Tag: RipOff
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Netflix’s Forgotten ‘Harry Potter Rip-Off’ Fights Its Corner One Year On- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Can you believe it’s already been one year since The School for Good and Evil premiered on Netflix? You know, the big budget fantasy with an all-star cast that was being set up as the start of a blockbuster multi-film franchise. Anyone? Come on, it was directed by Bridesmaids, The Heat, and the divisive…
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The ‘Jaws’ Rip-Off That Got Into Trouble for Stealing Footage – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The Big Picture Cruel Jaws shamelessly rips off Jaws with stolen footage, plot points, and dialogue, but its blatant robbery makes it hilariously entertaining. The quality of Cruel Jaws is appalling, with illegible dialogue, continuity errors, and terrible acting. It’s so bad that it becomes comedy gold. Not only did Cruel Jaws rip off…
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That Time Harrison Ford Co-Starred in a Low-Budget ‘Exorcist’ Ripoff – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The Big Picture The Possessed is a 1970s TV movie that falls within the category of “Exorcist ripoffs,” featuring Harrison Ford in a supporting role. While lacking in gore and sexuality, TV Exorcist knockoffs like The Possessed made up for it with professionalism and a competent and grounded storyline. The film revolves around a…
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Every Parody, Homage, and Ripoff of This Timeless Alfred Hitchcock Classic – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window has a lasting influence that, almost 70 years later, continues to pop up in films and popular culture with surprising regularity. Hitch, like all the greats of cinema, just tends to have that power: His movies live on, both directly and indirectly, as classic works that continue to warrant revisiting,…
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An Unremarkable Ripoff Actioner Unloads a Smoking Gun on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via EuropaCorp If you were asked to name an action thriller co-written and produced by Luc Besson set in, around, and across Europe that featured an aging star playing a retired special agent undertaking one last job in an effort to protect their daughter from unsavory forces, there’s no chance 3 Days to Kill…
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A Sci-Fi Horror Tarred With the ‘Ripoff’ Brush Absorbs a Streaming Host- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Any movie that bears even the slightest of similarities to an earlier and more successful spiritual successor is in danger of being tarred with the dreaded “ripoff” brush, but we can all agree that The Faculty deserves to be put on its own pedestal. At the time of the cult classic’s original 1998 release,…
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A Diabolical ‘Die Hard’ Ripoff That Barely Avoided Disaster Dangles Precariously on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The “Die Hard on [insert location/mode of transport here]” setup has become a near-ubiquitous subgenre in its own right, such is the influence John McTiernan’s classic has had on the entire complexion of the action movie. Plenty of thinly-veiled ripoffs have thrived in their own right, but Dwayne Johnson’s Skyscraper ain’t one of them.…
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A Blatant Cash-Grab Ripoff Still Managed to Carve Out Its Own 25-Year Legacy- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via Sony As far as blatantly transparent cash-grabs designed explicitly to cash in on a hot trend go, they don’t come more egregious than I Know What You Did Last Summer. After Wes Craven’s Scream turned the entire slasher genre on its head to give the tiring format a self-aware and wonderfully fresh coat…
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See How They Run review – Boorish Agatha Christie rip-off – Armessa Movie New
[ad_1] See How They Run review – Boorish Agatha Christie rip-off About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the…
