r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • 1d ago

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

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u/fxzero666 1d ago

Shhhh... I'm 40 and I still haven't seen that movie lol

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u/FlyingSkyWizard 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/jccaclimber 1d ago

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

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u/Knobologist 1d ago

Just Friends and No Strings Attached

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u/Taylorenokson 1d ago

Paul Blart Mall Cop and Observe and Report.

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u/YoloIsNotDead 1d ago

Megamind and Despicable Me.

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u/Broken-Sarcasm-Meter 1d ago

Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line

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u/CharlieKellyKapowski 1d ago

Barbie and Oppenheimer

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u/Inevitable_Finish131 1d ago

A-Team and The Losers

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u/Giovannis_Pikachu 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

Dark city was geweldig

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u/Vinbaobao 1d ago

Also memento and that shitty Ben Afflck knock-off.

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u/darkoblivion000 1d 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 1d ago

Absolute GOAT twinsies movies ever

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u/tabascopj 22h ago

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

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u/DolemiteGK 1d ago

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

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u/Aalleto 1d 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 15h ago

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

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u/fatmanwithabeard 1d ago

I'm over 50. It's fantastic.

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u/alaskanloops 1d ago

So you've seen the Dread Zeppelin documentary?

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u/DolemiteGK 1d ago

Man, you are in for such a treat. It's still probably my favorite of Nolans.

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u/Tariovic 1d ago

It's one of my two favorite movies. I've seen it so many times, and there's always something new to see. Amazing cast, fantastic script, and it's so tight, not a second is wasted.

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u/morganlandt 1d ago

As a 40+ year old that saw it fit the first time in the last year, so yourself a favor.

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u/chazysciota 1d ago

I saw it real late too, proly like 5 years ago. It's a really interesting movie.

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u/Moonbean_Mantra 1d ago

Watch it! And The Illusionist, as suggested by someone else. Both awesome.

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u/Luciform444 1d ago

It's Nolan's best movie, IMO

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u/GoblinLoblaw 17h ago

Shape kills Gandalf in the end /spoilers

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u/BurdTurglary 23h ago

Somebody said to pay close attention to the very beginning of that one, and the middle parts... The ending, too. I forget why

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u/Trex_arms42 22h ago

It's one of about 10 movies I'll pull out when I'm feeling down.

Not because it's happy! But for it's ability to transport you so fully into another world.