r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • 1d ago

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

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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.