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Home Alone meets Harry Potter?

posted 16 years ago by phenix1922
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Looks like India has as much trouble coming up with new plots as Hollywood (aka Hollowood). Hope Warner wins their suit.

[–] lanative 16 years ago

J.K. Rowling stole Harry Potter from the movie Troll.
Warners are greedy pigs and I hope they lose.

[–] VariablePenguin 16 years ago

Naturally, she must have stolen it from a 1986 movie that starred nobody and wasn't seen by anyone. It couldn't be that you just typed Harry Potter into the character search part and found one earlier than her books?

[–] xxangelxofxmusicxx 16 years ago

The only similarity I see in the plot to Harry Potter is the fact that his aunt & uncle don't appreciate him. Is WB going to sue every other movie that has that idea? Hari is a common name in India, just as Puttar is a common word for son. WB is the greediest company imaginable, pushing back our release date 11 months, and now this? Even though they are ROLLING in their Dark Knight earnings?
I hope they lose. They don't freaking DESERVE anymore money. What selfish pigs.

"HOUSE would do WILSON before you would do Chase."

[–] Fainne 16 years ago

Regardless of how lame the movie sounds, I don't think that the plot has anything to do with Harry Potter, and Warner Bros are just being p r i c k s. On the off chance that the Indian film business is banking on people thinking the movie is related the Harry Potter, how is WB going to prove that? I mean, Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world.

[–] killer_instinct93 16 years ago

Biggest movie industry in the world? Based on what? That they make the most money (which they don't), or that they spend the most money to make them (which they don't), or maybe that they produce the most movies (which they don't), or perhaps that their movies reach the most people worldwide (which they don't.

[–] mazardeus 16 years ago

WB should just go to hell and take their billions of dollars to the poor!

Hollywood will burn in hell!

[–] kiwi-kid73 16 years ago

Couldn't have they just choosen another name for the main character? They must of known it was going to cause trouble.

[–] ro_an666 16 years ago

Reading the plot reminded me more of Home Alone than Harry Potter.

[–] NotMoreMovies 16 years ago

This reminds me of the time that Heuy Lewis sued the people who composed Ghostbusters because it's meldoy was suspiciously similar to his song "I Want a New Drug"

However, that song was similar in melody to the 1979 hit "Pop Musik"

It's about time that India hopped on the ripoff bandwagon, because this is an OBVIOUS plot ripoff of Home Alone with a title meant to ride off Harry Potter's name recognition appeal.

[–] Sahil_Madan 15 years ago

Whats up with bollywood? I'm from mumbai myself and I will say bollywood is pure crap cinema. Write your own damn stories or just stop making movies!