Rocky Balboa is a rip off

[The Lone Gunman]

Apparently Titanic was based wholly on the poseidon adventure.

Not that I've seen either. Still, I should be allowed to voice my uninformed opinions about the subjuct. I mean it's my internet too, no?

yes, but both draw heavily from Jason and the Argonauts.

[Francko]

I have, and it's tulip. If Stallone was so bothered about the tripe that is Rocky 5, why did he do it in the first place, instead of doing Rocky 6 to try to redeem himself, and failing.

The guy's too old for this kind of stuff. I expect the latest Rambo will prove my point. It's like watching Jackie Stallone do porn. Completely wrong.

I don't think it was a bad idea. The good thing about the movies I think is that it spans the whole lifetime of a person, describing problems and challenges at every different stage of your life, and no, you cannot say people are never too old for anything. Many boxers were still fighting at slightly over 50s. Sure he's 60 but the idea on the movie is that is more towards 50 than 60 (surgery and good training have certainly helped for that). However, you don't know how the future can handle those boundaries with the average age going up. Perhaps it will be even quite possible to have boxers of 60 years age. Besides this is not the point of the movie so you shouldn't watch movies with prejudices, that spoils everything.

And yes, there is porn with very old women. It's targeted at a specific audience. I guess sasguru might help answering about this.

[sasguru]

yes, but both draw heavily from Jason and the Argonauts.

Jason and the Argonauts is a Greek rip off of Noah and the Ark.
hth

Or is it the other way round?

[sasguru]

I don't it was a bad idea. The good thing about the movies I think is that it spans the whole lifetime of a person, describing problems and challenges at every different stage of your life, and no, you cannot say people are never too old for anything. Many boxers were still fighting at slightly over 50s. Sure he's 60 but the idea on the movie is that is more towards 50 than 60 (surgery and good training have certainly helped for that). However, you don't know how the future can handle those boundaries with the average age going up. Perhaps it will be even quite possible to have boxers of 60 years age. Besides this is not the point of the movie so you shouldn't watch movies with prejudices, that spoils everything.

And yes, there is porn with very old women. It's targeted at a specific audience. I guess sasguru might help answering about this.

Have you ever had an original idea in your life?

[Xenophon]

Jason and the Argonauts is a Greek rip off of Noah and the Ark.
hth

sasguru is awarded +5 Xeno Greek Points.

[The Lone Gunman]

Jason and the Argonauts is a Greek rip off of Noah and the Ark.
hth

Or is it the other way round?

and there's me thinking it was based on The Owl and The Pussy Cat.

[Spacecadet]

from the South Park Episode "Simpsons Already Did It"

Meanwhile, Butters, in his role as Professor Chaos, has been trying to figure out a way to bring disarray to the town. When he plots to block out the sun, his assistant, General Disarray, informs him that it mirrors a plot of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Not wanting to do a repeat of something already done on The Simpsons, he then decides to cut the head off of the town's central statue — which mirrors Bart Simpson's decapitation of Springfield's Jebediah Springfield statue. On the news report, the newscaster interprets Butters' vandalism as a homage to The Simpsons. Butters then attempts to devise other evil schemes, but Disarray keeps pointing out that every one of Butters' plans (aside from being ridiculous) has also already been done on The Simpsons. Butters watches every single Simpsons episode to try and do something that the show hasn't done yet, creating a stupid device. While he is explaining the device, Disarray remarks, "I think The Simpsons would be more clever than that." Right as Butters is about to put his device into use, a Simpsons commercial announces that Bart is going to do the exact same thing in that night's episode. Butters finally goes insane, seeing the entire town as if it were The Simpsons' town of Springfield.

[Francko]

Have you ever had an original idea in your life?

I am about to write a script for a romantic movie about two guys, sasguru and lucy. One is a middle manager with a cushy job which allows him to write more than 10000 posts on a forum and the other is a psychotic lunatic hippy who goes to public protests against Tibet and similar. The two meet up and after a long troubled relationship they finally marry and live happily for the rest of their lives.

[PAH]

Besides this is not the point of the movie so you shouldn't watch movies with prejudices, that spoils everything.

Maybe I was expecting too much. As a fan of the first four Rocky films I thought I was on Stallone's wavelength in regards the fifth.

Seeing him all haggard and showing his age reminded me of pensioner bashing. Not many positives in that!

[sasguru]

I am about to write a script for a romantic movie about two guys, sasguru and lucy. One is a middle manager with a cushy job which allows him to write more than 10000 posts on a forum and the other is a psychotic lunatic hippy who goes to public protests against Tibet and similar. The two meet up and after a long troubled relationship they finally marry and live happily for the rest of their lives.

That is a clear rip off of "When Harry met Sally"