@@deepwaterlife48 Awesomely bad and man does it drag through the entire movie. The Shadow at least has the bones of Batman, Punisher, and most anti-hero heroes in it.
Seriously? "The Shadow" and "The Phantom" were released TWO YEARS apart. I doubt anyone in the theater was thinking, "Oops, I mistook this movie for the one that came out 730 days ago."
I enjoyed both movies when I first saw them. I consider both to be wonderfully cheesy live action adaptations of comic book characters. Admittedly, I have had more opportunities to re-watch The Phantom because it gets aired more often.
Agree that the non-appearance of Armageddon/Deep Impact is a massive oversight. I'd also consider A Bugs Life/Antz as another option, 2 CG films about bugs released not too far apart!
Completely agree! Baffling that Armageddon/ Deep Impact was not mentioned. Other examples would be Red Sparrow and that other movie that's basically the same (name eludes me, but I think it's from Besson) and I also seem to recall some movies about burning oil rigs to be quite same-ish.
" Did we miss any? " YES! Breakin' (1984) - Beat Street (1984), Antz (1998) - A Bugs Life (1999), Lake Placid (1998) - Deep Blue Sea (1999), Carnosaur (1993) - Jurassic Park (1993). Deep Impact (1998) - Armageddon (1999), The Haunting (1999) and House on Haunted Hill (1999) and finally The Illusionist (2006) - The Prestige (2006).
Except the Haunting and House on Haunted Hill are both remakes of original films and if you lump them together you may as well lump in all haunted house movies.
The FWB/NSA comparison by WhatCulture should have leaned into another fact that thoroughly blurs the movies in our minds: Mila and Ashton are now married, so we fuse them as a couple into one romcom - despite them having different partners in the flicks. That's a HUGE part of the confusion.
The biggest difference between Tombstone and Wyatt Earp is that I would happily and gladly watch Tombstone again and again but you'd have to pay me to watch Wyatt Earp again. VERY different tones in these two films. Both had standout performances by actors playing Doc Holiday but Val Kilmer's Doc was far better than Dennis Quaid's Doc. Kilmer should have won an Oscar for his performance but wasn't even nominated.
"I'm your Huckleberry." I watched Tombstone as a kid (I was a weird kid who watched a ton of age-inappropriate movies and not only sat still through them but found them every bit as interesting as the child-approved movies I watched when my mom was supervising me and my brother instead of my father lol) and absolutely LOVED Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday. His performance was truly stand out and I'll never forget his scenes. The fact he wasn't even nominated for an Oscar still baffles me.
Tombstone was an absolute mess during production and Kevin Costner did his best to kill the project. Kurt Russel barely held the film production together after Costner's antics, but it was Val Kilmer that truly made this movie great. The cast was studded with stars and provided spectacular proformances, but Kilmer simply stole every scene he was in. Every one. Easily a top 10 movie of all time.
@@ChrisR410a I mean, when the movie aired in theaters I was five years old. My father rented it and I watched it with him for the first time a year later, Val Kilmer's performance was so good he held the attention of a six-year-old girl and to this day I can quote his Doc Holiday because I was completely charmed and enthralled. THAT is acting.
Judging by the commentary on the first pair of movies it appears that if you have actors that have the same number of limbs, and heads, as each other they are now considered to be lookalikes
Shadow: I'd estimate 90% of the scenes take place in an urban environment and 90% of the scenes take place at night. The superhuman protagonist in full costume could be mistaken for an ordinarily dressed man who has drawn his scarf over his nose due to windchill. Phantom: wasn't most of it on an island jungle in search of some lost Temple? The surreal protagonist is someone you'd want to know more about if you like your men in distinctive (what is that shade?), sort of off-lavender body stockings. So I'm affirming your point, @@dietotaku 😎 The video does show consecutive shots of both stars rocking the classic fedora & trench coat combo, though. (Notes on edit: originally, I called Phantom a superhuman as well. I'm now trusting to one reply in which it was suggested that Phantom is without super powers.)
@@alm2187 The similarity in the names and both being superhero flicks released around the same time could cause SOME confusion, but it would be more along the lines of someone seeing the name of one film and that its a superhero flick and confusing it for the other one until they actually see it. Like people might have set a DVR to record "The Shadow" thinking it was "The Phantom", and then being very confused when the character wasn't running around in a purple bodysuit or whatever when they sat down to watch it.
Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet were both great and distinct enough to easily tell them apart. Aeon Flux is based on a cartoon and Ultraviolet is literally a vampire movie. I don't know how anyone would confuse The Shadow and The Phantom either.
I always check the comments before I say anything just to see if anyone had said it. You mentioned both the things I was going to mention. I don't know why she didn't mention how Aeon Flux was a show I believe on MTV ( can't remember the channel it was on) and actually had a cult following because of the cartoon
Yeah I loved the Aeon Flux show so much I was beyond excited for the movie. Was let down with the movie, but still felt it was better than Ultraviolet.
You forgot to mention that both “The Shadow” and “The Phantom” received cult status after their releases. So they’re not written off as you think they are.
Here are a few more… Deep Underwater Adventures: •DeepStar Six 1989 •The Abyss 1989 •Leviathan 1989 Magician Flicks: •The Prestige 2006 •The Illusionist 2006 Same Cast VHS Wonders: •Howard’s End 1992 •Remains of the Day 1993
I disagree with the Abyss being lumped in with DS6 and Levi. DS6 and Levi were undersea monster movies, while Abyss was a scifi thriller with no horror elements to speak of. Also, very few, if anyone dies in Abyss (just the "bad guy," but it's trendy to kill people suffering from mental illness, so there's that), where as with DS6 and Levi, the only survivors are the main character and his love interest. Bleh.
@@drakkondarkspell I agree with you, but from a new general audience standpoint at the time of release, I recall there being confusion over the three underwater films, because they were about a crew of people dealing with something potentially dangerous underwater. As a big Abyss fan, I had to describe the differences to multiple people of multiple ages.
@@npckse8508 I agree with you, but from a new general audience standpoint at the time of release, I recall there being confusion over the three underwater films, because they were about a crew of people dealing with something potentially dangerous underwater. As a big Abyss fan, I had to describe the differences to multiple people of multiple ages.
_Deep Impact_ (1998) & _Armageddon_ (1998), released two months apart, are probably the most glaring omissions from this list. _Capote_ (2005) & _Infamous_ (2006) were released one year apart, but they are the exact same movie, both about Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman & Toby Jones) researching the murder of a Kansas family for his book, _In Cold Blood,_ with help from his friend, Nelle Harper Lee (Catherine Keener & Sandra Bullock). Another couple of pairs I've seen are _Antz_ (1998) & _A Bug's Life_ (1998), released a month apart, and _The Illusionist_ (2006) & _The Prestige_ (2006), also released a month apart. I'm sure I've seen other pairs over the years that I'm forgetting, but they're probably mentioned somewhere else in the comments. EDIT: I just remembered _Knowing_ (2009) & _2012_ (2009), released 8 months apart.
Ok but The Phantom didn't have the always awesome tagline, "What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" Only similarity is the pulp roots.
Yes, The Shadows' tagline is either that or, "He knows what evil lies in the hearts of men." But the Phantom got the awesome t-shits saying, "Phuck! It's the Phantom!"
