Ideas, please!

[shadesong]

We want to do a repeat of Kung Fu Night, but it has been suggested that we don't necessarily need to stick to kung fu movies - we could use other themes.

So I am looking for theme suggestions. Theme suggestions should be 2-3 movies per theme, maybe 4, but y'all tend to trickle in late, so unless we start at 6...

Ideas so far:

"Inspired by Shakespeare": 10 Things I Hate About You & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"Wacky Pseudo-bands": This is Spinal Tap & SpiceWorld

Any more? :)

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Pulp movies:

[melintur.livejournal.com]

Indiana jones trilogy,
Mummy Movies,
Alan quatermain & lost cities of gold,
Big trouble in little china,
etc...

Mysterious Briefcase

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Ronin
Pulp Fiction
Kiss Me Deadly
Repo Man (OK, the trunk is only a M.B. in spirit...)

The Magnificent Twenty-Eight

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

The Magnificent Seven
The Return of the Secaucus Seven
Seven
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Re: The Magnificent Twenty-Eight

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*great* ideas, both sets! :)


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Re: The Magnificent Twenty-Eight

[yendi]

Not to mention Robin and the Seven Hoods and the Seven Samurai, both of which I'd take before the Secaucus Seven. And Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (does that count as 14 by itself?) as a reserve.

Re: The Magnificent Twenty-Eight

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Actually, when I originally did this one in college, I threw in Fellini's 8 1/2 just to confuse people. ;)

Re: The Magnificent Twenty-Eight

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oooh, there we go: 8 1/2, and 9 & 1/2 Weeks.


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Re: The Magnificent Twenty-Eight

[yendi]

And Naked Gun 2 1/2 to finish out the night.

Philip K Dick night!

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Bladerunner
Screamers
Total Recall
Drug Taking and the Arts

Re: Philip K Dick night!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ah, but to do it *right*, we'd need to wait for Minority Report to come out on DVD.

That movie rocked *so* much.

Re: Philip K Dick night!

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Did you see Imposter? I haven't, yet.

Re: Philip K Dick night!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Nope - I really ought to....

[yendi]

We could add Blues Brothers (the original, not the blasphemous thing released a few years back under the guise of a sequel) and Meet the Ruttles to the pseudo-band list.

As for other themes:

Paranoid horror: The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (any version), The Faculty, The PuppetMasters

Yaphet Kotto Must Die: Alien, Live and Let Die, The Running Man (okay, so I don't think he died in the last one, but he almost did)

Bill Paxton is Fucked Up: Near Dark, Aliens, Trespass, just about anything else he's done.

Pass the Ammo: Rambo, Hard Boiled, Hot Shots Part Deux.

Psychotic Washed-up Movie Starlets...

[i-get-stabby.livejournal.com]

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and Mommie Dearest.

or Ring x 3 (Japanese Horrorfest)

[i-get-stabby.livejournal.com]

Ring
Ring 2
Ring 0

Re: or Ring x 3 (Japanese Horrorfest)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Don't have those, but we could get them...

...love the icon. :)


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Re: or Ring x 3 (Japanese Horrorfest)

[i-get-stabby.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

If you can find them, they're definetly worth the rental.

Re: or Ring x 3 (Japanese Horrorfest)

[yendi]

I've heard great things about Ring -- haven't heard anything about the sequels.

Re: or Ring x 3 (Japanese Horrorfest)

[i-get-stabby.livejournal.com]

As far as sequels go, you'd be hard pressed to find better.
They stayed consistent and go all the required original actors.

Werewolves

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

Movies with stars that are hairy, like me.

Silver Bullet
Bad Moon
Ginger Snaps
An American Werewolf in London

OR

"Stay out of the Greenhouse"

Little Shop
Day of the Triffods
Evil Dead (for the naughty vines)