A good amount of people are familiar with this phenomenon I feel, so I thought I'd make a thread for it. The most obvious one I will get out of the way first:
Armageddon / Deep Impact
Another one is Friends w/ Benefits and No Strings Attached.
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Movie dopplegangers
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Volcano / Dante's Peak
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Babe / Gordy
Antz / A Bug's Life
Olympus Has Fallen / White House Down
Antz / A Bug's Life
Olympus Has Fallen / White House Down
"In the embrace of the great Nurgle, I am no longer afraid, for with His pestilential favour I have become that which I once most feared: Death.."
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Independence Day / War of the Worlds
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
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The virus at the end might end up qualifying this, but these movies are rather dislocated temporally.
Oh hell don't listen to me on this. The pair is valid. But you should pay respects to Lindsay Ellis in my decision to allow it.
And only this pair (so far), upon condition.
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Well since Independence Day is pretty much 90's take on War of the Worlds (there were movies based on that book before Steven Spielberg version) so them changing biological virus into computer virus was little clever for it being Roland Emmerich movie.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 12:07 amThe virus at the end might end up qualifying this, but these movies are rather dislocated temporally.
Oh hell don't listen to me on this. The pair is valid. But you should pay respects to Lindsay Ellis in my decision to allow it.
"In the embrace of the great Nurgle, I am no longer afraid, for with His pestilential favour I have become that which I once most feared: Death.."
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Well that is clever, but in general I feel like direct influences kinda disqualifies it as a "doppelganger."Mecha82 wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 12:12 amWell since Independence Day is pretty much 90's take on War of the Worlds (there were movies based on that book before Steven Spielberg version) so them changing biological virus into computer virus was little clever for it being Roland Emmerich movie.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 12:07 amThe virus at the end might end up qualifying this, but these movies are rather dislocated temporally.
Oh hell don't listen to me on this. The pair is valid. But you should pay respects to Lindsay Ellis in my decision to allow it.
With NSA and Fw/B, I feel like they purposely did that for Kutcher and Kunis (they were either still together or not idunno), but the sheer audacity to intentionally do that for an overlying premise about casual sex is bold.
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28 Days Later / Dawn of the Dead
(kinda) Saving Private Ryan / Thin Red Line
(kinda) Saving Private Ryan / Thin Red Line
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Do we want intentional or unintentional copies?
If Intentional: then 'The bulk of the output from The Asylum'. 'Atlantic Rim', anyone?
If Intentional: then 'The bulk of the output from The Asylum'. 'Atlantic Rim', anyone?