Welcome to Double Feature Fridays, a weekly competition in which I challenge YOU to pair the week’s new releases with your favourite older or classic films.
Each week I name the new theatrical releases as well as a few other bonus picks of my choice. Your job is to comment with what other movie you’d like to screen in a double bill with the given films, and why. You can pick any movie you want – recent, classic, whatever – just be sure get your answers in by Thursday June 28, so the judges have enough time to make their decision.
I’ll get to the movies for this week in just a second, but first it’s time to list off last week’s winners. Fingers crossed you are among them.
ROUND 3 WINNERS:
Andy, who paired Rock of Ages with Cabaret.
Nolahn, who paired That’s My Boy with Back to School.
Trey, who paired The Woman in the Fifth with Last Tango in Paris.
Bubbawheat, who paired Serpico with Insomnia.
Andrew Robinson, who paired The White Ribbon with Children on the Corn.
Congratulations to the winners, you updated scores have been tallied in the leaderboard at the bottom of the page. Bad luck to everyone who missed out – the good news is, you get another chance to compete…right now!!! You’re films for this week are:
Brave
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Invisible War
Bonus: Raging Bull
Bonus: Fight Club
Time to put on those thinking caps! Sound off in the comments section below with which films you’d like to pair with this weeks selections.
DOUBLE FEATURE FRIDAY LEADERBOARD:
Bubbawheat (3 point)
Trey (3 points)
Aiden Redmond (2 points)
Andy (2 point)
Nolahn (2 point)
Andrew Robinson (1 point)
Courtney Small (1 point)
Helen Geib (1 point)
Wayne (6)
Mette (4)
Nic Cage (4)
Sebastian (4)
steve (4)
John (3)
Nick (3)
Dan (2)
J.D. (2)
BRAVE with ANNIE (“Attack of the Spunky Red-Heads” double feature)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER with The Asylum’s ABRAHAM LINCOLN VS. ZOMBIES (boom!)
THE INVISIBLE WAR with THE ACCUSED (cuz somebody’s gonna pair them and it might as well be me)
RAGING BULL with THE WRESTLER (see above)
FIGHT CLUB with PRIMAL FEAR (“That Norton Boy Ain’t Right” double feature)
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June 22, 2012 9:11 am
Brave with The Brave Little Toaster
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with JFK
The Invisible War with Hollow Man
Raging Bull with There Will Be Blood
Fight Club with A Beautiful Mind
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June 22, 2012 10:46 am
Brave with Brave heart (they are both set in Scotland and sound similar)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with Young Mr. Lincoln (two fictionalized versions of the early life of the American president, not sure which is closest to the truth)
The Invisible War with Twist of Faith (Kirby Dick doc double bill both with difficult subject matter)
Raging Bull with Bull Durham (two of the best sports movies ever, and they both have Bull in the title)
The second rule, well, lets just say the rules haven’t changed since Double Feature Friday #3 so I am not going to discuss the other film on the list.
Twitter: Bubbawheat
June 22, 2012 2:05 pm
Whoo, I’m in the lead. I must be good at this.
Brave with Secret of Kells – There really isn’t a better match. Beautiful animation, Scottish/Celtic heritage, it’s all there.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Victorian action movies.
Raging Bull with Rocky Balboa – movies about aging boxers.
Fight Club with The Sixth Sense – *in M. Night Shyamalan voice from Robot Chicken* What a tweest!
Brave with The Passion of Joan of Arc (heroic ladies)
Abraham Lincon: Vampire Hunter with Inglourious Basterds (revision of history)
The Invisible War with Born into Brothers (docs about sex)
Raging Bull with Taxi Driver (Scorsese/DeNiro)
Fight Club with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher/Pitt)
just under the wire this week…
Brave with Labyrinth- be careful what you wish for in girls coming-of-age stories
Vampire Hunter with CSA: The Confederate States of America- alt history making use of the Civil War
The Invisible War with Whistleblower- government/military cover-ups of sexual abuse
Raging Bull with The Set-Up- a classic boxing movie Scorsese drew inspiration from
Fight Club with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde- the granddaddy of all multiple personality stories
Twitter: Bubbawheat
June 28, 2012 7:38 pm
I can’t believe I had forgotten about this one, but I’m not going to ask to change my answer since it hasn’t been released yet. But Abe Lincoln would be perfect with FDR: American Badass!