Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

Like the film in my subject heading, Paper Cat's previous post was indeed nightmarish--nightmarific--nightmaricrazy.

I just saw A History of Violence (2005), which was very good. When asked to describe it, I said, "It's like Ordinary People (1980) meets The Killer (1989)."

That gave me the idea for a new game: let's call it MEAT. The object is to describe a film by comparing it to two previous films. Ideally the best answers combine two films that seem very different from each other, but somehow result in a very good description of the movie (like the example above -- allow Holly to pet herself on the back, and to eat a can of Vienna sausages thank you very much ...). Also, if film just doesn't cut it, then you can make reference to other comparisons, like Babe (1995) is Animal Farm (1954) meets Teddy Ruxpin.

So, I'll try five of these:

1) Taxi Driver (1976):
--Marty (1954) meets The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
2) The Constant Gardner (2005):
--The Interpreter (2005) meets Batman Begins (2005)
3) Faces of Death (1978):
--Basket Case (1982) meets every boy I knew in Junior High
4) The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (2002):
--Willow (1988) meets a big steaming pile of horseshit (2005)
5) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003):
--Soldier (1998) meets The Blues Brothers (1980)

Have fun. I'm thinking about planning a 50s comedy-duo night. First up: Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951). Any of y'all wanna come over?