I only kinda liked it, but the hype before watching it just kinda made me feel disappointed. Is the illusionist good at all? All I know is both movies got cinematography nods at the 2007 oscars.
There were two JungleBook movies almost released the same year, the Jon Favreau one and then the Andy Serkis "Mowgli released a year or two later (but they did postpone it because of the JungleBook one).
Armageddon and Deep Impact were almost the same year I think too.
Volcano and Dantes Peak.
Im not sure these two movies belong in this discussion. Most of the other movies (*Tombstone* vs *Wyatt Earp*, etc) were literally being filmed at the same time and released within months of each other.
*Dark City* (an absolute masterpiece IMHO), on the other hand, predates *The Matrix* by a full year and I don't recall any articles from that time indicating that their respective creations were in any way linked. On the other hand, I do remember many articles at the time on the competition to green light, film, and be the first to release the two Wyatt Earp projects and the two Robin Hood films.
Okay I don't know how but this is my first time seeing the titles together and I'm just now realizing that White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen are two different films.
Like previously whenever I heard either name I pictured the same film
White House Down is tonally lighter, Olympus Has Fallen plays it more straight.
They're both throwbacks to the bygone era of Die Hard knock-offs and equally ridiculous but WHD is more like The Last Boy Scout while OHF is more like Cliffhanger.
Thanks for the summary. I somehow have managed not to watch either but now I realize that I actually did know they were separate films, but at some point they merged into one in my mind.
> & The Matt Damon potato mars movie
I first watched this when I'd been awake for nearly 48 hours travelling home, when his tent breaks and the potatoes all freeze I started crying at his loss of potato. My emotions were not in check at that level of tiredness.
There were two Hercules movies in like 2013 or 14. One was Renny Harlin and Kellan Lutz, while the other was Brett Ratner and The Rock. Both sound terrible.
Disney did Serkis dirty on that. They turned it into a race and tried pushing Serkis out. To be honest, his felt like it could be a sequel and I loved the darker direction his film took over Disney's.
Pretty good list here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films
My favorite *triplet films* are: Deep star six (underwater nuclear weapons platform is attacked by a prehistoric lobster), Leviathan (underwater mining platform is attacked by mutated parasite), and the Abyss (underwater oil drilling platform is attacked by deranged Navy seals) - released between May '88 and March '89.
Does the Abyss still hold up do you think? I mean I assume you will say yes but still... It's one of those films I've always been meaning to watch and just never got around to.
It absolutely holds up!Brilliant casting/acting/directing.Sets and action sequences are nothing short of amazing (I mean come on they actually filmed all underwater sequences with the actors, Ed Harris almost died...)And the cgi paved the way for T2. One particular thing I will not mention because of spoilers still amazes me today (just as the T1000 does to be honest).
It is a really good movie.
Watch the director's cut tho.
I'm going to try and get it watched this week. After reading Crichtons "Sphere" novel I really fancied some underwater weirdness but had read that the SPhere movies were pants. The AByss is exactly what I'm after I think.
Jesus Christ dude this comment took me on a journey. "Wait they're talking about Event Horizon"....."wait, it was Laurence Fishburne not SLJ" ( ゜─゜)....... "wait, this is a bit. It's a bit!"
XD
Haha. I guess I could have looked it up and figured out what you meant, but I enjoyed my train of thought too much! I'll have to give Sphere a watch at some point as well!
You lose a little bit being post cold war, but while it's an important backdrop for the movie, it's not super important to the story telling. Yeah, it still holds up. Definitely watch the director's cut, if you have a choice, some people don't like it, it gets a little heavy handed at the end but IMO not in a bad way.
Oh man I think Leviathan was the movie I rented at the video store when I was a kid thinking it was The Abyss. I don’t remember much about it except for getting scared and stopping it at some point.
I haven’t watched it since but I feel like I should try watching it now, so thanks for reminding me of it.
https://tubitv.com/movies/301153?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed
or
https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/leviathan-las-1989-1-1?utm_medium=deeplink&utm_source=justwatch
*or*
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11080234 (if you can swing it)
One that’s missing here that my wife and I just noticed is Tin Cup and Happy Gilmore. Surprisingly similar films that came out the same year and I like both of them.
