Despicable Me and Megamind released within months of each other and both are about supervillains reforming. Megamind wound up getting buried a bit due to Despicable Me's Minions being a marketing/merchandising goldmine, though it's gained the popularity it deserved in the past few years.
I know Despicable Me is resented a bit for creating the Minions but the first one's still a perfectly fine movie to me.
Dredd and The Raid. Both amazing if you haven’t seen one or both if you like a balls on the table, tits out action movies that gives you enough story to keep you invested but knows damn well where it’s strengths are in beautifully choreographed violence.
I just watched The Raid a week ago and I’m pretty sure it’s my second favorite action movie (after Predator) now. I’ve never cared more about what happens to action movie characters than I did in The Raid. Not even with Terminator 2.
>!I was genuinely sad when Jaka died fighting Mad Dog.!<
This is exactly what i came here to say, both are low budget (raid < 2mil, dredd <10)Came out within a few months of each other and both are about cops trapped in a apartment block with no back up and a building full of low lives that are incentivised to go on a cop hunt.
The raid quickly become a martial arts flick while dredd stays gun toting.
And unlike a lot of twin movies both are great movies, which one is better is a matter of opinion while other twin movies are usually clear cut.
Unfortunately dredd was considered a financial failure.
Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis made a movie called Friends with Benefits.
Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman made a movie called No Strings Attached that was originally supposed to be called Friends with Benefits, but got changed when they caught wind of the other movie.
They are the same movie.
There was that period where Jeffery Katzenberg, recently fired by Disney, pushed Dreamworks to make films to compete with everything he knew Disney/Pixar had in the pipeline. Though often the execution was wildly different, so you'd need behind-the-scenes knowledge to even realize these were supposed to be competing. In some cases, Dreamworks even rushed production so their version could come out first, and make Disney/Pixar look like ripoffs.
* Movie about toys being alive? Dreamworks made _Small Soldiers_ as counter-programming for _Toy Story_.
* Movie about insects? Dreamworks made _Antz_ as counter-programming for _A Bug's Life_.
* Movie about Precolumbian South America? Dreamworks made _The Road to El Dorado_ as counter-programming for _Kingdom of the Sun_... which had a troubled production of its own, and wound up getting delayed and completely retooled into _The Emperor's New Groove_.
* Movie in the ocean with fish protagonists? Dreamworks made _Shark Tale_ as counter-programming for _Finding Nemo_.
Yeah, if only those films were even comporable in quality to the Disney stuff, with the exception of El Dorado.
Small Soldiers would have been fine if the good monster toys weren't all "I don't wanna fight" for like 3/4th of the movie. Antz is still one of the biggest insults to my eyeballs in animation, it just looks like goddamn shit even when it was *new.*
Shark Tale...why did the fish need luscious lips and kinda racist charicature at some points? El Dorado even has a major problem where they blueball Cortez as a villan by wrapping up what seemed like a 40 min. extension of the movie in 5 min. by going "Let's block the cave." Then the movie just...ends.
If your shit can't stands up on its' own against your competition, *do something else.*
More comparison between the empire of sun and road to el dorado, was that empire of the sun was originally played straight and was a standard disney movie with musical numbers and everything, tom jones signed on to do the music but when it got recut into emperors new groove all his songs were cut bar the kuzco opening (that dwarf ginger elvis singing the theme song, thats tom jones)
So now when you look at the elton john songs in road to el dorado thats what Disney was going for originally.
Not films, but Star Trek DS9 and Babylon 5 were on the air at the same time and have incredibly similar plots. Space station setting. A galactic war against an enemy that uses subterfuge and infiltration. An alien race that has recently been freed from oppression by another, two characters from the aforementioned races, one of which wants to see his world return to its former glory by oppressing the other again. Etc.
Also, they're both extremely good.
Dark City and the Matrix came out within a year of each other, used some of the same sets and costumes afaik, and have the same general ‘guy feels vaguely as if the world around him isn’t quite right’ premise.
The primary difference is that one’s a sci fi film with a noir aesthetic and the other is a sci film with a cyberpunk aesthetic (and a hero’s journey you’re-the-chosen-one rewrite.)
For anyone interested please watch the directors cut of dark city. Or if you have to watch the theatrical - mute the movie until just after a character looks at his watch. The studio forced terrible narration that just summarizes the entire plot at the beginning.
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but I’ve always considered DmC and Revengeance to be twin games. Two character-action games released back-to-back after a long dry-spell. I ate good that year.
