re: Original Movies Vs. Copycats. Which were better?

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Ironically you could argue that Alien was an obvious copycat mashup of both Jaws and Star Wars, the two biggest hits of the decade, but it still stands so well on it's on two feet due to brilliant directing and production design.

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Nah, Alien was Sci Fi and Monster Horror, which are both big genres.
The plot has next to nothing to do with either of those films.

Lots of copycat movies are B movies that you can't remember the name, sometimes porn. You get almost the exact same plot, but done a bit different.