I watched a decent but certainly not great b-grade western a couple of months ago called Ride Lonesome. This film, Comanche Station, came out one year later, and had the same director plus star.
I could swear it is the same movie.
A sense of déjà vu came over me within minutes and I couldn't shake the feeling the whole time. The colours, setting, characters, and central plot - men with a shaky alliance escort damsel in distress through treacherous territory - are all the same. The conflicts and tensions are the same. The runtime is just about the same. The action scenes are all very similar.
I know these things got churned out in a conveyor belt style fashion, and they needed to me made quickly to be profitable, but this is just too similar. For the minor differences and the fact that it's still competent for a film of its scale, I can't call it terrible, but it's amazing how similar it is to Ride Lonesome.
And this is coming from someone who can tolerate a formula, having watched all 26 Zatoichi movies, all 30-something Godzilla films, and all 50 Tora-san films (all in a fairly short space of time at that)
I could swear it is the same movie.
A sense of déjà vu came over me within minutes and I couldn't shake the feeling the whole time. The colours, setting, characters, and central plot - men with a shaky alliance escort damsel in distress through treacherous territory - are all the same. The conflicts and tensions are the same. The runtime is just about the same. The action scenes are all very similar.
I know these things got churned out in a conveyor belt style fashion, and they needed to me made quickly to be profitable, but this is just too similar. For the minor differences and the fact that it's still competent for a film of its scale, I can't call it terrible, but it's amazing how similar it is to Ride Lonesome.
And this is coming from someone who can tolerate a formula, having watched all 26 Zatoichi movies, all 30-something Godzilla films, and all 50 Tora-san films (all in a fairly short space of time at that)