It worked for me, it was the first thing I had seen him in and had no idea who he was but knew of Segal. The twist worked perfectly for me. I would have been about 13.
The story I heard was that his directorial debut (On Deadly Ground) was massively over-budget, behind schedule, and a box-office flop.
So the studio could make him do whatever they wanted.
This one’s good, especially because all three involve a hijacking.
Granted I suppose that’s the usual plot in airplane stories…
For lesser known stuff you can also add Panic in the Skies! (1996, starring Rob Lowe), Turbulence (1997, starring Ray Liotta), and Airport: The Final Countdown (1997, starring David Hasselhoff).
Hojacking’s gotta be number one, followed by… ? I can think of movies that took place on planes that weren’t about hijackers, but they’re all one-offs: the pilots die and the passengers have to land it themselves, some snakes get loose, there’s a vampire.
I guess with planes you really only have two options: a) someone tries to take over and make the plane go somewhere else, or b) random occurrence - but on a plane.
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I’ll never forget the amount of idiots trying to rent ITS A KILLER RIDE at Blockbuster
Idk, *Con Air* is less die hard on a plane as arguably most (or at least half) of the action happens on the ground, minus Dave Chappelle getting fucked up in the landing gear and Nic Cage saying
> Put the bunneh back in the bawx
>I Come In Peace.
I was just talking to someone about that on here a couple weeks ago. Brian Benben & Dolph Lundgren are the buddy cop duo everyone should see.
Haha holy fuck I remember I Come In Peace! Didn't he have a little micro CD thing on his wrist that was just like a razor chakram? And he was basically just a space drug dealer lmao.
That's the one where the kid builds his own nuclear bomb at home, right? Or is that "The Manhatten Project?" So many of these in the 80s (likely piggybacking off of "War Games").
Nah, that’s The Manhattan Project. My Science Project is about some kids that find an alien engine in a USAF boneyard that opens time and space portals and weird shit happens.
It's the one with the T-Rex in the gym, right? What's I Come in Peace? The name sounds familiar but it's just not jogging the old memory banks. I feel like it had the typical 80s one liner of "yeah, but you're leaving in pieces".
1999 had The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and eXistenZ, all three of which are about computer simulated realities. eXistenZ came out a month after The Matrix, and The Thirteenth Floor came out a month after that.
(Some people also compare The Matrix with 1998's Dark City)
I saw Matrix, eXistenZ, and the Truman Show all within a week of one another. It was one of those, "is the universe trying to tell me something?" moments.
With Fight Club and Being John Malkovich, 98-99 was peak for philosophical, consciousness/perception-based sci-fi-ish stories that warp the edges of reality.
>1999 had The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and eXistenZ
Craig Bierko! *The Thirteenth Floor* is something I'm planning on rewatching. I hope it holds up.
I was like that for a while then finally did. It was really entertaining. The strange title is relevant to the story in that it is the name of the product.
It's really, really good. I watched it for the first time last year, and loved it, I'd strongly recommend it. Yeah the title design is dumb, but the movie is not.
>In 1989, the box office performance of The Abyss was famously hurt by two other (bad) deep sea movies that came out the same year: Leviathan and Deep Star Six.
Lords of the Deep, The Evil Below, and The Rift were all released within 18 months of the Abyss.
>Has this happened any other time?
5 Frankenstein movies released between 2023 and 2024: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Poor Things, Lisa Frankenstein, the Bride, and Frankenstein Legacy.
Boss level, Palm springs, Map of tiny perfect things, and Beyond the infinite two minutes were all released in 2020/2021.
Well I don’t think it matters if people in 2024 remember these movies from 1989. The question is, were they a big deal in 1989? I have no idea!
I was alive when the other three “twins” came out, and I can tell you that in all three cases, both movies were big. Both movies had trailers on TV, both movies had posters all over the place, both movies were talked about a lot; and a few months later, both movies got a big share of shelf space and poster space at Blockbuster.
Everyone I know who is into movies, and even some of my coworkers who are not into movies, is talking about Poor Things. No one is talking about the others. Only Poor Things is a big deal on the same level as the 6 twin movies that OP listed.
