Topic: Suggest a Commentary 2.0: The Suggestioning

Our previous thread for suggestions got pretty long and spread out, and it was also difficult to track our more popular suggestions or for new people to know what had been suggested before.

So. Starting a new one here, starting up top here with all our suggestions and ideas so far. This doesn't mean these are all going to happen -- there's about 8 years' worth of titles here, and new ones are coming out all the time -- but it will help you guys see if there are any gaps in our thinking, as well as to let us know which ones you really want to hear, since you might be more or less interested in some than we might assume.

I tried to organize these based on their most useful category --e.g. there are several Tim Burton films that are under "October Movies" rather than under "Burton," since they come more in handy categorized that way.



FRANCHISES


AVENGERS

Captain America
The Incredible Hulk


BACK TO THE FUTURE

Back to the Future Part 2
Back to the Future Part 3


BATMAN

Batman
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight Rises


BILL & TED

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey


BLADE

Blade
Blade 2
Blade: Trinity


CLASH OF THE TITANS

Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Wrath of the Titans

DIE HARD

Die Hard 2
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Live Free or Die Hard
A Good Day to Die Hard


THE GODFATHER

The Godfather
The Godfather Part 2
The Godfather Part 3


HARRY POTTER

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2


HELLBOY

Hellboy
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army


JAMES BOND

Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall


JURASSIC PARK

Jurassic Park 3


KARATE KID

Karate Kid 2010


KING KONG

King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1978)
King Kong (2005)


MAD MAX

Mad Max
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome


MEN IN BLACK

Men in Black 2
Men in Black 3


MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE

Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible 2
Mission: Impossible 3
Mission: Impossilble - Ghost Protocol


THE MUPPETS

The Muppet Movie
The Great Muppet Caper
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Muppet Treasure Island
The Muppets


THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


THE NEVERENDING STORY

The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story Part II


OZ

The Wizard of Oz
Return to Oz
Oz the Great and Powerful


PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides


PLANET OF THE APES

Planet of the Apes '68
Planet of the Apes '01
Rise of the Planet of the Apes


PREDATOR

Predator
Predator 2


ROBOCOP

Robocop
Robocop 2
Robocop 3


SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows


SPIDER-MAN

The Amazing Spider-Man


STAR TREK

Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek Into Darkness

SUPERMAN

Superman
Superman II
Superman II: The Donner Cut
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Superman Returns


THE MUMMY

The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor


TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze


TRANSFORMERS

Transformers: Dark of the Moon


UNDERWORLD

Underworld
Underworld: Evolution
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Underworld: Awakening


X-MEN

X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: First Class



FILMMAKERS


ARONOFSKY

Requiem for a Dream
The Wrestler
Black Swan


BURTON

Ed Wood
Mars Attacks!
Big Fish
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alice in Wonderland
Dark Shadows
Frankenweenie


THE COEN BROS

Fargo
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?


FINCHER

The Game
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


GILLIAM

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Time Bandits
Brazil
12 Monkeys
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


HITCHCOCK

Rope
Rear Window
Vertigo
Psycho


KUROSAWA

The Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress


PIXAR

Brave
Cars 2
Finding Nemo
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3


SCORSESE

Goodfellas
The Aviator
The Departed
Hugo


SHYAMALAAAAAAN!

Unbreakable
Signs
The Village
Lady in the Water
The Happening


SMITH

Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Jersey Girl
Cop Out
Red State


SPIELBERG

Schindler's List
Minority Report
Catch Me If You Can
The Adventures of Tintin


TARANTINO

Jackie Brown
Death Proof
Inglourious Basterds
Django Unchained


WACHOWSKI STARSHIP

Speed Racer
Cloud Atlas


ZEMECKIS

Forrest Gump



NON-FRANCHISE

I know some of these are part of franchises, but I'm just listing the first one as a starting point, especially in those cases where a sequel hasn't yet been released.

