re: 3 Movies They don't make anymore (but really should)

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We are too jaded as a cultural for real, smart spoofs.

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i don't agree

i think most spoofs have run their course and then the market was over-saturated by the scary movie franchise and that production company that made vampires suck and all those horrible parodies

it's just over-saturated and we need time for the references in the self-referential to become funny again

it hasn't been that long since not another teen movie (Which basically wiped out the scale for 90s high school teen movies)

scary movie has wiped out every hororr movie in the past 40 years

then you have Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, etc which covered a lot of genres

there just isn't the material available. we need a gap in spoofs to give material to spoof

our philosophy has to change from, "Mr. President, we must not allow a spoof gap!"

The KKK Scene in Django very subtly payed homage to Blazing Saddles. One of my favorite scenes in a movie in years.

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In 2006, Bryan Singer tried to make a genuine, honest-to-goodness Superman movie, and what happened? Everyone hated it. For whatever reason, simple plots with good guys who are just Good and bad guys who are just Bad don't work for us anymore. It's not enough that your hero fights for the American way; he needs to be tortured, psychologically and emotionally, and his villains need to be complex and subtle. If your hero doesn't have some tortured past or dark secret, your audience will hate you.

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while I see his point on the Die Hard everyman and Mel Brooks stuff (to a degree) he is straight wrong when it comes to Superman Returns. I could go on for a long time about all the things wrong with that movie and none of them involved it being too simple or good guys who were good and bad guys who were bad.



Superman as a bastard father - WTF? and why doesn't this qualify as the forced grit he is complaining about?

Lois Lane as a ho who tricks another man into caring for another persons child. Again, this is totally out of character for her.

Superman just gradually picks up heavier and heavier stuff culminating with him picking up a kryptonite island. Once more, WTF?

Superman as a stalker. Since when does he use his xray vision and super hearing to creep on ex girlfriends?

It was a love letter to Richard Donnor, not Superman. Seriously, the overuse of the old theme song. The strange semi sequel to 1 and parts of 2 plot. The idea that Donnor got everything correct? bah. total shite. It was like a strange hybrid remake/squeal.

The reuse of Lex wanting land as his motivation. Sigh. So we reuse the theme music, get a new Miss Tessmacher, and Lex Luthor, smartest man in the world, wants to crate an ugly arse kryptonite island that looks like volcanic rock b/c he doesn't want to be somewhere Superman can be.

Casting. Routh was ok and even looked kinda like CR but they barely used him as Clark which was a waste since the best parts of Superman were Reeves pretending to be a wimp. Kate Bosworth as Lois? Huh? Superman is gone for 5 years, she has been established enough she wins a Pulitzer and yet she looks like she is in her mid 20s? Lame. Sam Huntington who played Jimmy was way too young as well. While we're at it, why cast a recognizable actor like Kal Penn if he is just going to be one of 3 nondescript silent goons?

Also, lets not forget that the Donner Supes isnt a purely good guy either that never dealt with gritty storylines. He loved giving a-holes who wronged Clark their comeuppance so long as Lois wasnt around. Remember when he tossed the trucker into a jukebox? Or when he selfishly reversed time (lame) to save Lois but then chooses to let tons of other people die? Or in the comics when Doomsday kills tons of heroes and people fighting Superman or the Kingdom Come graphic novel?

man. i really didnt like SR. /nerd rage




PS, there are decent to great parodies/spoofs out there. This guy is apparently too lazy to find movies like Galaxy Quest, Not Another Teen Movie, Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Super Troopers, Austin Powers, Club Dread, and Scott Pilgrim. (realize that some of you probably hated a few of these flicks but they all have their audiences)

Also lets not pretend that all the jokes in Mel Brooks or the early Zucker Bros were smart or never relied on current pop culture. Brooks often relied WAY too much on cornball vaudeville jokes for example.