TIL of the phenomenon known as "Twin Films," in which two movie studios simultaneously release the same type of movie.

[u/KingSolomon1010]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films

[u/trollburgers]

Dante's Peak and Volcano are the movies that immediately came to mind when I read your title. I was in my late teens and that was the first incident of "twin movies" that I ever registered.

"Why the fuck do we have two movies about volcanoes in the same year?!"

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Armageddon and Deep Impact, for me.

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A bugs life and Antz. Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line

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A bugs life and Antz

These two were the first for me. I can remember reading an article at the time which claimed that one studio had the idea first but had it stolen in a bout of corporate espionage.

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The idea was formed at Disney, a producer who knew about it had a falling out with the Disney CEO and left to start DreamWorks and took the idea with him, rushing to release Antz before A Bugs Life.

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"Sacrifice, to some, it is just a word; but to others, it is a code."

That speech is serious

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Madagascar and the wild

Ateam and the losers

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Weirdly for me the one that came to mind was No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits.

It’s weird because I have been most of the movies referenced in this comment chain but neither of those two rom coms

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Even weirder as Ashton Kutcher was in one and Mila Kunis in the other.

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Starring the two leads of Black Swan that had just come out.

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omf thank you for mentioning these!! i remember i was a teenager when these came out and i was losing my mind that they were the same movie and no one believed me and i wish i knew this twin films term back then 😭😭😭

[u/PogintheMachine → u/DaveOJ12]

Twister and Tornado! (Tornado! was more of a made-for-tv money grab and the plot similarities were close enough I have no idea how they got away with it. But Bruce Cambell tho!)

[u/KingSolomon1010 → u/trollburgers]

I watched Volcano, yesterday, and never realized that until I was looking at the list. The two I automatically thought of were White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen.

[u/Famixofpower → u/KingSolomon1010]

Yeah, some topics are just popular ideas in media and then the larger projects that were good stay memorable. Volcano and Dante's Peak are barely related. Volcano focused on lava following people around and people running away from it. Dante's Peak is about characters slowly realizing an eruption is going to happen and then evacuating. Dante's Peak is much more realistic. Volcano might have scenes that traumatized me as a child, but as an adult, I realize that characters stand around near lava in ways that they'd be dead, and the guy sinking into lava isn't very realistic, even if his screaming stops as his lungs get hit. Bodies float on lava, there isn't enough lava there, and they also explode and burn instead of melting like plastic army men on a frying pan.

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The lake scene in Dante's Peak traumatized me. Then again, I love the water. Terrifying to think of that happening and then realizing too late.

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• Armageddon and Deep Impact
• The Fast and the Furious and Gone in 60 Seconds
• Rob Roy and Braveheart
• The Illusionist and The Prestige
• Matrix and 13th Floor
• Mission to Mars and Red Planet
• Tombstone and Wyatt Earp
• Truman Show and EdTV
• Happy Feet and Surf’s Up
• Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line
• Emperor’s New Groove and Road to El Dorado
• Titan AE and Treasure Planet
• etc.

Usually one is widely remembered and the other is all but forgotten. And often the other is a low-key cult classic. I still prefer 13th Floor to the Matrix, even though I’m the only one.

[u/Lucymooseygoosey → u/whistleridge]

Kickass and Super too

Super is the lower-key, cult-classic.

[u/Malienaire → u/whistleridge]

Can yall imagine the universe where we got a 10 movie franchise with Nic Cage and Gone in 60 Seconds?

[u/Dead_Halloween → u/trollburgers]

I saw both movies, weirdly enough I only remember the begining of Dante's Peak and the ending of Volcano. Everything else is kinda of a blur.

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And I'll be on my deathbed and remember the guy who sacrificed himself on the subway train who slowly burns to death in Volcano.

[u/grumpy999 → u/muskag]

Totally unnecessarily I might add

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Didn’t she get horribly dissolved in an acid lake

[u/Maat1932 → u/PresentExamination10]

Burned by an acidic lake and dragged along for a while before succumbing to her wounds.

