what's up with that
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
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― Neanderthal, Friday, 25 March 2016 01:48 (eight years ago) link
is that randall flagg? shit
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 01:49 (eight years ago) link
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)Observe & Report (2009)
― emil.y, Friday, 25 March 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
There is I think a particular term for simultaneous but separate invention/conception, but I can't think of what it is. Anyone?
― emil.y, Friday, 25 March 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link
A Bug's Life (1998)Antz (1998)
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 01:52 (eight years ago) link
im pretty sure the generic Blart was probably more enjoyable than O&R
― Neanderthal, Friday, 25 March 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link
Deep ImpactArmaggedon
both 1998
― Neanderthal, Friday, 25 March 2016 01:58 (eight years ago) link
Mirror Mirror (2012)Snow White and The Huntsman (2012)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:01 (eight years ago) link
does dantes peak (1996) volcano (1997) count?
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
plausible deniability maybe
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link
or wait the opposite of that
Turner & Hooch (1989)K-9 (1989)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link
haha my summer camp took us to see K-9 on a field trip taht year.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 25 March 2016 02:07 (eight years ago) link
^yes indeed that is the paradigmatic example
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
The end of the 80s also had a lot Vietnam movies come out in rapid succession, but that doesn't really fit squarely into what we're going for here.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link
Capote (2005)Infamous (2006)
― Neanderthal, Friday, 25 March 2016 02:18 (eight years ago) link
An American Werewolf In London and The Howling and Wolfen (1981)
― Eckrich® Pickled Pig Doin's (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:18 (eight years ago) link
My Dinner With Andre and Bustin' Loose (1981)
― Eckrich® Pickled Pig Doin's (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:19 (eight years ago) link
herculesthe legend of hercules
!!
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 25 March 2016 02:19 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/61/72/1f/61721fabca5666be7051ae77eab44f43.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 25 March 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
First Daughter (2004)Chasing Liberty (2004)
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 25 March 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
Hoop DreamsPoop Dreams
― Neanderthal, Friday, 25 March 2016 04:35 (eight years ago) link
i always mix those up
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 25 March 2016 06:16 (eight years ago) link
Tombstone (1993)Wyatt Earp (1994)
― got a long list of ILXors (fgti), Friday, 25 March 2016 06:49 (eight years ago) link
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DuelingWorks/Film
― Tuomas, Friday, 25 March 2016 08:10 (eight years ago) link
i seen one of the magician movies it was fucken stupid i can only imagine how fucken stupid the other magician movie is with alfie zulu in it
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 March 2016 08:14 (eight years ago) link
They're both okay, but the twist in the Edward Norton one is easy to guess, and since half of the movie rests on that "shocking" revelation, it kinda diminishes it. Whereas the the two major twists in the Christian Bale/Hugh Jackman one genuinely come out of the left field, which makes it more fun to watch, if not super memorable.
― Tuomas, Friday, 25 March 2016 08:18 (eight years ago) link
Can't remember the Norton one, but I guessed the Prestige twist and it didn't affect my enjoyment of it. Also I didn't know a certain cameo was going to be in it so that really made my day.
― kinder, Friday, 25 March 2016 08:51 (eight years ago) link
the prestige was so good.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 March 2016 09:27 (eight years ago) link
There was even a third magician movie around the same time, by the peep show guys
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 09:46 (eight years ago) link
Another borderline case:
The Truman Show (1998)EDTV (1999)
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 09:50 (eight years ago) link
Probably much too far apart to count but...Porridge (1979)Escape to Victory (1981)
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Friday, 25 March 2016 09:53 (eight years ago) link
Robin hoods
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Friday, 25 March 2016 09:54 (eight years ago) link
Famously there was a British Robin Hood film that ended up being completely eclipsed by prince of thieves
Xpost!
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 10:00 (eight years ago) link
Feels weird to include that because there have probably been years when there have been like 7 Robin Hood films produced
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 10:01 (eight years ago) link
War of the Worlds (2005) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/The War of the Worlds (2005) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425638/War of the Worlds (2005) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449040/
the first one is the Tom Cruise one, the second is the english version set at the same time as the book, the third is a knock-off rushed out on video ahead of the Cruise version to confuse people into buying it.