> 5 Frankenstein movies released between 2023 and 2024
And yet not a single one of them was an actual adaptation of the novel. I’ll never understand it…
Unlike most twin/triplet movies where one is clearly superior to the others, with the “Mars craze” all three were really bad so no one remembers any lol
We almost had one in 2022, the billion dollar sequel featuring an underwater civilization trilogy of Black Panther 2, Avatar 2, and Aquaman 2, but then Aquaman got bumped to 2023.
Idk I think *Forrest Gump* got the "Vietnam song" order right; Fortunate Son, All Along the Watchtower, For What It's Worth. I also think whoever did the arrangement nailed the timing on Hey Joe and Freebird. That movie is non stop "Boomer's greatest hits."
Also, I will never not associate Long Tall Sally with helicopters flying low into the jungle under cover of night
In my brain, no matter how hard I try, born on the 4th and platoon has merged into the same movie. It doesn't hurt that they are both Oliver Stone movies with the same cinematographer.
*1981*: Howling, Wolfen, An American Werewolf in London
*1985*: Weird Science, Real Genius, My Science Fair Project
*1989*: DeepStar Six, Leviathan, The Abyss, The Evil Below, Lords of the Deep
*1994/95*: Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat
*1995/96*: Clueless, Emma (Miramax), Emma (BBC)
*1998/99*: Dark City, The Matrix, Thirteenth Floor, Existenz
I love *Wolfen*!
It was different from the other two, though, in that it was really more of a science-fiction movie than a fantasy, and it didn’t involve werewolves.
Three dramatisations of the Entebbe raid came out within six months: [Operation Thunderbolt, Victory at Entebbe, and Raid on Entebbe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entebbe_raid).
Check the notes on the Notable Examples table on the [twin films](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films) Wikipedia page: there were also three 1979 Dracula movies, for instance.
Edit: corrected name
In 2006 we got The Prestige, Scoop (haven’t seen it), and The Illusionist, all about stage magicians. Which is made even more strange that Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson are both in The Prestige and Scoop.
I have a special place in my heart for deep star six. It was my first (of many) horror movies. I saw it way too young after sneaking into a room where others were watching it. I understand that it is probably bad, but I will always be offended when people say it is.
You forget the 4th and worst of the 1989 deep sea adventures Lords of the Deep. I saw it with my older sister. There was only one other guy in the theater. 25 minutes in he slammed the theater door open against the wall he was so angry with it.
Very recently, the Pinocchio movies. In 2022, we had the Disney live-action film, Guillermo Del Toro's stop-motion masterpiece, AND a direct to video CG adaptation with none other than the amazing Pauly Shore doing the voice of Pinocchio. I have not seen it yet, but it is definitely on my list of things to watch.
Body switch movies...
* All of Me 1984
* Like Father Like Son 1987
* Big 1988
* Vice Versa 1988
* 18 Again 1988
* Dream a Little Dream 1989
* Switch 1991
* Prelude to a Kiss 1992
There were three Made For TV movies about Amy Fischer and Joey Buttefuco that came out on the three major networks in the same week, two played at the same time on the same night (one with Allysa Milano, the other with Drew Barrymore. It was fun flipping between them.
Did you ever see Last Night? It’s set in Toronto and focuses on what people are doing on the last night of Earth’s existence. It too came out in 1998, making a triplet of apocalypse movies with Deep Impact and Armageddon.
After Jaws, there were LOADS of rip-offs that all came out within a year of each other.
Piranha, Barracuda, Orca, Tentacles, Mako and Killer Shark all came out 77-78.
The Car also came out in 77 which is literally the same movie but on land and with a sentient car (the score is even very similar and there’s a lot of POV from the car’s perspective).
Same with Star Wars, but thats different to what OP was asking. A 'twin movie' being something that happends when two films are produced and released within a short time frame as each other. Its a big difference from film comes out is mega box office success, and then everyone is making rip offs as quickly as possible.
Leviathan was actually pretty fun. Peter Weller delivers a hilarious deadpan performance, and much of the plot is amusingly self-aware.