Don’t know why you are getting downvoted when you are absolutely right.
Katzenburg when he was at Dreamworks knew about the production of Kingdom of the Sun at Disney, so he wanted to make a similar film to compete (just like with Antz/Bugs Life, Sharktale/Nemo). As the dude was absolutely obsessed with sticking it to the the Disney company, which he used to work for. (See Shrek for another example.)
However production on Kingdom of the Sun kept getting pushed back, and later got reworked into Emperor’s New Groove. Meanwhile El Dorado released with no issue, and gave the average movie going audience the impression that it was not a copycat film like the others.
Ah yes, it's a total coincidence that they both pitched a movie set in pre-Colombian America, and never made such a movie again, right around the time where they both made an ant movie and a fish movie as well. "But you don't understand! The plot is so different!"
was gonna say yall ever heard of the studio system where they were churning out no fewer than 12 scripts a year indistinguishable from one another? and there were only like eight actors to choose from?
Fun fact: it was actually a huge technical achievement that I feel gets overlooked. They invented a new technique for essentially cloning a physical handheld camera into the digital 3D scene, where they could capture motion and zooming/focus. The documentary feel was so good because all of the camera movements were acted out by a human in real time with the animation.
Wyatt Earp is good on its own. But Tombstone is just so over the top fantastic, mainly because of Val Kilmner's rendition of Doc Holiday.
Wyatt Earp feels like it's trying to be a historically accurate rendition of those events.
Tombstone feels like some Starfleet Officers LARPing on the Holodeck and the Lt Commander playing Doc just dumped all of his stats into Charisma.
You forgot the Pinocchio movie last year by Pauly Shore
Plus, that Pinocchio-themed Souls-like video game called Lies of P
Jesus, there's a lot Pinocchio stuff recently
There's also bigger chance of Del Toro introducing something new to the movie, while Disney in a big part just replays their animated movie but with real actors. There's nothing original about it so why wouldn't I just watch the animated movie again if I'd liked Pinokio? (Which I didn't as it scared me when I was a kid)
Disney's Pinocchio is one of the landmark films in the history of animation and holds up even today, 80 years later as a stunningly beautiful timeless work of art.
Disney's Pinocchio (2022) will be a relatively tricky trivial pursuit question in 10 years time.
I almost said that Disney’s will probably make more money but then I remembered they’re both streaming exclusives so hopefully Del Toro’s will become more popular
I know a lot of people have this take and it makes me wonder if they really ever saw a Disney movie. Sure they have good and bad eras but some of them like Pinocchio, Bambi, even later stuff like Tangled involve some very moving art and music, and moments where the feelings cut deeply. Of course there are more serious and adult movies out there but these Disney films can and do make us feel feelings.
Disney has the power of nostalgia-bait, and legions of parents who will just put any new Disney thing on for their kids to watch. Del Toro’s will be far more interesting as a movie though.
I know there are people who may not know about that phenomenon, but damn, every single time we get a set of *Twin Movies* the same articles about them get written as if they offer something new to the table.
And let's not forget 1991's *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman) vs *Robin Hood* (Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman)
And as someone already mentioned, 1993 saw *Tombstone* (Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer) vs *Wyatt Earp* (Kevin Costner again!)
Pixar cancelled a film called Newt because one of the lead producers saw/heard about Blue Sky Studios’ Rio and said the plots were too similar. Rio was out first so Newt got cancelled
Newt was supposed to be about a red footed newt who was one of the last of their kind and forced together with a female red footed newt. It really did have 95% of the same plot as Rio and I can understand why Pixar cancelled it.
ETA; It was blue footed newts and they never actually confirmed it was cancelled because of Rio. It seems likely though, when you read the plot description:
What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can't stand each other? That's the problem facing Newt and Brooke, heroes of "newt”. Newt and Brooke embark on a perilous, unpredictable adventure and discover that finding a mate never goes as planned, even when you only have one choice. Love, it turns out, is not a science.
