Why do two movies with virtually the same plot always come out around the same time?
 

Knocked Up and Juno

Volcano and Dante's Peak

The Truman Show and EdTV

Armageddon and Deep Impact


This is fun, come up with more.

Back to the Future and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure... okay, they were a few years apart, but still...

Hows about 16 Blocks, and at least the first half of Die Hard 4? Now they even had the same actor in the same role!

Antz and A Bug's Life

Turner & Hooch and K-9

Braveheart and Rob Roy

ahhhh Wyatt Earp and Tombstone

How about all the shitty "scary" movies that come out, like The Eye.

The Cave and The Descent

The Illusionist and Magicians (even though, as I understand it, one was drama, the other a comedy... I really ought to check out Magicians too, Mitchell and Webb are amazing)

Never heard of Magicians, but The Prestige came out shortly after The Illusionist.

camp nowhere and heavyweights

What do Juno and Knocked Up have in common other than a character being pregnant.

27 Dresses and Cloverfield.

Since they both have female characters.

American History X and Pi

I read or watched something about this on TV. And usually they make a lot of money this way. Maybe to give an alternative or something.

There is like 6.86 between them, what the fuck?

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Finding Nemo/Shark Tale

Spiderman/Superman Returns :shifty:

Wyatt Earp and Tombstone is the most obvious to come to mind

Also Goodfellas and Godfather Part III, absolutely different takes on the mafia story but still

Same story... woman becomes unwittingly pregnant, and is then followed through to the birth.

One tells the male perspective, the other tells the womans.

Jurassic Park and Carnosaur

Dante's Peak and Volcano

Rush Hour and Knock Off

Transformers and Transmorphers

Blade III and Vampirez

I can expand this list exponentially next time I go to Blockbuster.

Also, Pixar / Dreamworks are the worst for this shit, since they seem to do it entirely on purpose. Shark's Tale / Finding Nemo, Madagascar / The Wild, Antz / Bug's Life... and sometimes you'll get some random third party CGI movie jumping in the mix, like Happily N'ever After, Over the Hedge and Surf's Up.

Lol marks

African Hoes 3 / Big Black Booty Sluts 9

Other than that most basic plot outline, they're 2 very different films, in tone, performance, humour, characters, etc..

I enjoyed Surfs Up:$

So are most of the others mentioned. There's no denying that two "woman becomes unexpectedly pregnant, we follow how this affects her life, future and relationship with the father as the main plot point of a comedy" movies, released just months apart, calls for a comparison of this nature.

Gingerdead Man and Mystic River
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys and Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys
Who's Your Caddy and The Departed

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</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td><tt>Ratatouille Didn't see
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Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo and Bugs Life all = :y:

Not seen the others yet

yeah prob shoulda said monster inc was great

HAPPY FEET/that other penguin movie


YUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Huh?

A Bug's Life is vastly underrated...so much better than Cars.

Toy Story and Small Soldiers

Small soldiers and Indian in the Cuppord, even though the second was a book I guess.

the burning/ friday the 13th

There were a lot of films about memory loss all coming out about the same time too... Memento, Butterfly Effect, Eternal Sunshine, 50 First Dates and the Jason Bourne films all across a couple of years.

I'm sure I'm (yeah, yeah) forgetting some too.

Speaking of The Butterfly Effect, I really enjoyed that movie (the Director's Cut ending was bad, though)... but I recently downloaded Butterfly Effect 2... fucking awful movie, never even got round to watching the end because it sent me to sleep.

They had a real audacity putting the Butterfly Effect name to that God-awful script to make a few extra bob, it bore little to no resemblance to the ideology, style, message or even continuity of the first film...

the only similarity is that the lead character can go back in time, at will, by staring into a photograph (despite no mention of ever having had blackouts in the past, which as the first film laid out, would happen during a period when his future self would overtake his past self's body)... it's just a crappy time travel film with small ambitions, and it's tarnished the legacy of what was a great film.

Armageddon and Deep Impact
The Cave and The Descent
Antz and A Bug's Life

these were the first 3 that came to mind and probably the most glaringly similar rleased at the exact same time, but everyone already mentioned them naturally

bullshit they are completely different stories. Just because a main character is pregnant doesn't make the movies the same.

Dude Knocked Up is about keeping the baby and Juno is about not keeping the baby, one is about adults, the other about teens and that's just two of the most basic differences, they aren't identical plots at all, not even close.

I think Ratatouille> all other Pixar movies except maybe toy story... but eh.

Okay let me spell it out...

THEY. ARE. BOTH. PREGNANCY. COMEDIES. RELEASED. AROUND. THE. SAME. TIME.

I didn't say they were identical plots, just similar enough for comparison in a thread about movies with very similar plots/ideas being released close together.

They are no more "identical" than Deep Impact and Armageddon were, or Wyatt Earp and Tombstone were, yet nobody has jumped to defence of those films.

I agree

Antz and Bugs life were different however were similar for different reasons:

• The Antz had to take out some power hungry Ant

• Bug Life they had to fight grass hoppers