# Not Coming To A Theater Near You

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 7, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742 "2009-11-07T23:23:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/641 "2010-04-26T16:11:38Z")

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**Annie Get Your Goon:** She doesn’t shoot you. She has her big thug kick your ass.

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/642 "2010-04-26T21:48:51Z")

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\*\*The Lovely Boners \*\*- The sequel to _The Full Monty_, shot from the audience’s perspective…

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/643 "2010-04-27T14:44:46Z")

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**The Fear of All Sums:** Jack Ryan faces his toughest opponent yet: math-phobia!  
\*\*30 Seconds Over Kyoto: \*\* “Bombadier to Pilot, Are you _sure_ you got the right map? Over.”

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/644 "2010-04-27T18:15:41Z")

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**South by Southwest:** The RIAA has to track down a person attempting to smuggle a bootleg MP3 out of a popular music festival. Directed by Brian de Palma.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/645 "2010-04-27T19:10:14Z")

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**Cold Fuzz:** The exciting true story of the Antarctica police department

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/646 "2010-04-28T03:01:57Z")

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**Pirates of the Carob Beans** : Buccaneers seek to corner the chocolate-substitute market by hijacking shipments.

**Raiders of the Lost Auk** : A globe-trotting biologist vies to recover the last specimen of an extinct seabird.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/647 "2010-04-28T14:46:54Z")

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**Snakes on a Plain:** Just as boring as it sounds.

**Armenian History X** : A militant Armenian begins to question his hatred of turks.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/648 "2010-04-28T16:37:45Z")

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**Snakes on a Plane.** It’s flat, smooth, and featureless. They starve to death.  
**Snakes on a Plane II: The Incline.** It’s a simple machine! The snakes still starve to death.

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**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:** [April 28, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/649 "2010-04-28T17:46:21Z")

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MyTrix:  
Things get really strange when the Trix rabbit finds out he’s just a cartoon character.  
“Silly Rabbit, will you eat the red cereal or the blue cereal.”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/650 "2010-04-28T18:41:42Z")

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**Irony Man:** Superhero Tony Snark battles threats likeone hundred spoons when he needs a knife and blackflies in his chardonnay.

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**Author:** ![Loisseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Loisseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loisseau)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/651 "2010-04-28T19:12:59Z")

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**The Unbearable Heaviness of Being** - A Czech bariatric surgeon is forced to do a procedure on himself to get his sex life going. John Candy’s last role, with Twiggy the object of his desire.

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/652 "2010-04-30T13:30:22Z")

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\*\*Mean Streets of Fire \*\*- A look back at the L.A. Riots.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/653 "2010-04-30T14:14:20Z")

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**12 Monkees** : In this wacky, post-apocalyptic musical, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith have to go back in time to help prevent the death of billions.

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**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/654 "2010-04-30T17:31:23Z")

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**Mariachi** : Biopic of Liberace’s little known younger sister, Mary.

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**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:** [April 30, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/655 "2010-04-30T17:31:57Z")

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Gone With the Wind:  
When Scarlet loses her clock factory she loses everything.

Tales From the Cryptic:  
Only a genius could figure out what’s going on in this movie.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/656 "2010-05-01T03:44:58Z")

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**The Phantom Tollbooth Menace** : A youngster finds a magic gateway to a place long ago and far away, inhabited by bizarre creatures. His seeming victory over the forces of darkness only sets the stage for a more insideous plot to succeed.

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/657 "2010-05-04T14:57:32Z")

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**High Plains Grifter** - A con man fools a town into thinking he is a gunfighter. Comedy and tragedy ensue when real gunfighters come to town and call him out.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/658 "2010-05-04T16:21:24Z")

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**All Gods Go To Heaven:** where they fight it out, mano y mano!

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/659 "2010-05-04T18:33:35Z")

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**Phantom of the Oprah:** A disfigured madman haunts the set of a popular talk show.

**Doctor Seuss:** A strange man travels through time and space saving the universe. Story is told entirely in rhyme.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/516742/660 "2010-05-04T18:47:18Z")

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**Annie-Kin:** “The Force will come out, tomorrow…”

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