Not To Be Confused With… Your guide to distinguishing films with similar titles
For some reason, filmmakers keep stepping all over each other when it comes to titling their works. You think you're hiring a thoughtful arthouse flick, when onto your screen erupts a crazy action movie - or you're channel-surfing and land on a film you've heard so much about, only to find it's rather different than you remember. So to solve such conundrums and keep you on the straight and narrow, we've assembled an easy guide to films with similar titles, so you'll never be confuddled again...
Posted on Tuesday September 7, 2010, 19:29 by Schnorbitz
Someone I once knew really did confuse The 51st State with Fifty First Dates.
One has Drew Barrymore suffering from amnesia. The other has Samuel L Jackson in a kilt - and the audience wishing they had amnesia. Read More
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RE: A waste of 18 clicks of my mouse
Posted on Saturday September 4, 2010, 07:48 by Funkyrae
L: LORD LIONAL
DUDE! Schoolboy error. 13 (Tzameti) is not "A French thriller about a young man on the run parkour-style" although it is being remade with Mickey Rourke. It's the film about the illegal gambling den where people bet on the outcome of russian roulette.... Remember? You should if you're gonna write this crap. Also could have mentioned Outland alongside Outlander and Outlanders. Lose points for that. And if we're talking about film titles that sound the same, how about "The 51st State" and "50 First Dates" which made for a very confusing discussion with my ex who swore Sam Jackson was in it, whilst I could have sworn blind it was Adam Sandler. Overall a very poor article. Waste of time reading it. Even bigger waste of time commenting.
nd yet you did.
t this, somewhat/very pointless, exercise have been used to re-iterate the scam of straight to dvd schlockers adopting similar names to blockbusters? I know empire did an article on it a while back but it's stRead More
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RE: Um you forgot an obvious one
Posted on Saturday September 4, 2010, 04:19 by matsnowie
A Serious Man and A Single Man, true... but also A Solitary Man with Michael Douglas - I'd say those are three that needed to be explained. Particularly since they all came out this year. Read More
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