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Franchescanado posted:Back to double features: I've been lucky to see a double feature for Troll 2 / Best Worst Movie, which is always a treat. I can't even imagine.
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caligulamprey posted:I remember rolling into a drive-in with my family at age 7 with my mom and we saw a double bill of Die Hard and Big. They showed Big second, even as a kid I thought that was a poor choice. The last two times I went to the Drive-in, they showed Titanic/Austin Powers 2 and XXX/Master of Disguise. 
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Aug 12, 2015 21:44
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I saw The Master in theaters three times (twice in 70mm) and it wasn't enough
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I can't even imagine. I actually felt very anxious and shell shocked after Synecdoche, NY. I walked out of the theater and had a mild panic attack, smoked a cig and grabbed a beer before going into The Master. I'm glad they showed that one second. I loved both, and I'd put Synecdoche, New York on my top 10 list.
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Aug 12, 2015 21:53
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The Gremlins 2 double feature I'd do is Fight Club.
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Franchescanado posted:I actually felt very anxious and shell shocked after Synecdoche, NY. I walked out of the theater and had a mild panic attack, smoked a cig and grabbed a beer before going into The Master. I'm glad they showed that one second. Him singing at the end would probably do me in.
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Aug 12, 2015 22:01
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Him singing at the end would probably do me in. "I know what to do with this play now. I have an idea. I think..." 
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Aug 12, 2015 22:07
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I don't think a movie has ever punched me in the head, the heart, and the gut all at the same time the way Synecdoche, New York did. It's an absolute masterpiece. Charlie Kaufman's best work by a wide margin, and I say that with a healthy respect and admiration for Adaptation.
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Aug 12, 2015 22:17
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The road-map to a really killer double feature is to pick movies that are not only in some sense superficially or thematically similar, but from the same year: Shivers and The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fear City and Body Double Giorgio Moroder's restoration of Metropolis and The Terminator
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Aug 12, 2015 22:36
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K. Waste posted:Shivers and The Rocky Horror Picture Show This is very good.
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Aug 12, 2015 22:44
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Franchescanado posted:This is very good. "I know, that's why I wrote it," he typed with mock condescension. Bonus points on that one is if you watch a bunch of trailers for skin flicks from the same year you realize that most of them are just as Cronenberg satirizes: horrifyingly preoccupied with rape as a form of sexual liberation.
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Aug 12, 2015 22:46
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precision posted:Dude I literally just said that two posts above you. Great minds think alike 
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Double features? Detention and Heathers Aliens and Terminator 2 Dawn of the Dead (2004) and 28 Days Later Big Trouble in Little China and The Thing Adventures in Babysitting and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
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Aug 13, 2015 00:43
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Everyone mentioning Carpenter in their double features made me realize Starman and Under the Skin would be a great one.
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Aug 13, 2015 00:47
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Drive/The Guest  Fistful of Dollars/Unforgiven Alien/s works better than any other sequel double-bill because it shares the subject matter and protagonist but has such a radically different tone and pace. I saw this combo at a midnight showing at the Cameo cinema in Edinburgh about 20 years ago, one of my most memorable film experiences.
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Aug 13, 2015 01:51
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A good double I happened upon once was Cool Hand Luke/Easy Rider.
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Aug 13, 2015 01:52
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Surely you'd go with the 1985 Day of the Dead to pair with 28 Days Later over Dawn of the Dead.
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Mad Max/Wyrmwood
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Bored As gently caress posted:Detention and Heathers This works but you should really watch Heathers first so by the time Detention starts the acid is kicking hard. The first two films I ever saw in my life were Blue Lagoon and Ghost Story as a drive-in double bill. I mostly slept in the backseat but there was one part of Ghost Story that freaked me the gently caress out.
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Basebf555 posted:Everyone mentioning Carpenter in their double features made me realize Starman and Under the Skin would be a great one. Starman and Lifeforce is better. But, you know, dif' strokes. I've got another: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Manhunter
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Aug 13, 2015 02:26
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For All Mankind is on Hulu Plus. Just an amazing documentary about manned spaceflight, with an original soundtrack by Brian Eno.
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Aug 13, 2015 02:29
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Is Halloween III streaming on anything? It is one of the few always discussed horror movies that I have never seen.
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Aug 13, 2015 02:30
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Is Halloween III streaming on anything? It is one of the few always discussed horror movies that I have never seen. You can rent it for $3 on Amazon, but otherwise I don't think so.