Also, I may divide these into genres or something, but for now, blah.

*Batteries Not Included
A Clockwork Orange
Adaptation
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Almost Famous
American Beauty
American Graffiti
American History X
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Argo
Battle Los Angeles
Battlefield Earth
Battleship
Be Kind Rewind
Beauty and the Beast
Being John Malkovich
Ben-Hur
Bicentennial Man
Big Trouble in Little China
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Boogie Nights
Book of Eli
Braveheart
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chicago
Chronicle
Citizen Kane
Collateral
Contagion
Cube
Death to Smoochy
Demolition Man
Detention
Disturbia
Domino
Dragonheart
Dumb and Dumber
Dune
Eagle Eye
Equilibrium
Face/Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Flight of the Navigator
Forrest Gump
Four Rooms
Freaks
Garden State
Gattaca
Gladiator
Godzilla
Gone with the Wind
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
Heat
High Fidelity
Hot Fuzz
How to Train Your Dragon
I, Robot
In Bruges
Iron Sky
JFK
Judge Dredd
Juno
K-PAX
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kung Fu Hustle
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
L.A. Confidential
Labyrinth
Last Action Hero
Lawrence of Arabia
Leap of Faith
Liar, Liar
Lockout
Lucky Number Slevin
Man on Fire
Mary Poppins
Memento
Moneyball
Mortal Kombat
Moulin Rouge
My Favorite Martian
Network
October Sky
Office Space
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Platoon
The Poseidon Adventure
Poseidon
Primer
Rain Man
Rambo (First Blood)
Rango
Real Genius
Real Steel
Robot & Frank
Rock of Ages
Rocky
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Romeo + Juliet
Saving Private Ryan
Seven Psychopaths
Shrek
Sin City
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Skyline
Snow White (1951)
Snow White and the Huntsman
Space Cowboys
Stardust
Stargate
Stranger Than Fiction
Super Mario Bros.
Synecdoche, NY
Taken
Tangled
Ted
Thank You For Smoking
That Thing You Do!
The Big Chill
The Black Hole
The Dark Crystal
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
The Emperor's New Groove
The Fugitive
The Game
The Green Mile
The Grey
The Host (Korean)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunger Games
The Iron Giant
The Last Starfighter
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
The Magnificent Seven
The Master
The Patriot
The Professional (Leon)
The Road to El Dorado
The Rocketeer
The Sandlot
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
The Shawshank Redemption
The Spirit
The Sting
The Ten Commandments
The TV Set
The Usual Suspects
Top Gun
Total Recall (1990)
Total Recall (2012)
Troy
True Lies
Ultraviolet
United 93
Van Helsing
What Dreams May Come
Willow
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Wreck-It Ralph



OCTOBER (SCARY) MOVIES

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
American Psycho
An American Werewolf in London
Attack the Block
Beetlejuice
Body Snatchers (1993)
The Invasion
Carrie (1976)
Child's Play
Cloverfield
Corpse Bride
Creepshow
Death Becomes Her
Donnie Darko
Dreamcatcher
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2007)
Hellraiser
Hocus Pocus
In the Mouth of Madness
Interview with the Vampire
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
A Nightmare on Elm St. (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm St. (2010)
Paranormal Activity
Let Me In
Misery
Paranorman
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary 2
Poltergeist
Prince of Darkness
Pumpkinhead
Rosemary's Baby
Saw
Scream
Sleepy Hollow
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Descent
The Exorcist
The Fog (1980)
The Fog (2005)
The Lost Boys
The Thing (2011)
The Twilight Zone
Tremors
Trick 'R' Treat
V/H/S
Young Frankenstein



HOLIDAY MOVIES

A Christmas Story
Bad Santa
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Polar Express
Home Alone
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Lethal Weapon
Love Actually
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Scrooged
The Santa Clause

Last edited by Dorkman (2013-03-11 01:26:35)

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So many choices! Any way to get some sort of polling thing set up?

