what about that, then?
Did you ever notice that movies come out in pairs?
I'm not sure if it means nefarious doings are afoot in Hollywood, or if it just means that plot ideas aren't copywritable, but it seems weird to me that two different studios will release different-but-very-similarly-themed movies in the same year.
"But what about some examples?" I hear you cry. Okay, then -- here you go:
Antz
A Bug's Life
Alexander
Troy
Chasing Liberty
First Daughter (both about a young secret svc agent falling for the president's daughter)
Mission to Mars
Red Planet
Braveheart
Rob Roy
Blow
Traffic
The Wild
Madagascar
Underworld
Van Helsing
Cheaper By The Dozen
Yours, Mine, & Ours
Major League
Bull Durham
Training Day
Dark Blue
The Longest Yard
Gridiron Gang
Butterfly Effect
Sound of Thunder
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
13 Going on 30
Freaky Friday
I grant you that some of the connections above are tenuous, but I still think it's weird.
And after having composed the above list (with the help of my son), I found this on Wikipedia...
posted by Rob @ 2:07:00 PM
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was going to say that there's a couple out now (or will be) together: the illusionist and the prestige. and then there's the 9/11 films. and i had heard there was another truman capote film coming out... but it's all for naught since wikipedia has them all listed. (forgot about the 2 steve prefontaine films too.)
you still in cdt? or back in the same time zone (as me)?
Deep Impact and Armageddon came to mind right away. I see Wikipedia had them listed.
...and surely any discussion of the "movies in pairs" phenomenon is incomplete without an acknowledgment of the well-known "Pixar hit followed by lower-quality, edgier, less-creative Dreamworks ripoff"...
Wikipedia...an amazing storehouse of bizarre trivia...
You Go Bryan...look how smart you are...maybe if you lose your shirt you can work for Wikipedia..come up with great ideas to stun the public with??...love your blog...just razzin' ya because I can...Susie***
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