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Bad Boys 2 ripped this off


Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie bad Boys 2, but they completely ripped off the part of Police Story in the beginning where the cars drive down hill through the shack village. Near the end of Bad Boys 2, they do the same thing. Its almost reproduced shot for shot. I guess this was an homage to Police Story, but still.

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Watch the Stallone film "Tango & Cash", they rip off the scene in which Jackie Chan fires in the air to stop the bus from driving over him.

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I was just about to mention that. Police Story is one of the first films I recognized and made me like movies (I think I saw it when I was around nine years old) but many other modern US action movies rip it off because Chan was so inventive with all those sequences. but it´s only as breathtaking as it´s supposed to be in this movie.


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Except Tango doesn't fire in the air and there's only one guy. And it's a truck. But yeah, i guess.

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A lot of people have taken ideas from Jackie Work. Speilberg borrowed scenes from Project A's bike chase for his motorbike sequence in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. As mentioned, Stallone borrowed the gun trick in Police Story for Tango and Cash. Jackie, however, also says he is influenced by the west. Raiders of the Lost Ark was the inspiration for both Project A and Armour of God (and Michelle Yoeh would later use the Indy films as inspiration for Magnificent Warriors). The cop story for Police Story was borrowed from his American made film The Protector.

However i do feel that Bad Boys 2 didn't just borrow an idea as much as rip it off frame for frame and this pissed me off. But then again, I thought the film sucked.

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QUOTE:
"Speilberg borrowed scenes from Project A's bike chase for his motorbike sequence in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."


That's interesting since I've heard Chan himself say in an interview that he got the idea for his bicycle chase in Project A from Spielberg's ET.
I guess what comes around goes around.

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Well according to Jackie's autobiography, he said that he was worried when he heard Speilberg's new movie had a bike chase scene in it since Jackie himself was making one for Project A at the time. After he saw Indiana Jones he realized they were not the same, and was clearly happy, since he wouldn't want people to think he was ripping off his ideas.

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If you meant to say "After he saw ET he..." and not "After he saw Indiana Jones he..." then that's correct.
And I am very happy that Spielberg's bike chase in ET wasn't a kind that woulda made Jackie shoot another kind of chase scene in Project A, cause the bike chasing scequence in Project A rules

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In a 1997 book titled The Essential Jackie Chan Sourcebook, it was documented that Jackie had expressed what he thought was an unmistakable similarity between the finale wind effects in Armour of God II: Operation Condor and those in the climatic train scene in Mission: Impossible. Daniel Eagan, a New York interviewer, added that Jackie was also incensed that the train finale was derivative of the one in Supercop.

Like Jackie’s Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, the original Karate Kid showed an old master catching flies with chopsticks. The chopstick fight in Kung Fu Panda was derivative of the one in Fearless Hyena.

One more thing – there is a sight gag in Sisters (the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler movie) that was taken from Wheels on Meals. The gag involves tricking the audience into thinking that two rooms are actually one.

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Lol yeah i was thinking that when i saw it too however in bad boys 2 i noticed more all the shacks they were driving through that had people living in them! I didn't notice the same thing in Police story though.

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I just saw again one more time, and there were people in those shacks. As a matter of fact, they were jumping off the roofs and got hurt by the stunt.

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.........add "Rapid Fire" with Brandon Lee to the list of movies that used scenes borrowed from Police Story. Brandon was a big fan of Jackie Chan so that should not come as a surprise. It would have been great to have seen those two co-star in a movie together.

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And what about the "down hill trough huts" car chase in the beginning, that was used later in "The Bourne Supremacy".

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Damn, how many movies ripped off Jackie Chan?

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Not as many as Jackie Chan himself has "ripped off".

90% of Jackie's stunts come from the silent films of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd etc.

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I'd say a handful of Jackie's stunts are from those guys. And he always tells people thats where he got the inspiration for those stuns for, because he is a huge fan of there work.

So Jackie didn't rip them off, like he says he did homages to them. He's not like Bad Boys II or Rapid Fire where they copy him and don't give Jackie credit. And if they ever do credit him, its years later after fanboys bitched at them for copying and they admit they got it from him and show appreciation to get people off their back.

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Not as many as Jackie Chan himself has "ripped off".

90% of Jackie's stunts come from the silent films of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd etc.

No offense, but that's complete garbage. The only movies where Chan pays homage to Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton are the two Project A movies, and the only reason we know about this is because Chan said it himself a long time ago. None of his later stunts bear any resemblance to Lloyd or Keaton.

Even in the Project A movies, his homages are never direct copies, but he significantly improves on their work. In the clock tower scene, for example, Chan goes one step further and does something even Lloyd would never have done: actually fall from the tower! That is not something a "rip-off" would ever do.


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Was it? All I remember was a car chase through a little town, but not actually *through* it. Certainly it was nothing like Bad Boys 2, which really was pushing the rip-off factor a bit too far (Sly gets a free pass because they're friends, and Brandon because he is obviously an admirer).

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No wonder : "Bad Boys 2" is one of the most blatantly sadian movie ever. No one cares if innocents get killed as "collateral damage" (as long as they don't look "kewl") and it's supposed to be fun for adults and cops to terrorize a teenager (how brave ! how courageous !)
Whatever happened to "protect and serve" ?
(And don't get me this "it's only a movie" crapola… You'd never see things like this in a Chan movie. In one of them, his character even go out of his way to save an innocent bystander !)

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y r ppl always complaining bout someone ripping off another movie every movie always rips something else off its da way of the world

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what about the poeple who first came up the idea?
Where did they get their ideas from?

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When was that in any case? In the year 200 BC when Greeks had their amphitheaters? No, I think they derived their ideas from somewhere too.

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I also noticed that in Bad Boys 2. It seemed like so complete a reproduction of it that it had to be an homage rather than just stealing. I hope the director's commentary or something at least mentioned that it was originally from Police Story.

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If you REALLY want to talk about someone being ripped off, read the story about once upon a time in china and america and shanghai noon. The entire story was stolen from chan before he had a chance to make shanghai noon. The worst part? His peking opera brother Sammo Hung was partially responsible for it.

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noticed it too, actually I was just coming onto the board to write this

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