Pleasantsville (1998) came out the same year as The Truman Show and a year before EdTV. It has some of the same themes and I regard over both of the other movies.
The Last Broadcast (1998) beat The Blair Witch Project (1999) both to the screen but also to the internet with it's bound in fake website. I believe it to be a much more chilling film. I do prefer the aspect ratio of Blair Witch however.
LOL!! If only it started in 2009. Would've totally fit in. Ahead of it's time!Gaffer Tape said:
twister111 said:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!
The desire to have movies(also tv shows) with 9 in the title for the year 2009.
9/Nine/District 9/General Orders No. 9/ Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup/9 Months 9 Days/Prime 9(tv show)/9 muses/In Her Skin(a.k.a. How to change in 9 weeks)/Girl Number 9(tv show)/9 to 9(short)/The Nashville 9(short)/9mm(short)
Oh... wait...
Among the "9" films/shows I prefer District 9 because it's the only one on the list that I've seen. Just so happens to be a pretty good film too!darth_ender said:
Anyone want to share their preference between the competing films?
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Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995)
Obviously these two are practically from the same director/cast. I do believe they are the very best of their genre. Personally I prefer Casino. I don't know, I just like its setting more. A more glamorous feel of Las Vegas compared to the crude New York from Goodfellas.
Chinatown (1974) and L.A. Confidential (1997)
I bent the thread rule here since their release dates are more than 20 years apart. I find them very similar and, like the previous examples, I regard these two as the best in the crime/mystery genre. Here I am unable to pick a favourite. What I really like about them is the setting, i.e. Los Angeles in 30' and 50', respectively. To me they kinda created this image of "America" as an European would imagine it.
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People are really stretching the term "competing."
DominicCobb said:
People are really stretching the term "competing."
Well the term itself is stretched in this particular case. There really isn't any kind of actual direct competition between films. Except maybe for the annual film awards. And hypothetically one stealing the profit of the other, but that doesn't really apply since it doesn't take a fortune to just see both. Both of which would then limit the entire thing to films released in the same year.
I assumed it meant a competition in terms of popularity in a given genre among the film fans.
真実
Has anybody mentioned?
Antz vs A Bugs Life
Interesting because although 'A Bugs Life' is created by recognised kids-animation masters Pixar, Dreamworks 'Antz' is a billion times better. When you beat Pixar at making a Pixar movie you've done very well indeed. 'Antz' isn't just fun and funny but it's political themes are somewhat daring for a kiddie movie and casting of Woody Allen in the lead role was genius.
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Ryan McAvoy said:
Has anybody mentioned?
Antz vs A Bugs Life
Nah... nobody went there...:-D
Bingowings said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
Has anybody mentioned?
Antz vs A Bugs Life
Nah... nobody went there...:-D
Doh! Thanks. Oh well at least I fullfilled Ender's wish...
darth_ender said:
Anyone want to share their preference between the competing films?
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imperialscum said:
DominicCobb said:
People are really stretching the term "competing."
Well the term itself is stretched in this particular case. There really isn't any kind of actual direct competition between films. Except maybe for the annual film awards. And hypothetically one stealing the profit of the other, but that doesn't really apply since it doesn't take a fortune to just see both. Both of which would then limit the entire thing to films released in the same year.
I assumed it meant a competition in terms of popularity in a given genre among the film fans.
The accepted term for the subject of this thread appears to be "dueling movies" as pointed out by DominicCobb. Which is a very specific phenomena.
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Dark City (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Each film has it's strengths and weaknesses. I guess if I had to pick a favorite it would be The Thirteenth Flour.
Clearly there was a bit of end of the millennium doubt of all things bug going around.
Last year was a pretty notorious year for "copycat" films:
This Is The End and The World's End;
Springbreakers and The Bling Ring (Art films about teenage girls doing bad things);
Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down;
Elysium, After Earth and Oblivion ("Earth is sh*t" sci-fi films);
A Haunted House and Scary Movie 5.
