In a world where we're constantly bombarded with reboots, sequels, recalibrations, crossovers, spinoffs, pre-boots, and re-re-boots, it's refreshing that there are still original movies coming out every now and then. At least they seem to be original, until you dig deeper and realize everything on Earth has already been done before.

5 The New Adam Sandler Movie Is an Episode of Futurama

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Looking forward to a new Adam Sandler movie is like looking forward to a punch in the face -- sure, he wrote a funny song about Hanukkah one time, but that doesn't mean you want to watch him almost get fucked by Al Pacino. Still, his new movie, Pixels, seems promising -- it was directed by Home Alone and First Harry Potter's Chris Columbus, co-stars Tyrion Lannister, and was filmed in Toronto rather than some inexplicable tropical location where Adam Sandler's family wants to vacation, which seems to be a major determining factor in his other movies.

This particular vacation/movie finds Sandler as a video game expert (presumably with a hilariously grating voice) called upon by the military to save New York (*cough* Toronto) from an attack by '80s video game characters, kind of like if Wreck-It Ralph was a 9/11 allegory. It's an exciting, fresh premise -- unless you happen to have seen that episode of Futurama where Fry is called upon by the military to fight video game characters in New York.

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In the episode "Anthology of Interest II," Fry is shown a world where video game villains like Donkey Kong run amok and war-room video screens look like a Pac-Man board, and Super Mario and Space Invaders are invoked in hilarious and prescient ways.

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