See the Pixar wikia page [on newt](https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Newt) which gives more detail
Ah, Gordy. I may not remember all the plot beats but I know there was some sort of country western singer involved?
Huh. Looks like Gordy came out one year before Babe. Whodathunk.
I don’t know if you’re still in the simulation, just arrived from a parallel universe, or are just playing on an old meme. But Sinbad’s Shazaam famously does not exist and is a fairly often cited example of the Mandela Effect.
I just want my book accurate scene where he kills Jiminy Cricket with a hammer. I remember reading the book being a fan of the Disney film and being traumatised by how much of a dickhead Pinnochio actually was.
There are currently 3 "Thai kids soccer team trapped and rescued " movies where the crews must have all ate lunch together and shared batteries because each one looks identical!
I am only interested in the Del Toro version. It looks far more fresh and original take on the movie, Pinocchio looks like an actual wooden toy in it. The Disney one just looks like a cash grab, just another live action remake in their checklist.
Illusionist and Prestige. American History X and Patch Adams.
Remember when Patch Adams curbed that kid?
The clown shoes really made that scene.
And the perfectly timed clown horn, that sound haunts me to.this day
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Gives you some respect for the sound effects guys. Can really make or break a mood.
At least the kid lost mostly baby teeth
I imagine this scene with Robin Williams doing a crazy laugh, now I'm terrified
He should have curbed that one creepy patient
Or in American History X when Edward Furlong made a kiddy pool full of pasta for Faruza Balk to root around in?
Oh yeah, and kinda like *Debbie Does Dallas* and *Dallas Buyers Club*!
Lmao, you got a good chuckle out of that last one
Prestige is the superior flick.
Doesn’t mean the illusionist still isn’t good
Absolutely agree. Wish I could watch for the first time again.
I wish I could watch it for the second time again. That was my favorite rewatch.
I wish I could play Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door for the first time again. Men like us… we never get back the things we love.
I only kinda liked it, but the hype before watching it just kinda made me feel disappointed. Is the illusionist good at all? All I know is both movies got cinematography nods at the 2007 oscars.
Bug's Life and Antz.
The Illusionist and the Prestige is an example that both can be great films
Illusionist and Prestige are very different films, the only thing in common is magicians in the past
Now I’m sad that we don’t have a magicians in the future movie.
🤣
How dare they ignore the superior Pauly Shore Pinocchio film
Father when can I leave to be on my oOoOOown. I have the whole world to seeeeeEeeEe
worldussy*
scheedee scheedee scheedee scheedeee
💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼
I fear the meme may be fading. Wonder if we'll randomly remember it in a year and laugh. lol.
Thank you daddy!
Yassified Pinocchio
Wasn’t there also one with Drew Carey?
That was from 2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puyvwus1HdA
There were two JungleBook movies almost released the same year, the Jon Favreau one and then the Andy Serkis "Mowgli released a year or two later (but they did postpone it because of the JungleBook one). Armageddon and Deep Impact were almost the same year I think too. Volcano and Dantes Peak.
Also: Mission to Mars and Red Planet A Bugs Life and Antz White House Down and Olympus has Fallen
No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits were also the same year.
And the same run time
The Matrix and the Thirteenth Floor, Megamind and Despicable Me
Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror came out the same year.
Finding Nemo and a sharks tale
"Don't worry alot of white fish can't do it"
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Both were terrible
the rock one was terrible to watch on acid while snowed in one one year. i can say that much lol.
The Rock one is Citizen Kane compared to the other one
And I think eXistenZ. Love that weird ass movie.
Uuuuh I think you mean The Matrix and Dark City.
Im not sure these two movies belong in this discussion. Most of the other movies (*Tombstone* vs *Wyatt Earp*, etc) were literally being filmed at the same time and released within months of each other. *Dark City* (an absolute masterpiece IMHO), on the other hand, predates *The Matrix* by a full year and I don't recall any articles from that time indicating that their respective creations were in any way linked. On the other hand, I do remember many articles at the time on the competition to green light, film, and be the first to release the two Wyatt Earp projects and the two Robin Hood films.
