# Play Nia Vardalos' "Victor/Victoria Likes It Hot" Game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948 "2004-04-14T12:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/121 "2004-04-14T18:13:25Z")
**A League of Their Own Extraordinary Gentlewomen** - The male superheroes of America have gone off to War. Can their female counterparts hold down the home front? \*\*Touch of Evil Dead \*\* - Orson Welles’s classic with its themes of corruption and the walking deadites. With Bruce Campbell as ‘Ash’ Vargas. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/122 "2004-04-14T18:18:11Z")
**From Here to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind** Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr have memories of their illicit affair wiped away only to rediscover each other during the attack on Peral Harbor **Double Indemnity Trouble** Hayley Mills plays identical twins who trick weak-willed Fred McMurray into killing their stepfather so their mother and biological father can get back together **A Few Good Ribs** Tracy and Hepburn are married lawyers on opposite sides of a Marine court marshall. Jack Nicholson plays the next door neighbor, a Marine with a crush on Hepburn. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/123 "2004-04-14T18:20:00Z")
Hope you don’t mind the sig quote, Otto. If you do, I’ll remove it. It just makes me laugh every time I look at it. and because I can’t bring myself to post a comment in this thread without posting a new title, I submit: **Seven Brides for Seven Samurai** - Kurosawa directs the tale of seven warrior brothers who kidnap brides, then need to defend their 14-person township. I can’t come up with anything to do proper justice to the potential in **Lorna Dune** … ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/124 "2004-04-14T18:23:03Z")
\*\*The Naked Guns of Navarone \*\* - Det. Frank Drebin is called upon to lead an elite squad of saboteurs to destroy the German guns on the island of Navarone. “We’re going up that cliff!” “Surely, you can’t be serious.” “I _am_ serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs\_Milburn\_Drysdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Milburn_Drysdale)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/125 "2004-04-14T18:24:54Z")
**Beyond the Valley of the Baby Doll:** Carroll Baker ditches Karl Malden and heads to the swinging Hollywood scene of the late 60s. With Edy Williams and Eli Wallach. **The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield Park:** Poor relation Fanny is sent to distant relative Jayne Mansfield’s theme park and discovers chihuahas, musclemen, and tranny bars. **The Wild Angels in the Outfield:** Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra, their biking days over, coach their children’s little league team. **In the Heat of the Big Night:** Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier find themselves in an Italian restaurant waiting for Louis Prima. **Josie and the Pussycats Kill! Kill!** Animated. With the voices of Tura Satana, Cheryl Ladd; with commentary by John Waters. **Where the Boys in the Attic Are** : A group of young men come out of the closet and hit the sands of Ft. Lauderdale during spring break. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/126 "2004-04-14T18:25:21Z")
**Rebecca of Animal Farm** The animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, Mary Pickford, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/127 "2004-04-14T18:31:40Z")
I hate repeating titles that have already been mined but I can’t pass up **Faster Pussycat! Kill! Bill!** ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/128 "2004-04-14T18:31:58Z")
**Firestart, Er, The Revolution Without Me** - Peasants Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland make believe their nobles in late eighteenth-century France and narrowly avoid the guillotine, only to be set ablaze by Drew Barrymore. **What’s Up, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon Lily?