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I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, or of many of these movies/books, but seriously, this is one of the most stupid and hilarious things I have ever read.
http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/colle...itators#photo0
I mean, what the hell? Eragon might be a Star Wars rip off, but Harry Potter? And The Golden Compass? Wut?
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2011-07-19, 01:40 AM #1The Lightbringer
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[Movies] Yahoo list of Harry Potter rip offs.
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2011-07-19, 01:43 AM #2The Lightbringer
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It's discussing movies which were based off of books and how they utterly failed upon release unlike harry potter.
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2011-07-19, 01:45 AM #3Fluffy Kitten
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First step: Imagine a bunch of monkeys sitting around with several typewriters strewn about the room.
Second step: Imagine those monkeys have several cases of hard liquor, and down it rather quickly.
Third Step: Imagine whatever random letters spawn from these monkeys stumbling around and hitting keys gets turned into a news article.
Fourth Step: Imagine some website releases these "articles".
Welcome to Yahoo.com
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No, the title clearly states "Harry Potter rip-offs". Read my above statement. Originally Posted by xile
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2011-07-19, 01:52 AM #4Stood in the Fire
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lets see here now...
Eragon is a rip off of starwars and LOTR, not HP.
The golden compass books came out before harry potter.
the rest don't really have much in common with HP either. They just happen to be children's fantasy books/movies.
Just because something is in the same genre as something else doesn't mean it's a rip off. At this rate we might as well say the Harry potter books are ripping off the Chronicles of Narnia.
(with the exception of percy jackson, which is just harry potter at summer camp.)Last edited by elgato; 2011-07-19 at 01:55 AM.
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2011-07-19, 01:56 AM #5The Lightbringer
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"In the decade since "Potter" first hit screens, a host of other fantasy movies have tried to copy its formula for success. They were based on very popular books, they featured a plucky young hero (or two or three), and they relied heavily on expensive visual effects. And while some made for passable movies, most never launched the sort of multi-film franchise that made "Potter" such a smash. Originally Posted by Pendulous
Click ahead to see eight movies that tried to follow in the footsteps "Harry Potter" but just couldn't fly."
You're wrong, once again the article is about primarily books that later became movies and shared a very small common feature(a hero, a crossover from book to movie, and a rather large use of special effects). None of the article claims that they follow the same plot lines or anything just states that they failed to make the cross over from book to movie. Funny story though, i ctrl+f'd the whole article, not a single word of rip off. odd.Last edited by xile; 2011-07-19 at 01:59 AM.
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2011-07-19, 01:57 AM #6Stood in the Fire
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Oh, and as far as books goes, Eragon might not be as successful as Harry Potter, but it's still one of the top 50 best selling books of all time.
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2011-07-19, 01:58 AM #7Fluffy Kitten
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Originally Posted by xile
No, the link from yahoo.com mentioned them as "rip-offs".
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2011-07-19, 01:58 AM #8Immortal
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Wasn't Twilight one of the top selling books, too? Originally Posted by elgato
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2011-07-19, 01:59 AM #9The Lightbringer
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Oh it did, because i just ctrl+f'd the whole document and oddly enough no word rip-off, or even the word rip appeared, odd. and even if it would appear, they clearly show what they are attempting to do, which is to say that those movies did not succeed like harry potter but they are vaguely similar. Originally Posted by Pendulous
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2011-07-19, 02:01 AM #10The Patient
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You must seriously lack reading comprehension. The article is talking about rip-offs in the sense of films with big-budget, special effects based on popular, long-running book series. The point is that while Harry Potter has had a successful run as films, these other series, those successful as books (like harry potter), haven't been popular enough to spawn sequel films.
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2011-07-19, 02:04 AM #11Fluffy Kitten
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I admit I have a bias toward the brain-dead morons that write for Yahoo, but I will say that I also am very honest of a person: Originally Posted by xile
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/7912/unledjzg.png
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2011-07-19, 02:05 AM #12The Lightbringer
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They aren't comparing plots, once again. They are saying that the book did not translate well to a movie, unlike harry potter. They group it in in this article only because it was a book to movie cross over, it had a hero (that's exceptionally vague), and it was highly special effect based. No mention, period, of plot comparisons. Originally Posted by Yakisoba
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The link isn't on the article, it's a link to the site. Regardless it doesn't matter, the article goes about saying why they are similar, book crossover/a hero/special effect base. It talks about the fact that they are similar in their crossover from book to movie, nothing about plot. Yes yahoo writers are terrible, but it's not like they are saying these books are all the same, they're just discussing their crossover from book to movies. If the movies could be "rippingoff" anything it would be the supposed "formula" harry potter used to go from book to movie. Originally Posted by Pendulous
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2011-07-19, 02:09 AM #13I am Murloc!
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The article is comparing books to on screen translation. Also they aren't like Harry Potter in terms of wizardry, but they are all similar in terms of fantasy.
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2011-07-19, 02:13 AM #14Stood in the Fire
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Lemony Snicket <3 the movie sucked so much balls it was appalling, I still remember though reading them in elementary school
. You also have to remember that the books that spawned these shit movies are not as popular as Harry Potter. My brother has no idea who Lemony Snicket or C.S Lewis is (hes 14) but he DOES know who J.K Rowling is, even though he doesn't read books at all.
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2011-07-19, 02:17 AM #15Epic!
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The one thing all those 'ripoffs' or whatever you want to call them had over HP....action!
They were not 5 longass drawn out snoozefests with barely any action, only topped by the like of the rings trilogy.
Harry potter is training to be a wizard eh? He casts how many spells in the first 5 movies combined? 8?
Ripoff or not, most of those movies > HP
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2011-07-19, 02:19 AM #16The Patient
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Harry Potty isn't that unique... It actually has a lot of cliches and borrows from mythology, legends, and stories that have been in existence for a loooong time. Most people are simply too ignorant to realize this.
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2011-07-19, 02:45 AM #17Scarab Lord
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I am bummed that The Golden Compass sucked as hard as it did. The books are amazing and the movie had a pretty amazing cast. Still, I guess that is what you get when you take a series that is basically a deconstruction of Catholicism and organized religion in general and then remove and reference to religion from the movie version.
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2011-07-19, 04:37 AM #18Brewmaster
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HOW DARE YOU!!!! Heretic!!! The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is a freaking awesome movie trilogy, and an even better book series(counting everything else Middle Earth related). Originally Posted by Dazzy
Personally, I like the books of HP far better than the movies, but that is likely just me. Because I am overzealous about sticking to the books that the movies are based off of, I know that the books are too long, but still! I can dream can't I?
OT: I actually liked several of those movies listed, and why they failed is beyond me. But the only thing they 'cloned' from the HP series is the fact that they are based off books, and are fantasy.
Why the Eragon movie failed, is because in the words of Stephen Fry, it was "absolute balls."Last edited by Robbyjawz; 2011-07-19 at 04:39 AM.
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2011-07-19, 04:39 AM #19Titan
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Read the article properly, the writer isn't saying that they copied Harry Potter, but that they copied the formula.
"In the decade since "Potter" first hit screens, a host of other fantasy movies have tried to copy its formula for success. They were based on very popular books, they featured a plucky young hero (or two or three), and they relied heavily on expensive visual effects. And while some made for passable movies, most never launched the sort of multi-film franchise that made "Potter" such a smash."
Seriously if people would just take the time to read and understand there would be much less problems in the world generally.Why am I back here, I don't even play these games anymore
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2011-07-19, 04:42 AM #20Scarab Lord
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Ive heard of almost none of the movies on there. Originally Posted by Dazzy
But every movie > Harry Potter. I hate the series so very much.
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