Right now the Instinct page is showcasing Special-K88's review in which he calls Instinct derivative. This is someone who praises "The Shawshank Redemption". I like that movie, but I wonder if he knows how much it takes from the movie "Escape from Alcatraz". If he ever watched Shawshank right before or after Alcatraz and still told me that Instinct is more derivative than Shawshank, I would have to laugh in his face.
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That is NOT true. Alcatraz and Shawshank have much more in common with each other than simply being in the same genre. Anyone who watches one right after the other and disagrees is either not paying attention or has some mental problem she or he needs to deal with.
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Actually, Donnie Darko is really just a supernatural American Beauty.
All He asks of us is that we give each other love.--Marvin Gaye
Well it's almost always been the case that every story is derived from a few basic ideas, but that doesn't make something derivative. It's when the little things are the same and it's told in the same way that it becomes boring and derivative.
shareAnd neither Shawshank nor Instinct are "told in the same way" as any movie I've ever seen. But there were a BUNCH of little things that Shawshank stole. Most of the things that people claim were stolen by Instinct I did not find any truth to at all.
shareEFA gives us the same ideas in the same way as Shawshank, except it dit it 15 years earlier. Instinct brings a few, not many, genuinly new ideas to cinema.
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