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Ripped off The nightmare before Christmas according to some cretin!

posted 14 years ago by rhowells2000
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At university some years ago, some vacuous blonde harpy claimed this movie ripped off Tim Burton's aforementioned movie!

[–] miffo 14 years ago

Well, when they are so endearingly wrong you just have to love them :)

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[–] RavenFilmsAndReviews 14 years ago

Probably the same person who said that The Wolfman ripped off Twilight

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[–] zeta1983-1 14 years ago

How do you rip off a film made in 1993 for a film in 1919. It would be like saying a movie now was ripped off one made in 2084!

[–] HaraldNordgren 14 years ago

Let's reverse it then. Did Burton rip off this?

[–] zeta1983-1 14 years ago

No, but I can see how stylistically some of this is similar to TNBC.

[–] Mermaid_Maiden 14 years ago

Its the sad truth that people just aren't bright at all. History began with their birth, and anything that came before that is not important nor interesting. There are far too many people like this.

[–] Bob_Brooker 14 years ago

That being said, Burton borrows heavily from Dr. Galigari settings, e.g. here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQcBKUPm8o

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[–] loyal_lumpling 14 years ago

Burton's inspired by German expressionism in general, sure. I wouldn't call that "ripping off" though. (and of course, the original statement is just hilariously wrong XD Unless she knows something about time travel that we don't). If you want to see sets that look just like Caligari, check the opening of the Forbidden Zone.

[–] TheDisappointmentFactory 14 years ago

I love Vincent and also Dr Caligari.
It had never occured to me before to compare the imagery but now you've mentioned it, some of it is incredibly similar.
I suspect it's merely a contributory influence rather than suggesting some sort of nefarious plagiarism. After all, no one can lay claim to inventing swirly claustrophibic unsettling perspective-distorting creepiness, nor the gothic and the wierd, can they?

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I'm assuming the large-breasted blonde that you refer to (did you say she had large breasts... or did I imagine that) is referring to the Caligari remake, as I believe even dizzy blondes have grasped the concept of time.

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[–] ninestraycats 14 years ago

The only thing dumber than her comment is your mentioning her hair color and using the word 'harpy.' Cuz those descriptions SURELY get across your main point of calling her dumb, as opposed to your secondary point of calling her a woman.

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[–] n8325250528 14 years ago

well, i think a trip to the moon is a total ripoff of 2001: a space odyssey.

[–] PACman66 13 years ago

Rob Zombie did barrow heavily from this movie to do his video "Living Dead Girl." Same stylized look... Even filmed in B&W...

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[–] Chefeetaboopers 8 years ago

The same way some idiot kids online said that Black Sabbath was copying Black Veil Brides.

OR

The kid who said that Grease copied One Direction.

Or

The person who tried to say Dale Frances Bozzio (lead singer of Missing Persons) copied Lady Gaga.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.

Ignorance is bliss, I guess?