Submitted by SixtyFours t3_10p86aq in movies
SandmanAlcatraz t1_j6j1aoi wrote
Reply to comment by ForkShirtUp in Nukie: the strange story behind the forgotten ET knock-off by SixtyFours
That's Mac & Me, which is also an ET knockoff.
ET was popular enough to have multiple knockoffs, which isn't uncommon.
Take these Star Wars knockoffs for example:
MST3K had an episode with yet another ET knockoff: 1983's Pod People (also known as Extra Terrestrial Visitors or The New Extraterrestrials)
PhillyTaco t1_j6jorhc wrote
Trumpy!
Mst3Kgf t1_j6k0jsk wrote
You can do stupid things!
PhillyTaco t1_j6liiq6 wrote
User name checks out.
orangutanoz t1_j6jmcg0 wrote
Cheech and Chong even had an ET bit in Still Smoking.
rick_blatchman t1_j6kvk1q wrote
Eddie Torrez!
opiate_lifer t1_j6jmg27 wrote
FWIW Battle Beyond The Stars is a ton of cheesy fun! Not even so bad its good, its just fun and enjoyable.
rowin-owen t1_j6o1iaw wrote
Soundtrack is killer. James Horner, baby!
adamszymcomics t1_j6lgili wrote
Yeah there were a bunch of different E.T. knockoffs, but Little Visitor has to be the one with the most unsettling history:
psdpro7 t1_j6lj84r wrote
MST3K has done three ET knockoffs now, "Pod People, "Mac & Me," and just this past year "Munchie."
jpj007 t1_j6mki7m wrote
Munchie is an insane fever dream of a movie, but it's not an ET knockoff.
go222 t1_j6o1rxh wrote
Battle Beyond the Stars probably got made because of the success of Star Wars, but the story is a rip-off of Seven Samuri. Other movies that borrowed from Seven Samuri include
-The Magnificent Seven (and rides again)
-Bugs Life
Given how good some of these are and how poor Battle Beyond the Stars is, it depends on quality which is a rip-off and which are just remakes.
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