Save Valuable Time, Watch Two Movies at Once
(First, apologies for the delay since the last post. Just been busy as all heck… there are many reasons, but no excuses. I’ll be back on a regular schedule now.)
Speaking of being busy, even without the distractions of work and family, we now live in a world where you can no longer do it all, or even half, or a quarter, or a tenth of it all. Television in all it’s various incarnations produces more worthwhile programming than than you could watch if you did nothing else all week. Videogames have stunning graphics, complex and compelling storylines, and challenging online play. The Internet with RSS feeds and social network sites now struggles to filter the overwhelming flow of information into manageable chunks. Then you read about a making say, a Dixie Cup dodecahedron on MAKE.com, and then you’re spending all afternoon on that.
So who, I ask, has time to watch movies? No one. So with that in mind, I propose that we create a new version of TiVo or Bittorrent or Netflix that doesn’t just deliver us one movie at a time, but rather, two movies combined into one. A double feature in half the time!
To get this project started, I have compiled a list of movies, classic and contemporary, that would be prime candidates for the Geekfoolery DoubleFeature Process:
Look Who’s Talking Apocalypse Now
A Few Good Men and a Baby
Saving Private Benjamin
Fast and Furious Times at Ridgemont High
The One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with Jet Li)
The Attack of the Fried Green Killer Tomatoes
Annie, Get Your Top Gun
The Last Tango & Cash in Paris
Van Helsinging in the Rain
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and I
To Kill a Mockingbirdman of Alcatraz
Bram Stoker’s Draculambada… The Forbidden Dance
The Dirty Dozen Dancing
The Unbearable Lightness of Being There
The Trouble With Harry Potter
Dirty Harry and the Hendersons
Red Planet of the Apes
A Clockwork Orange County
Das Bootniks
Those Darn Cat People!
Sleeping with the Enemy of the State
Monster’s Ball, Inc.
Free Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Creature from the Blue Lagoon (turn’s out it was just Brooke Shield’s eyebrow)
Oh, Godzilla!
The Man Who Would Be King Kong
Some like it hot to trot?
The Day After Tomorrow Without a Mexican
2001: An Office Space Odyssey
JFK-19
Run Silent, Run Deep Throat
Taxi Driving Miss Daisy
The Little Mermaid in Manhattan
Dr. Strangelove Story, or being in love means never having to say your sorry for dropping the bomb
The Breakfast Club at Tiffany’s
The Falcon and Frosty the Snowman
Barefoot in Jurassic Park
Jurassic South Park
Kindergarten Robocop
The Breakfast Fight Club
Drunken Master and Commander
The Killing Field of Dreams
It’s Showtime at the Apollo 13!
The Maltese Falcon and Frosty the Snowman
The Godfather Knows Best
Uncle Buckaroo Banzai
The Bridge Over the River Kwai of Madison County
The Apple Dumpling Gangs of New York
I welcome your suggestions for addition candidates for the Geekfoolery DoubleFeature process.
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Top Gun with the Wind - for those balding folks.