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Yes "White House Down" and "Olympus Fallen" was basically the same movie. What more they were both released in the same year, me and my friend thought we were talking about the same movie when we both watched different ones.
The protagonist's best friend's bodyless head scared me for a long time as a kid... I though that a living being could survive for hours or even days before dying 😰
I always thought that Antz was more adult in it's humour, Disney animation do have a more universal appeal, whilst Dreamworks seems to me to be more high brow?!
Over the last decade or so, I’m convinced that someone takes a script to Hollywood, and one person who read that script says, “good idea. I can do better.” A basic lack of creativity and uniqueness.
"Gordy" released in May and "Babe" released in August, both films released in 1995 Both films are about a talking pig and his life on a farm. Along with his barnyard friends who also talk. "Babe" of course was the bigger hit.
As soon as I saw Gordy in your reply I thought of babe lol wouldn't have thought of either of them if you didn't say anything but it's so true I remember both being very similar
Another huge difference that you missed about Paul Blart and Observe and Report are the ratings. One is a family friendly PG while the other one is an R rated movie aimed more at adults
Very true and despite me loving dark humor I absolutely HATED Observe and Report. I've yet to rewatch both films but remember enjoying Paul Blart more.
Trust me when I say as an American you're lucky you only saw The Decent. If you're curious, The Cave is on Netflix. It has Lena Headly aka Ceseri in the movie.
They have the same plot - but they were not the same. "Friends with Benefits" is the by far better movie. It's the proof, that having a plot is not the only part to creating a good movie. The same with "White House donw" and "Olympus has fallen". The Olympus movie is by far the better of the both. On the other hand, some plots are not to rescue, as the both magicans movies. Both are terrible silly. Different to this, "Antz" and "A bugs life" both are great.
@matt allen Your question is your answer. Doesn't really translate to the written word kid. Keep trying though, I'm sure you'll be a decent troll by the time you are an adult.
I first saw The Prestige in the summer of my Sophomore year. I watched it once. Loved it and had my mind blown at the end. And then watched it again. Only time in my life I watched the same movie back-to-back times. And every minute was amazing!
There was a year or two in the ‘80s when a bunch of movies came out about a young person and an old person switching bodies. I think “Like Father Like Son”, “18 Again” and “Vice Versa” all came out within a year of each other.
1987/1988 for all three... and it had been a solid 10 years since Freaky Friday (makes you wonder if the Gender flip to Males on all three was intentional to avoid copyright/trademark issues
There was a really odd one where Jimmy Smits and Ellen Barkin switched bodies. My fave body switch movie is Freaky with Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton.
I will never forget deep impact vs armageddon and dantes peak vs volcano. Disaster movies at their best. Not to mention Goldeneye vs Mission Inpossible. Both spies battle against a spy who betrayed them
I've seen several lists like this, and I am always surprised that none of them mention CAPOTE (2005) and INFAMOUS (2006). Both films are centered around the writing of Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD. Both feature a bravura performance by the lead actor, capturing--in different ways--the quirky Capote, both feature Harper Lee as Capote's friend and researcher. Both show Capote's time in Kansas as an urbane fish-out-of-water. CAPOTE got more attention, with Philip Seymour Hoffman winning an Oscar for his portrayal, but INFAMOUS--with the lesser-known Toby Jones as Capote--and a stronger supporting cast--is equally worthy of praise.
The biggest difference between Deep Impact and Armageddon was the Deep Impact had several sub stories you had to follow, where as Armageddon was basically one story. Both are good movies with excellent actors.
FUN FACT: Between 1997 and 1998, there wasn't two, not three, heck, not even four... but SIX movies about a huge meteor colliding with Earth! "Asteroid", Cosmic Shock", "Deep Impact", Armageddon", Tycus", and "Judgement Day"! BONUS FACT: In July 1994, astronomers witnessed a real comet collide with Jupiter. It was speculated that the size of the space rock would have obliterated all life on Earth, had it hit us instead. This most likely inspired several movie studios at the time.
The ultimate collision was when two novels, both about fires in a super high rise building, came out and were both optioned by rival movie studios. One was The Tower and the other was The Glass Inferno. To avoid this kind of competition they cooperated and made one movie combining elements of both and called it ‘The Towering Inferno”. This was all after the construction of the WTC but before either of the terrorist attacks.