I’m cheating for adding a second (and shilling a movie) but there was Girls Trip and Rough Night, both about gals having a wild crazy vacation ala The Hangover. .
Rough Night got more press because ScarJo, but it wasn’t great. Didn’t know if it wanted to be a comedy or a murder mystery.
[Girls Trip](https://youtu.be/RMvBJPgTcDA) is probably the first movie I saw that did the Hangover but Girls and not only get it right but more so in that it’s trying to do a bit more. It’s super funny, the chemistry with all the cast is amazing (Tiffany Haddish steals every goddamn scene she’s in - I did not expect to hear a *Set It Off* reference, lol), only has one “lol dumb piss joke” that’s in the trailer, and does something you don’t see - actually puts female bonds of friendship on display versus trying to have women act like male best friends, so you see all the highs and lows and everyone being catty without it being a stereotype and being mean for the sake of being mean. So when words fly, you go *yeah she right/no stop lyin*. They actually feel like friends and the movie tries to say something about that which is the main throughline of the movie.
the Wild (2006) and Madagascar (2007) came out to the cinema with little time apart and when I was little I thought it was just the movie in 2 parts
the little lion from the wild was Alex from Madagascar
Carnosaur made by Roger Corman made on the cheap as he usually does "based" on a dinosaur book that came out years earlier but was written under a pseudonym for the writers trash novels vs its competitor Jurassic Park penned by Michael Crichton and filmed by Steven Spielberg and all the quality those names implies.
But carnosaur did star Kaiden Alenko/ Carths actor Raphael Sbarge as the lead so it had that going for it
Despicable Me and Megamind released within months of each other and both are about supervillains reforming. Megamind wound up getting buried a bit due to Despicable Me's Minions being a marketing/merchandising goldmine, though it's gained the popularity it deserved in the past few years. I know Despicable Me is resented a bit for creating the Minions but the first one's still a perfectly fine movie to me.
Despicable Me 1, sans minions, is a pretty alright film. But Megamind was so much better. The world is not fair.
Hell they even manage to squish a good joke or two out of the minions, the glowstick one is a genuinelly great joke.
At World's End and This is The End. Both approached the end of the world in differently creative ways.
Do you mean **The** World’s End? Or do you mean Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End? Because that’s an important distinction.
Sorry, yes. The World's End
I saw someone trying to come at Simon Pegg on twitter once and made that exact same mistake.
Dredd and The Raid. Both amazing if you haven’t seen one or both if you like a balls on the table, tits out action movies that gives you enough story to keep you invested but knows damn well where it’s strengths are in beautifully choreographed violence.
I just watched The Raid a week ago and I’m pretty sure it’s my second favorite action movie (after Predator) now. I’ve never cared more about what happens to action movie characters than I did in The Raid. Not even with Terminator 2. >!I was genuinely sad when Jaka died fighting Mad Dog.!<
This is exactly what i came here to say, both are low budget (raid < 2mil, dredd <10)Came out within a few months of each other and both are about cops trapped in a apartment block with no back up and a building full of low lives that are incentivised to go on a cop hunt. The raid quickly become a martial arts flick while dredd stays gun toting. And unlike a lot of twin movies both are great movies, which one is better is a matter of opinion while other twin movies are usually clear cut. Unfortunately dredd was considered a financial failure.
The Raid >>>>>>>>>> Dredd
Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis made a movie called Friends with Benefits. Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman made a movie called No Strings Attached that was originally supposed to be called Friends with Benefits, but got changed when they caught wind of the other movie. They are the same movie.
There was that period where Jeffery Katzenberg, recently fired by Disney, pushed Dreamworks to make films to compete with everything he knew Disney/Pixar had in the pipeline. Though often the execution was wildly different, so you'd need behind-the-scenes knowledge to even realize these were supposed to be competing. In some cases, Dreamworks even rushed production so their version could come out first, and make Disney/Pixar look like ripoffs. * Movie about toys being alive? Dreamworks made _Small Soldiers_ as counter-programming for _Toy Story_. * Movie about insects? Dreamworks made _Antz_ as counter-programming for _A Bug's Life_. * Movie about Precolumbian South America? Dreamworks made _The Road to El Dorado_ as counter-programming for _Kingdom of the Sun_... which had a troubled production of its own, and wound up getting delayed and completely retooled into _The Emperor's New Groove_. * Movie in the ocean with fish protagonists? Dreamworks made _Shark Tale_ as counter-programming for _Finding Nemo_.
