10 Sci-Fi Rip-Off Movies (That Messed Up What They Copied)
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
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As a massive fan of Escape From NY, I actually liked Lockout. Definitely wouldn't say it "messed up" anything though
Gamera may have started off chasing the trends, but by the 90’s, he was outclassing Godzilla in terms of quality in his productions. Hell, his new anime was made by the same team that made the Godzilla anime film trilogy and was vastly superior.
I don't know, if it's the Godzilla anime film trilogy I'm thinking of... Well, maybe the new anime will be good.
While i do see how Lockout ripped off Carpenter, I actually low key love that film. It was incredibly entertaining.
The only positive thing I can offer about about "Mac and Me" is that it normalised disability, and the main character wasn't treated any differently because he used a wheelchair.
You’re right. Unfortunately, after his brakes malfunctioned, it was all downhill from there.
That, and it gave Paul Rudd a running gag on Conan for years 😂 Only reason I know about it honestly.
@@landonmiles97and a glorious running gag it is..
@@y_fam_goeglyd That's what I love about my wheelchair-using friends: their support system.
They roll deep.
I'm so sorry. Please don't murder me. :)
That is actually what makes it all the worse that it was so bad. Had it been good, more people would have seen it and seen the normalization of disabilities, and that would have been great.
Loved lock out. It was a terrible movie but it was so good. The misfits actor almost carrying the entire movie on his back.
BTW, Warrior of the Lost World was the season 5 premier episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
The Paper Chase guy...
MEGAWEAPON!
All these movies were on MST3k
Lockout may or may not be a rip off, but it’s a legitimately fantastic film. It is in a totally different league to most of the others on this list.
I feel most rip-offs mess up the source material. When something popular shows up and everyone wants to copy it, but only copy the surface level content. IE: the MCU was a success so everyone was rushing to create a cinematic universe WITHOUT the time and effort Marvel had put in (they wanted it NOW and not later)
While i mostly agree, it should be noted that idea of cinematic universe are not exactly new. Universal studio created first one back in 30th, and many times tried to recreate it even before MCU.
@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 fair point. But at the same time, the MCU certainly made the concept popular to studios
Oh my, "Warrior of the Lost World", the MST3K version is great.
Lockout, or as I think of it Space Jail, messed up nothing. That movie is awesome.
Hey, I kinda liked Lockout. It's in on the joke 1000% and never tried to pretend it was more than what it was.
Interesting fact was that when Universal released Battlestar Galactica, George Lucas took legal action against the studio saying they were ripping off Star Wars. Universal argued back that they could easily say Star Wars was ripping off the visual style of their 1972 sci-fi film Silent Running. Lucas then consulted his lawyers and Lucas then dropped the case.
Mac And Me gets a pass for being the greatest running gag in late night talk show history.
I remember seeing a DVD of a film called "Transmorphers" that caught my eye because it had Star Trek's own Denise Crosby in it.
That wasn't enough to convince me to buy it, though.
Actually liked Earth To Echo - but I felt it was moreso an homage of the movies it aped & overall produced a solid fantasy tale.
Same here! I was shocked to see it on the list. It’s an homage for sure.
I loved it as a kid and still appreciate it nowadays
As a kid, my parents never rented ET, but I sure watched Mac and Me a lot ,I’m guessing they got it on discount.
I definitely watched Mac and Me when I was a kid. We rented allll of the 80s sci-fi. 😂
Lockout was a great 3rd Escape From movie!
I recently watched Star Crash on MST3K, Mac & Me too (I also remember Pod People). Gamera was another film I saw on MST3K
I saw Star Crash in theaters. I remember because of the "OMG, for our own safety, let's lie down in the snow and totally not freeze" scene.
Gamera is considered cannon in the Godzilla world, they even fought in a later movie, this one should not be on the list. Side note your pronouncing it wrong which tells me you know nothing about it
The fact that you assume the presenter is the original writer tells me you know nothing about WhatCulture. The original article was by Jack Pooley, so the pronunciation by Ewan Paterson doesn't indicate how informed the author is. Side note, you spelled "you're" wrong.
Mac and Me, I only remember that from Conan where Paul Rudd kept using it as a “clip” for his upcoming movies.
I was about to say you can't shit on Gamera ...because he carved out his own name in subsequent films
A name they can't even pronounce right!
