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Multiple Moses movies making their way to a theater near you, eventually. One of them, the cleverly titled Exodus, might end up with Christian Bale as Moses. It'll be directed by Ridley Scott. The other is Gods and Kings, and it's not going to be directed by anybody (for now.) Between these two and Adam it's an exciting time to be a Bible fan.

Amy Racecar wrote:Multiple Moses movies making their way to a theater near you, eventually. One of them, the cleverly titled Exodus, might end up with Christian Bale as Moses. It'll be directed by Ridley Scott. The other is Gods and Kings, and it's not going to be directed by anybody (for now.) Between these two and Adam it's an exciting time to be a Bible fan.

so lets see here (and i'm sure i've forgotten some of the other weird pairings that seem to happen almost every year),

1928: Poe's Usher
1934: Catherine the Great
1964: Hello Khrushchev? That was our bad, please don't fire!!!
1965: Harlow
1972: Rodeos
1988: Dangerous Valmonts / Target sucks
1989: Underwater Aliens
1991: Robin Hood
1992: Christopher Columbus
1995: Jane Austen
1996: Tornadoes
1997: Volcanos
1998: Meteors / animated bugs/antz
2000: Let's go to Mars!
2001: Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter
2004: Helen and Troy
2005: Truman Capote
2006: 19th century magicians
2007: What do you mean you're pregnant?!??! / I'll drink your bloody milkshake friendo
2009: Mall cops / coco chanel
2010: Post apocolyptic road movies and/or Leo DiCaprio Mind fucks
2011: Green superheroes
2012: Hitchcock / OMG the apocalypse is coming!
2013: Holy Fuck, they've taken the White House!
2014: Moses!

HistoryProf wrote:[so lets see here (and i'm sure i've forgotten some of the other weird pairings that seem to happen almost every year),

2013: ?
2014: Moses!

2013 is the year of "Holy Fuck, they've taken the White House!" (Olympus Has Fallen, and Roland Emmerich's White House Down). Apparently, Oblivion and Elysium are pretty similar as well (i.e., live-action adult remakes of Wall-E).

HistoryProf wrote:2012: ?

Dunno about blockbusters, but on the festivals it was surely "limousines"

2007 = unwanted pregnancies (at least four of these)

I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).

If we are counting TV movies there was 1996's Night of the Twisters and 1997's Volcano: Fire On The Mountain.

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).

Dante's Peak was 97's other big volcano flick.

Alfred Hitchcock was 2012's Truman Capote!

2014 looks to be the year of the Hercules movies, with both Brett Ratner and Renny Harlin working on projects right now.

2013 also has double Kerouac with On the Road and Big Sur

1998: Disco Movies (54 and The Last Days of Disco)

1960: The birth of the serial killer genre(Peeping Tom and Psycho)

Although they were released a year apart, it seems worth mentioning Hollywood's brief fixation with making a movie about Steve Prefontaine with Prefontaine (1997) and Without Limits (1998). I'm still unable to distinguish the two apart.

1989: Deux Les Liaisons Dangereuses

2012 was surely the "OMG the apocalypse is coming!" year for movies.

1972 was the year of the rodeo film:

Junior Bonner
J.W. Coop
The Honkers
When the Legends Die
Black Rodeo (doc)

Murdoch wrote:2012 was surely the "OMG the apocalypse is coming!" year for movies.

Don't you mean 2011, with Melancholia, The Turin Horse, Contagion, and Take Shelter?

Or 1999s 'Pre-Millennial Tension' double bill of religious horror films starring Gabriel Byrne: End Of Days and Stigmata.

swo17 wrote:

Murdoch wrote:2012 was surely the "OMG the apocalypse is coming!" year for movies.

Don't you mean 2011, with Melancholia, The Turin Horse, Contagion, and Take Shelter?

Well, it really could go either year, but 2012 had 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Battleship, probably more. Plus, I've only seen one of the movies you listed (Melancholia) so I had no idea the others were about the apocalypse.

swo17 wrote:2007 = unwanted pregnancies (at least four of these)

I always think of it as the year of ultimately meaningless violence in US history- Zodiac, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James...

antnield wrote:

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).

Dante's Peak was 97's other big volcano flick.

That was the bigger one I thought....then Volcano. And I think there were at least 3 tornado movies, Twister, the tv one mentioned above, and another just called Tornado or something. Bruce Campbell was in it.

Great thread break out though....this could be fun. there have to be other good disaster themes from the 1970s. Wasn't there a year of fires w/ Towering Inferno? or the year Backdraft came out?

Weren't the Abyss and Leviathan the same year? 1989: Underwater Aliens?

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

matrixschmatrix wrote:

swo17 wrote:2007 = unwanted pregnancies (at least four of these)

I always think of it as the year of ultimately meaningless violence in US history- Zodiac, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James...

Heh, I thought of the same movies too (add Eastern Promises and Sweeney Todd to that list). And these were the best films from America. A collection of psychos, killers, criminals, evil personified, etc..

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

1934 had The Rise of Catherine the Great as well as The Scarlet Empress.