15 Terrible Movies That Actually Improve Good Ones

The Bad

You would not be blamed for having never even heard of Lockout. It came and went in 2012 with little fanfare, made little money and not much more was said about it. That is until the makers of the film were sued by the very creative team behind the film that this one improves! What a twist.

For those unaware, Lockout stars Guy Pearce as renegade agent Snow, who is coerced into breaking into a space prison to save the President's daughter. Sound familiar? It should. The whole affair is really quite tepid and throughout you cannot get the stench of plagiarism out of your nostrils.

How It Improves Escape From New York

The aforementioned stench emanates from the clear similarities to John Carpenter's Escape From New York. So clear in fact that the courts ruled in Carpenter's favour. Good job, courts.

Aside from this, the most obvious way that Lockout improves and makes us appreciate Escape From New York is in their respective main characters. Do you want a main character named after something that happens at Christmas, or one named Snake Plissken? As if you need to answer that. Eye-patch, mullet, attitude... Snake Plissken has all of these as well as some other stuff probably and you can assume it's all better than Mr Snow.

With any films this similar, you're bound to elevate the greater of the two even further, and such is firmly the case here.