These Rip-Offs Of Popular Blockbuster Movies Are Completely Shameless

Contrary to popular belief, Hollywood isn’t a land of originality. It’s been recycling, remaking and rebooting the same ideas for years. Because if the one thing film execs know it’s to force-feed ideas to audiences.

And with all the garbage that Hollywood makes, cheap knockoffs of big blockbusters never surprise us. So these are the “mockbusters” that blatantly cash in on something they’re not.

And they’re so shameless, we actually kind of want to watch them.

Atlantic Rim

When giant monsters attack from the depths of the ocean, the U.S. government decides its only course of action is to build equally giant robots to fight them.

But the monsters come from the ATLANTIC rim, so this movie is totally different from “Pacific Rim.”

Snakes on a Train

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2006’s “Snakes on a Plane” wasn’t exactly Oscar material, but it still managed to spawn its own rip-off, which came out the same year. And though the story was all its own (a Mayan curse! Snakes hatched inside a body!

), “Snakes on a Train” could not rip off the profound magic of Samuel L. Jackson.

Metal Man

If Tony Stark were actually an average college student and his Iron Man suit a bio-mechanical trap that he couldn’t get out of, you’d have the plot to 2009’s “Metal Man.” See, it’s just like “Iron Man,” only more relatable for us poor folks.

Almighty Thor

Imagine Marvel’s “Thor,” but at a fraction of the budget and starring Richard Greico and the woman who played Anck-Su-Namun in 2001’s “The Mummy.” Congratulations: You’ve got Syfy’s 2011 TV bomb “Almighty Thor.”