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 August 23rd, 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 11 WINNERS:
Nolahn, who paired The Bourne Legacy with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Squasher88, who paired The Campaign with Election and Predator with E.T.
Dan Heaton, who paired Hope Springs with Something’s Gotta Give.
Andrew Crump, who paired Red Hook Summer with The Wackness.
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!!! Your films for this week are:
The Expendables 2
ParaNorman
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Cosmopolis
Bonus: Kill List
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 (11 points)
Andy (8 points)
Squasher88 (8 point)
Andrew Crump (5 points)
Andrew Robinson (4 points)
Dan Heaton (4 points)
Trey (4 points)
Bubbawheat (3 points)
Helen Geib (3 points)
Aiden Redmond (2 points)
Courtney Small (2 points)
Fitz (1 point)
Andrew (8)
Wayne (8)
John (6)
Josh (6)
Jessica (5)
Justin (5)
Lauren (5)
Steve (5)
Dave Enkosky (4)
Sir Phobos (4)
EXPENDABLES 2 | THE FP (ridiculous levels of insanity and awesome dbl feature)
PARANORMAN | CORALINE (slick claymation children horror story dbl feature)
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN | EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (films about children that no one cares about dbl feature)
COSMOPOLIS | DEAD RINGERS (David Cronenberg fucks with your head dbl feature)
KILL LIST | KILL BILL (assassination dbl/trip feature)
Twitter: T_Lawson
August 17, 2012 5:24 am
The Expendables 2 / Inglourious Basterds
Paranorman / Corpse Bride
The Odd Life of Timothy Green / Meet John Doe
Cosmopolis / Collateral
Kill List / The Wicker Man (1973)
The Expendables 2 with Tropic Thunder (crazy action movies)
ParaNorman with Casper (ghosts)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green with Juno (Jennifer Garner wants kids)
Cosmopolis with The Muppets Take Manhattan (the big apple)
Kill List with Léon: The Professional (hitmen)
All business this week…
THE EXPENDABLES 2 with 2010′s THE LOSERS
PARANORMAN with THE FRIGHTENERS
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN with SWAMP THING
COSMOPOLIS with 1981′s ARTHUR
KILL LIST with MARTYRS
Twitter: ptsnob
August 17, 2012 9:31 am
The Expendables 2 with Missing in Action 2
Paranorman with Monster House
The Odd Life of Timothy Green with A.I.
Cosmopolis with After Hours
Kill List with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Twitter: agracru
August 17, 2012 11:12 am
The Expendables with The Avengers: two big-screen orgies of action heroic talent! (Of varying degrees of superness!)
ParaNorman with Monster Squad: kids versus tons of monsters!
The Odd Life of Timothy Green with Little Otik: a miracle child from the garden and a miracle child from a tree who eats everybody!
Cosmopolis with Seven Pounds: super rich guys giving their wealth and lives away!
Kill List with Collateral: I WAS going to say Wicker Man ’73, but goddammit Trey! Anyways, two hitman movies about button men going down the list to take out their targets, hitting various snags along the way.
Twitter: fandangogroover
August 22, 2012 10:43 am
The Expendables 2 with No Country for Old Men (old men!)
ParaNorman with Frankenweenie (just saw trailers together they look like a animated perfect comedy horror double bill)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green with The Box (a box that changes the lives of a family)
Cosmopolis with Game 6 (Don DeLillo double bill about people whose lives are crashing down around them while they are more concerned with other things)
Kill List with In Bruges (two very different British hit man movies)