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August 14, 2009

You'll See A Woman Dressed Just Like You: Green Scales. Wings. Sunglasses.

New York cabbie Pete Robbins (Michael Sarrazin) shares a house with invisible dragon Elliott (voice of Barbra Streisand). Acting on a tip from another driver, Pete decides to invest in pork bellies, but needs $3000. Elliott decides to get the money by dealing with various disreputable characters: loan sharks, cattle rustlers, and Pete's abusive adoptive parents

For Pete's Dragon's Sake

Cheat sheet For Pete's Sake | Pete's Dragon

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Turning In Her Ovaries For A Bunch Of Balloons | You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious

Posted on August 14, 2009 at 03:46 AM in chick flicks, classic, fantasy, kids, mafia, musical, streisand, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Is A Blind Woman the Ideal Girlfriend For An Invisible Dragon?

Pete (Edward Norton) has grown up to become a profiler in the FBI's Behavioral Sciences unit. Charged with investigating a series of bizarre ritual murders, he comes to suspect that they are the work of his childhood companion, Elliott the Dragon (voiced by Ralph Fiennes), who has acquired a taste for William Blake. Reasoning that it takes a monster to catch a monster, Pete consults with infamous incarcerated serial-killer psychopath Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mickey Rooney).

Pete's Red Dragon

Cheat sheet Pete's Dragon | Red Dragon

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Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These The Great Red Dragon and the Man Clothed in Another Man's Skin | Hey, Kids! Let's Put on a Show!

Red Dragon, schmed schmagon. The definitive treatment of Thomas Harris' novel remains Michael Mann's magnificent Manhunter

Posted on August 14, 2009 at 03:44 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Invisible Dragon Sure Sounds Like James Bond

Dennis Quaid stars as Pete, a disillusioned ex-knight fleeing the evil King Terminus (Jim Dale), accompanied by his invisible green dragon companion, Elliott (voiced by Sean Connery). But the past is not so easily evaded, as an old act of loyalty draws Pete and Elliott back to the kingdom of Passamaquaddy to right a great wrong and free the people they had turned their backs on.

Pete’s Dragonheart

Cheat sheet Pete’s Dragon | Dragonheart

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Luck Dragon Tails | Second Star to the Right, Then Straight On ‘Til You See the Big Goat Guy

It’s a very cheesy movie, but I like Dragonheart. Here’s a fan-made trailer that I think captures some of the best elements of the movie.

Posted on August 14, 2009 at 03:36 AM in bond, classic, fantasy, kids, musical, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

August 13, 2009

An Extraordinary Young Man at a Crossroad in His Life. Also, a Dragon.

Master Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) and the unacknowledged love of his life, Yu Shu Lien (Helen Reddy) search for the thief of the Green Destiny Sword – actually a disguised cartoon dragon named Elliot – tracking it to Pasamaquaddy, Maine. There, they find it in the possession of a young man named Pete (Zhang Zhiyi), who uses his extraordinary martial arts abilities and Elliot’s fiery breath to fight off the evil duo of Dr. Terminus (Jim Dale) and the Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-Pei) while saving a ship in a terrible storm and taking part in extravagant musical numbers.

Crouching Tiger, Pete’s Dragon

Cheat sheet Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Pete’s Dragon

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through the Tang Dynasty, son. | Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay! My, oh, my what a crapulent day!

And if you think that’s a strange mix, check this out.

Posted on August 13, 2009 at 03:33 AM in action, drama, fantasy, kids, kung fu, musical, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

In the Dark Ages, Dragons Were Cartoons

Apprentice wizard Pete (Peter MacNicol) is sent by his master to slay a dragon to stop its terrible practice of demanding virgin sacrifices. When he meets the dragon, however, the two form a friendship that allows them to stand against the mundane oppression of the outside world. And then the dragon has to go and kill the princess, ruining everything.

Pete’s Dragonslayer

Cheat sheet Pete’s Dragon | Dragonslayer

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Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These No One Understands Him But His… Prince? | I Rolled 2D6 With Some Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti

Aside from the title, this little clip really has nothing to do with either movie. But the guy shoots of a home-made bazooka – how cool is that?

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Posted on August 13, 2009 at 03:29 AM in classic, fantasy, kids, monsters, musical, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

My Left Footloose and an Invisible Green Friend Celebrate GenCon Indy

You may have noticed things have been quiet around here lately. That's because we've been preparing for a very special event.

This Thursday through Sunday, gamers from all over the world are gathering in Indianapolis, Indiana for GenCon, to revel in our geekitude among our own kind. At least two of the crew here are going to be attending. To commemorate this year’s festivities, My Left Footloose presents for your enlightenment and delectation a collection of mash-ups featuring that most feared of creatures – the invisible green dragon – and his minion, Pete.

Be afraid. Nothing can save you now but a critical.

