Based on GD being fooled by this phenomenon...that is overrunning Netflix and used to overrun Blockbuster...a mockbuster is basically a low rent independent STV video that tries to rip off the title of an actual blockbuster in order to make some quick cash based off those people who used to walk into video stores and ask if they had the most recent movie that's still in theatres in the store (i.e. "yall got that transform...movie?"). And lo and behold...they'd find this:



these are always really horrible movies, usually starring an old hasbeen actor or a porn star.

so take a film and make your own mockbuster! i'll start, with new releases.

Real movie title: "Cloud Atlas"
Mockbuster version: "Sky Map"

Real movie title: "Wreck it, Ralph"
Mockbuster version: "Ryan the Destroyer"

Real movie title: "Flight"
Mockbuster version: "Pilot Hero"

I came across this one
Original: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Mock: Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies

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I've seen them called mockbusters, but they really don't mock. They are more like fauxture films.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I saw that on Netflix

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I think mock is being used as generic or faux not ridicule

Decent article on grantland the other day discussing this very thing.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/845 ... box-office

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The studio reminded me of the scene in Argo when they do a live read with people dressed in Chewbacca costumes painted blue.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.