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Any good ideas for themed movie nights? Someone on a recent post mentioned a Steven Seagal movie marathon, which could be interesting. A friend of mine has maybe 6-8 people over weekly for "bad movie night" which is their version of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

A group of friends and I have been pushing around the idea of a "crazy Swayze" weekend, where we watch such epic Patrick Swayze films as ROADHOUSE or POINT BREAK.

What movie nights have you had, or discussed having?

I forgot about Red Dawn, definitely "Crazy Swayze Weekend" worthy...

lord of the rings marathons are where its at, baby http://www.hlj.me.uk/Vids/PM's%20LOTR%20marathon.wmv :D

or star trek marathons... or star wars! or indiana jones!


not much imagination here... err... jim carrey theme?

Come on, people. A themed movie night year isn't complete without the hilarity of a Monty Python or even jsut Pythonesque night. That means the Python films, and things like "A Fish Called Wanda" as well, and so on.

I agree with Metal on the Star Wars Marathon..... although the original 3 make a perfect marathon....

John Hughes movie marathon, all the classic 80's teen flicks like Breakfast club and Pretty in Pink

Come on, people. A themed movie night year isn't complete without the hilarity of a Monty Python or even jsut Pythonesque night. That means the Python films, and things like "A Fish Called Wanda" as well, and so on.

I hear that A fish called Wanda is one of the worst movies ever made.... Can't say I have personally seen it. Is it really worth watching??? (serious question)

I hear that A fish called Wanda is one of the worst movies ever made.... Can't say I have personally seen it. Is it really worth watching??? (serious question)
Its worth watching, yes. No way in hell is it one of the worst ever made... unless you don't like Pythonesque humour or the British sense of humour, in which case you're dead to me anyway. :p

Sergio Leone night!

guess I will have to give it a chance.... if this movie turns out to be horrible, I am throwing a fish and chips cup right in your face....

Come on, people. A themed movie night year isn't complete without the hilarity of a Monty Python or even jsut Pythonesque night. That means the Python films, and things like "A Fish Called Wanda" as well, and so on.
Could just make one HUGE marathon and watch every episode of the Flying Circus. That's like 30-35 hours of great humor.

I hear that A fish called Wanda is one of the worst movies ever made.... Can't say I have personally seen it. Is it really worth watching??? (serious question)

It isn't the most brilliant movie ever made, but it is definately worth watching, yes.
I in fact wonder where you heard that rumour - because even IMDB gives it 7,7/10. It also won an oscar and 7 other awards..

Roadhouse was such a good movie. I'll have to watch it again soon.


We had a Monty Python night once. We watched Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, And Now for Something Completely Different.

We've also had an Indiana Jones night, and a Tom Clancy night.

Snuff movie marathon?

Snuff movie marathon?

Wow, less than 20 posts, and someone mentions snuff films.. How about scat porn?

I joined a movie club in middle school headed by a favorite male teacher. All he showed us were Barbara Streisand movies.

...on a completey unrelated note, I escorted his blind wife around the school for Disabilities Day.

:D

You could do baseball, there are plenty of good movies in that theme: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Major League, the Sandlot, etc.

college movie night?

animal house
porkys
road trip
err... american pie?


i'm sure there are more :)

George Romero's Zombie Tetralogy,
or the three Ginger Snaps,
or - if you really want to be frightened - Spongebob.

You could do baseball, there are plenty of good movies in that theme: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Major League, the Sandlot, etc.
But not the Sandlot 2, piece of shit movie exact copy of the original in all notable respects.

Any good ideas for themed movie nights? Someone on a recent post mentioned a Steven Seagal movie marathon, which could be interesting. A friend of mine has maybe 6-8 people over weekly for "bad movie night" which is their version of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

A group of friends and I have been pushing around the idea of a "crazy Swayze" weekend, where we watch such epic Patrick Swayze films as ROADHOUSE or POINT BREAK.