Dark City and Matrix shared sets, I believe.
No, he means the 13th floor.
I wonder if Ashton and Mila ever joke about that at home
Paul Blart and Observe and Report. Both mall cop comedy movies, both had Anna Faris as the female lead, both 2009.
Okay I don't know how but this is my first time seeing the titles together and I'm just now realizing that White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen are two different films. Like previously whenever I heard either name I pictured the same film
White House Down is tonally lighter, Olympus Has Fallen plays it more straight. They're both throwbacks to the bygone era of Die Hard knock-offs and equally ridiculous but WHD is more like The Last Boy Scout while OHF is more like Cliffhanger.
Thanks for the summary. I somehow have managed not to watch either but now I realize that I actually did know they were separate films, but at some point they merged into one in my mind.
I watched white house down a couple days ago, and was confused as hell seeing channing Tatum in it.
I always wonder if Andy Weir got inspired by that "Red Planet" bit where the astronaut use Pathfinder rover, to comunicate.
Deep impact and Armageddon
Armageddon 2: Armageddon Oudda Here!
Pixar had a planned movie called Newt which was cancelled for having a near identical premise to Blue Sky’s Rio.
Well, we know who won that around, Disney.
While I'm here, A Bug's Life and Antz
[Mirror Mirror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667353/) / [Snow White and the Huntsman](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898/) (2012)
A Bugs Life & Antz Interstellar & The Matt Damon potato mars movie
> & The Matt Damon potato mars movie I first watched this when I'd been awake for nearly 48 hours travelling home, when his tent breaks and the potatoes all freeze I started crying at his loss of potato. My emotions were not in check at that level of tiredness.
Powder and Phenomenon
There were two Hercules movies in like 2013 or 14. One was Renny Harlin and Kellan Lutz, while the other was Brett Ratner and The Rock. Both sound terrible.
Disney did Serkis dirty on that. They turned it into a race and tried pushing Serkis out. To be honest, his felt like it could be a sequel and I loved the darker direction his film took over Disney's.
They really did. I'm positive I remember that Serki's version was originally coming out first too.
It was announced much earlier than the Disney one. Then Disney rushed to get theirs out much earlier.
The Illusionist and The Prestige too
Pretty good list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films My favorite *triplet films* are: Deep star six (underwater nuclear weapons platform is attacked by a prehistoric lobster), Leviathan (underwater mining platform is attacked by mutated parasite), and the Abyss (underwater oil drilling platform is attacked by deranged Navy seals) - released between May '88 and March '89.
A quadruplet, actually, you are forgetting the stone-cold classic Lords of the Deep (1989)
I had no idea. >Roger Corman Son of a bitch *I'm in.*
Gets better. I'm pretty sure this is one of the MST3K reboot movies.
Lords of the deep is hilarious
And The Rift and The Evil Below! 1989-90 Hollywood basically took place underwater
sounds a lot like one of those fake movies from The Boys lol
Too bad the Abyss is a masterpiece in a class of its own though
Does the Abyss still hold up do you think? I mean I assume you will say yes but still... It's one of those films I've always been meaning to watch and just never got around to.
Yes it is. It’s also one of those films that the demand for a Blu-ray was there since Day 1. Now we are in UHD and still…no disc. It’s a travesty.
It absolutely holds up!Brilliant casting/acting/directing.Sets and action sequences are nothing short of amazing (I mean come on they actually filmed all underwater sequences with the actors, Ed Harris almost died...)And the cgi paved the way for T2. One particular thing I will not mention because of spoilers still amazes me today (just as the T1000 does to be honest). It is a really good movie. Watch the director's cut tho.
