SomeoneDoes anyone else feel this way about spoofs?
April 24th 2009 13:10
I just finished watching Spaceballs (again)... and I get the sinking feeling that spoofs just ain't what they used to be.
Let me clarify. In my mind (seeing as I am relatively ignorant of movies that came before my day), there have been 2 phases of spoofs... The first are the ones I grew up with. In here I include Spaceballs (of course), Airplane! (It has another name in Australia... Flying High or something like that), Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Scary Movie, Return of the Living Dead, stuff like that.
To me, these are classic spoofs. They are all movies I am very fond of, and I can watch them again and again.
Then, there are the spoofs of today. I can't quite remember when they started being just so.... bad. In this category I include Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, Meet the Spartans, the more recent Scary Movies... I'm sure there are more, but just thinking about these movies makes me want to kill someone (namely the writers!).
These are the movies that are destroying the spoof genre... I can barely sit through them once (some I have never made it through, and I very, very rarely stop watching midway.
Is it just me, or are spoofs going in a downhill direction really, really fast?
Oh, and I understand there are exceptions to this rule. Most obvious in my mind at the moment is Shaun of the Dead (which is great)... I'm sure we can name some others.
Let me clarify. In my mind (seeing as I am relatively ignorant of movies that came before my day), there have been 2 phases of spoofs... The first are the ones I grew up with. In here I include Spaceballs (of course), Airplane! (It has another name in Australia... Flying High or something like that), Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Scary Movie, Return of the Living Dead, stuff like that.
To me, these are classic spoofs. They are all movies I am very fond of, and I can watch them again and again.
Then, there are the spoofs of today. I can't quite remember when they started being just so.... bad. In this category I include Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, Meet the Spartans, the more recent Scary Movies... I'm sure there are more, but just thinking about these movies makes me want to kill someone (namely the writers!).
These are the movies that are destroying the spoof genre... I can barely sit through them once (some I have never made it through, and I very, very rarely stop watching midway.
Is it just me, or are spoofs going in a downhill direction really, really fast?
Oh, and I understand there are exceptions to this rule. Most obvious in my mind at the moment is Shaun of the Dead (which is great)... I'm sure we can name some others.
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Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
Agreed that spoofs peeked in the 70's and early 80's..the reason they fail now seems to be a lack of inventive comedy instead the obvious choice for a joke is de riguer. Also i find that most spoofs these days don't seem to have a love of the source material so the parody lacks fan love.
Why is Scary Movie in that list when Scream is a much funnier parody of the genre? (Not that Im a big Scream fan either)
Comment by Someone
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Agreed though, in terms of parody, Scream is far superior to Scary Movie.