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Old 02-09-09 | 05:26 PM
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Movies with the same names?

Does it tick you off when movie studios can't come up with original titles for their movies?

This is not counting remakes or sequels.

There are 2 versions of "Crash"

The one with James Spader and car accidents in 1997 and the Oscar winner with Don Cheadle a couple years ago

Also there is a new Scifi movie called Push with Dakota Fanning and another movie named Push with Mariah Carey about drugs.

Do Hollywood executives bother to look imdb.com to see if a movie title was used before and maybe come up with an original title?
Old 02-09-09 | 05:40 PM
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Doesn't really bother me at all, though it is noticeable.

I'll add Crossroads. One features Ralph Macchio and is about Blues. The other features Britney Spears and is about a girl wanting to know about her mom who she never met.

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Old 02-09-09 | 05:42 PM
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Bad Boys of 1983 and of 1995
Old 02-09-09 | 05:45 PM
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Does Brain Dead and Braindead count? I know one was changed for American audiences but fuck it, it should still count. EDIT: I know there is like 12 films named Chaos and 27 films named The Girl Next Door.

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Old 02-09-09 | 05:53 PM
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Old 02-09-09 | 05:56 PM
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Back in the days of VHS rentals, I once thought I was getting this:

and I got this by mistake:

I was a bit confused at first and then a bit pissed.
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That's a great nonsensical tagline: "Nick Escalante isn't a violent man by nature. He's just good at it."
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There is Danny Boyle's 2007 sci-fi thriller Sunshine, and the Ralph Fiennes drama Sunshine.
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Mortuary.
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When I first heard Clint Eastwood was making a movie called Changeling I thought it was a remake of the horror movie
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The Heath Ledger starring "The Order" and the Van-Damme "The Order"
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Originally Posted by Shonn
When I first heard Clint Eastwood was making a movie called Changeling I thought it was a remake of the horror movie
So did I. I might have actually wanted to see it if that was the case.

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Old 02-09-09 | 09:15 PM
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Riot, (The) Heist, Unforgiven, Twilight, No Way Out, (The) Power, Under Fire, and if you want to count Geronimo... All with Gene Hackman in one version.
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Bad Boys.

Sean Penn >>>>> Michael Bay
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Originally Posted by Shonn
When I first heard Clint Eastwood was making a movie called Changeling I thought it was a remake of the horror movie
I didn't think it'd be a remake but I kept thinking wtf is he doing with that kind of name for a film?
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Old 02-09-09 | 11:49 PM
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The Fast and the Furious
Fast and Furious

Talk about original!

There are also six movies called Moulin Rouge, although the Nicole Kidman one has an exclamation mark at the end.
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The Vanishing

and..

The Vanishing

i figured this would be a legit entry because they were two disgustingly different films!
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Re: Movies with the same names?

It's a little off-topic, but the movie 10 Items or Less was released in the US during the same week the unrelated TV series of the same name debuted.


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