All the movies it ripped off


I liked the movie, since I like all movies based on the future that are done somewhat well. But just off the top of my head here's a list of the many movies it obviously ripped off. I'm sure there's more, but as you can see, it's easy to see the writers borrowed a lot!

1) The Matrix & Matrix Revolutions
Aerial battle, bullet-time kung fu fight, battle where two guys have equal abilities and hit each other at the same time, the squiddies attacking in the same freaking formation (AND guys in mobile suits fighting them off).

2) Star Trek
The cube like Borg ship.

3) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The last gun battle where Brad and Angelina fight side by side shooting from all angles with their backs against each other and from the front.

4) Resident Evil Apocalypse
The mob of zombies running over the police at the city limits.

5) Final Fantasy Spirits Within
The opening scene inside an airship looked awfully familiar.

6) Terminator 3
Trying to keep a mechanical door from closing and getting ripped apart.

7) David Lynch's Rabbits
Brialeos' head looks like the same rabbits from that creepy short, c'mon.

8) Ghost In the Shell
People getting hacked and losing control of their actions. They even ripped themselves off!!

9) Appleseed
Cyborgs and clones in the future. Oh wait...

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Yeah cliché filled movie...
We must be running out of things to tell.

You should read the original comic books. The author does some crazy stuff which I like more than these anime versions. However, it is cool to see the exo-skeleton in CG and a lot of the stuff you mentioned up there also originated from some of his original creations.

I still think most of these stuff are all based on Starship Troopers. You should check out the book as well.

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3) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
...shooting from all angles with their backs against each other and from the front

You've got this backwards. The John Woo-esque gun battle in Mr & Mrs. Smith is taken from his work.

Seeing as John Woo produced this Appleseed film, of course we're going to see his talents reflected in it. That goes without saying.

4) Resident Evil Apocalypse
...mob of zombies running over the police

And it was done even before that in Return of the Living Dead.

6) Terminator 3
Trying to keep a mechanical door from closing and getting ripped apart.

There's a similar scene like that in Robocop, and a scene similar to that in Star Wars.

7) David Lynch's Rabbits
Brialeos' head looks like the same rabbits from that creepy short, c'mon.

Fail for ignorance.

The Appleseed manga, anime series, and OVA all predate the work in question and Briarios has the same head design in all of them.

There's also Bubblegum Crisis which came out a few years after Appleseed where they have similar ear things on their hardsuits.

8) Ghost In the Shell

Both GitS and Appleseed are authored by Masamune Shirow, so it's not odd that there would be similarities.

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There's also a nice reference to Robocop in the firing range scene, except Appleseed takes it a step further by panning past 'Robocop' and on to Briareos...

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Okay. You get the award for most polite and informative response. I read it twice whilst nodding my head and saying, "Oh, yeah...oh, yep he is right." And I like your name ...Equilibrium is one of my Faves.

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I agree with the Borg/Halcon comparison and with the similarity between the Halcon Drones and the Sentinels, but most of the rest of your list is badly thought out.

For example, that thing with the door that you claim was stolen from T3 has been done in countless films. Nobody owns that idea, saying that Ex Machina 'ripped off' somebody for using it is like saying The Matrix Reloaded ripped off Enter the Dragon because Neo kicks someone in the head.

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You forgot the blimp from Blade Runner.

Yeah, it's a shame it was so unoriginal, since everything else was pretty amazing. The visuals, even the characters were so much more likeable in this one, compared to the first. Give these guys a real script and you'll have a bloody amazing movie.

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(a few spoilers below)...

I noticed quite a few bits that seemed to come from video games also.

The fight scene in the church at the start was almost exactly like every single Devil May cry cut scene, just swapping demons for cyborgs. Especially the gun to knife action against the minigun guy, and the jump through the stained glass window into shooting and then landing in a cool pose.
I almost expected him to spin the guns and go "Awesome!"

The last boss woman was basically Jenova from final fantasy 7, just with added Dock Ock testicles. Had quite a few other FF7 vibes too, but I put that down to both sharing the cyberpunk aspect and other shared clichés of the genre.


The entire thing was filled with one cliché after another though, it was almost amusing that it was chaining them into a combo of cliché...

- Good guy thought to be a traitor, escapes with help of friend who he "takes hostage". The Good guys then order him captured dead or alive.
- Bad guy kills himself after a typical "haha I win, it's already too late" speech.
- And of course the reason for him going insane and wanting to destroy the world is because his girlfriend got killed.

I could go on and on (jump to safety at end as background explodes...), but I can't be bothered, there are just too many.

Hell the title of the movie chould just be changed too "Appleseed: Ex Tropes*"

*http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage




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"The last boss woman was basically Jenova from final fantasy 7, just with added Dock Ock testicles. Had quite a few other FF7 vibes too, but I put that down to both sharing the cyberpunk aspect and other shared clichés of the genre."


that's tentacles, not testicles :)

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Saying that it ripped off ripped off the matrix is like saying someone ripped off Quentin Tarantino(a.k.a. the DJ of directors),it really doesn't hold much validity.The matrix took so many cliches from so many things it wasn't funny. It's like saying that your band got your influences from a top ten hits of the 90s compilations CD.

one of those things happened to be ghost in the shell which was a Masamune Shirow work which was also the writer and author of Appleseed. of course i think someone already pointed that out.





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"Aliens." The bit in the end where they've defeated the antagonist and the station is about disintegrate, and then it seems like the shuttle isn't there to pick them up.

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It certainly was better than the animated version released way back in '88.
Yeah, but not as good as the one that came before Ex Machine, I thought?
Your mileage may vary, of course.

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