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Rip-Off Month

Started by Olivia Bauer, January 31, 2012, 12:30:50 AM

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Olivia Bauer

I didn't finish the movie I'm supposed to review but I'll try to do it Tuesday.

I'm going to change up my schedule a bit. Reviews will now be done at 8:00 PM on Saturday nights. Central standard time as usual. However I've decided for just about no real reason that February is going to be...

RIP-OFF MONTH

For all Saturday night reviews I request that your picks for bad movies to review be terrible rip-offs of other movies. I don't know why I just want to try something like that.

bob

Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

molokai cargo

Starcrash for me, light sabers blue and red.

Stella Dallas is the female equivalent of Han Solo

Hasslehoff is Luke

And Plummer is Obi Wan

Kaseykockroach

Transmorphers? The Last Shark?
Closetshipper.deviantart.com

"You wanna be a genius, it's easy. All you gotta say is, everything stinks. Then you're never wrong."

InformationGeek

Quote from: Kaseykockroach on January 31, 2012, 01:12:43 PM
Transmorphers?

Hell, why stop there with just one suggestion from that company?  Pick any film from The Asylum.  I garantee you that you can fill up this month in no time with their films!
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We live in quite an interesting age. You can tell someone's sexual orientation and level of education from just their interests.

major jay

2019: AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK
This one rips off, at least, four movies.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
MAD MAX II
PLANET OF THE APES
STAR WARS

Chainsawmidget

Quote from: InformationGeek on January 31, 2012, 01:23:02 PM
Quote from: Kaseykockroach on January 31, 2012, 01:12:43 PM
Transmorphers?

Hell, why stop there with just one suggestion from that company?  Pick any film from The Asylum.  I garantee you that you can fill up this month in no time with their films!
I think we could use a whole seperate Asylum month. 

Kaseykockroach

Nah, I'd prefer we have variety. :P So maybe just one or two Asylums.
Closetshipper.deviantart.com

"You wanna be a genius, it's easy. All you gotta say is, everything stinks. Then you're never wrong."

InformationGeek

Quote from: Kaseykockroach on January 31, 2012, 02:48:02 PM
Nah, I'd prefer we have variety. :P So maybe just one or two Asylums.

Fair enough.  I say Barb Wire then.  It is a complete and utter rip off in the story department of Casablanca. 
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We live in quite an interesting age. You can tell someone's sexual orientation and level of education from just their interests.

indianasmith

THE DAY THE EARTH STOPPED   :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

JaseSF

There's been lots of Conan, Road Warrior, Star Wars and Alien rip-offs - Sorceress, Warriors of the Wasteland (AKA: The New Barbarians), Battle Beyond the Stars and Creature just to name one of each.

Technically The Terminator films and Dark City borrow from old "Outer Limits" episodes too - "Demon with a Glass Hand", "Soldier", "The Man Who Was Never Born" and "A Feasibility Study". Even Alan Moore's "Watchmen" rips off "The Architects of Fear" but that series is full of ideas I've seen borrowed time and again since. 
"This above all: To thine own self be true!"

Pacman000

How about Warning from Space?

It starts off as a generic 50's alien invasion film, spends a brief amount of time as an Invasion of the Body Snatchers rip-off, then becomes a Asteroid-on-collision-course-with-earth movie, with a bit of The Day the Earth Stood Still thrown in for good measure.

Pacman000

More Invasion of the Body Snatchers clones:

It Conquered The World (you know, the movie with the cucumber/mushroom monster?)

Zontar, The Thing From Venus (a remake of the above)

The Beast With A Million Eyes (early AIP/ARC movie, actually all of these movies were distributed by American International)

diamondwaspvenom

Killer Crocodile (Jaws Knock-Off)
Ator the Invincible (Conan the Barbarian Knock-Off)
Ghoulies (Gremlins Knock-Off)

InformationGeek

Here's one for you that I forgot to add in:  Grizzly, a rip off of Jaws!
Website: http://informationgeekreviews.blogspot.com/

We live in quite an interesting age. You can tell someone's sexual orientation and level of education from just their interests.