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Another film that seems to have inspired "Alien" is Mario Bava's "Planet of the Vampires" (1965). It is also a film about a space crew picking up a distress beacon on an unexplored planet where they find a derelict spaceship with the remains of a larger alien race (a sequence Dan O'Bannon admits he totally ripped off), and then when they leave they find that they have accidentally brought hostile aliens with them inside their crewmate. Although, here, the aliens are actually more like ghosts, immaterial beings that can possess the living and make them kill each other or even possess the bodies of the dead and reanimate them. It's not a great film, but it is interesting to watch and see some of the ideas for Alien done in a very different way. It's also worth noting that special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi worked on both Planet of the Vampires and Alien.
Also, even though it is a very different film, 1974's John Carpenter/Dan O'Bannon film "Dark Star" has a sequence with an Alien on a spaceship, here played by a beach ball with claws, that O'Bannon would later expound upon to write Alien. So, yeah, if you want to see a silly early draft of Alien, kind of, check out Dark Star.
"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) took its cue from the underrated Vincent Price film "Last Man On Earth" (1964), which was the first official attempt at a big screen version of Richard Matherson's novel "I Am Legend: (1954). That Vincent Price film (which was not a success) isn't bad but Romero's classic is superior...
Unpopular opinion: I didnt really like either movie. Last Man On Earth was dull and slow, Night Of The Living Dead had been hyped to death to me by friends that by the time I saw it, it was kinda a let down.
I dare to claim, that the hero in Secret of the Inkas and Raiders are both ripoffs of the even older adventurer and treasure hunter Allan Quatermain. There is a movie about him that was made already in 1919, which sadly is lost. Then there is the 1939 movie of King Solomon's Mines, but i guess most know the 1950 version a lot better.
No need to "dare to claim" the two movies are spiritual descendants of Allan Quartermain. Almost all the early pulp serials and movies are based on the fictional Quartermain stories, which are fictionalized versions of the stories from the colonization of Africa by the British, especially the story of Stanly finding Dr. Livingstone. I presume.
Dracula was a screen adaption of the stage play starring Lugosi which was created with a different emphasis (making him a bit of a sex symbol) and the obvious physical stage limitations.
If Tarantino acknowledged that Kill Bill was inspired by Lady Snowblood, involved Lady Snowblood's director in the early screening of Kill Bill, and featured Lady Snowblood's theme in Kill Bill, wouldn't Kill Bill be a homage to Lady Snowblood and not a rip-off? I'm just trying to follow your thinking here.
@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 But, he did. In interviews about the movie and whenever directly asked, he noted the movie as an inspiration to Kill Bill. He did not hide anything or deny it.
It's been suggested that Alien borrowed from the Space 1999 episode, 'Dragon's Domain.' An eerie monster menaces the crew of a probe and kills them one by one... except for one survivor who escapes. Very creepy episode.
you can't come RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK with SECRET OF THE INCAS just because the outfits were similar; ROTLA has supernatural elements and Nazis. ALIEN had the advantage of budget and a contemporary cinema culture allowing for gross bits.
alien one of the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever, is better than a schloky B movie from the 50's? you don't say! did you also know Carpenter's The Thing is better than The Thing from Another World? a schlocky b-movie horror from the 50's
You missed Avatar being a ripoff of Ferngully. And I always thought Indy's costume was inspired by Charlton Heston's costume in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Is that wrong?
It amazes me how in these lists you guys claim things both are and aren't rip offs based on release dates all the time. You've got to look at production, not release dates. Movies don't come out of nowhere.
Also Indiana Jones was supposed to be an American James Bond, George Lucas told Steven Spielberg about it and got him involved after he wasn't allowed to/got rejected for directing a James Bond movie.
THANKS for the 3:08 commercial for a dog with arthritis. I don't even have a dog. I muted the volume. This appears as the last entry comparison on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I’m gonna have to disagree with you on the cars and doc Hollywood thing I happen to really love Doc Hollywood. It might have something to do with the fact that my mother made one of the props for the movie makes me a little biased.
You missed a big couplet. The 1959 version of Ben Hur was better than the original black & white silent version. I've seen the 1959 version several times. Many years ago, a PBS channel did a double feature of the 2 versions one night, with the silent one playing first. I had not known of this version before, so I watched it. Afterward, I wanted to rewatch the 1959 version, but by then, it was very late, and I was too sleepy. And no, I didn't have a way to record it. The 1959 version of Ben Hur is what I consider a blockbuster movie.
