Comments on: Disgusting Movie Stat of the Day

By: nic

nic — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:56:31 +0000

[Hangs head in shame.] And I still don’t understand. I feel like a moron now.

By: justin

justin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:35:55 +0000

You have thoroughly complicated this, Mr. Nic.

By: nic

nic — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:40:12 +0000

So what it boils down to then is an original *screenplay*?

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:40:33 +0000

Pirates is based on the disneyland ride? Seriously?! That’s hilarious! Does disneyland have one good pirates ride and then two crappy ones?

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:49:46 +0000

I think if a director can take an old crappy movie and make it great is almost the same as being original. He would be doing better than the first version so there had to be some originality involved.

By: justin

justin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:32:50 +0000

Pirates of the Carribbean is directly based on a disneyland ride, Indiana Jones is a sequel, Lord of the rings is an adaptation of a novel, many others are remakes of older movies….starting to get it. Original means it was written and not directly taken or adapted from anything else, even if the plot isn’t completely original, the story is. Not directly taken from something else is the key here.

By: justin

justin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:28:54 +0000

Word Chris. Plus Inglourious Basterds wasn’t one of the top 20 or even 29 grossing movies of the decade. You are missing that part Nic. It’s an original script but it is loosely based on something else. Avatar is an original screenplay because he wrote the story without directly taking inspiration from anything else. Although it’s plot is ridiculously unoriginal, he still didn’t directly take it from a book like lord of the rings, or from an old cartoon or movie like transformers or g.i. joe.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:11:44 +0000

Inglorious Basterds (2009) is a very, very loose remake of the 1978 Italian film Inglorious Bastards. From what I’ve read of the original film’s plot, Tarantino’s film is essential an original script.

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:57:00 +0000

Even though the basic plot of Avatar is eerily similar to Pocahontas, everything else is original (to my knowledge). Like how they controlled the avatars, the forest (things lighting up when you touch them), the animals, etc. So I would consider it an original movie….mostly.

By: nic

nic — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:46:28 +0000

You’ll have to forgive me because I’m still confused. Not trying to attack. Confused. Seriously. Because Avatar, for instance, is the least original plot I’ve seen in a film in quite some time. So let’s take Inglorious Bastards, for instance. What makes it not original? I’m not arguing, just honestly trying to understand the ‘film’ definition of this.