Armageddon & Deep Impact - both big-budget films about massive asteroids coming to destroy Earth, and both released summer 1998. Only one of them had Aerosmith on the soundtrack, though 😂
No one was confused by The Shadow and The Phontom. Even thought they have the same central character again no one was confused about Tombstone and Wyatt Earp.
Prefontaine and Without Limits. Two rival biopics about long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine that came out a few months apart back in the 90s... unsurprisingly to very little fanfare. In fact, the only way most people even became aware of either movie was because David Spade made a joke about it on his Weekend Update Hollywood Minute segment on SNL, referring to them as "Snore" and "Snooze."
I see other commenters have pointed this out already, but I have to agree that the absence of Deep Impact and Armageddon on this list is a little bit perplexing. And in regards to Dante's Peak, while the acid lake scene is one that is hard to forget, the scene where the dog jumps into the back of the car being driven over a river of molten lava stands out more in terms of preposterousness.
The fact that the director left the production part way through and Kurt Russell took over as they couldn't find another director in time, shows his skill behind the screen as well as on it.
Shadow: I'd estimate 90% of the scenes take place in an urban environment and 90% of the scenes take place at night. The superhuman protagonist in full costume could be mistaken for an ordinary man who has drawn his scarf over his nose due to windchill. Phantom: wasn't most of it on an island jungle in search of some lost Temple? The surreal protagonist is someone you'd want to know more about if you like your men in distinctive (what is that shade?), sort of off-lavender body stockings. (Notes on edit: originally, I called Phantom a superhuman as well. I'm now trusting to one reply in which it was suggested that Phantom is without super powers.)
Except for the superhuman part. The Phantom is just a man, a fit one, but plain human. Start is Africa where ever it is set, 2nd half in the USA where the stolen artifacts are to be retrieved.
Oh, that's interesting, @@NemoConsequentae Guess I was remembering the part where he's perceived to be back from the dead. Is it just a successional situation like with the Dread Pirate Roberts?
@@alm2187 Yes. The Phantom is known as _'the ghost who walks, man who cannot die'._ In actuality, it was a long chain of descendents father to son, after it was started by an English (I think) shipwrecked survivor of a pirate attack, who took up residence in the 'Skull Cave' that locals revered & avoided. (Working from memory here...)
There was also Hercules starring The Rock which came out just a few months after The Legend of Hercules. I never watched The Legend of Hercules, but I think The Rock's Hercules suffered at the box office in part because Legend had bombed so badly and people were confused. The Rock's Hercules wasn't great, but it was entertaining and didn't deserve its fairly mediocre reviews or its "not particularly strong start" as described by Box Office Mojo.
"Deep Star SIx" and "Leviathan"! Two confusingly similar, albeit both very entertaining copycats of an original not yet released in 1988-89. These underwater horror movies were hastily made to benefit from the huge success that James Cameron's "The abyss" was expected to be. Alas, for everyone concerned, "The abyss" eventually became more of a sleeper hit than an immediate smash.
Yes. And I don't find Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet to be confusable at all. Both are superhero films, certainly, one based off a MTV shorts property and the other off a minor comic book series, but past that, they really are different creatures. Violet is even a vampire, so there's that, too.
Definitely “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” I actually kinda like them both but Deep Impact is more relatable as they didn’t choose to have oil drillers try and become astronauts in a few short hours
Good luck distinguishing 2017's Truth or Dare, about a killer game of Truth or Dare, and 2018's Truth or Dare, about a killer game of Truth or Dare. (Hint: the one with the weird smiles is the 2018 one)
Friend Request and Unfriended are definitely very different. Friend Request is actually a really awesome horror story that finds a clever way of linking witchcraft to the modern age, it's super good!
Granted I don’t think I’ve seen these two movies since 2006, but I remember getting The Prestige and The Illusionist mixed up. It didn’t help that they came out 2 months apart either!
This was made due to Hulu's CANDY and HBO's LOVE & DEATH, right? I just started watching L&D and swore I saw some scenes before - only researching to find CANDY is based on the same True Crime story.
What's interesting about Tombstone and Wyatt Earp is if you take both movies and mash them together, you get a pretty accurate account of what actually happened. HOWEVER... I watched both movies and never once saw the Doctor or Steven Taylor. Zero stars. The Shadow was not a bad movie. But The Phantom is an example of a property that cannot be translated to screen, big or small. It just doesn't work. Works fine on the page, so just leave it there. You don't have to film everything. "Die Hard in the White House" lol
Terminal Velocity and Drop Zone (both 1994) spring to mind. As well as K-9 and Turner & Hooch. Also it's a shame that, of the two, Olympus Has Fallen was successful enough to get the sequel treatment. White House Down was way more fun and way less cynically vicious
friend request and unfriended were too different to be confused with each other IMO. the allure of unfriended was the multiscreen videocall format, that's what set it apart from other movies (and continued in unfriended 2: the dark web.
The volcano in 'Volcano' didn't just pop up out of nowhere! Like it's explained rather well, I thought, with the volcanic activity below Los Angeles, which produced the tar fields becoming more active. While an unbelievable premise, I didn't feel it was that out there of an idea. I love both films, and I'm not big on disaster films or space films as they freak me out more than horror films. Strangely enough, Dante's Peak is a film I could play in my head without needing to actually watch it, like that kids with Shrek 2 😅 The escape scene with the acid lake still freaks me out but who wouldn't be. I loved and still love volcanoes as a kid, and that's probably why I enjoyed them, more so Dante's over Volcano. The latter freaks me out way more for a lot of reasons. I also watched the heck out of Twister! Those 3 are probably the only disaster films I'm okish watching that I can recall. Probably because I feel they are less likely to happen where I live, rural eastern Australia. Though my hometown is supposedly located in the crater of an extinct volcano and 2 years ago in my current town, we did have a twister come through in the middle of the night, which damaged the northern side of town and from which people are still dealing with the aftermath 😅 Maybe I should be more freaked out 😅 Also, I like most of all of the films in this video and enjoy them for their own different reasons. Again, it's just Ellie sounding annoyed and up herself. Otherwise a good video.
Lol, I made a beeline for the comments to see if anyone had pointed this out! It's incredibly rare that something like the Volcano movie might happen, but it's technically plausible -- although I think the tar pits would more likely be undramatically oozing molten asphalt.
Will say, it is pretty funny how Ashton Kutcher has openly admitted that’s how him and Mila kunis started dating. They became friends with benefits around the same time those movies came out
Also: not calling any of the following films rip-offs of any of the others, but I went months thinking Matrix and 13th Floor were the same thing. Around the same time, Existenz went deep into mysteries of which settings and versions of characters were and were not real. Most famously, not unlike The Matrix, there was Dark City in which the (perhaps deliberately generic) protagonist Is found to have powers on par with those of the enforcer characters centered around reshaping the simulated reality. And yes, I'm aware of the case that The Matrix is an unauthorized lift of the story from The Invisibles but that was not a movie.
I'm not mad about copycat films. If I'm enjoying something, having a second helping is nice. Not exactly "who wore it best?" I often read another zombie anthology before/after re reading World War Z or The Newsflesh series because I'm just in the mood for more. I don't hate the World War Z film, but it has nothing on the source material.
