[Closed] Films that are basically the same film

Doc Hollywood
Cars

Top Gun
Days of Thunder

Top Gun
Days of Thunder

the fast and the furious 1-100?
Rocky

Days of Thunder
Top Gun

Top Gun
Days of Thunder

Men in Black 1
Men in Black 2
Men in Black 3

Mad max 1
Mad max 2
Mad max 3
Waterworld.

OK, I'll do it...

Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day

🙂

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the seven samurai

😀 Flash

Dr No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
Spectre

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Someone has to:
LA Takedown
Heat

Riksbar posting just after a post about Casablanca. Marvellous!

War of the Worlds
Independence Day

Avatar
Pocahontas

Star Wars 4 & 7

fast & furious 1 through 7. lots of cars and very little plot - has no one thought about steering locks or pedal boxes, could of saved us a lot of time. see also all transformers films

oh and everything tom hardy is in, but is suspects thats more that he plays every character the same way

White House Down
Olympus Has Fallen

apparently fairly common for the major studios to green light a film with the same plot a their major competitors, but most of them don't make it out of development. unfortunately both of these examples did!

Thunderball

Never Say Never Again

Those are the exact same plot and main character names. There's another pair from memory.

At least with Casino Royale they messed it around a bit!

Transformers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

Ironically Olympus Has Fallen is gracing my TV right now.

I do quite like the line:

"Why don't you and I play a game of **** off, you go first" 😈

Police Acadamy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Kramer versus Kramer

Ironically Olympus Has Fallen is gracing my TV right now.

Ten thousand spoons....

Deadpool
Kick Ass

All the Bourne films (except that different weird one)

the tower and judge dredd (non stallone version)

essentially exactly the same plot - the tower a low budget masterpiece which apparently killed any chance of a second Dredd as the plots where so similar (even though the context, characters etc are totally different) but both in production at the same time. by the time dredd was released after the tower it was already dead in the water

Deadpool
Kick Ass

On The Buses
Mutiny On The Buses
Holiday On The Buses

Pretty in pink/Some kind of wonderful
Dangerous liaisons / Cruel intentions

Casino
Goodfellas

Home Alone
Skyfall (last 20 minutes of)

Ten thousand spoons....

Really after all the Chinese takeaway eaten this evening I don't need a knife or any other type of cutlery (and probably won't until Tuesday). In fact 10,000 spoons is about the measure of tonight's portion control.

While I'm back the second and third Matrix films.

Home Alone
Skyfall (last 20 minutes of)

Chapeau!

sofaboy73

the tower and judge dredd (non stallone version)

essentially exactly the same plot - the tower a low budget masterpiece which apparently killed any chance of a second Dredd as the plots where so similar (even though the context, characters etc are totally different) but both in production at the same time. by the time dredd was released after the tower it was already dead in the water

Erm, see The Raid.

The longest yard
Mean Machine

Deadpool
Kick Ass

One is a superhero without any super powers being saved by a kick ass girl. The other is a mutant that can't be killed trying to save his girlfriend.

You Never Live Twice to Only Die Once Another Day Again Tomorrow
The Man with the Golden Eye Fingers Octopussy

Avatar
[s]Pocahontas[/s]

sofaboy73
the tower and judge dredd (non stallone version)

essentially exactly the same plot - the tower a low budget masterpiece which apparently killed any chance of a second Dredd as the plots where so similar (even though the context, characters etc are totally different) but both in production at the same time. by the time dredd was released after the tower it was already dead in the water

Erm, see The Raid.

balls, it was the raid i was thinking of. curse my middle aged memory. the tower is essentially die hard without the terrorists and Korean iirc

ekul
The longest yard
Mean Machine

It's a remake of, so shouldn't be much of a surprise.

Gone With The Wind
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Scheisserfruhstuk 1
Scheisserfruhstuk 2

Derivative.

Deep Impact & Armageddon. I know that one of them has the Aerosmith song in it but otherwise I'm pretty sure they're the same!
The Day After Tomorrow & 2012

Roxanne
Cyrano De Bergerac

A Fistful Of Dollars

Last Man Standing

Bladerunner
Bladerunner: The Directors Cut
Bladerunner: The Definitive Edition

Time to die.

The fast and the furious
Point break

All porn

All of the Taken films

White House Down > Olympus Has Fallen

By a country mile. OHF was dull as hell and seemed to take itself far too seriously. WHD was thoroughly enjoyable nonsense.

I thought Avatar was actually Dances with Wolves?

Anyway Braveheart and The Patriot

Roxanne
Cyrano De Bergerac

chapeau sir, not the most obvious retelling of a literary classic

The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair

The Wizard Of Oz.
Apocalypse Now.

[s]The Wizard Of Oz.[/s] heart of darkness
Apocalypse Now.

FTFY

EDIT - although now i think about it more, good call. never saw the similarities before!

The Hobbit 1,2,3
Lord of the rings 1,2,3
Willow

There are films that are basically a retelling of the same story, or source material, but with a diffent name like:

Heat & LA takedown (as previously mentioned)
The departed & Infernal affairs
Zodiac & Dirty Harry
Disturbia & rear window

A Fistful Of Dollars

Last Man Standing

Heat & LA takedown (as previously mentioned)
The departed & Infernal affairs

The aviator
Catch me if you can
Wolf of wall street

or at least Leonardo is basically the same character in them.

Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas

While I'm back the second and third Matrix films

It's one film in 2 parts.

Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas

in which case you can add Blow and Scarface to that list. all based (albeit loosely) on real people and follow a similar progression - underdog nobody rises through a life of crime, makes his fortune, gets farked up on too much chisel and all goes horribly wrong

Clueless
Emma

Taken
The Bourne Identity

Toy Story 3
Superbad

Kung Fu Panda
The Matrix

Slow West
Shop Girl

The Wedding Crashers
Face/Off

🙂

Point Break
Fast & furious

F&f is just a complete rip off

My kids have tormented me with these.

Antz - Bugs Life
Gordy - Babe
Bolt - 101 Dalmatians 2

Most sports films. Underdog becomes champion.

A Fistful Of Dollars

Last Man Standing

Both based on one of Kurisawa's i think...

Yojimbo. Fistful of Dollars isn't so much a remake as a carbon copy - even down to the standoffs and the escape scene where the lead character crawls under boardwalks.

Heat & LA takedown (as previously mentioned)

LA Takedown was a sort of trial run for Heat. Seems a weird thing to do, but what do I know?!

the good dinosaur
the lion king

I absolutely [i]love[/i] Heat, but have never seen LA Takedown. Need to remedy that I think. 🙂

Escape from NY
Escape from LA

All of the Twighlight saga

Most JC-Van-D films

All Steven Segal Films

Wizard of Oz
Star Wars a new hope

Taken = Stolen

The 39 Steps / North by Northwest

Romeo and Juliet
Gnomeo and Juliet

Can't remember which was the original, as they're so similar, but suspect it's the one with lawnmowers.

Bad News (first)
Spinal Tap (Second)

The longest yard
Mean Machine
It's a remake of, so shouldn't be much of a surprise.

The original Mean Machine was always called The Longest Yard in the USA.

The Americans remade it as The Longest Yard, and then there was the British version with Vinnie Jones which they called Mean Machine, so there are 3 versions.

The Burt Reynolds one was the only good one.