Shuffling hordes with blank stares and unusual appetites caused by a cloud of gas. They could just screen concert footage and say it was a new fictional movie!
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 10, 2005 1:15:38 pm PDT #3978 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
tommyrot - Jun 10, 2005 1:22:13 pm PDT #3979 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, how about a zombie movie... from the zombies' point of view?
Maybe a group of zombies who are fearful that there may be real live humans among them. Or a tender coming-of-age flick about a group of zombie friends who go on a road trip, searching for the mythical "perfect brain."
Sophia Brooks - Jun 10, 2005 2:52:45 pm PDT #3980 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Any dream double features you would put together?
Well, two great movies which DO NOT taste great together are Taxi Driver and Breakfast at Tiffany's
erikaj - Jun 10, 2005 4:14:24 pm PDT #3981 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Fried Green Tomatoes and Goodfellas(I think I actually did that one weekend and gave myself hormone whiplash.)
Frankenbuddha - Jun 10, 2005 4:31:50 pm PDT #3982 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
How many "____ of the Dead" movies have there been? j
If you define them strictly by Romero, 3, but soon to be 4:
Night of the Living Dead / Dawn of the Dead / Day of the Dead and the forthcoming Land of the Dead.
The Tom Savini remake of Night... was Romero approved, and a pretty decent movie. It worked some nice twists on the original, and had some good actors on board (Tony Todd, anyone?).
I don't know if the Dawn... remake was approved, but I've heard many good things about it, and, again, a kickass cast.
The "Return of the Living Dead" movies were tangentially related in that the co-writer of Night... did the first, but have no official connection.
Betsy HP - Jun 10, 2005 4:54:47 pm PDT #3983 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Casablanca / Play It Again, Sam
Possibly in the opposite order, so that you end with the better film.
Trudy Booth - Jun 10, 2005 5:01:43 pm PDT #3984 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Eight Men Out and Field of Dreams
very cathartic
§ ita § - Jun 10, 2005 5:03:03 pm PDT #3985 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Say Anything and Grosse Point Blank.
Mmm.
DavidS - Jun 10, 2005 5:14:41 pm PDT #3986 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know Where I'm Going/Local Hero
Oooh, good one. And, of course, Local Hero was the immediate inspiration for Northern Exposure.
You could do a quadruple feature on all the movies based on the Leopold/Loeb case, I think. Starting with Rope.
Let's see...
Film school hipster selection: Los Olivados/Do Des Kadan. The first is Bunuel's kid's eye view of street orphans in Mexico City. The second (which I'm sure I misspelled) is Kurowasawa's look at street kids (and other family members) in post-war Tokyo. They're both pretty great and reminiscent of early Love & Rockets (the comic, not the band).
Film School Classics selection: Jules & Jim / Band of Outsiders. Truffaut and Godard both take a run at the love triangle. Classic New Wave, both infinitely charming and utterly distinct.
80s Camp Horror: Vamp / Lair of the White Worm. The first has Grace Jones as an evil vampire. ' Nuff said. The second has Amanda Donohue as an evil high priestess of a snake cult. Ditto.
Sterling Hayden Heist Noir: The Asphalt Jungle / The Killing. I love Sterling Hayden and they're both great movies, and they're actually more different than alike, despite the similarity of premise.
Mr. Broom - Jun 10, 2005 5:27:26 pm PDT #3987 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
School Ties and Dead Poet's Society. Doesn't matter which you do first, really.