All the binge-watching suggestions I received:

In my last post, I asked people to suggest movie series or TV shows that would be appropriate for a birthday binge-watch. I asked for TV shows, genres, creators, sequels, anything. I knew I’d get a lot of responses, but damn.


Here’s a list, in no particular order, of all the marathon suggestions from Twitter, Facebook, G+, LiveJournal, Goodreads, my blog, and the whispers from the crows that nest outside my bedroom window.


Harry Potter

John Carpenter

Coen Bros

Season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Fast and the Furious

Season 1 of Poldark

Every movie titled CRASH

Movies with Roscoe Karns in a supporting role

Movies starring Warren Oates

Planet of the Apes

Movies scored by Michael Small

JW Tarzan

70’s disaster films

Ray Harryhausen movies

Hitchock movies

Tati movies

Val Lewton movies

Top box office movies from the year I was born

Clint Eastwood: bit player

Jurassic Park

BBC’s The Musketeers

John Hughes Comedies

1940s noir

1990s neo-noir

Jason Statham movies

Older Sci-fi/Fantasy: Dune, Barbarella, Blade Runner, Highlander, Ladyhawke, Beastmaster, Dr.Strangelove, Red Sonja, Secrets of NIMH, & Willow.

MST3K

Philip K. Dick-a-thon

Quatermass movies

Rocky movies

She-Ra

Whose Line is it Anyway

Monty Python’s Flying Circus/Fawlty Towers

Occupied (a Finnish TV series)

Person of Interest

Foyle’s War

Orphan Black

Burn Notice

Covert Affairs

White Collar

Tremors movies and TV series

Alias

Step Up movies

Avengers movies

Tinkerbell movies

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Slings & Arrows

MCU movies

Chow Yun Fat movies

John Woo movies

The Lost Room + BBC’s Ultraviolet

Kenneth Hite’s 10 Westerns to Watch

Jackie Chan films

Jet Li films

Donnie Yen films

Shane Black films

Twin Peaks

Miyazaki films

Cronenberg films

Firefly & Serenity

The Wachowski films

The Middleman

Enlisted

Red Dwarf

FlashForward

John Hughes movies

Broadchurch

Resident Evil

BBC’s Sherlock

Toy Story

How to Train Your Dragon

Marx Brothers

Game of Thrones

Peaky Blinders

Dexter

Banshee

Creature Features

Lonesome Dove

Fargo (TV series)

Back to the Future/Jason Bourne movies

Star Wars (Machete Order)

Luthor

Best of Schwarzeneger

John Cusack movies

Best of [insert decade here]

Alien(s)

Karate Kid

[New suggestions since this post went live]

Freaks and Geeks

The Prisoner looks like 14-15 hours.

Series 1+2 of Being Human

Con films: Ocean’s 11-13, Lucky Number Slevin, Now You See Me, Catch Me If You Can


There were fewer repeat suggestions than you might think. One thing I didn’t expect was that my wife got involved; she wrinkled her nose at some stuff that I would like, but even though it’s my day, if I can spend some of it with my wife, that’s a plus.


Still not sure what I’ll pick, but thank you all for your suggestions.

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Published on June 09, 2016 08:02
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message 1: by Sally (new)

Sally Wow. What a list! Maybe that's how I should spend my birthday too. :)


message 2: by Jess (new)

Jess Some rather good ideas in there.
You could use that list to cover your next 40 birthdays & still have a few left over for when you catch a cold or flu and need bed rest.
(I'm surprised no one suggested a Stephen King-a-ton.)


message 3: by Harry (new)

Harry Connolly Stephen King-a-thon? Maybe no one suggested it because they don't hate me?

Whatever we think about his books (I mostly like them) good movie adaptations of his work are rare.


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