>“Twin films” is the term used to describe a peculiar Hollywood phenomenon that just about every year sees different major studios releasing movies with almost identical plots and themes to their competitors current offerings. Popular examples of twin films include Deep Impact and Armageddon, two films released within weeks of one another that centred around saving the world from a giant meteor. Other popular examples include A Bug’s Life and Antz – animated films about ants rebelling against their hive. Then there’s Dante’s Inferno and Volcano – both of which are disaster films about volcanic eruptions. (As an idea of how common this is in Hollywood, all of these films were released between 1997 and 1998.)
>It turns out there are a variety of things that may result in a twin film, with everything from corporate espionage to pure coincidence coming into play.
>the prestige and The illusionist. I enjoyed the prestige a lot, but I still think the illusionist is the better film
Jeremiah Turner
>I enjoyed the prestige a lot, but I still think the illusionist is the better film This is the right opinion.
Caleb Thompson
Is this news? We were talking about this on these boards (not /tv obviously, since it wasn't born yet) like a decade ago.
Christopher Johnson
Armageddon was a better film by far
Eli Collins
Orville Star Trek Discovery
Oliver Sullivan
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Jacob Robinson
Kingsman Cell Sammy L. Jackson
Dominic Perez
I had a geology professor that would flip the fuck out if you told him Volcano was a good movie. Lel it was hilarious. Autistic Scottish man ranting about silica content and cursing Tommy Lee Jones. My second favorite memory from college.
Bentley Jenkins
but those two are stylistically and thematically very far apart. They only share superficial plot points.
Parker Phillips
The whole geology department at my university went as a group to laugh at The Core.
Evan Thompson
>tfw as a little kid I loved The Core >tfw my family still makes fun of me for it
Fucking amazing to a little kid, fucking laser that can blow through a fucking mountain
Jacob Wilson
Those two shitty Hercules movies couple of years back.
Hudson Young
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Jaxon Sullivan
I think you meant to say "Dante's Peak".
Josiah Rodriguez
Dark City came out in 98, this came out in 99
Cooper Ramirez
>we
Dominic Powell
you're me
Tyler Torres
>Then there’s Dante’s Inferno and Volcano >Dante's Inferno
Fucking moron doesn't even know the movie was called "Dante's Peak".
Jaxon Murphy
Who cares? It was forgettable as fuck
Michael Williams
>thousands of films get released >most arent similar >hundreds are similiar >dozens share the same story or plots >three (3) end up being totally similiar, statistically speaking this isnt a shock
>DUDE FAN THEORY. PHENOMENON TWIN MOVIES DUDE LOL SPACESHIPS AND STARS AND SHIEET. CORPORATE ESPIONAGE? ENTANGLEMENT?
Adam Morris
Both wrong. The Matrix's twin was Existenz.
William Perry
God you're a faggot.
Aaron Cox
never say never again vs octopussy
Michael Taylor
Terminator and Robocop
Liam White
This is as simple as one person working for one company having a "friend" that works for the competition going yeah this is our big thing. Make your own.
Blake Reyes
Wrong, it was Equilibrium.
Antz and A Bugs Life came out in the same month iirc. Literally the same movie
Jace Collins
And sets
Luis Parker
literally this, people are retarded
Jaxson Campbell
Uh no but the robocop trailer did originally use terminator music which probably is where the confusion is.
Wyatt Wilson
>ANtz and A Bug's Life similar yes and every movie with humans in it is the same movie
Lucas Howard
White house down and Olympus has fallen is an obvious example too
Daniel Gonzalez
>t. gender studies major
Levi Hall
those films about channing tatum saving the president from the white house being invaded
Ian Sanchez
I didn’t even know they were different films, and I watched one of them in the theatres.
Caleb Morgan
just last year
Levi Turner
That movie where two friends fuck eachother and things get weird, either starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis or Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman youtu.be/j-2fSzqHYx0
Grayson Carter
Interns are spies planted by other studios to gauge their competition.
Caleb King
but equilibrium is a loose adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, which is far away from the Matrix
Tyler Evans
were either of these any good? I remember seeing the trailer for the one on the left and it honestly looked like it could either be trash or kino
Ian Powell
left honestly is trash, I heard the Christine (right) film is kino
Mason Fisher
wow, I thought it was the same thing. I legit thought seth mcfarlane was doing a star trek show called Star Trek Discovery but they changed the name to the orville when they found out the acronym.
Not that I give a fuck, actually, but...
Lucas Lewis
Don't you dare! I saw the scene where the grandma jumps in the acid water to push faster the boat toward the lakeside when I was a kid approximately the age of the proganists and I'll never forget that scene. It was probably the first time a movie made me cry. Forgettable my ass, soulless idiot.
Zachary Ortiz
prestige is the only nolan film i like how is this possible?
Samuel Evans
Sleepless was basically a cross between Taken and John Wick, and somehow it learned nothing from either of those movies and was unwatchable.
Angel Martin
The Prestige had me until magical tesla cloning machine.
Jose Hall
when david bowie is in a movie, you gotta expect some bizarre shit to happen in it.
Jace Myers
the Illusionist was bullshit. Sure, it being bullshit was the point, but in the end it was more bullshit than it was supposed to be.
Hunter Rogers
well wasn't that the point though? misleading the audience while it was in fact a sci fi film
Landon Parker
Capote and In Cold Blood came out within weeks of each other.
