8) are over a depiction of a relief map of Westeros with a clockpunk representation of each city/castle/region that features in the episode unfolding as the camera moves along it. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/43 "2012-02-17T19:44:58Z")
Has anyone yet mentioned [The Way Back](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/)? Peter Weir directed this one, about a group of Soviet Siberian gulag prisoners who escape and walk a couple thousand miles to India. A memorable moment early in the film is when one prisoner draws in the snow a very simple schematic map of where they think they are located in relation to Lake Baykal. Anyway, see you in Portland, Mr. Downtown! (I assume this is about [NACIS](http://www.nacis.org/)). ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/44 "2012-02-17T20:06:30Z")
I seem to remember something like this from Innerspace, where they were traveling through the body. That would be pretty obscure though, and not what people think of. So maybe verify and set it as a high point value question. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/45 "2012-02-17T20:09:52Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Maybe obscure, but the best movie mentioned in this thread so far. Ok, that’s debatable, but definitely the best pirate comedy movie mentioned in this thread so far. Stumble, stumble. Crawl, crawl. Roll, roll. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/46 "2012-02-17T20:33:43Z")
If you’re going to add TV, there’s also the opening credits of _Bonanza_. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/47 "2012-02-17T20:50:22Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > If you’re going to add TV… And, the last (fifth) season of **The Wire** , in which The drug dealers set up meets by sending each other photos of a clock…and the hands on the clock refer to the coordinates of a specific city map they all have. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/48 "2012-02-18T00:39:29Z")
Nobody remembers **McKenna’s Gold?** C’mon guys, it had naked Julie Newmar! ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/49 "2012-02-18T01:00:49Z")
The map isn’t clearly seen, but there’s a good map joke in _What’s Up, Tiger Lily?_: “This is Shephard Wong’s home.” “He lives in that piece of paper?” **MostlyClueless** , it actually took me a little while to get the HP map detail. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/50 "2012-02-18T02:35:49Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > see you in Portland, Mr. Downtown! Yikes! The Internet is smaller than I thought! You’re on your honor to forget this thread between now and October. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/51 "2012-02-18T12:04:31Z")
No worries! These days, I’m lucky to remember what month we’re in. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/52 "2012-02-18T12:17:21Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > A more obscure one, but the pirate comedy _Yellowbeard_ featured a young man whose pirate father tattooed a map to a buried treasure on his head when he was an infant. > [@Leaffan](#): > > Stumble, stumble. Crawl, crawl. Roll, roll. “There seems to have been a bit of a squabble.” “Squabble?! They’re all _dead_, man!” “Oh? Must have been more of a _tiff_, then.” ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/53 "2012-02-18T13:36:06Z")
Has anyone mentioned the map the young girl has tattooed on her back in _Waterworld_? ---
**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:** [February 18, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/54 "2012-02-18T15:33:50Z")
Yes, in post no 7. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/55 "2012-02-18T15:50:29Z")
In _Captain America: The First Avenger_, the main character sees a Nazi map with important facilities marked on it briefly. He memorizes it, and later he and his team destroy those facilities. The _Curious George_ movie does the “traveling by map” thing when the Man in the Yellow Hat travels to and from Africa. Also, he’s following a map that his boss gave him to find a giant idol. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/56 "2012-02-18T17:43:31Z")
**Superman: The Movie** had a map of California before and after Luthor’s planned earthquake. \*\* Pirates of the Caribbean\*\* (the first one) had a scene in that Governor’s map room. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/57 "2012-02-18T19:03:08Z")
I watched [Escape to Witch Mountain](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072951/) last night. A major plot point is the discovery of a hidden map. ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/58 "2012-02-20T18:57:25Z")
The maps of the sea floor in _The Hunt for Red October_ read by the preternatural navigator Jonesy. Ah, here’s the Neptune Massif! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/59 "2012-02-20T23:19:57Z")
_Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World_ had a map. and a “Big W” ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107/60 "2012-02-21T06:21:19Z")
_Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World_ featured a map of where they refitted at sea. Also, I seem to remember a map of the Galapagos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-containing-maps/613107.md?page=4)