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[Ryujin]

Timur Bekmambetov's Nightwatch and Daywatch, probably followed by Sarik Andreasayan's Guardians...

Aside from the fact that the books the first two are based on were really entertaining, the movies have a very interesting visual flavor to them - they're very much Russian supernatural cop movies, and Guardians also has that same sort of not-your-typical-American style to it.

Yeah, the Cossack with the huge sickle scimitars and the bear are a dead giveaway

 

[TiQuinn]

A bit off topic, but this reminded me I've always wanted to watch Star Wars and Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, in that order, as a double feature.

I would throw in Casablanca as the third in this and go Casablanca, Hidden Fortress, Star Wars to show the build up of influences to the final movie.

 

[Nikosandros]

The "Dollars Trilogy" by Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood as "The Man With No Name".

• A Fistful of Dollars
• For a Few Dollars More
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

[Nikosandros]

Jodorowsky's Dune

I've watched this great documentary only relatively recently and I immediately bought it on BR. If Jodorowsky had managed to create his movie (an actual impossibility, I think) it would have been completely crazy but also awesome, IMO.

 

[Deset Gled]

Sidney Lumet:

• 12 Angry Men
• Fail Safe
• Network

You could do two different triple features for John Carpenter.

Horror theme;
Halloween
Prince of Darkness
In the Mouth of Madness

Sorry, but you have to replace PoD with The Thing. Or go full Lovecraftian trilogy with Prince of Darkness, The Thing, and Mouth of Madness.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Yeah, the Cossack with the huge sickle scimitars and the bear are a dead giveaway

Eh, super martial artists with funky swords are kinda everywhere, but bears with machine guns.... I think I would have been pissed off if the first Russian superhero movie didn't have a bear with a machine gun.
(I just like saying "bear with a machine gun"...)
And that was one of the things I liked about it - that it was a superhero film made with a Russian sensibility (lots of deep dialogue, different camera angles, etc.) and wasn't trying to be a knockoff of an American superhero movie.

 

[GreyLord]

I don't know...these three films seem to belong together...even though they don't have the same person behind them (two of them have Jim Henson's company though).

The Dark Crystal
The Neverending Story
Labyrinth

 

[Ryujin]

I don't know...these three films seem to belong together...even though they don't have the same person behind them (two of them have Jim Henson's company though).

The Dark Crystal
The Neverending Story
Labyrinth

I would say definitely yes. In fact I have a single DVD that has both "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth" on it.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Dark-Crystal-Labyrinth-Set/dp/B09DN32TK7

In a similar vein I would put the following three movies in a fantasy bundle:

• "The Princess Bride"
• "Stardust"
• "Legend"

 

[Richards]

Here's another triple feature I'd enjoy:

• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
• 20 Million Miles to Earth
• Jason and the Argonauts

It starts out with one of Ray Harryhausen's first movies with him in charge of the stop-motion animation (only one animated figure: the rhedosaurus) and continues on through his career (the second movie features the stop-motion Ymir alien, a spaceship, and an elephant), ending with the movie with one of the greatest stop-motion sequences ever filmed: Jason against the skeleton army that sprang up from the hydra's teeth. No real theme throughout this time, just watching a special effects guy getting better and better at his craft.

Johnathan

 

[MoonSong]

Hear me out. I call this one standing alone. Three movies that are later installments of a saga yet can be watched as standalone films about three men who carry a burden on their shoulders. I wanted to make ironic comedy a theme, but instead they go from happy endings to twisted cruel irony.

• Rocky Balboa
• The Dark Knight
• Army of Darkness (Directors Cut, no silly happy ending)