Classic Movies That Are Secret Remakes Of Other Films

And the twist that Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter recalls the twist in the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in which (SPOILERS) it's revealed that one of the characters is secretly the love child of Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange. Well, it turns out that the writer of Cursed Child, Jack Thorne, actually worked on the Episode IX script before J.J. Abrams came on board. So perhaps it's not a total coincidence that both projects forced us to grapple with uncomfortable questions about the functionality of elderly wizard genitalia. And speaking of Star Wars ...

Okay, sure that happens in lots of movies. But then Miles is forced to learn about his newfound powers from a disheveled and reluctant mentor, who has the same abilities, but is living in the shadow of past failures.

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LucasfilmHad there been an Old Navy on Dagobah, you can bet Yoda would have been rocking a pair of sweatpants too.

And in a big twist, one of the villains turns out to be related to our hero. Not unlike Darth Vader revealing that he's Luke's deadbeat dad, we learn that the creepy Prowler is Miles' Uncle Aaron. Both die saving our hero in a final act of redemption.

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LucasfilmAnd both of them have sweet bachelor pads!

And finally, the big climax finds our heroes battling a giant, world-destroying super-machine, which is somewhat uncharacteristic for a Spider-Man movie, but perfectly in keeping with the Star Wars series, which has featured roughly 5,000 Death Stars throughout the years.

In Logan we meet a rag-tag group of rebels fighting against the forces of oppression, not unlike the resistance fighters led by John Connor. And our hero fights a younger version of himself; Wolverine battles X-24, his clone, which similarly happened in the Terminator-verse when Arnold Schwarzenegger fought his 1984 self in Genisys.

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Paramount PicturesWe're beginning to think that Skynet actually exists, and the Terminator canon are just one big PSYOP to drive audiences mad.

Both heroes die in the end, leaving behind grieving children, which, in retrospect is a pretty messed up way to end any summer blockbuster. But unlike the T-100, Wolverine hasn't been brought back as a rustic beer-drinking dad. Yet.

The first act of The Dark Knight Rises ends with Batman getting the guano beaten out of him -- not unlike what happens to Rocky Balboa in Rocky III at the hands of Clubber Lang, played by Mr. T, the Bane of 1980s children's rap albums.

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Watching powerless from the sidelines is Selina Kyle and Apollo Creed, the hero's on-again, off-again ally.

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Both Rocky and Bruce Wayne eventually end up in a remote location, where they go through a revenge-fueled training regimen. In Rocky IV, Rocky heads to a small Russian village after the death of Apollo. Bruce gets back into shape in that mysterious underground prison that oddly houses no guards, cooks, and is surprisingly chill with the inmates getting buff and repeatedly instigating escape attempts. And we know our hero is ready to return home and fight once they've staged a successful climb.

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When Batman finally returns to Gotham City, his secret weapon for defeating his adversary is literally the same as Rocky's: just a whole fuckload of punches.

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