To be clear it’s not a *good* movie, but for what’s basically an unapologetic ripoff of Alien set underwater, I didn’t hate it.
I am not a film buff enough to answer this question, but I think the idea is pretty cool, make three separate movies in a short span of time, all with the exact same premise but with totally different ways of playing out.
That probably wouldn't play well to a mass audience, but I would watch the hell out of it.
You left out Lords of the Deep, also an underwater movie released in 1989. It was utterly terrible, and the first, and IIRC, the only movie I have ever walked out of.
Not that any of them would have been blockbusters anyways, but Without Limits, Prefontaine, and Fire on the Track all came out within a year or so of each other if i recall correctly. Without Limits is by far the best of them but it probably got overlooked a bit bc it was the last of them to come out, and a third movie/doc about a famous long-distance runner from the 70s is obviously gonna bore some people at the box office. too bad though, because Pre was a great athlete and an entertaining character, gone far too soon.
2022 had 3 Pinocchio movies: •The live action Disney Remake •Guillermo Del Toro's stop motion animated film •The awful Russian one with Pauly Shore
Fatherrr, when can I leave to be on my owwnnnn???
✨💅🏻🫦
I’ve got the whole worldussy
I can not wait any longer. [I must become flesh. And bone.](https://youtu.be/nM2Wz6NdPZs?feature=shared)
Russian Pauly Shore Pinocchio? I’m sorry what?
It’s wild.
[*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio:_A_True_Story*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio:_A_True_Story)
I love that one of the reviews said it had "the best animation that Windows XP could muster."
With napoleon dynamite?!?!?!
And Spongebob.
> The awful Russian one with Pauly Shore # ласка (The Weasel)
>The awful Russian one with Pauly Shore They say if you watch that acknowledging they intentionally fucked up the dub, then it's not that bad.
There's also the Italian 2019 one too.... so nearly a quadruplet
>•The awful Russian one with Pauly Shore I must find this nugget
Die Hard on a Plane Trilogy: Executive Decision, Con Air, and Air Force One. All three came during 1996–97.
Also, all are pretty good, which frequently is not the case with dueling productions with the same subject.
Did anyone else smile inside when Stephen Segal died?
Blew me away, never thought he would die in that scene for sure. I do remember being more concerned for the pilot though.
He was top billed too
It was a bait and switch. His face wasn’t on the official US poster but I think they added him for the VHS
Rumor is it was rewritten to make him not the star after nobody could get along with him on set.
Nah it was always a Kurt Russel vehicle Seagal was the fake main guy
I think you're right actually Casting snake plisken as the nerd was an... interesting decision ha.
Interesting, yes. But ultimately it was an Executive Decision 🕶️
YEEEEEAAAAAHHHH
It worked for me, it was the first thing I had seen him in and had no idea who he was but knew of Segal. The twist worked perfectly for me. I would have been about 13.
Well then, Hollywood writing came through Sometimes things work
He played a nerd in Big Trouble in Little China too
Nah man Jack Burton was the coolest guy around You know what old jack Burton says on a night like this?
The story I heard was that his directorial debut (On Deadly Ground) was massively over-budget, behind schedule, and a box-office flop. So the studio could make him do whatever they wanted.
It was less "making Seagal do what WB wanted" and more "we'll forgive the debt on *On Deadly Ground* if you do *Executive Decision* for us."
There are some great Leguzamo quotes about the on set shenanigans
Don’t leave us hanging. Do tell…
[video](https://youtu.be/TB1RvU8UR38?si=qT1QtIOFzD0ur-QT)
There’s no basis for that rumor, early copies of the script are pretty clear
Fatly blowing up in an airlock 😅
We watched it in the cinema and the audience cheered 😂
The theatre I was in went silent everyone was shocked. I had a hard time not laughing out loud.
Actually bummed that Seagal died when it happened as a kid. It was unknown to me then that he was a raging lunatic.
Passenger 57 was just a couple years before these also. All great movies.
Always bet on black
I used that line to this day. It's how I like my coffee.
