Dueling Movies: Difference between revisions

|''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001) ||''[[Harry Potter (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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| ''[[Despicable Me]]'' || ''[[Megamind]]'' ||Animated movies released in the same year about a [[Villain Protagonist]].||''Despicable Me'' has also been called [[Batman|Penguin]]: The Movie due to the main character's visual similarities. ''Megamind'' has been referred to as [[Monsters vs. Aliens|Gallaxhar]]: The Movie. Again, for similar looks.||''Despicable Me'', period. It has gotten both better reviews and almost twice the revenue compared to ''Megamind'' (but ''Megamind'' is well on its way to becoming a [[Cult Classic]]).