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Movies with an ORIGINAL Plot and Premise
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:33 pm
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:33 pm
Inspired by the Avatar thread.
Here goes:
The Matrix
Back to the Future (Not many time-travel movies before that that I can think of.)
Here goes:
The Matrix
Back to the Future (Not many time-travel movies before that that I can think of.)
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Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:33 pm to Parliament
oldboy
gummo
salo
gummo
salo
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:35 pm to Enrique
North Dallas Forty
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:36 pm to Parliament
Star Wars
Philadelphia
The Program
Philadelphia
The Program
This post was edited on 11/10/09 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:43 pm to manwich
Well, technically, no movie has an original plot. There’s only a few story archetypes and all are just variations on a theme. I guess the most original movie would be something like Adaptation or Eraserhead.
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:45 pm to Baloo
Memento
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:46 pm to Parliament
The Usual Suspects
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:46 pm to Parliament
The Matrix is hardly original and the concept has been done before. Computer Simulated Realities was not a new concept that the Wakowski Bros. came up with, and the Chosen One arc has been done for a long, long time before the Matrix.
.......Time Travel has been done before. Not original. All it did was combine the best parts of the 80s with Time Travel, and it was gold.
See, none of these concepts are original, so you just proved my point: Its HOW, not WHAT the film is about.
.......Time Travel has been done before. Not original. All it did was combine the best parts of the 80s with Time Travel, and it was gold.
See, none of these concepts are original, so you just proved my point: Its HOW, not WHAT the film is about.
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:53 pm to Parliament
The Sixth Sense
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:53 pm to OMLandshark
No movie that has been listed is an original plot.
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:54 pm to OMLandshark
And really, there pretty much are no movies with original concepts, just novels and folklore.
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:56 pm to TexasTigah
it depends on how original you're looking for. i could look at anything and find the common elements.
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:57 pm to OMLandshark
quote:
The Matrix is hardly original and the concept has been done before. Computer Simulated Realities was not a new concept that the Wakowski Bros. came up with, and the Chosen One arc has been done for a long, long time before the Matrix.
It wasn't even the only movie dealing with virtual realities that came out in the late late 90s. The Thirteenth Floor(1999), Dark City (1998) and eXistenZ (1999) had similar themes.
This post was edited on 11/10/09 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:58 pm to Parliament
Sideways
Sin City
Jerry Maguire
Straw Dogs (1971)
Sin City
Jerry Maguire
Straw Dogs (1971)
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:59 pm to Parliament
Man vs. Man
Man vs. God
Man vs. Himself
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Environment
Man vs. his Creation
I win!
Man vs. God
Man vs. Himself
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Environment
Man vs. his Creation
I win!
Posted on 11/10/09 at 1:59 pm to manwich
quote:
it depends on how original you're looking for. i could look at anything and find the common elements.
One you listed, Star Wars, is hardly original in the slightest. Space movies had been done before, and as pointed out before, it was the Chosen One being trained by a mentor, running into some comic characters on the way, and saving a princess and the rebellion against an evil empire. That has been done many times before.
Posted on 11/10/09 at 2:00 pm to DanMullenIsOurMan
PI
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
2001
FREAKS
CARNIVAL OF SOULS
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
2001
FREAKS
CARNIVAL OF SOULS
Posted on 11/10/09 at 2:04 pm to Enrique
quote:
oldboy
First thing I thought of when I saw this thread.
Posted on 11/10/09 at 2:05 pm to Freauxzen
Man v. Woman
bam
bam
Posted on 11/10/09 at 2:07 pm to OMLandshark
quote:of course but that's only one way of looking at it.
One you listed, Star Wars, is hardly original in the slightest. Space movies had been done before, and as pointed out before, it was the Chosen One being trained by a mentor, running into some comic characters on the way, and saving a princess and the rebellion against an evil empire. That has been done many times before.
quote:
2001
careful, OML is going to dismiss it as another space movie
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