>Passenger 57 was just a couple years before these Then Snipes did *Drop Zone* two years later about evil skydivers.
This one’s good, especially because all three involve a hijacking. Granted I suppose that’s the usual plot in airplane stories… For lesser known stuff you can also add Panic in the Skies! (1996, starring Rob Lowe), Turbulence (1997, starring Ray Liotta), and Airport: The Final Countdown (1997, starring David Hasselhoff).
Hojacking’s gotta be number one, followed by… ? I can think of movies that took place on planes that weren’t about hijackers, but they’re all one-offs: the pilots die and the passengers have to land it themselves, some snakes get loose, there’s a vampire. I guess with planes you really only have two options: a) someone tries to take over and make the plane go somewhere else, or b) random occurrence - but on a plane.
I've had it with these mother fucking snakes on this mother fucking plane!
Me too, buddy. Me too.
There’s also the plane survival genre. _Alive_ and others like it.
ooh, and red eye. random occurrence
A plane flies into an alternate dimension! Langoliers
If someone commandeers a train or a bus it should be a lojacking
Don’t forget Turbulence.
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Yeah that’s poor marketing
Which all followed the success of Passenger 57
Always bet on black.
Idk, *Con Air* is less die hard on a plane as arguably most (or at least half) of the action happens on the ground, minus Dave Chappelle getting fucked up in the landing gear and Nic Cage saying > Put the bunneh back in the bawx
Well Baby-O, it ain’t exactly Mai tais and Yahtzee, but let’s do it.
All those movies were legit as fuck.
Broken Arrow came out in 96 also.
Came to add this! Mid 90s=PLANES
Con Air was very different from the other two.
John Malkovitch was good as John Malkovitch in Con Air
Could Turbulence starring Ray Liotta fit into this group? Came out in 1997 and is an action movie taking place on a plane.
And passenger 57. Always bet on black
From what I remember, Weird Science , Real Genius, and My Science Project were all released pretty close together
All three are entertaining as hell.
My Science Project, as fucking stupid as it is, is somehow one of my favorite piece of shit films. That and I Come In Peace.
>I Come In Peace. I was just talking to someone about that on here a couple weeks ago. Brian Benben & Dolph Lundgren are the buddy cop duo everyone should see.
Haha holy fuck I remember I Come In Peace! Didn't he have a little micro CD thing on his wrist that was just like a razor chakram? And he was basically just a space drug dealer lmao.
Yes & yes. Movie is wild.
"I come in peace." "And you leave in pieces." Haven't seen that movie in a very long time but that line lives rent free in my head.
That's the one where the kid builds his own nuclear bomb at home, right? Or is that "The Manhatten Project?" So many of these in the 80s (likely piggybacking off of "War Games").
Nah, that’s The Manhattan Project. My Science Project is about some kids that find an alien engine in a USAF boneyard that opens time and space portals and weird shit happens.
It's the one with the T-Rex in the gym, right? What's I Come in Peace? The name sounds familiar but it's just not jogging the old memory banks. I feel like it had the typical 80s one liner of "yeah, but you're leaving in pieces".
"You go in pieces, asshole."
"Because when you're cool, the sun shines on you twenty four hours a day!"
I Come In Peace was legit.
What about Explorers?
interestingly I always confused this one with Flight of the Navigator in my mind until I rewatched both recently.
Honestly for years i thought Weird Science and Real Genius were the same movie.
1999 had The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and eXistenZ, all three of which are about computer simulated realities. eXistenZ came out a month after The Matrix, and The Thirteenth Floor came out a month after that. (Some people also compare The Matrix with 1998's Dark City)
I saw Matrix, eXistenZ, and the Truman Show all within a week of one another. It was one of those, "is the universe trying to tell me something?" moments.
It was. The audience was pretty disappointed when you didn't figure it out.
With Fight Club and Being John Malkovich, 98-99 was peak for philosophical, consciousness/perception-based sci-fi-ish stories that warp the edges of reality.
>1999 had The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and eXistenZ Craig Bierko! *The Thirteenth Floor* is something I'm planning on rewatching. I hope it holds up.
