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    This week at my local Odeon I have the choice of seeing BLACK PANTHER or RED SPARROW.

    I thought it unusual that two films out at the same title have linked titles (colours and animals). I would love someone to dig up another instance of this.

    #2
    Not at all the same thing but people pointed out the run on of The Force Awakens The Last Jedi and suggested the final film will be called From A Nap.

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      #3
      The Good German and The Good Shepherd came out about the same time.

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        #4
        There also is a film called Walk Like A Panther being advertised.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Southport Zeb View Post
          The Good German and The Good Shepherd came out about the same time.
          Hah, yes I can't tell you how many times my brain ran those two together to create heartwarming family drama The Good German Shepherd.

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            #6
            The Good German Shepherd would of course be Rin Tin Tin. Was he on telly the same time as Tintin?

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              #7
              I Drink Your Blood was released on a double bill with I Eat Your Skin.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Various Artist View Post
                Hah, yes I can't tell you how many times my brain ran those two together to create heartwarming family drama The Good German Shepherd.
                American Black Beauty - Kevin Spacey has a midlife crisis, falls in love with a horse
                The Fellowship of the Ring - Frodo gets a video out, dies seven days later
                Snow White and the Se7en Dwarves - Hi ho, hi ho, it's off with your head we go...
                Kramer vs Kramer vs Predator

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                  #9
                  Almost concurrent (within a year or so):

                  American Psycho. American History X. American Pie. American Beauty.

                  Less concurrent:

                  American Graffiti. American Hustle. American Gigolo. American Flyers.

                  And probably a ton of others.

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                    #10
                    Dr Doolittle, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - chaos ensues when a pushmepullyou gets into the war room.
                    Gladiatora! Tora Tora! - Russell Crowe takes on the Japanese navy single-handed
                    Carry On The Buses - Actually, I'm not sure they didn't make this

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                      #11
                      Oh, Harry Potter! starring Will Hay as the clueless wizard, with Graham Moffatt as Ron Weasley and Moore Marriott as Dumbledore. Look out for Gracie Fields as Hermoine Granger and a young James Mason as Lord Voldemort.

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                        #12
                        Groundhog Day Of The Dead
                        Twins Peaks - Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger investigate the death of Laura Palmer.
                        Star Wars: The Force Awakenings

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View Post
                          Carry On The Buses - Actually, I'm not sure they didn't make this
                          I suppose there's a very superficial similarity with the plots of Carry On Cabby and the first On The Buses film in so much as they're both based around the premise of women doing "a man's job" and the men being irked by it, albeit in very different circumstances.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Snake Plissken View Post
                            Groundhog Day Of The Dead
                            Twins Peaks - Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger investigate the death of Laura Palmer.
                            I would watch the shit out of both of those.

                            Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
                            Almost concurrent (within a year or so):
                            American Psycho. American History X. American Pie. American Beauty.
                            And there was crossover: Mena Suvari played the nubile object of Kevin Spacey's affections in American Beauty, while almost simultaneously cropping up as the tuneful object of Chris Klein's affections in American Pie.

                            Irrelevant to this thread, I know, but whenever I read one of the threads on here that goes into territory of the old music journos, any mention of Lester Bangs invariably confuses me for a moment as I always think that's the name of Spacey's character in American Beauty, which was Lester Burnham.

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                              #15
                              Blade Runner Runner: Harrison Ford tries to find out if Justin Timberlake is a replicant.
                              The Great Escape To Victory: Steve McQueen plays soccer, while Sylvester Stallone goes blind and falls over James Garner.
                              Cabareturn of the Jedi: Liza Minnelli tries to sing the Evil Empire into submission.
                              ScarFace/Off: Oh I can't be bothered.

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                                #16
                                Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post
                                I suppose there's a very superficial similarity with the plots of Carry On Cabby and the first On The Buses film in so much as they're both based around the premise of women doing "a man's job" and the men being irked by it, albeit in very different circumstances.
                                Stan, who was that new clippy you was irking last night?