And this year, we got Hercules and The Legend of Hercules. You could also argue that Guardians of the Galaxy and Interstellar are copycat films to a certain extent, because both want to recapture the magic of Star Wars (both Gunn and Nolan have said this in interviews). Besides that though, it's a safe guess that Interstellar will be radically different than Guardians.
The preview I saw for Interstellar didn't give off a Star Wars vibe at all.
Where were you in '77?
If anything it might have a light 2001 vibe.
DominicCobb said:
Here's a good list from TVTropes: Dueling Movies.
Cheater.
darth_ender said:
Anyone want to share their preference between the competing films?
No thanks.
Weren't there two directly competing movies about marathon runners? Google-fu is failing me.
TV's Frink said:
Weren't there two directly competing movies about marathon runners? Google-fu is failing me.
Prefontain and Without Limit were two movies about the same runner that came out within a year of eachother. 1998 maybe?
Bingowings said:
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Dark City (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Each film has it's strengths and weaknesses. I guess if I had to pick a favorite it would be The Thirteenth Flour.
Clearly there was a bit of end of the millennium doubt of all things bug going around.
A professor of religion I used to work with spoke very highly of all these films.
He said science fiction, especially speculating on things like Virtual reality were opening doors to Westerners to engage with these traditionally Eastern ideas and views about the nature of reality. A lot of these notions, he continued, were bubbling around the zeitgiest since the 60s, but were still really hard to express until we started visuallizing them with these computer stories.
Mondess122 said:
Last year was a pretty notorious year for "copycat" films:
Elysium, After Earth and Oblivion ("Earth is sh*t" sci-fi films);
And this year, we got Hercules and The Legend of Hercules.
Blatant economic parable, movie about monsters smelling fear, and mind-f**k movie about aliens are clones, you are an alien clone, and all clones are Tom Cruise aliens. Seems like a stretch to say these are somehow copycats.
And dont forget "HERCULES REBORN" starring WWE Superstar Johnny Nitro!
TheBoost said:
TV's Frink said:
Weren't there two directly competing movies about marathon runners? Google-fu is failing me.
Prefontain and Without Limit were two movies about the same runner that came out within a year of eachother. 1998 maybe?
Yep, those are the ones I was thinking of.
TheBoost said:
Bingowings said:
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Dark City (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Each film has it's strengths and weaknesses. I guess if I had to pick a favorite it would be The Thirteenth Flour.
Clearly there was a bit of end of the millennium doubt of all things bug going around.
A professor of religion I used to work with spoke very highly of all these films.
He said science fiction, especially speculating on things like Virtual reality were opening doors to Westerners to engage with these traditionally Eastern ideas and views about the nature of reality. A lot of these notions, he continued, were bubbling around the zeitgiest since the 60s, but were still really hard to express until we started visuallizing them with these computer stories.
Wow! Imagine that, a teacher with knowledge and personal culture!
I had an art teacher that was all right, he had "street smarts", bless him, but when presented with the notion of science fiction would make a smirk and mumble stuff akin to "it's not real".
At least, I think it was my art professor, it could've been some other teacher. Point is, I've met a couple other people that just dismiss SF altogether and just shake their head, don't know the first thing about it, and seem outright put off by the mere concept of it.
"It's not real"... what, and Sherlock Holmes was a real dude that lived in London a long time ago and solved murder mysteries? Mel Gibson was the real William Wallace? Roberto Benigni died at the end of "Life is beautiful"? (I wish!)
I'm sorry my post went completely off topic, but I had to vent since Boost brought up an interesting anecdote.
Perhaps, if some of you fellas wanna discuss, this could become a topic of its own: have you met people like these?
With the Scottish independence vote just a day away, I thought I would offer up these two 1995 films. Braveheart (1995)
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, a commoner begins a revolt and leads Scottish warriors against the cruel English tyrant who rules Scotland with an iron fist.
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honor.
I have not seen ether of these films yet, so I will leave it up to you guys to decide who the winner is. I was considering viewing them tomorrow during the voting.
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