Top 10: Ridiculous Mockbuster Rip-Offs
Your Sponsored Top 10 List Here
The entertainment value of these low budget dopplegangers is the same as watching a 5th grade version of Shakespeare. I salute the people that make these movies and admire them in the same way I admired P.T. Barnum. As P.T. (Peetie to his friends) once said, “There’s one born every minute.”
10. I am Omega
In I am Legend Will Smith battled man-made zombie-vampires all alone (mostly) in New York City. In I am Omega the plot is the same. How could someone get away with this? Well Hollywood has exclusive rights and “not so exclusive rights”. The Mockbuster is an adaptation of the the same book. How close are the two movies? Close enough to keep me in stitches.
9. 100 Million BC
The title and cover implies a version of 10,000 BC but the similarity ends there. This film borrows from several other films in that there is some time travel and lots of dinosaurs. I don’t recall dinos being a factor in the 10,000 movie. Hmmm. Well the producers had a plan to make this movie better; it’s not 10,000 it’s 100 MILLION…. everyone knows 100 million is a lot more than 10,000…
8. Snakes on a Train
The title rhymes with Snakes on a Plane but really once you get past the strikingly similar box and into the meat of things, the stories are completely different. As lame as the blockbuster was I failed to see how the mock version could do any worse. Actually, it didn’t do too bad.
7. Dragon
Yeah, it’s a dragon movie. I love dragon movies. This one? Well, it’s a dragon movie, and I refuse to say anything negative. The release date of this straight to video movie was the same week as Eragon. Go figure. Is this an actual Mockbuster? Well, that one is up for debate! However, it is a dragon movie… did I mention that?
6. The DiVinci Treasure
Do you even need me to tell you which movie this one is ripping off? I should hope not! The interesting thing is that mock version stars C. Thomas Howell and Lance Hendrickson, two legit actors, why wouldn’t it be good? It’s not. While normally these movies really crack me up with the thin stories and bad acting, this one just left me sad. So sad I went right back out and rented Soulman.
5. Exorcism: The Blah Blah Blah of Blah
Yeah, no one even bothers to try to change the big lettering. What cracks me up is the house in the background of the mockfilm; are they conjuring images of the Amityville Horror? I think so, you decide.
4. Monster
Yeah, this one is a direct ripoff of Cloverfield. Here I go causing some fat kid in Iowa to freak out and leave a comment, but Cloverfield sucked! You heard me, I said it. I fail to see how the Mockbuster could be any better. After viewing it, I saw not a whole lot of difference, in fact the cinematography might even be better. Oh and F.Y.I. “uncensored” means they couldn’t afford annother editor after paying for the camcorder rental….
3. Transmorphers
Okay I didn’t rent this rip off of Transformers, I’ll admit it. Why? Without Megan Fox there was not a single reason I could think of to watch it. The original was so brilliant that I could see absolutely no way a low budget movie could ever keep up. But mostly it was because there was no Megan Fox…
2. Pirates of Treasure Island
Lance, No, No. NO! Man, you were my IDOL, I loved everything you were in. What happened?!?! If you need a loan we can work something out….
1. Sunday School Musical
What’s more lame than singing in the shower about taking a shower? (I got my lather on.. yeah yeah yeah) Singing about God in the shower about taking a shower. While that scene is something that never happened in either production it’s how their world works. Usually these Christian mockbusters are out to give kids a “cleaner alternative”…. um what’s more clean cut than the kids of High School Muscial?
This is like the kind of movies, if your really poor, you tell your kid, “well we really dont have enough money to buy Transformers, but we can get Transmorphers…”..lol..
“Well, I Am Ledgend is $12.99, but they have I Am Omega for $5.00 and it’s basicly the same thing..”..lol.
I’m an “old dude”.. so I was around when underoos came out. We were so poor my parents got me freaking AQUAMAN underoos. “You’ll be a lame superhero and you’ll LIKE IT”.