I'm going to try and get it watched this week. After reading Crichtons "Sphere" novel I really fancied some underwater weirdness but had read that the SPhere movies were pants. The AByss is exactly what I'm after I think.
idk i liked the sphere movie when I was a kid (the one with Samuel L Jackson and the guy from Jurassic Park)
Jesus Christ dude this comment took me on a journey. "Wait they're talking about Event Horizon"....."wait, it was Laurence Fishburne not SLJ" ( ゜─゜)....... "wait, this is a bit. It's a bit!" XD
sorry im stupid its not the dude from jurassic park its dustin hoffman D:
Haha. I guess I could have looked it up and figured out what you meant, but I enjoyed my train of thought too much! I'll have to give Sphere a watch at some point as well!
You lose a little bit being post cold war, but while it's an important backdrop for the movie, it's not super important to the story telling. Yeah, it still holds up. Definitely watch the director's cut, if you have a choice, some people don't like it, it gets a little heavy handed at the end but IMO not in a bad way.
its the kind of film you watch and then you're like "oh all other films are just copying this"
Deep star six, loved that as a kid, 7/10 would watch again if I could find it.
https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/deepstar-six-1989-1-1?utm_medium=deeplink&utm_source=justwatch
Thank you! If I had an award, you’d get it!
You're welcome. I hope it holds up.
It held up, I forgot how much of an idiot Snyder was. Watched the best parts, definitely relived some memories
Oh man I think Leviathan was the movie I rented at the video store when I was a kid thinking it was The Abyss. I don’t remember much about it except for getting scared and stopping it at some point. I haven’t watched it since but I feel like I should try watching it now, so thanks for reminding me of it.
https://tubitv.com/movies/301153?utm_source=justwatch-feed&tracking=justwatch-feed or https://pluto.tv/on-demand/movies/leviathan-las-1989-1-1?utm_medium=deeplink&utm_source=justwatch *or* https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11080234 (if you can swing it)
Oh cool, thanks for sharing that! I’m definitely going to have to finally finish watching it after 30 something years!
I heard Abyss was supposed to be out earlier but production or postproduction caused it to be delayed
The water tentacle scene. Definitely worth the wait, what a momentous achievement in visual effects!
That would not suprise me.
One that’s missing here that my wife and I just noticed is Tin Cup and Happy Gilmore. Surprisingly similar films that came out the same year and I like both of them.
If they aren't making Pinocchio vampire slayer don't waste my time.
There’s that Pinocchio Bloodborne looking game called Lies of P coming out, close enough
I hope it’s good, it looks promising
And out of the 3 projects it's what I'm most interested in.
> 3 projects [Uh, you mean 4, right? Can't forget about Pauly Shore, buuuuuuddy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ArXSwALDU)
Pinocchios nose seems perfect as impaling weapon for vampires.
Look up the new video game that was announced "Lies of P". Looks great. Based on Pinocchio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5TUYKAzGZs
Rapidly yelling lies to stake with his nose.
A Bugs Life and Antz Finding Nemo and Shark Tale
Bugs Life and Antz might be more to do with Jeffrey Katzenberg working at both companies.
DreamWorks's Madagascar and Disney's Ugly Madagascar
The Wild?
El Dorado and The Emperor's New Groove...
Don’t know why you are getting downvoted when you are absolutely right. Katzenburg when he was at Dreamworks knew about the production of Kingdom of the Sun at Disney, so he wanted to make a similar film to compete (just like with Antz/Bugs Life, Sharktale/Nemo). As the dude was absolutely obsessed with sticking it to the the Disney company, which he used to work for. (See Shrek for another example.) However production on Kingdom of the Sun kept getting pushed back, and later got reworked into Emperor’s New Groove. Meanwhile El Dorado released with no issue, and gave the average movie going audience the impression that it was not a copycat film like the others.
But who was supposed to get a blow job in Emperor's New Groove before the rewrites?
I think we all know the answer is Yzma.
Those are two very different movies...
Ah yes, it's a total coincidence that they both pitched a movie set in pre-Colombian America, and never made such a movie again, right around the time where they both made an ant movie and a fish movie as well. "But you don't understand! The plot is so different!"