1 funny thing, and 1 missing entry: The funny thing is (considering the theme of the video) is that while watching it, I'm thinking that the 2 white house movies gotta be on here. I could only remember one title: 'White House Down', which I thought was the Gerald Butler one. The entry that was missing was 'Armageddon' vs 'Deep Impact'.
I don't think anyone has ever confused Tombstone and Wyatt Earp, though both were products of the brief 1990s Western resurgence that Eastwood's Unforgiven sparked and it was weird how close together they came out. But Tombstone is an absolutely iconic film with a hugely memorable performance from Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, where as Costner's Wyatt Earp is only ever brought up as a punchline. When you do a second list Cop Out and The Other Guys better make the cut.
I'm surprised they didn't mention Aeon Flux being a damn cartoon on MTV Liquid Television before your time? What about Salt and Atomic Blonde? I Now Pronounce you Chuck... and that John Cleese movie (cant remember the title) They even sued them for copyright infringement
@@matthewcollinsiiiakacdawgc7361 dude they were totally similar Im not saying they were bad I actually liked both but cmon dude thats like saying Go Bots were nothing like Transformers
@@uselessagent7342 I've seen both, and I don't see how they were similar.... Atomic Blonde was set in the time period of when the Berlin Wall was about to the fall, and Salt was basically a sleeper agent, or something to that nature...
Ultraviolet was NOT a good movie; the action spectacle scenes even became boring after a while, but the final fight in the dark lit only by flaming swords was admittedly pretty cool. Also, I love The Shadow. I put it right up there with The Rocketeer and Captain America: The First Avenger for enjoyable period-piece hero films.
I know you weren't around so you wouldn't know, but we all definitely know the difference in the Shadow and the Phantom. The Shadow may not have done great in theaters but it definitely had a following and even an action figure line. It was one of the VHS tapes that stayed in regular rotation at my grandparents' house where I'd spend all my summers with my cousins in the 90s. I couldn't tell you the plot of the Phantom however.
I honestly cannot imagine how anyone could confuse any of these movies, and the claim that Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman, and Justin Timberlake and Ashton Kutcher look alike, is so absurd that I am compelled to believe this entire video is utterly unserious, and was simply churned out to meet a deadline or something.
Iron Eagle/Top Gun, Repo! The Genetic Opera/Repo Men, The Prestige/The Illusionist, Captain America Civil War/Batman vs Superman, Mac and Me/ ET, A Quiet Place/The Silence, Madagascar/The Wild, K-9/Turner and Hooch, The Truman Show/Ed TV, Hercules/The Legend of Hercules, Chasing Libery/First Daughter, Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman, Babe/Gordy
Don't know if anyone heard of this one but P.K. and the Kid and Over the Top were both released in the winter of 1987 focusing on arm wrestling truck drivers played by Paul LeMat and Sly Stallone on the road with a tween. Molly Ringwald, pre-Sixteen Candles, is in P.K. and the Kid. It was filmed in 1983 and shelved probably just released to capitalize on the more popular Over the Top. Usually someone hears of a script or producers have disagreements and they rush to get similar movies into production.
Aeon Flux shouldn't really be considered a "copy cat" movie as it was literally based on an existing IP that was on MTV before the movie came out. It didn't need to distinguish itself from UltraViolet because it only had to follow the formula of the animated series. That's not to say that UltraViolet wouldn't count as a "copy cat" and may have intentionally went for a similar style as Aeon Flux.
A couple things to add about Costner's egotistical attempts to burn "Tombstone." He sent handwritten letters to the principles of the rival production that (more or less) said that they were wasting their time and would embarrass themselves with "Tombstone." Costner tied up the costume and prop warehouses with reservations for period-appropriate gear. "Tombstone" countered by having hand-made dresses made for the leading ladies (Joanne "Big Nose Kate" Pacula said they were fitted perfectly and "a dream" to wear. Michael Beihn might have said it best at a convention about ten years ago. "Costner wanted to do a historical treatment. We went with telling an entertaining story."
Ok seriously? Aeon Flux, and Ultraviolet are not similar at all.... Aeon Flux was a animated series on MTV, and a comic book... Aeon Flux's plot isn't even the same as Ultraviolet... @Whatculture you guys really need to do better
@@darkmoon0219 Not even close at all... Don't get me wrong the movies weren't that great, basically just Hollywood doing their usual cash grab... But yeah Flux should of stayed as a animated show...
Wait, is Killers not the movie where many comedy actors guest star as neighbours who are actually assassins who want the bounty on the main characters' heads?
@@filmsociety1311 Never seen that one. I was just confused at the mention of the Killers being a bad movie, forgettable movie. It is a fun movie, with a lot of actors playing against type for the sheer hilarity of it.
If you are going to lump The Shadow and The Phantom together then where the hell is Armageddon and Deep Impact? Those movies almost always come up in conversation together.
Well, me being Swedish, that at least makes it easy for me to single out "The Phantom". Because, believe it or not, in Sweden the title character is one of the most iconic comic book characters of all time, largely thanks to a domestic production decidedly more ambitious and less generic than the US original. Somewhat ironically, this did not work to the movie's advantage in Sweden at all, simply because the movie production played way too fast and loose and boring with the source material for the Swedish purists' liking. "The Shadow", however ... well, he's not iconic in Sweden, or, to my knowledge, anywhere else.
I totally agree with how they treated the film. And THE PHANTOM was one of my earliest heroes here in the US, because we got the newspaper strip 7 days a week! (2 different stories, one in the dailies, one in the Sundays, something they haven't tended to do in decades.) My main beef with the film was Treat Williams over-acting as if he was on the Adam West BATMAN series, and the use of supernatural elements, which had no place in the film (especially Kit being able to speak directly with his DEAD father-- a la the Chris Reeve SUPERMAN). It's MANDRAKE who uses real magic (disguised as "stage illusion" and "hypnotism"-- HEH!). While the two do exist in the SAME universe, magic should never be used in a PHANTOM story. Most of THE SHADOW was well-done... but... the entirely-new "origin" story almost TOTALLY ruined the film for me. There were no less than 3 different origins for the character that already existed, but only the one in the movie was, in my view, an INSULT to the character.
Oddly , despite being 14 years apart, and completely different genres, The Avengers had to be called Avengers Assemble in the UK because of the British movie of the same name based on the British TV show. I have heard British people get the movies confused when talking about them despite the 1998 film being a total flop.
Funny story, my dad thought the 1998 film was the Avengers back then because of the title, and he hadn't seen the trailer, but when I saw the movie poster, I told him it wasn't the Marvel Avengers, it was something completely different
I'm only commenting on White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. Both of these films are rip-offs based on Vince Flynn's novel Transfer of Power. When both of these films came out I knew exactly who they were stolen from.
Unfriended and Friend Request came out around the same time as One Missed Call, didn't it? Those titles stood out to me as similar because they are silly signs of the times. Also reminds me of one that I think is much more recent. Something about a man tryin'a use video chat with college students to conduct a search for his missing daughter?
I should be ashamed I forgot this pair.....The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert vs To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar....2 of my fave movies OF ALL TIME!
