Yestderday was day one of "Lie on your side and watch movies" week (10 days, according to Dr., no more than 15 mins of computer per day).
I watched the "Matrix" trilogy. Much better than I expected. Understood things that I had missed watching them piecemeal.
Today: The Sergo Leone "Spaghetti Western" trilogy--Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
Tomorrow: Lord of the Rings, all three extended versions.
Sunday: I will watch all six "Star Wars" movies back-to-back-to...etc., starting with 1 and ending with six. I may not survive.
Suggestions for next week? And do NOT suggest Croc Dundee, Grease, Shrek, or and so on. You know who you are.
Road Warrior
ReplyDeleteGodfather if you skip the third one.
Spiderman
Though, Once Upon a Time in the West is a superior Leone movie, as is Once Upon a Time in America, so you could swap those out.
How about Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy?
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evil dead
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if you wanna go crazy, james bond
*crystal skull never happened
ReplyDeleteYou really must be bad off if your going to watch any of the star wars prequels.
ReplyDeleteI recommend Despicable me. The LMM is likely going to want to watch it with you.
Shawn of the dead is good too.
Billy Jack, 4 movies including Born Loser prequel. Not likely at NA Video, you can borrow my set (in Raleigh) or maybe get a quick ship from the entertaining http://www.billyjack.com/
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Seconding the Three Colors recommendation.
ReplyDeleteJohn Ford's Ft Apache, Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande.
Rodriguez Mexico Trilogy - El Mariachi, Desperado, Once upon a time in Mexico
There's that Korean trilogy of which Oldboy is a part.
Longer than trilogies, but let's just pretend: Die Hard, Alien.
What about a miniseries? Band of Brothers may be shorter timewise than LOTR extended versions.
TV!
ReplyDeleteThe Wire
Band of Brothers
Californication
Rome
Deadwood
Dexter
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
like movies, only ... popcorny? That is, when one is done, you ... must ... have ... another.
Comedy Classics:
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Raising Arizona
Superbad
This is Spinal Tap
Or you could lie back and spend four hours on Patton.
The Decalogue is also excellent
ReplyDeleteTry the SciFi TV station version of the Dune series.
ReplyDeleteTry The Tudors, which would give you about 40 hours of English history. Showtime has it, and Netflix.
All three Godfather movies.
How about the Hope-Crosby "Road" movies?
Get crazy and do all the movies made from Stephen King stories. There must be 30.
A pair, "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals", which give you about 8 hours of the Civil War.
For the highly educated, do some Ken Burns series, "Jazz", "The Civil War," or "Baseball."
All 11 Star Trek movies. I know some of them aren't any good, but still...
ReplyDeleteChildren of Men, Inception, 12 Monkeys, Videodrome, The Prestige.
ReplyDeleteI will second the motion for the Mexico Trilogy.
ReplyDeleteDexter is the Shiz. Time will definitely fly watching Dexter. I recommend season 4 specifically
ReplyDeleteMel Brooks films!
ReplyDeleteI'd second Dexter. Great writing, but very dark.
ReplyDeleteBourne trilogy.
The Firefly TV series by Joss Whedon, followed by the Serenity movie.
Big Bang Theory TV series.
Coen Brothers movies
ReplyDelete"Curb Your Enthusiasm"
Wallace & Gromit
ReplyDeleteHannibal Trilogy in this order...
ReplyDelete"Hannibal Rising" (2006)
"Manhunter" (1986)
"Silence of the Lambs" (1988)
Could then watch the Manhunter re-make, Red Dragon (2002) which is pretty good, just for fun.
You could watch "Hannibal" (2001)for the scenes with Hopkins but the film gets a D+ at best for a bad performance by whoever the chick is that plays Starling...
John Adams miniseries from HBO.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'll second Firefly series and Serenity.
To go with your own eye theme, maybe Minority Report. At least, you are better off than Tom Cruise in that one.
Rambo films
ReplyDeleteand not a trilogy, but weirdly interesting: Blood In, Blood Out.
Hey! Whassamatta Shrek?! When my boys were in day care, we bought Shrek and their view was, we got home and they watched Shrek while I cooked dinner. For three months solid. dave.s.
ReplyDeleteLawrence of Arbia,
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And a second to PeeDub's Band of Brothers.
The Jerk and The Man With Two Brains
ReplyDeleteor maybe in honor of Leslie Nielsen's recent passing, the Airplane & Naked Gun movies.
Shrek is like the Matrix. Too bad their creators died before Hollywood could make any sequels. I'm sure they would have been quite good...
ReplyDeleteFor a sci-fi fix: All five series (+ specials) of the Doctor Who relaunch (Doctors 9-11); most of this can be streamed on Netflix. And I third Firefly + Serenity.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of going with the Cohen Brothers too.
I've gotten strangely addicted to Psych. It's lightweight but I enjoy the metacomedy. Sean Spencer is kinda like a better-adjusted (but much more slacker) Abed from Community.
Hoping for a good report from the doctor soon!
All Rocky movies except part 5.
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Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.
Anything with Steve Martin.
Die Hard 1 to 4.
Old episodes of Frasier.
Ditto The Simpsons.
I think that'll do.
When the "Civil War" series was first released, my dad had a terrible flu and watched it from beginning to end. Incidentally, he also had a retinal detachment, and although the recovery process was difficult, he got through it just fine. I'm sure it will turn out ok.
ReplyDeleteThe Francis Urquhart trilogy - House of Cards, To Play the King, and The Final Cut.
ReplyDeleteOnly two of the three Blood and Ice Cream movies have been made so far, but I think you might like them. If you really need a third comedy to go with them, I go with the strange but technically Christmas-y "In Bruges."
ReplyDeleteVengeance Trilogy: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance
ReplyDeleteThis may be to late but I recommend a Pacino three-pack:
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Dog Day Afternoon
Scarface
Sea of Love is a good alternative if one of the others is not available
...it is remarkable that this is the same actor who made Author! Author!