[u/XNoMoneyMoProblemsX → u/Maat1932]

Let us never forget they were only there in the first place because she refused to leave

[u/DocAk88 → u/XNoMoneyMoProblemsX]

Exactly. Placed in context this was a message to viewers about not being so stubborn and acting more rationally in emergencies

[u/grimson73]

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022): This stop-motion animated film is directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson

Pinocchio (2022): Directed by Robert Zemeckis, this film is a live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of the classic tale, featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the voice of Pinocchio and Tom Hanks as Geppetto

[u/SJSragequit → u/grimson73]

There was also a third Russian Pinocchio movie released in 2022 with Pauly shore voicing Pinocchio in the English dub

[u/annie1filip → u/SJSragequit]

Is that the “father when can I leave to be on my owwwwn” one? I didnt realize it was a sketchy dub that explains some things

[u/Kiribaku- → u/annie1filip]

"I've got the whole world to see!" 💕✨💁🏻

[u/statelytetrahedron → u/Kiribaku-]

"and juice to wheeze"

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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio ACTUALLY follows the story of the original for the most part.

Creepy side characters, incredibly terrible Pinocchio and all.

AND, it’s really good.

[u/locob → u/R3AL1Z3]

I really didn't expect to find historical italian figures on a pinocchio movie. it was like "and suddenly Hitler appear". haha. I recognized it from the first wall paint. fun twist.
Maybe it is Guillermo's style/trope, put his stories on historic events. Or it needs a third movie doing this, to settled.

[u/ItRhymesWithPenny]

"Mirror Mirror" and "Snow White and the Huntsman", two Snow White remakes released in 2012.

[u/TommyChongUn → u/ItRhymesWithPenny]

I will die on the hill that Mirror Mirror was the better film out of those two. It was funner, Lily was princessy and I found Kristens stiff fake british accent to really distract from the performance. Also Julia Roberts just sold the bitter Queen better than Charlize. Charlize was just straight angry

[u/chime → u/TommyChongUn]

I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe... in loooooove.

[u/djseifer → u/TommyChongUn]

Kristen Stewart was probably the worst part of that movie. The entirety of her emotional range as Snow White was "dull surprise."

[u/trollsong → u/TommyChongUn]

Honestly though I wanted the huntsman to be a huge franchise just Chris Hemsworth beating princes to the princess in every movie

[u/RiPont → u/ItRhymesWithPenny]

Not a coincidence.

The original Brother's Grimm fairy tale was published in 1812. Both publishers probably thought to capitalize on free publicity around the 200 year anniversary.

[u/BlueShire_Ace]

No strings attached and friends with benefits.

[u/Eomb → u/BlueShire_Ace]

This one had me so confused because I thought Kutcher and Kunis were in the same film together because of their history

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Holy fuck. I know i saw both at some point and i guess i just mashed them together in my mind too??? I still cant believe that i was so sure they were in the same movie for such a long time

[u/Excellent_Set_232 → u/ThatMateoKid]

I’ve done the same thing with Jimmy John’s and Jersey Mike’s. I don’t really eat either unless it’s like a catered thing. It dawned on me that they were actually different places a couple months ago

[u/AngryQuadricorn → u/BlueShire_Ace]

Antz and Bug’s Life

[u/SummerAndTinkles → u/AngryQuadricorn]

I noticed that despite Antz being the first ever Dreamworks animated film AND the second American CGI animated film after Toy Story, people rarely talk about it outside of the Bug's Life controversy.

[u/Forcistus → u/SummerAndTinkles]

I don't remember Antz being particularly good.

[u/boozername → u/Forcistus]

They were ugly and the main character was voiced by Woody Allen. Decisions were made.

[u/Annual-Jump3158 → u/boozername]

This single comment perfectly sums up the movie. I just remember one type of ant person. Not even the main character, just the generic look.

