Double/Triple Feature Ideas

[Screw Danlon]

Pretty much what the title says - recommend some fun/cool/stupid double and triple features for people to watch or show.

Serious suggestions are good, “Bad Movie Night” suggestions are good, or make it a game and see if others can follow your logic. Whatever floats your boat.

A joke suggestion from the old Quarter to Three podcast that I loved was Passion of the Christ and Zapped Again, since they’re both movies about men with supernatural abilities dying to atone for the actions of others

An obvious one for me is Godfather, Part II and Heat - the two amazing Pacino/De Niro movies.

 

[Wowcoolusername]

Shrek 2, and just another Shrek 2.

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

High Noon/Rio Bravo

High Noon and Rio Bravo are two ideologically opposed westerns and in many ways, Rio Bravo was made in response to High Noon. Only separated by 7 years, they show how quickly and dramatically the politics around the genre changed. Two brisk and effectively perfect films.

The Wages Of Fear/Sorcerer

Sorcerer is a remake of the The Wages Of Fear, though an odd one because the director denies that this is true. Both films are intensely masculine and both rule.

F For Fake/Close Up(1990)

Two films about making films from very different angles. Both Kiarostami and Wells' finest and most underrated works.

Sideways/Ghost World

A middle-aged comedy drama about chasing youth and a teenaged comedy drama about wanting to grow up faster.

 

[sasazuka]

The Terminator and Miracle Mile would be a good double feature since I have this theory that the nuclear exchange at the end of Miracle Mile is the "Judgment Day" of the original Terminator timeline from before Kyle Reese changed history with Sarah Connor.

Spoiler: The phone call scene from Miracle Mile & how I think it (unofficially) ties in with The Terminator

- Miracle Mile takes place around 1988, which fits perfectly with the "few years in the future" nuclear war timeline Kyle Reese mentioned to Sarah Connor.
- In Miracle Mile, Chip, the poor grunt stationed in North Dakota who dialed the wrong number in an attempt to warn his father didn't know why the missiles were about to launch. There's nothing ruling out the cause being Skynet.
- The military superior who shoots Chip and then tells Harry over the phone to "Forget everything you just heard and go back to sleep." has a cold demeanor where he could easily be another Terminator sent to the base to ensure the missile launch goes off without a hitch.

Both movies were, of course, Hemdale Film Corporation productions.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Night of the Living Dead and Plan 9 From Outer Space

Both are iconic B-Movies/"midnight movies", both are in the public domain, both involve space satellites and zombies, both are in black & white, and both have a cult following. And yet they're both pretty much polar opposites.

Night of the Living Dead is a genuine masterpiece that changed pretty much the entire horror genre as we know it and is seen as one of the greatest horror movies of all time.

Plan 9 From Outer Space is pretty much the opposite of all that and it is the OG "So Bad It's Good" movie. Plan 9 is pretty much just "The Room" for Boomers.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I'd say Andromeda Strain and Fantastic Voyage would make a good double feature. Both were made about the same time and feature lots of slick, 60's era science. Fantastic Voyage, though, is splashy pulp science that's soft as a pillow while Andromeda Strain is a much harder take on science that tries to be serious and accurate. If you want to throw in a third movie for a Triple Feature, throw in Gog, a 1954 movie that tries to be both pulpy and accurate. It has lots of special effects fails, but it tries to be serious, and is somewhat ahead of its time with killer computers and a surprisingly high body count. (Which is even more shocking if you can find an uncensored version.)