― koogs, Friday, 25 March 2016 10:21 (eight years ago) link
The General (1998)Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Both based on Irish gangster Martin Cahill
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Friday, 25 March 2016 10:58 (eight years ago) link
I thought it was normal to have certain themes be popular in certain years. Not sure what determines it , unless it is just competition within the industry. Or industries, do publishing houses do similar?
― Stevolende, Friday, 25 March 2016 11:06 (eight years ago) link
a second time there were two magician movies
the incredible burt wonderstone (2013)now you see me (2013)
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 March 2016 11:21 (eight years ago) link
Because they were such anomalies at the time (two psycho-killer movies today wouldn't be notable), and because of the stature of the two directors, Psycho and Peeping Tom, both 1960.
― clemenza, Friday, 25 March 2016 11:46 (eight years ago) link
I watched the British Robin Hood movie a few years ago, and it was really quite good, certainly better than Prince of Thieves. Possibly even the best Robin Hood feature film since the Errol Flynn era?
― Tuomas, Friday, 25 March 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link
i kind of feel like
things to do in denver when you're dead (1995)the usual suspects (1995)
should qualify but there were so many, so many tarantino knockoffs produced in the 90s that at least two of them would necessarily (emphasis) had to have bryan ferry, with his floppy, insouciant hair and sharply, elegantly disarrayed suits, as a former gangster trying to go straight but he's dragged back into the crimeworld for one last job to save his flailing enterprise but it goes disastrously wrong with an ensemble cast and interpersonal quibbling and banter that i'm not really sure if it does.
― slugbuggy, Friday, 25 March 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
Another one that's maybe a bit of a stretch but I think fits: the two grand-diva movies of 1950, Sunset Boulevard and All About Eve.
California Split and The Gambler, 1974.
― clemenza, Friday, 25 March 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
Catch-22 and MASH, 1970--not just war films, but a very specific kind of Strangelove absurdist black comedy.
― clemenza, Friday, 25 March 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
Also both given a "not Vietnam, but we're really talking about Vietnam" gloss by their directors.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Friday, 25 March 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
The Prestige has Bowie-as-Tesla in itThe Illusionist is a bad movie but has Philip Glass' best score ever
― got a long list of ILXors (fgti), Friday, 25 March 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link
bridget jones' diary (2001)legally blonde (200))
a blonde zaftig protagonist shows up at a party dressed in a bunny costume because they thought it was a costume party but it wasn't, but she wins the day despite things
― slugbuggy, Friday, 25 March 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
The Illusionist wasn't even the best movie named The Illusionist in recent times
― François Pitchforkian (NickB), Friday, 25 March 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
legally blonde also 2001, not 200)
― slugbuggy, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
Hah
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:46 (eleven months ago) link
I thought this was going to be about
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― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:50 (eleven months ago) link
From 2011:
“La Guerre des Boutons” (“The War of the Buttons”) is a comedic remake of a 1962 blockbuster about spirited boys fighting with catapults and wooden swords. It was released Wednesday in French theaters.But in an unprecedented development here, a more melodramatic film of the same story, with the similar title “La Nouvelle Guerre des Boutons” (“The New War of the Buttons”), comes out just a week later.Both scripts are based on the same book, “La Guerre des Boutons,” written in 1912 by Louis Pergaud. Both have the same co-producer, the privately owned television channel TF1, and the same budget, about 13 million euros, or nearly $18 million.
But in an unprecedented development here, a more melodramatic film of the same story, with the similar title “La Nouvelle Guerre des Boutons” (“The New War of the Buttons”), comes out just a week later.