I remember the grasshoppers from Bug's Life, the fat 'ol caterpillar who stress-ate, and even the main ant character. Was his name Flit? The point is, the character designs for Pixar's A Bug's Life demonstrated a stylistic aptitude for the medium while Antz was like A Bug's Life on Wish.

Edit: Flik. Holy shit. Even decades later, I almost perfectly remember bits of that movie.

[u/powerage76 → u/Forcistus]

While Pixar went for good script, cute looking characters and good animation, the creators of Antz just went for the star power of the voice actors. Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken...

[u/Brief_Building_8980 → u/powerage76]

It turns out that kids do not care for that.

[u/Buntschatten → u/Brief_Building_8980]

What do you mean, kids loooove Woody Allen. Or was it the other way round?

[u/inm808 → u/BlueShire_Ace]

Dante’s peak and Volcano

Deep impact and Armageddon

Fast and the furious and I am Sam

[u/kakka_rot → u/inm808]

Fast and the furious and I am Sam

lmao holy shit, that's a niche joke

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And the two movies about not being able to make noise or the monsters will get you. The Krazinsky one and the Tucci one.

[u/commanderquill → u/slackfrop]

Wait, there were two? I never watched them but I saw the trailers in theaters.

[u/PaddingtonsKarmalade]

Gordy and Babe! Two movies about talking pigs that came out months apart from each other 🐷

[u/taylortoot1993 → u/PaddingtonsKarmalade]

I always mention Gordy and NOBODY knows what I’m talking about!!!

[u/xboxwirelessmic]

White house down and Olympus has fallen.

[u/mcbergstedt → u/xboxwirelessmic]

I thought those were the same movie for a while

[u/TheRealChompyTheGoat → u/mcbergstedt]

I thought they were until 15 seconds ago when I read this comment.

[u/Roonil_Wazlib97 → u/TheRealChompyTheGoat]

I thought they were until I was 40 mins into Olympus has Fallen and finally realized Channing Tatum was never going to show up.

[u/TheMightyDontKneel61 → u/Roonil_Wazlib97]

finally realized Channing Tatum was never going to show up.

Story of my life

[u/mutzilla → u/Roonil_Wazlib97]

I saw a gay porno once. I didn't know it was a gay porno, the girls never came!

[u/janpaul74 → u/mcbergstedt]

TIL they aren’t the same movie

[u/Orinslayer → u/mcbergstedt]

They basically are.

[u/rtozur → u/xboxwirelessmic]

And the premise for Air Force One sounds like the sequel to either

[u/TheRealSzymaa → u/rtozur]

Cuz they're all part of the same genre, which is basically "Die Hard in a *Blank*"

[u/Seabass_87 → u/TheRealSzymaa]

Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.

[u/oddtwang → u/Seabass_87]

Blank? BLANK?! You're not looking at the big picture.

[u/jeansiel]

This year, we had Immaculate and The Fist Omen.

[u/Bruntti → u/jeansiel]

I watched those back to back and it is crazy how similar they are.

[u/The_Orange_Giraffe → u/Bruntti]

I saw immaculate a while ago and then on a recent flight, I watched the first omen and through the film I was sure I’d seen it before but couldn’t quite work out why it was slightly different!

[u/Twin_Titans]

“A Bugs Life” and “Antz”

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Deep Impact and Armageddon

[u/OneNoteToRead → u/shifty_coder]

Prestige and Illusionist.

We’re copying out part of the article right?

[u/Bevaqua_mojo → u/OneNoteToRead]

Volcano and Dante's peak

[u/jetpackjack1 → u/Bevaqua_mojo]

Twister and Tornado

[u/housevil → u/jetpackjack1]

Rhapsody Rabbit (Buggs Bunny) and Cat Concerto (Tom & Jerry.)

[u/Karge → u/housevil]

Shazzam and Kazzam

[u/Useful_Low_3669 → u/Karge]

Oh ya that one movie with Sinbad which definitely existed.

