Everybodies favourite day of the working week is finally here, and with it comes everybodies favourite game. Double Feature Friday is back for round three, giving you the chance to once more to show off your obscure movie knowledge and win fabourite yet to be determined prizes! Last weeks winners and this weeks movies are a mere mouse scroll away…so what are you waiting for!?!?
ROUND 2 WINNERS:
Steve Honeywell, who brought us an Edgar Rice Burrough double by pairing John Carter with Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan.
Andy Hart, who paired Silent House with another “one take” film: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope.
Squasher88, who likes to see fast talking wise guys learn their lessons, pairing 1000 Words with Liar Liar
Dan Heaton, who paired Assault of Precint 13 with the film that inspired it: Rio Bravo
Simon Columb, who is all about the ladies, pairing All About My Mother with All About Eve.
Congratulations to this weeks winners. Those of you who missed out, fear not: round three begins…RIGHT NOW!
If you’re new to the game, here’s how it works: I give you five titles – a combination of the weeks new releases and a couple of older films – and you try and come up with the most interesting or esoteric pairing for a double feature. We also ask that you get your answers in by Thursday March 22, so the judges have enough time to make their decision.
Simple enough? Then let’s get into it!
21 Jump Street
Casa De Mi Padre
Friends with Kids
Bonus: Fight Club
Bonus: Manhattan
Time to put on those thinking caps! Sound off in the comments section below as to what movie you’d like to see paired – and why – with each of this weeks selections.
DOUBLE FEATURE FRIDAY LEADERBOARD:
Dan Heaton (2)
Simon Columb (2)
Squasher88 (2)
Andy Hart (1)
Courtney Small (1)
Helen Geib (1)
Steve Honeywell (1)
Wayne (7)
Andrew (4)
John (4)
Steve (4)
Justin (3)
Lauren (3)
Nick (3)
Andy (2)
Dave Enkosky (2)
Emily (2)
Twitter: smallmind
March 16, 2012 4:47 am
21 Jump Streets – Never Been Kissed (adults going undercover in high school)
Casa di Mi Padre – Three Amigos (Big name comedians making Spanish influenced comedies)
Friends with Kids – Friends with Money (40 year-olds trying to find meaning in their life while their friends seem to have achieved great success)
Fight Club – Capitalism: A Love Story (both are films rage against consumerism in our society)
Manhattan – City of God (Films where the city they take place in become an important supporting character)
21 Jump Street – Old School (revisiting school days)
Casa de mi Padre – Rango (goofy westerns set in Mexico)
Friends with Kids – Friends with Benefits (unconventional relationships)
Fight Club – Dead Poets Society (secret club/society)
Manhattan – Annie Hall (classic Woody Allen)
Twitter: agracru
March 16, 2012 8:57 am
Alright, I’m getting into this. Here we go.
21 Jump Street + Fudoh: The New Generation: Gang activity in a high school setting. It’s a shift in protagonists between the two movies, and in attitude, going from bawdy humor to vulgar violence.
Casa De Mi Padre + Rubber: Two releases that take an idea fit for a short film and stretch it to an hour and twenty minutes, with varying degrees of success. (I liked the former and not the latter.)
Friends With Kids + When Harry Met Sally: A couple of yuppie-oriented rom-coms.
Fight Club + Wall-E: Both of them are fiercely anti-consumerist, and both of them suffer from similar problems of hypocrisy.
Manhattan + Midnight in Paris: Maybe too obvious but both of these Allen movies use their eponymous cities as characters as much as the actors and actresses of their respective casts. They’re as much love notes to their locations as they are narratives about struggling writers falling in love.
21 Jump Street with Bad Lieutenant (1992) – cops behaving badly
Casa de mi Padre with The Paleface – comedy westerns (CS stole mine)
Friends with Kids with The Kids are All Right – we hope
Fight Club with The First Wives Club – both men and women need their clubs!
Manhattan with An American in Paris – Gershwin’s two greatest symphonic pieces put to excellent use
Here are my picks, all winners (despite the fact that I clearly gave up trying to justify them):
21 JUMP STREET with 2004′s STARSKY AND HUTCH (it’s spiritual movie adaption cousin)
CASA DE MI PADRE with NACHO LIBRE (Spanish is funny!)
FRIENDS WITH KIDS with KNOCKED UP (havin’ a baby changes things!, an Adam Scott double feature)
FIGHT CLUB with ARLINGTON ROAD (yay terrorism?)
MANHATTAN with NEW YORK, NEW YORK (something something NYC)
21 Jump Street &
Casa De Mi Padre & Tell Me You Love Me (English actors going into foreign realm)
Friends With Kids & Friends With Benefits (We’re friends? Why not have sex (with/without protection)?)
Fight Club & Exit Through the Gift Shop (now go and upset the establishment)
Manhattan & Annie Hall (because good Woody should be enjoyed thoroughly)
Twitter: fandangogroover
March 19, 2012 4:02 pm
21 JUMP STREET and Grease (set in a school where Channing Tatum would look young)
CASA DE MI PADRE and Blazing Saddles
FRIENDS WITH KIDS and Citizen Kane (both have a first time director who also write and star)
FIGHT CLUB and Layer Cake (main characters without names)
MANHATTAN and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (read the first line of the synopsis for Manhattan on IMDB)
Twitter: samfragoso
March 19, 2012 10:58 pm
21 Jump Street – 48 Hrs. — Buddy cop film that focuses more on the relationship between the two protagonists, rather than the ludicrous plot.
Casa De Mi Padre – Blades of Glory — Two spoofs of genres/games no on really cares about.
Friends With Kids – Hannah and Her Sisters — Women attempting to find happiness, both facing the downsides of reality.
I won’t discuss film number four, as I feel you’ve all broken the rules of the club. Fincher would not approve.
Manhattan – High Fidelity — Wonderfully romantic films with wit, sadness, and cynicism. Both are beautiful explorations of their respective cities, too.
Hope you enjoy my selections Clifty.
Twitter: ptsnob
March 20, 2012 5:22 am
21 Jump Street with Across 110th Street
Casa de mi Padre with Paint Your Wagon (a silly musical Western!)
Friends with Kids with Mr. Mom
Fight Club with A Beautiful Mind (similar twists!)
Manhattan with A Bronx Tale