I personally see Dracula as far superior as entertainment. I can feel the atmosphere in Nosferatu but just don't enjoy watching it at all. However I feel silent movies are far inferior to movies with sound, I know silent movies are in important in history but it is rare I enjoy them. A comparison of a sound movie to a silent movie seems unfair to me as sound movies are far easier to be entertaining. Same as Metropolis where I can see the technical skill but get no pleasure from watching.
I find it rather dubious to claim a film is a ripoff just because it shares a similar premise to an older film. What matters is if they can elevate the material rather then simply copying it.
Regarding "Secret Of The Incas" vs "Raiders Of The Lost Ark": Yes, "Raiders" was the better film but Heston's hat and the way he wore it were WAY better than Ford's fedora.
After "Raiders'" success NBC, CBS and ABC came out with their TV series knock-offs, and you know what? ABC's "Tales of the Gold Monkey" was way better than "Raiders," with characters who had real personalities and not just movie serial knock-offs, beginning with Stephen Collins as "Jake Cutter." the owner of a south seas air cargo service. (TTTT, sounds more similiar to The Disney Afternoon's "TaleSpin" than "Raiders.") Unfortunately, the series didn't get past its first season.
Having read Da Vinci Code, I thought the movie was a lot better and totally different than National Treasure which i also like for totally different reasons.
Willies Wonderland is using a scrapped script of Five Nights At Freddy's just like The Banana Splits film. I think if you are a fan of FNAF you appreciate the film adaptation more but WW is good.
Have you seen Sky Pirates 1986, Australian made rip off of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Character is similar, costume is similar (WW2 pilot leather jacket and tan trousers), music is similar and plot is similar to the Indiana Jones movies.
Stone Cold is known thanks to Red Letter Media. Lets not act like this film was really known by the public before that Best Of The Worst episode aired.
Can someone explain how Da Vinci Code and National Treasure are the same outside of someone solving puzzles and riddles? And no, Cars is not better than Doc Hollywood.
I just watched this to make sure you are not claiming that The Fast and The Furious is better than Point Break... Or Home Alone being better than Die Hard, or The Lion King better than Hamlet 😂
Actually I always thought Cobra felt like a partial remake of Clint Eastwood's 1977 film The Gauntlet as the plots are pretty similar even if the locations are radically different.
No one said it was ripping off a "film from the future." What this video rightly claims is that NOSFERATU was a "rip-off" of the NOVEL, not the movie, in that it was an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the book DRACULA, which was published in 1897.
A story being inspired by a previous story does NOT make it a 'rip off '.
7:08 Yeah, but does CARS have Julie Warner rising out from a lake?
Thought of this the moment I read the video’s title 🙌🏼
Another film that seems to have inspired "Alien" is Mario Bava's "Planet of the Vampires" (1965). It is also a film about a space crew picking up a distress beacon on an unexplored planet where they find a derelict spaceship with the remains of a larger alien race (a sequence Dan O'Bannon admits he totally ripped off), and then when they leave they find that they have accidentally brought hostile aliens with them inside their crewmate. Although, here, the aliens are actually more like ghosts, immaterial beings that can possess the living and make them kill each other or even possess the bodies of the dead and reanimate them. It's not a great film, but it is interesting to watch and see some of the ideas for Alien done in a very different way. It's also worth noting that special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi worked on both Planet of the Vampires and Alien.
Also, even though it is a very different film, 1974's John Carpenter/Dan O'Bannon film "Dark Star" has a sequence with an Alien on a spaceship, here played by a beach ball with claws, that O'Bannon would later expound upon to write Alien. So, yeah, if you want to see a silly early draft of Alien, kind of, check out Dark Star.
The idea that Cars is somehow better than Doc Hollywood is simply laughable.
"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) took its cue from the underrated Vincent Price film "Last Man On Earth" (1964), which was the first official attempt at a big screen version of Richard Matherson's novel "I Am Legend: (1954). That Vincent Price film (which was not a success) isn't bad but Romero's classic is superior...
And thus a genre was born.....
Unpopular opinion: I didnt really like either movie. Last Man On Earth was dull and slow, Night Of The Living Dead had been hyped to death to me by friends that by the time I saw it, it was kinda a let down.
Doc Hollywood rules!
