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All Quiet on the Western Front

German schoolboys are inspired to fight in World War I, only to face disillusionment in the horrors of the war in its Western Front.


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13 Feb 2015, 12:41 am

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Gamera: Super Monster (1980)

Is it me or is that a star destroyer taken from Star Wars in that picture? :roll:



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13 Feb 2015, 12:42 am

AntDog wrote:
Jory wrote:
Gamera: Super Monster (1980)

Is it me or is that a really obvious rip off of a star destroyer?


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13 Feb 2015, 1:33 am

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Gamera: Super Monster (1980)

Is it me or is that a star destroyer taken from Star Wars in that picture? :roll:


It looks identical to a Star Destroyer, both on the poster and in the film.

Japanese monster movies have a long history of plagiarizing whatever Western films are popular at the time. The one I just finished, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, ripped its plot and music from the James Bond films. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah rips The Terminator, and you'll find scenes taken directly from Independence Day in Godzilla 2000 and Godzilla: Final Wars. That last one also rips The Matrix, which itself was hugely inspired by East Asian action films.

The East and West have long shared an obsession with each other's cultures, and we've basically spent the past 60 years ripping each other off. America and Italy built a cottage industry ripping off all those Japanese samurai movies when making Westerns (sometimes with permission and very often without, i.e., Yojimbo vs. A Fistful of Dollars), and how you feel looking at that poster is how I'm sure audiences in Hong Kong felt watching Quentin Tarantino's uncredited City on Fire remake Reservoir Dogs, or just about every American action movie made between 1996 and 2003 for that matter.

It's a snake eating its own tail, a never-ending loop of inspiration, plagiarism, or if you want to be polite, "homage." Sometimes it's subtle and sometimes you see a Star Destroyer right there on the poster.



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Life of Crime

Two criminals kidnap the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer, only to find that he hass no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.


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13 Feb 2015, 4:38 pm

Murder on the Orient Express

Famous detective Hercule Poirot is on the Orient Express when it is caught in snow and one of the passengers is murdered. Thrilling and entertaining whodunit story.


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not too bad as, I have not seen Val Kilmer in films in quite some time in fact, I heard that he was in bad health and refusing medical treatment on religious grounds.. 8O


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Toy Story 3
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Watched bits of that a few weeks ago as my friends watched it. Kevin Bacon is so priceless.



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Watched bits of that a few weeks ago as my friends watched it. Kevin Bacon is so priceless.


I actually like the second one better, though I still like the first quite a bit. I bought the "Attack Pack" Blu-ray set that also has 3 and 4, but I've never seen those. I will within the next few days.



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14 Feb 2015, 3:39 am

Jory wrote:
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Watched bits of that a few weeks ago as my friends watched it. Kevin Bacon is so priceless.


I actually like the second one better, though I still like the first quite a bit. I bought the "Attack Pack" Blu-ray set that also has 3 and 4, but I've never seen those. I will within the next few days.


I don't remember them, probably saw them during a tremors marathon one day. I believe one of them is set in the old west. The Alien series rule might apply here- 1 and 2 are good, 3 is okay, and 4 just doesn't exist



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I don't remember them, probably saw them during a tremors marathon one day. I believe one of them is set in the old west. The Alien series rule might apply here- 1 and 2 are good, 3 is okay, and 4 just doesn't exist


I'm actually expecting 4 to be better than 3, simply because it has the same director as 2. It's also the one set in the Old West, which will probably be a welcome change of pace after three films set in the present. And even if they're awful, more Michael Gross is never too bad a thing.

As for Alien, I liked Alien vs. Predator far more than Alien 3 or Alien Resurrection, but I can find enough to enjoy in all of them. The only one I'd like to disregard altogether is Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, which made me want to hunt down and burn every copy of it.