Ooh, I love the fictional/real thing with the Spinal Tap/Decline and Favorite Year/Captiain Blood combos.
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
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Scrappy - Jun 10, 2005 9:46:20 am PDT #3934 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Vonnie K - Jun 10, 2005 9:54:19 am PDT #3935 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Hmmm.
Out of the Past and The Last Seduction would make a good pair of films. Evolution of the femme fatale archetype over the ages.
The Big Lebowski and Something Wild. A pair of fish-out-of-water comedy with different kinds of wackiness.
The Virgin Spring and The Limey start off on the same premise--a father vent on avenging his daughter's murder--and go to different directions. The former may be too grim though, depending on the taste of the group.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 10, 2005 10:00:25 am PDT #3936 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Big Lebowski and Something Wild. A pair of fish-out-of-water comedy with different kinds of wackiness.
Oh, there was a pairing I did once - SOMETHING WILD and INTO THE NIGHT (Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer). Very similar in the basic story line, in the way the movie swings wildly from comedy to thriller and back, and in the way that quirky characters and familiar faces keep popping up. The main difference being SW is a road movie, and ItN is an urban one.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 10, 2005 10:01:54 am PDT #3937 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I can think of a couple:
Happenstance and Amélie, two French films about chance/destiny and interconnected lives in Paris starring Audrey Tautou. They couldn't be more different in tone and style.
Novocaine and Little Shop of Horrors to see dueling portrayals of dentists by Steve Martin.
Kathy A - Jun 10, 2005 10:02:13 am PDT #3938 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Maybe Double Indemnity and Body Heat for classic noir and neo noir?
Polter-Cow - Jun 10, 2005 10:07:10 am PDT #3939 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and War of the Worlds for two sides of Spielbergian aliens.
Aims - Jun 10, 2005 10:17:05 am PDT #3940 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Any dream double features you would put together?
Glitter and Gigli
Jon B. - Jun 10, 2005 10:18:38 am PDT #3941 of 10002
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I still have fond memories of a great double feature at the Brattle: Buena Vista Social Club and Genghis Blues.
And when I was a pre-teen, I remember a great cheesy environmentally conscious horror pairing: Frogs and Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster.
Kathy A - Jun 10, 2005 10:23:02 am PDT #3942 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cheesy mutant animals on the prowl movies: Them! and Tremors would be good.
Scrappy - Jun 10, 2005 10:26:43 am PDT #3943 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I have always wanted to do original film and homage double features:
I know Where I'm Going/Local Hero
Adventures of Robin Hood/The Court Jester