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Gregory wrote:Most violence in history was ultimately pretty meaningless, but the killing of Jesse James—hardly.

The whole arc of the movie is that Ford found his act ultimately empty, and life he built around it likewise. All four movies feature violence that isn't depicted like, say, a WW2 movie, where there's an implication that it's all in service of something meaningful- it's just violence and life in a world scarred by violence.

1964 had a couple of big films about the U.S. accidentally initiating a nuclear attack against the Soviet Union and the leaders of both countries trying to work it out over the phone.

There were at least two films based on Poe's Usher story in 1928: the Webber/Watson version and Epstein's version.

White Men Can't Jump spawned a bunch of basketball movies in the mid 90s, Basketball Diaries, Above The Rim, He Got Game, Space Jam among others not to mention the immortal classic, Blue Chips.

lefeufollet wrote:1992 featured dueling Christopher Columbus pictures: 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

And Carry On Columbus, too.

2012: Lincoln / Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

domino harvey wrote:2013 also has double Kerouac with On the Road and Big Sur

And it looks like we're getting more with something called Kill Your Darlings - with Daniel Radcliffe playing Allen Ginsberg and Ben Foster as William S. Burroughs as a bonus.

eerik wrote:2012: Lincoln / Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Plus Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies

Milos Forman's Valmont was pipped to the post by Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons.

Groups of young women behaving badly for 2013, with Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring.

Also "Hey Where Did That Planet Come From" in 2011 (Melancholia and Another Earth) which is a pretty odd premise to get doubled up on.

1985 had two time travelling back to 1950's high school films: Back to the Future and Peggy Sue Got Married, although the latter was held back for 1986 to make the clash less obvious.

1995 had three Jane Austen films: Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion and Clueless as well as the BBC's Pride & Prejudice.

2013 Upstream Color, Trance, Side Effects

There sure seems to be a trend for Hollywoodising fairytales right now.

TMDaines wrote:There sure seems to be a trend for Hollywoodising fairytales right now.

But with a dark, ominous overtone? (Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty)

Plus Blancanieves, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Mirror Mirror, all 2012.

Too bad Bela Tarr didn't make a companion movie to Jack the Giant Slayer. "What happened to the cow Jack sold?"

I meant to write Snow White. Don't know what Sleepying Beauty re-make I imagined.

Drucker wrote:I meant to write Snow White. Don't know what Sleepying Beauty re-make I imagined.

Breillat's probably.

milk114 wrote:2013 Upstream Color, Trance, Side Effects

I don't understand the connection.

-91 had Robin Hood and Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves.

Don't forget 1965 was the year of Jean Harlow (two films both called Harlow and both starring actresses named Carol/Carroll).

And 1988 was the year of the mentally challenged brother (Rain Man and Dominick and Eugene).

Then of course there was the 1988/89 Dangerous Liaisons/Valmont one-two punch.

I was going to say the 2 movies made about Steve Prefontaine, "Prefontaine" and "Without Limits", but they were actually released a year apart.

The films GOTHIC (Ken Russell, 1986) and HAUNTED SUMMER (Ivan Passer, 1988) both deal with the Byron/Shelley holiday in Lake Geneva that inspired FRANKENSTEIN.

beamish13 wrote:The films GOTHIC (Ken Russell, 1986) and HAUNTED SUMMER (Ivan Passer, 1988) both deal with the Byron/Shelley holiday in Lake Geneva that inspired FRANKENSTEIN.

An even better connection with both films is Rowing With The Wind. Made in 1988, the same year as the Passer film, it stars Hugh Grant as Lord Byron, fresh off of Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm!

This is apparently a popular subject of late, as someone posted a compilation of "twin movies" on Reddit.

Just coming to my attention: apocalypse comedies this summer/fall.

First is Seth Rogen's This is the End, then Edgar Wright/Fregg crü's The World's End.