My Own Private Idaho
Life happens to gay hustlers
Paris, Texas
Home’s where you find it
Gangs of New York
Civil War era Manhattan gangs
Movies set in a college town
Drumline
HBCU bands battle on field
Good Will Hunting
Southie gets job at Hahvahd
Animal House
University of Oregon as backdrop
Next: Prep school movies
She’s the Man
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
The Holdovers
Stuck at school for Christmas.
Dead Poets Society
Seize the day. Carpe diem!
Next: Movies set all or partly in an elementary school
School of Rock
“Rock star” teaches snooty kids.
Billy Madison
Dumb layabout speedruns elementary school.
Kindergarten Cop
Kid explains penises and vaginas.
Movies set all or partially in a (public/state) high school
Grease
Rydell greasers, Pink Ladies bond
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sean Penn is film’s standout
Back to the Future
“Under the Sea” dance finale
Next up:
Movies set at military academies
Taps
Timothy Hutton versus condo developers
Toy Soldiers
Wil Wheaton, Sean Astin, terrorists
The West Point Story (1950
Cadets put on a show!
Movies with both human and animated characters
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Human and toon save Toontown.
Mary Poppins
2-D folks join Mary, kids.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Witch, kids travel to Naboombu.
Movies that reference Nazis but aren’t war movies
Triumph of the Will
Misapplied genius; Leni Riefenstahl’s masterpiece
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Wrath of God smites them
The Blues Brothers
Hate those damn Illinois Nazis!
Next up:
Propaganda films
Reefer Madness
Cannabis will make you insane!
The Birth of a Nation
The KKK! Our White Saviors!!!
Animal Farm
The CIA bought the rights.
Stoner Comedies
Pineapple Express
The car just committed suicide!
Half Baked
Meet Sir Smoke-A-lot, rap star
Up In Smoke
Meet Pedro and The Man
Next: More Cheech and Chong movies
After Hours
Little bit, at the end.
Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers
No blunts in sight. Crap!
Yellowbeard
El Segundo y El Nebuloso
Movies featuring Machete
Spy Kids
Tame(r) character in first appearance
Grindhouse
Tougher guy in fake trailer
Machete
A fully-realized vengeful Mexican badass
Next up:
Non-British costume dramas
Gone With the Wind
Woman navigates Civil War, Reconstruction.
Little Women
Girls navigate Civil War, poverty.
Russian Ark
One single take, no edits!
Non-Bollywood movies that involve South Asians
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Gary Cooper preserves imperial presence
A Passage to India
Imperialism never looked so gorgeous
The Jungle Book
Mowgli learns animal life lessons
Movies about America from a foreigner’s POV
Red Heat
Ahnold is a Soviet cop
Crocodile Dundee
“It’s for washing your backside!”
Borat
Manages to offend almost everyone
Next: Movies with Sacha Baron Cohen
Disagree-- The film unfortunately revived the pretty much dead Klan at the time, but that was not Griffith’s intent in making it. He thought he was making a movie about history. He was short-sighted and wrong, but not a propagandist for the Klan.
Whether Griffith intended it is irrelevant, IMHO. Accidental propaganda is still propaganda. But that’s a discussion for another thread. I do appreciate your point of view.
Movies with Sacha Baron Cohen
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
“Say ‘I like thin pancakes!’”
Les Miserables
Christ, Russell Crowe can’t sing!
Bruno
Borat but gay and Austrian.
Movies of Christopher Guest
Waiting for Guffman
Small town puts on play.
A Mighty Wind
A one-off folk revival concert.
Best in Show
Weird world of pet shows.
Movies about dads
Logan
Aging Wolverine learns something big
Father of the Bride
Sometimes love means letting go
The Road
Father, son try to survive
Next up:
Movies about moms