OK so I'll agree with most of that but trying to lump in Ghosts of Mars with Mission to Mars and Red Planet is a big mistake. Ghosts of Mars was so far away from those type of movies. The only thing similar is the fact that it takes place on Mars. It might as well be Army of the Dead in Space.
Alright, one last one, then I'm done......the grandmother of all copycats.....Basic Instinct vs Body of Evidence. (Congrats on the Golden Raspberry Award, Madonna. Well deserved).
Am I the only one that hasn't even heard of many of these pairings? And where's Armageddon/Deep Impact? And all the early dueling Pixar/Dreamworks films?
I actually rather like Mission to Mars. It's ridiculous, but it has some moments. I rather like the track 'Where' in particular as well, it's the one that plays when the MC separates from the rest of the crew to go on the journey to the stars, and in particular the part during the MC's 'life flashing before his eyes' bit near the end.
Also, and most importantly: You couldn't attack the Disney machine. "Antz", and "A Bug's Life". DreamWorks created Antz as a story inspired by the concept of "the individual growing beyond preconceptions" and what better anthropomorphized analogy than ants. Disney suddenly come up with "A Bugs Life", which automatically came across as a response to DreamWorks, since several Disney/PIxar employees went to DreamWorks, but "A Bug's Life" won in the box office like Eddie Murphey in the "Distinguished Gentleman" - name recognition. Even thought Antz is a far superior movie. I guess the writers can't call out the House of Mouse. This was supposed to be "copy cat movies", not two movies that "happened to be similar". Those two moves are distinctly, "A Bugs Life" copycatted Antz, all because Disney didn't want to be out played 25 years ago when DreamWorks was created. All the other movies on this list, are from different source material, made with a different purpose, or are just typical B movie fun, with an A budget. That the writers assume they are "similar" is just their inability to perceive the nuances.
I also expected Armageddon/ Deep Impact to be on the list. Another pair of movies that comes to my mind are the 2 Robin Hood movies from 1991, the one with Costner and the other with Uma Thurman.
Most of these are not actually "copycat" films, they're just very similar projects that went into development at about the same time and were in a race for the earlier release date. It happens all the time in Hollywood. Usually one film turns out a little better than the other, or has the advantage of better marketing and distribution, or has bigger names attached to it, and that's the one we remember. It can actually be a lot of fun to see different takes on the same material (e.g., Capote vs. Infamous). On the other hand, "Mac and Me" really did the saddest rip on E.T. maybe ever.
An early draft of Olympus Has Fallen had the Pentagon call in a special black ops soldier called Sandman, who parachuted in during the third act and single-handedly took out all the terrorists. It was taken out of the script because nobody could answer the question "Why didn't they just call him right away?"
LOL, my family always says, "Dante's Peak and that other one", because we're from the town it was filmed in; Wallace, ID. All the little shops and hotels have stories (and aometimes scrapbooks!) of the filming, and we spent half the movie picking out all the landmarks they renamed. The gym they have the town meeting on is my dad's old high school. Go Wallace Miners! :V
Surprised no entry for Armageddon and Deep Impact. This list does include pairs or the similarity appears to be more a question of coincidence than ripoff, right?
Looks like we may need to do a second part to this list. Far too many to include in a '10'. Thanks for your support everyone 🙌
HOW DARE YOU! the phantom was awesome.
FOR SHAME!
How about "A Bug's Life" and "Antz"?
@@deepwaterlife48 Awesomely bad and man does it drag through the entire movie. The Shadow at least has the bones of Batman, Punisher, and most anti-hero heroes in it.
Suggestion! Matrix and Existenz?
@@matthewwilliams8978 i would say Dark City/Matrix/ExistenZ
Seriously? "The Shadow" and "The Phantom" were released TWO YEARS apart. I doubt anyone in the theater was thinking, "Oops, I mistook this movie for the one that came out 730 days ago."
The Phantom was pretty forgettable but I actually did enjoy The Shadow!
@@l.salisbury1253 Agreed.
Anyone who watched defenders of the earth could tell them apart
I enjoyed both movies when I first saw them. I consider both to be wonderfully cheesy live action adaptations of comic book characters. Admittedly, I have had more opportunities to re-watch The Phantom because it gets aired more often.
Agreed
Agree that the non-appearance of Armageddon/Deep Impact is a massive oversight. I'd also consider A Bugs Life/Antz as another option, 2 CG films about bugs released not too far apart!
I hit the comments to bring up these two examples.
Sounds like the start of a second list. I'm sure there's even more examples out there. The Ring and The Grudge come to mind.
Yeah deep impact/Armageddon is the quintessential, and your second example is on point as well
Also surprised about the Deep Impact slash Armageddon. It was the first pair I thought of.
Completely agree! Baffling that Armageddon/ Deep Impact was not mentioned. Other examples would be Red Sparrow and that other movie that's basically the same (name eludes me, but I think it's from Besson) and I also seem to recall some movies about burning oil rigs to be quite same-ish.
" Did we miss any? " YES! Breakin' (1984) - Beat Street (1984), Antz (1998) - A Bugs Life (1999), Lake Placid (1998) - Deep Blue Sea (1999), Carnosaur (1993) - Jurassic Park (1993). Deep Impact (1998) - Armageddon (1999), The Haunting (1999) and House on Haunted Hill (1999) and finally The Illusionist (2006) - The Prestige (2006).
Lake Placid is completely different from deep blue sea. Completely different animals sharks and crocodile. Also completely different storyline.
Except the Haunting and House on Haunted Hill are both remakes of original films and if you lump them together you may as well lump in all haunted house movies.
Ok first off... Of course Breakin, and Beat Street are similar because they both are movies about the hip hop culture in the 80s...
You might as well throw in Krush Groove too...
These are reaching
The FWB/NSA comparison by WhatCulture should have leaned into another fact that thoroughly blurs the movies in our minds: Mila and Ashton are now married, so we fuse them as a couple into one romcom - despite them having different partners in the flicks. That's a HUGE part of the confusion.
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The biggest difference between Tombstone and Wyatt Earp is that I would happily and gladly watch Tombstone again and again but you'd have to pay me to watch Wyatt Earp again. VERY different tones in these two films. Both had standout performances by actors playing Doc Holiday but Val Kilmer's Doc was far better than Dennis Quaid's Doc. Kilmer should have won an Oscar for his performance but wasn't even nominated.
"I'm your Huckleberry." I watched Tombstone as a kid (I was a weird kid who watched a ton of age-inappropriate movies and not only sat still through them but found them every bit as interesting as the child-approved movies I watched when my mom was supervising me and my brother instead of my father lol) and absolutely LOVED Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday. His performance was truly stand out and I'll never forget his scenes. The fact he wasn't even nominated for an Oscar still baffles me.
Tombstone was an absolute mess during production and Kevin Costner did his best to kill the project. Kurt Russel barely held the film production together after Costner's antics, but it was Val Kilmer that truly made this movie great. The cast was studded with stars and provided spectacular proformances, but Kilmer simply stole every scene he was in. Every one. Easily a top 10 movie of all time.
