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Amy Racecar
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Stop me if you've heard this one...

#1 Post by Amy Racecar » Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:55 am

Multiple Moses movies making their way to a theater near you, eventually. One of them, the cleverly titled Exodus, might end up with Christian Bale as Moses. It'll be directed by Ridley Scott. The other is Gods and Kings, and it's not going to be directed by anybody (for now.) Between these two and Adam it's an exciting time to be a Bible fan.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#2 Post by HistoryProf » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:07 am

Amy Racecar wrote:Multiple Moses movies making their way to a theater near you, eventually. One of them, the cleverly titled Exodus, might end up with Christian Bale as Moses. It'll be directed by Ridley Scott. The other is Gods and Kings, and it's not going to be directed by anybody (for now.) Between these two and Adam it's an exciting time to be a Bible fan.
so lets see here (and i'm sure i've forgotten some of the other weird pairings that seem to happen almost every year),

1928: Poe's Usher
1934: Catherine the Great
1964: Hello Khrushchev? That was our bad, please don't fire!!!
1965: Harlow
1972: Rodeos
1988: Dangerous Valmonts / Target sucks
1989: Underwater Aliens
1991: Robin Hood
1992: Christopher Columbus
1995: Jane Austen
1996: Tornadoes
1997: Volcanos
1998: Meteors / animated bugs/antz
2000: Let's go to Mars!
2001: Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter
2004: Helen and Troy
2005: Truman Capote
2006: 19th century magicians
2007: What do you mean you're pregnant?!??! / I'll drink your bloody milkshake friendo
2009: Mall cops / coco chanel
2010: Post apocolyptic road movies and/or Leo DiCaprio Mind fucks
2011: Green superheroes
2012: Hitchcock / OMG the apocalypse is coming!
2013: Holy Fuck, they've taken the White House!
2014: Moses!
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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#3 Post by willoneill » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:28 am

HistoryProf wrote:[so lets see here (and i'm sure i've forgotten some of the other weird pairings that seem to happen almost every year),

2013: ?
2014: Moses!
2013 is the year of "Holy Fuck, they've taken the White House!" (Olympus Has Fallen, and Roland Emmerich's White House Down). Apparently, Oblivion and Elysium are pretty similar as well (i.e., live-action adult remakes of Wall-E).

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#4 Post by repeat » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:08 am

HistoryProf wrote:2012: ?
Dunno about blockbusters, but on the festivals it was surely "limousines"

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#5 Post by swo17 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:23 am

2007 = unwanted pregnancies (at least four of these)

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#6 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:27 am

I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#7 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:54 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).
If we are counting TV movies there was 1996's Night of the Twisters and 1997's Volcano: Fire On The Mountain.

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#8 Post by antnield » Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:56 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).
Dante's Peak was 97's other big volcano flick.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#9 Post by Forrest Taft » Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:07 am

Alfred Hitchcock was 2012's Truman Capote!

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#10 Post by Swift » Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:14 am

2014 looks to be the year of the Hercules movies, with both Brett Ratner and Renny Harlin working on projects right now.

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#11 Post by domino harvey » Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:18 am

2013 also has double Kerouac with On the Road and Big Sur

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#12 Post by Professor Wagstaff » Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:46 am

1998: Disco Movies (54 and The Last Days of Disco)

1960: The birth of the serial killer genre(Peeping Tom and Psycho)

Although they were released a year apart, it seems worth mentioning Hollywood's brief fixation with making a movie about Steve Prefontaine with Prefontaine (1997) and Without Limits (1998). I'm still unable to distinguish the two apart.
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#13 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:12 pm

1989: Deux Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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#14 Post by Murdoch » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:20 pm

2012 was surely the "OMG the apocalypse is coming!" year for movies.

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#15 Post by Props55 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:25 pm

1972 was the year of the rodeo film:

Junior Bonner
J.W. Coop
The Honkers
When the Legends Die
Black Rodeo (doc)

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#16 Post by swo17 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:39 pm

Murdoch wrote:2012 was surely the "OMG the apocalypse is coming!" year for movies.
Don't you mean 2011, with Melancholia, The Turin Horse, Contagion, and Take Shelter?

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#17 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:50 pm

Or 1999s 'Pre-Millennial Tension' double bill of religious horror films starring Gabriel Byrne: End Of Days and Stigmata.

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#18 Post by Murdoch » Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:23 pm

swo17 wrote:
Murdoch wrote:2012 was surely the "OMG the apocalypse is coming!" year for movies.
Don't you mean 2011, with Melancholia, The Turin Horse, Contagion, and Take Shelter?
Well, it really could go either year, but 2012 had 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Battleship, probably more. Plus, I've only seen one of the movies you listed (Melancholia) so I had no idea the others were about the apocalypse.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#19 Post by matrixschmatrix » Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:44 pm

swo17 wrote:2007 = unwanted pregnancies (at least four of these)
I always think of it as the year of ultimately meaningless violence in US history- Zodiac, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James...

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#20 Post by HistoryProf » Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:11 pm

antnield wrote:
flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm blanking on other movies in '96 and '97 about tornadoes and volcanos (other than Twister and Volcano, obviously).
Dante's Peak was 97's other big volcano flick.
That was the bigger one I thought....then Volcano. And I think there were at least 3 tornado movies, Twister, the tv one mentioned above, and another just called Tornado or something. Bruce Campbell was in it.

Great thread break out though....this could be fun. there have to be other good disaster themes from the 1970s. Wasn't there a year of fires w/ Towering Inferno? or the year Backdraft came out?
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one...

#21 Post by HistoryProf » Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:14 pm

Weren't the Abyss and Leviathan the same year? 1989: Underwater Aliens?

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#22 Post by lefeufollet » Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:36 pm

1992 featured dueling Christopher Columbus pictures: 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#23 Post by hearthesilence » Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:38 pm

matrixschmatrix wrote:
swo17 wrote:2007 = unwanted pregnancies (at least four of these)
I always think of it as the year of ultimately meaningless violence in US history- Zodiac, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James...
Heh, I thought of the same movies too (add Eastern Promises and Sweeney Todd to that list). And these were the best films from America. A collection of psychos, killers, criminals, evil personified, etc..

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#24 Post by Gregory » Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:13 pm

Most violence in history was ultimately pretty meaningless, but the killing of Jesse James—hardly.

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#25 Post by R0lf » Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:18 pm

1934 had The Rise of Catherine the Great as well as The Scarlet Empress.

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