Don't the "Greats" Come in Twos?

As friend of mine and I were talking recently about movies, we came to the utter realization that many of the "great" (and I use that term as loosely as my tongue will allow) movies always seem to have an equally promoted yet drastically insufficient twin of the same plotline. This practice of mirrored movie plots seems to always surface in summer blockbuster movies.

For example, let's look at the earthly death by meteor pairing of Armageddon and Deep Impact. Both movies provide us with a thrilling look into what the world would be like if a big ass meteor was about to plow into it. Although Deep Impact had Morgan Freeman, one of the finest actors ever, I never got into the storyline the way I did when I saw Armageddon. This, quite possibly, is due to the fact that I saw the Bruce Willis asteroid thrill ride first. Now if we could have just put Ben Affleck on that meteor too as it blew up.

Another pairing of cinematic siblings is the explosive eruptive Dante's Peak and Volcano. Now, I've enjoyed 007 in a few of his movies from the day such as Livewire, but I can't say that I've ever been a Pierce Brosnan fan. Tommy Lee Jones on the other hand. Although he seems to suffer from Robert Deniro disease (a rare syndrome in which the actor can pick Academy Award winning performances and movies one year and a pile of crap the next), I have to admit that Volcano lends itself to the pile of crap category. Come on. A volcano erupts in Los Angeles? Why didn't it burn down the studio where they were making that movie first?

Movie parallelism doesn't just end with high energy action flicks. It dips its hands into the children's animated movie world as well. Remember the first time your kid made you watch Disney's The Wild and you asked yourself, "Did I just watch this movie the other night when it took place in Madagascar?" Why yes, you did! Except for one of the lion's planted his seed in one of the movies while the other one came across as gay (sorry, Ben Stiller but your lion seemed a bit effeminate for King of the Jungle, and I won't make a Queen of the Jungle reference here-uh, besides that one).

This all finally leads me to my point. I need to know what types of movies are being written right now. If I can find out the premise for some future blockbusters, I can get my mediocre screenplay of paralleled plotline written just in time for both movies to go into production. Help me, help you! Ensure yourself the right to unimaginative storylines told and retold over and over again.