@@ChrisR410a I mean, when the movie aired in theaters I was five years old. My father rented it and I watched it with him for the first time a year later, Val Kilmer's performance was so good he held the attention of a six-year-old girl and to this day I can quote his Doc Holiday because I was completely charmed and enthralled. THAT is acting.
Judging by the commentary on the first pair of movies it appears that if you have actors that have the same number of limbs, and heads, as each other they are now considered to be lookalikes
Shadow: I'd estimate 90% of the scenes take place in an urban environment and 90% of the scenes take place at night. The superhuman protagonist in full costume could be mistaken for an ordinarily dressed man who has drawn his scarf over his nose due to windchill.
Phantom: wasn't most of it on an island jungle in search of some lost Temple? The surreal protagonist is someone you'd want to know more about if you like your men in distinctive (what is that shade?), sort of off-lavender body stockings.
So I'm affirming your point, @@dietotaku 😎
The video does show consecutive shots of both stars rocking the classic fedora & trench coat combo, though.
(Notes on edit: originally, I called Phantom a superhuman as well. I'm now trusting to one reply in which it was suggested that Phantom is without super powers.)
@@alm2187 The similarity in the names and both being superhero flicks released around the same time could cause SOME confusion, but it would be more along the lines of someone seeing the name of one film and that its a superhero flick and confusing it for the other one until they actually see it. Like people might have set a DVR to record "The Shadow" thinking it was "The Phantom", and then being very confused when the character wasn't running around in a purple bodysuit or whatever when they sat down to watch it.
Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet were both great and distinct enough to easily tell them apart. Aeon Flux is based on a cartoon and Ultraviolet is literally a vampire movie. I don't know how anyone would confuse The Shadow and The Phantom either.
the seon flux show was great
Exactly!!!
I always check the comments before I say anything just to see if anyone had said it. You mentioned both the things I was going to mention. I don't know why she didn't mention how Aeon Flux was a show I believe on MTV ( can't remember the channel it was on) and actually had a cult following because of the cartoon
@@anhurtorrez yeh I have the show on dvd
Yeah I loved the Aeon Flux show so much I was beyond excited for the movie. Was let down with the movie, but still felt it was better than Ultraviolet.
You forgot to mention that both “The Shadow” and “The Phantom” received cult status after their releases. So they’re not written off as you think they are.
I love both movies
both are good but I like the Phantom more
Here are a few more…
Deep Underwater Adventures:
•DeepStar Six 1989
•The Abyss 1989
•Leviathan 1989
Magician Flicks:
•The Prestige 2006
•The Illusionist 2006
Same Cast VHS Wonders:
•Howard’s End 1992
•Remains of the Day 1993
I disagree with the Abyss being lumped in with DS6 and Levi. DS6 and Levi were undersea monster movies, while Abyss was a scifi thriller with no horror elements to speak of. Also, very few, if anyone dies in Abyss (just the "bad guy," but it's trendy to kill people suffering from mental illness, so there's that), where as with DS6 and Levi, the only survivors are the main character and his love interest. Bleh.
@@drakkondarkspell Yeah the Abyss definitely doesn't fit in, but Leviathan and Deep Star 6 were classic
@@drakkondarkspell I agree with you, but from a new general audience standpoint at the time of release, I recall there being confusion over the three underwater films, because they were about a crew of people dealing with something potentially dangerous underwater. As a big Abyss fan, I had to describe the differences to multiple people of multiple ages.
@@npckse8508 I agree with you, but from a new general audience standpoint at the time of release, I recall there being confusion over the three underwater films, because they were about a crew of people dealing with something potentially dangerous underwater. As a big Abyss fan, I had to describe the differences to multiple people of multiple ages.
_Deep Impact_ (1998) & _Armageddon_ (1998), released two months apart, are probably the most glaring omissions from this list. _Capote_ (2005) & _Infamous_ (2006) were released one year apart, but they are the exact same movie, both about Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman & Toby Jones) researching the murder of a Kansas family for his book, _In Cold Blood,_ with help from his friend, Nelle Harper Lee (Catherine Keener & Sandra Bullock). Another couple of pairs I've seen are _Antz_ (1998) & _A Bug's Life_ (1998), released a month apart, and _The Illusionist_ (2006) & _The Prestige_ (2006), also released a month apart. I'm sure I've seen other pairs over the years that I'm forgetting, but they're probably mentioned somewhere else in the comments. EDIT: I just remembered _Knowing_ (2009) & _2012_ (2009), released 8 months apart.
Great call with Infamous and Capote! I would add Left Behind, another apocalyptic Nic Cage movie to Knowing and 2012.
Ok but The Phantom didn't have the always awesome tagline, "What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" Only similarity is the pulp roots.
Yes, The Shadows' tagline is either that or, "He knows what evil lies in the hearts of men."
But the Phantom got the awesome t-shits saying, "Phuck! It's the Phantom!"
THE SHADOW started in the pulp magazine novels. THE PHANTOM started in the NEWSPAPER STRIP!
Both had movie serials done about them way back when.
Armageddon & Deep Impact - both big-budget films about massive asteroids coming to destroy Earth, and both released summer 1998.
Only one of them had Aerosmith on the soundtrack, though 😂
These were the first two films that came to my mind
Was surprised that it didn’t make the list.
@@kramtt i thought was going to be number 1
At least Deep Impact was somewhat scientifically accurate.
Yup I was just writing this as I saw your comment. I also think that both were successful financially!
No one was confused by The Shadow and The Phontom. Even thought they have the same central character again no one was confused about Tombstone and Wyatt Earp.
Let's throw The Prestige with Bale/Jackman and The Illusionist with Norton into this list.
no
Batman, Wolverine, and the Hulk as magicians.
@@shmendrickswamii5914 oh my god…
@@balkthor Zodiac had Ironman, Hulk and Mysterio.
You could have easily dropped The Shadow/The Phantom and Aeon Flux/Ultraviolet entries and replaced then with movies that fit the list's criteria.
Prefontaine and Without Limits. Two rival biopics about long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine that came out a few months apart back in the 90s... unsurprisingly to very little fanfare. In fact, the only way most people even became aware of either movie was because David Spade made a joke about it on his Weekend Update Hollywood Minute segment on SNL, referring to them as "Snore" and "Snooze."
Mr. David Spade was not wrong. Although Jared Leto's performance was the better of the two.
OMG! Good memory! I remember being like "wait, what?"
I wonder if Ashton and Mila ever talk about how they've both kissed Natalie on screen now!
I'm sure it's all they talk about 😂
I bet both scream NATILIE at climax🎉
@@siegel177 😂
@@siegel177 😂😂😂I just...can't...🤣🤣🤣
I see other commenters have pointed this out already, but I have to agree that the absence of Deep Impact and Armageddon on this list is a little bit perplexing.
And in regards to Dante's Peak, while the acid lake scene is one that is hard to forget, the scene where the dog jumps into the back of the car being driven over a river of molten lava stands out more in terms of preposterousness.
That’s exactly the ridiculous scene I remember!
Tombstone is the only film where the moustaches deserved an ocsar on their own right.
Also Val Kilmer was casting perfection
The fact that the director left the production part way through and Kurt Russell took over as they couldn't find another director in time, shows his skill behind the screen as well as on it.
