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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2215090" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>Okay, first off, I know that there are no original movie concepts. I know that. I'm aware of that. But stlll.</p><p></p><p>So here's "The Island", the Ewan Macgregor movie about a guy who lives in an idyllic paradise with other happy people who are periodically chosen to go to a happy place that no one ever comes back from, until he discovers that he's actually a clone of some rich guy being held in the idyllic place for parts, and he has to break out into the real world and find out how to live and stop the evil cloning project or whatever:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/</a></p><p></p><p>And here's "The Clonus Horror", a 1979 movie more recently viewed on MST3k, about... a guy who lives in an idyllic paradise with other happy people who are periodically chosen to go to a happy place that no one ever comes back from, until he discovers that he's actually a clone of some rich guy being held in the idyllic place for parts, and he has to break out into the real world and find out how to live and stop the evil cloning project or whatever:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/</a></p><p></p><p>IMDB doesn't list this as an actual remake, which is what has me peeved. At what point does the rip-off factor get bad enough that it's obvious to everyone? I mean, sure, the new movie is going to have lots of special effects. I get that. But the setup appears to be, well, <strong>exactly</strong> the same. I'm not saying that all cloning movies are ripoffs, and I understand that all cloning movies are going to have some similarities, especially if told from the clone's viewpoint. But I'm not getting this movie mixed up with "The Sixth Day", which, whatever its flaws, didn't rip off a 1979 movie so goofy that MST3k got to shin-kick it for two solid hours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 2215090, member: 5171"] Okay, first off, I know that there are no original movie concepts. I know that. I'm aware of that. But stlll. So here's "The Island", the Ewan Macgregor movie about a guy who lives in an idyllic paradise with other happy people who are periodically chosen to go to a happy place that no one ever comes back from, until he discovers that he's actually a clone of some rich guy being held in the idyllic place for parts, and he has to break out into the real world and find out how to live and stop the evil cloning project or whatever: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/[/url] And here's "The Clonus Horror", a 1979 movie more recently viewed on MST3k, about... a guy who lives in an idyllic paradise with other happy people who are periodically chosen to go to a happy place that no one ever comes back from, until he discovers that he's actually a clone of some rich guy being held in the idyllic place for parts, and he has to break out into the real world and find out how to live and stop the evil cloning project or whatever: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/[/url] IMDB doesn't list this as an actual remake, which is what has me peeved. At what point does the rip-off factor get bad enough that it's obvious to everyone? I mean, sure, the new movie is going to have lots of special effects. I get that. But the setup appears to be, well, [b]exactly[/b] the same. I'm not saying that all cloning movies are ripoffs, and I understand that all cloning movies are going to have some similarities, especially if told from the clone's viewpoint. But I'm not getting this movie mixed up with "The Sixth Day", which, whatever its flaws, didn't rip off a 1979 movie so goofy that MST3k got to shin-kick it for two solid hours. [/QUOTE]
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