# Movies with similar names that should never, ever be confused. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938 "2007-07-16T04:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/21 "2007-07-16T15:19:12Z")
as I’ve mentioned in a similar thread, a friend once went to see **Looking for Mr. Goodabar** , thinking that she was seeing the Neil Simon movie **The Goodbye Girl** (both 1977). THAT must have been a rude awakening! > **[Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) ⭐ 6.7 | Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076327/)** > > 2h 16m | R > **[The Goodbye Girl (1977) ⭐ 7.4 | Comedy, Drama, Romance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076095/)** > > 1h 51m | PG ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/22 "2007-07-16T15:23:59Z")
[8½](http://imdb.com/title/tt0056801/), which is a semi-autobiographical story about director Federico Fellini, and [9½ Weeks](http://imdb.com/title/tt0091635/), which is two hours of Mickey Rourke fucking Kim Basinger. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/23 "2007-07-16T15:24:31Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] Aliens III with any of the other installments in the same series. [/QUOTE] _Alien v. Predator_ with **any** of the **actual** Alien or Predator movies. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/24 "2007-07-16T15:29:42Z")
Big Trouble and Big Trouble in Little China. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/25 "2007-07-16T15:33:11Z")
**Urban Cowboy** and **Midnight Cowboy**. Big difference. Hoo boy. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/26 "2007-07-16T15:36:02Z")
Well, not exactly what the OP asked for. But if you’re looking for a documentary about the Watergate scandal…don’t rent Deep Throat. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/27 "2007-07-16T15:51:14Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] [8½](http://imdb.com/title/tt0056801/), which is a semi-autobiographical story about director Federico Fellini, and [9½ Weeks](http://imdb.com/title/tt0091635/), which is two hours of Mickey Rourke fucking Kim Basinger. [/QUOTE] I read that as Mickey Rooney. Man - that was a weird moment in my head. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/28 "2007-07-16T16:57:18Z")
Sandra Bullock’s recovering alcoholic from [28 Days](http://imdb.com/title/tt0191754/) would be quite out of place in the rage-infected streets of zombie london chronicled in [28 Days Later](http://imdb.com/title/tt0289043/). ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/29 "2007-07-16T17:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=Scupper] Sandra Bullock’s recovering alcoholic from [28 Days](http://imdb.com/title/tt0191754/) would be quite out of place in the rage-infected streets of zombie london chronicled in [28 Days Later](http://imdb.com/title/tt0289043/). [/QUOTE] I wish [I’d](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8783174&postcount=5) thought of that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/30 "2007-07-16T17:05:43Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Actually it does contain car crashes and sex. Just not at the same time. Plus, the new one sucks. See the Cronenburg. [/QUOTE] I thought they were both brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/31 "2007-07-16T17:11:24Z")
There’s _The Princess Bride_, great great comedic flick from 1987, and _The Princess Diaries_, a Disney movie about a girl who finds out she’s heir to a throne. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/32 "2007-07-16T17:16:32Z")
I was supposed to watch **And the Band Played On** , the documentary about the origins of the AIDS epidemic, for one of my college classes. Instead I got **The Boys in the Band** , a movie about 1960s/70s-era gay men living in NYC and notable for its use of what one of my friends referred to as “Hysterical Queen-o-Vision.” ---
**Author:** ![Tabula\_Rasa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@Tabula\_Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabula_Rasa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/33 "2007-07-16T17:23:49Z")
Metropolitan (1990–nevermind the other two films called “Metropolitan”) , Whit Stillman’s debutante-laden loose adaptation of _Mansfield Park_ and Metropolis (1927), silent German Expressionist film about a dystopic future in which humanity is divided between those who think and those who do. Hmm. Come to think of it, the main difference is that the Whit Stillman film is darn chatty. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/34 "2007-07-16T17:24:39Z")
The romance [Before Sunset](http://imdb.com/title/tt0381681/) and the caper film [After the Sunset](http://imdb.com/title/tt0367479/) were easy to confuse, being released within a few months of each other. I remember them being on the new release racks at Blockbuster at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/35 "2007-07-16T17:34:17Z")
[WarGames](http://imdb.com/title/tt0086567/) and [The War Game](http://imdb.com/title/tt0059894/) ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/36 "2007-07-16T18:33:21Z")
[QUOTE=Tabula Rasa] Hmm. Come to think of it, the main difference is that the Whit Stillman film is darn chatty. [/QUOTE] I love the thought of Whit Stillman remaking _Metropolis!_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/37 "2007-07-16T18:47:52Z")
**Mighty Joe Young** and **Meet Joe Black** , which came out IIRC within a month of each other. Inevitably people intending to see one inadvertently must have went in and saw the other: “Hey what’s with the big monkey, and where’s Brad Pitt?” **Trainspotting** and **Transporter**. **Cross of Iron** and **Circle of Iron**. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/38 "2007-07-16T18:59:44Z")
There’s [Jack Frost](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141109/) the comedy, and then there’s [Jack Frost](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116671/), the scary version. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/39 "2007-07-16T19:25:44Z")
There’s **Black Sheep** the comedy, and then there’s **Black Sheep** , the scary version (though [which](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/) is [which](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115697/) is probably relative). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/40 "2007-07-16T19:27:59Z")
An unsophisticated person might rashly and foolishly assume that _Star Wars: The Phantom Menace_ is part of the _Star Wars_ film series. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938.md?page=3)