Blatant Hollywood rip-offs

**Waldo** · 22nd January 2009, 04:19 PM

G'day,

This stirs me every time, maybe I shouldn't let it, but when in my profession I may be influenced by an element of something and may incorporate an aspect of it into my work, but never to rip-off someone else's work, then it annoys me when I see blatant copies.

Sure you can say to what or how much can you stretch the incorporation of an idea into your own? I think that falls to your morals.

I know it's all about the big $, which in the case of Hollywood doesn't matter that someone had pitched an idea for a movie to a producer or a producer to a movie syndicate, knowing too well that 'their' movie is a copy. But when they go so far as to strictly enforce their copyright, they forget they are infringing on someone else's intellectual copyright. Which leads to the David and Goliath (which really is a bad phrase when you think about the events behind the phrase), I'm bigger than you and have more money than you, so come on, take me on in the courts.

The latest one to soon hit our screens is Valkrie, a blatant rip-off of Operation Valkyrie, which for the second time last night was screened on SBS.

"The world is a big place", to use the old SBS tagline, which "with over 6,000,000 stories and counting" (using the new tagline) some seem to be blinkered in the belief that no one will recognise that 'my' work is a copy of his.

May be this is the reason I have always watched foreign movies - I like something original and acted well, not over acted, over dramatised by wannabes and can't act actors.

Rant off.

**watson** · 22nd January 2009, 04:33 PM

**tea lady** · 22nd January 2009, 11:14 PM

I can't be fagged watching Hollywood movies anymore. I like watching foreign films where I can't see the ending coming a mile away. Hubby says he likes the effects. Effects shmecks! If the story is thin effects won't help. The can also rip off as much as they like. Its never as good as the original.

**Cruzi** · 23rd January 2009, 12:25 AM

US TV is no better, the US version of "Life on Mars" (to be shown onTen) is just the latest example

**Waldo** · 23rd January 2009, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by Cruzi

US TV is no better, the US version of "Life on Mars" (to be shown onTen) is just the latest example

Exactly, and there's

way in hell it could stand up to the brilliant original. Yanks just can't do subtilies without making a ballsup.

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 23rd January 2009, 04:59 PM

Are you suggesting that Hollywood should come up with something original?!

That'd be breaking their tradition! The whole industry is based on remakes and plagiarism.

All their creative thinkers are in post-production, thinking up new reasons to sue or to develop "copy protection schemes" by which they can charge box-office prices for every time you watch their show...

**Waldo** · 23rd January 2009, 09:53 PM

it'd be a movie with a ending you don't see coming, lines you can't guess at before they utter them and actors who care more about their craft than their name listed first on the movie poster.

That'd mean all movies have about 4 actors in them.

In the meantime I'll frustrate SWMBO with her trying to read subtitles while she watches what's going on.

**tea lady** · 23rd January 2009, 09:59 PM

There's not even a c*^% Hollywood movie on telly tonight to watch.

**springwater** · 23rd January 2009, 10:30 PM

Apparently originalty doesn't grow on trees you know but just, just maybe in some far away place it does, believe it, or not

**tea lady** · 23rd January 2009, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by springwater

Apparently originalty doesn't grow on trees you know but just, just maybe in some far away place it does, believe it, or not

Maybe they've cut all those trees down already.

Is Pixar Hollywood? They do great movies.

Wall.e is currently showing most days at our house.

(BTW, When do kids grow out of seeing the same movie millions of times?

Although Pixar movie bear reseeing better than a lot of them.

)

**springwater** · 23rd January 2009, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by tea lady

Maybe they've cut all those trees down already.

Is Pixar Hollywood? They do great movies.

Wall.e is currently showing most days at our house.

(BTW, When do kids grow out of seeing the same movie millions of times?

Although Pixar movie bear reseeing better than a lot of them.

)

Believe Tea Lady believe

Gotta love Wall.e, it's good for the heart strings

When other kids tell them it's for little kids

**fubar** · 23rd January 2009, 11:11 PM

adam sandler made I now pronounce you chuck and larry about two newyork fire fighters who pretend to be gay and live together for tax purposes a year or so after an aussie movie called strange bedfellows with paul hogan and michael caton about two country fire fighters who pretend to be gay and live together for tax purposes with very similar scenes and dialogue

**Pheonix** · 24th January 2009, 10:24 AM

Never ever watched a Tom Cruise movie in my life, I regard him as a dwarf who walks around in built up shoes

**tea lady** · 24th January 2009, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Pheonix

Never ever watched a Tom Cruise movie in my life, I regard him as a dwarf who walks around in built up shoes

:whathesaid:

**Bob38S** · 24th January 2009, 10:59 AM

The Italian Job

Hollywood remake

And it is rumoured that there is to be .........

A Sequel

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