Yes irlt does!
I used to be neighbors with one of the writers. He moved to rural Mississippi. He also co-wrote Who Framed Roger Rabbit
@Thekarateadult Now that's cool.
I dare to claim, that the hero in Secret of the Inkas and Raiders are both ripoffs of the even older adventurer and treasure hunter Allan Quatermain.
There is a movie about him that was made already in 1919, which sadly is lost.
Then there is the 1939 movie of King Solomon's Mines, but i guess most know the 1950 version a lot better.
No need to "dare to claim" the two movies are spiritual descendants of Allan Quartermain. Almost all the early pulp serials and movies are based on the fictional Quartermain stories, which are fictionalized versions of the stories from the colonization of Africa by the British, especially the story of Stanly finding Dr. Livingstone. I presume.
I wasn't aware there was a 1939 version. The 1950 version is classic. Much better than the later remake.(It had some funny lines, though.)
@@brunozeigerts6379 Did also make a little mistake, its actually from 1937.
Cobra is tight. Stone Cold is a laugh
Natuonal treasure is more ripoff of Indiana Jones than Da Vinci code. Typical adventure movie
I agree, it's just one of many Indiana Jones rip offs but still enjoyable.
Doc Hollywood is much better than Cars
I wholeheartedly agree!
Dracula was a screen adaption of the stage play starring Lugosi which was created with a different emphasis (making him a bit of a sex symbol) and the obvious physical stage limitations.
Indiana Jones is definitely not a rip-off. It's Lucas paying homage to the serials he grew up with.
same with star wars
How DARE you! Night of the Creeps is flawless, you Monster!
Several of these are merely based off of the same book. A legit pair that isn't on here is Airplane! and Zero Hour.
I loved Zero Hour!
I loved Airplane!
Airplane! is quite clearly a parody.
They did say that some of them were based on the same book/origin material.
@@sheboyganshovel5920 Yes. But it a least deserves an honorable mention because it was so much better.
Dances with Wolves is SOO much better than Avatar. All they needed was a Costner Mustache.
Honestly recently watched the Da Vinci Code and only thought of National Treasure because of this video😂.
If Tarantino acknowledged that Kill Bill was inspired by Lady Snowblood, involved Lady Snowblood's director in the early screening of Kill Bill, and featured Lady Snowblood's theme in Kill Bill, wouldn't Kill Bill be a homage to Lady Snowblood and not a rip-off? I'm just trying to follow your thinking here.
...but he didn't acknowledge it hence made it more of a rip-off than a homage...
@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 But, he did. In interviews about the movie and whenever directly asked, he noted the movie as an inspiration to Kill Bill. He did not hide anything or deny it.
@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 but he actually did, MANY times. Google search is your friend
It's been suggested that Alien borrowed from the Space 1999 episode, 'Dragon's Domain.' An eerie monster menaces the crew of a probe and kills them one by one... except for one survivor who escapes. Very creepy episode.
stone cold is NOT better than cobra
I actually liked Stone Cold, but I agree. It was definitely NOT better than Cobra!
I'd always heard National Treasure touted as an Indiana Jones rip-off.
Now I have a bunch of good or better films to seek out
you can't come RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK with SECRET OF THE INCAS just because the outfits were similar; ROTLA has supernatural elements and Nazis.
ALIEN had the advantage of budget and a contemporary cinema culture allowing for gross bits.
alien one of the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever, is better than a schloky B movie from the 50's? you don't say!
did you also know Carpenter's The Thing is better than The Thing from Another World? a schlocky b-movie horror from the 50's
my mother watches The Thing from Another World repeatedly, and won't touch The Thing again because it scared the crap out of her
It should be added that the 1931 Dracula is inferior even to its Spanish-language version shot at the same time on the same set.
Doc Holiday, no question.
Tombstone or Wyatt Earp?
You missed Avatar being a ripoff of Ferngully. And I always thought Indy's costume was inspired by Charlton Heston's costume in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Is that wrong?
I’m beginning to find these lists glaringly predjudiced towards the list writer’s personal preferences…
It amazes me how in these lists you guys claim things both are and aren't rip offs based on release dates all the time. You've got to look at production, not release dates. Movies don't come out of nowhere.
True, and things being in production at the same time often freely borrow from each other when they can.
Also Indiana Jones was supposed to be an American James Bond, George Lucas told Steven Spielberg about it and got him involved after he wasn't allowed to/got rejected for directing a James Bond movie.
