Name two completely unrelated films with the same basic main plot device
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ShaDynasty
Chaos - The Album
A few people mentioned Menace 2 Society but It always felt like an alternate of Boyz N The Hood to me.
Equally good films with much different direction, but they both put goofy kids in the ghetto who lost close friends, they both had that same realization that they were doing the wrong thing.
Equally good films with much different direction, but they both put goofy kids in the ghetto who lost close friends, they both had that same realization that they were doing the wrong thing.
Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
A Serbian Film and The Pursuit of Happiness.
A father takes a risk to provide for his family.
A father takes a risk to provide for his family.
TheNatureBoy
Veteran
The Ringer has a podcast called The Connect w/Shea Serrano and Jason Concepion which is sorta similar to the thread premise that is really good.
The Connect - The Ringer
Slumdog Millionaire and Forrest Gump: Slack-jawed idiot kid stumbles his way through a montage of historical events over the course of his life.
* Both movies are based on the main character retelling events from his life story to someone else
* Both movies feature a close friend who goes through very dark times and ends his life dramatically
* Both movies have the main character growing up with a best girl friend who becomes a lover, only he loses her to the game and she becomes someone else's whore, but then one day he finds her again
* Both movies have the main character getting filthy rich in the end, not through any sort of superior intellect or work ethic but through a sort of destined "fate"
* Both movies are based on the main character retelling events from his life story to someone else
* Both movies feature a close friend who goes through very dark times and ends his life dramatically
* Both movies have the main character growing up with a best girl friend who becomes a lover, only he loses her to the game and she becomes someone else's whore, but then one day he finds her again
* Both movies have the main character getting filthy rich in the end, not through any sort of superior intellect or work ethic but through a sort of destined "fate"
ShaDynasty
Chaos - The Album
That's smart, Slumdog was a cool concept for doing those same themes.
I somehow didn't realize I had made two of the same sort of threads:
www.thecoli.com
Yo, anyone notice that Dr. Sleep and Get Out are low-key the same movie? :ohhh:
I just saw Dr. Sleep yesterday and y'all gotta tell me that someone has noticed this shyt before. They damn near follow the same basic plot beginning to end. :whoo: Both movies are centered on a talented orphan who struggles with addiction and is tormented by nightmares of a dark moment in his...
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Bullet Train and Snatch
Forrest Gump and Benjamin Button - out of place/fantastic southerner makes friends with a black guy, as he goes through time pursuing a doomed love interest. Written by the same guy. 
I never saw it but my boy told me Real Steel with Hugh Jackman was basically Over the Top but with robots.
I never saw it but my boy told me Real Steel with Hugh Jackman was basically Over the Top but with robots.