Tue, 28th Feb '06, 8:10 am::
These might not be the best movies in the specific genres but they work great for movie marathons, especially since no one movie stands out against the rest by a huge margin. You don't want to see one amazing movie and then keep comparing four average movies to it. You want to equally enjoy all the movies. Also the above are the movies that I've seen and have DVDs of. There are so many other movie-marathons I can add to the list and I probably will later. But that's it for now.
I don't know what my next movie marathon would be but I can't wait. I already got the popcorn, chips & salsa, Red Bull, and Coke Zero :) Who's up for it?
Movie MarathonsTue, 28th Feb '06, 8:05 am::
So here's my list of Top 10 Movie Marathon Ideas with 4-6 movies each:
- View Askew Rapid-fire: Clerks, Mall Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma
- Nerd Alert: Tron, Hackers, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Antitrust
- Coen Classics: Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother - Where Art Thou
- Uncomfortable Embarrassment: Rushmore, Napolean Dynamite, Garden State, Lost in Translation
- Future's Farked: Gattaca, The Matrix, Brazil, Equilibrium, Twelve Monkeys, The Fifth Element
- Antiestablishmentarianism = 'Screw The Man': Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space, Falling Down
- Tarantino Torture: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I, Kill Bill II
- Pacino's Rage: Godfather I, Godfather II, Scarface, Carlito's Way
- Mind Jobs Mania: A Clockwork Orange, Memento, Cube, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich
- Hair-raising Heists: The Italian Job, Ronin, Ocean's Eleven, The Usual Suspects, The Thomas Crown Affair
Tue, 28th Feb '06, 7:15 am::
I think it's time for another movie marathon. I've realized that movie marathons are best when the movies are all from the same genre instead of being absolutely unrelated to each other. It's only once you inebriate yourself with the underlying theme of all the movies, that you actually start to see things from the director's and story-writer's point of view. A major reason why people don't appreciate a lot of movies (you know, the ones that you think are totally over-rated?) is because they just weren't in the right mood to see it. In a different mood, they might have loved it. If you just failed your math class, you're not going to enjoy A Beautiful Mind, Good Will Hunting, Pi, or Proof. But that'd make a pretty intense marathon for math geeks.