IISANDERII
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Casino and Goodfellas
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The twin-film phenomenon is hilarious
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as are the majority of pairings on this list.
They tend to just share certain basic conceptual elements.
Correct, but even This is the End had one "friend" who didn't want to be there and was unwittingly sucked into the adventure. In the end the movies really don't feel similar, but from a marketing perspective they do.
yeah i think they are about as far apart as two films about americans fighting in ww2 can possibly be
Triggerhappytel
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Portman every time. Kunis is pretty, but incredibly overrated.
Uncle Rupee
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I don't think it counts if its by the same director and separated by more than one or two years.
Gordon Shumway
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Truth..
TV example:
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip/30Rock
And there's an example of two *very* different series - albeit both with a central mystery - which had oddly similar final episodes - that aired within a week of one another! Since it's the final episodes I'm talking about, I'm not going to name them outside of spoilers, but I will say that one was a US series and one was a British one
Life on Mars+Ashes to Ashes/Lost
That's my issue with it being included on the list, where as Deep Impact and Armageddon feel very much the same despite their differences, This is the End and The World's End are completely different on everything but a very surface level.
The_Hitcher89
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mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Another Robin Hood movie came out the same year as the Costner one and got forgotten instantly. It had Uma Thurman though.
Uncle Rupee
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Also in 1999 there was
The Messenger / Joan of Arc (2-part tv mini-series)
The Messenger / Joan of Arc (2-part tv mini-series)
A footnote to this story, when Seinfeld was shopping around Bee Movie, Lasseter supposedly told him to stay far away from Katzenberg because of this incident. When the film wound up being made at Dreamworks, they made a weird joke about it by having a character that looks a lot like John Lasseter nearly get ran over by a plane
As different as most of the movies on the OP's list are.
Inception and Shutter Island are both movies with Leonardo DiCaprio as a protagonist, and both protagonists are troubled by the death of their wives,hich are a central point of the plot. Both movies also have the protagonists on situations where they can't distinguish between dream/illusion and reality. Both protagonists also decide in the end to accept the "illusion" (well, that's not totally clear on Inception's end, sure. But the thing is, he doesn't care if it's fake or not. That's why he goes to see his children before he can see if the totem stops or not. He is happy with the "reality" he is living on, be it the real world or a dream.
Pagusas
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God no, Deep impact does not hold a candle to Armageddon.
But I'll agree on the other one.
Uncle Rupee
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Wow, didn't know that. Dreamworks is crap. Prince of Egypt is the only decent animated movie they've made.
How could you forget Friends With Benefits and No Strings Attached? That is to me always the prime example for stuff like this.
EDIT: Beaten on both accounts.
This one doesn't really count though, aside from both referencing the end of the world in the title, both movies are very different. Hell, The World's End isn't even about the end of the world.
EDIT: Beaten on both accounts.
Atraveller
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Actually Cobb had no trouble in distinguishing the dream world and the real one, he just couldn't get over his wife's death, and that kept getting into his way while he's on the job.
Uncle Rupee
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That's so naive! It might explain certain types of movies, like disaster movies focusing on asteroids or pandemics and whatever, but it doesn't explain the bulk of it. It's common knowledge in the industry which companies have picked up what scripts, and the scripts themselves are known. It's all about competition and having something similar to your biggest competitor to steal their thunder. It's also about being "on trend", for example comic book movies have been trending a lot over the last few years so of course more adaptations are being greenlit than usual.
freenudemacusers
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i thought this thread was gonna be about the two yves saint laurent movies this year
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2707858/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2707848/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2707858/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2707848/
sixteen-bit
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Battle Los Angeles/Battle of Los Angeles
Wasn't Ghost of Mars around the same time too? Or am I just putting them all together in my head?
Oh, so we're counting bootleg money-chasing movies then.
The Transformers/Transmorphers!
Half right.
If he had no trouble in distinguishing dream world and reality, then why does he have a totem? The totem is what he uses to distinguish dream world and realities, and that's explained very throughly in the movie.
FeenieVonKarma
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Huh, you're right. 2001 vs. 2000 for the other two.
RottenTanuki
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I best explanation I heard was that Studio A passes on a script and Studio B green lights it. The person at Studio A doesn't want to be the person who potentially passed on a huge blockbuster, green lights a very similar script as a CYA move.
Dorimukyasuto
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Antz and A Bug's Life
I remember confusing the two as a kid and seeing the one I didn't want to see.
I remember confusing the two as a kid and seeing the one I didn't want to see.
Artakartel
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There's always a bunch of movie scripts floating around for any given topic for years, when one studio hears that someone else is getting ready to make a particular type of movie, they think they are missing out on a trend and snatch a dormant script from the drawer they think has the best chance of doing well.
Ah, that remembers of something like this gaming related. When I was a kid I asked for Ratchet and Clank as a birthday gift, and she bought me Jak and Daxter. I never heard of it before that. Was a little dissapointed at first but after playing it I have to say that it was the best mistake ever, as the game became one of my favorites, along with the sequels.
Why would they? The only thing those two have in common is Leo.
Atraveller
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They steal information for a living, they had to watch out for other people just in case they don't get set up themselves. The top belonged to Mal, that means Cobb probably had a totem of his own before she died, even Arthur has one, kind of like a must have tool for their job.
TAJ
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thesoapster
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I haven't seen either, but for a while I thought these were actually the same movie.
NYCmetsfan
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Yep, it's on purpose, it's a game of chicken to see who can rush production and get out the quickest
I've seen both, and I honestly couldn't tell you which one is which.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Yep, that totally explains stuff like two animated movies about mice in the 1800s.
Because 1800s mice are news.
Beaniedude
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I thought this was going to be about the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
That was a weird one, i saw the one with Gerard Butler, think that one was Olympus.
It sucked, and i never bothered to check the other one out.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I've always noticed this myself and thought it was weird.
Thinking about it now, it's probably some upset studio who couldn't land the big script, decided to hack up their own version and make an inferior product to compete.
Thinking about it now, it's probably some upset studio who couldn't land the big script, decided to hack up their own version and make an inferior product to compete.
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