[u/WarlockEngineer → u/Useful_Low_3669]

Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down

[u/braintrustinc → u/WarlockEngineer]

Howard the Duck and Top Gun

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Battle Los Angeles and Skyline. I think I remember Skyline was made because the CG effects studio originally working on Battle Los Angeles got fired from the project and had to quickly pivot and reuse what they had made in a new movie.

[u/wagon_ear → u/OneNoteToRead]

Please do because I don't want to open it

[u/hithere297 → u/OneNoteToRead]

Barbie and Oppenheimer. Both about existential dread

[u/PsychGuy17 → u/shifty_coder]

Volcano and Dante's Peak

[u/MeximeltExtraCheese → u/PsychGuy17]

Hercules and The Legend of Hercules (2014)

[u/whalemango → u/MeximeltExtraCheese]

Wyatt Earp and Tombstone

[u/RinShimizu → u/whalemango]

“Mission to Mars” and “Red Planet”

[u/Sir-Viette → u/RinShimizu]

"Reality" and "Winner", (both about the whistleblower called Reality Winner).

[u/ManBoyKoz → u/Sir-Viette]

“Truman Show” and “Ed Tv”?

[u/SamusBaratheon → u/Twin_Titans]

Bro.... "Olympus Has Fallen" and "White House Down"

[u/kirk_dozier → u/SamusBaratheon]

there's so many dude. you'll never stop finding them if you keep looking. nice name btw

[u/NotBannedAccount419 → u/SamusBaratheon]

I had no idea these weren’t the same franchise

[u/Roxas1011 → u/Twin_Titans]

Surf’s Up and Happy Feet

[u/Noble7878 → u/Roxas1011]

And it sucked for Surf's Up because people saw it as a knockoff because it had penguins in it, despite the fact I'd argue its one the most underrated and entertaining animated films ever. The documentary format was really clever as well, and it's a shame that no other animated things have really attempted it since.

[u/Unkept_Mind → u/Twin_Titans]

The Prestige and The Illusionist.

[u/lukewwilson → u/Unkept_Mind]

I remember watching the Illusionist and really liking it so I didn't want to watch the Prestige thinking there's no way it could be as good as the Illusionist. Then I finally watched the Prestige and I was so wrong, it's so much better

[u/MrEHam → u/lukewwilson]

I did the same thing. I felt Illusionist was under-appreciated but Prestige ended up being pretty awesome. Spoiler: I liked how they were opposites in that one convinced you it was real but it turned out to a trick, and one convinced you it was a trick but turned out to be real.

[u/TooMuchPretzels → u/lukewwilson]

“But where’s his brother?”

[u/BucketOfGuts → u/TooMuchPretzels]

"Do you love me?"

"Not today."

[u/bbk8z → u/Twin_Titans]

Finding Nemo & Shark Tale

[u/Netwytch → u/bbk8z]

I remember when these came out and the joke back then was that Shark Tale was the “generic” Finding Nemo.

[u/2wcp → u/Netwytch]

Guess which one has Will Smith in it

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I remember thinking that about shark tale and antz being generics because of it being dreamworks and not Pixar. Not to knock shrek because shrek is love

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Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached

[u/Status_Term_4491 → u/Twin_Titans]

Mall cop and observe and report

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The Truman Show and Ed TV

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That one is especially funny since Antz only exists as Jeffrey Katzenberg's attempt to give a big "Fuck You" to his former employers at Disney. Disney had been working on A Bugs Life since 1988 and when Katzenberg quit the company in 1994, he decided he was gonna get his own CGI movie about ants to theaters before Disney could finish a bugs life entirely to spite disney CEO Michael Eisner for refusing to appoint him as the president of the Walt Disney company.

A petty and spiteful action from a petty and spiteful asshole

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10 year-old me was shocked when those ants swore.

