Hello and welcome (back) to Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
If I have to be honest, I didn't even know there was such a thing as double features. If you are an ignorant like me, double features are those movies that go well together. So they can be very helpful to deepen on a topic or whatever. Here are my double double features.
Westworld (1973) + Jurassic Park (1993) | Theme Park + Same Writer
The first is set in a near future where vacationers can experience life in a chosen period of time, like Medievalworld, Romanworld and Westworld. The second, well, everyone knows this one, it's about a group of scientists cloning dinosaurs to make people have a good time. Both written by Michael Crichton, these are two entertaining and suspenseful movies that explore the dark side of progress, technology in the first, science in the latter.
Shutter Island (2010) + Inception (2010) | Unreliable Narrator + Same Leading Actor
While the first is a brilliant psychological thriller set in a mental asylum island and the second is more of a heist movie set inside a man's mind, Leonardo DiCaprio leading isn't the only thing these two films have in common. They also both question how much we can really trust what we are experiencing. It is real or is it all inside our heads? Definitely a double feature I'll try soon myself.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) + The Tree of Life (2011) | Origin of Life + Same Boringness
Both Kubrick and Malick's films deal with the origin of life and what might come after it in a quite ambiguous and surreal way. Did I mention they also are both boring? Anyway, the first offers us a more cold and hostile vision of it; the second it's more gentle and has warmer emotions. This is not a double feature I would recommend though unless you want to die of boredom.
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