Fact: 'The Fast and The Furious' IS 'Point Break'. 99% ripoff. What others are there?

[Ayo]

With all of this recent Furious 6 hype I just thought I'd let the people who didn't know already that the original Fast and the Furious is a beat for beat, plot point for plot point, rip off of Point Break. Why isn't it a 100% ripoff? They switched out surfing for cars. That's the 1%. The 3rd Fast and Furious - Tokyo Drift (I think???) was basically the Karate Kid. But instead of Karate it was cars.

They did it smoothly. So most people can't tell on the surface. I wouldn't be surprised if someone couldn't identify the DNA of another movie in it's sequels.

James Cameron did it smoothly too with Avatar, which IS basically Pocahontas. Maybe even more so Fern Gully.

Die Hard(which it's self was originally meant as a sequel to 'Commando') is one of the most ripped off movies of all time. Van Damme and Segal made a career off of Die Hard rip off movies like Under Siege and Sudden Death. Air Force One is also another blatant rip off. It's still being ripped off today. Just look at the two White House movies.

Seven Samurai has been ripped off by It's A Bug's Life and The Three Amigos. The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch and to a lesser extent The Expendables

Sergio Leone movies (some of my favorite movies of all time) are all ripped off from Akira Kurosawa (damn they love ripping this nikka off, see above)

Quentin Tarantino stole scenes and plot points from a Hong Kong movie called "City On Fire" for Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bill vol 1 & 2 are basically just scene after scene sampled from the greatest movies of all time.

Star Wars is Hidden Fortress and a bunch of other shyt George Lucas grew up with mashed up into a movie.

Moral of this story? Steal if you want to make it in Hollywood. There are no original ideas.

Add anymore that you may have. These are off the top of my head.

 

[CM_Burns]

You seem to think these are profound discoveries, but still believe that plot makes a movie, or at least what mostly what makes one up. It's not, friend.

 

[Fillerguy]

Moral of this story? Steal if you want to make it in Hollywood. There are no original ideas.

Tell me more

 

[Master Teacher]

With all of this recent Furious 6 hype I just thought I'd let the people who didn't know already that the original Fast and the Furious is a beat for beat, plot point for plot point, rip off of Point Break. Why isn't it a 100% ripoff? They switched out surfing for cars. That's the 1%. The 3rd Fast and Furious - Tokyo Drift (I think???) was basically the Karate Kid. But instead of Karate it was cars.

They did it smoothly. So most people can't tell on the surface. I wouldn't be surprised if someone couldn't identify the DNA of another movie in it's sequels.

James Cameron did it smoothly too with Avatar, which IS basically Pocahontas. Maybe even more so Fern Gully.

Die Hard(which it's self was originally meant as a sequel to 'Commando') is one of the most ripped off movies of all time. Van Damme and Segal made a career off of Die Hard rip off movies like Under Siege and Sudden Death. Air Force One is also another blatant rip off. It's still being ripped off today. Just look at the two White House movies.

Seven Samurai has been ripped off by It's A Bug's Life and The Three Amigos. The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch and to a lesser extent The Expendables

Sergio Leone movies (some of my favorite movies of all time) are all ripped off from Akira Kurosawa (damn they love ripping this nikka off, see above)

Quentin Tarantino stole scenes and plot points from a Hong Kong movie called "City On Fire" for Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bill vol 1 & 2 are basically just scene after scene sampled from the greatest movies of all time.

Star Wars is Hidden Fortress and a bunch of other shyt George Lucas grew up with mashed up into a movie.

Moral of this story? Steal if you want to make it in Hollywood. There are no original ideas.

Add anymore that you may have. These are off the top of my head.

Original ideas do exists, who did the the people who cited for being ripped off get their inspiration from , maybe some nameless people history did not remember?

So many films have been made its nearly impossible to do something thats never been done just like with music.

the true geniuses were the people at the beginning of it all

 

[gho3st]

With all of this recent Furious 6 hype I just thought I'd let the people who didn't know already that the original Fast and the Furious is a beat for beat, plot point for plot point, rip off of Point Break. Why isn't it a 100% ripoff? They switched out surfing for cars. That's the 1%. The 3rd Fast and Furious - Tokyo Drift (I think???) was basically the Karate Kid. But instead of Karate it was cars.

They did it smoothly. So most people can't tell on the surface. I wouldn't be surprised if someone couldn't identify the DNA of another movie in it's sequels.

James Cameron did it smoothly too with Avatar, which IS basically Pocahontas. Maybe even more so Fern Gully.

Die Hard(which it's self was originally meant as a sequel to 'Commando') is one of the most ripped off movies of all time. Van Damme and Segal made a career off of Die Hard rip off movies like Under Siege and Sudden Death. Air Force One is also another blatant rip off. It's still being ripped off today. Just look at the two White House movies.

Seven Samurai has been ripped off by It's A Bug's Life and The Three Amigos. The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Wild Bunch and to a lesser extent The Expendables

Sergio Leone movies (some of my favorite movies of all time) are all ripped off from Akira Kurosawa (damn they love ripping this nikka off, see above)

Quentin Tarantino stole scenes and plot points from a Hong Kong movie called "City On Fire" for Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bill vol 1 & 2 are basically just scene after scene sampled from the greatest movies of all time.

Star Wars is Hidden Fortress and a bunch of other shyt George Lucas grew up with mashed up into a movie.

Moral of this story? Steal if you want to make it in Hollywood. There are no original ideas.

Add anymore that you may have. These are off the top of my head.

you forgot the DEPARTED which ripped off "scene for scene" from Infernal Affairs.

DEPARTED got all the accolades as a "GOAT" movie when INFERNAL AFFAIRS is a way superior movie to the departed

 

[TheGodling]

you forgot the DEPARTED which ripped off "scene for scene" from Infernal Affairs.

DEPARTED got all the accolades as a "GOAT" movie when INFERNAL AFFAIRS is a way superior movie to the departed

The Departed was an official remake of Infernal Affairs though. But I agree IA is way better btw, almost every change they made in the story brought it down a notch from the perfect storytelling of the original.

I don't mind rip-offs honestly, unless it receives false credit for being 'original'. Inception is a good example, that shyt received tons of praise for being an original idea and yet it turns out the whole story including almost all of the movie's 'dream science' was ripped off from a Donald Duck story created by the gawd Don Rosa.

 

[Brooklynzson]

And Point Break copied No Man's Land (one of my favorite movies)

 

[re'up]

I always said that, but 'Point Break' did a much better job of establishing some level of reality and believability, and that movie holds up years later, with tension, beautiful scenery, compelling story, convincing performances,.'Fast & Furious' could have done the same, but they went for the toned down, badly acted, average direction, PG13, or it probably would have been a lot better, if they found a better lead then Walker. I know he couldn't pull that shyt off...how do you get outacted by Keanu fukking Reeves?

'Fast & Furious' definitely took a lot cues from that movie archetype, but so have dozens of others, and 'Point' Break' wasn't wholly original either, I'd guess. Just googling that 'No Mans Land' sounds like 'Fast & Furious' had some influence there too, with the sister angle, but a lot of those little details are just swapped out as the movie goes from script to film, 'nah, not his sister....his former lover', then 10 years later 'I think sister is a much better angle'. That whole plot is pretty well worn since the beginning of storytelling though, outsider seduced by subculture.