Jason Bailey
These movies were by the same studio with the same sets, locations, lighting director
Andrew Bailey
I still like Push fite me
Blake Butler
I think they were gonna make a Push tvshow but that went nowhere.
Ryan Wright
Except the pool is much smaller when you consider only big movies.
Adam Bell
If they came out within a few weeks they probably aren't aping off each other. However Need for Speed (2014) came out a year after Furious 6 which grossed over 700M.
Sebastian Bell
Do Book of Life and Coco still count even if the span of time between them is like 2nyears?
Lucas Campbell
Interstellar Gravity probably some other space drama I forgot
Dominic Powell
I also like Push.
Jacob Powell
Why would I fight you it's one of my favorite kinomatics.
Kayden Wilson
You're family was right.
Cameron Adams
This shit is always really creepy, you also see this with some tv shows like Family Guy where they inexplicably stack 2 weeks worth of episodes with the same plot structure and sometimes the exact same subject
Dylan Murphy
I think it does.
Xavier Rogers
>Need For Speed That doesn't even count at all Fast & Furious turned into capeshit with cars
Xavier Reed
>cybernetic cop >Robot assassin No
Elijah Carter
Which volcano movie is the one where some guy literally melts because he falls on some lava? That was funny shit
Justin Lopez
no country for old men/there will be blood
Owen Harris
>Robot they're cyborgs, stupid just like robocop
Luke Garcia
Volcano
what do they have in comon? Also, one is shit and the other a masterpiece
Levi Harris
Mirror, Mirror Snow White and The Huntsman
The first was actually not bad. The second was trash that somehow got a sequel.
Brandon Edwards
>shilling some retarded site that thinks "twin films" is a "bizarre Hollywood phenomenon". Millennials are retarded.
Landon Morgan
>one is shit and the other a masterpiece Good bait 8/10.
Blake Walker
>The second was trash that somehow got a sequel. cause disney made it also the first one did really well in china
Ayden Morris
terminator isnt a cyborg ,the only terminator that had a cyborg in it IIRC is 4
Julian Brown
I think the point was to show obsession manifested in two people with polar opposite means just the suspension of disbelief requried was too great. How Borden did the trick was clever. How Angier did the trick was an asspull.
Cooper Thomas
Universal made it though.
Owen Martin
Is not b8, just how I feel. No country is a meh movie, with a meh plot and an awful ending. If a book is not filmable, dont film it
TWBB is one of the best fucking movies ever made
Matthew Williams
It's never a coincidence, studios spy on each other all the time and try to make a movie about the same potential cashcow idea but faster than the competition.
Ian Lewis
in T2 arnie straight up says that he's a cyborg
Alexander Gonzalez
I also liked, but for different reasons than yours, probably
Jack Sullivan
>actor names dont match up with the faces on the poster what the fuck man , like why would anyone do this ? its so fucking easy to just switch em .
Austin Evans
>just how I feel Exactly, because you're retarded
Liam Taylor
I was about to post that, but I googled "cyborg" before and... I was wrong. And you still are wrong.
Movies can have more than one point
Thomas Gutierrez
whoops. my bad still did really well in china tho
Carter Bennett
swn put your 'gun' in her mouth
Jonathan Bell
>Rebecca hall >Michael c hall
Kek coincidence win
Austin Nguyen
Were they hoping to save on marketing by using the other movie's?
Adam Ortiz
The core was a greatly entertaining movie because it never took itself seriously. It was science fiction on crack. Anything goes. Still comfy to watch.
Chase Howard
killing yourself everyday and stocking your corpses in a basement is a good example of obsession, IMHO
Caleb Anderson
>Pacific Rim and Battleship
Noah Richardson
>scripts passed around constantly >movies with similar plots release around the same time >this is news
Hudson Young
he says he is but he isnt , the definitions can get a bit confusing . some define cyborg as an animal with mechatronic implants like the dude from T4. but if you wanna use the broad definition (a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts , organic body parts being parts made from organic compounds which is everything with carbon) then literally anything mechatronic with any polymer\steel\alloy with carbon is a cyborg . by this definition your AC is a cyborg , your car is a cyborg and old computers with dvd\BR drives are cyborgs .
you can see why im using the definition which only includes living creatures and not everything made from organic compounds .
Christian Sanchez
I'm not saying they can't but sneaking a sudden scifi twist in a movie that prior did not have a precedent and becomes a driving force for the 2nd half of the 2nd act. Furthermore, the mcguffin undercuts the reveal because it's no longer a trick nor anything that had a sensible hints sown into the narrative to make the reveal believable. It's also got some logic discrepencies though that's nitpicking.
I never said it didn't portray that in Angiers rather they did so at the expense of the realm of belief where as Borden's character made sacrifices for his craft and they didn't need an asspull to explain anything.
Jaxon Price
People don't realize that these two movies were true capekino, but marvel killed any chance of ever getting capeshit on that level
Kayden Rodriguez
>Battleship (2012) >Pacific Rim (2013) Nope.
Kevin Long
>push and losers both was failed attempts to start a franchise and both star chris evans >losers have reference to push
Eli Reed
>he says he is but he isnt
the definition he uses in the movie is " living tissue over a metal skeleton". which he is.
Nathan White
the losers was such a good movie, everyone should watch it at least once
Adrian Smith
Wrong
Aaron Walker
the laziness of this awful abortion of a bait is more infuriating than the actual inaccuracies your post contains