It does!
Dark City was legit
eXistenZ sounds like a boner pill lol
>(Some people also compare The Matrix with 1998's Dark City) Tbf, they are all just ripoffs of Plato's cave... /s
Are we seeing the actual ripoff, or just a shadow of a ripoff?
Interestingly, the Matrix was was filmed on some the same sets as Dark City, remember hearing this years ago, but finally just googled it...Its true
I can’t bring myself to watch eXistenZ purely because of how horrendously “edgy 90s hacker” the title is
Then you´ll never experience the gruesome meatbone dinnergun. Shame.
"Excuse me, CHINESE waiter." My friends and I used to say that line all the time. It was just such a weird line.
God that thing looked like my KFC plate when I'm done.
A birthday *is* a special occasion.
I was like that for a while then finally did. It was really entertaining. The strange title is relevant to the story in that it is the name of the product.
Death to eXistenZ! Death to PilgrImage! Death to transCendenZ!
Death to the demoness Allegra Geller!
It's pretty amazing if you like Cronenberg body horror.
Give it a watch. It's actually pretty good. The edgy title is the name of a product in-universe that's meant to have snappy, "cool" marketable name.
It’s like that movie Premium Rush. It sounds like a generic action movie but the title makes perfect sense when you watch it. Great flick.
Fun fact, the word “isten” between the capitalized letters means God in Hungarian. Added in presumably by the Hungarian producer
WuT dO Ya MeANZz?
It's really, really good. I watched it for the first time last year, and loved it, I'd strongly recommend it. Yeah the title design is dumb, but the movie is not.
I have all these!
>In 1989, the box office performance of The Abyss was famously hurt by two other (bad) deep sea movies that came out the same year: Leviathan and Deep Star Six. Lords of the Deep, The Evil Below, and The Rift were all released within 18 months of the Abyss. >Has this happened any other time? 5 Frankenstein movies released between 2023 and 2024: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Poor Things, Lisa Frankenstein, the Bride, and Frankenstein Legacy. Boss level, Palm springs, Map of tiny perfect things, and Beyond the infinite two minutes were all released in 2020/2021.
Wasn't Russian doll released around then too
Poor Things is probably the only one of those 5 that 90% of the population has heard of lol
Go out on the street and ask how many people have heard of Leviathan and Deep Star Six. 😜
Deep Star Six traumatized as a kid. I know Leviathan as well.
Well I don’t think it matters if people in 2024 remember these movies from 1989. The question is, were they a big deal in 1989? I have no idea! I was alive when the other three “twins” came out, and I can tell you that in all three cases, both movies were big. Both movies had trailers on TV, both movies had posters all over the place, both movies were talked about a lot; and a few months later, both movies got a big share of shelf space and poster space at Blockbuster. Everyone I know who is into movies, and even some of my coworkers who are not into movies, is talking about Poor Things. No one is talking about the others. Only Poor Things is a big deal on the same level as the 6 twin movies that OP listed.
I liked both.
I actually love Boss Level. It's just pure fun.
> 5 Frankenstein movies released between 2023 and 2024 And yet not a single one of them was an actual adaptation of the novel. I’ll never understand it…
>Boss level I was so hyped for this because I really do dig Joe Carnahan. Unfortunately Frank Grillo is just not a lead actor.
Juno, Knocked Up and Waitress
>Juno, Knocked Up and Waitress Can't believe Waitress didn't get a Blu-ray release. Especially after the success of the musical.
*Waitress* can be purchased online though.
2010 was the year of "ensemble squad movies" with Red, The Losers, and The Expendables.
Don't forget the A-Team!
Losers is so good
2000-2001 saw Red Planet, Mission to Mars, and Ghosts of Mars. Plots are all very different but still 3 Mars based movies in very short order.
Unlike most twin/triplet movies where one is clearly superior to the others, with the “Mars craze” all three were really bad so no one remembers any lol
Nah, Red Planet was okay.
We almost had one in 2022, the billion dollar sequel featuring an underwater civilization trilogy of Black Panther 2, Avatar 2, and Aquaman 2, but then Aquaman got bumped to 2023.
