Random Worst Movies To Mix Up (21 items)

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  (#9) Lake Placid

  • Betty White, Mariska Hargitay, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Bill Pullman, Natassia Malthe, Ty Olsson, Meredith Salenger, David Lewis, Tim Dixon

  The titles of these two wildly different films are separated by three little words. The 1999 monster film Lake Placid follows three people who are on a mission to stop a man-eating crocodile that's terrorizing locals at the fictional Black Lake, ME. Despite its more forceful title, the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake (2003) is a comedy about a neglected 17-year-old named Placid Lake (Ben Lee) who has horrifically bohemian parents (hence his “unique” name).
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  (#8) Seven

  • Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey, Charles S. Dutton, John C. McGinley, Richard Schiff, Richard Roundtree, Mark Boone Junior, Leland Orser, Michael Massee, Richard Portnow, Bob Stephenson, John Cassini, Reg E. Cathey, Peter Crombie, Emily Wagner, Endre Hules, Richmond Arquette, Lennie Loftin, Hawthorne James, Daniel Zacapa, Alan Migicovski, George Christy, Andrew Kevin Walker, Dominique Jennings, Harris Savides, Gene Borkan, Shannon Wilcox, Alfonso Freeman, Lexie Bigham, Charles A. Tamburro, James Deeth, Heidi Schanz, Michael Reid MacKay, Brian Evers, Tudor Sherrard, David Correia, Duffy Gaver, Pamala Tyson, Evan Mirand, Bob Collins, Paul Eckstein, Rachel Flanagan, Mario Di Donato, Julie Araskog, Grigori, Martin Serene, Jimmy Dale Hartsell, John Santin, Beverly Burke, William Davidson, Ron Blair, Cat Mueller, Bob Mack, Charline Su, Harrison White, Sarah Reinhardt

  Seven Pounds (2008) stars Will Smith as Tim Thomas, who poses as an IRS agent to help change seven people's lives for the better. After causing a horrific traffic accident that led to the death of his wife, Thomas is determined to make amends by helping people who are struggling, and even goes so far as to kill himself so that his organs can be donated to a person in need. The story is both heartbreaking and moving, and demonstrates the basic compassion that exists within the spirit of humanity. 

  While the 1995 film Seven also involves an individual who impacts the lives of seven strangers, that's about as far as the parallels go. In David Fincher's psychological thriller, a mysterious serial killer models his sadistic murders after the seven deadly sins. The victim assigned gluttony is forced to eat until his stomach explodes, and sloth is strapped to a bed, causing his body to atrophy. After finishing this film, viewers will most likely stop believing in the concept of basic compassion. 
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  (#2) The Deep Blue Sea

  • Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Oliver Ford Davies, Karl Johnson, Barbara Jefford, Ann Mitchell, Mark Tandy, Stuart McLoughlin, Sarah Kants, Harry Hadden-Paton, Nicolas Amer, Jolyon Coy

  With nearly identical titles, Deep Blue Sea (1999) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011) are super easy to confuse. The American sci-fi/horror film Deep Blue Sea follows a group of scientists who fall prey to the sharks they're researching. Terence Davies’s more popular British romantic-drama The Deep Blue Sea is an adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play of the same name, and is about an affair between the wife of a judge and a former Royal Air Force pilot. 

   

  However, the similarities between the two flicks stops with their names.
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  (#5) Crash

  • Holly Hunter, James Spader, Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter MacNeill, Boyd Banks, Nicky Guadagni, Judah Katz, John Stoneham Jr., Markus Parilo, Alice Poon, Ronn Sarosiak, Cheryl Swarts, Yolande Julian

  Although these two films have identical titles, they tell shockingly different stories. 2004's Crash won an Oscar for Best Picture, and tells several interweaving tales that are connected by fateful accidents. Pretty much all of the car crashes in the film are realistically tragic, and some of the later moments are absolutely heartbreaking to watch. 

  Then there's the 1996 cult film Crash, which follows a group of people who are sexually aroused by brutal car accidents. There's definitely a good bit of road rage in both films, but the tone in which the incidents are presented is considerably less mournful in the '90s movie. 
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  (#20) No Country for Old Men

  • Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Stephen Root, Beth Grant, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Jason Douglas, Luce Rains, Brandon Smith, Caleb Landry Jones, Kathy Lamkin, Thomas Kopache, Myk Watford, Matthew Posey, Rodger Boyce, Boots Southerland, Albert Fry Jr., Josh Blaylock, Johnnie Hector, Chris Warner, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339472/, Rutherford Cravens, Ana Reeder, Margaret Bowman, Josh Meyer, Marc Miles, Scott Flick, Doris Hargrave, Trent Moore, Roland Uribe, Dorsey Ray, Gene Jones, Kit Gwin, Zach Hopkins, Richard Jackson, Angelo Martinez, Eduardo Antonio Garcia, Elizabeth Slagsvol, George Adelo, Eric Reeves, Milton Hernandez, John Mancha, Chip Love, David A. Gomez, Angel H. Alvarado Jr., Philip Bentham

  Because these films had the misfortune of being released in the same year (both were also nominated for Best Picture at the 2008 Oscars), they’re often confused for one another. However the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007) is arguably more acclaimed than There Will Be Blood (2007), as the film ended up winning Best Picture, in addition to several other Oscars.

  Adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel, the neo-Western thriller No Country for Old Men tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong, and introduces the world to the horrific Anton Chigurh, a monstrous hitman who lacks a concious. Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Be Blood is based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, and takes place nearly a hundred years prior to No Country. In the film, Daniel Day-Lewis plays a prospector turned oil tycoon who is arguably just as evil as Chigurh. 
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  (#17) Footloose

  • Sarah Jessica Parker, Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn, Lori Singer, Timothy Scott, Brian Wimmer, John Laughlin, Frances Lee McCain, Lynne Marta, Jim Youngs, Arthur Rosenberg, Leo Geter, Mary Ethel Gregory, John Bishop, Elizabeth Gorcey, Sam Dalton, Oscar Rowland, Gene Pack, Deborah Frazier, Brian L. McCarty, Alan Haufrect, H.E.D. Redford, Linda MacEwen, Jay Bernard, Ken Kemp, Russ McGinn, Marcia Reider, Michael Telmont, David Valenza, Mimi Broadhead, Melissa Renee Graehl, John Perryman, Meghan Broadhead, Alison Trouse, Monica M. Da Silva, Terri Gay Ulmer, Carmen Trevino, J. Paul Broadhead, Kim Jensen

  Some of the best dance movies came out in the ’80s, including the similarly titled films Flashdance (1983) and Footloose (1984). While one of these musical romantic-dramas earned an Oscar for Best Original Song, the other has perhaps — like its star, Kevin Bacon — aged better with audiences.

  The arguably more popular Footloose sees Bacon play a rebellious Chicago teen who moves to a small town that has banned rock music and dancing. Its predecessor, Flashdance, stars Jennifer Beals as a teenage welder and exotic dancer who harbors dreams of becoming a pro. Despite negative reviews (Roger Ebert placed it on his most-hated films list), Flashdance was a hit at the box office, and became the third highest-grossing film in the US that year.

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