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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 10, 2023 15:17:16 GMT -5
Double or Triple Features we didn't know we needed What two or three otherwise non-related movies do you think would be good together, and for what reasons?
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 10, 2023 15:34:09 GMT -5
The classic post that keeps this in my mind is a joke from many years ago in the National Lampoon: "Head" and "Shaft" -Peter Tork and Dick Roundtree
On a slightly less flippant and more up to date note, I watched The Menu the other night, and thought that "Pig" explores another aspect of foodie culture and would make a great counterpoint to it. I also watched "The Pale Blue Eye" and enjoyed it. Christian Bale plays a retired New York police detective now living near West Point in 1830. He is called out of retirement to investigate the death of a cadet, and the investigation takes a bizarre turn into the occult. He is aided in his investigation by West Point cadet Edgar Allen Poe. It is a very slow burn mystery that males excellent use of period costumes and speech patterns to enhance the feelings of isolation and dread. I think it would be great on a double bill with "Ravenous", another excellently creepy, leasurely paced movie set in approximately the same time period.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 10, 2023 16:13:39 GMT -5
Grindhouse followed by Nic Cage's Ghost Rider. It fits surprisingly well.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jan 10, 2023 19:40:21 GMT -5
The last time I think I saw two movies straight in a row was L’Avventura followed by Les Damoiselles de Rochefort—first you get your beautiful midcentury sorrow and then you lighten up (and it’s very refreshing to when we see Gene Kelly’s big American smile).
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Post by ganews on Jan 15, 2023 0:05:50 GMT -5
Moonrise Kingdom The Lobster
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 15, 2023 2:44:13 GMT -5
Moonrise Kingdom The Lobster I also thought about The Lobster and Tusk
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Post by ganews on Jan 16, 2023 8:55:45 GMT -5
Moonrise Kingdom The Lobster I also thought about The Lobster and Tusk Wifemate and I watched The Lobster seven years after AVC was buzzing over it, she said "this seems like a Wes Anderson movie", and I couldn't stop thinking about that.
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Post by matt on Jan 18, 2023 0:52:48 GMT -5
A double feature I'm going to actually host because I own both now in my collection.
Cannibal Holocaust and Roar
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 18, 2023 14:49:45 GMT -5
Unsentimental movies told from a dog's perspective
Baxter (1989) The Plague Dogs (1982) Bad Moon (1996) [mostly for the very superior source novel]
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 18, 2023 19:43:11 GMT -5
Grizzly Man (2005) Karate Bear Fighter (1975)
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 19, 2023 12:06:18 GMT -5
Grizzly Man (2005) Karate Bear Fighter (1975) Throw in Day of the Animals (1978) and you've got a hat trick.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 20, 2023 0:59:33 GMT -5
The Price of Fame/Commentary on Mass Media Triple Feature:
The King of Comedy Network S.O.B.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 23, 2023 10:53:02 GMT -5
The Michael Wincott, "One crazy night" double feature:
The Crow Strange Days
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Feb 5, 2023 0:13:00 GMT -5
"Sacrifice or Armageddon" double feature:
Knock at the Cabin and Cabin in the Woods for all things cabin and end-of-the-world related
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Feb 5, 2023 0:24:20 GMT -5
The Michael Wincott, "One crazy night" double feature: The Crow Strange DaysThis reminded me of one of my favorite "One Crazy Night" double features: After Hours Griffin Dunn! Rosanna Arquette! Terri Garr! Cheech and Chong! Dick Miller! and Into the Night Jeff Goldblum! Michelle Pfeiffer! Richard Farnsworth! Dan Aykroyd! David Bowie and Carl Perkins in a knife fight!
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 16, 2023 13:08:24 GMT -5
Here's a fun triple the missus and I took in a couple years back: Modern-day gumshoe stories.
Brick (2005) Inherent Vice (2014) Under the Silver Lake (2018)
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 26, 2023 21:24:28 GMT -5
Grizzly Man (2005) Karate Bear Fighter (1975) Having not seen these, would cocaine bear be an appropriate addition to this list?
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 27, 2023 0:20:02 GMT -5
Grizzly Man (2005) Karate Bear Fighter (1975) Having not seen these, would cocaine bear be an appropriate addition to this list? I've not seen Cocaine Bear yet but yes it would be a perfect match for a double bill consisting of a Werner Herzog documentary about a man that got eaten by grizzly bears and a Sonny Chiba jawn where he karates a man in a bear suit to death.
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Post by LazBro on Mar 27, 2023 7:36:10 GMT -5
Here's a fun triple the missus and I took in a couple years back: Modern-day gumshoe stories. Brick (2005) Inherent Vice (2014) Under the Silver Lake (2018) Any excuse to watch Brick again.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 28, 2023 15:30:18 GMT -5
Scotch Tape Trilogy (3M)
MARNIE- 1964 Tippi Hedrin, Sean Connery. One of Hitchcock's darkest
MAGGIE - 2015 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin. Surprisingly thoughtful, low key zombie movie
MANDY -2018 Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough. Cults, chainsaw fights, colorful ultraviolence. Pure Nic Cage insanity, not for the squeamish
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Post by nowimnothing on Mar 29, 2023 14:18:51 GMT -5
90's energy drink: Run Lola Run 1998 Go 1999
Time travel: 12 Monkeys 1995 Time Crimes 2007 Primer 2004
Dark LSD: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 A Field in England 2013 The Wolf House 2018
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on May 5, 2023 16:31:34 GMT -5
Is there any place on the internet I can still make money if I claim this trilogy is better than the OG Star Wars trilogy? Anyway, what a baffling series of films I should some day subject myself to watching as a triple feature. Then maybe just watch all of the Resident Evil movies back to back.
Pitch Black (2000) The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Riddick (2013)
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on May 5, 2023 18:16:20 GMT -5
Is there any place on the internet I can still make money if I claim this trilogy is better than the OG Star Wars trilogy? Anyway, what a baffling series of films I should some day subject myself to watching as a triple feature. Then maybe just watch all of the Resident Evil movies back to back. Pitch Black (2000) The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Riddick (2013) Pitch Black was an outstanding movie. If I see come across it playing, I will usually watch it. The Chronicles of Riddick is the only movie I can recall leaving the theater in the middle of. Riddick, I wasn't even aware existed. Talk about screwing up a franchise.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 15, 2023 17:02:19 GMT -5
Badlands → True Stories
One is the breakout role for Sissy Spacek. The other the breakout role for John Goodman.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jun 16, 2023 15:59:35 GMT -5
American Graffiti and it's 70's spiritual successor Dazed and Confused.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 19, 2023 15:00:55 GMT -5
Another impromptu one that works: 1. Adaptation 2. Total Recall
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1. Total Recall 2. Chicken Run
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 20, 2023 16:38:42 GMT -5
1. The Limey 2. Clueless
Ridiculous slang, Southern California, strong father-daughter bonds
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jun 20, 2023 21:01:28 GMT -5
1. Ed Wood 2. Bowfinger
Filmmaker struggling to make a bad sci-fi movie with a stand-in for its lead actor
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Post by Jimmy James on Jun 21, 2023 10:43:42 GMT -5
In the Netflix disc days, I had a back to back pairing of Treasure of the Sierra Madre with The Thing that I thought was pretty good, in terms of dudes in the wilderness going paranoid and turning on each other. It turns out the real shape-shifting alien monster is the lust for gold.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jun 21, 2023 12:47:18 GMT -5
ZardoZ and Outland Sean Connery Scifi double feature
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