A few months ago Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino put out an intentional schlock double feature called "Grindhouse". It looked classic. Rodriguez's piece on it's own was called "Planet Terror". Tarantino's piece was called "Death Proof". While I love B grade action movies, and virtually anything either of these guys can put out. The 191 minute combined running time was more than my back or bladder could take ... in the theater. Both are now available individually on DVD. I think I'll rent them both together so I can watch them as they were intended, as a double feature.
Have you ever thought to watch two movies back to back, at home, that weren't intended to go together? I like to, at least mentally, come up with my own double features. Here are just a few that come to mind. Feel free to add your own pairings.
- Life of Brian
Dogma - Better Off Dead
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Sixteen Candles
Can't Hardly Wait - Philadelphia Story
Sabrina - Class
Mrs Robinson - The Day the Earth Stood Still
Meet Joe Black - The Road Warrior
Resident Evil: Extinction - Shoot 'Em Up
Smokin' Aces - Go
Two Hundred Cigarettes - Cruel Intensions
Dangerous Liasons - Big
Thirteen Going on Thirty - 28 Days Later
Dawn of the Dead - The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Bourne Identity - Some Kind of Wonderful
Pretty in Pink - Babette's Feast
Big Night - Purple Rain
Flashdance
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Drive-ins were the best when I was a kid. We made our own popcorn to take and wore our jammies. Then one by one they started showing x-rated movies. The last one I saw was Doctor Doolittle.
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