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The Hidden Fortress and Star Wars
I've done this. It's fun. I didn't really see a lot of resemblance, to be honest, but I didn't see a lot of resemblance between City on Fire and Reservoir Dogs either.
AMC is running three Marlowe movies back to back this weekend. It's driven all other possible double features from my mind.
The Deep End
Sigh. Such a good film. I haven't come across many people who have watched it. Tilda Swinton! The Hot Doctor Luka! Moral Ambiguity! I have to track down The Reckless Moment. Max Opuls and James Mason! Can't believe I haven't watched it yet.
Picnic at Hanging Rock and A Passage from India always struck me as having the same thematic undertones. The backsdrop of colonialism, sexual hysteria, and the terrible and the beautiful of the unknown. I am betting a film student or two did a paper comparing the works of E.M. Forster an Peter Weir during his Australian period.
Submarine movies! Run Silent, Run Deep and Hunt for Red October.
Another "original/parody" pairing: Airport and Airplane.
Blonde ditzes with sugar daddies: Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight and Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday.
Lost Boys and The Craft. Yay silly supernatural teen movies!
High Noon and Outland.
The Day After and The Day After Tomorrow.
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Dr. Strangelove and Failsafe.
28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead
Lost Boys and The Craft
Perfect.
28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead
Now for some reason I want to watch both those movies at the same time.
Fish Called Wanda and Sneakers