Lunar Cop and Mad Max (Send In The Clones!)

[Wrangler]

Hmmm...the nice (or awful, whichever way you prefer) thing about B-movies is that most of the time they don't have much of a storyline to begin with that they would eventually tend to do a rip off of another story. And much of this is just so obvious you'd initially think that these guys are doing it on purpose but again it doesn't really matter (to most people anyway) since the movie almost always bombs out on release anyway. On a fascinating and rather admirable note though, it's rather tempting to know just how many rip-offs a good movie really has. Mad Max has a lot (of course .
One particular movie that most recently caught my eye is the movie Lunar Cop (a.k.a. Solar Force) starring Michael Pare. The plot of Lunar Cop is somehow more outrageous than Mad Max since it involves cyborgs and space colonies of some sort. But then, you'd have to look at the hero and see just how strangely similar his attire to Max's is--and the fact that he's protecting this burned-out, post-apocalyptic colony from some evil bikers who also looked eerily familiar. You may wanna see the movie for yourself--I saw this movie on cable and watched long enough just to see how many semblances this movie has with Mad Max.
I think it was on Peter Barton's site that I saw this Mad Max rip-off section. This movie may have to be added in the long list. But hey, I'm not complaining. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[Uncle Entity]

It's strange. God George Miller himself commented about Kevin Costner's Waterworld in these terms: "It is a fine line between homage and plagurism".

I'm personally found of any Mad Max rip-off movie out of there, because - Thanks to Max - I became a post-apocalyptic scenario fan long long time ago: I collect tons of post-apoc movies and books indeed, usually spending a lot of movies. MY collection is very big, and I welcome every type of post-apocalyptic movie (REIGN OF FIRE was overall not that good, but enjoyable for my Mad Max tastes, if you know what I mean).

If the "Mad Max Saga" created a genre, it wasn't the post-apocalyptic one... it was the "POST-MODERN ADVENTURE", which is a slightly different thing in my book.

I knew about "LUNAR COP", anyway. They aired here, somehow.