Trendy

I of course noticed the oddly specific trends in movies:

1) A Bug's Life v. Antz
2) Shark Tale v. Finding Nemo
3) Shrek v. Happily Never After v. Hoodwinked
4) Flushed Away v. Ratatouille
5) Superheroes

and so on... I could keep going. What has always amused me is sometimes how specific two ideas from two completely different sources can be, when arriving on the scene at approximately the same times. Here are two of my faves in advertising right now:

An homage to The Shining:





An homage to cactus men:





How would you feel if you thought you were clever enough to come up with cactus made human and then your originality is foiled by an interspecies pregnancy? Or maybe they just ripped eachother off...