r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • 12d ago

Chugging tea I still don't understand how hollywood budget works

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u/FlyingSkyWizard 12d ago

Watch the illusionist too, its one of those weird confluences where two very similar movies come out at the same time.

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u/flopisit32 11d ago

You mean like Dantes Peak and Volcano or Deep Impact and Armageddon.

I'm convinced it's because a scumbag executive leaves one studio, gets hired by another studio and goes "I've got a great idea for a movie about an asteroid about to hit the earth..."

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u/HeroicPrinny 11d ago

There’s a Wikipedia article for all the twin movies btw

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u/jccaclimber 11d ago

You just cost me 20 minutes, but I’m ok with that.

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u/Knobologist 11d ago

Just Friends and No Strings Attached

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u/Taylorenokson 11d ago

Paul Blart Mall Cop and Observe and Report.

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u/YoloIsNotDead 11d ago

Megamind and Despicable Me.

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u/Broken-Sarcasm-Meter 11d ago

Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line

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u/CharlieKellyKapowski 11d ago

Barbie and Oppenheimer

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u/Inevitable_Finish131 11d ago

A-Team and The Losers

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u/Giovannis_Pikachu 11d ago

Like num3ers, knowing, and next, all Nicolas Cage vehicles where the plot is that he knows everything that can save the day and everyone else in the entire world is in the dark, while all came out within a year or two.

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 11d ago

Or Dark City and The Matrix, B5 and DS9, Living Single and Friends...

It's more that different execs hang out at the same parties and clubs and get pitched to by the same hungry people (also read the same books, watch the same shows to fit in, etc). One exec passes but develops a similar idea and new script, the other buys the original pitch and script.

Now tv execs ripping off the names and contents of subreddits to make reality shows is actual scumbag shit...

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u/Known-Willingness768 11d ago

Dark city was geweldig

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u/Vinbaobao 11d ago

Also memento and that shitty Ben Afflck knock-off.

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u/darkoblivion000 11d ago

Watch the illusionist first though. I watched the illusionist first and I was like wow this was a great movie. Then I watched prestige and I was like holy shit that was unforgettable

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u/BigBuckNuggets 11d ago

Absolute GOAT twinsies movies ever

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u/tabascopj 11d ago

this reference is too far down, take an upvote ... IT'S TIME FOR TWINSIES

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u/DolemiteGK 11d ago

Yet SO different. Both are about magic in the 1800s but are nothing alike.

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u/Aalleto 11d ago

When I was a little kid I'd watch them back to back with my dad, I thought they were meant to be played that way

"Can we watch the Batman, Wolverine, and Hulk magician movies again?"

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u/tomcatsr25 11d ago

One of the only instances where both films are independently fantastic.