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There were two remakes of The Thomas Crown Affair, the official 1999 one and Entrapment in the same year.

The original had an infamous chess scene.

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Tombstone and Wyatt Earp

Though only one was a really good movie.

 

Black Swan and The Human Centipede


they both made me say "WTF??"

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar (1995)

 

There was the golden age of 'hagsploitation' :

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Strait-Jacket (1964)

Dead Ringer (1964)

Lady in a Cage (1964)

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

The Night Walker (1964) 

Die! Die! My Darling (1965)

The Nanny (1965)

I Saw What You Did (1965)

Two on a Guillotine (1965)

The Witches (1966)

Picture Mommy Dead (1966)

Berserk! (1967)

The Anniversary (1968)

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)

Trog (1970)

What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)

Blood & Lace (1971)

The Screaming Woman (1972) 

Dear Dead Delilah (1972)

Night Watch (1973)

Persecution (1974)

The Cage (1975) 

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Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

There were a couple of chess movies at the same time.

I'm betting one is "Searching For Bobby Fischer", but what is the other one? 

Knight Moves?

???

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never heard of it, I'll do some research on it.

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Warbler said:

never heard of it, I'll do some research on it.

 I love chess, mysteries, and Christopher Lambert... but trust me, "Knight Moves" are moves you don't want to make.

SPOILERS

This was the movie that my father taught me the #1 lesson of mediocre thrillers.

10 minutes in he took out a pen, wrote down who the killer was, and laid the note face down on the coffee table. At the end he was right!

Do you want to know the killer? Look for the character who doesn't have a good reason for being in the first few scenes.

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Transformers and Transmorphers.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

1977 Star Wars
1977 Close Encounters
1978 Superman
1978 Battlestar Galactica
1979 Alien
1979 Moonraker
1979 Star Trek
1980 Empire Strikes Back
1980 Flash Gordon
1980 Superman 2

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Davnes007 said:

Alien and Aliens

You're doing it wrong.

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Yes she is.

TheBoost said:

1989 saw "The Abyss" "Leviathan" and "Deep Star Six" all come out. Scary submarine movies, all inspired by the late 80s mania about finding the wreck of Titanic.

What other matched sets of movies came out at the same time?

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TV's Frink said:

Yes she is.

TheBoost said:

1989 saw "The Abyss" "Leviathan" and "Deep Star Six" all come out. Scary submarine movies, all inspired by the late 80s mania about finding the wreck of Titanic.

What other matched sets of movies came out at the same time?

Alien and Aliens both came in the quadrilogy DVD set...at the same time!

Star Wars Episode XXX: Erica Strikes Back

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King kong

King of the lost world


War of the worlds

H.G. Wells' War of the worlds


Snakes on a Plane

Snakes on a Train


Transformers

Transmorphers


The Day the earth stood still

The Day the earth stopped


Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes

 

 

Hey! this is eaaaasssyyyy!!!!!!! Thanks 'The Asylum'!!!!!

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Oh yeah. well...

 

 

 

 

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The Conspirator / The Lincoln Lawyer

Possibly two totally different kinds of movies (I've only seen the first) but quite confusing as they were both out at the same time. Seriously, didn't the marketers of the Lincoln Lawyer consider this confusion? Couldn't it have been The Mitsubishi Lawyer or something?

The blue elephant in the room.

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timdiggerm said:

Yeah, Penguino, I don't think Asylum's copycat films should count. They do that for everything, on purpose.

sadfais...

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There was a sort of Australia love in the late 80s.  Crocodile Dundee and Quigley Down Under came out pretty close together. Also, my wife worked at The Limited (clothing store) on Madison Avenue back then and they had a line  called Outback Red.  There may have been other Australia-based films back then too. 

This sort of second wave of Australia love we're going through currently reminds me of the late 80s.

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Missing and Open Range both came out in 2003. I think they were both kinda "Western revivals" at the time, but other than that, they have little in common.

Open Range is the typical gritty-antiheroes-shooting-the-baddies-invading-the-village, while Missing is about a mystical Shaman who's abducted Cate Blanchett's daughter.