What movie nights have you had, or discussed having?
What about cult classic film night? Mars Attacks, The Warriors, Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Sergio Leone night!
Listen to this and follow the advice!!! http://www.kiki-net.de/smilies/boese/guns.gif

Handful of Dollars, Few Dollars more, Good, Bad & Ugly - and if you ain't had enough - top it off with Once upon a Time.

Man, do I love those movies.

Other than that - LotR and the complete SW (I, II, Clones I+II, III, IV, V, VI)

Back to the Future in reverse order.

lord of the rings marathons are where its at, baby http://www.hlj.me.uk/Vids/PM's%20LOTR%20marathon.wmv :D

or star trek marathons... or star wars! or indiana jones!


not much imagination here... err... jim carrey theme?

They all sucked except the Jim Carrey idea. For me it's a Matt & Trey fiesta. Cannibal! The Musical, BASEketball and Team America, all separated by intermittent episodes of Southpark (my personal suggestion is Woodland Critter Christmas and Scott Tenorman must die - you don't want a musical about a cannibal followed directly afterwards by an episode with cannibalism in it).

lord of the rings marathons are where its at, baby http://www.hlj.me.uk/Vids/PM's%20LOTR%20marathon.wmv :D

or star trek marathons... or star wars! or indiana jones!


not much imagination here... err... jim carrey theme?

They all sucked except the Jim Carrey idea. For me it's a Matt & Trey fiesta. Cannibal! The Musical, BASEketball and Team America, all separated by intermittent episodes of Southpark (my personal suggestion is Woodland Critter Christmas and Scott Tenorman must die - you don't want a musical about a cannibal followed directly afterwards by an episode with cannibalism in it).

What about cult classic film night? Mars Attacks, The Warriors, Rocky Horror Picture Show.

If you're going to do a themed cult film night, how about a gender-bender cult film night: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, La Cage aux Folles, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and RHPS


Sergio Leone night!
Listen to this and follow the advice!!!

Handful of Dollars, Few Dollars more, Good, Bad & Ugly - and if you ain't had enough - top it off with Once upon a Time.

Man, do I love those movies.

Good indeed. Alternately, Make it a themed weekend: do Kurosawa's films first then the western remakes. Run Seven Samurai and the Magnificent Seven one night and Yojimbo, Sanjuro, A Fistful of Dollars, etc. all the next day.

Back to the Future in reverse order.

Heh.

Mafia/organized crime night...casino, godfather, res. dogs
"I hate work" night...Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty
Matrix
Hannibal
Mel Brooks
Soon possibly a Pirates night
Indiana Jones
Bond
Irish...Boondock Saints
w00t DRUGZ night...Requiem For A Dream, Trainspotting
I'm high night...Fantasia, Willy Wonka, etc.
Cult night...Rocky Horror, Donnie Darko, MST3k
Asylum night...One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Beautiful Mind
and of course, Chick Fick night...

Irish...Boondock Saints, Braveheart

Braveheart? Irish? Braveheart?

Braveheart? Irish? Braveheart?
mreh. my bad...sorry, I'm kinda distracted right now...
granted, even boondocks is a stretch there...

w00t DRUGZ night...Requiem For A Dream, Trainspotting

Why depress yourself so? :p

Why depress yourself so? :p
haha...because depression and drinking mix well?

...no, that's not it

...or star wars! or indiana jones!

