Films with similar themes and release dates
Wow. Somehow you could’ve sworn that you also knew this trend do exists. Of course the most obvious is comic book characters turned into movies (anyone watched spidey 3 yet? didn’t quite matched my expectations).
There is this big wiki list of movies with similar themes being released close to each other. According the to site,
Sometimes, this may be coincidental as the result of two studios independently hoping to capitalise on a current trend. Other times, however, a script will be bought and put into production by one studio, and a competing studio - which may hear about the production through word of mouth, trade papers (such as Variety), or through the internet - will put into production a film with a similar plotline, in an effort to capitalise on its box office potential.
So our tasks now is to identify who is following who, which one has the best script, hotter chicks and best soundtrack.
I remember getting really, really dissappointed after watching “Deep Impact” (starring Elijah Wood). I mean, I wanted to see the effects of the comet crashing the earth and the water wiping out the entire population of the world. It only happened like in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
As opposed to Armageddon. Now that was a good movie. Unfortunately for us, this movie started the trend of people karaoke-ing “I don’t want to miss a thing” by Aerosmith - badly. Anyway, the movie has comet falling down on major cities in the opening minutes. That was way cooler.
Among the movies listed :
- Over the hedge vs Open Season
- Flight 93 vs United 93
- The Illusionist vs The Prestige
- Æon Flux vs Ultraviolet (more like Charlize Theron vs Milla Jovovich)
Charlize will get my vote anytime 