@@bdpickett Right! 😆
Always defend Mac and Me for having a main character in a wheel chair played by someone actually wheel chair bound. While also making no reference to it in the movie. He's just a normal kid, his chair doesn't effect the plot at all.
When he described that one movie as "ET but with a robot", i thought "they already did that, too. It was called Short Circuit."
Love that half this list are MST3K episodes lol. Also fun fact, Christopher Plummer agreed to do StarCrash because it meant a free two week vacation in Rome and he wasn't going to turn that down.
I'm not going to lie - I've watched Mac and Me more times than I've watched E.T. I think (at least the version on MSTK3, and mostly for the laughs). It's sooooo bad and perfect for riffing on🙂.
So I love Pacific Rim, but for whatever reason I always forget it was made by DeTorro, lol
What I know from Mac & Me is just that one clip that Paul Rudd showed every single time he appeared on Conan, rather than a clip from whatever he was promoting at the time.
Is Mac & Me also known as Nookie or was that a separate Rip off of ET?
I like to play a game with list about low budget and/or knock off movies I like to call "Has it been on RLM's Best of the Worst", lol
I’m a fan of Lock Out
Oh Graham Greene, how far you have fallen.
I wonder how many people went to see Atlantic Rim, under the impression they were going to see Pacific Rim. I’m sure there were at least a few…
Edit: Also, am I the only one who thought that the aliens in Mac and Me looked like the pictures of sea monkey family that they placed on the sea monkey adverts and kits back in the 80s?
The footage for Metamorphosis is from the other movie with the same name: Metamorphosis The Alien Factor. Both were release in 1990.
Ice Pirates (movie) -- Wikipedia has a good entry, see especially the Reception comments.
Great video what culture, fantastic job also happy new year.
"If you are asked to play Emperor of Universe, go for it."
-C. Plummer
Didn't Plummer admit he only did that film to get a holiday in Rome and the paycheck ?
5 out of 10 are MST episodes. That's awesome.
The only one of these that I've seen is Mac & Me. I remembered watching it, but nothing about the movie, really. I was 10 or 11 when we rented it and I don't think I have ever met anyone that had actually seen it before, although I hadn't thought about it in probably 3 decades.
I’ve got to admit though that I love Asylum movies!!!! So cheesy!!!!
I love the move Mac and Me, I've watched it so many times since I was a kid, everything else on this list I wouldn't even watch once.
I always thought Gamera was. Made by the same people who did Godzilla and good job on being 5he first youtube channel to point out mac and ne rip off et and really making fun of product placement in the movie when ET ate Rese pieces and drank Budweiser
With Lockdown there were two main differences between it and Escape from NY. The obvious is that it was set in space and the person sent in was innocent of the crime they were to be sent to prison for, Snake wasn't. As for Mac and Me, I haven't watched it in years and it was a commercial for so many products.
Hey, Gamera is the friend of all children!
I feel like they ripped the Subaru logo at 3:21
11:38 - Is that...Judd Nelson?!?! Oh..Bender...what have you done to yourself?
Mac and me gave me nightmares as a child
I'm here to say hello to other mst3k and Rifftrax fans. Pretty nice!
Beast from 20,000 fathoms came out in 1953 about a giant dinosaur awaken from glacier by an atomic bomb, Gojira came out in Japanese in 1954 copying some of its plot, added filming of Raymon Burr and English-speaking Japanese and Released as Godzilla King of the monster in 1956.
Most of these were featured on the Netflix revival of mystery science theater
Say what you like about The Asylum but I think they get some surprisingly good results from their $500,000 budgets. Certainly not up there with the top class big budget movies but still better than you would think.
One film I've always thought was a complete rip-off was 1991s Eve of Destruction, a movie that was trailered and it's poster appeared to be cashing in on the hype surrounding Terminator 2. Watch the trailer to see what I mean. It's budget was $13 million so it wasn't a cheap knock off.
Originality goed a long way
There's very little actual originality though. Stories generally follow a formula and genre stories even more so. There are bits and pieces that can be original and twists and subversions but broken down to the basics there are only so many stories and even the best creators "steal" from other creators.
Lockout was a good movie.
Most of these movies I've never heard of before I'll keep an eye out on Tubi for them 😉 but I have to say I love Earth to Echo and Mac and Me I would highly recommend people watch those movies 😂
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Leave Gamera 😔 ALONE!!!!
GAH-mare-uh? No! GAM-uh-ruh.
He is really neat. And filled with turtle meat!
