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Topic   Twin movies

ft763
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30-Apr(#1)
This was probably posted in the past, but what movies do you find are VERY similar to each other?

I'll go with a few that come to my mind...

Battleship and Pacific Rim - Both involve alien invaders, battles at sea and the main character losing his brother in combat but also being the integral device that stops humanity's extinction.

Die Hard - Obviously created many clones, some good and some not so

Olympus has Fallen and WHite House DOwn - Obviously involve an attack on the American president's headquarters, with a US agent who was refused entry into the Secret Service going on a one-man war against the enemies. Also Die Hard in the White House

You're Next and Hush - Both involve 'DIe Hard' in a home invasion, with killers not knowing that they're up against a lethal character and they also share many similarities (blood used to write a taunting message, a crossbow is used in both films, the main character gets her leg badly hurt, the power is shut down, all connection to phones is cut and there's more)

12 Rounds and Die Hard 3 - Both involve the main character being forced to complete different challenges and also finding that the bad guy actually distracted the authorities to achieve a larger goal than simplt surviving challenges, in both cases the villain is trying to steal massive amounts of cash or gold. Villian is also killed by explosions in both stories. Trivia: Die Hard 2 and 12 Rounds were both directed by Renny Harlin

Armegeddon and The Core - See also disaster films of the 1990's (Deep Impact etc). Both involve astronauts travelling outside the earth to stop doomsday, one character is forced to sacrifice himself in both films, a secondary protocol is attempted but this will still cause doomsday, a nuclear device is used to save the earth in both stories, the world somehows knows about the plan in both stories

Lords of the Deep, Leviathan, Deepstar 6 - An undersea expedition team unknowingly releases a monster from the depths. See also The Abyss




Tony
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30-Apr(#2)
Watch the John Wayne movies Rio Bravo and El Dorado.

Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet also looked very similar to me.
shadyfozzie
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30-Apr(#3)
Battle Royale and The Hunger Games...
Finn
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30-Apr(#4)
Deep impact - Armageddon
Twister - Tornado
Transformers - Transmorfers
Pacific Rim - Atlantic Rim
San Andreas - San Andreas Quake
Battlefield Los Angeles - Battle of Los Angeles
Tomb Raider - Tomb Invader


So much more.



MrBean
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30-Apr(#5)
Star Wars - Harry Potter
citizen_zane
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30-Apr(#6)
Avatar might as well be Dances with Wolves.

Finn
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30-Apr(#7)
MrBean wrote:
> Star Wars - Harry Potter


You cheeky sone of a gun!
Anxiouz
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* 30-Apr(#8)
Like Finn listed, there are tons of clones and ripoffs that got made to release just prior to the original film in hopes people will be confused and pay for theirs by mistake. Like kids saying they wanted to see the bug movie (A Bug's Life) and at the theater the parents figured it was Antz.

I remember there was a War for the Worlds (or something) with nearly the same artwork for Spielberg's War of the Worlds.

The list of movies that are similar but completely unintentional is prob rather small.
klusion
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30-Apr(#9)
The Prestige and The Illusionist

Tony
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1-May(#10)
citizen_zane wrote:
> Avatar might as well be Dances with Wolves.
>
Avatar was Fern Gully for adults.
Sid_Ceaser
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1-May(#11)
Wyatt Earp and Tombstone.

Hollywood film companies are notorious for making competing similar films at the same time. It often becomes a race to release first.

citizen_zane
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2-May(#12)
My daughter and I were talking earlier today about movies and I realized another set of similar movies: Bird Box and A Quiet Place.

ft763
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2-May(#13)
Now that you said AQP, The Silence is rather similar to that.
devans77
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3-May(#14)
Star wars and space balls
KCPenguins
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3-May(#15)
I think of clone movies as two movies made by different studios with overlapping productions and similar release windows. Movies with the same general story so close together you know there were spies at one of the studios. It always feels like one was rushed to try and beat the other to theaters.

Armageddon and Deep Impact was the first to come to mind.
ft763
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3-May(#16)
'Armageddon and Deep Impact was the first to come to mind.'

exactly what i thought too, except maybe they don't have to have similar release windows but yet they also share many recurring themes?
KCPenguins
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4-May(#17)
They were the same year, no? Both 1998?
citizen_zane
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4-May(#18)
I remember when Dante's Peak and Volcano came out around the same time. At the time, I thought it was strange that we were getting two volcano movies.

Feeb
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4-May(#19)
Hidden Fortress and Star Wars
MrBean
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4-May(#20)
Pirates of the Caribbean - Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge
KCPenguins
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4-May(#21)
Nosfaratu and Twilight
Feeb
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* 4-May(#22)
Saltburn and The Talented Mr Ripley

Saltburn and Boogie Nights works too.
Orlandu
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* 5-May(#23)
Dr. Strangelove and Fail Safe were so similar (other than in tone) that Kubrick had Columbia Pictures buy the rights to Fail Safe to ensure that it was released eight months after Dr. Strangelove.

Topic   Twin movies