Sometimes, purely by chance, two or more movies appear at the same time with incredibly similar elements. See if you can name the films (without recourse to the Internet Movie data Base):
1.) In these 1988 movies the villain gets run over by a steamroller at the end, yet survives. (Extra credit: There’s actually a third movie from that year where the villain gets run over by a steamroller, but he’s already dead by then, so you can’t tell if he would’ve survived.)
2.) 1984 movies in which heroine Kate Capshaw sees the villain reach into someone’s chest with his bare hand and pull out the beating heart of his victim. Miraculously, the victim survives this, only to be killed shortly thereafter.
3.) 1968 movies in which an alien artifact is dug up. In the distant past, contact with this artifact triggered a step in human evolution, bringing our aqncesters from man0like ape closer to man. The item is still active, and after being uncovered lets out a shrill noise.
Amazing how fast you’re getting these! Here’s a fourth, which I found out about on this Board:
Early 1930s movies in which a woman is sacrificed by a primitive tribe to a huge gorilla. After the gorilla carries her off, the American expedition sets out to rescue her.
Fifth one:
1980s spy dramas in which the plot is to start a war by detonating an atomic device near a NATO base. The movies each star someone who played James Bond.
#3: 2001, A Space Odyssey, as mentioned, and indeed Planet of the Apes: Heston finds a human baby doll which lets out a cry as he picks it up, giving him first hint of the true horror hehind his nightmare.
