Marathon brainstorming thread

[RossRoy]

I have to do my taxes before the end of April.

Did you really have to remind me of that? 


As for the the April's Fool related marathon.. Not sure I'd have all that many movies for that.

[Tom]

April and April Fools would be much of a restriction for me. Something where compiling the list wouldn't take as long as watching the movies themselves would be nice

[richierich]

An idea....

Numerical Marathon

Watch as many titles  with different numbers within the titles concurrently as possible.
In addition, an episode number can count for missing numbers, so keeps the marathon pretty fluid
Volume of marathon dependent on user.

Example;

1 good cop
2 weeks notice
3 amigos
4 defcon4
5 children and it
etc
etc

[Touti]

"Within the title" or "Beginning with"

[Achim]

"Within the title" or "Beginning with"

I am pretty sure he means "within", otherwise most would be watching TV episodes all month (would make for a quicker marathon though ).


While I think it's a good idea, I think once in two-digit numbers the movies will be thinned out and lots of TV episodes would have to be selected...

[Tom]

How about adding, that it is also allowed to count the title's length for the numbers?
I have looked into my collection and can go into the 40s range without problems this way.

[Achim]

How about adding, that it is also allowed to count the title's length for the numbers?

[richierich]

This looks like a plan 

I'll put a new thread in for the April Numerical Marathon 

[madacid]

How do you like the idea to a "Man-marathon"?
adapted Ric Flair: "To Be the Man, you have to watch the Man!"

madacid

[Achim]

How do you like the idea to a "Man-marathon"?
adapted Ric Flair: "To Be the Man, you have to watch the Man!"

madacid

You mean like "Marathon Man", "Spider-Man" and other men like that? And a whole month of that?

[madacid]

Shark-man, Elephant-Man, etc... you git the idea

[DJ Doena]

But the guys in the US cannot watch X-Men 2 and 3 because they only have "X2" and "X III" - no man/men there.

[RossRoy]

But the guys in the US cannot watch X-Men 2 and 3 because they only have "X2" and "X III" - no man/men there.

Anout as intelligent as arguing endlessly about FRANCOIS => François 

[Najemikon]

How do you like the idea to a "Man-marathon"?
adapted Ric Flair: "To Be the Man, you have to watch the Man!"

You mean like "Marathon Man", "Spider-Man" and other men like that? And a whole month of that?

Not bad, Madacid. I thought it was stretching things a bit, but I just checked and I found 32 titles, if I don't mind watching both versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much. And I could have a Superman mini marathon during, but that would mean subjecting myself to III and IV, so I might squeeze a few cheats in (The Osterman Weekend)

EDIT: just saw comments about "X-Men". If we allow the plural, that's another 8 titles. A decent run really.

[DJ Doena]

EDIT: just saw comments about "X-Men". If we allow the plural, that's another 8 titles. A decent run really.

I could stretch thatlist a little further:

Eve und der letzte Gentleman (Blast From the Past)
White Men Can't Jump
Ey Mann - Wo is' mein Auto? (Dude, Where's My Car?)
The Saint: Der Mann ohne Namen (The Saint)
The Truman Show
Man on Fire
Pretty Woman
A Few Good Men
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Men at Work
Inside Man
Children of Men
Renaissance Man
Demolition Man
Postman
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Lawnmower Man