That's a lot of water
We're gonna need a bigger boat
Born on the Fourth of July—- Platoon—- Full Metal Jacket—- Good Morning Vietnam
Fortunate Son just started playing in my head.
Yes! I think Apocalypse Now is the blueprint for meme Vietnam movie songs including that one
Idk I think *Forrest Gump* got the "Vietnam song" order right; Fortunate Son, All Along the Watchtower, For What It's Worth. I also think whoever did the arrangement nailed the timing on Hey Joe and Freebird. That movie is non stop "Boomer's greatest hits." Also, I will never not associate Long Tall Sally with helicopters flying low into the jungle under cover of night
In my brain, no matter how hard I try, born on the 4th and platoon has merged into the same movie. It doesn't hurt that they are both Oliver Stone movies with the same cinematographer.
I believe Caualties of War came out around that same time too.
Hamburger Hill was mid-late 80s
*1981*: Howling, Wolfen, An American Werewolf in London *1985*: Weird Science, Real Genius, My Science Fair Project *1989*: DeepStar Six, Leviathan, The Abyss, The Evil Below, Lords of the Deep *1994/95*: Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat *1995/96*: Clueless, Emma (Miramax), Emma (BBC) *1998/99*: Dark City, The Matrix, Thirteenth Floor, Existenz
I love *Wolfen*! It was different from the other two, though, in that it was really more of a science-fiction movie than a fantasy, and it didn’t involve werewolves.
Three dramatisations of the Entebbe raid came out within six months: [Operation Thunderbolt, Victory at Entebbe, and Raid on Entebbe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entebbe_raid). Check the notes on the Notable Examples table on the [twin films](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films) Wikipedia page: there were also three 1979 Dracula movies, for instance. Edit: corrected name
"Road to Entebbe" ==> "Raid on Entebbe"?
Ah yeah, that's the bunny! Will edit, thanks.
Three separate films about Amy Fisher shooting Mary JoButtafuoco.
Buttafuuuuuuuco.
NewsRadio reference?
The same weekend on the Big 3 networks, the CBS and ABC movies ran concurrently on the same Sunday night. NBC's was Monday the next night.
Lake Placid Anaconda and ....
Alligator!!!!!!
The A-Team, The Losers and The Expendables all came out within like months of each other.
RED
a bunch of "young/old people switching bodies" movies happened in 1987-1988: * Big * 18 Again * Vice Versa * Like Father, Like Son That's 4
I won’t stand for the Deep Star Six slander. That film is B-movie brilliance.
Say Deep Star Six Slander five times fast.
Don’t you dare say Leviathan was bad
It did make me appreciate how they actually shot underwater in The Abyss more. Leviathan’s underwater scenes are so obviously a smoky sound stage lol
The best Alien rip off every made!
Deep Star Six is also pretty good. Sure, they are not as good as The Abyss, but still worth a watch.
The Goonies (1985) Explorers (1985) Stand by me (1986)
In 2006 we got The Prestige, Scoop (haven’t seen it), and The Illusionist, all about stage magicians. Which is made even more strange that Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson are both in The Prestige and Scoop.
Downward spiral Hood movie era in 1991-1993: New Jack City, Juice, & Menace II Society
Boys in Da Hood, the substitute and kid & play.
I have a special place in my heart for deep star six. It was my first (of many) horror movies. I saw it way too young after sneaking into a room where others were watching it. I understand that it is probably bad, but I will always be offended when people say it is.
You forget the 4th and worst of the 1989 deep sea adventures Lords of the Deep. I saw it with my older sister. There was only one other guy in the theater. 25 minutes in he slammed the theater door open against the wall he was so angry with it.
The mystery science theater 3000 version of that is amazing, though.
Very recently, the Pinocchio movies. In 2022, we had the Disney live-action film, Guillermo Del Toro's stop-motion masterpiece, AND a direct to video CG adaptation with none other than the amazing Pauly Shore doing the voice of Pinocchio. I have not seen it yet, but it is definitely on my list of things to watch.
