Why Pompeii is a ripoff of Gladiator and Titanic

First off I got to say that although Pompeii is not a great movie (or even very good), it is still watchable and much better than the recent I Frankenstein. It does however show that the child of two beautiful people can turn out to be ugly. The thing that annoys me the most about the movie is how it ripoff so many things from Gladiator and Titanic, two greatly superior movies. I mean if it was just a general idea it might be OK, but just the sheer number of plot points and some very detailed scenes copied was just ridiculous. The worst part of it is the people making the movie must know that the audiences will know that it is a ripoff and they still went ahead and did it anyway.

The following part contains SPOILERS

Ripoff from Gladiator

1. The main bad guy kills the hero's family.
2. After escaping being killed by the main bad guy the hero is captured by slave owners and forced into being a gladiator.
3. After defeating many opponents in gladiatorial combat on the fringes of the empire the hero is brought into the main arena in a large city to fight.
4. He becomes best friend with a colored gladiator.
5. There is a main fight scene in the gladiatorial games when the hero has to reenact a historical battle in which he is supposed to lose but ends up winning.
6. The hero dies at the end.

Ripoff from Titanic

1. The movie is based on a famous disaster that everybody knows about.
2. A guy from a much lower class in society and a girl from the upper class falls for each other.
3. The main bad guy also wants the same girl.
4. The main bad guy uses many underhand tactics to get the girl to marry him.
5. With the main disaster as the backdrop the main bad guy chases the hero and the heroine around.
6. The hero dies at the end.

What did not work

1. Every single aspect that was "borrowed" was done inferiorly from what was done in the two movies it borrowed from.
2. Kit Harington is no Leonardo Dicaprio. Let's face it, if any other actor played the part of Jack Dawson Titanic would not make half the amount of money it made at the box office. It might not have even been a successful film.
3. Kit Harington had one single facial expression throughout the entire movie, and it was not a good one. He had this poser's face, like he thinks he is doing a photo shoot for a Dior ad campaign or something.

Having said all that I still by far prefer a movie such as this to all the "reboots" that are happening at the moment.


P.S. If you can think of anything else that Pompeii copied from Gladiator or Titanic please feel free to let me know.