IIRC the consolidation of the two films actually happened after Newman and McQueen had been contracted for their respective adaptations* which lead to the final script and Edits being done to ensure Both men got the same amount of lines and focus ... and I believe it also lead to the creation of the staggered Title Card where On name appeared Higher to the Right and the other Lower towards the left... so if you read Top Down Newman was first but if you read it Left to Right then McQueen was the first name to catch your eye *I could be misremembering/conflating and the 'Balance' might have been an issue with the Book writers being equally represented... and it was Just the Credits issue that was due to the Actors' demands
The copycats I love the most....Sixth Sense vs. Stir of Echoes. There was also Need for Speed vs. Fast and the Furious, Open Water vs. The Reef, Indiana Jones vs. Allan Quartermaine, Gremlins vs. Critters vs. The Ghoulies, and heaven help us all.....Basic Instinct vs. Body of Evidence.
the cave was filmed in my tiny tiny bfe southern town and we had a "red carpet" screening night at our theater that fit 100 people and only screened one film per week 😂
Oh boy - you missed out on SEVERAL major ones here! Exhibit A: "Robin Hood" and "Robin Hood: Prince of thieves" (1991). Exhibit B: "Christopher Columbus: The discovery" and "1492" (1992). Exhibit C: "Hard target" and "Surviving the game" (1993). Exhibit D: "Murder at 1600" and "Absolute power" (1997), And, the most overcrowded lot of them all: "The abyss", "Leviathan", "Deep Star Six" (1989) plus "The rift" (1990).
Alex Proyas' "Dark City" ('98) about a man who realizes that he's living a fake life in a manufactured reality controlled by powerful beings in black suits who can alter reality goes on a quest to uncover the truth of his reality and finds himself able to access his enemy's reality-bending powers seemed a lot like a certain movie that came out one year later called "The Matrix." It was just more Hong Kong cinema/cyberpunk rather than German Expressionism/Noir.
People discovering alternate/manufactured realities was a very popular topic in Hollywood around that time. You could also add "Existenz", and "The Thirteenth Floor" to that list. Both came out a few months after "The Matrix".
Wow. Ashton and Mila made the same movie at the same time and they were both successful movies?? That's amazing. Though I have no recollection of No Strings Attached.
Yo what about "The Raid" and "Dredd"? police officers are sent in a building controlled by criminals which gets locked down by the boss trapping them inside. This was likely a coincidence tho, as one was a small Indonesian production while the other is a big budget American movie. Both movies are also great
Well, I think I get the DreamWorks vs Disney entires, but I always thought Mission Impossible and James Bond were both completely different franchises.
@jamiethal1319 maybe that was their intention but thats not true for all of them. Some of the movies on this list have very different different plots from their supposed "copycat". How is the plot of the prestige anything like the illusionist aside from featuring magicians and the fact that they came out in the same year? And aside from featuring a 24/7 reality tv show about someone's life, EDTV and Truman show have drastically different plots. They just happened to come out about a year apart
The Bond and Mission Impossible similarity don't end in the release year. Rogue Nation's Bone Doctor was the last henchman Bond fought in Skyfall. You could also see a DB5 in the UK embassy parking lot in Rogue Nation. I think the Bond references are intentional by MI producers. Too bad it's kinda one sided, because Bond producers aren't aknowledging Ethan Hunt at all.
For Tombstone and Wyatt Earp costumes it’s the other way around. Wyatt Earp nabbed all the rental costumes in the US and Tombstone had to scrounge around for costumes.
I remember man's best friend . The dog was genetically modified if I recall. Cujo was rabid and released 10 years earlier. Both evil st Bernard's though
Don’t forget about Book of Life and Coco. When I saw book of life I thought it was the best new film that featured Mexican culture and was trepidatious about the upcoming Coco, which turned out to be just as bad ass and had a totally different vibe.
Kinda different plots, but Late for Dinner (1991) and Forever Young (1992) are both about people who get forgotten in cryogenic stasis and accidentally woken up 50+ years later. Also, I heard J Michael Strazynski (sp?) pitched Babylon 5, a gritty sci-fi drama about the characters and events surrounding a space station, to Fox, and were turned down. B5 then got greenlit by another network, while Fox ended up making Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, got sued, and settled out of court for the startling similarities.
What's most impressive here is that you managed a list without ANY (I think) Asylum films movies, which we all know do this on purpose. Some can be good.
I remember 2005 being the "War of the Worlds" year. Not only The Tom Cruise version came out on that day, but also 2 more versions came out that year as well. Only one of them only stay true to the book. So in this case even though its the same name, But all 3 films are different.
If you did a similar list for television you would have 4 or 5 shows with similar theme in each group (doctor shows, time travel shows, spy shows, lawyer shows)
@@lexkanyima2195 They both started the same year in the same time slot and in season 1 I spotted the same actor playing a patient on both shows shown on the same night.
@@lexkanyima2195 I'm not sure what you mean by more consistent. It was Chicago Hope that chose to have the same time slot and go up against ER thinking they had the more powerful show. ER ended being the show with the bigger draw. Must have been George Clooney.
What is most revealing is while it seems the same idea inspired the copycat, the execution wasn't always great on both movies. On a side note, I wanted to like Wyatt Earp over Tombstone, because Costner is my dude... but Tombstone was the superior action flick and that couldn't be denied.