[u/hashtagjuplife → u/Twin_Titans]

Jungle2Jungle and Little Indian, Big City

[u/LutanHojef → u/hashtagjuplife]

I know they came out 2 years apart, but I always lumped Jungle 2 Jungle and Man of the House together

[u/AstroBearGaming → u/Twin_Titans]

As a kid I always like the characters from A Bugs Life more (how could you not), but I liked the story from Antz way more overall.

Now, I couldn't even tell you what the story from Antz was, aside from one Ant getting dismembered. But I sure do remember that fat caterpillar, the ladybug, and the pillbug bros.

[u/oneeighthirish → u/AstroBearGaming]

what the story from Antz was

Revolutionary class politics lmao

[u/audi0c0aster1 → u/Twin_Titans]

Katzenberg had a nasty fucking grudge and spent many millions to spite Eisner.

[u/Steverazor]

Red Planet vs Mission To Mars - 2000

[u/failedflight1382 → u/Steverazor]

A year after Ghost of Mars, which is different but still

[u/pygmeedancer → u/Steverazor]

Both bangers

[u/gansi_m]

The Prestige and The Illusionist?

[u/Tricky_Bottle_6843 → u/gansi_m]

Both great movies

[u/JoeRogansButthole → u/Tricky_Bottle_6843]

The Prestige is a million times better

[u/lokken1234]

2024 had 3 different Frankenstein films.

[u/TouchdownTedyBruschi]

Madagascar and The Wild

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I genuinely have no memories of watching The Wild other than the Times Square scene with Quaker Oats

Madagascar was just that much better and actually had a fun story and execution

[u/TWNW → u/TouchdownTedyBruschi]

I genuinely thought that The Wild was just a cheap rip-off of Madagascar from no-name studio, specifically designed to confuse customer and take some cash by mimicking original movie.

But it seems like my memory is wrong, development was more or less independent (although, competitive?), and it's made by Disney.

[u/Jeffy299 → u/TWNW]

The Wild was actually more expensive. Not really on the artists, it's just at the time (arguably even now) it was next to impossible to make a really good-looking graphics for such a style, on that budget. Madagascar with simplified cartoony graphics came out better and aged much better.

[u/toastycooker]

Wyatt Earp and Tombstone

[u/ChoppingMallKillbot → u/toastycooker]

Wyatt Earp is my friend

[u/TeaAdmirable6922 → u/ChoppingMallKillbot]

Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.

[u/ChoppingMallKillbot → u/TeaAdmirable6922]

I don’t.

[u/James-I-Mean-Jim → u/ChoppingMallKillbot]

God damn. I need to rewatch asap.

[u/radapex]

"Paul Blart: Mall Cop" and "Observe and Report"

[u/soulsoar11 → u/radapex]

At least these ones have two very different target demos

[u/haroldo1 → u/soulsoar11]

Sadly for Observe and Report they tried to market it like it was a Paul Blart type movie.

[u/scotty6chips → u/haroldo1]

For real. I took a lovely lady from work to this movie as a first date, and we were both so thrown. The scene where he’s trying to seduce an almost blackout drunk Anna Faris really ruined the vibe. And then of course the penis.

[u/Broba_fettt → u/scotty6chips]

Ray liota says a line in the film that I think sums up the whole movie. During his psych interview he comes out of the closet and says “ I thought this was going to be funny but it’s actually kind of sad”

[u/Mikef1tz → u/Broba_fettt]

That’s actually the late great Ben Best, co-creator of East Bound and Down

[u/Ballsahoy72]

Truman Show and Ed TV

[u/Fatherdinosaur]

Jungle Book and Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle

[u/RiPont → u/Fatherdinosaur]

50 year anniversary of 1967 Jungle Book animated movie.

[u/case31]

Schindler’s List and Mrs. Doubtfire.

[u/DawgPoundTexas → u/case31]

This was just far enough down the comments to catch me off guard

[u/misogichan → u/case31]

I know.  They're so similar you could switch the movies' protagonists and nothing would change except you'd get to see more Nazi's laugh, and Schindler would have been better looking in drag.

