Something seems familiar as we take a look at a selection of essential Indiana Jones rip-offs from the 1980s… In cinema, if something works once, studios will naturally assume it could work again. Die Hard, aside from spawning four sequels, also inspired innumerable rip-offs. The same goes for Mad Max, Conan the Barbarian, Jaws, The […]
Have you seen the movie? I think they’re very similar action adventure films with some comedy sprinkled in. Just look at the movie posters as one example:
Well you wouldn’t know that from the softcore title image.
Goonies is the opposite of a ripoff, it manifested its own genre. It’s also the only movie on that list that I’ve seen so I wanted to know if any of the others were genuine attempts at making a real movie or just VHS shovel garbage as that image suggested.
Hey, Captain America is an Indiana Jones ripoff because it has the hero killing paranormal Nazis, too!
Yeah i wouldn’t call it a rip-off either but I do think they’re along the same vein and isn’t far off from what we see now with stuff like superhero movies. I was merely responding to whether any of the movies on the list were more than your bargain-bin direct-to-VHS crapfest even though I dont believe they’re copying Indiana Jones.
Are any of them not just bait shit for video rental shelves?
Romancing the Stone was actually pretty decent. Goonies is also on the list which is a classic of course.
I don’t even know what the hell this list is. Calling romancing the Stone in Indiana Jones knockoff is bizarre.
Have you seen the movie? I think they’re very similar action adventure films with some comedy sprinkled in. Just look at the movie posters as one example:
Well you wouldn’t know that from the softcore title image.
Goonies is the opposite of a ripoff, it manifested its own genre. It’s also the only movie on that list that I’ve seen so I wanted to know if any of the others were genuine attempts at making a real movie or just VHS shovel garbage as that image suggested.
Hey, Captain America is an Indiana Jones ripoff because it has the hero killing paranormal Nazis, too!
Spielberg wrote the Gonies and directed Indiana Jones, it cant be a rip off if it’s the same people!!!
Yeah i wouldn’t call it a rip-off either but I do think they’re along the same vein and isn’t far off from what we see now with stuff like superhero movies. I was merely responding to whether any of the movies on the list were more than your bargain-bin direct-to-VHS crapfest even though I dont believe they’re copying Indiana Jones.
Well, King Solomon’s Mines seems to be a classic book I’ve never heard of.
It’s been made in to a movie in 1919, 1937, 1950, and this one in 1985.
Seems like it’s due for another remake.
There was also an animated version in 1986 and Tarzan visited in 1979.
So I dunno, I think I’m gonna check it out. 🤷♂️