Or to make it easy anything with harrison ford in it

Horror movies for Halloween.. never get around to it tho.. :(

Why depress yourself so? :p

Espically when you could watch "Fear and loathing in Los Vegas", "Spun" and "Homegrown" instead.

shakespeare-but-not (okay, I'm a loser. shut up). All movies that take a shakespeare plotline. West side story, Throne of blood, lion king, 10 things I hate about you, she's the man, Richard III (this one uses the proper script, but is interpreted very differently)

Mafia/organized crime night...casino, godfather, res. dogs
"I hate work" night...Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty
w00t DRUGZ night...Requiem For A Dream, Trainspotting
I'm high night...Fantasia, Willy Wonka, etc.
and of course, Chick Fick night...
Mafia, can I use Sopranos?
"I hate work" - *nods*
Drug movies are great. Both of them, great.
High - Dazed and Confused, Friday
Chick Flick.. hmm.. The Notebook, Stepmom, Steel Magnolia

*fades away*

Or how about a wicked classic animation night: Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Heavy Metal, and The Wall.

guess I will have to give it a chance.... if this movie turns out to be horrible, I am throwing a fish and chips cup right in your face....
If you turn out to find the movie horrible, I shall to seriously consider that you might suffer from some rare and tragic 'humour-dysfunction'...

For a theme night, how about a bunch of those really old kooky 'scared straight' anti-drug morality films from the 50's?

Power of media corrupts absolutely night-Face in the Crowd, Network, and Bamboozled.

Blacklist night, heros and villians-The Front, On the Waterfront, episodes of You Are There and Adventures of Robin Hood, and King in New York. You could look up the signifigance of those films to the subject matter or I could just tell you. But you should look it up.

70s and 80s Urban Fantasy-The Warriors, Rock n' Roll Highschool, Streets of Fire, Wild Thing There are probably a bunch I'm leaving out of that but it took me freakin' forever to remember the name of Streets of Fire...

Or how about a wicked classic animation night: Fritz the Cat, Wizards, Heavy Metal, and The Wall.
The Wall isn't animated enough, it would have to be Streetfight or American Pop, which I believe would actually make it a Ralph Bakshi night...

Power of media corrupts absolutely night-Face in the Crowd, Network, and Bamboozled.

Blacklist night, heros and villians-The Front, On the Waterfront, episodes of You Are There and Adventures of Robin Hood, and King in New York. You could look up the signifigance of those films to the subject matter or I could just tell you. But you should look it up.

70s and 80s Urban Fantasy-The Warriors, Rock n' Roll Highschool, Streets of Fire, Wild Thing There are probably a bunch I'm leaving out of that but it took me freakin' forever to remember the name of Streets of Fire...
something told me you'd pop into this thread and give a good input. I'll have to remember those...

something told me you'd pop into this thread and give a good input. I'll have to remember those...
Ah, thanks man. Though some of those nights might be too academic to be all that fun, unless you're into that kind of thing.

Some more I thought of, once again, probably more for me than anything:

Jazz Night: Bird, 'Round Midnight, Mo' Better Blues, Kansas City, and maybe The Cotton Club.

German expresionist night-Metropolis, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M.

Future game-Rollerball, Running Man, Series 7 I was actually hoping I could remember another one but I can't. It involved motorcycles in an apoclyptic setting. OOoohh-

Survivin' the Apocolypse-Road Warrior, A Boy and His Dog*, Twelve Monkeys, and Tank Girl

Ray Harryhausen experience-Jason & the Argonauts, Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, and for his inspiration-the 1933 King Kong.

Three nights of car movies-
Good Racing movies (short night, except one of them is really long) Grand Prix, Winning and Le Mans.

Moonshine runner night-Thunder Road and Moonrunners (try to find out what the latter became...truth be told, good luck finding that movie...)

Ridiculous car chase Vanishing Point, the original Gone in 60 Seconds and Driver. And of course Bullitt if only 45 minutes into it...

Got stuck on the car thing there...

Ah, thanks man. Though some of those nights might be too academic to be all that fun, unless you're into that kind of thing.
There is a good chance that the next time I need movie suggestions, I will be harassing you. You have fairly similar taste, and a wider knowledge of the field.

And academic is never too bad. I'm the one who suggested movies based of shakespeare. And I've done those before. Many times. Throne of Blood has been my favorite thusfar.

A friend of mine has hosted several Noir nights, which have been more or less successful. He's amassing quite a collection: Blade Runner, Laura, Slingblade, Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, etc. There are oodles and oodles or Noir out there.

