My thoughts on…parody movies

April 10th 2008 -

Yeah, I know I broke my promise of one full week of posting. But heck, this is my final week of full school and stuff needs to be sent in. Don’t worry. I’ll make up that lost day. Anyhoo…

Parody movies. Once they were praised for their humour, abounding with irreverent humour, wacky characters and perfectly timed pop culture references. But now…now people wish that Carmen Electra and Anna Faris would get executed via firing squad. My hatred for the genre began to grow ever since Scary Movie 3. Then it grew with each subsequent crapfest produced by the guys behind it. They sucked so much that I’m surprised black holes didn’t spontaneously form in theaters and suck in the poor bastards that were dumb enough to waste their hard-earned money on them.

But it reached its boiling point with “Meet the Spartans.” I was gonna do a review of it here, but I would never assault my eyeballs by watching that garbage, so I didn’t. I mean how can people watch that crap? I mean, I find more humour watching a 5-minute abridged series on YouTube. It seems that these parodies have parodied not only the subject matter, but the movie industry itself. I mean how can the directors honestly call these movies and sleep soundly at night? Oh right. On their piles of money. I agree with Taylor. There NEEDS to be a movie validating body.

And one of the things that pains me the most is that the legendary Leslie Nielsen was part of some of these terrible movies. I wonder if they put him in legitimize them, as he was in many of the foundation parodies, such as Airplane! and Naked Gun. The latest one “Superhero Movie” wasn’t all that great, but it wasn’t that bad either. It certainly raised the bar for the parody movie a bit, but that’s not saying much considering how low its predecessors dropped it. But for now, the only laugh these movies’ll get out of me is if anyone asks me if I’m gonna watch.

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7 Responses on “My thoughts on…parody movies”

Samuel Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Frankly, I can’t stand these modern parody movies. My hatred of the sub-genre started with Mel Brook’s Robin Hood: Men In Tights. Ouch! If it wasn’t for Hot Fuzz and Young Frankenstein (arguably the best parody movies ever made) I don’t think I could even consider the genre a legitimate venture.

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Anna Says:
April 12th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
The parody movies now a days are terrible. I wasn’t very fond of them before but now, I will not waste my time with them.
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Cranky Putz Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I always think of the classic the gods must be crazy, as the true paradoy movie….the new stuff is corny..

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Ja-kid Says:
April 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
as usual hitting the nail on the head it hasnt been the same since scary movie 2 the last good parody movie in my opinion the wayans got it right, now hollywood seems to think they can shovel this mass produced garbage down our throats and we will quietly sit and eat like the sheep a majority of todays movie-goers are and it disturbs me and then to validate their failures they blame pirates lol, in case they didn’t know even pirates had a hard time moving meet the spartans and the rest of that rubbish
kami Says:
April 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
After scary Movie, I think it all went downhill.

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