Traditional sci-fi and a fine effort, but plagairism nonetheless

If you think ANY book, story, play, or movie written in the last 50 - NO - make that 100 years is TOTALLY original - you are a fool.

Fiction builds on itself using elements from old stories - I read every Greek, Roman, Celtic, etc. myths I could find when I was a teen. Even the ugly(NSFW) stuff like Caligula - and I see elements from those stories in nearly EVERY fiction story I read.

Simply put - ALL writers(except maybe biographical and technical) consciously or unconsciously use elements from stories they have read, seen, or heard in the past when writing. The way or manner in how they tell their story is different, but the little parts - I see them all the time. If you look for it, you'll see them too.

How about you name some?

What works of fiction, specifically, did this films writers plagiarize? I doubt you actually understand what the term means, however, based on the content of your post. "Ripping off scenes" doesn't equal plagiarism.

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Start with the titles and names. Or - in other words, put up or shut up.

From that point of view, everything is plagiarism.

Movies, you say? US cinema was born in the first half of XX century under the massive inflow and influence of movies from Soviet Union: Vertov, Eisenstain, Kuleshov, Pudovkin, you name it. American movies is like American science or technology: if you dig deep enough you will find where and when exactly it was copied from Russians.

This, nevertheless, does not prevent us from enjoying modern movies. Literature was effectively "done" after Dostoevsky, but we still write and read books. Just don't dig...

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Well whoever made this movie, must have been a huge fan of; The Darkest Hour (2011). Many similarities, especially when you talk about the setup of certain scenes. Or when you mention the details/backstory of the sentient beings.