** Okay, I have to stop; I didn’t even see these fucking movies… ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/129 "2004-04-14T18:33:10Z")
**On the Diggstown** - Delightful, laugh-a-minute romp about three sailors on shore leave who find themselves in a corrupt small town where the locals are obsessed with boxing and betting. Will they find true love, avoid the crime boss’s goons, AND win a marathon boxing match before curfew? **Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Zenda** – Professor Dumbledore has been captured by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and his gang of Death Eaters. Harry concocts a polyjuice potion to assume the headmaster’s identity and, together with his friends, sets out to rescue his beloved mentor. More wand-dueling scenes than you can shake a stick at. **My Fair Lady Vanishes** – Eliza Doolittle disappears from her seat on a moving train, and Professor Higgins can’t seem to convince anyone that she was ever there. Has she been kidnapped by criminals who mistook her for a Hungarian princess? **The Quiet Man on the Moon** – The touching story of a man who returns to his birthplace and struggles to make a life for himself as an eccentric standup comic. **Blown Far and Away** – A passionate epic of a boy, a girl, the promise of a new world, and a mad bomber out for vengeance. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/130 "2004-04-14T18:34:40Z")
**My Big Fat Greek Wedding Singer** A traditional Greek family is horrified when their daughter hires Adam Sandler to sing at her wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/131 "2004-04-14T18:35:46Z")
**The Longest Groundhog Day** Bill Murray has to fight the battle of Normandy over and over again **CinderL.A. Confidential** After a scullery woman is rewarded with an evening of glamor and romance, she goes to an all-night diner, where a killing is being investigated by three very different cops. I really have to get to work ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/132 "2004-04-14T18:38:08Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I hate repeating titles that have already been mined but I can’t pass up > > **Faster Pussycat! Kill! Bill!** Aw, I already did that _exact_ title combination. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/133 "2004-04-14T18:41:50Z")
**Last Tango of the Mohicans** Sorry, but I’m bumping Marlon Brando. Give me the butter and Daniel Day-Lewis. To carry on with a theme: **What’s Up Pussycat? Kill! Kill!** ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/134 "2004-04-14T18:44:45Z")
**Night of the Living Dead Poets’ Society** The angst of teenage suicide is lessened somewhat when Neil comes back from the grave, but is subsequently forgotten when his new companions also admire Prof. Keating for his brain. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/135 "2004-04-14T18:47:10Z")
**Fiddler on a Hot Tin Roof** – A Russian Jew withdraws from life, unable even to feign interest in his seductive wife or in their daughters’ upcoming weddings. He is forced to confront his past when his father, dying of cancer, serves him with an eviction notice. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/136 "2004-04-14T18:48:45Z")
**The African Queen of Outer Space** Humphrey Bogart and Zsa Zsa Gabor have to pilot a boat through the Venusian outback. “I hay dem! I hay dose litches!” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/137 "2004-04-14T18:50:56Z")
Sorry, **CG**. I missed it, which isn’t surprising when a thread hits three pages this fast. Your post was undoubtedly much funnier. **Twilight of the Goldfinger** : A family is nearly torn apart when they learn that the mother is carrying a child who will be born James Bond. **Murder by Death of a Salesman** : An eccentric millionaire calls together the world’s greatest detective to figure out who killed Willy Loman. **The Reefer Madness of King George** : “Play the harpsichord faster! Faster! FASTER!” **The BirdCaged Heat** : Through a bizarre scheduling mishap, Albert “Starina” Goldman gets convicted of shoplifting and sent to women’s prison. **The Deep End of the Ocean’s Eleven** : A kidnaped child is found nine years later and his parents assemble a crack team of eleven to recover him. **The Best Little Doll’s House in Texas** : Watch for the heart-wrenching scene when Torvald (Burt Reynolds) tells Nora (Dolly Parton) that he has to close her down. **Twelve Angry Memento** : Oh boy, those guys are angry, but about what? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/138 "2004-04-14T18:52:49Z")
**Don’t Look Now, Voyager** Spinster “Aunt” Charlotte Vale is pursued through Venice by a murderous dwarf in a red coat. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/139 "2004-04-14T18:53:24Z")
**Dinner at Se7en** “Gywneth Paltrow’s head will **not** be coming to dinner!” ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948/140 "2004-04-14T18:55:13Z")
**Forever Young Frankenstein** - Dr. Victor Frankenstein, frustrated with the uncontrollability of his creature, freezes him … years later, the doctor’s great-grandson re-awakens the monster and teaches him to fit in to society. Starring Mel Gibson as The Monster. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-nia-vardalos-victor-victoria-likes-it-hot-game/239948.md?page=8)