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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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