For those of you unfamiliar with our feature film, here’s the trailer.

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Posted on August 13, 2009 at 03:21 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

July 23, 2009

My Left Footloose Wishes it Could be a Hard-as-Nails, Wisecracking Private Investigator

Raymond Chandler, the creator of iconic PI Phillip Marlowe, was born on this date back in 1888. He and Dashiell Hammet pretty much redefined the mystery novel with their work, forever linking the idea of film noir with the movies they inspired.

So happy birthday, Raymond. Thanks for everything.

~Rick

Here’s a little wit and wisdom from the man himself.

Posted on July 23, 2009 at 07:40 AM in mystery, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

July 16, 2009

Thursday Three-Way is Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds!

July 16, 1945, saw the first ever detonation of an atomic bomb at the Trinity site in Almagordo, NM. To commemorate this awesome, terrifying, and – most of all – world-changing event, we at My Left Footloose presents a trio of mash-ups that couldn’t exist without that achievement. So, sit back and enjoy a touching nuclear love story, a terrifying tale of atomic vengeance, and chick-flick about a homemade bomb.

Here’s a short piece of video of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, talking about that July morning.

Posted on July 16, 2009 at 04:45 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

July 02, 2009

If It's All the Same to You, Thursday Three-Way Will Drive That Tanker

This week's Thursday Three-Way is brought to you by dry summer heat, passion, and gasoline. Now is the exact center of summer: Saturday is the 4th of July, people are enjoying the sand upon the shores and deserts of our nation at this very moment. In honor of freedom, leisure, and the right to assemble peaceably and blow stuff up, we regale you with a series of Mad Max mash-ups. Sit back in the lawn chair, sip your favorite ice-cold beverage, and be thankful things are not worse.

Every Thursday is Three-Way Day at My Left Footloose! Enjoy three (or more) related My Left Footloose movies for the price of one. Tell your friends you're having a three-way and let 'em wonder who with.

Posted on July 02, 2009 at 04:55 AM in apocalypse, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

June 25, 2009

Thursday Three-Way Would Rather Be Fishing

June 25th is National Catfish Day (thank you, Ronald Reagan), so we're celebrating with fish movies. (We're also celebrating with cornmeal-breaded hunks of succulent catfish and fried okra and squash on the side and a keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon, but there's not enough to go around so we didn't invite you. Hey, Phil! Pass the hot sauce!)

Join us as we celebrate the long, weird tradition of movies about (or including the word) fish with three mash-ups: a superhero with piscine dreams, a wandering jazz-playing clownfish, and a high school bully searching for the Holy Grail.

But first, enjoy this incredible animal - one of our favorite animals in the whole world - the 10-foot, 160 lb Mekong Delta catfish... one of the many reasons not to go swimming in Cambodia.

Posted on June 25, 2009 at 04:35 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

June 18, 2009

Thursday Three-Way's Magnum Opus

Gatt. Piece. Side-arm. Long-arm. Roscoe. Heater. Brown Bess or Black Betty. Penis substitute. My Little Friend. Today we salute the gun, or more specifically the gun movie.

You know what we're talking about. Delicious young folk or grizzled, coldblooded professionals grab guns and go on a crime spree or protect a Mexican village or redeem themselves with one last job after a life of unspeakable murder. Bullets fly, bad guys take one in the gut, things are really loud for a while, and somebody (sometimes the hero) rides off into the sunset. It's a staple of Hollywood, and for good reason: good or bad, root of evil or last defense against the zombie hordes, guns are sexy.

To celebrate the gun movie, we've invited our in-house gun nut and movie connoisseur Scott Glancy (a man who always packs heat at weddings, even his own) to join us and share his favorite bloodbaths from three great gun movies.

~ Jane

Get into a firearms mood with this delicious soundbite from a great movie that includes lots of guns, The Salton Sea. (And if your interest in guns in cinema is more than passing, check out The Internet Movie Firearms Database.)

Posted on June 18, 2009 at 04:39 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

June 11, 2009

Thursday Three-Way Lights Gene Wilder's Fire

Gene Wilder is 76 years old today, and we want to wish him all the best. As a thank-you for the many hours of joy his movies have given us, we’re hoping to give you folks a few minutes of hilarity.

Maybe that’s aiming a little high. How about several seconds of soft chuckling? A wry smile or two? C’mon, don’t leave us hanging here!

Fine. Be that way. We still love you.

But we love Gene Wilder more, because he always treats us right. For you, Gene, an enormous schwanstucker, a chocolatier pinniped, and a slapstick pair of ghostly convicts.

~ Rick

Posted on June 11, 2009 at 04:53 AM in comedy, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

June 04, 2009

Thursday Three-Way Storms the Beach at Normandy

We shall fight on the glaciers, we shall fight in the mansions of the Riviera, we shall fight in the ruined bookshops of Stalingrad; we shall never surrender.

