Okay, I'll watch the Turkish Star Trek. Anything that makes fun of KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK...
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 02:58:12 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] 10 Completely Batsh#% Insane Foreign Knock-Off Films 10 Completely Batsh#% Insane Foreign Knock-Off Films By Ethan Kaye in Daily Lists, Movies Friday, Feb. 26 2010 @ 8:05AM Somewhere in history, the idea of "copyright" came into existence. This meant that if you had an idea, and you "copyrighted" it, no one else could make money off it unless you gave your approval. As a result, films were copyrighted so Sam Dumbass couldn't make his own sequel to Star Wars and profit off of it. Of course, in many other countries, copyright is just another funny sounding foreign word which means absolutely nothing; not unrelatedly, these countries are seldom on the first-run lists of places to show the latest American blockbuster. So sometimes, enterprising foreign people may decide to raise 100 kfernupfs, or whatever other bizarre local currency they use, and make their own version of said Hollywood movie for their own profit. Their local culture and entertainment values, coupled with the fact that the filmmakers often never saw the original movie, but heard about it second-, third- or even possibly 16th-hand, make for some truly bizarre -- but often entertainingly awful -- cinematic rip-offs. Enjoy the 10 most batshit insane foreign knock-off flicks we could find. 10) Turkish Young Frankenstein No, not a Turkish version of the classic Frankenstein, that would be too easy. Since the Turkish bootleg film industry likes to stay current, director/writer Nejat Saydam saw the first run of Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein and immediately got to work on making his own, humorless version. Sort of like photocopying a blurry photocopy, except adding some nonsense about the "Society of the Seven Spirits." The blurry film copies most of the original's scenes, but does it without remembering that they were supposed to convey jokes. Oh, and Frankenstein's monster is just a dude wearing an ill-fitting monster mask. It makes us cry. 9) Turkish Exorcist There was probably a reason that Turkey needed to get its own Exorcist. The original's plot might have been too deep, or too wordy, or there might not have been enough sight gags where a hypnotist gets whacked in the nuts by a little girl. All of these are corrected in "Seytan." Complex plot is replaced with joyless people staring at each other while a stolen copy of the Exorcist theme is played behind them. Regan being thrown around on a bed is replaced with a girl jumping on a bed. The head-spinning scene is replaced by Regan slowly turning around behind a headless mannequin. Oh, and Santa Claus shows up at the end for no reason. 8) Indian Superman Like much of Bollywood cinema, the primary focus of Indian Superman is not the story of the Last Son of Krypton living life as a mild-mannered reporter. It's about scantily clad girls dancing to awful, shrieky music. Supes takes a backseat to drawn-out and pointless "comedy" and everyone sitting back and enjoying dancing girls. There's also stolen footage from the Richard Donner film and homemade special effects where a superimposed Superman silhouette is placed over footage of buildings moving by real fast. Plus, Superman is a skinny dork with a homemade costume. Bad. Ugh. Ick. 7) Turkish Batman Imagine if Zack Braff threw on some Bat-tights and made a film about stopping insurance fraud. Now imagine it's in Turkish and that's it actually got made. "Betmen" is a joy-less romp through long underwear and following around a dusty sedan as it travels the dull streets of Turkey-Gotham. There is a Turkish Robin. There is a Turkish Commissioner Gordon. There is no Turkish Joker. There are bikini girls. There is a hip Turkish Batman soundtrack, which is really just the James Bond theme, played on a scratchy record player. And Batman has no qualms about straight-up shooting criminals. Take a page from this, Chris Nolan, and have more pointless dancing girls. 6) Indian My Cousin Vinny Oh yes, cinema fans, this exists. It's called "Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai" and it's an official remake of the Joe Pesci original, official because FOX sued the producers and then bought the rights. Yes, it does have dance sequences, and it does have a hot babe in place of Lois and Clark actor Lane Smith as the prosecuting attorney. And she wears skimpy clothing, which is much better than Lane Smith stripping down. Why the hell did they want to re-make My Cousin Vinny in the first place? 1 | 2 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/
