Re: Everything is derivative. Some just do it with more style.
rAndy aL Send a noteboard - 07/11/2009 11:32:43 PM
Name me a movie that you think is original and I'll name 3 other movies in the last 30 years that did it first, and possibly better.
Not if I name a movie more than 30 years old.
I thought Equilibrium was a fantastic film, and I recognize that it is a copy of Matrix and Harrison Bergeron and Fahreinheit 451.
That's just one example of a cult favorite film.
To paraphrase a quote I like, every author plagiarizes. The best they can hope for is to do it well.
It also depends on how much they plagiarise, and how long ago the origional was made. The real problem is that some genres are over represented because film-makers try to copy things that were successful in the last 6 months.
Too many similar movies?
- 04/11/2009 10:04:25 AM
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Something else that there is way too many of...and stuff I want to see.
- 04/11/2009 11:50:09 AM
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Re: Something else that there is way too many of...and stuff I want to see.
- 04/11/2009 11:57:04 AM
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I completely agree with that
- 04/11/2009 12:31:51 PM
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On second thought and to be fair, though...
- 04/11/2009 12:42:43 PM
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I am so sick of procedurals, medical dramas/comedies, and lawyer shows.
- 06/11/2009 03:46:29 AM
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Everything is derivative. Some just do it with more style.
- 06/11/2009 03:43:23 AM
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Re: Everything is derivative. Some just do it with more style.
- 07/11/2009 11:32:43 PM
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The Matrix was the last great science-fiction film? What an idiot.
- 04/11/2009 05:44:47 PM
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Re: The Matrix was the last great science-fiction film? What an idiot.
- 04/11/2009 06:21:07 PM
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He is the worst kind of critic. The one who has a good point, but then
- 04/11/2009 06:24:56 PM
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I agree with you.
- 04/11/2009 06:28:51 PM
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You appear to have missed his point, but I'll address your comments specifically to make it.
- 06/11/2009 03:39:07 AM
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Minor quibble, Infernal Affairs is actually a Hong Kong movie *NM*
- 06/11/2009 09:27:06 AM
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On a related note, it feels like everyone has the dancing banana in their sig. 
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- 05/11/2009 11:43:51 PM
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- 05/11/2009 11:43:51 PM
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I apologize for exposing Wotmania to the dancing banana. And by apologize, I mean laugh loudly. *NM*
- 06/11/2009 03:40:08 AM
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