Re: [scifinoir2] 10 most obvious Hollywood Rip-Offs

2010-08-05 Thread Martin Baxter
Agreeing with you here, Adrianne. I'm not much of a fan of either series, but they're barely alike, once you step past the fact that the heroes are teens who have yet to recognize their place in the order of things. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Adrianne Brennan < adrianne.bren...@gmail.com> wr

Re: [scifinoir2] 10 most obvious Hollywood Rip-Offs

2010-08-05 Thread Adrianne Brennan
I'm going to state my piece on #10, which is that Hollywood chose to *make* it look like another Harry Potter, especially on the posters. The movie itself is based off a series of books by Rick Riordan. How alike they are to HP you'd have to read them and decide for yourself; I've read the first tw

Re: [scifinoir2] 10 most obvious Hollywood Rip-Offs

2010-08-05 Thread Keith Johnson
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Re: [scifinoir2] 10 most obvious Hollywood Rip-Offs

2010-08-04 Thread Mr. Worf
I agree with all of these. I'm sure there are more. (like Armageddon and other films) I think the only redeeming quality about Corman's work is that it shows that you can still make a film without spending a lot of money on it. Hollywood has most people brainwashed thinking that you MUST spend hun