The perfect double feature
 

At times, I'll watch a movie and think it would be a perfect double feature with another film that's similar in style. For example, when I saw "Nobody's Fool" (with Paul Newman), overall it reminded me of "Beautiful Girls" for some odd reason. And just last night, I saw "The Yards" for the first time (which I enjoyed a great deal) . And I kept thinking of "Copland" while watching it. Besides sequels (which would be an obvious choice), what movies do you think would make the perfect double feature?

Somewhere In Time and Titanic

Want a disturbing Night at the movies?

Try Bad Lieutenant and In the Company of Men.

Notorious and Casablanca

The Crow and Dark City.

I Spit on Your Grave and Irreversible...now thats one f**ked up night o cinema! :D

Rushmore into Lost in Translation. A night of Bill Murray goodness.

All That Heaven Allows and Far From Heaven

Trainspotting and Days of Wine and Roses
From one addiction to the other!

Followed by "All Dogs Go To Heaven"!

Seven Samurai and Bug's Life...

or...

Star Wars and Hidden Fortress...

Five Easy Pieces followed by About Schmidt

tonight my double feature is Psycho and Se7en. No particular reason except I just felt like watching them.

The Fast and the Furious & 2 Fast 2 Furious

On the Waterfront and Daddy Day Care

2 messed up drug movies:
Spun
Mtv's Wasted

Singin' In The Rain

followed by

Cannibal Holocaust

Two great "movie-within-a-movie" movies.

Requiem for a Dream and 21 Grams

How bout a night of contrasts with Plan Nine From Outer Space and Citizen Kane ,watch what is widely considered the worst movie of all time then watch the one that is widely considered the best of all time

A Director's night would be great:

Godfather and Godfather II - Coppola

Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums (or Bottle Rocket) - Wes Anderson

Vertigo and Rear Window (or Psycho) - Hitchcock

Alien and Black Hawk Down - Ridley Scott

Spiderman and Evil Dead - Sam Raimi

Mousehunt and Pirates of the Caribbean - Gore Verbinski

Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List - Spielberg

Goldeneye and The Mask of Zorro - Martin Campbell

Whenever I watch two movies back to back I like having two different tones. Mix a light with a quiet or dark movie. I find it to be better for me not to overlap emotions too much.

But to answer intent of question..

Fly Away Home
Winged Migration

Could also add Never Cry Wolf for a triple feature if it had a decent dvd release.

A few days after seeing Elephant I watched Targets, and it struck me that the combo would be an interesting double feature.

Another pair:

"Shoot To Kill" and "Last of the Dogmen"

Ed Wood and Plan 9 from Outer Space.

DC comics night:
Batman and Superman

Guy Ritchie Night:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch

Fitt to be Pinched night:
Fight Club and Se7en

Archaeology Night:
Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Mummy

Twist night:
The Usual Suspects and Momento

Bill Murray Classics triple feature:
Stripes and Caddyshack and Ghostbusters

Fast forward through bad dialog to get to the action night:
Pearl Harbor and Mission Impossible 2

I am so stoned and I can't believe I own these night:
Battlefield Earth and Driven

Superman and Superman II

M.Night Night

Unbreakable
Signs

It's a triple feature, but still worth mentioning . . .

The "Three Decades Of College" Trilogy:
- Animal House
- Revenge Of The Nerds
- PCU

might as well add in Old School and make if four decades... :)

Spartacus & Gladiator

The Day The Earth Stood Still & Close Encounters of The Third Kind

Flamingo Kid & Can't Buy Me Love

My Bodyguard & 3 O'Clock High

talk about a depressing night

great movies none the less, but ungodly depressing

Requiem for a Dream and Spun.

SPR and Schindlers would be excellent, as they kind of show different sides of the same conflict, but damn depressing nonetheless.

the ultimate QT 4 pack...

True Romance (2 disc Director's)
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill vol. 1

that will be a good day!

I'm holding out for one that is a little more worthy to hang with those other three. ;)

Harvey and Donnie Darko

You include PCU, but your waiting on OLD SCHOOL?

I can't stand PCU, there has to be a better example of that genre from the 90's.


As for another good double feature, how about Gandhi and Sexy Beast. The two sides of Ben Kingsley.

:thumbsup: That's my kind of double feature.

It's been a while since I've seen Old School, but I remember thinking that it was just another one of the over-the-top, bodily-function-humor movies that have been coming out so frequently in the last 5+ years. I don't think to deserves to go with those other three. I think that they all relied more on comic humor than "gross-out" humor and I respect that more.

Secondly, Old School wasn't really about the college experience . . . it was about a bunch of men who were having mid-life crises and reacting to that by trying to gain their college experience back. While taking place in a college environment, I really have trouble calling it a "college movie"

Finally, and more personally, I also think that I identified more with the characters in PCU because that was the time when I was in college. There are very few characters in that movie who I could not directly compare to people that I knew while at school.

Sorry for the hijack . . . you may have your thread back now . . . ;)

I always thought "Pecker" and "Snatch" would make a good double feature.