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
― clemenza, Friday, March 25, 2016 9:11 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
speaking of, Strangelove and Fail Safe prob fit
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
Lambada (1990)The Forbidden Dance (1990)
Breakin' (1984)Beat Street (1984)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Like Father Like Son (October 1987)Vice Versa (March 1988)Big (June 1988)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
18 Again! (April 1988)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 25 March 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
Style WarsWild Style
― jmm, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
if wins the day wasn't an emo combo out of omaha circa 2004 that had a #27 alt rock chart hit with "i'm okay, stop asking" i'll seppuku myself
elaction (1999) was a fillum about a female secondary character that has a scene where she swings on a swing set torepresent the tension between lost youth /coming of age dynamics and i swear there was another contemporary joint that utilized the same device so they're the same movie but i can't remember what the other one was just now, but i randomly watched them in succession so it counts
― slugbuggy, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 25, 2016 2:22 PM (20 minutes ago)
These are the two cousins who fell out, right? So the two competing films were at least intentional, w/ them trying to outdo each other.
― emil.y, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
The two Lambada movies actually came out on the same day! (Also, one starred future Mulholland Dr. co-star Laura Harring, and the other starred Melora Hardin of The Office fame.)
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Friday, 25 March 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
the phrase "lambada, the forbidden dance," is indivisible in my memory. which is the wellspring and which is the pretender?
― slugbuggy, Friday, 25 March 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
*ahem*
Their company split and they both wanted to continue work on the idea for a Lambada film, so they raced each other to the cinemas. (Sorry for not providing loads of detail but the story is slightly fuzzy in my mind.)
― emil.y, Friday, 25 March 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
Gene Siskel was a fan of Lambada.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
also Da Grande (1987). Seems like we couldn't get enough body swap movies in the 80s
― Vinnie, Friday, 25 March 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
No mystery, this pair:
Nineteen eighty-four (1984)Brazil (1985)
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
all those stevejobs movies
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 March 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
Body swap films could prob be its own thread. Remember seeing one called switch (man becomes woman) from around that time
Xp weren't there two hawking bios in relatively quick succession?
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)Requiem (2006)
both based on the real life case of Anneliese Michel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel
― soref, Friday, 25 March 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
Deep Impact / Armageddon is often said to be one the archetypes of this phenomenon BUT Deep Impact involved a comet; in Armageddon it was an asteroid. TOTALLY different things, you guys.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
there was this one year when loads of fucking superhero films came out
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Lol I was genuinely gonna make a comment along those lines cause istr an instance where that happened and it actually seemed notable
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
A long time ago obv
― Rainer Weirder Faßbooker (wins), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
There are always two boxing movies coming out
The big one before Deep Impact/Armageddon happened was the two Christopher Columbus movies that both came out (and flopped) in 1992.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 25 March 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
within a few years this phenomena will have escalated to 12 fucking immortal twats in daft costumes movies at the same time
― calzino, Friday, 25 March 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 23:22 (eight months ago) link
lol
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:16 (eight months ago) link
Hah
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:46 (eight 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 (eight 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link
ImmaculateThe First Omen
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:57 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
Not just in "nun" premise but the first half hour of movie too
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:18 (two weeks 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 (four days ago) link
"Roller Boogie" and "Skatetown U.S.A.", both 1979
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 21 April 2024 21:22 (four days 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 (five hours 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 (five hours 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 (four hours 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 hours 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 hours 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 (two hours 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 (one hour ago) link
The Warriors and The Wanderers work together too.
― omar little, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:45 (one hour ago) link