"I'll be your huckleberry"
glad we got him then and before he went hard into getting sick.
How could you forget Chasing Liberty and First Daughter? My Millennial heart breaks at the fact that you forget them.
My date with the presidents daughter or nah?
My bommer heart breaks that either was ever made.
I never thought of the phantom or the shadow being alike. I enjoyed both
Agreed
I don’t think the Shadow and phantom were all that similar.
They're not similar at all lol....
The Shadow was a great noir pastiche. I loved it. And Baldwin hamming it up was on target.
exactly
Shadow: I'd estimate 90% of the scenes take place in an urban environment and 90% of the scenes take place at night. The superhuman protagonist in full costume could be mistaken for an ordinary man who has drawn his scarf over his nose due to windchill.
Phantom: wasn't most of it on an island jungle in search of some lost Temple? The surreal protagonist is someone you'd want to know more about if you like your men in distinctive (what is that shade?), sort of off-lavender body stockings.
(Notes on edit: originally, I called Phantom a superhuman as well. I'm now trusting to one reply in which it was suggested that Phantom is without super powers.)
Except for the superhuman part. The Phantom is just a man, a fit one, but plain human. Start is Africa where ever it is set, 2nd half in the USA where the stolen artifacts are to be retrieved.
I barely even remember the phantom, in comparison to the shadow.
@@kylemcnicholas4133 On the other hand, I grew up with The Phantom in the Sunday paper, and had never heard at that stage of The Shadow.
Oh, that's interesting, @@NemoConsequentae
Guess I was remembering the part where he's perceived to be back from the dead. Is it just a successional situation like with the Dread Pirate Roberts?
@@alm2187 Yes. The Phantom is known as _'the ghost who walks, man who cannot die'._ In actuality, it was a long chain of descendents father to son, after it was started by an English (I think) shipwrecked survivor of a pirate attack, who took up residence in the 'Skull Cave' that locals revered & avoided. (Working from memory here...)
I would rephrase the tltle "super confusing to What Culture Only" - the rest of the world knows that everyone copies everything from each other
Let us not forget that Tombstone also has hands down Val Kilmer's greatest performance ever
There was also Hercules starring The Rock which came out just a few months after The Legend of Hercules. I never watched The Legend of Hercules, but I think The Rock's Hercules suffered at the box office in part because Legend had bombed so badly and people were confused. The Rock's Hercules wasn't great, but it was entertaining and didn't deserve its fairly mediocre reviews or its "not particularly strong start" as described by Box Office Mojo.
The Legend of Hercules was really bad.
I actually enjoy the Phantom as a "good bad" movie. It's quality cheese.
"Deep Star SIx" and "Leviathan"! Two confusingly similar, albeit both very entertaining copycats of an original not yet released in 1988-89. These underwater horror movies were hastily made to benefit from the huge success that James Cameron's "The abyss" was expected to be. Alas, for everyone concerned, "The abyss" eventually became more of a sleeper hit than an immediate smash.
Deep Star Six and Leviathan have far more in common with each other than they do with The Abyss.
I'm a superfan of the original MTV animated series, so I just have to say one thing....
Aye-On Flux
Yes. And I don't find Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet to be confusable at all. Both are superhero films, certainly, one based off a MTV shorts property and the other off a minor comic book series, but past that, they really are different creatures. Violet is even a vampire, so there's that, too.
Definitely “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact”
I actually kinda like them both but Deep Impact is more relatable as they didn’t choose to have oil drillers try and become astronauts in a few short hours
Tombstone is amazing. And just to jump in the other end of the pool; I love the phantom. BZ is the man
How do ya miss Armageddon & Deep Impact ?!?
Good luck distinguishing 2017's Truth or Dare, about a killer game of Truth or Dare, and 2018's Truth or Dare, about a killer game of Truth or Dare. (Hint: the one with the weird smiles is the 2018 one)
Lol I haven't heard of these but that's hilarious
Now that you mention it, 2018's Truth or Dare has similarities to Smile.
Friend Request and Unfriended are definitely very different. Friend Request is actually a really awesome horror story that finds a clever way of linking witchcraft to the modern age, it's super good!
Granted I don’t think I’ve seen these two movies since 2006, but I remember getting The Prestige and The Illusionist mixed up. It didn’t help that they came out 2 months apart either!
This was made due to Hulu's CANDY and HBO's LOVE & DEATH, right? I just started watching L&D and swore I saw some scenes before - only researching to find CANDY is based on the same True Crime story.
Dantes peak is much better than volcano.
What's interesting about Tombstone and Wyatt Earp is if you take both movies and mash them together, you get a pretty accurate account of what actually happened. HOWEVER...
I watched both movies and never once saw the Doctor or Steven Taylor. Zero stars.
The Shadow was not a bad movie. But The Phantom is an example of a property that cannot be translated to screen, big or small. It just doesn't work. Works fine on the page, so just leave it there. You don't have to film everything.
"Die Hard in the White House" lol
Yeah, Wyatt Earp is somewhat more historically accurate, but Tombstone is an extremely fun movie.
I remember being confused with the two 1997 movies: "Excess Baggage" and, "A Life Less Ordinary"
Terminal Velocity and Drop Zone (both 1994) spring to mind. As well as K-9 and Turner & Hooch. Also it's a shame that, of the two, Olympus Has Fallen was successful enough to get the sequel treatment. White House Down was way more fun and way less cynically vicious
Aeon flux was such an amazing movie and I wish they did more with the franchise.
I preferred the show lol
@@Breexbloodlust me too
And Ultra Violet was absolute garbage. I'd never mistake one for the other.
@@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063 it was so good
Armageddon and Deep Impact?
Where's Vice Versa(1988)/Like Father, Like Son(1987)? With the strikingly similar Judge Reinhold and Dudley Moore😂
friend request and unfriended were too different to be confused with each other IMO. the allure of unfriended was the multiscreen videocall format, that's what set it apart from other movies (and continued in unfriended 2: the dark web.
The Prestige and The Illusionist
The volcano in 'Volcano' didn't just pop up out of nowhere! Like it's explained rather well, I thought, with the volcanic activity below Los Angeles, which produced the tar fields becoming more active. While an unbelievable premise, I didn't feel it was that out there of an idea. I love both films, and I'm not big on disaster films or space films as they freak me out more than horror films. Strangely enough, Dante's Peak is a film I could play in my head without needing to actually watch it, like that kids with Shrek 2 😅 The escape scene with the acid lake still freaks me out but who wouldn't be. I loved and still love volcanoes as a kid, and that's probably why I enjoyed them, more so Dante's over Volcano. The latter freaks me out way more for a lot of reasons. I also watched the heck out of Twister! Those 3 are probably the only disaster films I'm okish watching that I can recall. Probably because I feel they are less likely to happen where I live, rural eastern Australia. Though my hometown is supposedly located in the crater of an extinct volcano and 2 years ago in my current town, we did have a twister come through in the middle of the night, which damaged the northern side of town and from which people are still dealing with the aftermath 😅 Maybe I should be more freaked out 😅
Also, I like most of all of the films in this video and enjoy them for their own different reasons. Again, it's just Ellie sounding annoyed and up herself. Otherwise a good video.
Ellie is just reading script, though.
