Make your own movie double-feature with a theme... (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

Yes, I'm bored again.
I was perusing my DVD collection and it occurred to me that Blade Runner and A.I. would make an interesting double-feature with their shared themes of artifically-created life seeking meaning and humanity.
What can you come up with?

 

[Rain]

Well, Steve, that's one double bill I hope I never have to sit through.
I've always thought Persona and Thelma and Louise would make a cool double bill.

 

[Andrew_Sch]

T2 and The Matrix make a good "evil machines destroying humanity" pairing.

 

[Scott Weinberg]

They seem an obvious choice, but Fight Club and Seven go well together.
If you're in the mood for art films, go with The Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run 2.
How about The Beastmaster and The Sword and the Sorcerer? The Sting and Diggstown! Oooh oooh! The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Time Bandits!

 

[Jim_K]

Ben-Hur & Life of Brian
Frankenstein '31 & Robocop
Excalibur & Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

[Rain]

And for those who still doubt that John Wayne can act:
The Searchers and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

 

[SteveGon]

Well, Steve, that's one double bill I hope I never have to sit through.

I have to admit that such a pairing would leave one rather....numb.

Here's another one:

Monty Python's Life of Brian and The Ruling Class.

 

[Steeve Bergeron]

How about Braveheart and Gladiator?
Or Saving Private Ryan and Enemy at the Gates?
Or La Femme Nikita and The Professional?
Or Blade and X-Men?
Or Titanic and Pearl Harbor? They both have an insipid love story!

 

[MichaelAW]

Good Will Hunting and A Beautiful Mind - the troubled math geniuses film festival

 

[Steve Christou]

Predator / Species
Imagine the poster blurb...
"One came to to hunt man, the other to **** man"
The Rock / Armageddon
Poster blurb...
"Welcome to the Rocks" (cringes, thats awful Steve!)

 

[Shane Gralaw]

A few random ideas...
Bald chicks- Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Alien 3
Films that end at the Bonaventure Hotel in L.A.- In the Line of Fire, Strange Days, Nick of Time
Air traffic controller stress night- Pushing Tin, Modern Problems, Summer Rental
I'm dead but haven't figured it out yet- The Sixth Sense, Vanilla Sky, The Others, Donnie Darko, Jacob's Ladder,
Nixon/ Watergate mania- Secret Honor, Nixon, All the President's Men, Dick
Brunet-to-blonde makeover night- Vertigo, 12 Monkeys, Lost Highway
A salute to Ewan Macgregor's penis- Trainspotting, The Pillow Book, Velvet Goldmine

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Steeve came up with some great pics!
My nomination goes to two movies that I accidently watched back to back, not even knowing that they complemented each other so perfectly:
Double Indemnity
and
The Man Who Wasn't There
In that order!

 

[Travis Olson]

I'd say Armageddon & Deep Impact. Both were released when Hollywood was in disaster mode it seems.
The Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile fit pretty good as well.

 

[SteveGon]

Several more:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers '55 and Quatermass 2.

The Great Escape and Chicken Run.

Jude and Voyager.

That last one might have ya poppin' the Prozac...

 

[Brook K]

Ordet & Winter Light
The Gospel According to St. Matthew & The Last Temptation of Christ
Taxi Driver & Safe
Gertrud & The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Saving Private Ryan & Les Carabiniers
Chloe In The Afternoon & Eyes Wide Shut
The Bride of Frankenstein & Edward Scissorhands

 

[Craig S]

Nashville & Boogie Nights - two films that examine America in the 70s by focusing on a particular group in the entertainment industry. One by Altman, the other by an Altman disciple. One from a contemporary perspective, the other looking back two decades.
As soon as I get my new RPTV, I'm doing this one!!

 

[SteveGon]

The "How to ruin an interesting SF thriller by tacking on a perfunctory climax" double-bill:
Strange Days and Minority Report

 

[MartinTeller]

Taxi Driver & Safe?

 

[SteveGon]

That's an obtuse one, to be sure.

In both films, the principal character is driven to extremes by the toxins of society. Something like that anyway. I'm sure someone else could word it better.

 

[MartinTeller]

Both movies also have an important "talking to the mirror" scene.