Another honorable mention is Disney's Frozen and DreamWorks' Rise of Guardians. The former released in 2012 while the latter released the next year. Both movies had two main characters with ice powers Elsa and Jack Frost with both had their personal struggles(Elsa tried to control her ice powers while Jack tried to find his memories of his past and his new role as Guardian) & had a support characters to help them(Elsa has Anna while Jack has Jaime). The only difference has Frozen has more successful box office hit than RotG thanks to family theme and emotional storyline and several songs including "Let It Go" which paved a way a sequel a few years later. Also, this also formed one of the best(crossover) ships ever in both fanfictions & fan arts. 💙💙#JackFrostxElsa #Jelsa
I like how you forgot to mention that Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were best friends turned friends with benefits turned husband wife just like their movies that they did at the same time but the decided to try it out on eachother!
2015 was the year of spy movies. But what really suck was that the best reviewed Spy movie that year was the Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy titular movie, not the juggernauts. This year nearly became a year of spy movies too had MI7 not delayed. Black Widow, King's Man, No Time To Die.
I think the fact that No strings attached and Friends with benefits are so close. With Ashton and Mila starting their relationship, with the same idea as the plots to their movies cute and almost subconsciously knowing it was going to end up the same way the movies ended. One of Hollywood's cutest couples.
Oh yes from the top of my head. Ps I do love these films and I am not backlashing them. Anastasia and Tangled Both have long lost princesses,both fall for sly guys with a hidden past,girl finds out she's a princess later on,happy ending. Kate and Leopold and Enchanted Technically Enchanted ripped this movie off as both are set in NYC,both star former X Men actors,both love interests belonging to the main lead(who's the fish out of water)are cynics who had bad relationships with their past partners(Robert's wife left him,Kate's was too much of a eccentric scientist). The Swan Princess and Sleeping Beauty Well there is other Disney films too but this one was the closest since Odette and Aurora are somewhat alike and the guys are only interested in their beauty and singing voice. The Scarecrow (2000), Pinnochio and Beauty And The Beast Another Diet Disney and I swear this film mocks the two films I have mentioned. Villain and heroine are a rip off of Gaston and Belle,main lead is like Pinnochio he wants to be a real boy. Big and 13 Going On 30 Well they are both alike except Big didn't end with Josh staying as a 30 y/o and marrying Susan.
One that always stuck with me was the movie "Uncanny" that cane out in 2015 and the far more famous movie "Ex machina" in 2014. Both featured AI, eccentric geniuses, and the protagonist is there to "test" the robot. Uncanny was my favourite by far, but won less acclaim.
add 2013's 'The Machine" to the equation too, as the name and Female Lead really makes it feel like some one rushed the production to get the earlier date stamp
How about The Abyss and Deepstar 6. Both were released in 1989. Both are a claustrophobic underwater thriller where a team of divers encounter a previously unknown sea monster(s).
But movies rarely ever get done in a year, releasing in the same year is actually an almost evidence that they are not copying each other, when A started the idea, B was not existing.
Ah, but tinsel town is a small circle. Screenwriters talk, inside sources at studios spill the tea on what's been picked up etc. The "borrowing" of stories happens at the writing stage.
Scripts get passed around for years though. "I like your idea but can't/won't meet your demands" is the reason there are so many copy cats. Also, most popcorn movies are done in 9 months.
You forgot The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor, and Chris Carter's series Harsh Realm. All involved people in virtual reality realms, with varying degrees of awareness, and all were released within a few months of each other.
Nowadays Armageddon is also accurate. Scientists again looked and analyzed and stated that its possible to blow up an asteroid from the inside with a nuke. And Antz is more darker then A Bug's Life
20. Prestige>Illusionist 19. Mirror Mirror>Snow White and the Huntsman 18. The Descent>The Cave 17. Paul Blart>Observe and Report 16. Mission to Mars>Red Planet 15. Dante's Peak>Volcano 14. Red Eye>Flight Plan 13. Girl's Trip>Rough Night 12. Chasing Liberty>First Daughter 11. Hercules>Legend of Hercules 10. Truman Show>Ed TV 9. Tombstone>Wyatt Earp 8. Friends with Benefits>No Strings Attached 7. Armageddon>Deep Impact 6. Turner and Hooch>K9 5. Quiet Place>The Silence 4. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation>Spectre 3. Bugs Life>Antz 2. Madagascar>The Wild 1. Olympus is Fallen>White House Down
You forgot the Don Blut's "American Tale" and Bella Ternowsky's "Cat City". This cartoons about war between cats and mice, and they made in same 1986 year.
Milan joked in an I interview that the relationship started out this way with each other and then both caught feelings and NEITHER AT THE TIME realized they were living out their identical movies!!!!
Even though White House Down is lesser made, I prefer it over Olympus Has Fallen. They both rely in outdated action tropes but at least WHD is more self aware.
Out of the ones I've seen, I prefer: -The Prestige (by default) -The Descent -Volcano -Hercules (by default) -F.W.B.(by default) -Deep Impact -M.I. Rogue Nation ....(I honestly never realized how similar they are 😳) -A Bug's Life -Madagascar (by default) -White House Down
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned or noticed that this video is narrated by TWO different people...the difference is subtle yet still noticeable. Who here is the copycat? Very well played, Watchmojo!!!
