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| ''[[Pitch Black]]'' || ''[[Supernova]]'' ||Space movies featuring a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] -type crew that must survive a hostile environment and an [[Ax Crazy]] serial killer. Most of the crew are killed. ||''PB'' was made in Australia and on a budget that the Aussies considered huge, but in America was only middlin'. It featured Vin Diesel and Claudia Black(who was shooting her first scenes in a [[Sarcasm Mode|little-known]] [[Farscape|space show with Muppets at the same time]]). ''Supernova'', meanwhile, had a HUGE budget and bigger stars like James Spader. ||''Pitch Black'' did more with it's little than ''Supernova'' did with its lot with a tight storyline and more interesting characters that did not lean on [[Eye Candy]]. It eventually spawned a pretty fat franchise with a sequel, an animated tie-in, a video game, etc. ''Supernova'' was usually graded as "it supersucks!"
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| ''[[Titan A.E.]]'' || ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' ||Final Bluth and Disney face-off. Fatherless boy tries to solve his [[Disappeared Dad|daddy issues]] by going on a space voyage in search of a long-lost treasure, hidden on a [[Big Dumb Object]], with a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|less-than-stellar]] crew of galactic [[Petting Zoo People]], one of whom is a [[Parental Substitute]], but proves to be [[The Mole]], using a [[I
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| ''[[127 Hours]]'' || ''[[Soul Surfer]]'' || Dramatic films about [[Real Life]] athletes who lose a limb. || ''Hours,'' from [[Danny Boyle]], focuses on Aron Ralston, a hiker who is forced to cut off his own arm to save himself after five days of having his arm trapped by a boulder. ''Surfer'', from Sean McNamara (the director of ''[[Bratz (film)|Bratz]]''), focuses on Bethany Hamilton, an evangelical Christian surfer who loses an arm from [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|a shark attack]]. The main difference between these two films is their intended audience: while ''Hours'' aims for a secular audience, ''Surfer'' is intended for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20141218083128/http://soulsurferwave.com/ Christian market.] ||''127 Hours'' was nominated for six [[Academy Award|Oscars]] (including Best Picture and Best Actor for [[James Franco]]), and several other awards, but only obtained a modest profit [[Screwed by the Network|thanks to Fox's mismanagement of the movie.]] ''Soul Surfer'', on the other hand, received mixed reception from critics. Additionally, while ''Surfer'' earned much more than ''Hours'' in the United States, it was invisible outside the States, resulting in a lower international box office than ''[[127 Hours]].'' ''Hours'' is the victor in this one.
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| ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' || ''[[Krull]]'' || Fantasy films from the 80s, each was set in an exotic world ruled by an evil force. A fortress must be penetrated. ||[[The Dark Crystal]] was done by [[Jim Henson]] which meant, of course, [[Muppet|animatronic puppets]] while [[Krull]] was live action. ||Each have their fans, so let's just say it's a draw and leave it at that.
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| ''[[Destination Moon]]'' (1950);<br /><br />''[[Tintin|Destination Moon]]'' (1950), unrelated || ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'' ||''Moon'' was scientifically accurate, featured a script by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], and pretty much kicked off the "space adventure" genre of film; ''X-M'' featured [[Space Is Noisy|sound in space]], [[Space Friction|rockets stopping when the engines cut out]], and eventually ended up on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. ||Another case of the ripoff making it into theaters first; ''Destination Moon'' was famously advertised as "Two years in the making!", and ''X-M'' took advantage of it. ||''[[Destination Moon]]'' (film).<br /><br />The 2-part ''Tintin'' series was [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620063826/http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3p.html#tintin more scientifically accurate and prescient] than either of them, and eerily similar in plot, but didn't cross the pond.
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| ''[[Independence Day]]'' || ''The Arrival'' (also, ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!'') ||[[Alien Invasion]] movies released in the summer of 1996 (or late autumn, in the case of ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!''). ||Aside from involving an alien invasion, they are ''nothing'' alike. ''[[Independence Day]]'' was the big-studio production with a big budget, big stars, big promotion and churned out an even bigger profit. ''The Arrival'' was intended to be more of a thoughtful thriller, with only one brand-name star (Charlie Sheen). It never had a chance. ||''ID4'': Can anyone actually remember ''The Arrival''? (Yes! The guy looked like [[Half-Life|Gordon Freeman]]!)
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|''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001) ||''[[Dungeons & Dragons (film)||Dungeons & Dragons]]''||[[High Fantasy]] in a magical land of elves, goblins and other fantastical creatures based off legendary and sacred nerd franchises. (Both distributed by New Line Cinema.)|| ||LOTR by a landslide.
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|''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001) ||''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' (2001)|| First installments of high-budget film adaptations of popular and beloved fantasy series, with an overlapping viewer demographic, released within a month's difference of each other. || || A tie, or, better said, both films win. Both LOTR and HP were incredible box-office hits, grossing about $900 mln each, successfully launching their respective film franchises, [[Visual Effects of Awesome|revolutionizing the use of CGI in movies]] and [[Genre Turning Point|greatly raising the prestige of the fantasy genre]].
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|''[[The Descent (film)|The Descent]]'' || ''[[The Cave]]''<br />''The Cavern'' ||Horror movies with similar titles, made in the same year, and all three about a group of cavers who go spelunking, meet something unpleasant, and die.|| ||When it was released in America one year afterward, ''[[The Descent (film)|The Descent]]'' ended up becoming known as "Like ''[[The Cave]]'', but it doesn't suck." ''The Cavern'' is much more obscure than the other two, but definately the worst of the lot.
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| ''[[Inside Job]]'' || ''[[I Want Your Money]]'' || Competing documentaries about the ongoing economics crisis, released one week apart in October 2010. ||While the former places the blame on both capitalism and politics, the latter (a [[Documentary of Lies]]) places all of the blame on [[Barack Obama]] (who wasn't even President when it happened). || ''[[Inside Job]]'' was critically acclaimed, became an arthouse hit and won an Oscar, ''[[I Want Your Money]]'' was critically savaged and only lasted a week in most theatres.
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| ''[[Crazy Heart]]'' || ''[[Country Strong]]'' || Troubled country singers (played by Oscar winners who do their own singing) make comebacks while trying to navigate potential new loves and [[Younger and Hipper]] rivals. || While ''Crazy Heart''{{'}}s male protagonist is long past his prime, ''Country Stong''{{'}}s female protagonist is still wildly popular. ||''Crazy Heart'' earned [[Jeff Bridges]] an Oscar; ''Country Strong''... ''really'' didn't go that way for [[Gwyneth Paltrow]]. Also, in a roundabout way Paltrow's character falls for [[Tron: Legacy|Bridges' son]].
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| ''[[No Strings Attached]]'' || ''[[Friends with Benefits (film)|Friends With Benefits]]'' || [[Rom Com]] starring combinations of a member of ''[[That '70s Show]]'' and ''[[Black Swan]]'' (Ashton Kutcher & [[Natalie Portman]] and [[Mila Kunis]] & [[Justin Timberlake]], respectively) wherein the question of [[Friends with Benefits|"can we have sex and still be friends?"]] is pondered. || || Both films were modestly successful box-office wise, though ''Friends'' wins with its mostly positive reviews compared to ''Strings''' mixed critical reaction.
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