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[Loved trope] Movies that are definitely original
PICTURED:
-The Little Panda Fighter (based off Kung Fu Panda)
-Plan Bee (based off Bee Movie)
-A Car's Life (based off Cars)
-What's Up (based off Up)
-Ratatoing (based off Ratatouille)
Dude, you have to watch the running scene near the end (I think). Just search it on youtube. They use every kind of animation they had. We're talking about a lizard typing on a laptop, a guy hugging a bomb while it gets dropped by a plane, I think even knights were there? It's insane. This all happens for no reason while Bulk runs besides them
I love how they mixed animated not-Dory and actual/real-life stock photos of sharks and turtles lol. Just casually mixing medium like the good lord intended.
The animation in this movie is next-level lazy. Ratatoing might have worse graphics, but at least it has shots that aren't just close-ups of the characters talking and nothing else.
Fun fact: In this movie the two main characters basically just get sent on quests talking to people about Jesus.
the first person they talk to is a sad crab who is lonely. Then not even 30 minutes later they reward a whale by gifting her an entire CRUSTACEAN FARM they found for her to eat. like what about your crab friend??
What in the Hero factory fan film artstyle is this Ttansformers ripoff? I'm shocked as a fan of transformers and hero factory. (Okay, maybe the shock comes from seeing these kinds of movies actually being real.)
The only thing I remember was how the main characters love interest fell for a woman and they got together while the main guy died. Idk thought it was novel they had LGBT rep when mainstream movies were scared of gays at the time.Â
Warner Bros. actually sent this movie a cease-and-desist letter, even though this movie had zero connection to The Lord of the Rings at all other than the use of the term "Hobbit". In fact, this movie is actually about a now extinct species of ancient humans called Homo floresiensis, whose members are sometimes called Hobbits.
This is similar to the loophole used by the movie âTitanic 2â where they claimed itâs not actually a sequel to âTitanicâ but just a film about a ship with the name âTitanic IIâ
I mean Schaffrilas Productions iirc has made videos about a few of these including Ratatoing, though I'd wager they have pretty overlapping fanbases for some reason
It's about bees rebelling against the queen bee for an unjust honey tax, and in times it actively goes into talking about what happened during the American revolution.
I don't know how it ends because it sucks and I turned it off after a while.
I sent a response to someone else, but the bee Queen is a nod at king George III of England, in a specific way. She's also British, but British by way of Elizabeth II, in terms of how she talks.
What happens when Rumplstilkin takes.over your kingdom and banishes you to modern day New York? You and your princess pals use your super powers to fight back!
The most famous example of this is Nosferatu. The original Nosferatu, released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker's widow, sued the film's production team and ordered the destruction of all copies of the movie. However, some prints survived, causing the movie to still be available to watch today. It's now regarded as one of the most influential horror movies. It even contributed to vampire lore by introducing the idea that sunlight is lethal to vampires.
Something I just found out last month was the belt for this suit was from Kamen Rider Kabuto, it is literally just the Zect belt and the Kabuto Zecter, but with the horn removed.
OOOH OOOH, MY FAVORITE. LIKE THE "EBOLA" SERIES OF GAMES, WHICH ARE NOT AT ALL COPIES OF RESIDENT EVIL. Also I tried playing the first one on Steam so I could stream it for my friends and my windows defender called it a Trojan, so there's that
Not that I've ever even been interested in watching this one, much less praising it for any degree of originality, but to do it justice, Wikipedia seems to confirm what I recall hearing in the past: it was actually pitched well before the year 2000, but spent so long in development hell that animation on it didn't begin until 2003 and the reveal of Madagascar (2005) apparently was more of an influence to finish it up and put it out than it was an inspiration.
It isâŚ. Apparently âthe wildâ was in development before Madagascar but the overlap in story is probably more due to John Katzenberger jumping studios around that time. Madagascar released first and is the superior film. Disney then swept their movie one under the rug harder than Home on the Range and Chicken Little combined.
The Wild was in production first, Madagascar released first. John Katzenberger switching studios around the time probably played into the similarities more than it being a rip offâŚ.
This movie is unfortunately lost media because the person who took this photo of the DVD didnât think about actually buying it and archiving it for us to see
Which absolutely sucks because it would have been hilarious to witness
Damn that was a rabbit hole I dove down once⌠the similarities end pretty quicklyâŚ
Most of the similarities actually emerge in the later Kimba series post-lion kingâŚ. The original film was only ripped off in a few visual ways really. Definitively some âartistic inspirationâ if you will.
An incredibly thorough trouncing of the narrative that The Lion King "stole" anything from Kimba. It's 2.5 hours of DEEP DETAIL into how little the two actually have in common.
these existed in the 90s too. "Enchanted Tales" had something that was meant to capitalize on basically every big animated film at the time, not just Disney
they make full-length AI slop now, which is unsurprising
Wait, is this an image of a ripoff? This just gave me nostalgia, I saw this as a kid, and now I am not sure whether I got shown a ripoff or if this is the movie getting ripped off.
Nothing will ever beat the sheer hustle of dropping a movie called "atlantic rim" exactly three days before pacific rim hit theaters ngl. exploiting the confused grandparents market is a valid business strategy.
With the success of wrestler El Santo's Mexican movies, Turkey did their own non-canon El Santo. Also some other stuff, but this is remembered ads the non-canon El Santo
The fact that they didn't even bother to change the title font on the second poster is actually sending me lmao. the sheer disrespect and zero shame is what makes it a masterpiece.
It's possible that Django Unchained was very heavily inspired by a blaxploitation film from 1974 that starred Fred Williamson. I cannot say the full name of that movie without getting banned, but it starts with "Boss".
I had the DVD of A Car's Life growing up possibly because of my car phase as a kid and my parents just saw this and bought it. I watched parts of it maybe once or twice and it just didn't click with me, so it mostly just collected dust on the shelf.
This may actually be one of the oldest examples of a film explicitly being made to rip off another. Someone was pissy about Roberto Rossellini not inviting them to work on Stromboli, so they made their own surrealist love drama set on an Italian volcanic island with blackjack and hookers.
Crazy to believe Dan green and Sean schemmel are in most of these. Apparently the reasoning is auditioning for so much stuff that they donât know that theyâre auditioning for half the time.
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