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El Topo / Eraserhead Dazed and Confused / Ferris Bueller's Day Off 200 Motels / Head Event Horizon / Galaxy of Terror Rango / Chinatown
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PYF / Cinema Discusso
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Sleeveless posted:PYF / Cinema Discusso emptyquote / 
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Murgos posted:So, could someone take a stab at enumerating some iconic double bills? Direct sequels or movies in a shared universe are probably sort of trivial examples but what about two different movies that make watching both more than the sum of the individual experience? That Obscure Object of Desire / Before Sunset. A thesis on how you can never really know the heart of another person, but sometimes it's worth the effort of trying nonetheless. For an orthogonal approach to those themes, throw a Wong Kar Wei film in between those two. 2046 or In the Mood for Love or Happy Together or Chungking Express, any of those would be a fantastic pairing. E: Certified Copy might work even better than Before Sunset. I guess it depends on if you want similar or contrasting approaches to a theme. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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3 episodes in, Difficult People on Hulu is legit funny. Just found out it's from Amy Poehler, so it makes sense why I like it.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:3 episodes in, Difficult People on Hulu is legit funny. Yeah it is actually kinda fantastic so far. Goddamn episode 2 was good, Urbaniak killed it in those scenes.
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Two Days, One Night is up on Netflix, it's pretty terrific.
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I got really stoned and watched Charlie Victor Romeo and United 93 back-to-back (both on Netflix!), and now I'm convinced I'm going to die in a plane crash.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:3 episodes in, Difficult People on Hulu is legit funny. It's just rapid fire jokes. I also give it credit for making these characters likeable. They could have turned into obnoxious so easily.
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K. Waste posted:"I know, that's why I wrote it," he typed with mock condescension. Hell, if you pick the right ones you might even recognize some of the same actors.
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morestuff posted:The Western/Revisionist Western and Noir/Neo-Noir labels seem mostly pointless to me but if you're going to use them I don't know how you can claim that Unforgiven is a classic Western Basebf555 posted:Interesting that you bring up another Guy Pierce film because The Proposition is one that I'd consider a modern Western, it just happens to not take place in the American west. The Proposition certainly isn't your classic western a la Man From Snowy River though, either. It's a lot darker, dirtier, and more complex. It comments on itself. Basebf555 posted:Yea I'm feeling the same way but I haven't yet figured out what extremely potent drug/alcohol cocktail will be most helpful in seeing me though the experience. stickyfngrdboy posted:I don't understand people watching two completely unrelated films as a double bill. This is a phenomenon I've witnessed in this thread/forum and nowhere else ever. For instance I actually did go on a Casper Van Dien binge and watched every Starship Troopers with him in it, and a couple other movies, and it became almost surreal, how he can only play this one role, and even he admits and owns up to it in the roles he takes nowdays (such as they are), which makes me like and respect him more even though he's not much of an actor - but that jawline! Those eyes! :bigtran: coyo7e fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Basebf555 posted:Its fun to watch a Kurosawa film and then the Western that it inspired. Yojimbo/Fistful of Dollars and Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven being the primary examples.  Hell, you could even pick an actor and do two Yojimbo ripoffs where he plays the same character! Lucky Number Slevin / Bunraku. :iamafag: coyo7e fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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morestuff posted:Lucy is Under The Skin in reverse, with more car chases The one true double bill with Lucy is Altered States.
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Is Halloween III streaming on anything? It is one of the few always discussed horror movies that I have never seen. Hoopla, the streaming service that my library uses, has it, but I think that's about it. I don't know if that one's available to you through your library or if you can just buy a subscription to it.
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coyo7e posted:Yojimbo is a good one to pair with anything that shamelessly ripped off its story. And there are unending numbers of Yojimbo ripoffs to choose from as well! Last Man Standing was always a guilty pleasure of mine.
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coyo7e posted:Unforgiven isn't a classic western, it's the last (American) western. There's a difference. It's the culmination of everything that revisionist westerns had been aiming toward - to steal a quote from someone smarter than me, it's the one that finally, totally, turned the good guy into the bad guy, and that can never be undone.
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kuddles posted:I always feel like Unforgiven is brilliant because it manages to be a love letter to the classic Western even though it's also completely deconstructing it. It's all the more shocking that it came from Clint Eastwood, who already directed other Westerns suggesting he was incapable of breaking from formula. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that he carried the script around for like ten years because he felt like he wasn't old enough to play the part yet.
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