I love parody movies. Watching parody movies have always been an event to look forward to. They were clever, and satisfying. Maybe i was not much of a challenge to make laugh in my young youth, but even today some of the ones i watched growing up are still fucking funny. I know there's older classics, and i dont care to get into all of them. Movies like "Airplane", and "the naked gun", and my favorite "top secret!", all share a common gene. They're funny. There is an art that has been lost in making these movies. Somewhere in between "mafia!" and "scary movie 3", someone lost the parody movie formula. They had it, and it worked, for the last 50 years. Someone had to have walked in, taken the formula, and drank it. I do have a more logical theory. Its not an absolute truth, but it makes a lot of sense.
I blame : Y2K
Somewhere in the year 2000, the movie "scary movie" was released. There were a shit ton of teenage hacker movies that were being dumped out of the same asshole, for the same assholes, for some time. i get it. Although this movie was funny, it started something. The formula was lost, being the only thing affected by Y2K, the Wayans brothers re-wrote it the best they could. And it worked alright. BUT, other assholes from around the world took notice, and thought, "hey! those dudes did it without the formula, so can us! come'on phil get my dell laptop!" Scary movie two was funny, and scary movie three was like the last squeezed out fart from the makers. I believe they started advertising the scary movie trailers as "from 2 of the writers from scary movie!" or, "from some guys who thought we can do it cause we saw scary movie..". Now there is 4 scary movies, and a fifth one due out in 2008. The formula they're using is unbelievable. I was able to snatch one of the templates from a book : "parody movies for du
mmies", i found in the blackmarket, in the highlands....This book of course was put out and distributed by the creators of "date movie", and "epic movie", and whatever other shitty movies. No ones doing anything about it. I dont understand, these were awesome movies that have worked for ever, why is this happening? Its been 10+ years since weve had a solid parody movie to watch. After some sleepless googling, i came across some of the diarrhea we can all look forward to splashing us in the face and ears from the tv, and myspace.
1. Meet the spartans
Meet the Spartans
2. The comebacks
(I havent seen this movie, but please take note of the amount of he-just-got-hit-hee-hee jokes just in the trailer alone)
there's also one thats listed as in the works called "fantasy movie" or some shit. Surely, judging by the title, it will have the same stink weve grown to know over these movies.
If a film maker is reading this, Please hear me weap. If you're part of the problem, stop. please. if you have the means of helping the problem. help. please.
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2 comments:
I agree I really miss those movies.
The element of the “new generation” of parody that really alienates me is when they make fun of something that is already funny. Parodies are supposed to lampoon and knock unfunny important people off their high horse with lots of hi-jinks in between, not try to make a joke out of someone or something that is ACTUALLY funny, i.e. Sasha Baron Cohen. Or, like you said, maybe they think audiences just need to see familiar pop culture icons that aren’t actually the pop culture icon. Whacky! Funny? No. Familiar, everyone can get this joke, there is nothing dry about it, it is fucking soaked to the bone….comfortable? Probably.
I think they exist at this point solely on teenage kids that think Carmen Electra may show her tits at some point. Otherwise, I've got nuthin'...
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