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How DARE you. "Equilibrium" is seriously one of my favourite sci-fi movies. I like it a lot more than some of the more respected Dystopian sci-fi flicks like "Blade Runner" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". It's not a guilty pleasure or "entertaining crap". It's legitimately solid.

 

That movie is fun, imaginative, moving, and a hell of a lot smarter than the lazy, horribly-written, loaded-with-lousy-C.G.I "G.I. Joe" movie. The action in "Equilibrium" is pretty dynamic and nobody in "G.I. Joe" gives a performance even close to half as good as Bale was in "Equilibrium".

My brother and I chanced upon a great inadvertent double-bill candidate, assuming you want to indulge in a bit of retcon sequelitis.

 

First Movie: The Grey.

 

Second Movie: Hanna.

 

Now imagine Neeson survived and formed his own society out in the snowy wastes, the last remnants of which are Erik and Hanna. A humble, secluded society based on resoursefulness, independence and FUCK NATURE.

The insane, contradictory, paradoxical world of commercial art in three movies!

 

My Kid Could Paint That

Who The &*%$ Is Jackson Pollock?!

Exit Through The Gift Shop

 

All great documentaries in their own way, you will be bald after all three from pulling your hair out at the hypocrisy and pretension! Save Exit Through The Gift Shop for last because it's much more likely to leave you laughing than the other two.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Naked Lunch

My Dinner With Andre

Martha Marcy May Marlene and Take Shelter.  Grim.  Chilling.  Horrifying at times.  I mentioned doing this as a double feature to my girlfriend and she said no way.  She wouldn't be able to sleep.

Prison of War William Holden 

Stalag 17/Bridge on the River Kwai

 

Film Noir Deconstruction

The Big Sleep/The Long Goodbye/Cutter's Way/The Big Lebowski

 

On The Run in the American Southwest

The Getaway/Charley Varrick/No Country for Old Men

 

Walter Matthau in Thrillers

The Laughing Policeman/Charley Varrick/The Taking of Pelham 123

 

Death of the Outlaw

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid/The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

 

Vengeance from the Dead

High Plains Drifter/The Wraith/The Crow

I just thought of a new triple feature that I watch on occasion.

 

I love Michael Fassbender-- 300, Centurion, Inglourious Basterds. 

 

It works.

Rio Bravo/Assault on Precinct 13/Dawn of the Dead/From Dusk Till Dawn

SCARFACE (Hawks) and BLACK CAESAR

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT and HAVING A WILD WEEKEND

POINT BLANK (Boorman) and GET CARTER (Hodges) and VENGEANCE! (Chang Cheh)

FREEBIE AND THE BEAN and BUSTING

QUINTET and THE THING (either version)

SOMETHING WILD and MYSTERY DATE

NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER and DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE

THE PRIVATE FILES OF J. EDGAR HOOVER and WINTER KILLS

 

How about EL DORADO and GHOSTS OF MARS?

 

That would mean having to watch Ghosts of Mars.

I haven't read the thread, so I have no idea if this has been mentioned, but Peeping Tom and 8 & 1/2 make for the best "movies about movies" double feature ever. You can credit Scorsese for putting that one together.

Crazy family in a spooky old home quadruple feature:

 

The Old Dark House

Spider Baby

Girly

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Public Enemy / A Clockwork Orange

The Friends of Eddie Coyle / The Town

The Most Dangerous Game / Predator

The Killers or Out of the Past / A History of Violence 

The Abominable Dr. Phibes / Hannibal

Horror Express / The Thing (Carpenter)

He's presumed dead, but he's back for revenge:

 

Fury (1936)/Darkman

American television dystopia half day marathon.

A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Network (1976)
God Bless America (2011)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Series 7 (2001)

Each of these movies set their sights on different targets and blame the downfall of America's morals on different things. By the end the idea is to get the audience to realize that everyone is equally to blame for the state of television in this country. A Face in the Crowd places blame on the egos of the people in front of the camera*. Ace in the Hole blames the egos who manipulate the news stories*. Network blames the drive for ratings*. God Bless America blames the selfish nature of the public*. Natural Born Killers is there to make the audience realize that there is very little difference in rooting for the antiheros of God Bless America and rooting for these two evil fucks.* It ends with Series 7 because the familiar reality tv framing of the film's story got me involved more than I expected and despite the movie's message the film made me want to see the nonexistent next season. Hopefully Series 7 will complete the audience's guilt trip (blame themselves).

