Three spoof movies in one year! Is America fortunate or what? Following January's Meet the Spartans and March's Superhero Movie, the genre comes roaring back with Disaster Movie, cobbled together from trailers, Internet memes, and films dating as far back as December 2007. But the spoof genre runs a deeper cinematic legacy than current trends suggests, and in this week's Total Recall we salute the filmmakers who paved the genre's path and made it possible for Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer to find jobs.
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on Aug 27 2008 05:01 PM Best line in a spoof film: "He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker." "That goes without saying." The Epic Movie / Meet the Spartans type spoof is the absolute lowest of the lowest in cinema. Even worse than an Uwe Boll film. At least with Boll you can be entertained by his blind, unintentionally hilarious passion. I actually liked the first two Scary Movies, in certain parts, but then the edginess was lost when # 3 was downgraded to PG-13. Unfortunately, SM 3 making much more than SM 2 seemed to convince studio executives that PG-13 was the way to go. I heard that some $3 million of Meet the Spartans' opening weekend was actually from teenagers buying a ticket for that to sneak into Rambo. I imagine the same thing will give a boost to Disaster Movie's sales. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 05:02 PM what are you dense? since when is it a good thing that three of the same movies are released in the same year? i mean honestly don't even register these as even "movies" there just bad STOP FEEDING THE BEAST! (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 05:13 PM Maybe its the fact that this film has become a template for the modern "Epic Movie" type spoof but, I always thought Airplane was a bit overrated. It's a funny film but 100% with an average rating of 8.4? Not so much. It's great you guys included the best spoofer, Mel Brooks, but where is Blazing Saddles? (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 05:47 PM I think Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood should be included under the Wayans Brothers. I realize Keenan Ivory didn't direct, but Shawn and Marlon both wrote it, and personally I think it's a better spoof film than any of the Scary Movie franchise. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 06:04 PM The first two Scary Movie movies were great. The third was okay and the fourth... meh. Epic Movie, Date Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Superhero Movie were utter garbage. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 06:24 PM Isn't it just a bit sad that you had to use the past tense "could" instead of can when describing Gene Wilder's comedic talents? What happened to you Gene I miss you. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 27 2008 07:18 PM Where the hell is Wrongfully Accused or Top Secret on this list?! FAIL. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 08:03 PM In reply to this comment (#2005268) ummm... I'll save the RT staff a post and point out there was an entire clip from Top Secret in the ZAZ entry? A better question is where the hell is Monty Python? (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 08:26 PM Well Quest for the holy grail and life of brian were'nt relly spoofing other movies, They were just spoofing history so they dont fall in place with the others. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 27 2008 10:03 PM "Hollywood Shuffle", anyone? And while "The Ruling Class" isn't exactly entirely "comedy", it does sprinkle some spoofing upon several genres like the musical, the screwball comedy, and horror. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 27 2008 10:30 PM Evil Dead 2 was sort of a over the top spoof of the first one and the genre itself. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 27 2008 10:55 PM I think there are only 5 spoof movies that will continue to reign and no other spoof can even dear compare. 1. Airplane 2. Blazing saddles 3. Top Secret 4. Naked Gun 5. History of the world. and thats that. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 27 2008 11:27 PM "...cobbled together from trailers, Internet memes, and films dating as far back as December 2007." Smooth. Too bad a lot of people won't get it. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2008 12:44 AM I cant wait to see the next Wrigh-Pegg-Frost movie... that trio really kick some serious ***! its about the end of the world I think... I hope Wright dont go too much in hollywood stuff, he will loose his inspiration! (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2008 05:19 AM In reply to this comment (#2005297) i wanted to know that too, where the hell are then? (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2008 05:36 AM Haha me and three of my friends all bought tickets for Meet the spartans and instead snuck into rambo, so you're totally right bro. lol (Reply to this) |
on Aug 28 2008 07:28 AM I never considered Shaun of the Dead a spoof. It is too good of a movie. Just a great action/horror/comedy. It can stand on its own. It doesn't spoof (make fun of) anything. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2008 08:41 AM A good spoof should be able to give such a loving send-up of what it is mocking that it blurs the line and seems like it is what it is mocking. That is why the "blood and ice cream trilogy" by Wright, Frost, and Pegg is so good. It does such a good job mocking zombie movies and action flicks, that it seems like they ARE zombie movies and action flicks. But then again, the British usually seem on the ball when it comes to comedy. Us Americans usually take a genre and put the word "Movie" after it, then call it creativity. (Reply to this) |
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on Aug 28 2008 09:39 AM So many good times. A lot of these are actually satires instead of spoofs, but the spoof genre is probably one of my favorites regardless. Too bad Friedberg and Seltzer are being real ***holes right now. There really isn't any substance to their humor. I called it back in June. "The next spoof movie they make will probably have some guy in a horrible panda costume saying skadoosh." And there it was. More terrifying than I could've ever imagined. (Reply to this) |
on Aug 28 2008 09:43 AM Forgot "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" for Mel Brooks. I know I promptly did... (Reply to this) |
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