OT:An Observation

Slynky · #1 June 10th, 2004, 01:57 AM

Not to "hijack" your post but it's just kind of strange...tonight I was comparing "Shogun" to "The Last Samurai" and pointing out similarities.

(sorry, now back to our regularly-scheduled program

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geoschmo · #2 June 10th, 2004, 02:48 AM

You're not the first person to come to this conclusion. Not that that takes away from your observation at all.

Another interesting observation is that the The Enemy Below, like most war movies, isn't really about what it appears. It's a fairly obvious metaphor for the cold war tensions that were coming to the fore in the 50's. Mutually assured destruction and all that.

Atrocities · #3 June 10th, 2004, 05:23 AM

Everytime I post about this someone asks me if I wrote this. I did. I wrote this about nine years ago and posted it on some old BBS posting system on some obsqure star trek web page way back in 1995.

Back then I had nothing better to do so I made observations like this from time to time. This is the only one that I had on floppy. Revisisted for your pleasure.

Kamog · #4 June 10th, 2004, 06:41 AM

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Not to "hijack" your post but it's just kind of strange...tonight I was comparing "Shogun" to "The Last Samurai" and pointing out similarities.

(sorry, now back to our regularly-scheduled program )

I noticed that the James Bond movie "Goldeneye" has a very similar story to the Steven Seagal movie "Under Siege 2".
Jean-Claude van Damme's "The Quest" is similar to "Bloodsport". (Come to think of it, there's a lot of other movies with more or less the same story.

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Jet Li's "Fist of Legend" is very similar to Bruce Lee's "Chinese Connection".

OK, I guess a lot of action / martial arts -type movies are not very original...

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 June 10th, 2004, 07:03 AM

I get seriously annoyed every time I see another book with a dark lord who's hordes threaten the kingdom and the only one who can save them is the prophesied king/queen, who has a band of loyal companions who's ranks include a thief and a priest+healer and some sort of outback character, either a barbarian type, a ranger type or a predatory animal that is non-theless either intelligent and loyal or just loyal.

Yes, there really are a lot of books that seem to match that description exactly, although I generally only read the back.

Although the back is generally accurate enough when it comes to the basic types of abilities the heroes have.

Randallw · #6 June 10th, 2004, 07:36 AM

I gave up reading such books. TSR (or WotC, or whatever) churns out such books continuously. They just get first time authors to write books without knowing much of the continuity, or at best D&D players. My favourite Fantasy writer, David Gemmell, refers to such books with Bearded Dwarfs, slim elves and Orcs (LotR rippoffs) as "PixieS**T".

Edit: Has anyone noticed the Similarity between "Battle beyond the Stars" and "The Magnificent Seven". I'm not sure but I have my suspicions.

. Now I mentione it, they both have a coincidental resemblance to "The Seven Samurai". I wonder

[ June 10, 2004, 06:48: Message edited by: Randallw ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 June 10th, 2004, 07:42 AM

Oh, no. It's not just the elves, dwarves and orcs crowd. The plotline is spreading. Somebody needs to put most of it out of my misery.

And the sad thing is is that that kind of plotline can actually be done well, but after you see the nth book with that kind of plotline, you just don't really care anymore.