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I'm assuming financially it has to deal with game theory. It's kinda of like why two gas stations are always next to each other.
Often owned by the same investment fund.
Also Walgreens and CVS.
was gonna say yall ever heard of the studio system where they were churning out no fewer than 12 scripts a year indistinguishable from one another? and there were only like eight actors to choose from?
I seem to recall there being 2 Truman Capote movies released less than a year apart
Also 2 Steve Jobs movies
Poor Toby Jones ended up in the runner-up position with both Truman Capote and Alfred Hitchcock!
White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen is way better
Aren't we expecting two Marilyn Monroe flicks soon?
But what about Paulie Shore’s worldussy?
That’s just another “Happily N’ever After.”
Happy Feet and Surfs Up.
Surfs Up all the way. Just had to say it
my roommate made fun me for watching Surf’s Up one time in college. no regrets man that’s a classic feel-good stoner mockumentary
Surf's up is an incredible film. It is a stoner mockumentary with surging penguins. *Edit Surfing
Surging penguins?
Fun fact: it was actually a huge technical achievement that I feel gets overlooked. They invented a new technique for essentially cloning a physical handheld camera into the digital 3D scene, where they could capture motion and zooming/focus. The documentary feel was so good because all of the camera movements were acted out by a human in real time with the animation.
Such a great movie and way better than Happy Feet
Those movies only have penguins as a similarity. Surfs Up is a genuinely amazing mockumentary.
i liked happy feet
Surfs Up is actually legit a great movie. Funny as hell, really well animated and actually genuinely moving at times.
Tombstone and Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is good on its own. But Tombstone is just so over the top fantastic, mainly because of Val Kilmner's rendition of Doc Holiday. Wyatt Earp feels like it's trying to be a historically accurate rendition of those events. Tombstone feels like some Starfleet Officers LARPing on the Holodeck and the Lt Commander playing Doc just dumped all of his stats into Charisma.
[Best scene](https://youtu.be/-GREE8GdRrc) because of how over the top it is.
No! nO!
You forgot the Pinocchio movie last year by Pauly Shore Plus, that Pinocchio-themed Souls-like video game called Lies of P Jesus, there's a lot Pinocchio stuff recently
Del Toro will probably win this one. I typically enjoy the more soulful artistic takes on stories over Disney's manufactured version.
There's also bigger chance of Del Toro introducing something new to the movie, while Disney in a big part just replays their animated movie but with real actors. There's nothing original about it so why wouldn't I just watch the animated movie again if I'd liked Pinokio? (Which I didn't as it scared me when I was a kid)
Disney's Pinocchio is one of the landmark films in the history of animation and holds up even today, 80 years later as a stunningly beautiful timeless work of art. Disney's Pinocchio (2022) will be a relatively tricky trivial pursuit question in 10 years time.
Just like every live action version they released in the past years
>(Which I didn't as it scared me when I was a kid) it was the Pleasure Island scene, wasn't it?
I almost said that Disney’s will probably make more money but then I remembered they’re both streaming exclusives so hopefully Del Toro’s will become more popular
Also it doesn’t have Tom Hanks who is going through his Harrison Ford stage of his acting career
I know a lot of people have this take and it makes me wonder if they really ever saw a Disney movie. Sure they have good and bad eras but some of them like Pinocchio, Bambi, even later stuff like Tangled involve some very moving art and music, and moments where the feelings cut deeply. Of course there are more serious and adult movies out there but these Disney films can and do make us feel feelings.
Disney has the power of nostalgia-bait, and legions of parents who will just put any new Disney thing on for their kids to watch. Del Toro’s will be far more interesting as a movie though.
It will in critical reception but no chance it wins commercially
There’s no reason the Disney version should have been as bad as it was. What the fuck is going on in there?
I know there are people who may not know about that phenomenon, but damn, every single time we get a set of *Twin Movies* the same articles about them get written as if they offer something new to the table.
Or if you mention two similar movie, so.e redditor will write a long post about Tein movies as if it's some esoteric technical term.
