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MM0rkeleb 
"Better than HBO."
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 Posted - 03/22/2007 : 15:49:14
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Can anyone think of pairs of movies I should add to this accolade? Keep in mind, the two movies have to be from the same year or consecutive years.
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 15:58:33
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| I'd been meaning to start a thread about this. There are the Cottingley Fairy films and the Dangerous Liaisons films. It depends how far you want to go. Miss Potter and Becoming Jane have a lot of similarities. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:00:01
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| Are any of Finding Nemo/Shark Tale/The Reef in consecutive years? Madagascar and The Wild. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:02:00
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| N.B. the other Dangerous Liaisons film is Valmont. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:07:25
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| The film Magicians shares the professional rivalry aspect with The Prestige. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:08:43
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| United 93 and Flight 93? United 93 and World Trade Center? |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:09:27
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| Flushed Away and Ratatouille |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:13:42
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| Big and Vice Versa |
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:22:37
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| And Carry on Columbus |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:53:49
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Fail-Safe and Dr Strangelove.
Not so strange considering the impact of the Cuban Missile crisis.
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 16:58:11
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This one's a little outside the box, but you might want to consider virtually every major animated movie that came out last year, because they were all a result of the exact same phenomenon that your accolade is about: Hollywood executives saying "this other studio is doing such-and-such and it looks like it might be big...we need to copy it."
If you won't go that far, it should include Barnyard, Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, and possibly Open Season, four animated movies about animals behaving like people. I guess Happy Feet should probably belong in there, too. At the very least, Barnyard and Over the Hedge should be there. And don't forget Chicken Little.
Then there's Robots and Cars, two animated movies about pieces of machinery behaving like people.
While the world was flocking to see War of the Worlds, the direct to video HG Wells' The War of the Worlds went completely unnoticed.
If I recall, the period from 1994-1996 featured a number of "hackers" and "the internet will kill you" movies. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 17:01:19
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Originally posted by Salopian
Big and Vice Versa
And Like Father, Like Son, and 18 Again.
Then Hollywood did it all over again with The Hot Chick, followed by Freaky Friday, followed by 13 Going on 30. |
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MM0rkeleb
"Better than HBO."
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 22:01:34
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Originally posted by Downtown
This one's a little outside the box, but you might want to consider virtually every major animated movie that came out last year, because they were all a result of the exact same phenomenon that your accolade is about: Hollywood executives saying "this other studio is doing such-and-such and it looks like it might be big...we need to copy it."
Oddly enough, this is closer to being the opposite of the intention of the accolade. I'm more interested in cases where different people did very similar films more or less by accident. Of course, it's hard to tell, and one would be disposed to assume that copycatting is involved, but if I knew a pair did actually involve that, I wouldn't want it for the accolade.
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If you won't go that far, it should include Barnyard, Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, and possibly Open Season, four animated movies about animals behaving like people. I guess Happy Feet should probably belong in there, too. At the very least, Barnyard and Over the Hedge should be there. And don't forget Chicken Little.
The connection here seems pretty tenuous. I mean, almost every animated film in history that has involved animals also involved them acting like people in some way. At least with Salopian's examples of Finding Nemo/Shark Tale and Madagascar/The Wild the millieus were very similar.
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Then there's Robots and Cars, two animated movies about pieces of machinery behaving like people.
Again, this is too much of a common element of animated films throughout history for me to think of it as a real synchronicity case.
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While the world was flocking to see War of the Worlds, the direct to video HG Wells' The War of the Worlds went completely unnoticed.
I'm actually pretty divided as to whether or not I should include pairs of movies that are adaptations of the same work (i.e., whether or not such movies are really unrelated). Right now I'm leaning towards not, just to keep the accolade manageable.
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If I recall, the period from 1994-1996 featured a number of "hackers" and "the internet will kill you" movies.
This is intriguing. The only ones I remember are The Net and Hackers, which aren't similar enough, IMO. Are there others you know of that I'm forgetting?
And generally, great suggestions, people! Keep 'em coming.
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Shiv 
"What a Wonderful World"
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Posted - 03/22/2007 : 22:05:08
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| This is a nice idea. It's a shame the pairs of movies can't be displayed side by side in the accolade's list. |
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