For something completely different, (well, not really), I've been meaning to have a Tim Burton night for a while, too. Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, etc.

Of course, my inner five-year-old pipes up with the idea for a fairy tale night: Labyrinth, Tenth Kingdom, Princess Bride, etc.

Wow, less than 20 posts, and someone mentions snuff films.. How about scat porn?
How about flat corn?

The Wall isn't animated enough, it would have to be Streetfight or American Pop, which I believe would actually make it a Ralph Bakshi night...

70s and 80s Urban Fantasy-The Warriors, Rock n' Roll Highschool, Streets of Fire, Wild Thing There are probably a bunch I'm leaving out of that but it took me freakin' forever to remember the name of Streets of Fire...

Jazz Night: Bird, 'Round Midnight, Mo' Better Blues, Kansas City, and maybe The Cotton Club.

Future game-Rollerball, Running Man, Series 7 I was actually hoping I could remember another one but I can't. It involved motorcycles in an apoclyptic setting. OOoohh-

Survivin' the Apocolypse-Road Warrior, A Boy and His Dog*, Twelve Monkeys, and Tank Girl

For a Ralph Bakshi night I'd include Cool World and Lord of the Rings. I haven't seen Streetfight or American Pop, or Coonskin - yet...

70s and 80s Urban Fantasy and Jazz Night sound good (Streets of Fire and the Warriors are classics - especially the Warriors).

Future Game - How about Death Race 2000?

Post-apocalyptic - How about Hell Comes to Frog Town, and maybe Escape From New York and On the Beach???

And a few fresh suggestions:

Chinatown Exploitation Night: King of Chinatown, Big Trouble in Little China, Year of the Dragon, and I know I'm missing a few...

Western Yakuza Movie Night: Black Rain (I work near a couple of the downtown Osaka locales used in it :)), Showdown in Little Tokyo, Sydney Pollack' The Yakuza, Brother, Kill Bill, and Into the Sun.

Genuine Yakuza Eiga Night: anything off this site that you can find in English http://www.supertoni.ch/

I have of a lot of other riffs on those themes if you want...

Then there's a whole heap of title relation themes:

Big and Little: Big Trouble in Little China, Little Big Man, Little Big League

Mama: Big Bad Mama, Throw Mama From the Train, Black Mama, White Mama, etc

You get the idea...

Any good ideas for themed movie nights? Someone on a recent post mentioned a Steven Seagal movie marathon, which could be interesting. A friend of mine has maybe 6-8 people over weekly for "bad movie night" which is their version of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

A group of friends and I have been pushing around the idea of a "crazy Swayze" weekend, where we watch such epic Patrick Swayze films as ROADHOUSE or POINT BREAK.

What movie nights have you had, or discussed having?

Monty Python-athon

Did anyone mention a brat pack night?

Did anyone mention a brat pack night?
SilverCities' John Hughes movie marathon (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11040142&postcount=6)?


And one more idea before bed - a night at the circus: Marx Bro's At the Circus, The Greatest Show on Earth, Dumbo, Freaks, Circus World, and whatever else you can get your hands on...
(If you have the right videos, you could do a weekend at the circus with horror, drama, and comedy...)

I once watched the entire Evangelion series straight...THAT was fun.

Muppet Night

Musical Night

SilverCities' John Hughes movie marathon (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11040142&postcount=6)?


And one more idea before bed - a night at the circus: Marx Bro's At the Circus, The Greatest Show on Earth, Dumbo, Freaks, Circus World, and whatever else you can get your hands on...
(If you have the right videos, you could do a weekend at the circus with horror, drama, and comedy...)
Is "Freaks" the "one of us, one of us" movie? That movie scares me.

I also suggest Murder Comedy night~ Arsenic And Old Lace, Drowning Mona, Head Above Water, and The Whole Nine Yards. You could play Clue, too.

