Can you name two movies that were released in the same year but feel like they were released years apart?

Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture They feel like they're decades apart if you watch them now

It'll always blow my mind that Spielberg made Jurassic Park AND Schindler's List simultaneously in '93.

St Elmo’s Fire and Breakfast Club were both released in 1985, just months apart. But it’s a trip because you got 3 of the same actors who just played high school kids now playing mid-20’s yuppies (and portraying them as super mature and come off even older when you don’t listen to their backstory of just being uni grads). I always assumed St Elmo’s came years later.

Ratatouille and Meet the Robinsons (both in 2007). Visually, Meet the Robinsons looks like an early CG film, Ratatouille’s artistry still holds up today (especially the attention to detail on the food).

Arnold Schwartzeneggar had very different movies come out the same year on several occasions. Conan/Terminator (1984). Twins and Red Heat (1988), Kindergarten Cop and Total Recall (1990) True Lies and Junior (1994)

I'll toss out an example of two movies that made a ton of money, were both considered good, but completely on opposite ends of the pop culture scale... 1977 Star Wars & Smokey and the Bandit

Catwoman and Batman Begins had eleven months between them, and if you didn't know better you'd swear it was eleven years. Absolutely *nothing* about these two films indicates they're even from the same decade, let alone the same year. ...And you know, I'm too lazy to do it, but there are probably some interesting observations to be made here about the former representing the death-rattle of superhero films' past and the latter representing the first indrawn breath of the genre's future, and how that's turned out to be both for better and worse. (In particular, the loss of the earlier superhero films' more freewheeling, laissez-faire approach to 'canon' - you rarely get shite like Catwoman or Daredevil or Elektra these days, the hilarious ongoing efforts of Sony to make Spider-Man Without Spider-Man notwithstanding; but you also don't get fascinating hyperstylized weirdo experiments like the Burton Batfilms, D*** Tracy, Tank Girl, The Shadow etc.)

The Room and Finding Nemo. I didn't know about The Room until years later.

Two of my favorite movies are Mission: Impossible III and C***** Royale. Both came out in 2006, but M:I3 seems much longer ago for some reason.

Superman 2, Raiders of the Lost Ark, An American Werewolf in London...and Clash of the Titans, which looks like a Disney movie from the 60's.  Also, some Herbie movies. And Heavy Metal. 

Lawrence of Arabia To Kill a Mockingbird

Goodfellas and Home Alone, both starring Joe Pesci

Apocalypse Now Alien

Blew my mind to realise Kurosawa's Ran came out the same year as Back To The Future (1985)

The Matrix and Office Space

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Eyes Wide Shut and The Matrix. They don't even feel like they're in the same century, let alone the same year. I actually notice the audio the most, it sounds like an older film while the sound in The Matrix is super sharp and clear.

Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List both dropped in 1993 and that still messes with me. Same director, totally different vibe, feels like they came out years apart.

Here is the classic example of what you are asking for: *Doctor Dolittle* (1967) and *Bonnie and Clyde* (1967) both competed against each other at the 1968 Oscars and seemed to be made in two totally different eras of filmmaking. One was an overproduced musical with Rex Harrison that was old-fashioned and stuffy even by the standards of the ’60s, and the other an explosive and violent gangster film that ushered in the New Hollywood era.

1968 gave us both **The Love Bug** and **2001: A Space Odyssey**.

Neither of them are movies, but I always get whiplash when I watch the Seinfeld episode that features a Green Day song.

Fight Club and Arlington Road Both great films but Fight club could easily be early to mid 2000s, while Arlington Road could be borderline late 80s and early 90s. Both 1999. Great year for film!

Not the same year, but Star Wars was released in 1977 and the Disney made The Black Hole in 1979 because they wanted to cash in on the sci-fi thing, but it looked like it was made in the 1960s.

That is crazy that it's been 8.5 years since Blade Runner 2049 came out.

The Lord of the rings, the Fellowship of the Ring, and Harry Potter and the sorcerer Stone.

Ironman and The Dark Knight

2001: A Space Odyssey and Night Of The Living Dead. Both came out in 1968.

The Lion King and Shawshank Redemption Lion King feels very 96-2000 and Shawshank feels very late 80s.

Dumb & Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Simply put: I find it hard to believe Jim Carrey put out two of the funniest movies of the decade barely 10 months apart from one another (Also, through researching this, I found out The Mask was also released in 1994 about mid way between D&D and AV:PD) Frankly 1994 was a crazy great year for movies Here's a short list of movies that came out in 94 Forrest Gump Pulp Fiction The Lion King Speed Dr Strangelove True Lies The Little Rascals Natural Born Killers The Shawshank Redemption Clerks Stargate The Pagemaster I feel like I'm missing a few, so feel free to add your favorite 94 movies

Matrix and dark city.

The Prestige and The Illusionist are a pair. I remember there was a whole big thing about them releasing close together but now they seem like they're from two entirely different timelines.

ITT: answers to the question, "What is a good movie and a bad movie that came out in the same year?"

Planet of the Apes and 2001

Blade Runner 2049 and The Emoji Movie both came out in 2017 and I still can't wrap my head around that. One's this gorgeous, thoughtful sci-fi masterpiece and the other... well, exists. Also wild that Get Out and Fifty Shades Darker were the same year. Talk about a spectrum of quality right there.

maybe the social network and toy story 3 both in 2010. one feels so grounded and modern, the other feels timeless and almost from a different era somehow

No Country for Old Men and Transformers (both 2007). Same year, completely different universes.

