# The Bored Doper: Film Acronym Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318 "2002-08-24T00:43:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/21 "2002-08-24T23:19:01Z")
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas DS (OHILTSWALTB) (Hint : Blast-Off!) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/22 "2002-08-24T23:49:30Z")
Doctor Stranglove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. DDA – (Attica Attica) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/23 "2002-08-24T23:54:42Z")
Doctor Stranglove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. DDA – (Attica Attica) ---
**Author:** ![evolutionbaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9bcb4/32.png) [@evolutionbaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evolutionbaby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/24 "2002-08-25T00:21:55Z")
Dog Day afternoon? (although I haven’t seen it so I don’t know if the attica reference is right). if so, US (we’re talking orca fat) ---
**Author:** ![evolutionbaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9bcb4/32.png) [@evolutionbaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evolutionbaby)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/25 "2002-08-25T00:22:48Z")
Dog Day afternoon? (although I haven’t seen it so I don’t know if the attica reference is right). if so, TUS–(we’re talking orca fat) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/26 "2002-08-25T01:15:48Z")
_The Usual Suspects_ TRS - (Opening line: “There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die.”) ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/27 "2002-08-25T03:27:35Z")
The Right Stuff ST (Born in a bayou) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/28 "2002-08-25T06:24:07Z")
Swamp Thing DC (The Gentleman Junkie as defrocked priest) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/29 "2002-08-26T01:33:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Oly \* > \*\*Swamp Thing > > DC (The Gentleman Junkie as defrocked priest) \*\* I hope I didn’t kill this thread, like Sheriff Matt Dillon killed bandits on Gunsmoke. But this is a Matt Dillon shoot-em-up _(hint)_, on the rainy streets of Portland (_hint, hint_), where he meets up with his old compadre, William S. Burroughs (_hint, hint, hint_) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/30 "2002-08-26T02:19:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Oly \* > \*\* > > I hope I didn’t kill this thread, like Sheriff Matt Dillon killed bandits on Gunsmoke. But this is a Matt Dillon shoot-em-up _(hint)_, on the rainy streets of Portland (_hint, hint_), where he meets up with his old compadre, William S. Burroughs (_hint, hint, hint_) \*\* Well, you don’t have to beat me over the head with a shovel (yes, in fact you do): Drugstore Cowboy Next: A (hint: Stay away from her you BITCH!) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/31 "2002-08-26T02:22:53Z")
_Aliens_ Continuing the one-letter theme: _M_ (.hint no, Sorry) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/32 "2002-08-26T02:26:24Z")
_Memento_ Another: M (hint: Hemingway) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/33 "2002-08-26T03:17:12Z")
_Muriel_ **P** (“Ya only moved the headstones!!!”) ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/34 "2002-08-26T12:16:36Z")
Poltergeist TMWWBK (“Detriments; detriments!..It’s detriments like us that built this bloody Empire”.) ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/35 "2002-08-26T12:31:50Z")
The Man Who Would Be King TGTBATU “The name on the headstone is…” “Yes” “…is…” “Yes!!” “…Arch Stanton.” \) [probably not the exact dialog, but close] ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/36 "2002-08-26T12:44:45Z")
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly BD (or, DA, using the US title) Hint: _"I kick arse for the Lord!_" ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/37 "2002-08-26T12:53:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Oly \* > \*\*_Muriel_ > \*\* Actually, I was going for _Manhattan_, which starred a _very_ young Mariel Hemingway in a romantic relationship with Woody Allen. ---
**Author:** ![Skijumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/38 "2002-08-26T12:55:46Z")
Brain Dead (or Dead Alive) GWH Hint: starring Minnie Driver as ‘Skylar’ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/39 "2002-08-26T12:58:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Oly \* > \*\*_Muriel_ > \*\* Actually, I was going for _Manhattan_, which starred a _very_ young Mariel Hemingway in a romantic relationship with Woody Allen. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318/40 "2002-08-26T13:22:40Z")
Good Will Hunting TJLC (“She will know I am waiting like a tiger in the trees, now ready to leap out and cut her spirit loose.”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bored-doper-film-acronym-game/125318.md?page=3)