Both scripts are based on the same book, “La Guerre des Boutons,” written in 1912 by Louis Pergaud. Both have the same co-producer, the privately owned television channel TF1, and the same budget, about 13 million euros, or nearly $18 million.
https://www.critique-film.fr/la-guerres-des-boutons-2-films-differents/
https://archive.is/IIjHG
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:05 (six months ago) link
I suppose this sort of thing is going to keep happening as books fall out of copyright
a 1912 book by someone who died in 1915 would've been public domain for a while though
― koogs, Thursday, 28 December 2023 05:26 (six months ago) link
for some reason it didn’t enter the public domain until 2010, not sure why
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2023 09:16 (six months ago) link
Once upon a time there were two Jean Harlow biopics released five weeks apart:
Harlow (1965)Harlow (1965)
― henry s, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:18 (five months ago) link
came on here to post this but emil.y beat me to it 8 years ago lolemil.y at 3:42 26 Mar 16The Double (2013, adapted from Dostoevsky's The Double)Enemy (2013, adapted from Saramago's The Double)Both deal with doppelgängers and identity.
― kinder, Saturday, 3 February 2024 20:56 (five months ago) link
RIP Christopher Priest, without whom there would have only been one magician movie.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 3 February 2024 21:28 (five months ago) link
RIP. He wrote a lot of great stuff.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:36 (five months ago) link
I have yet to watch the movie or read the book, been saving it up.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:45 (five months ago) link
Still need to finish Nina Allan’s The Rift as well, which starts out grebt.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:46 (five months ago) link
ImmaculateThe First Omen
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:57 (three months ago) link
Haha I just said the same thing to my friend.
Bizarre how similar they are
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:17 (three months ago) link
Not just in "nun" premise but the first half hour of movie too
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:18 (three months ago) link
Two films based on the story of Bernard Jordan, escaping from his care home to attend D-Day anniversary.
The Great Escaper with Michael Caine, 6th October 2023.The Last Rifleman with Piers Brosnan, 5th November 2023.
I’d seen the cover for The Last Rifleman and with Brosnan in it assumed it was a thriller of some sort.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 21 April 2024 19:42 (three months ago) link
"Roller Boogie" and "Skatetown U.S.A.", both 1979
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 21 April 2024 21:22 (three months ago) link
This is a pretty loose one, but in the early '70s there were several movies about or involving on on some important level radio personalities/DJs:
WUSA, 1970Vanishing Point, 1971Play Misty For Me, 1971The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972American Graffiti, 1973
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:12 (three months ago) link
in that vein, i did see Vanishing Point and The Warriors closely together recent and thought the dj aspect was similar (Warriors was a bit later - '79)
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:32 (three months ago) link
I worked for the person who came up with the slogan "soup is good food." Research indicated that mothers had underlying anxiety about feeding children meals that had not been prepared from scratch; Campbell's play was to alleviate this using the simplest, most direct possible language. The underlying lesson, I think, was that sometimes a lack of cleverness is a type of cleverness.
whoa i remember being told that i went to college with the offspring of the person who invented this slogan but i have no recollection who that person was. what a strange intersection!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:56 (three months ago) link
I think that a lot of that work was done by Molly M. at Porter Novelli.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:53 (three months ago) link
The Warriors maybe pairs up better with The Fog (1980).
Might be stating the obvious, but I think radio DJs were just a bigger part of life back then, with a stronger presence as individuals, and (correct me if I'm wrong) more actual time of their voice on the air saying stuff. They were surely more prominent as local figures, and the intimacy of them being in everybody's cars and ears can't be discounted. So it makes sense that there'd be a lot of them in movies, just like having a lot of newspaper reporters, or politicians, or local business owners.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:54 (three months ago) link
This is a pretty loose one, but in the early '70s there were several movies about or involving on on some important level radio personalities/DJs:WUSA, 1970Vanishing Point, 1971Play Misty For Me, 1971The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972American Graffiti, 1973― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain
There's also a low-budget Canadian entry in that same vein and timeframe: "Slipstream", starring Luke Askew as the DJ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(1973_film)
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:50 (three months ago) link
And the movie FM, now only remembered because Steely Dan wrote the theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316mipUnA-M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM:_The_Original_Movie_Soundtrack
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:37 (three months ago) link
The Warriors and The Wanderers work together too.
