Atlantic Rim trailer!!

[Kuzeh]

[ame]https://youtu.be/TVpQmZmKNmo[/ame]

 

[greygoose]

 

[The Josh]

Saw the title and had to figure it was a parody.

 

[darthviper107]

Ah, the Asylum. Though I heard their Snakes on a Train wasn't bad

 

[Kuzeh]

Well, considering Snakes on a Plane was a POS... I think a parody of it would be about the same level of crapiness...

 

[SwampYack]

I'd watch it.......

 

[Darth Vader]

in the suits they looked like they're google glasses lol.

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

Wow. That's pretty brazen, even for guys who make their living off barely legal knock-offs. (I swear their production department must have been a room full of photocopiers. And their post-production department had to be a room full of lawyers all shouting "FAIR USE!" over and over again. )

I'm kind of surprised nobody in the trailer stands up and shouts: "Today we are postponing the Armageddon!"

 

[darthviper107]

Well, considering Snakes on a Plane was a POS... I think a parody of it would be about the same level of crapiness...

They don't do parodies, they rip of currently popular films with making a low-budget version with a similar name with the hope that stupid people will buy the movie.

 

[nexus]

That's the most blatant ripoff I've seen. That said, if it has a good script (what am I saying?) it could be a decent little low-budget D2V or Syfy popcorn flick while waiting for the big budget main attraction.

 

[Deckard]

It's literally no differant than what the big studios do.

Uh oh, Battlefield L.A. is coming we better greenlight Skyline so we also have an aliens destroy L.A. in theatres.

Uh oh Olymus has Fallen, better greenlight White House Down.

Welcome to hollywood.

At least these guys didn't have billions of dollars and hundreds of way better scripts sitting around.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

there's a dirty joke somewhere in here

 

[Biojex]

That's the most blatant ripoff I've seen. That said, if it has a good script (what am I saying?) it could be a decent little low-budget D2V or Syfy popcorn flick while waiting for the big budget main attraction.

Really? Even more blatant than this?

 

[greygoose]

Really? Even more blatant than this?

Oh dear! Does that really exist?

 

[Biojex]

Yup, same company that is making this Atlantic Rim ..."movie"

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

It's not precisely what Hollywood does, though. Yes, there are frequently very similar movies simultaneously in development and production at different studios. (And I certainly wish they would stop that lemming behavior! There are million stories out there! Have some guts and pick something new!)

But usually in Hollywood the studios are competing to get their movie out first. Because the one that gets into theaters first, generally makes more money. Not always, but generally. (Which is why I think White House Down might have some trouble getting any traction at the box office.)

A big movie takes years to put together, but these Asylum guys are literally waiting around to see what Hollywood is about to release, and they scramble to throw together an ultra-low budget knock-off ... deliberately hoping that people will buy their version by mistake.

https://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8458773/a-look-how-ripoff-factory-called-asylum-makes-mockery-box-office

I'm not crying any tears for poor, poor Hollywood, but this business model is kind of sleazy.

 

[Deckard]

A money market is created, another rival comes in with a similar product to get their share of that money. Simple as.

 

[Deckard]

 

[darthviper107]

Often times a movie idea is shipped around to several studios before it gets picked up and what can happen is that a studio that sees it might pass on the project but put into production one of their own. That's why there were two Snow White movies last year.

Same thing happens in games, like Infamous/Prototype

But Asylum directly tries to ripoff a movie with pretty much the same thing with a way lower budget and very similar name all meant to confuse people.

 

[CelticPredator]

Well, considering Snakes on a Plane was a POS... I think a parody of it would be about the same level of crapiness...

It's not a parody. It's a serious film.

Snakes on a Plane was the parody of internet culture.