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                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by Gerontophile View Post
                                  Blade Runner Runner: Harrison Ford tries to find out if Justin Timberlake is a replicant.
                                  The Great Escape To Victory: Steve McQueen plays soccer, while Sylvester Stallone goes blind and falls over James Garner.
                                  Cabareturn of the Jedi: Liza Minnelli tries to sing the Evil Empire into submission.
                                  ScarFace/Off: Oh I can't be bothered.
                                  Oh, bollocks to it, I'll succumb as well then:

                                  The Empire Strikes Back To The Future – Michael J Fox tries to sing the Evil Empire into submission, with hits that haven't even been written yet a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
                                  A Star Is Born on the Fourth of July – Paralysed Vietnam War veteran Judy Garland tries to sing her own trauma into submission on her unlikely way to stardom.

                                  Boogie Nights of the Living Dead
                                  – Giant-schlonged '70s porn star Dirk Diggler is besieged in a farmhouse by the unquiet dead.
                                  An American Werewolf in Paris, Texas – A drifter attempts to put his life back together, while occasionally turning into a slavering monster.
                                  The Princess Bride of Frankenstein – Simple farmhand Westley attempts to rescue his true love Buttercup from being married off to a hideous monster. Oh, it's the same plot, then. Inconceivable!

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                                    #18
                                    Batman and Robin Hood: Men In Tights – The Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder in Lincoln Green take on the dastardly duo of Mr Freeze and the Sheriff of Nottingham

                                    Gone With The Wind That Shakes The Barley – Sweeping Civil War drama in the American Irish South.

                                    Law Abiding Citizen Kane
                                    – It's the Citizen Kane of shouty, violently absurd Gerard Butler action thrillers.

                                    Withnail and I, Robot – Uncle Monty's cottage is the only refuge when the machines take over.

                                    Brief Encounters of the Third Kind
                                    – Awe-inspiring tale of aliens landing at Carnforth Station and being completely ignored by the stiff-upper-lipped Brits having tea and illicit affairs in the waiting room.

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                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by Various Artist View Post
                                      Gone With The Wind That Shakes The Barley – Sweeping Civil War drama in the American Irish South.

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                                      Starring Cillian Murphy and Vivien Leigh? That's a HIT!

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                                        #20
                                        The Third Quiet Man - An American journalist goes to Ireland in search of John Wayne. He falls in love with both Maureen o'Hara and Alida Valli. Significant action occurs in a massive ferris wheel incongruously situated in Galway. It turns out that Wayne has been murdered by Maureen O'Hara's brother but is simultaneously not actually dead.

                                        Rotten tomatoes rating 35% "confusing"; "why do they go on about how green everywhere is yet shoot in black and white?"

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                                          #21
                                          Laughing consistently at this thread, love it.

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                                            #22
                                            Nobody likes a wallflower, so...

                                            Billy Liar Elliott: Billy has the bad habit of being a pathological liar and reverting to an imaginary world where he dreams he is the president of a fictional country and a dancer on the West End stage. Is his Dad really having his leg off in the middle of a year-long strike against pit closures?
                                            Last edited by Felicity, I guess so; 08-03-2018, 09:16.

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                                              #23
                                              There's Something About Mary Poppins - a succession of men fall in love with an uptight English nanny. But instead of any of them she chooses a man with a ludicrous accent

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                                                #24
                                                ...and winds up with a dollop of jizz on her umbrella? (Sorry.)

                                                Close Encounters of the Third Man
                                                Richard Dreyfuss is mysteriously transported to post-war Vienna where he starts building effigies of Orson Welles out of mashed potato.

                                                The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich
                                                Czech surgeon Daniel Day-Lewis finds bizarre portal in Juliette Binoche's brain. With hilarious consequences. Probably.

                                                Peter Rabbit's Friends
                                                Kenneth Branagh dons ill-fitting rabbit suit to entertain yuppie pals Emma Cottontail and Flopsy Slattery at his newly-inherited warren. Sequel features Robert Englund as Mr McGregor. With any luck.

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                                                  #25
                                                  The Dirty Dancing DozenA group of criminals and psychopaths aren't allowed to dance by the Nazis, but they are determined to get their own way. Nobody puts Savalas in a corner.

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