# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![frog\_princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@frog\_princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frog_princess)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/41 "2007-07-16T19:39:54Z")
Firefox and Foxfire ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/42 "2007-07-16T19:45:52Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] Big Trouble and Big Trouble in Little China. [/QUOTE] Was coming in to mention this very one, seeing as I made that very mistake… Big Trouble came out JUST AFTER BTiLC, and I -really- wanted to see the later. My big brother took me to see the former. Disapointment? You’re soaking in it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/43 "2007-07-16T19:51:19Z")
When renting heart-warming horsey movies for your eight-year old daughter, for Og’s sake, remember: _National Velvet_, not _Blue Velvet_. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/44 "2007-07-16T20:07:30Z")
Irreversible & Invincible. ---
**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, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/45 "2007-07-16T20:13:35Z")
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!] Was coming in to mention this very one, seeing as I made that very mistake… Big Trouble came out JUST AFTER BTiLC, and I -really- wanted to see the later. My big brother took me to see the former. Disapointment? You’re soaking in it. [/QUOTE] Same for me with _Clash of the Titans_ and (Mel Brooks’s) _History of the World_. I was eight, and _CotT_ looked like the coolest thing in the world to me. Mom, not speaking English all that great, too me to _HotW_. She laughed like a maniac the whole time and I was bored to pieces. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/46 "2007-07-17T00:05:11Z")
There’s always [Hero](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104412/) and [Hero](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/). Both are good films, but when you see Dustin Hoffman, you kind of wonder what kind of martial arts he’ll be doing. You also might want to keep **Ghostbusters** and **The Ghost Breakers** straight. And **Ghost Chasers** might add to the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/47 "2007-07-17T00:28:03Z")
I’ve never seen [The Bodyguard](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103855/) (and don’t plan to), but mentally I keep confusing it with [My Bodyguard](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103855/). ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/48 "2007-07-17T00:31:58Z")
**RotK** could be, depending on which fandoms you frequent, referring to either _Return of the King_ or _Romance of the Three Kingdoms_. (Although some people, for clarity, add the extra T in for _RotTK_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/49 "2007-07-17T02:04:19Z")
Both [The Pursuit of Happyness](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/) and [Happiness](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/) explore the relationship between a father and his son, but…uh…the similarities end there. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/50 "2007-07-17T02:30:05Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] 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. [/QUOTE] I think you might have gotten the links backwards. (Hey, the one with the psycho killer was way funnier.) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/51 "2007-07-17T19:36:33Z")
**Dreamscape** , starring Dennis Quade > **[Dreamscape (1984) ⭐ 6.3 | Action, Adventure, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087175/)** > > 1h 39m | PG-13 **Dreamquest** , starring Jenna Jameson > **[Dreamquest (Video 2000) ⭐ 6.3 | Adult](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255963/)** > > 2h 7m | X ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/52 "2007-07-17T21:13:16Z")
My cable company listed in their program guide the movie [“Behind Enemy Lines”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159273/). The guide indicated that it starred Gene Hackmane and Owen Wilson. The description was “A Navy navigator is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him”. Cool, I’d long wanted to see that. So I recorded it. A few weeks later, when I watched it, I found myself watching [“Behind Enemy Lines”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115647/), “An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general”, which was utter drek. If the people who put the damned program guide together can’t even get it straight . . . ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/53 "2007-07-17T22:07:11Z")
I’ve told this story before, but it’s relevant, so here goes: My ex-girlfriend’s mom went to see _Leaving Las Vegas_ because she thought Nicholas Cage had made a sequel to his delightful romantic comedy, _Honeymoon in Vegas_. He hadn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/54 "2007-07-18T01:13:32Z")
[Gates of Heaven](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077598/) ([loved](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19780101/REVIEWS/801010303/1023) by Ebert) resulted in [Werner Herzog eating his shoe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081746/). [Heaven’s Gate](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/) ([hated](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19810101/REVIEWS/101010302/1023) by Ebert) resulted in [United Artists losing their shirts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists#The_1970s_and_1980s). Both films were released in 1980, and dealt with animal-related land-use issues in the Western US, but the resemblance ends there… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/55 "2007-07-18T01:52:49Z")
I once heard about some disappointed folks who went to see [Murphy’s Law](http://imdb.com/title/tt0091575/combined) instead of [Murphy’s Romance](http://imdb.com/title/tt0089643/combined). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/56 "2007-07-18T03:43:16Z")
[The Love Bug](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064603/) versus the [The Love Machine](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067359/). I went to an all boys boarding school in the mid 1970s. The school rented films for weekend entertainment, with a student as projectionist. Somebody messed up the order for one weekend, and the non-Herbie flick was the most popular weekend film ever! Nobody complained. Even when, during one showing, reel 2 of **The Love Machine** was left out completely. Missing plot and dialog? Who cares - there’s nekkid wimmin on the screen!! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/57 "2007-07-20T12:40:22Z")
This isn’t _precisely_ what the OP is looking for, but it’s a funny story I often tell on myself. I couldn’t believe how many people were raving about **Moulin Rouge**. How much fun can a movie about a horrific Cambodian regime “remembered mainly for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people (estimates range from 850,000 to 3 million) under its regime, through execution, starvation and forced labor” ?? (I had confused it with the [Khmer Rouge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge), of course. :o ---
**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 20, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/58 "2007-07-20T13:02:45Z")
Well, of course. **Mulan Rouge** is the movie about the Disney Chinese princess who becomes a force in Spoutheast Asia before moving to Paris and becoming the toast of the Impressionists. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/59 "2007-07-20T13:33:13Z")
If you want to see a cute film for kids, starring Fred Savage, rent The Wizard. When I worked at the video store, we had to constantly tell the parents of youngsters not to rent Ralph Bakshi’s very dark Wizards. Likewise, people wanting a bit of Bakshiesk swords and sorcery would do well not to rent Lords of the Ring, unless they were willing to settle for pro wrestling. And I have no idea about Working Girl. Wasn’t that a theatrical movie? An IMDB search just turns up a short-lived sitcom starring Sandra Bullock, long before she was famous. Pluralize the title, however, and you might end up with a documentary about lesbian hookers. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938/60 "2007-07-20T13:39:43Z")
Don Ameche? Warren Beatty? Meh, who cares? Heaven Can Wait is a good film, no matter which half of last century it was made in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-similar-names-that-should-never-ever-be-confused/411938.md?page=4)