They did talk about production time though and did say that release date doesn't always matter.
Cobra and Stone Cold have almost nothing in common.
"Alien" was a direct knock-off, right down to its dead reckoning ending, of the story "Black Destroyer" by A.E. Van Vogt.
FnaF was an amazing movie and I'm looking forward to movie number 2
THANKS for the 3:08 commercial for a dog with arthritis. I don't even have a dog. I muted the volume. This appears as the last entry comparison on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I’m gonna have to disagree with you on the cars and doc Hollywood thing I happen to really love Doc Hollywood. It might have something to do with the fact that my mother made one of the props for the movie makes me a little biased.
The rubber penis?
My neighbor was the writer. He moved to rural Mississippi in 2007
@ that’s cool
You missed a big couplet. The 1959 version of Ben Hur was better than the original black & white silent version. I've seen the 1959 version several times. Many years ago, a PBS channel did a double feature of the 2 versions one night, with the silent one playing first. I had not known of this version before, so I watched it. Afterward, I wanted to rewatch the 1959 version, but by then, it was very late, and I was too sleepy. And no, I didn't have a way to record it. The 1959 version of Ben Hur is what I consider a blockbuster movie.
I'll take "night of the creeps" over slither.
Agreed! The original Nosferatu is so good!
I personally see Dracula as far superior as entertainment. I can feel the atmosphere in Nosferatu but just don't enjoy watching it at all. However I feel silent movies are far inferior to movies with sound, I know silent movies are in important in history but it is rare I enjoy them. A comparison of a sound movie to a silent movie seems unfair to me as sound movies are far easier to be entertaining. Same as Metropolis where I can see the technical skill but get no pleasure from watching.
@bonzobanana1 that's fair. Silent movies aren't for everyone.
I find it rather dubious to claim a film is a ripoff just because it shares a similar premise to an older film. What matters is if they can elevate the material rather then simply copying it.
Whoaaaa
Banana Splits is better than both FNAF and Willys Wonderland.
Splits RAN so the others could walk.
Loved Stone Cold when I first watched it when I was younger but I could never find it to buy on VHS but I found it much later on Dvd.
You missed ‘in time’ being far superior to 80s flick ‘wisdom’
I hold Andrew Niccol in high esteem, but _In Time_ was a big disappointment. (I haven't seen _Wisdom_ though.)
Both aliens are scared of fire. Isn’t everything scared of fire?
Top 10 Movies you think are rip offs, but they are not.
Somebody is a big Nic Cage fan.
there was a movie long before mars attacks that was exactly the same, except the aliens were killed by accordion polka, not yodelling.
Regarding "Secret Of The Incas" vs "Raiders Of The Lost Ark": Yes, "Raiders" was the better film but Heston's hat and the way he wore it were WAY better than Ford's fedora.
SLIVER IS GOOD BUT NIGHT OF THE CREEPS IS A CLASSIC
Sliver? The 1990s erotic thriller starring Sharon Stone?
Bruh! I'm here for Willy's Wonderland!
Why did you say that as if fire was the alien's kryptonite, or something? Everything is afraid of fire. It's, you know, FIRE.
Notice the repeat of Nicholas Cage... Eeeenterestink...
Airplane! is taken directly from Zero Hour! And it is SO much better!!
8:38 Jill Whitlow in “Night of the Creeps” was SO CUTE!
Cars also stole a lot of character names and situations from Asimov's short story "Sally"
After "Raiders'" success NBC, CBS and ABC came out with their TV series knock-offs, and you know what? ABC's "Tales of the Gold Monkey" was way better than "Raiders," with characters who had real personalities and not just movie serial knock-offs, beginning with Stephen Collins as "Jake Cutter." the owner of a south seas air cargo service. (TTTT, sounds more similiar to The Disney Afternoon's "TaleSpin" than "Raiders.") Unfortunately, the series didn't get past its first season.
Having read Da Vinci Code, I thought the movie was a lot better and totally different than National Treasure which i also like for totally different reasons.
You forgot Airplane is a knockoff to Zero Hour...😁
Willies Wonderland is using a scrapped script of Five Nights At Freddy's just like The Banana Splits film. I think if you are a fan of FNAF you appreciate the film adaptation more but WW is good.
I love National Treasure, but Da Vinci Code is a vastly superior movie.
