My wife and I are starting to plan out our 2013 Movie Marathon, to be held sometime in the fall. We are still just in the ideas stage. I wrote down a few ideas we had in the table below. The usual rules we follow are:
Movies we haven’t seen before
Movies that we want to see or “should” see.
We’ve had some good success in the past asking for ideas from friends (i.e. Run Lola Run). If you have some ideas, please leave a comment below!
Usually, the goal of a 24-hour movie marathon is to pack as many entertaining movies in as possible. However, you have to wonder: what is the fewest movies in a 24-hour movie marathon? Thanks to the AMC blog (which only counts American movies) and a little scheduling math, the correct answer is “six movies”.
That’s a pretty impressive 4 hours each, minus a little bit of time for breaks. If you want to take on this grueling challenge, the movie descriptions are below, along with a movie marathon schedule where the movies are sorted from from longest to “shortest”.
If you dare to take this one on, I can only wish you good luck and godspeed.
My take: Hamlet is sad and discusses this at length, then manages to kill pretty much everyone in the cast. The best play ever written in the English language.
My take: Lee Marvin tries to cheer up depressed barflies by telling them to give up their foolish dreams. Amazingly, this does not go as well as Lee thought it would.
My take: One of the greatest movies ever, yada yada – hey – according to the plot synopsis, Lawrence organized guerrilla army “camel attacks”. I would really, really like to see a camel attack squad. Are they armored? Are they bred for their ferocity? I have so many questions.
I was thinking the other day: “Wouldn’t it be awesome to hold a 24-hour movie marathon in a real movie theater someday? I’ll have to organize one of those some day.” Bam! Already done! No work required! A 24-hour movie marathon right in my own backyard!
I e-mailed the organizer of the event, and they indicated that during normal business hours, participants get to see anything first-run movies playing in the theater, and after business hours there will be two screens playing older titles. These titles are TBD, but participants are free to suggest ideas ahead of time.
I’m stoked! I’m totally going! Let’s raise some money!
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship, Enterprise, its…oh…50-or-so-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new opportunities to make movies and TV shows, to boldly go to the couch and movie marathon like no one has before!
Regardless, Star Trek has massive staying power, and its only being revitalized further by the rebooted movie series. You can catch up on almost all of them in a mere 24 hours. Only the latest release, Star Trek: Beyond, doesn’t quite fit in. May you watch long and prosper!
My take: Take Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey and put them in a blender, and what do you get? A lot of looking out the window at spacey stuff. Also features a hot bald chick.
My take: This movie bucks standard utilitarian ethics theory and claims that “The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many”. This is why this movie is shown in so many basic college ethics courses.
My take: The crew of Star Trek goes back to the 80s! Look at all the wackiness! Why, there’s an annoying guy with a boom box! That Spock doesn’t take any crap! Har! Kill me.
My take: The Borg assimilate earth by going back in time and messing with history. Only the crew of the Enterprise can stop it. Unless they tried the Borg did the same thing again a little later. Ah well.
My take: Mean guys with bad skin complexion cause trouble on a paradise planet. It’s like “Revenge of the Nerds”, but the nerds are evil and it isn’t high school.
My take: Captain Kirk follows no regulations and nearly gets his crew killed a dozen times. Thankfully Starfleet is attacked and most of the captains are killed. Job security!
