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Venge
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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 04:20 Edited at: 9th Feb 2007 04:21
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Okay, I can't be the only one who noticed this.
A lot of movies recently have been released in doubles...(okay that made no sense)

I mean as if two film companies got the same basic idea and made different movies.

Some examples(note that I haven't seen all of these,mostly commercials):

Madagascar-Animals escape from New york zoo and go to madagascar
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The Wild-Animals escape from new york zoo and ???

The Prestige-Two magicians competing for some reason..?
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The Illusionist-A magician suspected of ...doing something wrong...(very confusing movie)


There are more, but I can't remember the titles
Has anyone else noticed this?

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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 04:25
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Personally, I haven't even heard of 'The Wild' or 'The Illusionist', so I can't comment there. However, I do know some films have been scrapped because similar ideas have been realeased just before them (by pure coincidence).

Not recently, but two relatively similar movies that came out in 1998 were Armageddon and Deep Impact. Other then that, I can't pick any off the top of my head.


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Posted: 9th Feb 2007 07:31
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Quote: "Armageddon and Deep Impact"


I dont think that was coincidence. I think Deep Impact was a take-off of Armageddon. Though I may be wrong. There was at least one more meteor movie after that. My grandma rented it, but I can't remember the name.

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There's the invisibles and the ant bully... I know, childish movies, but I've seen their commercials, but they look the same, just slightly different.

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They were both cash-ins of the public fears of meteors hitting earth, millenium and all that crud.

Personally I preferred Deep Impact, maybe it was the whole Bruce Willis dying to save earth thing, or it could just be that horrible Aerosmith song, but Deep Impact just seemed to be more 'conceivable'.

But I know what you mean, it's like modern horror movies, we see clones and samey movies all the time, because for some reason that style of horror makes money. You know, kids end up somewhere weird and mostly end up dead at the hands of some local psychopath. The new Lecter movie might be worth a look though, damn good book, and there's no way for them to use Hopkins, so it should be a little removed from the river of crud coming from Hollywood.

One modern horror I enjoyed was Wolf Creek, set in Australia and apparently based on a true story, it has that creepy vibe that Aussie films often do - I like films that make you think, and this certainly does, not necessarily about the plot but about how screwed up some people can be under the surface.

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At work one of the directors from Antz gave a lecture and he said this is pure coincidence (Sharks & Finding Nemo, Antz & Bugs Life, Madagascar & Animals) etc. Hard to believe, but who knows?

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There was Star Wars and Harry Potter...Orphaned child fighting against evil. Goes away to train and develop his skills. Discovers truths about his family along the way.

Oh...one of them was about 20 years prior to the other.



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Flushed Away (already released) and Ratatouille (Pixar, released this summer)


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C'mon, what about Antz and Bugs life? Both came out about the same time and were completely similar (bug movies made with computers...). Oh, and what about Nemo and Shark Tale?

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Quote: "At work one of the directors from Antz gave a lecture and he said this is pure coincidence (Sharks & Finding Nemo, Antz & Bugs Life, Madagascar & Animals) etc. Hard to believe, but who knows?"


Jeku^^

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Yeah, I see my mistake now. Basically missed the middle.... My sig goes for concentration esp late at night...

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ah I remember another one

Happy Feet-animated movie about a tap-dancing penguin
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Surfs Up(i think)-animated movie about surfing penguins

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do u notice that most double moives are made by pixar and are animated films (other than deep impact and armagedeon)
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Quote: "here was at least one more meteor movie after that."

Asteroid?

I've never noticed Pixar to make a movie that's already out.

Quote: "The Prestige-Two magicians competing for some reason..?"

spoiler


I saw the Prestige and liked it, but kept getting confused when I heard about a movie called Illusionist. I kept thinking maybe that's what I saw, got them confused.

I can't remember what movie it was, but I know Dreamworks(i think) and another company both created the same movie. The two companies had different views about how to create the film and couldn't agree and so both went their separate ways and somehow found legals ways for both to create movies based on the same script.


Quote: "I think Deep Impact was a take-off of Armageddon"

Deep Impact was actually released first.

Dante's Peak and Volcano is another "double".

I was just reading on Wiki about Deep Impact and saw this statement:
"Deep Impact was the first Hollywood movie where an African American is seen as a sitting President of the United States."

Ummm, what about the black president in Fifth Element released a year earlier?

Haha, this bit of trivia about deep impact is amusing:
"An episode of from the sixth season of The Simpsons entitled "Bart's Comet" predates this movie by three years and features an almost identical plot, with the object being destroyed as well as a failed attempt to destroy it."


For a list of more "doubles", Wiki actually has a list of several.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competing_films_with_similar_plots

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It looks like they missed one, at least.

"Scary Movie" (2000) was due to have a little competition from "Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th" (2000). another spoof horror movie. It is not terrible but was not as good as "Scary Movie".

Rumor heard was that it was bought and held back from release in theaters so it would not hurt Scary Movies box office.

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lol wikipedia is great...
but who has the time to look up all those movies?

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Someone with either of the follolwing:

Superior intellegence
Too much time
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Any combination of the above
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I just searched for deep impact on wiki and the rest was just all listed there.

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not you, I mean the people that made it for wiki...

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Maybe it's just competition between rival studios in some instances, or a surplus of footage or something.


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Quote: "Ummm, what about the black president in Fifth Element released a year earlier?"


Wasn't he the president of Earth (not the USA)? Sorry guys, but they're not one and the same just yet.


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Quote: "Wasn't he the president of Earth (not the USA)? Sorry guys, but they're not one and the same just yet"


Dude what planet are you from? George Bush rules the world. Under me of course.

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Along with Madagascar, Over the Hedge just came out too. So that makes a triple.



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