The Shawshank Redemption and Clerks 1994

The Mummy and Magnolia.

The Dark Knight and Iron Man.

Oh I have one! Seven was released in 1995. The Usual Suspects was released in 1996. The production timeline between these movies overlap. But The Usual Suspects was made with a much less studio backing that it took longer to complete the final movie than Seven, so there was like 6 or 8 months gap between the release of these movies. Kevin Spacey actually did his part in Seven after he completed The Usual Suspects. Seven looks like it could’ve been made last year. The Usual Suspects, on other hand, shows age. It is a movie that distinctively looks like it was made in the 90s.

Planet Of The Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey both being in 1968 is kinda zany. And the fact that Planet Of The Apes won the Oscar for best costumes is kind of funny too.

1980; The Empire Strikes Back and Friday the 13th.

The Dark Knight & The Incredible Hulk

Flash Gordon and SW The Empire Strikes Back.

Not a direct answer but when I (re)watched Terminator 2 (1991) and then some of the movies released around that same time, it never ceases to amaze me just how refined, timeless and well-done it was; everything else seemed almost shoddy in comparison, even when discussing films released a few years later. This is especially the case if you take into account one of the actors Robert Patrick, who previously and otherwise participated in mostly lower budget projects - to not say these can't be good necessarily. It might just be a James Cameron budget or direction thing, as everything he directed or helmed seemed to be of the super high quality and cost caliber like True Lies a bit down the line but equally epic as T2.

The first Pirates of the Caribbean showed audiences back in ‘03 that movies based on Disney rides could in fact be great Then we got Haunted Mansion later that year 

even worse: Cocoon is from 85 but feels early 70's Back to the Future and GhostBusters are from 84 but they're timeless!

Not the same calendar year, but "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" were released just within one year of each other.

1968 Both nominated for best picture — Bonnie and Clyde & Dr. Doolittle

Two classics from 1971, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory along with Clockwork Orange.

Dune (1984) & Aliens (1986). I love both films, but Dune feels very late 70's / early 80's to me in terms of special effects, costume and set design. Aliens is only 2 years later but feels decades newer in terms of effects, production design, cinematography and just style in general. It could easily be out of the mid-90's in terms of feel to me. Terminator 2 & Total Recall (both 1991). Both are amazing films, but Total Recall feels like an early 90's film while T2 feels like it belongs in the next century. Cameron really does an amazingly consistent job of producing films that are just on a whole other level and ahead of their time.

Val Kilmer was one of the hottest stars of the 1990s. 1 year later The Island of Doctor Moreau came out.  Fight Club and American Beauty. Fight Club being ahead of its time with similar themes.

Not a movie, but the last person to be executed by guillotine happened the same year as Star Wars came out. Like, you'd think they'd be a century apart.

Dobbie the Elf was in Chamber of Secrets in 2002. Two Towers brought us Gollum in 2002. Gollum looks years ahead. Harry Potter used a puppet and LOTR used mocap based on acting by Andy Serkis. Dobbie didn't get the full motion capture treatment until Deathly Hallows a few years later.

I think Zendaya has four movies coming out this year. Odyssey and Spider-Man will probably even be in theaters at the same time.

“The Green Slime” and 2001: A Space Odyssey” were both science fiction films released in 1968. “Slime” - a joint U.S. and Japanese production - a fun, campy space adventure/alien menace runs amok story with dated special effects. “2001” was a thought provoking mystery involving a menacing A.I. and mankind’s existence with amazing special effects.

My Own Private Idaho and Point Break. Maybe it's as much the difference in Reeves that sets them apart as their own style, and on that score you can throw in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

Blade Runner and Tootsie

Bruce Willis made Unbreakable, The Whole Nine Yards and The Kid in 2000. Each one shows a leap in his acting progression, so this one has the actor’s approach making it feel like the Kid was a wholesome fantasy, Unbreakable was noirish, and Nine Yards was a goofball rom-com with murder.

The 2023 movie Plane and literally anything else released that year. It feels like such an 80s movie in a very unintentional way

Star Wars & Smokey and the Bandit - 1977

Well for me, that's most movies. Unless I was actively involved in their marketing campaigns, a lot of movies pass me by. The majority of movies I've seen in my life, I watched years after their initial release. Back in my day, I used to go to this place called blockbuster video. And they had movies galore on every shelf. Every single shelf in this store, had nothing but movies. They had every movie ever made. All in one place. Not like today, where movies on streaming are all over the place, or just not there. Blockbuster always had a copy of every "not on streaming" movie available to rent. And a lot of those movies, I watched years after they were released. So to me, when I watch them, I was in a completely different place in my life, compared to the movies I saw I the theaters the year that movie I rented from blockbuster originally was released. I miss blockbuster, and pre-social media life

Ace Ventura, the mask, dumb and dumber

1971: Dirty Harry and Clockwork Orange.

The matrix and the 13th warrior

Helen of Troy (2003) and Troy (2004). Vastly different in execution. Helen of Troy feels like a lat 90's movie, and certainly not like it came out same year as The Return of the King.