What three unrelated movies make a perfect set?

spittingimage@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 73 points –
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

The Day After Tomorrow

Snowpiercer

If you know you know

The video on Snowpiecer being connected to Wonka is what convinced me to watch Snowpiecer. Fun movie

Decent TV show as well.

Is it the same idea? I saw it was a show but haven't looked into it at all.

Similar premise but very different tone. The show is more of a survival drama while the movie is much more surrealist.

I'll check it out, thanks.
If you're looking for surrealist survival drama check out Scavengers Reign.

I'm going to break the rules a little bit and share four.

In order:

  1. Dolores Claiborne (1995)

  2. Misery (1990)

  3. Elf (2003)

  4. The Lego Movie (2015)

Here is my fan theory (possible spoilers):
::: spoiler spoiler A traumatized and desperate woman is driven nearly to insanity dealing with a rough life in north eastern America. After losing her family life, she retreats to a mountain cabin to live out her days alone and at no risk of ever being taken advantage of again. As a coping mechanism, she develops and unhealthy relationship with written fiction.

**

The writer who escapes moves far away and takes on a new identity working as a publisher of children's books in New York city (no chance of crazies kidnapping you over children's books, right?). He thought he was finished dealing with crazy people until a man claiming to be both his son and a christmas elf are thrust into his life.

**

Reconnecting with family and assimilating back into society has turned Buddy, who has since dropped that moniker, into a respectable, hard working family man. He wants to give his children the normal childhood he was never allowed to have. Although he still clings to some old habits. After suffering the trauma of having his custom built Lego city crushed by his manager back in Gimbels department store years prior, he is now healing by constructing an elaborately crafted Lego city in the basement of his home. Only this time meticulously cementing each piece into place.

His now wife, knowing his past, is accepting of the hobby. But his own children, with whom he hasn't shared his upbringing, aren't so understanding. :::

You could work Stranger Than Fiction in there, too. Buddy the Elf IS the character the dad is writing in his children's novel in New York...and his son!

There will be blood

Unforgiven

No country for old men

This is a trilogy that'll give you a good idea about America's relationship with violence. At least until they make a (good) Blood Meridian movie

At least until they make a (good) Blood Meridian movie

The Judge is just going to be impossible to cast unless The Big Show is willing to shave everything and play the part

Film is a different medium than literature. If I were a casting director, I'd be laser focused on finding an actor with the chops, and let the makeup/effects guys worry about physical appearance. Have you seen Barron Harkonnen in the new Dune films?

I could picture someone like Peter Weller playing The Judge. Or maybe Ed Harris.

Yeah, if they had the body shape... but The Judge is like 7 foot 280lbs. When I read it the second time I though, oh who might have that same build so I can imagine how it works.... Those big fucking wrestlers like The Big Show are the right size, except if they were bald and look like a baby/man

  • Total Recall
  • Dark City
  • Inception

And:

  • Memento
  • The Notebook
  • 50 First Dates

I like the flow of the second group, but I worry it'll be entirely forgettable. Hyuk.

No, I like it: serious, sappy, happy, but always a love story.

If Dark City is the lynchpin (and an inspired choice, I agree) I might put it with the Matrix and ... Gunkata. Or maybe V for Vendetta.

the rumor around hollywood is that a party was trying to come up with a movie impossible to make a sequel to, and then titanic came up and then someone said they could do it and started writing inception.

so maybe titanic then inception and then maybe strange days?

Inception is almost 100% someone remembering someone else's trying to describe The Neuromancer. The link is the top, but it is a throwing star in The Neuromancer. The Matrix is also trying to do it but they did it in a more personal way

1 more...
  1. WaLL-E
  2. Big Hero 6
  3. Terminator 2

Animated Rock Fantasy

  • Heavy Metal 1981
  • Rock & Rule 1983
  • Transformers 1986

Dark Fantasy

  • Beastmaster 1982
  • Krull 1983
  • Legend 1985

Three modern Westerns, in order:

Sicario

Hell or High Water

Wind River

  • The Lawnmower Man
  • eXistenZ
  • Avalon
  • I, Robot
  • The Matrix
  • (prequel) The Terminator

eXistenZ! That movie is so weird, but I love it.

  • Stardust
  • The Golden Compass
  • Hook

I’m pretty sure Charles Foster Kane was gay, only married beards, & couldn’t come to terms with his attraction to Leland, leading to heart break…

As a fan of happy endings, I suggest:

  • Citizen Kane
  • The Proposal
  • Grumpy Old Men