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So*, I was sitting in the theater waiting for Harry Potter to start (oh my gosh, I can't believe I spent money on that movie *sigh*), and saw a preview for Monster House, and all I could think of was, "Hmmm, a haunted house with an evil personality that tries to destroy/consume people who come near it. Gee, now, where can I have heard this?" In fact, I said something about it to my husband. Which is unusual, I generally keep allusions to things he hasn't read to myself. I mean, going only by the trailer, I can't tell where the similarities end. But sheesh.
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Fortunately, Homebody is not SILLY, which is what Monster House looks to be.
Meanwhile, I'm sorry you didn't like the latest Harry Potter. I thought it was wonderful ... but no film is going to be to the taste of EVERY audience member. I mean, gosh, there are even people who don't think Titanic was the perfect movie ...
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After watching the preview I couldn't help but feel how less distracting it would have been if it were a live action movie. The animation seems so wooden.
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Did anybody see the preview and WANT to watch Monster House? I completely erased it from my memory until I saw this thread.
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Isn't the living house a public domain horror concept? They did it in the first Simpsons Halloween special, so it has to be in the culture in general.
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Isn't Rose Red a Stephen King film about a living house? I haven't seen it, but that's what the promos for it on the SciFi channel make it look like.
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Everything's usable. you can't copyright ideas, only actual language and, more and more, the direct flow of action. But "the house is alive" stories or "guess who's actually dead" stories - you can't copyright that. But you CAN look at one and go, this is WAY too close to (source material) for this just to be a coincidence.
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But you can own your ideas unless you live in Utah then your employer legally owns them instead.
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