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 July 5, 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 4 WINNERS:
Nolahn, who paired Brave with Annie and Raging Bull with The Wrestler.
Andy, who paired Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with Young Mr. Lincoln.
Helen, who paired The Invisible War with The Whistleblower and Fight Club with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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:
Ted
Magic Mike
Take This Waltz
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Bonus: Batman Begins
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:
Nolahn (4 point)
Andy (3 point)
Bubbawheat (3 point)
Helen Geib (3 point)
Trey (3 points)
Aiden Redmond (2 points)
Andrew Robinson (1 point)
Courtney Small (1 point)
Andrew (8)
Wayne (8)
John (6)
Josh (6)
Jessica (5)
Justin (5)
Lauren (5)
Steve (5)
Dave Enkosky (4)
Sir Phobos (4)
Twitter: T_Lawson
June 29, 2012 5:36 am
Ted & Harvey
Magic Mike & The Full Monty
Take This Waltz & Everyone Says I Love You
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Big Fish
Batman Begins & Casino Royale
Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride
Nobody’s gonna slow me down
Oh no
I got to keep on movin’
TED with PAUL (“Spelling ‘Comedy’ with a CGI” double-feature)
MAGIC MIKE with SHOWGIRLS (oh boy)
TAKE THIS WALTZ with BIRD ON A WIRE (double-shot of Leonard Cohen song-titled movie titles)
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD with BIG FISH (I guess? I’ve read the synopsis for BEASTS a few times, and it’s like someone just threw a bunch of random words together)
BATMAN BEGINS with REMO WILLIAMS, THE ADVENTURE BEGINS (the story of a man being reborn as a dynamic crime-fighter under the tutelage of a strict — but surprising! — Asian dude… Alas, the “Begins” was also the end for one of these franchises)
Twitter: ptsnob
June 29, 2012 6:40 am
Ted with Drop Dead Fred
Magic Mike with Flashdance
Take This Waltz with Shall We Dance?
Beasts of the Southern Wild with Where the Wild Things Are
Batman Begins with X-Men: First Class
Ted with Lars and the Real Girl (men and their toys)
Magic Mike with Superstar (performers with big dreams)
Take This Waltz with Fatal Attraction (lust and infidelity)
Beasts of the Southern Wild with Where The Wild Things Are (imaginative kids and beasts)
Batman Begins with The Avengers (comic books)
Ted|The Other Guys (prove that Wahlberg can be funny, assuming ted is good)
Magic Mike|The Girlfriend Experience (sex & Soderbergh)
Take This Waltz|Blue Valentine (she just left you and it’s time to cry dbl feature)
Beasts of the Southern Wild| Life is Beautiful (children in their own fantastical story all concocted by their father/father-figure)
Batman Begins| The Dark Knight (because you just have to prepare for TDKR)
Twitter: fandangogroover
June 30, 2012 4:40 am
Ted & The Change-Up (a magical wish has a profound effect on people’s lives)
Magic Mike & Matchstick Men (mentor and Protegé/apprentice relationships in unusual jobs)
Take This Waltz & Little Children (infidelity from a female prospective)
Beasts of the Southern Wild & Undertow (southern “road movies” with kids looking for family)
Batman Begins & Batman (Nolan and Burton, two visions of Batman, very different, both great)
Twitter: smallmind
June 30, 2012 8:22 am
Ted – Monkeybone (comedies about childhood creations coming to life)
Magic Mike – Coyote Ugly (films about people dancing sexy on the surface, but are in fact love stories)
Take This Waltz – Away From Her (Sarah Polley’s look at the decline of marriage amongst young people contrast with her look at the longevity of marriage with old people)
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Pan’s Labyrinth (kids using fantastical worlds to deal with real life family issues)
Batman Begins –Spiderman (successful origin stories from DC and Marvel’s flagship characters)
Twitter: Bubbawheat
June 30, 2012 3:49 pm
Annie?! Annie?! I was robbed! Secret of Kells even has some major parental issues. Whatever.
Ted with Office Space – Animated television directors (Seth MacFarlane/Mike Judge) on their first live action film.
Magic Mike with She’s the Man – Channing Tatum at his finest.
Take this Waltz with Save the Last Dance – They’re both about dancing, right?
Batman Begins with Batman: Under the Red Hood – two of the best Batman stories.
It was a very tough one. But what can I say, Annie made me laugh!
Ted with The Muppets- am I a man or a mupp- teddy bear? plus, arrested development and a long-suffering girlfriend
Magic Mike with Striptease- life at the strip club
Take This Waltz with Brief Encounter- what Waltz aspires to be
Beasts of the Southern Wild with George Washington- the former is the spiritual successor to the latter
Batman Begins and Black Mask- masked heroes with policeman buddies