This is based off a question I saw on Twitter. Your Challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a watchable day long seven film marathon where:
Each film is from a different Franchise and
The film is shown in its order of release in the franchise.
This means prequels get shown when they were released not chronologically when they were set (e.g. Temple of Doom would be the second movie in the Marathon). You can use a reboot to cheat on film order if you want (e.g. Amazing Spider Man could be film one or four depending on how you wanted to count it) but it would use up the entire Franchise (you couldn’t pick another Spider-Man film from the series. Note within a Note, since I used Spider-Man as an example. Homecoming would count towards the MCU not the Spider-Man franchise).
Can it be done? Should it be done? Let’s find out.
1 Fellowship of The Ring
2 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4 Wonder Woman
5 Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
6 Mission Impossible: Fallout
7 X-Men: Days of Future Pas
I think my weakest movie is #3, maybe too much 60s cheesiness. But it’s an iconic film from an iconic franchise, and this will allow people to take a break and mingle, as we continue with…
1.) The House of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes)
2.) 2010: The Year We Make Contact (sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey)
3.) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Dollars Trilogy)
4.) Mothra vs. Godzilla (Godzilla franchise)
5.) Casino Royale (James Bond.)
6.) Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers)
7.) Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Nightmare on Elm Stret)
My mates and I watched the extended versions of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy in one day.
The films took nearly 11 hours (and we had meal breaks in between each film.)
But, still… my 17yo daughter once spent an entire spring break watching Jackson LOTR and Hobbit movies, extended scenes, outtakes, “making of” movies, etc. She announced her plans by saying “It’s spring break, I have a 3.89 average, and I’m going to live in the Shire for the next week.” And she did.
If I had to make a list of influential media in my child’s life, the Jackson LOTR movies are an easy#1.
I think you misunderstood. In order of release but within their franchise so, for example, you could watch Star Wars A New Hope first but then you can’t watch any other Star Wars movie or any other film that kicked off a franchise. In number 2 you can watch the second film of any franchise other than the franchise you picked in slot 1 and so on.