Lol, I made a beeline for the comments to see if anyone had pointed this out! It's incredibly rare that something like the Volcano movie might happen, but it's technically plausible -- although I think the tar pits would more likely be undramatically oozing molten asphalt.
Surprised to not see Armageddon and Deep Impact on this list.
Will say, it is pretty funny how Ashton Kutcher has openly admitted that’s how him and Mila kunis started dating. They became friends with benefits around the same time those movies came out
lol
too bad they weren't in the same version of this movie
Also: not calling any of the following films rip-offs of any of the others, but I went months thinking Matrix and 13th Floor were the same thing. Around the same time, Existenz went deep into mysteries of which settings and versions of characters were and were not real. Most famously, not unlike The Matrix, there was Dark City in which the (perhaps deliberately generic) protagonist Is found to have powers on par with those of the enforcer characters centered around reshaping the simulated reality.
And yes, I'm aware of the case that The Matrix is an unauthorized lift of the story from The Invisibles but that was not a movie.
Dark City is still one of my favourites.
I'm not mad about copycat films. If I'm enjoying something, having a second helping is nice. Not exactly "who wore it best?" I often read another zombie anthology before/after re reading World War Z or The Newsflesh series because I'm just in the mood for more. I don't hate the World War Z film, but it has nothing on the source material.
1 funny thing, and 1 missing entry:
The funny thing is (considering the theme of the video) is that while watching it, I'm thinking that the 2 white house movies gotta be on here. I could only remember one title: 'White House Down', which I thought was the Gerald Butler one.
The entry that was missing was 'Armageddon' vs 'Deep Impact'.
I don't think anyone has ever confused Tombstone and Wyatt Earp, though both were products of the brief 1990s Western resurgence that Eastwood's Unforgiven sparked and it was weird how close together they came out. But Tombstone is an absolutely iconic film with a hugely memorable performance from Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, where as Costner's Wyatt Earp is only ever brought up as a punchline.
When you do a second list Cop Out and The Other Guys better make the cut.
The Bounty Hunter could be even more eerily paired with One for the Money- another soulless Katherine Heigel romcom.
I'm surprised they didn't mention Aeon Flux being a damn cartoon on MTV Liquid Television before your time? What about Salt and Atomic Blonde? I Now Pronounce you Chuck... and that John Cleese movie (cant remember the title) They even sued them for copyright infringement
Salt, and Atomic Blonde aren't similar at all either
@@matthewcollinsiiiakacdawgc7361 dude they were totally similar Im not saying they were bad I actually liked both but cmon dude thats like saying Go Bots were nothing like Transformers
@@uselessagent7342 I've seen both, and I don't see how they were similar.... Atomic Blonde was set in the time period of when the Berlin Wall was about to the fall, and Salt was basically a sleeper agent, or something to that nature...
Oh my God no -No! lol I pressed play thinking, "If they throw in The Shadow and The Phantom, they're really reaching," and you did it! 😂😂😂
Ultraviolet was NOT a good movie; the action spectacle scenes even became boring after a while, but the final fight in the dark lit only by flaming swords was admittedly pretty cool.
Also, I love The Shadow. I put it right up there with The Rocketeer and Captain America: The First Avenger for enjoyable period-piece hero films.
I remember being so disappointed with Ultraviolet after how much I enjoyed Equilibrium.
I know you weren't around so you wouldn't know, but we all definitely know the difference in the Shadow and the Phantom. The Shadow may not have done great in theaters but it definitely had a following and even an action figure line. It was one of the VHS tapes that stayed in regular rotation at my grandparents' house where I'd spend all my summers with my cousins in the 90s. I couldn't tell you the plot of the Phantom however.
Honestly, I think The Phantom's Plot was where he protected the land or something to that nature like his father did before him
Here I thought the big give-away was the purple pyjamas
@@jarrodbright5231 Lol that too
I honestly cannot imagine how anyone could confuse any of these movies, and the claim that Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman, and Justin Timberlake and Ashton Kutcher look alike, is so absurd that I am compelled to believe this entire video is utterly unserious, and was simply churned out to meet a deadline or something.
I have always felt that a script circulating in Hollywood got seen by multiple companies and they "pass" on it but steal the idea anyway.
As a kid, I wanted them to team up the Shadow and the Phantom. It had the make up to become a shared universe of pulp heroes.
Iron Eagle/Top Gun, Repo! The Genetic Opera/Repo Men, The Prestige/The Illusionist, Captain America Civil War/Batman vs Superman, Mac and Me/ ET, A Quiet Place/The Silence, Madagascar/The Wild, K-9/Turner and Hooch, The Truman Show/Ed TV, Hercules/The Legend of Hercules, Chasing Libery/First Daughter, Mirror Mirror, Snow White and the Huntsman, Babe/Gordy
You're brilliant, CyberKat04!
I still say Antz was worlds better than A Bug's Life
lol.. ultra voilet 3:55
Shotgun Wedding and Ticket to Paradise blend together in my mind.
Don't know if anyone heard of this one but P.K. and the Kid and Over the Top were both released in the winter of 1987 focusing on arm wrestling truck drivers played by Paul LeMat and Sly Stallone on the road with a tween. Molly Ringwald, pre-Sixteen Candles, is in P.K. and the Kid. It was filmed in 1983 and shelved probably just released to capitalize on the more popular Over the Top. Usually someone hears of a script or producers have disagreements and they rush to get similar movies into production.
Aeon Flux shouldn't really be considered a "copy cat" movie as it was literally based on an existing IP that was on MTV before the movie came out. It didn't need to distinguish itself from UltraViolet because it only had to follow the formula of the animated series. That's not to say that UltraViolet wouldn't count as a "copy cat" and may have intentionally went for a similar style as Aeon Flux.
A couple things to add about Costner's egotistical attempts to burn "Tombstone." He sent handwritten letters to the principles of the rival production that (more or less) said that they were wasting their time and would embarrass themselves with "Tombstone." Costner tied up the costume and prop warehouses with reservations for period-appropriate gear. "Tombstone" countered by having hand-made dresses made for the leading ladies (Joanne "Big Nose Kate" Pacula said they were fitted perfectly and "a dream" to wear. Michael Beihn might have said it best at a convention about ten years ago. "Costner wanted to do a historical treatment. We went with telling an entertaining story."
I like both The Shadow and The Phantom, but the Shadow is much more memorable.
I liked both, but I own the Shadow on DVD. It doesn't help, though, that I can't find a DVD of the Phantom, so there's that.
Ok seriously? Aeon Flux, and Ultraviolet are not similar at all.... Aeon Flux was a animated series on MTV, and a comic book... Aeon Flux's plot isn't even the same as Ultraviolet... @Whatculture you guys really need to do better
Close enough...and both movies sucked...should have left flux an animated show...
@@darkmoon0219 Not even close at all... Don't get me wrong the movies weren't that great, basically just Hollywood doing their usual cash grab... But yeah Flux should of stayed as a animated show...
The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes are also similar (aside from the hype). I saw them the same week and they have blended together in my memory. 😅
Both horror gems.
Could lump Frequency with those two
Wait, is Killers not the movie where many comedy actors guest star as neighbours who are actually assassins who want the bounty on the main characters' heads?
oh
The Ladykilllers?