― omar little, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:45 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrRbcQuNl8
Dana Gould on "Soup is good food"
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:27 (three months ago) link
FM lines up a little with WKRP on TV (both 1978).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:29 (three months ago) link
There's certainly an analog in the characters:
Micheal Brandon/Gary SandyMartin Mull/Howard HessemanCleavon Little/Tim Reid
― henry s, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:47 (three months ago) link
I remember seeing some comments about how that was merely coincidental, that radio stations of the era were all like that, with a burnout DJ, a hip Black guy, the frustrated program director etc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:51 (three months ago) link
Another one that lines up with FM is American Hot Wax, Floyd Mutrux's 1978 biopic of Alan Freed.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:15 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLAx5lIqfsg
Not commercially available.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:16 (three months ago) link
Two junkie movies in 1971: Panic in Needle Park and Born to Win.― clemenza, Saturday, March 26, 2016 5:07 PM (eight years ago)
― clemenza, Saturday, March 26, 2016 5:07 PM (eight years ago)
Dusty and Sweets McGee as well.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:21 (three months ago) link
American Hot Wax probably could lineup with The Buddy Holly Story (also 1978).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:25 (three months ago) link
...and also Dead Man's Curve, a 1978 TV biopic with Richard Hatch & Bruce Davison as Jan & Dean.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 23:31 (three months ago) link
Old army buddies plan & execute a major heist in 1960:
Ocean's 11The League of Gentlemen
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2024 01:42 (three months ago) link
Europa Europa (1990, Agnieszka Holland)Europa (1991, Lars von Trier)
This confused the hell out of me at the time
― prog ain't no religious cult (Matt #2), Friday, 26 April 2024 02:21 (three months ago) link
Cannonball! and The Gumball Rally, 1976
The former is a race from LA to NYC, while the latter is one from NYC to Long Beach.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 June 2024 05:16 (one month ago) link
Movies about women getting across LA by any means necessary to attend a party: Izzy Gets The F*ck Across Town, 2017; and Booksmart, 2019.
On that tip, movies featuring a supporting role for Molly Gordon and are about young people in LA doing whatever to attend a party : Booksmart and Good Boys, 2019
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 June 2024 05:26 (one month ago) link
This confused the hell out of me at the timeIt was released in Australia and the US as “Zentropa” for this reason
― bae (sic), Monday, 10 June 2024 08:22 (one month ago) link
Movies telling fictionalized stories about the business of American Pop Music in the '60s (complete with retro soundtracks composed by All-Star rosters of contemporary & classic talent): Grace of My Heart and That Thing You Do!, 1996.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 July 2024 22:26 (two weeks ago) link
Didn't realize That Thing You Do! is so old, I would have guessed mid-oughts
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 July 2024 22:28 (two weeks ago) link
It's that old. Gave a nice little boost to Fountains of Wayne, whose debut was released the same week as the movie.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 July 2024 22:39 (two weeks ago) link
Don't forget Backbeat, which I genuinely enjoyed at the time in part because of 1) Dulli and 2) Beatles and 3) Sheryl Lee
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 12 July 2024 23:22 (two weeks ago) link
i guess that wasn't fictionalized thoughstill it was enjoyable and was 60s-based
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 12 July 2024 23:23 (two weeks ago) link
Backbeat is close enough.
Also qualifying, albeit in a very roundabout way, is Velvet Goldmine (1998)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 July 2024 23:27 (two weeks ago) link
Velvet Goldmine also linking up to Almost Famous (2000).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 July 2024 23:47 (two weeks ago) link
Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop (1981) epitomizes this. It also speed-runs through HUAC, the Vietnam/Amerucan War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and cocaine chic. I love it, although many find it problematic
Actually, Breaking Glass (1980) fits as well
― beamish13, Saturday, 13 July 2024 00:24 (two weeks ago) link
oh god. Biden just confused Friends with Benefits (2011) with No Strings Attached (2011) pic.twitter.com/RC27GPIl2R— nicole boyce (@nicolewboyce) July 12, 2024
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 13 July 2024 00:35 (two weeks ago) link
XP Another late '90s Classic Rock one: Still Crazy (1999)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 July 2024 00:50 (two weeks ago) link
Hip Hop satires: CB4 & Fear of A Black Hat, 1993
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 July 2024 00:51 (two weeks ago) link