I guess that people who worked on atlantic rim had an atlantic rim job.
Lockout was a good, fun movie.
Erm excuse me? Lockout is a banging movie!
Or any movie from Asylum
I don't think Asylum movies count as movies, rip-off or otherwise.... though, there is no otherwise.
@whatculture "leaden" refers to the metal, not the thing that a leader does, so it should be pronounced like the metal. (Rhymes with deaden.)
Man I love Mac and me
They need to leave Asylum alone . They're basically parody versions of these movies anyway. They are in no way losing money or audience to these movies. Nobody is like "well I was gonna go see The Day the Earth Stood Still but after watching The Day the Earth Stopped, I'm good." I love cheesy, B, C and sometimes even D knock off versions of movies. I've seen so many Die Hard knock offs it's not even funny.
I thought 2010s Legion would be here for also ripping off Terminator
And real Actors with Resumes were involved in the rip offs?
gotta eat and keep the lights on
Lockout: Really liked this movie. Similar to EFLA, yes. But I didn't care.
The Day The Earth Stopped: I actually enjoyed this one more than Stood Still...at least the Keanu Reeves remake. I've never seen the original.
I kind of feel The Asylum should be exempt from these types of videos on the grounds that its entire existence is built on ripping off other films, and everyone knows it (and expects them to be awful, too).
Finding an Asylum film on the list just provokes a mild grunt of "I could've guessed that", rather than any sort of surprise.
However, there could easily be a series of videos dedicated to the worst examples (even by their standards) of The Asylum's output, for which I'll gladly take a name check and a modest sum of money. I'll even forego the money, as I suspect that was optimistic...
I've seen lockout it's not a terrible movie. But the other movie you're talking about that it is a copy of I don't think I've ever heard of
I loveeeeeeeeee Mac and me!
Unpopular opinion....I think Mac is a cuter alien than e.t
Tread lightly around Gamera you can't even say the name right
Also that you put Gamera on this list over transmorphers is outstandingly stupid... ya know what your 'lists' as of late have been pretty shit this just tops the pile 👋
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Hey man... turtles are legitimately terrifying.
I'll take you out to my lake and show you why lol. You'll never want to swim in freshwater again
Lockout was bad, but dumb fun. Still, it was sadly better than Escape from LA 😢 Which I am ashamed to say I saw before NY because as a young teenager, I thought the poster looked cool.
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Eve of Destruction was a robot resembling a woman on a killing streak. Star Wars and sequels copied much from Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. "Gamera The invincible" was title.
Dude. Mac and Me was a way better movie than effin ET. Fight me.
Is this because of the horrible Rebel Moon, Star wars ripoff?
Wait? Dollareedoos is a real currency? I thought it was fake. Like Rubles.
well if your calling these movies rip offs of other movies that messed up what they copied how come you didnt classify ET as a rip off of Alien. ET messed it up because they had the Alien land on Earth instead of humans landing on a planet of Aliens
I don't think I've ever seen anyone say ET was a rip off of Alien and now I'm trying to piece together in my head how that would even work. Like both movies have humans and a non human in them and ...that's it, I got nothing else. I mean technically, the humans in Alien are actually alien as well since they aren't on earth so... But you did remind me of the hello my baby Alien parody in Spaceballs so there's that.
Earth To Echo doesn't belong on this list at all & isn't anything like E.T. in any way at all.
I swear you guys purposely put one thing on each of your lists, that doesn't belong, just to farm comments telling you how very wrong that you are.
I generally think of Earth to Echo as being more of a rip-off of Super 8.
Kurtzman's work botches authentic Trek?
Disney adaptations botch authentic Star Wars? 🤗
Add Rogue Moon to this list. :) Except it's ripping off stories told better 30+ years ago.
Im sure Atlantic rim is no better than Pacific rim
Transformers Bumblebee copied E.T. and the iron giant.
There was certainly a lot of similarity, but I don't think it messed it up, which would keep it off this list. YMMV.
𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴, the short story by Franz Kafka, predates both 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘺 and the film mentioned (1915). And while Cronenberg clearly influenced the film's visuals, this was an adaptation of the short story, of which 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘺 also borrows heavily.
Gamera is really neat. He is full of turtle meat. We believe in Gamera.
Dr. Forester is kind of a jerk!
And Frank is really dumb too!
We have to take part in these lame experiments!
But do we complain? No! (Yes! Huh?)