@@filmsociety1311 Never seen that one. I was just confused at the mention of the Killers being a bad movie, forgettable movie. It is a fun movie, with a lot of actors playing against type for the sheer hilarity of it.
If you are going to lump The Shadow and The Phantom together then where the hell is Armageddon and Deep Impact? Those movies almost always come up in conversation together.
Did we miss any? YES! Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ) and Some Kind of Wonderful ( 1987 ).
Nah. Nobody will mix up the great and criminally underrated The Shadow and the camp forgetfulness of The Phantom
loved both the phantom and the shadow. The sun is shining but the ice is slippery
Well, me being Swedish, that at least makes it easy for me to single out "The Phantom". Because, believe it or not, in Sweden the title character is one of the most iconic comic book characters of all time, largely thanks to a domestic production decidedly more ambitious and less generic than the US original. Somewhat ironically, this did not work to the movie's advantage in Sweden at all, simply because the movie production played way too fast and loose and boring with the source material for the Swedish purists' liking.
"The Shadow", however ... well, he's not iconic in Sweden, or, to my knowledge, anywhere else.
I totally agree with how they treated the film. And THE PHANTOM was one of my earliest heroes here in the US, because we got the newspaper strip 7 days a week! (2 different stories, one in the dailies, one in the Sundays, something they haven't tended to do in decades.)
My main beef with the film was Treat Williams over-acting as if he was on the Adam West BATMAN series, and the use of supernatural elements, which had no place in the film (especially Kit being able to speak directly with his DEAD father-- a la the Chris Reeve SUPERMAN). It's MANDRAKE who uses real magic (disguised as "stage illusion" and "hypnotism"-- HEH!). While the two do exist in the SAME universe, magic should never be used in a PHANTOM story.
Most of THE SHADOW was well-done... but... the entirely-new "origin" story almost TOTALLY ruined the film for me. There were no less than 3 different origins for the character that already existed, but only the one in the movie was, in my view, an INSULT to the character.
Oddly , despite being 14 years apart, and completely different genres, The Avengers had to be called Avengers Assemble in the UK because of the British movie of the same name based on the British TV show. I have heard British people get the movies confused when talking about them despite the 1998 film being a total flop.
Funny story, my dad thought the 1998 film was the Avengers back then because of the title, and he hadn't seen the trailer, but when I saw the movie poster, I told him it wasn't the Marvel Avengers, it was something completely different
I'm only commenting on White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. Both of these films are rip-offs based on Vince Flynn's novel Transfer of Power. When both of these films came out I knew exactly who they were stolen from.
Unfriended and Friend Request came out around the same time as One Missed Call, didn't it? Those titles stood out to me as similar because they are silly signs of the times.
Also reminds me of one that I think is much more recent. Something about a man tryin'a use video chat with college students to conduct a search for his missing daughter?
One Missed Call was 2008, Unfriended was 2014, and Friend Request was 2016.
Yes, the one with John Cho, Searching. Good movie, great twists.
Ghost of Mars " is a good horror movie . I think its better than the other 2 if you like horror movies . I don't know why it wasn't more popular .
I should be ashamed I forgot this pair.....The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert vs To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar....2 of my fave movies OF ALL TIME!
OK so I'll agree with most of that but trying to lump in Ghosts of Mars with Mission to Mars and Red Planet is a big mistake. Ghosts of Mars was so far away from those type of movies. The only thing similar is the fact that it takes place on Mars. It might as well be Army of the Dead in Space.
Seriously! I couldn't believe that they tried to lump Ghosts of Mars in with those two.
Strikingly similar Baldwin and zane..said no one ever🤣
How about Leviathan/Deep Star Six/ The Abyss? They all involved danger underwater.
Alright, one last one, then I'm done......the grandmother of all copycats.....Basic Instinct vs Body of Evidence. (Congrats on the Golden Raspberry Award, Madonna. Well deserved).
Am I the only one that hasn't even heard of many of these pairings? And where's Armageddon/Deep Impact? And all the early dueling Pixar/Dreamworks films?
I actually rather like Mission to Mars. It's ridiculous, but it has some moments. I rather like the track 'Where' in particular as well, it's the one that plays when the MC separates from the rest of the crew to go on the journey to the stars, and in particular the part during the MC's 'life flashing before his eyes' bit near the end.
Also, and most importantly: You couldn't attack the Disney machine. "Antz", and "A Bug's Life". DreamWorks created Antz as a story inspired by the concept of "the individual growing beyond preconceptions" and what better anthropomorphized analogy than ants. Disney suddenly come up with "A Bugs Life", which automatically came across as a response to DreamWorks, since several Disney/PIxar employees went to DreamWorks, but "A Bug's Life" won in the box office like Eddie Murphey in the "Distinguished Gentleman" - name recognition. Even thought Antz is a far superior movie. I guess the writers can't call out the House of Mouse. This was supposed to be "copy cat movies", not two movies that "happened to be similar". Those two moves are distinctly, "A Bugs Life" copycatted Antz, all because Disney didn't want to be out played 25 years ago when DreamWorks was created. All the other movies on this list, are from different source material, made with a different purpose, or are just typical B movie fun, with an A budget. That the writers assume they are "similar" is just their inability to perceive the nuances.
I also expected Armageddon/ Deep Impact to be on the list. Another pair of movies that comes to my mind are the 2 Robin Hood movies from 1991, the one with Costner and the other with Uma Thurman.
I actually liked Dante’s peak. Was also the movie that wanted me to get a 4x4 truck…:just in case
It's maybe not a copycat and more a spiritual successor but I would mention "Unfriended" with "Host"
How about Deep Impact and Armageddon? Two asteroids: One ends the world, the other doesn't.
The Legend of Hercules (with Kellan Lutz) and Hercules (with Dwayne Johnson) in 2014.
Most of these are not actually "copycat" films, they're just very similar projects that went into development at about the same time and were in a race for the earlier release date. It happens all the time in Hollywood. Usually one film turns out a little better than the other, or has the advantage of better marketing and distribution, or has bigger names attached to it, and that's the one we remember. It can actually be a lot of fun to see different takes on the same material (e.g., Capote vs. Infamous).
On the other hand, "Mac and Me" really did the saddest rip on E.T. maybe ever.
An early draft of Olympus Has Fallen had the Pentagon call in a special black ops soldier called Sandman, who parachuted in during the third act and single-handedly took out all the terrorists. It was taken out of the script because nobody could answer the question "Why didn't they just call him right away?"
LOL, my family always says, "Dante's Peak and that other one", because we're from the town it was filmed in; Wallace, ID.
All the little shops and hotels have stories (and aometimes scrapbooks!) of the filming, and we spent half the movie picking out all the landmarks they renamed. The gym they have the town meeting on is my dad's old high school. Go Wallace Miners! :V
I never even heard of the two “Exorcist” movies. 👻
You're one of the lucky ones.
Surprised no entry for Armageddon and Deep Impact. This list does include pairs or the similarity appears to be more a question of coincidence than ripoff, right?
I was right.
I’m missing Armageddon and Deep Impact.
Which one's your fave? It's Armageddon for me, banging soundtrack, to.