Pitiful Rip-Offs

[the_sneaker]

So, a few nights ago, my buddy and I are stumbling through Blockbuster...a little too drunk for our own good...when I blurted out to him how much I hate seeing three or four movies that are blatant rip-offs of other movies. When asked to explain, I walked over to the Horror section and showed him the cover of Deep Blue Sea

Here is the cover to it:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/153/821462.jpg

I then took him around and showed him a few other video covers that were blatant rip-offs of this. For instance:

http://shopping.yahoo.com/video/images/muze/dvd/sm/78/231878.jpg
(Hopefully you can see that)

There were literally five other films that had very simalilar...if not the same....covers...but I can't remember those others.

Also, there is the 2002 release of Ghost Ship.

Here's the cover:

http://www.affichescinema.com/insc_g/ghost_ship.jpg

And the blatant rip-off:

http://www.artistviewent.com/horror/ghost-rig/ghost_rig--300pixelheight.jpg

Pretty pathetic, huh?

[RustyRazor]

OMG!

Ghost Rig?! I though it was a fake out, but it's not.

Just another indication that Hollywood is running on empty for good ideas.


VOLCANO and DANTE'S PEAK ring a bell? They came out in the same friggin' year!

[Cronos]

i find it hilarious when i go into a store and see all these covers that are just ripoffs of other films covers

[AceD]

I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think those are the best examples. Someone who had never seen those covers that decided to make a movie about giant tadpoles would probably come up with a similar cover. And the looming face has been around since at least FRIGHT NIGHT. Still...

I totally agree how stupid it is. The reason? So many people don't like change. They want to see the same formula, the same way, again and again. They will buy a copy of FRANKENFISH when it goes on sale on the Used DVD shelf, and watch it several times, alternating between that and DECOYS and BOA vs. PYTHON and ASYLUM FOR THE DEAD. They will drink their classic Coca-cola, eat a #1 at McDonald's and sit there calmly wathcing their movies, suspenseless and content.

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[slasherfan]

Poor Frankenfish, it's actully a good movie but that artwork does suck!
Sure, look at the UK one.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0002W12B2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0009UV4H4.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[CyclicNightmare]

http://davisdvd.com/gallery/bin/1001.html

[Lazy Boy]

Hmm, I wonder if these two are somewhat similar:

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/images/covers/coveri/LVD014112.jpg

http://www.mjuggler.de/bilder/ebayfan1067193751.jpg

[ChemicalRomance]

Why don't you take a bite out of this?

Courtest of www.davisdvd.com:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/SSHS/dvdcopies.jpg


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[Fisting Ackbar]

Also, there is the 2002 release of Ghost Ship.


Not like their poster design was original.

DEATH SHIP (1980):

http://altura.speedera.net/ccimg.catalogcity.com/200000/203600/203649/products/thumb11288730.jpg

[Grim H.]

Originally posted by Fisting Ackbar
Not like their poster design was original.

DEATH SHIP (1980):


Yeah. Besides, Ghost Rig was actually released one year before Ghost Ship. Meh, everything's a rip off of everything nowadays.

[James Logan]

...They actually made a movie called GHOST RIG? :)

ChemicalRomance's post is the most expressive. I mean, that's why cool, original posters can be a great marketing tool -- because 90% of flicks out there have posters you've seen three times before. Same way as their movie is probably bland and common too.

[ParileseMonster]

Hey no offense to my black brothers and sisters but they are up in that game as well.
I saw Zombiez, Killaz, and one other I cannot remember but they all end in the letter Z and I laugh cause what else can you do?

[bigred760]

Originally posted by CyclicNightmare
http://davisdvd.com/gallery/bin/1001.html

Some of these I think are just coincidences. I mean, God forbid that a DVD cover copy another cover that has the CAST ON IT!!! Oh my Lord, those thieving bastards - how dare they show the cast on the cover like we did!! Is there no original artwork left??!! DAMN YOU PHOTOSHOP!!!! :rolleyes:
See Tomcats, Go, Clerks, Road Trip. There's nothing unique about the style or background that was copied - they're just showing the cast of characters on the freakin' cover.


But others, pretty blatant.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by the_sneaker
Also, there is the 2002 release of Ghost Ship.

Here's the cover:

http://www.affichescinema.com/insc_g/ghost_ship.jpg

And the blatant rip-off:

http://www.artistviewent.com/horror/ghost-rig/ghost_rig--300pixelheight.jpg



LOL!

Has anyone seen Ghost Rig? Would you admit it if you did? :)

[slasherfan]

Originally posted by KillerKlown
LOL!

Has anyone seen Ghost Rig? Would you admit it if you did? :)
I have seen ghost rig and it's terrible. I however have not seen....


http://i.pricerunner.com/img/muze/dvd/98620.JPG

[Brando @$$ Fat]

I've said this before, but....

http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/women/warmus/1a.jpg

is definitely a ripoff of....


http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/79/183279.jpg


However, I will admit that Fatal Attraction is a pretty good movie. It's more erotic and frightening that Eastwood's "Misty." Though I do think that Eastwood's film is slightly more entertaining and stylized.