Sixty-five years ago today, if the weather conditions had been right, the Allied Forces would have left England to begin Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord – more commonly referred to as D-Day. That’s right, folks: if not for the fog, the Allies would have landed at Normandy a day earlier – June 5, 1944. And so, on June 4, 2009, we celebrate the fact that a bunch of brave men and women were sitting around on English staging grounds, waiting to brave the Nazi defenders in northern France. And, according to our in-depth research (ie, rewatching Band of Brothers), some of them watched movies.

I knew one of these incredible men. Oscar Magnusson landed with the Canadian Forces at Juno Beach, was captured by the Germans in the Ardennes a couple of months later, and survived one of the infamous Death Marches as his POW camp was evacuated to prevent its liberation.

This January, he died of cancer.

So, in celebration of Almost D-Day, and in honor of the many heroes of the Second World War, we present, with all humility and respect, our Thursday Three-Way of WWII movies.

~ Rick

Posted on June 04, 2009 at 05:00 AM in three-ways, war | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

May 28, 2009

The Thursday Three-Way Goes Back to High School to Get Its Diploma (and ends up with a GED and Mononucleosis)

We at My Left Footloose know that one of the great levelers in life is that we all went to high school. This experience usually included suffering the indignities of chronic acne, the embarrassment of love unrequited, the general awkwardness of experiencing first love (and for those if us who couldn't get dates, the general awkwardness of discovering masturbation), trying to keep up with the latest fashion trends and above all, thinking we were so cool when we were all in reality nothing more than pubescent geeks, dweebs and spazzes.

For those of us who came of age during his highly successful career, writer-director-producer John Hughes made it all a little less painful to endure with a string of films about teenage life, starting in 1984 with Sixteen Candles. Today's Thursday Three Way smells like teen spirit and looks like Molly Ringwald as we salute those three to four years when our amygdalas ruled the world.

Posted on May 28, 2009 at 04:43 AM in teen, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

May 21, 2009

Thursday Three-Way Dies – But That’s Not Enough To Stop It!

Our plan here at My Left Footloose was to celebrate the birthday of Dante Alighieri with an Afterlife-themed three-way. Unfortunately, no one knows when that birthday is, exactly. The best we could do is narrow it down to sometime between mid-May and mid-June, probably in 1265.

(And why, Mr. Alighieri, is it so important to you that your birthday be obscured, hmmmm? Did you attract some dangerous otherworldly attention with your little trilogy? Do you fear that, if they know the date of your birth, they can… locate you, somehow?)

Well, it’s late May now, so we’re in the right neighborhood. We are officially declaring today Dante Alighieri’s birthday, and celebrating with a Thursday Three-Way featuring life after death!

And if Dante doesn’t like it, he knows where to find us.

And here’s the trailer from an interesting take on Dante’s Inferno.

Posted on May 21, 2009 at 04:26 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

May 14, 2009

Thursday Three-Way Goes for the Tripel Play!

The rules of Myleftfootloose call for the blending of two movie titles that share a word or sound, but sometimes one just has to test the rules a little and push the outside of the envelope. What would happen if you added a THIRD movie title to the mix, creating a new form of mashup, the My Left Footloose Triple?

Phil (who is writing this, and referring to himself in the third person - THIRD person, Thursday THREE-way, TRIPLE, get it?) prefers to spell it "tripel," like the Belgian beer style, because he believe that a truly well-constructed My Left Footloose Tripel would compare to the traditional form as a goblet of monastery-brewed golden ale would compare to a plastic cup of American lager. It's an experiment worth trying, if only for one day.

For your consideration, a triad of tripels: a government conspiracy to harness the power of fear, a convoluted legal romantic comedy with bonus secret military technology, and the first ever Knights of the Round Table senior prom.

Every Thursday is Three-Way Day at My Left Footloose! Enjoy three (or more) related My Left Footloose movies for the price of one. Tell your friends you're having a three-way and let 'em wonder who with.

Posted on May 14, 2009 at 04:30 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

May 07, 2009

Beam Me Up, Thursday Three-Way!

This week marks the opening of one of the most anticipated science fiction movie premiers since Lucas turned Star Wars into a teenybopper romance. That's right: J. J. Abrams has retooled Star Trek with fast cars, hot boys and girls, actual sex, and 21st century CGi, and it's opening this week to the delight of millions of Trek-obsessed fans from all generations.

I must admit that I, Jane, your proprietress here at My Left Footloose, was not a big Trek fan growing up. It holds a special place in my heart, however, because were it not for Trekkies I would not have had anyone to date in high school. In my efforts to get close to the boys who would condescend to hold my hand in the back of the band bus, I learned to appreciate the hamhanded morality and shaky special effects that made Trek special. I became conversant in basic Klingon and even cultivated a crush on Jonathan Frakes. And now I find myself unreasonably excited that J. J. Abrams - he of Lost and Alias and Cloverfield - is finally releasing his sexed-up take on the Starfleet mythos.

