# Rip Off, fake movies on Netflix and other places **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-off-fake-movies-on-netflix-and-other-places/626297 "2012-06-25T21:34:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-off-fake-movies-on-netflix-and-other-places/626297/61 "2012-07-01T01:43:04Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > \*\*But my favorite was when he was excited to watch Tootsie, the cross-dressing Dustin Hoffman comedy, then was disappointed to realize that he had actually added [Tsotsi](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468565/) to his queue (although that was a good movie, just not the movie he thought it was). > \*\* As God is my witness, I feared he was going to have rented something about the Hutu/Tutsi genocides. And I feared more that I would laugh about his horrified reaction. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-off-fake-movies-on-netflix-and-other-places/626297/62 "2012-07-01T13:12:37Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > > [@Beastly Rotter](#): > > > > Yeah, I rented The Iron Lady and there wasn’t a chick in a flying robot suit in sight. > > You should check out [_Bubblegum Crisis_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOYZhUlISt8), [_Appleseed_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ilZlS6rbuQ), or [_Gunbuster_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5RxD62OynY&feature=related). Oh, and [duh](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bvmIIZFPwU). ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-off-fake-movies-on-netflix-and-other-places/626297/63 "2012-07-01T20:13:11Z")
I remember the first time I was annoyed by this practice: not long after The Lion King came out, I remember seeing Walmart stocking copies of “Kimba: The White Lion” near their registers. “Geez,” thought I, “how lousy that some company made a cheap knockoff of ‘The Lion King’ just to cash in on kids like me. Man, it even looks like they blatantly copied Pride Rock for the settings.” It wasn’t until years later I discovered that Kimba predated the Disney movie and that Disney almost certainly…took inspiration. That said, the Walmart VHS copies definitely had a cover redrawn to make it more Lion Kingy. I want to say it was even sold in a white clamshell case like Disney movies were. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-off-fake-movies-on-netflix-and-other-places/626297/64 "2012-07-10T23:13:16Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > But what about the people who legitimately want to watch these “films.” Surely, someone like that must exist. Sure. I think that any full-catalog source like Netflix should carry them, and it should tune its search algorithms so the movie most people are looking for shows up at the top of the search results (even if it’s not yet out on DVD). I think they do a pretty good job with that. Redbox carries only a tiny selection of movies. They should pick ones that their customers want, not the ones they can be suckered into renting. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-off-fake-movies-on-netflix-and-other-places/626297/65 "2012-07-13T14:11:16Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > 28 Days and 28 Days Later…nothing to do with each other. For fellow Dudley Moore fans, I should point out that Seven is _by no means_ a prequel to Ten. Caveat emptor! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-off-fake-movies-on-netflix-and-other-places/626297.md?page=3)