Any suggestions for a movie marathon?

[Ron Obvious]

As I mentioned in another post, Mrs. Obvious and I will be celebrating Christmas in what has become a tradition here at Obvious Manor:

"Mrs. Obvious and I will once again spend Christmas day watching an all-day movie marathon of related movies. We've done all three Back to the Futures last year, all the Planet of the Apes the year before that and all Lord of the Ringses before that. We'll not shower or get dressed properly and gorge on brick oven-baked pizza."

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We've also done Star Trek, Alien(s), the Jurassic Park Series, and 2001/2010 in previous years, but I'm not sure what to watch this year. I realise this is late in the day, but I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Suggested by others so far:

The Godfather (vetoed by Mrs. Obvious)
The Hobbitses (suggestion greeted coldly by your humble correspondent)
Rocky (vetoed by both of us).

Anyone? Thanks in advance!

[FrankfurtCat]

1. The Bridget Jones movies, with Renee Zellwegger

The third one just came out on DVD

[FrankfurtCat]

2. The "Look Who's Talking" movies with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley?

[First Speaker]

3. The X-Men films...

...they have a neat vibe of their own, get right what the comics do so well--the sense of a long history behind the characters and their world--and have some big-league actors: Patrick Stewart, Ian Mckellen, Hugh Jackman, Franke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Hailie Berry...among many others.

[rug]

4. The Purge (2013)

The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

The Purge: Election Year (2016)

[Coventina]

5. I'd suggest an MST3K marathon, but it might not be to your taste.

If TV shows are on the table, I'd suggest a marathon of the 1980s Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series.

Especially "The Blue Carbuncle" which takes place at Christmastime.

[NobodyHere]

10. They could have a Gamera marathon!

[Coventina]

12. I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter!

[FSogol]

13. Or MST3k's Finnish Trilogy: The Day the Earth Froze, Jack Frost, & The Sword and the Dragon

Funniest movies, ever.

[Coventina]

14. I'm partial to "Mitchell!" which actually takes place at Christmastime.

(although that's never actually mentioned in the movie, but many of the sets and locations have Christmas decorations and Christmas trees).

"How to you like your scotch?"

"By the quart!"

[NobodyHere]

17. Such a fantastic movie...

[FSogol]

23. LOL, yeah, that's a great one. We're watching Rifftrax's Santa Claus later tonight. n/t

[Coventina]

24. The one that was made in Mexico and dubbed into English?

With the devil?


That one is so disturbing!
If I'd seen it as a kid I would have been totally traumatized.
But it is a great episode of MST3K!!

I'm tempted to watch it later myself.



But, I probably won't. I'll probably stick with my Christmas Eve tradition of
"The Blue Carbuncle" from the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series.

[FSogol]

25. I'll follow it up with either It's a Wonderful Life or White Christmas.

+1 good choice on the Jeremy Brett Holmes story.

PS. Answering your question on Santa, yes that's the one. Rifftrax did it in the theater in 2014.

[NobodyHere]

27. Or you could follow it up with Santa Clause Conquers the Martians

That and the Santa Clause episodes were gifted to people today who backed the MST3k kickstarter. So I know what I'll be watching tonight!

[NobodyHere]

20. Don't forget the Magical Voyage of Sinbad!

[yallerdawg]

6. Maybe Bond marathon.

The new guy.

Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre.

I'm watching El Rey Network's Kaiju Christmas Marathon!

[FrankfurtCat]

8. Oh, wow! I need to send that to my son...

[BuddyCa]

7. Kieślowski's "Dekalog"

alternating with "Fast and Furious" 1-9

[ailsagirl]

9. How about "The Thin Man" series of movies??

[Silver Gaia]

11. The Matrix trilogy

or a Star Wars marathon (conclude by going to see Rogue One later in the week)

[True Dough]

15. Have you ever checked out

Before Sunrise

Before Sunset

Before Midnight


My wife and I watched those in quick succession and we really enjoyed them. There's quite a bit of realism in regards to relationships, not just a bunch of hokey movie cliches.

Happy holidays, Obviously!

[lastlib]

16. Monty Python flicks...

Not really "related," perhaps.....but funnier'n hell.

Life of Brian (wrong manger! ), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Meaning of Life--Oh, GAWD, there's enough laughs in there to carry you through to next year's marathon!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. All paranoia

Three Days of the Condor

The Parallax View

Seven Days in May

Failsafe

The original The Manchurian Candidate

The remake of The Manchurian Candidate, better than the original and way creepier, off the dial paranoia

Season 1 of the X-Files

Selected episodes of The Twilight Zone, like:

the one where the aliens are transporting humans back to their home planet "to serve man"

For the finish, the episode with William Shatner on the airplane. Nothing anywhere can top that.

[USALiberal]

19. Shawshank Redemption, No Country For Old Men, And stupid comedy - Borat

[eppur_se_muova]

21. How about some nice old comedies ? Depressurize before the oncoming chaos strikes.

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Man in the White Suit

Arsenic and Old Lace

The King of Hearts

The last centers around an insane asylum, making it appropriate for the current transition.

[WinkyDink]

22. 1. All Hitchcock; 2. All John Candy ("Uncle Buck," "Planes, Trains,...," "Only the Lonely"); 3. The

Indiana Jones movies.

[PoliticAverse]

26. Road to marathon...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_...

[FrankfurtCat]

28. Those sound like great fun!

[CBHagman]

29. Several possible themes here.

Let's Eat! marathon featuring Babette's Feast, Like Water for Chocolate, and Eat Drink Man Woman.

Dysfunctional Family Christmas with The Lion in Winter and The Ref, in which kidnapping, imprisonment, blackmail, and actual threat of death figure.

It's a Wonderful Daniel Auteuil, featuring comedies such as The Closet, My Best Friend, and Après Vous.

Have fun!

[csziggy]

30. One of the channels we get has been having a Godzilla binge

My husband watched them all day today - I think it's the ElRey Channel (on Prism TV).

I watched Doctor Who all day until they started running the past Christmas specials this evening. Then I watched some DVR'd TV shows. Now I' watching Christmas movies - the original Die Hard followed by Die Hard 2!

[spiderpig]

31. If you don't object to bad taste (why else would you be on this forum?)

Put Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton on a loop.

[lovemydog]

32. You can pick a director

& watch all their movies.

Like:

John Huston
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorcese
John Ford
Francis Ford Copolla
Spike Lee
Sir Horatio Hornblower (j/k)
Wes Anderson
Katherine Bigelow
The Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson
Billy Wilder

[WinkyDink]

33. AND YOU DECIDED ON....?

[sarge43]

34. Film noir marathon?

Maltese Falcon, Murder, My Sweet, Scarlet Street, Postman Always Rings Twice and some neo noir - Body Heat, Chinatown