one time there were two magician movies

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?)

― emil.y, Saturday, March 26, 2016 8:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

Kalifornia (1993)

One I happened across:

A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975)
In The Realm Of The Senses (1976)

Had never heard of the earlier film before I picked it up at the library this weekend

Colony (2009)
Vanishing of the Bees (2009)
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (2010)

All docs

Re the swing set similar scenes & the already mentioned Dark City: Dark City (1998) & Requiem for a Dream (1999) both feature Jennifer Connolly in very similar recurring dream/visionary scenes on a pier, apparently just a strange coincidence.

Dark City also has elements reproduced with some similarity in the Buffy episode Hush (1999).

Nicotine Bees (2010) lol

i kind of love this phenomenon

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.

― calzino, Saturday, March 26, 2016 11:25 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i remember this run weirding me out when i was a kid

Leviathan (2012)
Leviathan (2014)

.. and also Leviathan (1989)

I realize not entirely apt, but ...

Showgirls (1995)
Striptease (1996)

More recently:

Experimenter (2015)
Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

Batman v Superman (2016)
Captain America: Civil War (2016)

both movies with franchise superheroes punching each other

That will be like 30% of what Hollywood produces next year.

Kramer vs kramer (whenever)
Super troopers (whenever)

Both have casts and credits and everything

American Ninja (1985)
Gymkata (1985)

http://www.cracked.com/video_19950_6-bizarrely-specific-trends-in-hollywood-history.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7315484/
&
a quiet place

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

Also: Rapture-Palooza (2013), an Anna Kendrick vehicle in the same vein, co-starring This Is The End's Craig Robinson as The Devil.

existenz and gattaca