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This is a joke. This is a MOTHERFUCKING JOKE.
benji:
--- Quote from: SimpsonsParadox on 24 Aug 2008, 10:19 ---As for parody movies, I think you hit it on the head Roxie. Looking back at 'great' parody movies (Spaceballs, Men In Tights, etc) and more contemporary movies (Dodgeball, Scary Movie 1, etc), the one thread they all have in common is that they assumed you were savvy enough/smart enough/aware enough to get at least the majority of jokes, and didn't make the small ones that needed to be explained a major part of the movie (For example, the Dues Ex Machinima on the winnings at the end of Dodgeball.) However, these 'bad' parodies (The recent Scary Movies, Meet the Spartans, etc) is that they bludgeon you to death with the comedy. They assume you'll never get anything deeper than a Brit or Sanjaya joke, and the one or two deep jokes they put in the movies they over explain to the point that it's not funny. They're not subtle at all.
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Another element is that if you stripped them of the jokes they would be perfect (if somewhat dull) examples of the kind of movie they were parodying. These new scatter shots don't really have a plot, so you take away the jokes and there's nothing left. Part of what makes parody funny is that it very carefully and very perfectly uses all of the tricks and customs of the movie(s) it parodies.
RobbieOC:
:-D - ZING!
David_Dovey:
Hey roxie you should get in contact with the makers of Disaster Movie, you could totally write for these things.
Faker:
Sigh,hate to be the barer of yet more bad news, but as if Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans wasn't enough, now National Lampoon are doing a Gladiator/300 parody called -National Lampoon’s The Legend Of Awesomest Maximus.
Seriously how many of these things does the world need?
mat_mantra:
Take one from Inlanders avatar and go watch "Top Secret". It will cure you of what ails you. Or just remind you of how much "Parody" has gone downhill in the ensuing years
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