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I'll be going back through and highlighting the ones we'll almost certainly get to before too long. If there's anything left off the list entirely you think deserves attention, or you have a burning desire for a commentary that doesn't wind up highlighted, let us know.

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A suggestion for October (which won't happen, since it's too obscure & low-budget): "The Serpent and the Rainbow" - Wes Craven voodoo horror flick with Bill Pullman from the late '80s.

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I would add Old Boy, Animal Kingdom, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to this list. What would the panel think of focusing on film by country for a little while - maybe expose Teague to Korean Cinema, for example.

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You do five Intermissions in a row and then offer a list of 200 movies you MIGHT do?

http://jennybeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/its-a-trap.jpg

Warning: I'm probably rewriting this post as you read it.

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This is actually just the teaser for the "Commentary X Kickstarter".

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I'm kind of disappointed that 'Muppets from Space' didn't make the Muppets list

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I just posted to the old thread yesterday and all the ones I mentioned were on this list so thats good for me. Just glancing at the list the ones Id love to hear that I didnt bring up are October sky and gremlins 2.

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I know I've suggested Ocean's 11 (both 1960 and 2001) but they're not on the list. sad

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Dave wrote:

I would add Old Boy, Animal Kingdom, and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to this list. What would the panel think of focusing on film by country for a little while - maybe expose Teague to Korean Cinema, for example.

In that case I recommend A Bittersweet Life.

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Lamer has good taste.

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A Bittersweet Life is superb, really like that one. A Tale of Two Sisters might be worth adding to the October list, I found that quite scary.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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May I suggest Night of the Creeps for October movies? Also, Gremlins 2 is not set at Christmas but Die Hard 2 is smile

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Might I suggest that you guys revisit Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and see if you want to add it to the list along with the other traditionally animated ones you've listed. I know Teague said in the Aladdin commentary he doesn't remember it that fondly, which I understand, because the music isn't of the showstopping variety. However, it's *immensely* powerful ("Hellfire", anyone?), and the film itself is Disney's most mature animated film--it's startlingly dark and adult (contains swearing, sexually frustrated clergyman that wants to rape the female lead, child murder, etc. etc.), and they'd never be able to get away with it now. If it weren't for the mood whiplash caused by the comic relief that the higher-ups insisted upon, it'd be Disney's finest film, and it's still my favorite despite that flaw.

Edit: Also, no love for Hitchcock's The Birds?

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I'd second that Hunchback recommendation. Always liked that one a lot myself.

Some other movies not listed above that I think it's worth considering:

The Untouchables
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Young Guns
Beverly Hills Cop
The Addams Family
Man on the Moon
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

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Whatever you do, please, please, please post a message about it on the forums, especially if it's not on the usual day (Sunday). Would have been nice to know you were doing a show yesterday tis all.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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I've plugged them a few times, but since they're still off the list I'll once again put out there The Cowboys, the one John Wayne movie everyone MUST see, and A Bridge Too Far. Come on, I need you guys to dive into a William Goldman film that was screwed up by someone, possibly him.

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Should I be surprised that none of the remaining Star Trek movies are in the list?

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fcw wrote:

Should I be surprised that none of the remaining Star Trek movies are in the list?

At least one of The Next Generation movies should definitely be there...

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No Space Jam?  sad

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fcw wrote:

Should I be surprised that none of the remaining Star Trek movies are in the list?

Nah, just an oversight on my part. I fix it now.

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iJim wrote:

No Space Jam?  sad

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Dorkman wrote:
fcw wrote:

Should I be surprised that none of the remaining Star Trek movies are in the list?

Nah, just an oversight on my part. I fix it now.

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Though even just a general discussion of the evolution of the franchise, from original to Abrams would satisfy me as well.
Also, looking forward to any of the Pirate sequels as well as

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Predators, especially as a study against the original.