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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 18, 2011 16:55:02 GMT -5
Perhaps shocking no one, it is a Yahoo! article. It is about the "least successful 'Potter' imitators" and lists 8 movies that supposedly imitated the Harry Potter films. The 8 films? 1) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 2) Eragon 3) The Golden Compass 4) The Seeker: The Dark is Rising 5) City of Ember 6) Inkheart 7) The Spiderwick Chronicles 8) Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Obviously not a single one of them are actual Potter imitations, but the article tries to pass them off as supposedly copying the Potter formula of adapting a popular book/series into a high budget, special effects filled film, and ended up flopping instead. You can check it out here. |
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Post by Red Impact on Jul 18, 2011 16:59:14 GMT -5
I don't know, I think Percy Jackson gave off a distinct aura of trying to ride Rowling's coattails.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2011 17:00:22 GMT -5
Yeah, let's be fair here. Eragon was a Star Wars ripoff.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 18, 2011 17:02:28 GMT -5
Duh! Of course. No film was EVER adapted from a book before Harry Potter and used a big budget and special effects.   |
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 18, 2011 17:03:07 GMT -5
Yeah, let's be fair here. Eragon was a Star Wars ripoff. Oh totally a Star Wars rip off(with a dash of Lord of the Rings thrown in), but it certainly isn't a Potter rip off. Hell Cracked did a better list of Potter imitators. |
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Post by Cyno on Jul 18, 2011 17:04:13 GMT -5
Eragon ripped off a lot of stuff, from Lord of the Rings to Star Wars. I guess that's to be expected when it's based off a horrible book written by a teenager that should have never been published in the first place.
Though I think one of the things it didn't rip off was Potter, interestingly enough.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 18, 2011 17:07:31 GMT -5
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Post by Baixo Astral on Jul 18, 2011 17:07:35 GMT -5
I do think that some of them were easier to market and were bigger because of Potter, but outside of Percy Jackson, I don't think that they were ripoffs.
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Post by Curt Hawkins Fan on Jul 18, 2011 17:09:09 GMT -5
Series of Unfortunate Events a Harry Potter ripoff...How the s***?
Doesn't even look like they explain why.
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Post by Baixo Astral on Jul 18, 2011 17:12:19 GMT -5
Like I said, Potter gave those books a gateway into the market, but that's about it.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 18, 2011 17:13:03 GMT -5
Duh! Of course. No film was EVER adapted from a book before Harry Potter and used a big budget and special effects. Not to mention these little things that came out during the time frame the article is considering(the 10 years the Potter films have been made in).    lol definitely. Yahoo articles are still probably better than some of the horror you'll find on Yahoo answers though  |
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Post by erisi236 on Jul 18, 2011 17:19:52 GMT -5
Doesn't exactly help this article when you figure that these numbers are based solely on domestic box office. Quite a few of these films were quite popular in the World markets, total gross of Golden Compass was actually 372M for example.
It also should be noted that these type of films always do good DVD/BluRay numbers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2011 17:39:58 GMT -5
Northern Lights (aka The Golden Compass) - Published 1995
Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) - published 1997
Yeah - what a ripoff the Golden Compass was.......
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jul 18, 2011 18:32:32 GMT -5
Northern Lights (aka The Golden Compass) - Published 1995 Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) - published 1997 Yeah - what a ripoff the Golden Compass was....... Exactly what I was going to reply with. His Dark Materials was published first. |
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jul 18, 2011 18:34:50 GMT -5
What? A stupid Yahoo article? YOU KID.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2011 18:52:05 GMT -5
From what I remember reading, Golden Compass is a Narnia ripoff.
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Post by Cela on Jul 18, 2011 20:05:19 GMT -5
I remember reader The Dark is Rising in 6th grade, it was the third in the series and had been out a while. Total ripoff.
But Percy Jackson is a definite ripoff.
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Post by Cela on Jul 18, 2011 20:05:55 GMT -5
From what I remember reading, Golden Compass is a Narnia ripoff. Except with an exact opposite philosophy. |
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 18, 2011 20:27:08 GMT -5
From what I remember reading, Golden Compass is a Narnia ripoff. Except with an exact opposite philosophy. Yep, which we obviously can't go into further than that if you know anything at all about the driving philosophies of the two series. |
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jul 18, 2011 20:58:21 GMT -5
Except with an exact opposite philosophy. Yep, which we obviously can't go into further than that if you know anything at all about the driving philosophies of the two series. Yeah, it's a "ripoff", but it was on purpose, and he never tried to pretend it wasn't. |
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