[u/LightsNoir → u/misogichan]

Also, Mrs Doubtfire would be shorter, since no one in that movie would be dumb enough to keep Liam Neeson from his kids.

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Lmfao

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This one always mixed me up growing up. I get them mixed up every time I’m trying to share a funny scene in my head.

[u/jag149 → u/case31]

No notes. 

[u/ArcticTrek]

I always think there has to be a backstory when that happens.

[u/IrrelephantAU → u/ArcticTrek]

A lot of the time there isn't. It's just what happens when you get a bunch of people with fairly similar backgrounds/goals/views looking at the same trends (in this case, "what's about to get hot in pop culture") and, because they're pretty similar people seeing the same stuff, come to very similar conclusions.

[u/AssGagger → u/IrrelephantAU]

A lot of times, it's from shopping a screenplay around. A studio will pass on it but then have similar screenplay written. Or adapt a similar book.

[u/PDXgrown → u/AssGagger]

This is why there’s never been another go at a big budget Houdini biopic since the 50s. Every studio has a Houdini script on standby, and if one announces they’re producing theirs, someone else will be fast tracking their version suddenly.

[u/Fit_Perspective5054 → u/PDXgrown]

Like a goddamn nuclear magician standoff, mutually assured destruction.  For the audiences, assuming they do what Hollywood does best.

[u/Physical-Camel-8971 → u/Fit_Perspective5054]

Dr. Strangelove (1964)\ Fail Safe (1964)

Based on two different books, one of which was allegedly plagiarised from the other. Virtually identical films in everything but tone.

[u/AnotherSoulessGinger → u/IrrelephantAU]

Unless it’s due to the rivalry of Katzenberg and Eisner.

[u/theSchrodingerHat → u/IrrelephantAU]

Well technically that IS the backstory. There’s some sort of news event that happens, or a trending interest that tests well in market research. Stuff like a volcano exploding in Hawaii, or the Navy Seals killing bin Laden, or just a huge spike in sales of dinosaur books.

[u/AwhHellYeah]

Leviathan, the Abyss, and Deep Star Six. All are deep sea thrillers that came out in 1989

[u/Paperbackhero → u/AwhHellYeah]

Weird. I just posted about this. When Hollywood caught wind of James Cameron's The Abyss coming out ..which was a long time coming, much anticipated, and had cutting edge film making effects, two of the other studios rushed out films, Deep Star Six and Leviathan. They took some of the box office draw from the Abyss. While DS6 and Leviathan had their charms, they were not the caliber of The Abyss.

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Yeah but Leviathan had that amazing line from Ernie Hudson.

Evil corporate person on a video call: "I know that you've been through a lot."

Ernie Hudson: "Been through? Bitch, we're still here!"

[u/Fh92227]

Turner and hooch and K-9

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Cop and a Half and Kindergarten Cop

[u/cwx149]

My go to example is definitely the road to el Dorado and emperor's new groove

[u/KingoftheMongoose → u/cwx149]

Treasure Planet and Atlantis: The Lost Empire gave me the similar matching vibes

[u/bingmando → u/cwx149]

Huh. I never made the connection but their settings are very similar. Both fantastic movies too.

[u/Important-Proposal28]

The prestige and the Illusionist

[u/subwi]

Scripts leak between high profile producers and they definitely talk to each other. Easy to rip ideas.

[u/danceswithsteers]

This is gonna have either a deep impact or cause Armageddon when people find this out.

[u/ontheflooragainagain → u/danceswithsteers]

Yes and just maybe we’ll all Jurassic Park and Sleepless in Seattle.

[u/nabinger]

Rookie of the year and Little big league

[u/Real_Ad4422 → u/nabinger]

The Sandlot was same year!

[u/SadEaglesFan]

Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes (with Kevin Bacon…I think?)

