one time there were two magician movies

Nice! That's a perennial of course. Does anyone remember double take, the film about Hitchcock, Borges and doubles? Written by Tom McCarthy!

The Football Factory (2004)
Green Street (2005)

Followed by hundreds of terrible football hooligan films available at tesco

you can find some of those films if you scroll right to the very very bottom of netflix's british films list

i have never watched one but it strikes me as the sort of thing one might do in pursuit of the fake real

Platoon (1986)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Hamburger Hill (1987)

There are shitloads more from the 80's Nam boom, but these were the Oscar bothering type ones that ran concurrently.

Hmm, the academy stopped liking Kubrick after Barry Lyndon, and FMJ only got one nod, for Screenplay, so I dunno if I would count it as "Oscar bothering." Also, while FMJ is the only one out of the three of those that I've seen (never saw HH) that I actually like, any trend that can swing as wildly from FMJ to GMV has something more going on in it than the usual spikes in the popularity of disaster flicks.

yeah i mean, kinda not very surprising that there would be movies about vietnam being made in the 1980s!

they were probably attempting to bother the oscars I should have said, fuck 'em anyway cos Barry Lyndon is a great movie.

World Trade Center (2006)
United 93 (2006)

there was a Flight 93 in 2006 too!

let's roll (the cameras!)

Went The Day Well (1942)
Saboteur (1942)

oops forgot the question mark

Deep Star Six (1989)
Leviathan (1989)

Oh, man:

Terminal Velocity (1994)
Drop Zone (1994)

Competing skydiving thrillers!

Without Limits (1998)
Prefontaine (1997)

(Both pretty good, actually)

Mission to Mars(2000)
Red Planet (2000)

touching the void was alas a full 3 years after vertical limit xp

In The Last Starfighter (July 84), a humanoid space-fighter pilot teams up with a vaguely reptilian alien; through adversity they become close friends.

In Enemy Mine (Dec. 85), a humanoid space-fighter pilot teams up with a vaguely reptilian alien; through adversity they become close friends.

too much distance and it basically ends up being casablanca --> to have and have not, the latter film clearly riffing on the former, maybe improving massively on it etc

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iSjnlF6CQBc/Tk67Fu8mpAI/AAAAAAAAENo/pVW7VEdIuXA/s1600/liz%2Bman2.jpg xp

BTW To Have and Have Not is a fun movie. Was you ever but by a dead bee? Put your lips together etc.

Two biopics called Harlow in '65

also two biopics about isadora duncan in the space of about a year from ken russell & karel reisz.

In 2003, Ned Kelly, a $30 million budget movie about Kelly's life was released. Directed by Gregor Jordan, and written by John M. McDonagh (brother of Martin McDonagh), it starred Heath Ledger as Kelly, along with Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, and Naomi Watts. Based on Robert Drewe's book Our Sunshine, the film covers the period from Kelly's arrest for horse theft as a teenager to the gang's armour-clad battle at Glenrowan. It attempts to portray the events from the perspectives of both Kelly and of the authorities responsible for his capture and prosecution and throws in a romance between Kelly and an married upper-class Australian woman. It was not a success; one review dismissed it as fiction.

That same year (2003) a low budget satire movie called Ned was released. Written, directed and starring Abe Forsythe, it depicted the Kelly gang wearing fake beards and tin buckets on their heads.

Was there two westerns with all/mainly female protagonists in the mid/late 90s

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Bad Girls? (I don't think the former is actually a 'western' but might fit?)

Sharon stone?

I need to take the time to research this is lazy stuff from me

Your talking about The Quick and The Deadly

Ya!

Really a single female protagonist, that one

Nah that was Bridget Fonda and Jennifer jason leigh

lol that is almost a candidate for this thread but it's more part of a micro-trend

Would recommend anyone who hasn't seen Went The Day Well ? To check it out, it is one of the best and better than the Hitchcock one from the same year.

rookie of the year (july 1993)
little big league (july 1994)*

*nb i was in this

wait waht? really?

I loved LBL when I was a kid, RotY was fuckin dumb

i slid into third base in the opening scene

i made $1500 for three days work, carefully secreted away by my parents, later blown on CDs when i was in college

that's awesome!

Two junkie movies in 1971: Panic in Needle Park and Born to Win.

that rules, gbx.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Bad Girls? (I don't think the former is actually a 'western' but might fit?)

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Even Cowgirls Get tHe Blues is a contemporary set film about a hitch-hiker with over sized thumbs that contribute to her spectacular success at hitchhiking.
It's also a ROIR tape of John Cale live in around '79 a time I really like his live recordings from. Tend to be intense guitar driven stuff.

Gummo (1997)
Kull the Conqueror (1997)

?

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Valmont (1989)

Christine (2016)
Kate Plays Christine (2016)

the world's end (2013)
this is the end (2013)

this might have been mentioned in the 77* "skipped" messages.

*ayo!

True Romance (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)

Antz was a ripoff of A Bug's Life that Katzenberg rushed through production when he left Disney.

Some of these are ideas that Hollywood does every few years and it just so happened that two studios gave two of them similar release dates. often happens with disaster movies.

True Romance (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)

Past Midnight (1991)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
True Romance (1993)
It's Pat (1994)
Four Rooms (1995)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Jackie Brown (1997)

True Romance (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)

There was also another road movie about a serial killer couple that also had juliette lewis