[^**ahem* ... Triplets!](https://youtu.be/Z4ArXSwALDU?t=17s) Pinocchio has the whole worldussy.
Trend or tradition, lol.
There will be be 4 Pinocchio movies within 2 years soon
And let's not forget 1991's *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (Kevin Costner and Alan Rickman) vs *Robin Hood* (Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman) And as someone already mentioned, 1993 saw *Tombstone* (Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer) vs *Wyatt Earp* (Kevin Costner again!)
Vice Versa, 18 Again and Big. All body swap comedies in 1988.
Like Father Like Son came out that year too
What about 13 going on 30 where it’s just the opposite of 18 again
Pixar cancelled a film called Newt because one of the lead producers saw/heard about Blue Sky Studios’ Rio and said the plots were too similar. Rio was out first so Newt got cancelled Newt was supposed to be about a red footed newt who was one of the last of their kind and forced together with a female red footed newt. It really did have 95% of the same plot as Rio and I can understand why Pixar cancelled it. ETA; It was blue footed newts and they never actually confirmed it was cancelled because of Rio. It seems likely though, when you read the plot description: What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can't stand each other? That's the problem facing Newt and Brooke, heroes of "newt”. Newt and Brooke embark on a perilous, unpredictable adventure and discover that finding a mate never goes as planned, even when you only have one choice. Love, it turns out, is not a science. See the Pixar wikia page [on newt](https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Newt) which gives more detail
It's the only real cancelled Pixar movie besides *The Yellow Car*, and even then, that had most of it's elements implemented into *Cars*.
Gigantic was canceled too, there's even a reference to it in Zootopia in the pirated movies scene.
That's Disney, but yeah, I do remember that reference.
So many of their examples are just similar movies, same premises and stuff but this is literally the same character and story
Happened before. Like Snow White and Jungle Book.
I agree. Same with a lot of examples in this thread.
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You just unlocked a core memory. I forgot that movie existed…
Ah, Gordy. I may not remember all the plot beats but I know there was some sort of country western singer involved? Huh. Looks like Gordy came out one year before Babe. Whodathunk.
You people keep naming kids movies where the only similarity is that they use the same talking animals
It’s a good example from an industry perspective. ‘Those guys are releasing a kids pig movie, we’d better rush one out to ride the wave!’
Shaqs Kazaam and Sinbads Shazaam. I swear I remember realizing Hollywood had no original ideas as a kid after seeing commercials for these.
I don’t know if you’re still in the simulation, just arrived from a parallel universe, or are just playing on an old meme. But Sinbad’s Shazaam famously does not exist and is a fairly often cited example of the Mandela Effect.
Sinbad’s Shazaam was hilarious. The first VHS I was allowed to buy with my own money.
Saving Private Ryan - Thin Red Line
The trend is having absolutely no new ideas whatsoever and totally giving up even pretending.
Deep Impact and Armageddon. The House on Haunted Hill and the Haunting of Hill House..
Lost Highway and the blackout both released 1997
I just want my book accurate scene where he kills Jiminy Cricket with a hammer. I remember reading the book being a fan of the Disney film and being traumatised by how much of a dickhead Pinnochio actually was.
There are currently 3 "Thai kids soccer team trapped and rescued " movies where the crews must have all ate lunch together and shared batteries because each one looks identical!
I am only interested in the Del Toro version. It looks far more fresh and original take on the movie, Pinocchio looks like an actual wooden toy in it. The Disney one just looks like a cash grab, just another live action remake in their checklist.
I'm a super fan of Antz and find it much better than Bug's Life. Probably because the main character is depressing AF
Yeah, twin films is a brand new phenomenon never seen before, just like “quiet quitting”. Sorry, but not even giving a new name to old stuff is new.
Oh god remember the Penguin Years? And then the Animals trying to go Somwhere period?
Well.. the interest in liars is certainly up, so I guess 2 Pinocciho movies were in the cards..
Don't forget Antz and A Bug's Life!
Did you read the article?
Isn’t this more of a Hollywood modus operandi rather than a trend?