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RossyG
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#51 Post by RossyG » Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:00 am

There were nearly two films in 1974 about high rise blocks on fire inspired by separate novels - The Tower and The Glass Inferno - that were themselves inspired by the construction of the World Trade Center. In the end, Fox and Warner blended the two to make The Towering Inferno.

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#52 Post by Roger Ryan » Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:13 pm

RossyG wrote:There were nearly two films in 1974 about high rise blocks on fire inspired by separate novels - The Tower and The Glass Inferno - that were themselves inspired by the construction of the World Trade Center. In the end, Fox and Warner blended the two to make The Towering Inferno.
...and, yet, TERROR ON THE 40TH FLOOR, a TV movie-of-the-week, got the jump on THE TOWERING INFERNO by being broadcast in September of '74, two months before the latter film's release...so there ended up being two films after all!

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#53 Post by aox » Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:46 pm

1998 was all about asteroids!

Armageddon and Deep Impact

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Matt
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#54 Post by Matt » Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:51 pm

Is it some sort of meta-statement on the theme of this thread that so many people keep posting the same examples?

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#55 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:55 pm

It's really weird but I feel like people are posting things that have been posted in this thread before.

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#56 Post by HistoryProf » Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:56 pm

despite the redundancies, please keep them coming. I'm shocked there aren't any 70s disaster parallels yet.

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#57 Post by Feego » Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:35 pm

1943: Robert Stevenson's Jane Eyre and Val Lewton's I Walked with a Zombie

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#58 Post by Murdoch » Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:15 am

1997 had the two monster movies Mimic and The Relic, both sporting similar taglines (Mimic: "For thousands of years man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now"; The Relic: "The next evolution in terror").

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#59 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:33 am

That's a great one Murdoch! How about 1997's duelling aircraft hijack thrillers with Air Force One and Turbulence?

Turbulence is my pick of those two - while Gary Oldman goes all out with the (Russian?) accent, nothing can beat Ray Liotta at his most psychopathically nutty! He's also having more fun throughout!

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#60 Post by LQ » Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:42 am

colinr0380 wrote:How about 1997's duelling aircraft hijack thrillers with Air Force One and Turbulence?
Throw '97's Con Air into that mix, too!

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#61 Post by Mr Sausage » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:16 am

And Executive Decision (my favourite of the four) just the year before.

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#62 Post by PfR73 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:24 am

1994-The year of skydiving action: Drop Zone & Terminal Velocity.

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#63 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:42 pm

I think I can still sing all of the lyrics to Con Air's catchy country and western theme song! ("How can I liveee without you, I wanna know") Executive Decision is great too and would have been a great capper to Steven Seagal's action man career if he hadn't gone on for another couple of decades afterwards!

Isn't Terminal Velocity the film where Charlie Sheen has to unlock Nastassia Kinski from the trunk of a car that he has just driven off the back of an aircraft carrier and then parachute her to safety? The audacity of that sequence is something only seen in computer games like Saints Row The Third these days!

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#64 Post by mizo » Mon May 13, 2013 7:53 pm

1940 loved Thomas Edison. Edison, the Man with Spencer Tracy and Young Tom Edison with Mickey Rooney, both from MGM.

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#65 Post by captveg » Wed May 15, 2013 1:44 am

How has this thread gone on so long without the mentioning of the old-becoming-magically-young/body switch movies of 1987-88: Like Father Like Son, 18 Again!, & Big?

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#66 Post by wigwam » Wed May 15, 2013 1:51 am

Vice Versa should be exempt since it had better actors tho

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#67 Post by domino harvey » Wed May 15, 2013 7:06 am

Vice Versa is the only body switching movie anyone needs

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#68 Post by Markson » Thu May 16, 2013 12:13 am

No love for Dream a Little Dream?

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#69 Post by domino harvey » Thu Oct 27, 2016 5:42 pm

Dueling Zelda Fitzgerald biopics coming soon starring Scarlett Johansson and Jennifr Lawrence

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#70 Post by knives » Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:22 pm

They really should have just stuck with Allison Pill.

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#71 Post by domino harvey » Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:50 pm

That casting was so perfect that I still think of Pill when I picture Zelda Fitzgerald

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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#72 Post by Swift » Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:04 am

Weirdly, at one time, there were two Jungle Book movies in production at the same time. Favreau's has been released obviously, but Andy Serkis' directorial effort has since been pushed back to 2018.

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