34 Movie Details That Are Either Blatant Rip-Offs or Just Coincidentally Similar in Almost Every Way

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34 Movie Details That Are Either Blatant Rip-Offs or Just Coincidentally Similar in Almost Every Way
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As a great Cracked writer once said, “If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” 

Okay, you caught us. That was a quote from Wilson Mizner, and we’re sorry. These movies with ripped-off details were bad influences on us. We thought, if some of them could get away with it, then maybe we could too.

Our work will be completely original from now on. We promise.

Army of Darkness

ARMY DARKNESS Oz DONERFUL THE A guy gets warped into an unfamiliar place and is celebrated by the locals as the hero they need to over- throw evil. Protagonist succeeds by using creative skills to lead an army. Also, the CRACKED.COM love interest is a woman turned into a monster.

Wreck-It Ralph

CRACKED.COM TIM BURTONS Digity WRECK-IT THE NIGHTMARE RALPH BEFORE CHRISTMAS SCARY GUY GETS TIRED OF HIS LIFE, FINDS ANOTHER WORLD, CAUSES TROUBLE, AND TRIES TO FIX THINGS BY FIGHTING A BUG-RELATED VILLAIN.

Old Yeller

CRACKED COM Old THE THING Yeller Isolated with his dog in the middle of nowhere with a grizzly looking man who might be crazy things get violent fast. Who can they trust ? Waiting to see if there is contamination, everyone's afraid The dogs are contaminated and are killed.

Gran Torino

CRACKED.COM GRAN UP TORINO A grumpy old man becomes a widower. . Old man befriends a neighborhood boy. They both get into trouble with dangerous people. 200g The old man gives the boy his prized possession.

Forrest Gump

The Curious Case Of BENJAMIN BUTTON Forrest Gump A strange guy who travels the world has a child with his love interest from child- hood but doesn't end up with her. CRACKED.COM

Gremlins

TRANE GREMLiNS FORMERS YOUNG MAN GETS A MYSTERIOUS CREATURE AS A PRESENT THE CREATURE TRANSFORMS EVIL CREATURES THEN TRY TO TAKE OVER THE CITY THE CREATURE IS THEN KILLED AND DUMPED IN WATER CRACKED COM

Thor

the IRON MARVEL giant THOR An alien gets stranded on Earth Learns to appreciate humans by befriending one of them J-SAVE Gets into a conflict with the government Puts himself in danger to save humans. Leaves Earth. CRACKED COM

Pulp Fiction

34 Movie Details That Are Either Blatant Rip-Offs or Just Coincidentally Similar in Almost Every Way

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

CRACKED.COM The Spider Scene Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Paprika

34 Movie Details That Are Either Blatant Rip-Offs or Just Coincidentally Similar in Almost Every Way

The Devil Wears Prada

34 Movie Details That Are Either Blatant Rip-Offs or Just Coincidentally Similar in Almost Every Way

The Fifth Element

34 Movie Details That Are Either Blatant Rip-Offs or Just Coincidentally Similar in Almost Every Way

The Incredibles

34 Movie Details That Are Either Blatant Rip-Offs or Just Coincidentally Similar in Almost Every Way

Avatar

CRACKED.COM AVATAR - 11.50 MARVEL WAS FIRST PUBLISHED BY MARVEL. Timespirits is a very obscure comic from the '80s that only ran for a few issues, but it certainly looks enough like Avatar to raise some eyebrows.

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly loves standing alone on piers so much that such a scene has been featured in three of her movies to date. DARK CITY REQUIEM FOR A DREAM HOUSE OF SAND ANDFOG CRACKED COM

The Lion King

KING T'CHALLA IS SIMBA - Robbed of his throne. - Rival destroys the kingdom in his absence. - Father appears to him in a dream. - Both are big cats. CRACKED.COM

Rocky IV

REAL ROCKY M STEEL DRAGO ZEUS RUSSIAN BOXER STRONG CHEEKBONES COLD HANDLER INDESTRUCTIBLE (...for the most part) CRACKED.COM

Harry Steele

CRACKED.COM An adventurer races against the enemy to retrieve an ancient artifact in 1954's Secret of the Incas, and again in 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. HARRY STEELE WAS REBORN AS INDIANA JONES.

Cast Away

CAST AWAY A newly-shaven Tom Hanks reunites with the love of his life after years of being apart. Sporting a new bob haircut, she nervously shows him clippings she saved that show she never forgot about him. CRACKED COM Forrest Gump

The Avengers and Pacific Rim Similarities

A hero in a mechanized suit is willing to sacrifice himself to nuke aliens invading through a portal. Не succeeds and escapes-falling THE AVENGERS through the portal, back to Earth. PACIFIC RIM Heroes in a mechanized suit are CRACKED.COM willing to sacrifice themselves to nuke kaijus invading through a portal. They succeed and escape-falling through the portal, to the ocean floor.

Guardians of the Galaxy

CRACKED.COM Taken from modern Earth to a futuristic alien melting pot Copes with cocky pop-culture jokes Leads a crew that includes: his alien love interest who used to be evil, a warrior, a plant, a small funny asshole, and later, a bubbly girl who likes leather Alien girlfriend's apparent death sends him over the edge Oh, and his mom died of cancer Hang on, are we describing... PETER QUILL... ...or JOHN CRICHTON? MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE FAR CAPE

Scarface

CRACKED.COM TONY MONTANA IS JAY GATSBY - First he gets the money. - Then he gets the power. - Then he gets the woman. - The he gets shot and dies in a pool.

Star Wars

CHEWIE AND HAN ARE CalviN and HobbEs Tall animal is friends with short guy Guy is book-dumb but very clever Guy is super antagonistic to his crush, who the animal has a good rapport with The guy is the lead, even though he knows the animal can beat him up Their initials are C&H CRACKED.COM

Leap!

THIS SCENE FROM THE 2016 FILM LEAP! when Felicie has a flashback dream, triggered by a symbolic token, which unlocks suppressed memories from her infancy... is just like this scene from Tangled when Rapunzel has a flashback triggered by a symbolic token, which unlocks suppressed memories from her infancy. GRACKED.COM

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

CRACKED.COM The arrival of Doomsday, in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Looks just like the cave troll scene from Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. The monsters look, move, and sound alike, and appear in the same greenish-gray landscape.

Rogue One

Rogue One totally ripped off an MS-DOS video game. The film's plot mirrors that of 1995's Star Wars: Dark Forces. A spy and a criminal, one of whom ha

Frozen

Disney's Frozen trailer ripped off The Snowman. The similarities between the two nose-losing snowmen forced Disney to settle a lawsuit with the short

The Karate Kid

CRACKED.COM It is a Rocky rip-off with a whiny teenager and a different fighting discipline. That's all.

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