The Poster is such a rip off of Major League - Necessary Roughness (1991) Discussion

[–] sgr818 19 years ago

The same idea is represented. In that way they are similar. They both have characturized balls and images of the cast as photographs. The Necessary Roughness poster is not a rip off though. Perhaps if you saw it one day and then saw the major league poster another day you might say it was a rip off. Im sure if it was a copy there would have been some changes. Since they were both Paramount Sports-Comedies, they probably didn't care too much about similarities.

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[–] photoseller 18 years ago

Necessary Roughness was really more of a comedy takeoff or parody of North Dallas Forty then it was a rip off of Major League

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[–] swinggold 18 years ago

Most sports comedies are rip-offs of movies like "Slap Shot" that features an over-the-hill, veteran player, some rookies and assorted eccentric characters on an underdog team. But most of them are still watchable. Its a formula that doesnt really get old as long as the sport is changed and the subplots are different.

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[–] CKYMaX 18 years ago

lol he said the poster is a ripoff, not the movie

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[–] Isaac5855 18 years ago

The whole movie seemed like a rip-off of MAJOR LEAGUE, except that this film was about football and not baseball. Not that I didn't enjoy it, but it was hard to overlook the similarities between the two films.

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[–] one9deuce 18 years ago

Yes, Necessary Roughness is a rip-off of Major League, story AND poster. It's what happens in Hollywood when a movie becomes a hit. Major League came out in 1989 and did very well at the box-office, what happens next is studio executives either commission a writer/writing team to pen a screenplay, or they greenlight something they already have the rights to. As long as they're getting something that is similar to that recent hit film. They fasttrack it and get it out there with a similar advertising campaign to that recent hit film. And then they hope that the average filmgoing public will think "I'll probably like this because it reminds me of (insert recent hit film)".

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[–] swinggold 17 years ago

Fact is that this gimmick can be used in a movie about every team sport. Im surprised there hasnt been a decent basketball comedy (besides The Sixth Man and Rebound) since the 70s. Id like to see more sports comedies about boxing, tennis, golf.

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[–] pndferpnd 17 years ago

For boxing check out Diggstown. Great boxing/gambling/con movie with comedic undertones. For golf check out Tin Cup. Can't help you with tennis though.

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[–] RobBase086-1 16 years ago

The difference was that MAJOR LEAGUE was based upon a professional baseball team. Necessary Roughness was about a university football team. Yes there are similarities but there is a difference though.

In MAJOR LEAGUE the owner wanted to move the team down to Florida but with Necessary Roughness did not have the Dean wanting to move the university at all though.

If it was about a pro football team then you can call it copying. There are similarities but it is different though.

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[–] bayernballack 14 years ago

yes, I agree there is quite a close resemblence to Major League, so can anyone confirm that these two did or didn't share the same film production company or same marketing/advertisement company. Copyright stuff wasn't as hardcore back then as it seems to be today, so maybe they aren't linked?

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[–] RobBase086-1 12 years ago

The writers were trying to cash in on the popularity of Major League is all they were doing. Still they made money off of both films. If you look at it is a copy of The Badnews Bears if you look at it.

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[–] Kotter7579 10 years ago

oooohhhh -- the poster!! Gasp!!! Whatever shall we do? A poster!!!

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[–] maxorec 13 years ago

Definitely a ripoff. I even looked up to see if it's supposed to have some connection to Major League, but nope.

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[–] BigRich 12 years ago

Here are real rip off posters. Take a gander at the Daddy Day Care Poster. They just Photoshop someone's face over Cuba's.

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[–] ja227 12 years ago

Probably because they were made by the same artist. I think it's cool. Necessary Roughness is very much like a Major League for college football.

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[–] steelywulf 10 years ago

Both films came from Paramount Pictures and the poster for this movie was deliberately based on the one from Major League at the behest of the studio execs.

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[–] SpaceMountainMike 9 years ago

It's specifically stated in the trivia that it was intentionally copied from Major League.

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