So we give you today's Thursday Three-Way: five mashups dedicated to the legacy of Shatner and Nimoy and Mr. & Mrs. Roddenberry. Sit back and enjoy the explosions

PS: For a Trek-related belly laugh, check out The Exurban League's Star Trek Trivia article.

Posted on May 07, 2009 at 04:59 AM in science fiction, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 30, 2009

Thursday Three-Way: This Bud's For You!

As we lean into the early weeks of May we consider the clichés of the season: thoughts of love, chickens (of the spring variety), flowers and bunnies and kittens, April showers, and of course those horticultural harbingers of emerging spring, the darling buds of May. For your consideration today, three darling buds: a naive British Navy seaman with a terrible secret, a sports-playing dog with a terrible task ahead of him, and two golden era comedians' hair-raising experience getting to know Robert De Niro.

Posted on April 30, 2009 at 04:37 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 23, 2009

We Thursday Three-Ways, We Band of Brothers!

Today we celebrate the Bard, William Shakespeare, by doing great damage to his works as only we at My Left Footloose can. Brace yourself for inspirational futuristic war, tragic-comic marryings-off, and zombies, zombies, zombies!

And now, please enjoy one of the most uplifting, if overwrought, pre-battle speeches of all time - and an amusing haircut!

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 04:42 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 16, 2009

Thursday Three-Way is an Unlikely Auteur

If you're a long-time reader of My Left Footloose, you've probably noticed our sometimes-mocking love of director Kevin Smith. This week we give him his due: a trio of sometimes-surreal mash-ups featuring the best of his 15 year career assault on middle class New Jersey.

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 04:59 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 09, 2009

Thursday Three-Way Gets Baked

On this day in 1992, a US Federal Court found Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges and sentenced him to 30 years in prison... all this after Operation Just Cause and Operation Nifty Package (really, the two funniest names of military operations in US history) hammered him with ammo and Van Halen and dragged him off to jail. In honor of his life of state-sanctioned crime we salute the great American drug movie, a tradition of funny stoners, flawed entrepreneurs, and the tragic upheaval (that's a subtle vomit reference) of youth.

Posted on April 09, 2009 at 04:01 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

April 02, 2009

Thursday Three-Way's Fancy Turns to Thoughts of Love

Spring is, you know, springing so it's time to celebrate the the darling buds of our most romantic season with a menage á trois of movies about April, fools, and our favorite excuse to run around Ft. Lauderdale in a wet teeshirt (but hopefully without the soul-crushing machine that is "Girls Gone Wild" following us around with release forms).

Posted on April 02, 2009 at 04:58 AM in three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

October 30, 2008

Thursday Three-Way Gets its Scream On!

It's Halloween, so it's time for our first annual descent into the horror and mayhem that is the horror film genre. This week our My Left Footloose mash-up specialists have really hauled out the scary: a young woman goes on a cross-country trek to woo the alien of her dreams, a band of cockney criminals take on the antichrist, an African-American man encounters a sadomasochistic hell, and Stephen King scares the pants off a whole lot of already-nearly-naked women. Grab your bowl of Halloween candy and curl up in front of the monitor for Halloween in My Left Footloose Land!

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Posted on October 30, 2008 at 02:16 AM in horror, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

October 23, 2008

Thursday Three-Way Gets Out the Vote

It's less than two weeks until what is being called a historic US Presidential election. To celebrate, we're taking a look at some other historic (and fictional, and possibly surreal) races for high office. Coming today: a cock-eyed optimist confronts his personal myths, a country singer deals with a sordid past, a very sad man with a nice wardrobe confronts sudden political celebrity, and a man framed by his friends exacts revenge on an entire country!

Follow us on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook and you'll get an alert each weekend about the next Thursday Three-Way and the chance to play along!

Posted on October 23, 2008 at 05:27 AM in politics, three-ways | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

October 16, 2008

Thursday Three-Way: Walt Disney Must Feed!

This week we wade hip-deep into the syrupy swamp that is the world of Walt Disney and the Disney Corporation: heroes, princesses, cute little animals, and inspiring morality tales that reinforce the existing hegemony. It's the magic of childhood from a crazy frozen guy! Hooray!

And for the serious Disney fans out there, a little appetizer from Robot Chicken:

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NOTE: If you notice that the writing today is a little bit funnier - and stranger - than usual, you're not crazy. There's a reason. Today's movie descriptions and other choices were written/edited by My Left Footloose co-conspirator Scott Glancy. Hell of an effort, I'd say. I'm thinking of handing the whole thing over to him. DAAAAMN.