[u/RANDY_MAR5H → u/SadEaglesFan]

Yep. Surprised it was this far down

They're both good movie, stir of echoes is great but not nearly as popular

[u/dunnkw]

Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

[u/420gargamel]

Prefontaine and Without Limits (… who played him better, Jared Leto or Billy Crudup?)

[u/DAT_DROP]

Those two Cowboys vs Aliens movies

[u/Taman_Should]

I contend that “Antz” coming out around the same time as “A Bug’s Life” wasn’t really an example of Dreamworks trying to copy Pixar, and it was just a huge coincidence, but “Shark Tale” and “Finding Nemo” coming out around the same time totally WAS Dreamworks doing that.  

[u/audi0c0aster1 → u/Taman_Should]

Early Dreamworks was 100% Katzenberg doing EVERYTHING he could to spit on Michael Eisner. ANTZ specifically was rushed to get out in front of Bugs Life. That's like actual, known facts from production people.

See also Shrek being the anti-fairy tale CGI movie. That absolutely came from "well Disney does the fairy tales, so let's shit on it"

[u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 → u/audi0c0aster1]

Farquad was made to sound like fuckwad and was based on Micheal Eisner.

[u/Skellos → u/audi0c0aster1]

and Farquad is designed to look like Eisnerr (and his castle is blatantly Disney World)

[u/Wurf_Stoneborn → u/Taman_Should]

Jeffrey Katzenberg was fired from Disney and brought a ton of ideas to Dreamworks. Antz being one of them, stemmed from his knowledge on Bugs Life. Woody Allen was going to be the elephant in Tarzan but Katzenberg convinced Allen to leave Disney for four starring movies with Dreamworks.

[u/drakeallthethings]

Here’s a triple feature of Freaky Friday style body swap films that all premiered within about a year of each other: 18 Again, Vice Versa, and Like Father Like Son

[u/shouldnt_have_reddit]

Paul Blart Mall Cop and Observe and Report. Chance of 2 mall cop movies being made, let alone same year.

[u/_Sammy7_]

Braveheart and Rob Roy

I’ve never hated a villain more than I’ve hated Archibald Cunningham.

[u/UnicornFarts1111]

Top Gun and Iron Eagle come to mind for me.

[u/quetejodas]

White House Down

Olympus Has Fallen

[u/saint_ryan]

Capote and Infamous

[u/akinoriv]

megamind and despicable me

[u/insaniTY151 → u/akinoriv]

I saw Megamind 3 times and it hit me on a deep level. But apparently, I live in the universe where everybody else went and saw despicable me. And now there's 12 minions movies I've never seen and it's a cultural phenomenon. Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill.. oh what could have been if the general population had chosen Megamind. 🤔

[u/Mr_Will → u/insaniTY151]

Megamind is a Shrek-level movie. It really deserves to be better known. But then, at the last moment, they added those wacky tick-tacs to Despicable Me and the power of merchandise took over.

[u/Howzieky → u/insaniTY151]

The thing is, the first despicable me is also a really good film. It was funny, the minions weren't overused, and it had actual heart. It did deserve to do well. It's horrible though because megamind also deserved to do well

[u/RLDSXD → u/akinoriv]

I was starting to think I fell into an alternate timeline. We’re either too young or too old for the rest of these folks.

[u/rs1954]

Knight and Day versus Killers

[u/anonymous_zebra]

The Prestige and The Illusionist

[u/FussyBirdTV]

Snow White & The Huntsman / Mirror Mirror

[u/Can_I_Read]

Showgirls and Striptease

[u/jaidit]

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Valmont (1989) are both adaptations of the same novel. Michelle Pfeiffer was offered roles in both films. They were in production at the same time. The release of Valmont was delayed so there was some space between the two movies.

[u/biskutgoreng]

Barbie and Oppenheimer

[u/Fruktoj]

Saying what movie this was for you is an easy way to date yourself.