"Private probably won't survive."😊
10:20 I always wondered how Indy was able to outrun natives on their own turf !!!???
Massive head start, and more highly motivated.
One of a thousand unrealistic things Indy does that would get someone killed in real life.
Better diet?
@@CoCotheTurtle
I'll buy that....
Temple of Doom is shares a lot of scenes with Gunga Din.
Alien, same set at hitchikers guide - < the proper one>
1:32 so you completely miss dame Helen Mirren in the cast 😮
A stretch....oooof
Have you seen Sky Pirates 1986, Australian made rip off of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Character is similar, costume is similar (WW2 pilot leather jacket and tan trousers), music is similar and plot is similar to the Indiana Jones movies.
avatar is just pocahontas
and there is no way an interstellar capable civilisation loses to bows and arrows
Avatar = Ferngully
National treasure got one sequel that wasn't that great.
The DaVinci code got 2 sequel films, which are arguably better than the first.
Doc Hollywood 🔥🔥🔥
Nevee even heard of "The Wild", so I can't really call it a ripoff.
lost me when you got to Doc Hollywood. that's a great movie.
i knew Car's was a rip off the first time i saw it.
7:15 YES !!!
My thoughts exactly! Loved this movie!
Star wars is probably the most successful ripoff of all time. It's an almost 1 for 1 rip of the series Valerian that Lucas grew up watching.
Fixing The Shadow (1993) is better than Stone Cold (1991).
this might be the only time a brian bosworth movie is no.1 on a list ahead of a harrison ford movie😅
Willy's Wonderland IS better than Five Night's at Freddy's but that doesn't say much since Willy's is pretty terrible.
Stone Cold is known thanks to Red Letter Media. Lets not act like this film was really known by the public before that Best Of The Worst episode aired.
Can someone explain how Da Vinci Code and National Treasure are the same outside of someone solving puzzles and riddles? And no, Cars is not better than Doc Hollywood.
I just watched this to make sure you are not claiming that The Fast and The Furious is better than Point Break... Or Home Alone being better than Die Hard, or The Lion King better than Hamlet 😂
Citizen Kane is better than Honey I Shrunk the Kids. 😉
Cars over DOC HOLLYWOOD. Big THUMBS down just for that alone
I LIKE BOTH STONE COLD AND COBRA I THINK STONE COLD AND BEYOND THE LAW WITH CHARLIE SHEEN ARE SIMILAR
And I noticed you did nothing about Tron and The Matrix
Ah yess, Stone Cold brings back memories of all the crap movies I have watched. Definitely a Stone Cold Turkey.
Stone Cold is the last great eighties movie even though it released in 1991.
Actually I always thought Cobra felt like a partial remake of Clint Eastwood's 1977 film The Gauntlet as the plots are pretty similar even if the locations are radically different.
Stone Cold is more fun to watch than Cobra.
Tombstone was better than Wyatt Earp
To be fair Tarantino steal everything of great movies, i mean hommage
Homage even
Homage is a polite way of saying rip-off says one comedian
I disagree on cars
I hear there are 15 basic plots
Nosferatu cannot be a ripoff of a film from the future. Doc Hollywood is definitely better than Cars.
No one said it was ripping off a "film from the future." What this video rightly claims is that NOSFERATU was a "rip-off" of the NOVEL, not the movie, in that it was an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation of the book DRACULA, which was published in 1897.
I have been saying for a while Willies wonderland is much better and more of a true Five nights than the movie is.
Slither better than Night of the Creeps??
Where do you people come from?
4:10 His name is QUENTIN (not "Quinten").
Couldn't you have also added the 2019 movie the Banana Splits in with Five Nights and Cages movie?
Either way, Cages was the Better movie
doc Hollywood, is one of my all time favorite films, cant stand cars
Davinchi code is way better if you red the book first
If you have to read the book for the movie to be good, the movie is a failure
If you've read the book but still can't spell da Vinci, then you probably missed a ton of other things, too.
Question. At about 10 seconds in, that looks like a Mummy film. Does anyone know what it is?
That's Diane Kruger in National Treasure (or its sequel).
@@yurenchu Thank you very much! 🙂
You have completely lost the plot.
and possibly jumped the shark
Dances with Wolves is much better than "Avaturd". Can't stand those stretched out smurfs.
Nope, Night of the Creeps is better than Slither.