Mystery Manor Adventure Forum

So often "Attack of the Clones" is an apt description for what comes out of Hollywood. So you not only get "A Bug's Life" you also get "Antz".

I see in upcoming movies we have "Bedtime Stories" and "Inkheart" whose story premises seem to be rather similar. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery it's said, so there's a lot of flattery goes on in cinematic circles.

There's a reason for the two bug movies - insects, being mostly constructed of rigid subsections in fairly simple shapes, are easier to do in CGI than most creatures. So there was a period when the technology was ready for a feature-length movie as long as it was about insects!

I was about to say I'd choose which of the two new films to see based on which one didn't star Brendan Fraser. Then I noticed the other one stars Adam Sandler...

Adam Sandler also had a hand in writing "Bedtime Stories" apparently . . . whether he had first read Cornelia Funke's book on which "Inkheart" is based is something to conjecture about.

CGI has certainly come a long way.

Happens all the time.


Armageddon (1998) vs. Deep Impact (1998)
Volcano (1997) vs. Dante’s Peak (1997)
The Truman Show (1998) vs. EDtv (1999)
Tombstone (1993) vs. Wyatt Earp (1994)
Saving Private Ryan (1998) vs. The Thin Red Line (1998)
Scary Movie (2000) vs. Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th (2000)
Heist (2001) vs. The Score (2001)
Atnz (1998) vs. A Bug’s Life (1998)
Deep Rising (1998) vs. Virus (1999)
K-9 (1989) vs. Turner and Hooch (1989)
Mission To Mars (2000) vs. Red Planet (2000)
Braveheart (1995) vs. Rob Roy (1995)
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) vs. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)