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An interesting Westerns double bill would be The Searchers and Unforgiven. As a critically successful as Unforgiven was, it did not revive what was an extremely popular genre. Twenty years on, and Westerns are a dying if not dead breed (though I personally loved the new True Grit).

It might make for an interesting Intermission one day - why certain genres come and go. Why do fantasy films struggle to be successful (LOTR is the exception) and why do others have periods of success every few decades (like WW2 movies).

My own suggestion would be to do Green Lantern, since I've only just now seen it and think it's right in that sweet spot for DiF discussion. Surprisingly, I didn't dislike it and thought aside from such huge plot holes, it was entertaining. It's certainly better than Transformers 3 (which could just as well be my mantra these days, since that film has lowered the bar so much).

I've not seen many Westerns, but judge them against the genre's state of the art.

Last edited by Dave (2011-12-09 17:26:10)

I don't think you guys have done a Coen Bros. film?

Sup?

Also, how about some more (Pan's Labyrinth the only one?) foreign films? Let the Right One In, for example, La Femme Nikita.

Oh, and Heathers

The Graduate

Some Kevin Smith?

Last edited by Mr. Pointy (2011-12-29 08:08:02)

Having enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I would also be interested in DiF's take on it.

I found it surprisingly well-made, but then I was expecting a summery blockbuster, and I was prepared to treat as a Magic Bean the fact that the research company was a sub-division of Evil Cardboard Incorporated.

(At one point, when the Evil English Boss was conspiring with the Slow-Speaking Protagno-Scientist to approve his hitherto-unauthorized shenanigans, I blurted out "And that's how pharmaceutical companies work!" Fortunately, I was at home, so didn't get smacked in the mouth.)

I was disappointed in Patrick Doyle's score, though, which seemed phoned-in from a booth just outside the Media Ventures offices.

You guys should do a heist movie, like The Italian Job, or Ocean's 11, or Inside Man.

Yes. Yes. Yeeeeeeesssssssss.

Oldboy has come up before. We might do an episode of non-commentary discussion of it.

I think Pan's is the only genuinely foreign movie we've done, in terms of language. Plenty of British films, but they don't count.

You guys should do more animated movies.

Beauty and the Beast.

The Land before Time (Not the sequels)

Lion King just because there is so much wrong with it.

You guys should do Secretary.

Before The Last Airbender, there was... D U N E.