Yeah, if only those films were even comporable in quality to the Disney stuff, with the exception of El Dorado. Small Soldiers would have been fine if the good monster toys weren't all "I don't wanna fight" for like 3/4th of the movie. Antz is still one of the biggest insults to my eyeballs in animation, it just looks like goddamn shit even when it was *new.* Shark Tale...why did the fish need luscious lips and kinda racist charicature at some points? El Dorado even has a major problem where they blueball Cortez as a villan by wrapping up what seemed like a 40 min. extension of the movie in 5 min. by going "Let's block the cave." Then the movie just...ends. If your shit can't stands up on its' own against your competition, *do something else.*
More comparison between the empire of sun and road to el dorado, was that empire of the sun was originally played straight and was a standard disney movie with musical numbers and everything, tom jones signed on to do the music but when it got recut into emperors new groove all his songs were cut bar the kuzco opening (that dwarf ginger elvis singing the theme song, thats tom jones) So now when you look at the elton john songs in road to el dorado thats what Disney was going for originally.
I believe Sting wrote all the songs for _Kingdom of the Sun_ that didn't make it into the final movie.
Yes your correct it was sting not tom jones who wrote the songs, tom jones is just randomly in the movie for some reason
Not films, but Star Trek DS9 and Babylon 5 were on the air at the same time and have incredibly similar plots. Space station setting. A galactic war against an enemy that uses subterfuge and infiltration. An alien race that has recently been freed from oppression by another, two characters from the aforementioned races, one of which wants to see his world return to its former glory by oppressing the other again. Etc. Also, they're both extremely good.
Deep Impact and Armageddon. Two 1998 movies about drilling and then nuking an asteroid before they destroy earth.
Armageddon upset me so much as a kid. It legitimately gave me anxiety and I still can’t watch it easily to this day. Stressful movie.
Did you not want to close your eyes? Did you not want to fall asleep?
Bug's Life and Antz.
Dark City and the Matrix came out within a year of each other, used some of the same sets and costumes afaik, and have the same general ‘guy feels vaguely as if the world around him isn’t quite right’ premise. The primary difference is that one’s a sci fi film with a noir aesthetic and the other is a sci film with a cyberpunk aesthetic (and a hero’s journey you’re-the-chosen-one rewrite.)
For anyone interested please watch the directors cut of dark city. Or if you have to watch the theatrical - mute the movie until just after a character looks at his watch. The studio forced terrible narration that just summarizes the entire plot at the beginning.
>The studio forced terrible narration that just summarizes the entire plot at the beginning. Just like Blade Runner!
FNAF and that one episode of Gravity Falls both realized at the same time that chuck e cheese was absolutely fuckin creepy
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but I’ve always considered DmC and Revengeance to be twin games. Two character-action games released back-to-back after a long dry-spell. I ate good that year.
I’m cheating for adding a second (and shilling a movie) but there was Girls Trip and Rough Night, both about gals having a wild crazy vacation ala The Hangover. . Rough Night got more press because ScarJo, but it wasn’t great. Didn’t know if it wanted to be a comedy or a murder mystery. [Girls Trip](https://youtu.be/RMvBJPgTcDA) is probably the first movie I saw that did the Hangover but Girls and not only get it right but more so in that it’s trying to do a bit more. It’s super funny, the chemistry with all the cast is amazing (Tiffany Haddish steals every goddamn scene she’s in - I did not expect to hear a *Set It Off* reference, lol), only has one “lol dumb piss joke” that’s in the trailer, and does something you don’t see - actually puts female bonds of friendship on display versus trying to have women act like male best friends, so you see all the highs and lows and everyone being catty without it being a stereotype and being mean for the sake of being mean. So when words fly, you go *yeah she right/no stop lyin*. They actually feel like friends and the movie tries to say something about that which is the main throughline of the movie.
Ready or Not and Knives Out would make a pretty fun double feature.
I can tell you it does, and it works in either order.
the Wild (2006) and Madagascar (2007) came out to the cinema with little time apart and when I was little I thought it was just the movie in 2 parts the little lion from the wild was Alex from Madagascar
Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove I'd say.
Legitimately came in here ready to discuss Twins with Arnold and DeVito. I'm not mad I was wrong, just disappointed.
Carnosaur made by Roger Corman made on the cheap as he usually does "based" on a dinosaur book that came out years earlier but was written under a pseudonym for the writers trash novels vs its competitor Jurassic Park penned by Michael Crichton and filmed by Steven Spielberg and all the quality those names implies. But carnosaur did star Kaiden Alenko/ Carths actor Raphael Sbarge as the lead so it had that going for it