How about an artist night?

Girl with a pearl earring, etc..

Is "Freaks" the "one of us, one of us" movie? That movie scares me.

The one and only, with a cast of real circus "freaks".

"We told you we had living, breathing monstrosities. You laughed at them, yet but for the accident of birth, you might be even as they are! They did not ask to be brought into the world, but into the world they came. Their code is law unto themselves. Offend one and you offend them all!"

A video store here at IU is perfect for bad movie night. It has entire walls labeled, and I'm not kidding, Insects: unusually large and/or numerous , Zombies, Blacksploitation, Amorphous creatures and/or menaces, etc. It's a fantastic store though, lots of indie and foreign films as well as a treasure trove of B-movies from the 50's 60's and 70's

A video store here at IU is perfect for bad movie night. It has entire walls labeled, and I'm not kidding, Insects: unusually large and/or numerous , Zombies, Blacksploitation, Amorphous creatures and/or menaces, etc. It's a fantastic store though, lots of indie and foreign films as well as a treasure trove of B-movies from the 50's 60's and 70's

Sweet. http://forums.sirstevesguide.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

For a Ralph Bakshi night I'd include Cool World and Lord of the Rings. I haven't seen Streetfight or American Pop, or Coonskin - yet...

70s and 80s Urban Fantasy and Jazz Night sound good (Streets of Fire and the Warriors are classics - especially the Warriors).

Future Game - How about Death Race 2000?

Post-apocalyptic - How about Hell Comes to Frog Town, and maybe Escape From New York and On the Beach???
Cool World made me want an Indian motorcycle. Kinda random, but there it is...

I wanted to build a theme around Deathrace 2000 but got distracted. Roger Corman car movies was a thought, it would include the original Fast and the Furious, which not suprisingly is better than the modern version (which is not a remake, doesn't claim to be-just wanted to be clear).

Escape From New York would be a solid replacement for those who don't like Tank Girl.

I dig the Big/Little theme, that's fucking fantastic.

Serials, then and now?
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe serials and then the 1980 film, The Shadow Strikes and then the Alec Baldwin The Shadow, Dick Tracy serial then movie. Though not actually the same character, Radar Men from the Moon featuring Cpt Cody aka The Rocket Man and The Rocketeer.

Escape From New York would be a solid replacement for those who don't like Tank Girl.

Tank Girl was just OK for me.


I dig the Big/Little theme, that's fucking fantastic.

:D

Serials, then and now?
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe serials and then the 1980 film, The Shadow Strikes and then the Alec Baldwin The Shadow, Dick Tracy serial then movie. Though not actually the same character, Radar Men from the Moon featuring Cpt Cody aka The Rocket Man and The Rocketeer.

Reminds me of an old series of mix tapes I did collecting "extreme" and eccentric covers - for example Frank Sinatra's "My Way" - Paul Anka's "Comme d'habitude", Frank, Gypsy Kings, Elvis, Sex Pistols, a Japanese Enka version, Shang Shang Typhoon, and a Jazz er-hu group.

you could do a "greatest x-mas movies you didnt know were xmas movies" marathon

movies like gremlins, die hard, Santa conquerors the Martians, and of course Jack Frost (not the Keaton one)

im sure there are others but none i can think of now.

"What happened to your hand?!" night:

Army of Darkness
Hook
Edward Scissorhands
Kingpin
The Fugitive

Addiction Night

Coffee and Cigarettes
Blow
Traffic
Reefer Madness

a bruce campbell marathon


starting with the evil dead series followed by mchales navy, darkman, terminal invasion, and other classics

lord of the rings marathons are where its at, baby http://www.hlj.me.uk/Vids/PM's%20LOTR%20marathon.wmv :D



Ha! That was great! We had LOTR marathon last night....well tried too. We got through 1 and 2 but I started to fade when Return of the King began so we will continue tonight.


Orks are the nastiest things ever btw.