Movies with similar plots

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A Bug's Life vs Antz

Deep Star Six vs The Abyss

Tombstone vs Wyatt Earp

Deep Impact vs Armageddon

The Truman Show vs EdTV

Dante's Peak vs Volcano

 

[gwynplaine]

Home Alone.

The Collector.

 

[Max J Power]

Deep Impact vs Armageddon

Interestingly enough, both sucked, but for different reasons. Deep Impact was boring as ****, and Armageddon was completely devoid of anythng but flash.

Even though both are awesome, Jaws and Alien have pretty similar plots. Supposedly, Alien was pitched to the studio as "Jaws in space."

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat

Harry Potter
Lemony Snickets A.S.O.U.E

 

[8wid]

Interestingly enough, both sucked, but for different reasons. Deep Impact was boring as ****, and Armageddon was completely devoid of anythng but flash.

Even though both are awesome, Jaws and Alien have pretty similar plots. Supposedly, Alien was pitched to the studio as "Jaws in space."

I think some fan editor needs to combine those two movies together.

 

[O.J. Pimpson]

Dark City
The Matrix

Die Hard
Home Alone

What?

 

[Franklin Richards]

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[O.J. Pimpson]

Okay now you guys are just being silly.t:

 

[Hotwire]

Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo.

Sergio Leone's A fistfull of dollars.

That's because Fistfull of Dollars was done as a western remake of Yojimbo.

 

[Hotwire]

Surprised no one has posted this here yet.

 

[gwynplaine]

That's because Fistfull of Dollars was done as a western remake of Yojimbo.

Yes, I know. And then later on Walter Hill's Last Man Standing as a gangster one.

Also not a remake this time but similar plots :

Baby Cart (Shogun Assassin)/Road To Perdition.

 

[spidermilk]

Puzzled?

 

[Art_of_Crime]

every superhero sequel ever

 

[El Payaso]

Hamlet and The Lion King.


Ah, and I've always been too curious about the similitudes between Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" and Sidney Lumet's "Fail-safe." Both are about a plane that's sent to nuke the USSR by mistake. Both look the same, the sets, black and white etc etc. Except that Strangelove is a comedy and Fail-safe a drama. Oh, and both were made in 1964.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

The Departed and Infernal Affairs
Reservoir dogs and City on Fire

wait hold that those are both just remakes.

 

[gwynplaine]

Hamlet and The Lion King.


Ah, and I've always been too curious about the similitudes between Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" and Sidney Lumet's "Fail-safe." Both are about a plane that's sent to nuke the USSR by mistake. Both look the same, the sets, black and white etc etc. Except that Strangelove is a comedy and Fail-safe a drama. Oh, and both were made in 1964.

And one is forgotten now and the other is a classic. Kubrick's genius (and Terry Southern's too) was to turn Strangelove into a satire. I don't know how much of an influence Fail Safe had on that.

 

[DawnWarrior]

I always thought The 6th Day and Paycheck were similar. Tony Goldwyn and Aaron Eckart's respective villains in each are almost identical.

 

[nite-owl]

Drag Me To Hell and Night Of The Demon.

 

[gwynplaine]

Avatar and Man called Horse. Both fantastic movies.

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

Jumanji + Zathura

 

[Bim]

Surprised no one has posted this here yet.

Good one, and to be honest it had never crossed my mind

 

[CBGB]

Surprised no one has posted this here yet.

I immediately thought of this when I read the thread title.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Avatar and Man called Horse. Both fantastic movies.

Add Dances With Wolves and The Last Samurai to that group.

 

[Evil Twin]

Yes, I know. And then later on Walter Hill's Last Man Standing as a gangster one.

Also not a remake this time but similar plots :

Baby Cart (Shogun Assassin)/Road To Perdition.

Road to Perdition is Max Allan Collins homage to Lone Wolf and Cub. Perhaps not a remake, but it's not coincidental.

 

[gwynplaine]

Road to Perdition is Max Allan Collins homage to Lone Wolf and Cub. Perhaps not a remake, but it's not coincidental.

Cool.. I like both.