*I know each of these films carry multiple messages, but by placing these films in this order I hope to get the overall guilt trip theme across.
Edited by Tim K - 8/28/12 at 10:35pm

The Sons of Sun Records

Great Balls of Fire

Walk the LIne

Elvis(1979)

Smarmy Slashers Loose in the 80's- AMERICAN PSYCHO & 10 TO MIDNIGHT

 

Midlife Crisis Double Feature-BLUME IN LOVE & GREENBERG

 

WHEN GHOSTS ASSAULT- POLTERGEIST & THE ENTITY

 

Neurotic Rom-Coms-MODERN ROMANCE & ANNIE HALL

 

Laconic Hitmen Triple Bill- MURDER BY CONTRACT/BLAST OF SILENCE/POINT BLANK

War on Terror Triple Bill:

Green Zone
The Hurt Locker
Zero Dark Thirty

"Love Among the Bullets":  TRUE LIES and TRUE ROMANCE

Django Unchained/Lincoln/Cloud Atlas

 

For the 2012 Anti-Slavery Trilogy 

Nicolas Cage in New Orleans

Wild at Heat / Seeking Justice / Stolen / Bad Lieutenant 

 

Mickey Rourke in New Orleans

Johnny Handsome / Angel Heart

Mr. and Mrs. Smith/Undercover Blues.
 

Problem Child
Problem Child 2
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Tremors \ Attack the Block

 

Purple Rose of Cairo \ Anguish

 

The Blues Brothers \ The Big Lebowski

Chasing Amy/Who's That Knocking at my Door

 

Side Effects/Sisters/Body Heat

 

Blue Valentine/Faces

 

The Rapture/Jacob's Ladder/Angel Heart

I'm going to do a Silver Linings Playbook / Spring Breakers double at my movie theater on Friday, pretty excited for that, I've seen neither and they both seem like opposite ends of the movie spectrum.  Could make for a good afternoon.

Game Change/The Contender

Just rolled Hanna then Haywire as a "watch the killing machine grow up" set. Good times, although it proves Hanna the superior film.

 

You guys gotta do Get Carter / The Limey. It's magical.

City of Lost Children / Dark City

Having just done it today, Argo/Zero Dark Thirty/The Kingdom is a great triple feature.

2012 was a year filled with many potentially interesting double feature options.  But, to me, the best is pairing Beasts of the Southern Wild with The Turin Horse.  A first feature, a final feature.  One in color, the other in black and white.  And two distinctly different takes on a cataclysmic event in a year where everyone seemed to be obsessed with the idea of apocalypse.

Through pure circumstance, I'm about to do a double feature of DEVIL TIMES FIVE and WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? this weekend, neither of which I have seen.  That should be fun.  

Happy Holidays from Bill Murray!

 

Meatballs (1979)  Summer vacation

Caddyshack (1980) Labour Day

Stripes (1981) Remembrance Day

Ghostbusters (1884)  Halloween

Scrooged (1988) Christmas

Groundhog Day (1993)  Groundhog Day

Broken Flowers (2005)   Valentine's Day

Tootisie (1982)  Mother's Day

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)  Father's Day

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Back to summer

From Beyond & Shadow of the Vampire turned out to make a great pair last night!

The original Nosferatu makes a good companion piece to Shadow of the Vampire as well. It's public domain now, so you can get versions with your choice of soundtracks released by competing studios.

I'm fond of the Cleopatra Records version with music from goth bands on their label, myself.

Cape Fear '91 / Shutter Island
Zelig / The Purple Rose of Cairo / Midnight in Paris
The French Connection / French Connection II / The Seven-Ups
Chinatown / The Long Goodbye / The Big Lebowski
Casablanca / The Third Man
8 1/2 / Stardust Memories / All That Jazz
Blood Simple / No Country For Old Men
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre / There Will Be Blood
The Fountain / Cloud Atlas
Boogie Nights / Step Brothers
The Hudsucker Proxy / Brazil

Homemade Superheroes:

 

Kick-Ass / Defendor / Super

 

shown in the order that will keep you awake, but also bum you out.

Highwaymen and The Hitcher