Yeah, my wife and I bought the soundtrack on iTunes after we saw BF.
As for the article, I've seen this exact thing happen too many times. I knew one friend who was writing a script similar to Galaxy Quest, even down to the bad guys being Reptile aliens. When he saw the preview for it he thought "oh shit." But he had only passed the script around his friends, so he knew it wasn't stolen. I also saw someone else with a script far too similar to Blast from the Past.
These things just happen. It's kind of uncanny that some scenes were similar, but, really, if you were going to rip off a script, would you keep little details exact like that? In the random crap shoot, sometimes you'll get a lot of things similar, the kind of 1 out of 300 odds the lawyers were talking about.
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As for the article, I've seen this exact thing happen too many times. I knew one friend who was writing a script similar to Galaxy Quest, even down to the bad guys being Reptile aliens. When he saw the preview for it he thought "oh shit." But he had only passed the script around his friends, so he knew it wasn't stolen. I also saw someone else with a script far too similar to Blast from the Past.
These things just happen. It's kind of uncanny that some scenes were similar, but, really, if you were going to rip off a script, would you keep little details exact like that? In the random crap shoot, sometimes you'll get a lot of things similar, the kind of 1 out of 300 odds the lawyers were talking about.