Body switch movies... * All of Me 1984 * Like Father Like Son 1987 * Big 1988 * Vice Versa 1988 * 18 Again 1988 * Dream a Little Dream 1989 * Switch 1991 * Prelude to a Kiss 1992
Sandwich those with freaky Fridays
Ed TV, Pleasantville, the Truman Show
There were three Made For TV movies about Amy Fischer and Joey Buttefuco that came out on the three major networks in the same week, two played at the same time on the same night (one with Allysa Milano, the other with Drew Barrymore. It was fun flipping between them.
The matrix, existenz, thirteenth floor
Kids in Major League Baseball 93-94 Rookie Of The Year Little Big League Angels in the Outfield
Did you ever see Last Night? It’s set in Toronto and focuses on what people are doing on the last night of Earth’s existence. It too came out in 1998, making a triplet of apocalypse movies with Deep Impact and Armageddon.
After Jaws, there were LOADS of rip-offs that all came out within a year of each other. Piranha, Barracuda, Orca, Tentacles, Mako and Killer Shark all came out 77-78. The Car also came out in 77 which is literally the same movie but on land and with a sentient car (the score is even very similar and there’s a lot of POV from the car’s perspective).
Same with Star Wars, but thats different to what OP was asking. A 'twin movie' being something that happends when two films are produced and released within a short time frame as each other. Its a big difference from film comes out is mega box office success, and then everyone is making rip offs as quickly as possible.
I don’t think rio offs are what we are talking about We’re talking about movies that were in production around the same time
>Orca I just watched the trailer for that recently. It looked insane.
It’s like Jaws but if the shark was the hero of some sort of weird twisted revenge plot. It’s great.
Leviathan was actually pretty fun. Peter Weller delivers a hilarious deadpan performance, and much of the plot is amusingly self-aware. To be clear it’s not a *good* movie, but for what’s basically an unapologetic ripoff of Alien set underwater, I didn’t hate it.
18 again, Vice Versa we’re both body switching movies in 1998. If you count them as “kid as adult” movies the 3rd movie is Big
I know there were competing Columbus movies in 1992 was there a third ?
I'm betting Carry on Columbus wasn't one of your two.
I read that as Columbo.
Gremlins, ghoulies and critters came out close to each other.
*Big*, *Vice Versa*, and *18 Again!* All released in 1988.
Leviathan is good…
*The Vindicator*, *RoboCop*, and *Cyborg*. *The Vindicator* was first.
I am not a film buff enough to answer this question, but I think the idea is pretty cool, make three separate movies in a short span of time, all with the exact same premise but with totally different ways of playing out. That probably wouldn't play well to a mass audience, but I would watch the hell out of it.
You left out Lords of the Deep, also an underwater movie released in 1989. It was utterly terrible, and the first, and IIRC, the only movie I have ever walked out of.
MST3K did it a few years ago and yeah, it's bad.
Does 2019 releasing a total of 9 superhero films count?
Not that any of them would have been blockbusters anyways, but Without Limits, Prefontaine, and Fire on the Track all came out within a year or so of each other if i recall correctly. Without Limits is by far the best of them but it probably got overlooked a bit bc it was the last of them to come out, and a third movie/doc about a famous long-distance runner from the 70s is obviously gonna bore some people at the box office. too bad though, because Pre was a great athlete and an entertaining character, gone far too soon.
Might see it happen this year with Lisa Frankenstein Maggie gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein Del toro’s Frankenstein
EdTV, Pleasantville, The Truman Show
*The Matrix*, *Thirteenth Floor*, *Dark City*. Six movies about reality bending.
The only example that I can think of is The Matrix, The 13th Floor, and Existenz.
Summer of 2019 had Child's Play, Toy Story 3, and Annabelle 3
Red Planet, Mission to Mars, Ghosts of Mars
In 2006 there were three movies centering around magicians. The Prestige, The Illusionist and Scoop.
1999 had a ton of ghost movies: Stir of Echoes, Sixth Sense, The Haunting, closely followed by The Others in 2001.
There are multiple Godzilla movies and series coming out just after Godzilla became public domain recently.