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As the subject states: movie coincidences... can you name a few?

I'll start with a few movies that got released by different companies within the same year, that have a lot in common:

(2013) The White House is getting a beating:
Olympus Has Fallen [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2302755]
White House Down [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334879]

(2012) Abraham Lincoln vs vampires, zombies and as himself
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224]
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2246549l]
Lincoln [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272]

(2012) Snow White movies
Mirror Mirror [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667353]
Snow White and the Huntsman [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1735898]

(1998) asteroids and comets visiting earth
Armageddon [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591]
Deep Impact [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647]
(Asteroid [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118261])

There were a few more, but I cannot remember. This will have to do for now.
 

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Um, I don't really see the discussion value of this thread but FIDO.

(1998) World War II
The Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan

(2004) Zombies
Dawn of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
 

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No Stings Attached and Friends with Benefits both had essentially the same premise. They were out within a matter of months from one another. Even funnier is that the two female leads were the two main females who starred together in Black Swan the previous year.
 

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Goofguy said:
(2004) Zombies
Dawn of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Considering those two names are so similar they actually rhyme, I'm inclined to guess the name of the latter was chosen deliberately as a spoof. The movies themselves were probably coincidences though.

OT: (2010) Kids animated films about supervillains
Despicable Me
Megamind
 

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JoJo said:
Goofguy said:
(2004) Zombies
Dawn of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Considering those two names are so similar they actually rhyme, I'm inclined to guess the name of the latter was chosen deliberately as a spoof. The movies themselves were probably coincidences though.

OT: (2010) Kids animated films about supervillains
Despicable Me
Megamind
Shaun of the Dead is a love letter to Romero's work so there's no coincidence there. I was merely bringing up the fact that they were both released in the same year.
 

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Marter said:
No Stings Attached and Friends with Benefits both had essentially the same premise. They were out within a matter of months from one another. Even funnier is that the two female leads were the two main females who starred together in Black Swan the previous year.
Or that the male in one and the female of the other were both That 70s Show alumni.

(1999) Virtual Reality
The Matrix
The Thirteenth Floor
eXistenZ

I'm sorry. I'm not very good at this game :(
 

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JoJo said:
Considering those two names are so similar they actually rhyme, I'm inclined to guess the name of the latter was chosen deliberately as a spoof. The movies themselves were probably coincidences though.
Well yes, Shaun was a spoof of the 1978 movie that Dawn was remaking.
 

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I thought it was neat that in Die Hard 2, when the old lady reaches into her bag for a taser, they show a magazine with the pictures of Riggs and Murtaugh, and in Lethal Weapon 2, after Riggs falls out the window into the pool, you can see Nagatomi Building. Does that count?
 

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I've always been impressed with Scoop vs. The Prestige. They're both 2006 movies starring Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson that involve murder with sleight-of-hand magic.

Or, for that matter, The Prestige vs. The Illusionist - two 2006 19th century period pieces about magicians whose performances become intertwined with murder. Also, both give a more or less scientific basis for magic.

There's a huge page dedicated to this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DuelingMovies
 

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(2012) Creepy claymation-esque movies about loner main characters who have unique talents that no one understands and are eventually chased by mobs of stupid townspeople until they all learn that being different isn't a bad thing. Oh, and both of the main characters' dads want them to be more social.

-Frankenweenie
-ParaNorman

(As a side note, I just watched ParaNorman yesterday and would recommend. Way better than the trailer let on.)
 

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There's Dredd and The Raid, which both are about stopping a crime boss while trapped in a building. I liked Dredd better though.

Also, in the dub of Kiki's Delivery Service, Kirsten Dunst voices Kiki who loses her witch powers due to depression. And in Melancholia Dunst's depression brings about the end of the world.
 

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Casual Shinji said:
There's Dredd and The Raid, which both are about stopping a crime boss while trapped in a building. I liked Dredd better though.
Ninja'd! I can't say I prefer either over each other though. Maybe if Judge Dredd knew Pencak Silat xD?
 

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I don't know if anyone noticed but it's the same character starring in every one of the 5 Die Hard movies.
am I doin' it right??!!
 
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I'll throw in 2005's
<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1>The Descent
and
<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402901/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1>The Cave

The former is an excellent film which follows a group of cavers who encounter violent underground lifeforms in a suspense-filled psychological horror. The latter is a by-the-numbers flick that follows a group of cavers who encounter violent underground lifeforms in typical all-guns-blazing Hollywood 'style'.
 

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Nouw said:
Casual Shinji said:
There's Dredd and The Raid, which both are about stopping a crime boss while trapped in a building. I liked Dredd better though.
Ninja'd! I can't say I prefer either over each other though. Maybe if Judge Dredd knew Pencak Silat xD?
I'm sure Dredd would've been way better if there was some Pencak Silat. The Raid is hands down one of the best martial arts movies I've ever seen.
 

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Johnny Novgorod said:
I've always been impressed with Scoop vs. The Prestige. They're both 2006 movies starring Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson that involve murder with sleight-of-hand magic.

Or, for that matter, The Prestige vs. The Illusionist - two 2006 19th century period pieces about magicians whose performances become intertwined with murder. Also, both give a more or less scientific basis for magic.

There's a huge page dedicated to this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DuelingMovies
Would you recommend either The Illusionist or Scoop? I bloody love the Prestige, one of my favourite films ever.
 

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Happiness Assassin said:
1998
Antz
A Bug's Life

Surprise that no one brought these up yet.
Supposedly, that happened because the guy who set up DreamWorks previously ran Disney's film division. He left Disney on pretty unfriendly terms (some sort of massive falling out) and set up DreamWorks as a direct rival. But he stayed in touch with some of the guys at Disney and (over coffee or something) one of them told him about A Bug's Life. DreamWorks started work on Antz, so Disney called copy-cat on DreamWorks. DreamWorks responded by moving their release to 1998 (it was originally going to be a 1999) so the two films would directly compete. Much bad feeling was had.

The Lesson: Sometimes grown adults can act like petulant little kids.
 

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It's not really all in the same year or something like that but Million Dollar Baby was the first of a series of gritty, downbeat fighting movies.
-Million Dollar Baby (2004)
-Cinderella Man (2005)
-The Wrestler (2008)
-The Fighter (2010)
 

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Tropicaz said:
Johnny Novgorod said:
I've always been impressed with Scoop vs. The Prestige. They're both 2006 movies starring Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson that involve murder with sleight-of-hand magic.

Or, for that matter, The Prestige vs. The Illusionist - two 2006 19th century period pieces about magicians whose performances become intertwined with murder. Also, both give a more or less scientific basis for magic.

There's a huge page dedicated to this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DuelingMovies
Would you recommend either The Illusionist or Scoop? I bloody love the Prestige, one of my favourite films ever.
The Prestige is amazing but I didn't like The Illusionist or Scoop very much. Scoop is a very bland Woody Allen movie, has some funny bits but nothing more; The Illusionist has a more sizeable following and it's certainly a better movie than Scoop is, but I found it to be a bit predictable and boring where it was supposed to be entertaining. I guess if I had to recommend any I'd go with The Illusionist (unless you really, REALLY like Woody Allen).